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Tabernacle Tidbit - 2 Timothy 4:19 · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  This is a Tabernacle tidbit, a bite sized Tabernacle talk of 5
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  minutes or less to help you get through your day when you only
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  have a little bit of time. We hope this helps you know
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  Christ groan His Word and show His love to others.
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  Let's get started. Welcome back to Tabernacle
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  Tidbits. And today we are in Second
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  Timothy chapter 4 and verse #19 Paul is writing his very last
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  letter that he will write before he is killed for his faith.
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  Right now he is imprisoned in the capital city of Rome and
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  he's writing to his son in the faith, Timothy.
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  And in verse #19 Paul says this. Greet Prisca and Aquila in the
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  household of Onessa Foris. Greet Prisca and Aquila in the
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  household of Onessa Foris here these individuals you might not
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  remember Prisca and Aquila Prisca.
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  Her name would also sometimes be called Priscilla, and this would
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  be like a a diminutive form. It'd be like, you know, James or
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  Jimmy. And so you have Prisca.
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  And for some reason in Scripture, I will probably say
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  Priscilla, because that's normally how I know her name.
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  Priscilla. Her name is almost always
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  mentioned first in Scripture, which is very interesting.
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  It was not normally that way. And when people mentioned, you
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  know, husbands and wives, the husbands, the really important
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  one. And so you'd say his name first,
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  especially in kind of this patriarchal society.
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  But for some reason in in Holy Scripture, that's not the order
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  that God has it in. And Priscilla and Aquila, they
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  were tent makers and we first were introduced to them in Acts
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  chapter 18, where Paul, he had gone to Corinth, he'd been going
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  through a lot. He had undergone heavy
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  persecution from the Jews. He had from the Jews.
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  As he was going on his missionary journeys, he was
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  stoned and left for dead outside of a city.
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  He, he ended up going to Athens where he preached in kind of the
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  marketplace, and then on the Areopagus on Mars Hill and did
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  not see a whole lot of acceptance of the gospel from
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  when he was there. And so he went to Corinth and
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  was a little bit discouraged and he actually began taking up his
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  tent making again. That was one of the skills that
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  Paul had had. And he became friends with
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  Priscilla and Aquila, who were Jews themselves.
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  They were originally from Rome, but when there was a decree that
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  from the Emperor Claudius that all the Jews had to leave Rome,
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  they had gone. And so they ended up in Corinth
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  at the same time that Paul was in.
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  And so he stayed in their house and they worked together.
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  They were very, they became very knowledgeable in the Christian
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  faith and they even helped to teach Apollos, who was one of
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  the greatest orators or speakers or preachers of the 1st century.
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  And so that Paul deals a lot with that in the book of First
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  Corinthians. And Priscilla and Aquila
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  actually then joined Paul when he was heading back to Ephesus
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  where Timothy would receive this letter.
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  And so he says, greet Priscilla and Aquila.
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  These were dearly loved friends of his.
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  And you can read about them in Romans.
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  You can read about them here in Second Timothy.
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  You can read about them in Acts. These were just a a couple that
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  meant so much to Paul. And can I encourage you?
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  You can be a special encouragement to the people of
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  God, whether that's, you know, a pastor, an evangelist, a retired
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  pastor, a Sunday school teacher, a Deacon.
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  It can be a fellow member in your church.
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  It can be a homebound person who's not no longer able to come
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  physically to church. But you can be an encouragement
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  and a help to others, just like Priscilla and Aquila were.
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  And so let's have that part that I want to be someone that every
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  time I know, every time Paul thought about Brazil and Aquila,
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  he went, man, they were there for me during some hard times.
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  They they worked in the gospel with me and they love the Lord.
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  And they're still serving there in that church at Ephesus where
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  Timothy is now. So he says, Timothy say hi to
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  this couple for me. And then he says Greek Priscilla
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  and Aquila and the household of Onessa Forrest.
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  And Onessa Forrest was the one that he had come to Rome and he
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  was a blessing to Paul while Paul was imprisoned.
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  And so Paul says we read about him in chapter 1 in Second
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  Timothy. And unlike Phagellis and
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  homogenies who deserted Paul, who were ashamed of his
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  imprisonment, Onessa Forrest was a blessing.
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  The the verse specifically says that Vanessa Forrest often
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  refreshed Paul and was not ashamed of his chains.
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  And so here, even the family of Vanessa Forrest, Vanessa Forrest
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  would have been from Ephesus, where Timothy's pastoring.
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  And so Paul says, say hi to his family for me because he has
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  been a massive blessing to me. Would people want to tell your
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  family members? Oh, yeah, I know them.
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  They are a great encouragement to me.
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  Would you say hi because you know here as as Paul saying like
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  even say hi to his family, his whole household because of what
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  a blessing he is? Let's try to be that kind of
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  blessing to others even today. Just for one person, just for
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  one, Paul, you can make a difference today.
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  Will you be an encouragement?