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10-25-26 // Holding Fast to the Faith // 1 Timothy 3:14-4:5 // How Can Christians Resist False Teaching?
Drawing from 1 Timothy 3:14-4:5, Pastor Jared Richard opens with a deeply personal story of a young man who once served faithfully in the church but eventually walked away from the faith entirely — a grief, Pastor Jared notes, that still lingers a decade later. This kind of departure, he reminds us, shouldn't surprise us. Jesus himself warned of it in the parable of the sower (Mark 4), where some soil receives the gospel with apparent joy but never produces the enduring fruit that Marks genuine saving faith. The church in Ephesus was facing the very same heartbreak, and Paul writes to help…
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