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- 0:04Good morning.
- 0:07Good to see everyone.
- 0:08It's good to be home.
- 0:13Take your Bibles, if you will, and turn to 1 Timothy, almost said 2 Timothy.
- 0:211 Timothy chapter 6, as we come close to closing out this study this morning.
- 0:31I didn't say we're closing it out this morning, but I said we're coming close to closing it out, just to be clear.
- 0:37ah
- 0:43We had a good trip, uh ran into some rain, but uh thankfully nothing more than that out in North Carolina.
- 0:52And had a really enjoyable time and got to see some folks we hadn't seen in a while.
- 0:57So appreciate everyone who filled in for me while I was out of town.
- 1:03Let's begin with a word of prayer and then we'll get into our study.
- 1:08Our gracious Father in heaven, we bow before your throne, grateful for the day you've granted to us, for the life that you have given us, for the grace and the mercy that you
- 1:18shower upon us.
- 1:20We're grateful for your word, which reveals to us your heart, your mind, your will for our lives.
- 1:27And we pray that as we come to know you through your revelation, through your word, that we might strive to become more like you each and every day.
- 1:37Lord, we're grateful for your Son who came and died on the cross for our sins that we might have the hope of eternal life, that we might have the salvation that is found in
- 1:46Christ and nowhere else.
- 1:48And Lord, we are grateful that we know both how to live and how to move and have our being in Christ.
- 1:55We pray for the church.
- 1:57We pray for it here in this one location in Collierville, but we also pray for it the world over that we might have boldness to speak, that we might have peace around
- 2:07that we might preach the gospel without interference, that we might boldly proclaim your name.
- 2:13We pray that you be with those who are struggling in lands where that is not the case.
- 2:19Those who fear for their lives because of their willingness to proclaim the name of Christ.
- 2:26And we pray that you give them safety, we pray that you give them refuge at a rock and a shelter in the times that are difficult.
- 2:35All this we pray and ask in Jesus' name, amen.
- 2:451 Timothy chapter 6 Paul has written to Timothy concerning his life, how he is to behave in the church of God, how he is to act, what he is to teach, the teachers that he is to
- 3:07encourage, and the teachers he is to stop.
- 3:14And as he closes out this letter to Timothy, he says, verse 11, I think this is where we left off two weeks ago, but you, man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness,
- 3:29godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
- 3:37When Paul writes to Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter 2, he says in chapter 2 verse 1, you therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus and the things that you
- 3:53have heard from me among many witnesses commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
- 4:01You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
- 4:06No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
- 4:14And also, if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
- 4:21Now, in chapter two of Second Timothy, Paul tells Timothy, you are a soldier of Jesus Christ.
- 4:31How is it that Timothy can be both a soldier
- 4:35and one who pursues gentleness.
- 4:40Aren't those ideas in opposition to one another?
- 4:51Okay.
- 4:54Doesn't a soldier, isn't a soldier someone who does harm to people?
- 5:01Alright.
- 5:03Who does Paul tell us we are fighting against as soldiers of Jesus Christ?
- 5:15Alright, Satan, the world?
- 5:18as other passages tell us, principalities and powers of darkness.
- 5:23He doesn't say, grab up your sword, teach people that Jesus is the Lord, and if they don't accept it, off with their head.
- 5:36That's not the message of Christianity.
- 5:38Now, that is the message that has been co-opted many times through the years.
- 5:45The Roman government and the Roman Catholic Church utilized a similar method of converting people.
- 5:53You could proclaim Jesus as Lord, or you can go to prison, or you can be stoned, or you can be killed, or you could be killed by a sword.
- 6:02You could have many things done to you if you didn't bow the knee to the Roman Catholic Church.
- 6:09But was that Christianity?
- 6:12No.
- 6:14That wasn't what Paul called upon Timothy to be.
- 6:19He said, you need to pursue righteousness.
- 6:25You need to pursue godliness.
- 6:29You need to pursue faith.
- 6:32You need to pursue love.
- 6:35You need to pursue patience.
- 6:39You need to pursue gentleness.
- 6:45If you're pursuing something, when do you quit pursuing?
- 6:52When you catch it, all right?
- 6:56If you are running down the dog that escaped from the leash on the walk, you stop running when you catch it.
- 7:06When you're running down the child who misbehaved and is trying to escape, you stop when you catch it.
- 7:15when the police officers running down the criminal they don't catch the criminal and keep running well you know it's a good day to
- 7:27And yet, if you take these principles that Paul has established here and you turn over to Peter's writing.
- 7:46You read in 2 Peter chapter 1.
- 7:51Paul says pursue these things.
- 7:55Peter says add these things.
- 7:58Notice what he says, 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 5, but also for this very reason, give all diligence.
- 8:07Add to your faith virtue.
- 8:11To virtue, knowledge.
- 8:13To knowledge, self-control.
- 8:16That's the patience that Paul talks about.
- 8:18To self-control,
- 8:20perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
- 8:30For if these things are yours," but notice he doesn't say, yours full stop.
- 8:35He says, are yours and abound.
- 8:41You will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 8:47Peter makes it clear
- 8:49that as you go through this cycle, you go out of my diligence, I am going to add faith to my life.
- 9:01And out of my faith, I am going to add virtue to my life.
- 9:08And out of my virtue, I am going to add knowledge and then self-control.
- 9:14And to my self-control, I'm going to add perseverance.
- 9:17And to my perseverance, I'm going to add godliness.
- 9:19And to my godliness, I'm going to add brotherly kindness.
- 9:21And my brotherly kindness, I'm going to add charity or love.
- 9:24And when I get there, I'm done.
- 9:28No, I don't think so.
- 9:31If you were to envision this as something you add to your life, envision it like a clock.
- 9:40Because when the clock gets back up there to zero or to 12, however you like to think about it, what happens next?
- 9:53starts over.
- 9:55It keeps going.
- 9:57It doesn't say, well, I made it through a day, I'm done.
- 10:01Figure out your time for yourself tomorrow.
- 10:05No.
- 10:06It says, all right, let's do it again.
- 10:10Hence, Peter's point, if these things be in you and abound.
- 10:20picture that Peter paints here is you've added these things on top of one another, having reached the culmination of adding love to all of these attributes.
- 10:34He says start over and add to your love, faith, and add to your faith, knowledge, virtue.
- 10:44To your virtue, knowledge.
- 10:46Build, compound on one another.
- 10:49These attributes just keep building.
- 10:57Paul tells Timothy, pursue these things.
- 11:05And notably, he never tells him when he will have achieved enough so that he can stop pursuing.
- 11:17It is the challenge of realizing that no matter how long we strive, no matter how long we learn, no matter how diligent we are, there is not going to be a point.
- 11:35Where we go, all right, I've learned everything God wants me to learn.
- 11:40I've done everything God wants me to do.
- 11:43I've accomplished everything that God wants me to accomplish.
- 11:48Sit back and rest.
- 11:49I'm retired from Christianity now.
- 11:54That doesn't work, does it?
- 11:56That's not what God teaches us, and it's certainly not what God instills in His servants.
- 12:02As a matter of fact, Jesus will say, when the Master comes in, and the servant who's been serving all day long sees the Master come in, does the servant, is the servant told by the
- 12:18Master, why don't you sit down and let me serve you?
- 12:23Jesus said no.
- 12:26Rather the servant girds himself and serves the master who has come in for, as Jesus points out, when we've done everything that is required of us.
- 12:40We are still an unprofitable servant.
- 12:44We are still one who has simply done what we are required to do.
- 12:53Paul will write over in 2 Timothy chapter 4.
- 13:00Second Timothy chapter four.
- 13:04In verse 6, for I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- 13:12Paul says, sitting in a Roman prison for the second time.
- 13:19His life is coming to a close and he knows it.
- 13:25And he says, I'm about to be poured out as a drink offering to God.
- 13:29You gotta have some Old Testament context to know about the drink offerings.
- 13:33You gotta go read Exodus and Leviticus about those ordinances.
- 13:38But these were offerings that were poured out as the part of the offering.
- 13:46And he says, I am already being poured out as a drink offering.
- 13:51In the time of my departure is at hand, I have fought the good fight.
- 13:54I have finished the race.
- 13:56have kept the faith." Okay, sounds like a retired Christian, right?
- 14:03Sounds like he's done.
- 14:05He's saying, know what?
- 14:07I did what I was told to do.
- 14:10I achieved what I was commanded to achieve.
- 14:13I have finished the course.
- 14:15When you finish the course, what do you do?
- 14:17You quit the race.
- 14:20That's not what Paul says.
- 14:23He says, Finally there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day, and not to me only, but also to all who have
- 14:31loved his appearing.
- 14:32Be diligent to come to me, for Deim is his forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica, Cretians for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
- 14:42Only Luke is with me.
- 14:43Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for...
- 14:51ministry.
- 14:53Paul says I fought the good fight, I finished my course, I kept the faith, I'm being poured out, by the way I'm not done.
- 15:03As a matter of fact, I need you to bring John Mark because he's useful to my service that I'm continuing to do.
- 15:12Antichicus I have sent to Ephesus, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come and the books, especially the parchments.
- 15:22Not only is Paul not done ministering and needs some assistance to be able to continue it, he wants the Scriptures with him so he can continue studying and reading.
- 15:38Paul, an individual who had access to
- 15:41divine revelation who was an inspired apostle was interested in having the text of the scriptures in his hands and at his access even at the point in his life where he says my
- 15:56life's almost over.
- 16:00That should tell us something about what we are to be doing when our life is almost over.
- 16:08It tells us something about how we should treat our Christianity when we reach the point in life where we go, you know what, I can't do what I used to do.
- 16:21I can't accomplish what I used to accomplish.
- 16:27I can do this much, I used to be able to do this much.
- 16:33I can't do that anymore.
- 16:36And yet Paul is quite clear as he writes to Timothy, I might be only able to do this much, but that doesn't mean I'm done.
- 16:50Because as far as Paul was concerned, he wasn't going to be done until this life was over.
- 16:57So he tells Timothy, pursue these things.
- 17:05He goes on to say, I urge you, verse 13, wait, let me go back to verse 12, fight the good fight of faith.
- 17:14Lay hold on eternal life to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
- 17:25Paul makes it clear to Timothy,
- 17:28that Timothy has the ability as every Christian has the ability to lay hold on, to grasp and hold and secure eternal life for themselves.
- 17:46Is Paul saying that Timothy can know that he is saved no matter how Timothy acts from that point forward?
- 17:57Is Paul teaching a security of the saints that, you know what, it doesn't matter how you live, you've been saved and you're saved and from that point forward, no matter what
- 18:08happens, you can never lose your salvation?
- 18:12No, as a matter of fact, go back to 1 Timothy chapter one.
- 18:241 Timothy chapter 1 verse 18, charge this charge, commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.
- 18:36Now what did he just tell him to do again?
- 18:39Wage a good warfare.
- 18:43Same idea.
- 18:45Beginning of the book, end of the book.
- 18:48He says wage a good warfare, having faith and a good conscience which some having rejected.
- 18:55He says, you hold your faith together with a good conscience because there have been those who have had the faith and have held it with an unclean conscience, with an evil
- 19:13conscience.
- 19:15He says, having faith in a good conscience which some having rejected concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck of whom are
- 19:24Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan." They may learn not to blaspheme.
- 19:34Here are two individuals called out by name by Paul as individuals who had the faith of Christ at one point, but now they have been turned over to Satan because of their
- 19:49blasphemy.
- 19:54Paul is quite clear you can lose your salvation.
- 20:00And if you hold the faith of Christ with an evil conscience, Paul will escort you out of the body of Christ and hand you back to the world where you belong.
- 20:16Paul tells Timothy, you fight the good fight of faith.
- 20:21You lay hold on eternal life to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
- 20:30I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, if you...
- 20:43care to understand what the good confession is, what is it that Jesus witnessed before Pontius Pilate?
- 21:00Say what?
- 21:02That he was innocent is one thing.
- 21:11Okay.
- 21:18Turn back to John chapter 18.
- 21:29John chapter 18 verse 28, then they led Jesus from Calphus to the Praetorium, and it was early morning.
- 21:37But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
- 21:44Pilate then went out to them and said, What accusation do you bring against this man?
- 21:50They answered and said to him, If he were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered him up to you.
- 21:56Then Pilate said to them, you take him and judge him according to your law.
- 22:01Therefore the Jew said to him, it is not lawful for us to put anyone to death that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spoke signifying by what death he would die.
- 22:12Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again called Jesus and said to him, are you the King of the Jews?
- 22:20Jesus answered, are you speaking for yourself about this or did others tell you concerning me?
- 22:26Pilate answered, Am I a Jew?
- 22:29Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me.
- 22:32What have you done?
- 22:34Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world.
- 22:38If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight so that I should not be delivered to the Jews.
- 22:44But now my kingdom is not from here.
- 22:46Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then?
- 22:50Jesus answered, You say rightly that I am a king.
- 22:55For this cause I was born and for this cause I have come into the world that I should bear witness to the truth.
- 23:01Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
- 23:09the witness that was born, the confession that was made was that Jesus Christ was King, Lord, Savior, not of a kingdom on this earth.
- 23:28but of a spiritual kingdom.
- 23:31Paul says that Timothy has made the same good confession.
- 23:37The same confession that was made by Christ before Pontius Pilate.
- 23:45So then consider that you keep this commandment without spot.
- 23:51By the way, just before we get off of that confession, if you're waging a warfare, if you're fighting a good fight, that generally implies you belong to what?
- 24:07A military.
- 24:10Typically, who has a military?
- 24:15a government.
- 24:18if we were to use a first century term, a kingdom.
- 24:25at the top of that authority structure of that government of a kingdom there is what?
- 24:35A king.
- 24:38Paul's telling Timothy, you are a soldier of Jesus Christ.
- 24:45You follow the orders of the king.
- 24:51And you profess allegiance to no one but your king.
- 25:03because he declared himself to be king before the one who put him to death whose authority was derived power.
- 25:15but his authority was not.
- 25:17He says, I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession, before Pontius Pilate, that you keep this
- 25:26commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing.
- 25:32I've mentioned this before, but it's worth mentioning again.
- 25:38There are two terms that are often,
- 25:44merged together in our understanding, but we should be careful with that.
- 25:51About Jesus' return, one of those terms is coming.
- 25:56You've heard of the second coming, right?
- 26:01That's the term we most often use in our language today.
- 26:08There's another term in the New Testament speaking of Christ's return and it's the word appearing.
- 26:17Interestingly, when you notice the text and the message of the context in those texts speaking concerning His coming versus His appearing, two things you should note.
- 26:33The first one is
- 26:35that in most contexts where the discussion is of the coming of Christ, the return of Christ, to deliver His servants, to deliver the faithful up into glory, the term appearing
- 26:51is used.
- 26:53The term appearing is the positive term of Christ's return.
- 27:02Paul uses that idea that Christ will appear.
- 27:09The term coming is most notably and consistently used in regards to those who are not faithful to God and was a term indicating his return for judgment and condemnation and
- 27:28justice.
- 27:31So Paul will help us to understand as he writes to Timothy that you are to be doing this until you see the return of your Lord.
- 27:48You serve faithfully until you see your Lord.
- 27:53The term coming more often was a warning that there is a day where Christ will return and those who are not prepared, His coming will be as a thief in the night.
- 28:13His coming will be for judgment and justice.
- 28:18And His coming will mean their destruction.
- 28:23Okay?
- 28:24So as you think about terms and what they mean and how they're seen in Scripture.
- 28:33I it might be useful for us to spend more time talking about our Lord Jesus Christ's appearance than His coming because they give different connotations.
- 28:47Now, notice what He says.
- 28:49He says, which He will manifest in His own time.
- 28:54One of the things, Timothy, that you need to be aware of and that you need to be fully conscious of is you don't get to set
- 29:02the timetable for our Lord Jesus Christ appearance.
- 29:07You don't get to anxiously wait for Christ to return and then give up hope when He hasn't come yet.
- 29:19There were those in Peter's day and time as Peter was writing to Christians over in 2 Peter.
- 29:312 Peter chapter 3, writes, Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle in which I stir up your pure, uh I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder that you may be mindful of
- 29:44the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus and Savior.
- 29:52I'll get my words out eventually.
- 29:54knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days walking according to their own lusts and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
- 30:01For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.
- 30:07For this they will willfully forget, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by which the world that then existed
- 30:17perished.
- 30:18being flooded with water, but the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
- 30:28But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day.
- 30:35The Lord is not slack concerning His promises, some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 30:45But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.
- 30:48in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat.
- 30:52Both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
- 30:55Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God,
- 31:08because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat.
- 31:14Nevertheless, we, according to His promise, look for new heavens."
- 31:17and a new earth in which righteousness dwells."
- 31:22Peter, as he writes, he says, there's some scoffers among you.
- 31:31who insists that, you know what, since creation everything's just continued on the way it's always been.
- 31:40Nothing ever changes, so we should just assume it never will.
- 31:46Put away all this nonsense about Jesus returning.
- 31:50Put away all this nonsense about a day of judgment.
- 31:53The world's still here.
- 31:58And I just checked and he's not back yet.
- 32:02So we might as well just live.
- 32:07Peter says, no, you need to go read your Old Testament scriptures.
- 32:13Do you not remember that there was a day in which people were just living?
- 32:22and God brought a flood and wiped the planet clean?
- 32:27No, everything has not always just continued the way it was since creation.
- 32:35There is a God who is active.
- 32:37There is a God who judges and there is a God who has promised.
- 32:48that his son is returning and that when he does
- 32:54this world and everything in it is going to be burned up.
- 32:58That the universe and all the things that make up the elements thereof are going to pass away.
- 33:13There is much talk in our world today about becoming a multi-planetary species, as Elon Musk would put it.
- 33:23But his, the reason he's...
- 33:28with frenetic energy striving to get humanity to Mars is there's a higher likelihood of humanity continuing to exist if we're on two planets, in case something happens to Earth
- 33:44or, you know, we enter into a mass nuclear war.
- 33:53There are some things of which the world worries about that Christians shouldn't have to.
- 34:01There are some things of which the political structures and the power structures and the financial structures of this world are concerned.
- 34:15that we shouldn't really spend a whole lot of time being concerned.
- 34:21because this much is true.
- 34:24One day, this universe that God created is coming to a close.
- 34:31And when Christ returns, it doesn't matter if you're on Earth or Mars or Venus or in another solar system.
- 34:42because when Christ returns, this physical existence will end.
- 34:51And Peter was not referring to a new heavens and a new earth in the physical sense.
- 35:00He was not looking for a city that he could dwell in called the New Jerusalem that was on this earth.
- 35:09He was not looking for a renovated planet where sin no longer existed.
- 35:17He was looking for the same thing that Abraham was looking for.
- 35:19If turn to Hebrews chapter 11.
- 35:32Hebrews chapter 11 verse 8, By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance and he went out not knowing where he was
- 35:41going.
- 35:43By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise.
- 35:51For he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God.
- 36:00True or false, the city of Jerusalem existed before it was in Israel's hands.
- 36:10We know that because it existed in the days of Abraham.
- 36:16because the king of Salem, Melchizedek...
- 36:21was presented an offering from Abraham.
- 36:28Jerusalem already existed.
- 36:30The city of peace already existed.
- 36:34And guess what?
- 36:34When Abraham met Melchizedek, he didn't suddenly say, look, there's the city I've been looking for all this time.
- 36:40The city that was built by God.
- 36:43The city that someday would be the city of David.
- 36:45This is it.
- 36:46No.
- 36:50He showed honor to Melchizedek, but he didn't say, hey, that's the city I've been looking for.
- 36:56No, he waited for a city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God.
- 37:05You go forward just a few verses.
- 37:08Verse 13, these, Abraham, Sarah, he says, these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and
- 37:24confessed.
- 37:25that they were strangers and pilgrims?
- 37:28Where?
- 37:31on the earth.
- 37:36Abraham apparently was far more knowledgeable of the promises of God than some individuals today who are claiming that when Christ returns those who are faithful to him will receive
- 37:53an inheritance on the earth.
- 38:00That is not the inheritance Abraham and Sarah were looking for.
- 38:05they looked for a land for their descendants.
- 38:10They looked for an inheritance on the earth that was part of their promise, but that was not the place they were headed towards.
- 38:20They said, we're strangers here.
- 38:26James and I were discussing something just recently.
- 38:31about the government shutdown.
- 38:33And I mentioned that one of the points of discussion was about money allocated for illegal aliens.
- 38:41His brain immediately went aliens outer space.
- 38:47I said, no, no, no, that's not how the aliens used.
- 38:50The word alien means someone who is not from there.
- 38:54Someone who is originally from there.
- 38:58said, you have.
- 39:00you have those in scripture who are spoken of as aliens.
- 39:03They're not from outer space.
- 39:04They're not from Israel.
- 39:06They are those who are Gentiles.
- 39:09uh
- 39:13As you think about this...
- 39:18Abraham and Sarah said, you know this planet Earth?
- 39:22We're not from here.
- 39:26and we don't plan to stay.
- 39:31So often we in our mind tie our life, our being, our existence to our physical birth.
- 39:45to our physical family, to the place where we grew up on this planet, to the existence that we've had on this planet.
- 39:58And yet Paul is telling Timothy, you are a warrior of a kingdom that is not of this world.
- 40:12and the life which you are to lay hold of is not of this world.
- 40:21and the king which you serve is a king over a kingdom which is not of this world.
- 40:38He says that you keep this command.
- 40:42without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ appearing, which He will manifest in His own time.
- 40:53He who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light.
- 41:11whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power.
- 41:21Paul reminds Timothy, all the striving that you see around you for the things of this world.
- 41:32you remember that yes, you have to provide for your own and if you don't do that you're worse than an infidel.
- 41:42Yes, you have to take care of those who are in need.
- 41:45Yes, you have to provide for those who are serving in the service of God.
- 41:50Yes, you have to do all those things.
- 41:52Yes, you have to preach the truth.
- 41:53Yes, you have to love people.
- 41:54Yes, you have to care about people.
- 41:56Yes, you have to fight a good fight of faith.
- 41:58Yes, you have to be in a good example, but
- 42:00This world isn't what it's about.
- 42:08because everything we do.
- 42:11is not so we can sit in a seat of power in this world.
- 42:17It's not so we can rule over a province of people in this world.
- 42:24It is so that we can dwell with a king.
- 42:31we have never seen.
- 42:34that no man is seen, that we might dwell in His abode.
- 42:45that we only have human terms to, in such a minuscule way, describe.
- 42:55Paul says you lay hold on eternal life and you never look back.
- 43:06Thank you for your attention.