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2 Timothy chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Second Timothy chapter one. Let us pray.
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  God, Lord, King, righteous and holy and true, powerful, all
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  knowing, all-encompassing, encapsulating everything seen
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  and unseen. You are the only uncreated God.
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  We rest and we bask in the finished work of the cross, in
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  the presence and knowing, Lord, that you're fighting our
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  battles, knowing that you have everything in full control and
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  that everything is going exactly according to plan.
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  God, we rest in that promise. We rest in that reality.
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  We know that your arm is not too short to save and that God, you
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  can save to the utmost. And so, Lord God, we get out of
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  our own understanding, out of our own morality.
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  God, we refuse to put you in a box.
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  Lord, we know that you can break out and you could do anything.
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  So Lord God, we get out of our own understanding and our own
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  ways and Lord, we give you center stage, we give you the
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  fullness of our lives. God, every fiber of our being,
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  every breath in our lungs. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that will be sold out, laid down, lovers of the way, Yeshua
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  ha Messiah, Lord God Almighty, we love you with all of our
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  heart, with all of our mind, with all of our strength.
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  And Lord, help us to love our neighbors as our self.
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  Help us to pray for our enemies, God, we pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. God, bring the Jews in.
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  Lord, bring them into the fold. Help us not to be those that
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  turn our backs on them in this time, for such a time as this.
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  God, let us be found on the right side of history.
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  When the smoke clears, God's standing firm with the Jews,
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  knowing that you have a plan for them.
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  The literal geographical place there on planet earth.
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  Father, we pray for Jerusalem. We pray for Israel.
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  Lord, we ask that you'll fight their battles for them.
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  Lord, preserve them till the end and help them to come in to the
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  saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, their long-awaited
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  Messiah. Lord, I pray that they'll turn
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  to him in droves. Lord, I pray that the prophetic
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  timeline comes to fruition. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that all of the prophecies that are contained in the good
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  book that we hold in our hands will happen exactly the way that
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  you have penned them. So, Lord God, I pray that we,
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  your people who are called by Your name, will do the things
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  today that you have called us into the will for you, Lord,
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  your thoughts and your plans acted out through us, the human
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  agents, God, that you have called into the fold with you.
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  We hear your voice. Help us to respond.
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  Help us not to be timid. Help us not to grow callous.
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  Help us not to be deceived. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we will do the things that you have called us to, and
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  that we will not have fear of man, we will not fear the one
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  that can kill the body, but Lord God, we will fear you only.
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  Lord, you are awesome and mighty indeed and in action.
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  Father, you are the Supreme God, El Elyon, the Most High God.
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  Every other God is an idol. They cannot see, they cannot
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  hear. There is only one true living
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  God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel,
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  and that is whom we serve today. Holy Spirit, come fill.
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  Holy Spirit, fill us up. Holy Spirit, break out.
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  Holy Spirit, bring freedom and power and a sound mind.
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  Holy Spirit, I pray that you'll guide us and direct us and teach
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  us, discipline us and give us discernment today as we read
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  your Holy Scriptures, as we read the Holy Word.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus that you, Holy Spirit, will show us
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  all of the plans in the paths of Yahweh.
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  We thank you, Father, for being good.
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  We thank you that you are good, and we thank you that your plans
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  are righteous and holy and true and that we can bank on them and
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  build our lives upon this word, the chief cornerstone.
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  You're the Alpha and the Omega. You're the beginning and the
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  end. And Lord, we desire to be where
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  you are. We want to be there with you.
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  And so, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, God Almighty 3 and 1, I
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  pray that you will come and have your way with us.
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  Come and teach us and guide us and help us to know that you are
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  right here in this room and that you are for us.
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  And so make these words come alive and active.
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  Make them quicken within the inner man.
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  Help them to hide inside of our hearts and minds and help them
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  to come up and out whenever we need them at the proper time.
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  Help our words to be seasoned. Help them to fall on fertile
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  ground as we break up the fallow ground.
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  Use us in mighty ways. Father, thank you for these
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  eternal words. Thank you, Father, for rescuing
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  us. Thank you, Father, for taking
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  the blindfold off and unstopping our ears and causing us to be
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  renewed and regenerated, a new creation in Christ Jesus.
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  Thank you, Father. We pray that they'll be
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  representatives from all people groups, all languages, all
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  tongues, all continents. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that they'll come into the fold today.
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  Let today be the day of salvation for many, and it's in
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  the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
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  by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in
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  Christ Jesus. So we can capture a little
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  glimpse here that the apostle Paul knew that his head was on
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  the chopping block. We can get the feeling that Paul
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  knows that his time is short before he would be executed.
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  And this second epistle, written to his son in the faith,
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  Timothy, is seasoned throughout with this sentiment.
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  And if you are reading it and you have that in mind, you can
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  see how many times Paul alludes to the life to come and that
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  everything that he has done up into this point was coming to
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  this conjecture. And Paul has already told us to
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  live his Christ and to die his gain.
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  He counted the cost. He knew what he was up against,
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  and he found Jesus Christ to be worthy.
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  And I pray that is your story today.
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  I pray that you're not trying to ride the fence.
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  I pray that you're not trying to have this life and the life to
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  come. I pray that you've already given
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  up your life and not trying to hold on to it.
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  And if God gives you another day, it is for His purposes and
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  His plans. And that is what you need to
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  understand that He is worthy of us laying down all of our own
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  wants and desires and passions, all of our purposes, and taking
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  up the cross and following Him daily, dying to self daily.
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  Friends, that is the call that Jesus Christ has placed on us.
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  It is not just this cultural Christianity that is lukewarm
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  that Jesus Christ vomits out of his mouth.
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  Friends, we are called to be sold out, laid down, lovers of
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  Him. We are not called to try to play
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  both sides, friends. We are called to take up our
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  cross, to die to self friends, and to go out into the harvest
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  regardless of the outcome. And that is a hard lesson for
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  most people who have grown up in cultural Christianity where it
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  looked like blessings and materialism and it looked like
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  lots of greedy gain. And that is not the way of God.
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  There are only a few that are called in to the spiritual gift
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  of giving. Most everyone else is called
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  into a life of being completely reliant upon God Almighty for
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  their very next breath, for their very next meal.
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  Friends. And he said with man this is
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  impossible, but with God it is anything is possible.
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  Friends, verse 2 to Timothy, my dearly beloved son, grace,
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  mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  So here Paul's going to remind himself of the family that God
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  has given him. He's not out there on on his
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  own. This Koinonia, this one another
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  ring one another, this fellowship.
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  And Paul here as he's locked up in prison ready to be executed,
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  he was bringing back into remembrance all of the people
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  that God had brought into his life.
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  They were very near and dear to him and like family.
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  And he's telling us about Timothy, who he thought of as a
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  son, and he's giving Timothy his blessings of grace, mercy, and
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  peace from God. We do not deserve salvation.
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  We did not earn it, friends. It was a free gift of this grace
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  through faith. And you can see this mercy.
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  God was so merciful to us we were headed on the fast track to
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  being eternally separated from God Almighty.
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  But through His mercy He showed up even when we were hostile
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  towards Him. And peace.
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  There is no peace outside of a relationship with God through
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  His Son Jesus Christ. And you can see God the Father
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  and Christ Jesus our Lord synonymous. 3 in one, friends
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  three. I thank God whom I serve from my
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  forefathers with pure conscience without ceasing.
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  I have remembrance of you in my prayers day and night.
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  So this is what you need to understand is that Paul did not
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  stop praying for Timothy every time that he would bring Timothy
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  to his mind, every time God would bring Timothy to his mind,
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  Paul would pray for him. And that is our call.
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  That is what we are called to do is to rejoice always, to pray
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  without ceasing, to always have gratitude and thankfulness for
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  the things that we do have, to not be discontent, friends.
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  And God is well pleased with the life that mimics that model of
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  praying without ceasing, rejoicing always.
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  We must take joy. We cannot just let the things
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  that happened to us be our guide.
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  We cannot just be tossed to and fro by every wind and every
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  wave. Friends, we choose joy in the
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  midst of trials and persecution for greatly desiring to see you,
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  being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy.
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  It seems as if whenever Paul and Timothy had to depart ways when
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  Paul was going on into Macedonia and Timothy was charged to stay
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  in Ephesus, it caused Timothy to burst out into tears.
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  And here Paul is remembering that encounter of that departure
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  whenever he left to go to Macedonia, and he is thankful
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  for his son in faith, Timothy. And it fills Paul with joy
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  knowing that Timothy was like a son to him. 5 When I call to
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  remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelled
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  first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I'm
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  persuaded that is in you also. So Paul knew that Timothy came
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  from good stock. His grandmother taught him the
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  ways of the Jews, His mother taught him in the ways of the
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  Jews. And here he knows that Timothy
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  himself knew all of the background because of the
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  faithfulness of his grandmother and his mother.
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  And it all culminates in Jesus Christ.
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  And that is where so many Jews go wrong is because they don't
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  see the Old Testament as pointing towards the already
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  manifested Christ who came through the Immaculate
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  Conception of Mary, a virgin birth and lived a perfect
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  sinless life and died on a criminal's cross, but three days
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  later resurrected from the dead and appeared to many and
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  ascended to the right hand of God.
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  And that is where so many Jews get it wrong because they're
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  still waiting upon their Messiah when he's already come and they
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  don't want to admit that they murdered their Messiah.
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  And here you can see that Timothy was brought up in the
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  way of the Jews that pointed him towards Christ, which is well
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  pleasing to God when you have these Messianic Jews who
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  understand all the background of the Torah, all the background of
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  the Pentateuch, all the background of the major and
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  minor prophets in the history of of the Kingdom of the Jews.
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  And you can see here that Timothy had a wonderful
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  upbringing. And it's a word to so many
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  families is to train up a child in the way they should go.
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  And when they are older, they will not depart from it.
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  And we cannot disengage friends. We need for parents to actually
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  parents and not to allow technology to raise their
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  children, not to farm out their responsibilities to these
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  institutions who care nothing for your children.
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  We are called to disciple our children, friends, and that is
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  the great calling upon a parent's life.
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  And we cannot disengage and we cannot check out.
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  We must keep our hand on the pulse, friends. 6 Wherefore I
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  put you in remembrance, that you stir up the gift of God, which
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  is in you, by the putting on of my hands.
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  So Paul laid hands on Timothy right before he left, and he
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  blessed him and he charged him to make sure that he was a
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  student of the Word of God, and that the giftings that God has
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  placed on him he actually cultivated and he worked on.
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  He didn't take them for granted. And the Bible is clear that
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  those that have more will be given to them, but those that
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  have not, even what they do have will be taken from them.
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  We can't go out and spiritual pride thinking that all the
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  things that we have learned, we just have and that they'll
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  always be there without cultivating A meaningful loving
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  relationship with God Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ.
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  That's the key to even more being unlocked to you.
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  But if you think that you've learned it all and you need not
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  learn anymore, and that everything that you have is
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  sufficient, then what you will find as you go on, as you go out
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  in your own strength, friends, the little bit that you thought
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  that you have, it will lead to perpetual frustration because
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  God has taken away the limited amount of knowledge that you had
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  in Him. There are so many people with
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  plaques and degrees on walls that are as ignorant as the
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  unlearned man friends, and that is what you need to understand.
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  And there are so many people who study the word of God, who
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  believe every single syllable, and they know more about what's
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  going on in the world than the most celebrated scholastic
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  academic professor. And that is the way of God is
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  that he shames the wise by using the foolish things. 7 For God
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  has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a
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  sound mind. So God did not give you a spirit
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  of fear and timidity. Friends, He does not call us to
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  be cowards, He does not call us to be timid.
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  He calls us to be bold in the face of persecution.
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  He calls us to speak truth in love when it's unpopular,
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  friends. We can love people into hell,
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  friends. And that is where so many people
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  are. They're choosing their
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  relationships with their family members over what the word of
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  God says, and they're erring grievously today.
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  And that is what you need to understand.
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  And he says, unless you hate them in relation to how much you
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  love Jesus Christ, then you cannot be his disciple.
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  You cannot inherit the Kingdom of God if you do not rightly
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  place all of your relationships with your family in the proper
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  place in relation to Jesus Christ.
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  Jesus is far above and Jesus's words are far above anything
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  that is culturally popular. Friends, or what our government
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  says or what anybody says that is apart from the Word of God,
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  that is, if anything goes against God's Word, we must shun
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  it. And we cannot fear imprisonment.
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  We cannot fear being. Ostracized.
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  We cannot fear our lives being taken from us, our livelihoods
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  being taken from us. We must side with God 10 times
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  out of 10. Who do we obey, God or man?
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  And of course, we always obey God in God's Word, and we'll go
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  along with the leaders as far as they will go along with Christ.
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  And that is the mandate that is placed on our lives.
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  He gives us a spirit of power. He gives us a spirit of love.
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  He gives us a sound mind. Friends, that is what you need
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  to know, the speaking truth in love, not shrinking back, not
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  being silent. There's a sin of omission when
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  we know what is right and we choose not to do it whenever we
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  stay silent, whenever we need to speak up.
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  Friends, that is sinful. A be not you, therefore ashamed
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  of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be
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  you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
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  power of God. What a mandate that is placed
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  upon our lives. Friends, we don't need to
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  apologize for the Bible. We don't need to apologize for
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  the words of God Almighty who created everything.
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  All we need to do is get in line with what His Word says.
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  We need to believe every single syllable and not call any of it
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  into question, even if it costs us everything.
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  If it costs us our very lives, if it costs us our livelihoods,
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  if it costs us their relationships, if it costs us
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  our job, if it costs us everything, we side with God.
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  And then we rejoice. Because they persecuted the
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  prophets of old and they hated Jesus 1st.
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  And it's no wonder that they persecute and hate us as we side
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  with God's Word and his unpopular friends.
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  We do not worry about that. We obey God and God alone.
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  We're not trying to play both sides.
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  It is God and God alone who we serve.
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  And we work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
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  Nine, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,
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  not according to works, but according to His own purpose and
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  grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
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  began. We were chosen and predestined
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  before the foundations of the earth.
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  He knew us before we were ever even formed in our mother's
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  womb. He knit us together.
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  He knows who belongs to Him. He is relentlessly pursuing
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  those who will inherit eternal life.
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  He has good works for us to do that He planned before we were
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  ever even born. Friends, what an amazing
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  thought. And it is not because of
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  anything that we did. It is everything that He did for
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  us on the cross. That is where our holiness and
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  righteousness and purity and innocence comes from.
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  It comes from the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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  And He imputes to us His perfection and His Holiness, and
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  He takes upon all of the sins of the world.
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  Friends, 10 now is, but is now made manifest by the appearing
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  of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and has
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  brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
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  That is what you need to understand is that all
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  throughout the Old Testament, the afterlife was somewhat
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  cloudy. And then whenever Jesus Christ
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  arrived on the scene and he resurrected on the third day and
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  he snatched the keys to death and hell and Hades, Friends, you
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  need to understand that it became crystal clear of what is
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  to come. And that is what Paul is
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  referencing here and he knows it right before he is to go to be
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  martyred for the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Paul here is bringing into remembrance what is to come and
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  he's counted the cost and he's found that Jesus Christ is
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  worthy and Jesus Christ is able to save to the utmost.
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  And just as the same as the power that raised Jesus Christ
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  from the dead will raise us up, and we will have immortal
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  bodies, unperishable bodies, friends, and we will go to reign
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  with him for 1000 years. 11 whereunto I am appointed A
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  preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
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  So Paul understood his calling and he walked it out faithfully,
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  and he did not worry about what others thought about him.
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  He had already counted the cost, He had already put his hand to
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  the plow, and he knew before he even launched his ministry, he
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  already knew what he must suffer for Jesus Christ's name's sake.
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  12 For the which 'cause I also suffer these things.
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  Nevertheless, I'm not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed
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  and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
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  committed unto him against that day.
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  So Paul had full confidence in what Jesus Christ could do.
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  He was not going at it blindly. He was persuaded with every
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  fiber and every ounce of his being that Jesus is Lord and
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  that Jesus is able, and that Jesus would raise him up from
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  the dead and he did not need to fear those that could kill the
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  body. But he served God faithfully
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  until the end, and he was not ashamed of his Lord.
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  Jesus Christ, the son of a Carpenter, a Jewish man who died
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  a criminal's death and claimed to be the Son of God.
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  Paul rightfully sold out to this man who was fully man and fully
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  God. 13 Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard
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  of me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
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  He's telling Timothy to finish his race well, to not worry, to
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  not be anxious, but to be fully confident in Christ Jesus.
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  We all must get in to the boat, friends, before the destruction
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  comes. A worldwide cataclysmic event
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  that is coming to test all the inhabitants of the earth.
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  But we must get in Christ to be saved. 14 That good thing which
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  was committed unto you keep by the Holy Ghost which dwells in
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  us. It is the Holy Spirit that
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  enables us to finish this race well.
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  We need we rely on the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to
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  speak to us those still small things that He does and gives us
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  power and gives us a sound mind and helps us to know where to be
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  at the right time and what to say.
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  Whenever we are pressed, whenever we are hard pressed,
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  whenever we are persecuted, the Holy Spirit will speak for us,
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  friends, and we do not need to be afraid and we do not need to
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  tremble. We need to be bold in our
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  witness regardless of the outcome. 15 This you know, that
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  all they which are in Asia be turned away from me, of of whom
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  are Phageolus and homogeny. 16 The Lord give mercy unto the
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  House of Amicipherus, for he often refreshed me, and was not
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  ashamed of my chain. So here Paul mentions a couple
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  guys who were heretics and apostate who started preaching
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  that the resurrection had already happened and they were
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  leading many astray. And then Paul backs it up with
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  one guy who was relentless in his pursuit to come and to
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  comfort Paul, this omiciphoris. 17 But when he was in Rome, he
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  sought out, he sought me out very diligently and found me. 18
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  will end here. The Lord grant unto him that he
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  may find mercy of the Lord in that day, and in how many things
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  he ministered unto me at Ephesus, you know very well.
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  So the Lord have mercy on us in that day, that day that is
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  coming to test all the inhabitants of the earth.
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  And whether we go to meet Him in the air or whether we take our
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  last breath and we are ushered into paradise.
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  Either way, we pray to the Lord God Almighty that we will be
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  found worthy to escape all of the things that are coming to
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  test the inhabitants of the earth.
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  And we pray that where He is, we will be forever more.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in
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  God's Word. I know, I sure have.
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  Praying for every single one of you.
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  Stand with Israel, stand with them.
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  They are God's chosen people and He will bring them into the
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  fold. They are the natural.
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  And don't forget that we are just the wild branches.
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  How much easier would it be for the wild branches to be cut off
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  from the natural tree? And how much easier will it be
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  for the natural branches to be grafted back into the natural
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  tree? The ethnic Jews in a literal
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  geographical land. God loves and He is working
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  mightily and it is their jealousy seeing us coming in to
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  the Kingdom of God that will cause them to admit that Jesus
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  Christ is the Messiah. How amazing is this book that we
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  hold in our hands. It is to be read literally and
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  chronologically, friends, and we will do that together as we move
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  through it. Blessings upon you today.
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  I love you, God loves you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.