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1 Timothy chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Timothy chapter one, let us pray.
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  We thank you, Father, for today. We thank you God for all the
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  many blessings that you've already poured out on us.
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  We thank you, Lord, for life and life abundant.
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  We thank you, God, for the church you have established in
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  the gates of hell will not prevail.
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  We thank you, God, for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
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  inside of us, leading us and guiding us and teaching us,
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  exhorting us, disciplining us, giving us discernment,
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  correcting us. God, we thank you for the Holy
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  Spirit and the work that He does to teach us your paths, your
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  ways, your direction. God, we get out of our own way.
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  We laid down all of our own preconceived suppositions.
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  We laid down all of our own ideas of how this life should
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  go. God, we laid down materialism.
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  Lord, we laid down greed. God, we laid down anger and
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  malice and revenge. God, we laid down self
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  preservation. We laid down vanity.
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  Today, God, in the mighty name of Jesus, Lord, help us to lay
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  down lust. Help us to lay down all of the
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  things that are entangling us, God, and leading us away from
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  the goodness and the grace and the wholesomeness of you.
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  Father, I pray that you'll break off fear today.
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  Break off fear of man today. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we will have a sound mind. Lord, I pray that you'll calm
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  our every fear. Lord, I pray against the tossing
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  of the waves of to and fro. Help us not to be double minded.
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  Help us not to give an inch to the enemy.
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  God, help us not to give a foothold to our adversary.
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  But Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us and
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  that you will grow us into the mature men and women that you
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  have called us to be for this generation, for such a time as
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  this. Father, Father us well.
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  Help us to step in to the bridal identity that you have given us.
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  Help us to know the the least in the Kingdom of God is greater
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  than any born of woman. Help us to know our inheritance
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  in Christ Jesus. Help us to get in Christ Jesus
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  today. God, I pray that today will be
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  the day of salvation for many. God, we work out our salvation
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  with fear and trembling, for you are worthy, You are holy, You
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  are lovely. God, I pray for a supernatural
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  filling today. Open our hearts and open our
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  minds, open our eyes, open our ears to your eternal words.
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  God, I pray for sound doctrine, sound theology.
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  I pray, Holy Spirit, you will guide us.
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  I decrease as you increase. Hide me, hide my words, hide my
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  thoughts. And Holy Spirit, you speak.
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  You tell us what it is that you want to say for this generation,
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  for such a time as this. Lord, we stand upon the
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  cornerstone, We stand upon Yeshua.
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  We stand upon the infallible, inerrant word.
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  And God Almighty, I pray that you will find us in the end.
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  Finishing well. Lord, help us not to compromise.
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  Help us not to water down the Word.
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  Lord, help us not to give in to the spirit of the age, but
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ for you to get all
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  the glory and the honor and the power forever and ever.
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  Keep us, Lord, from the enemy. Keep us, Lord, from self
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  preservation. Keep us, God, from the fear of
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  man, and help us, Lord, to finish well.
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  It's all about you, King Jesus. It's always been about you, King
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  Jesus. It'll always be about you, King
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  Jesus. The same yesterday, today, and
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  forever and ever and ever. You are immutable.
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  You are glorious. We love you.
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  Thank you, Maranatha. Come.
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  Come, Lord. Come and it's in your mighty and
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  holy and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of
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  God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope.
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  So Paul here is giving a little salutation.
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  He's letting them know that his apostleship was given to him by
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  God himself. Jesus Christ told him on the
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  road to Damascus that it was hard to kick against the goads.
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  And Paul surrendered because he saw the Lord Jesus Christ and
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  his resurrected body. And Jesus gave him his doctrine,
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  gave him all of the church structure that we're going to be
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  talking about for a little while.
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  It was all revealed to Paul here.
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  And Paul was the conduit that the Lord God Almighty, Yahweh
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  Supreme, was well pleased to deliver all the structure of the
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  church for today through this super apostle Paul.
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  Verse 2 unto Timothy, my own son in the faith, grace, mercy,
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  peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  Those are synonymous God the Father and God the Son and God
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  the Holy Ghost. 3 and 1. And Paul here is letting us know
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  that he thought of Timothy as his own son in the faith.
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  And what is he saying? He told us that the Lord is our
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  only hope. He's telling us that it's faith
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  and grace and mercy and peace that God offers to us.
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  Friends, take a hold of it. Robe yourself with it.
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  Wear it. Let it become your identity.
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  Let it become your worldview. Do not fear the one that can
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  kill the body, but fear the one that can kill the body and cast
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  your soul into hell. Friends, we do not fear man.
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  We do not fear those who are hostile towards the grace of
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  God, the peace of God, the love of God.
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  Friends, that is what we need more, that we need our very next
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  breath. We need to know our identity.
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  We need to know where we're headed.
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  We need to know who we serve, friends.
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  And it's not enough just to know him, but we must be known by
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  him. Keep your lamps full.
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  Be full of the Holy Ghost, friends.
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  Do not compromise and water down this Word in this faith that we
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  have. Friends, He is all supreme.
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  He is Yahweh from everlasting, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
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  Jacob. Friends, the God of Israel.
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  Friends, do not give an inch. Do not slide back.
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  Friends, we stand firm in the faith on what the Word of God
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  says, and that is all that we need to finish this race.
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  Well. It is by calling scripture into
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  question. It is by trying to twist
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  Scripture and ask, did God really say that we are giving in
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  to the adversary, the enemy, the deceiver, friends, and far be it
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  from the capital C Church ecclesia, to be watered down at
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  this time and this age and for such a time as this.
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  Friends, stand firm till the end.
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  Do not retreat, do not back up. We charge the hill and we finish
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  this race well, and you will find grace and mercy, you will
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  find peace and hope in God the Father and Jesus Christ our
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  blessed Lord and Redeemer. Verse 3 as I besought you to
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  abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia that you
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  might charge some that they teach no other doctrine.
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  So here's a warning against heresy.
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  And he wanted Timothy to stay there as he went on to into
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  Macedonia. He told Timothy to stay at
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  Ephesus and Ephesus was a rough place friends, and we do not
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  need to shrink back from things that are hard.
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  We need to make sure that whenever we are called into the
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  hardest places that we are full of the Holy Ghost.
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  And that is how the power that lives inside of us is greater
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  than the power that is in the world, friends.
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  And that is how we are able to overcome the darkness is when
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  we're full of the light. Let no darkness be found in you.
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  St. And he's telling Timothy here,
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  Paul is telling Timothy here, that it was far better for
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  Timothy to stay there into structural lies the church as
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  they were growing at a rapid race.
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  And Paul found it very beneficial to leave his son in
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  the faith behind. He did not abandon him.
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  He was there on purpose, and Paul wanted Timothy to know that
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  it was purposeful for him to leave him behind and for him to
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  rebuke and correct any kind of heretical teaching that was
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  coming around. In that Timothy had the sound
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  doctrine that was given to him by Paul, that was given to Paul
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  by the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
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  For neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which
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  minister questions rather than godly edifying, which is in
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  faith. So do.
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  So Paul is admonishing Timothy to finish the race.
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  Well, don't give up. Do not grow weary and doing good
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  friends, for you will see the harvest, you will see the fruit
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  being grown and bearing and reproducing.
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  Friends, we do not need to grow weary and Paul here is letting
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  Timothy know to be on guard to those who want to have endless
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  conversations and debates about genealogies and fables and all
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  kinds of questionings. And that is such a foothold of
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  the enemy in the church is whenever we water down the word
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  of God, whenever we try to intermingle the world in
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  friends, this is where we air grievously and many have been
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  LED off astray. And all of this fables and
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  genealogy and all of the things that are not profitable,
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  friends, what do we need to add to the word of God?
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  And what do we need to subtract from the word of God for people
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  to be saved in the The answer is nothing.
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  It is complete, friends. And it is profitable friends.
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  And it is the word of God that we need more than we need all of
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  this endless genealogy and questionings more than we need
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  these fables, friends. It is the word of God that we
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  build our entire life upon, and we will never be put to shame. 5
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  Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart
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  and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned.
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  Now Paul here is letting Timothy know what is his mandate that
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  he's placed upon his life, that God has given him and entrusted
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  him for this church at Ephesus. Paul is telling Timothy to have
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  a clear conscience before men, to have integrity, to do the
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  right thing when no one is watching.
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  And if there was ever a time in the history of mankind for us to
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  practice integrity, it would be today.
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  So many ministries have been upended and found out and
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  undermined and underpinned, undergirded and falling apart,
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  and all of the credit has been completely washed away because
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  of moral failure and moral decay, which is sin, friends.
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  It is sin that creeps in unawares, and it grabs a hold of
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  us, and it wraps its tentacles around our throats and it chokes
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  us out and it asphyxiates us. Friends, and we are not
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  profitable for the ministry of the Word of God.
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  We must stiff arm all the things that are coming in at an
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  alarming rate. Whenever you are doomed
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  scrolling and something catches your eye, throw your phone as
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  far as the east is from the West.
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  Go and run it over. Throw it out in the streets.
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  Friends, do not allow the enemy a foothold into your imagination
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  and into your mind and into your eyes and ears and into your
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  hands and feet. Friends, flee from those
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  youthful, lustful desires. Be satisfied and ravished with
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  the wife of your youth. Friends, do not let your
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  fountain spill out into the streets.
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  Stay away from it, friends, flee from it.
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  Don't even go near the door. Sin is crouching at your door.
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  But you must subdue it, friends, if you want your light to shine
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  amongst men. That is the end.
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  It is charity out of a pure heart.
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  It is a good conscience, and it is faith that is unwavering.
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  We need to increase our faith. We need to raise our level of
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  faith up over what the world is telling us is real.
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  It's faith, friends, that we need.
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  And it needs to be faith that increases and does not decrease
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  with time. 6 From which some, having swerved, have turned
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  aside unto vain jangling. That is what you see when a
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  person is not settled. They are tossed to and fro by
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  every wind and every wave that comes their way, every new
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  doctrine and new teaching and everything of the Spirit of the
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  age. This New Age garbage that tries
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  to intermingle the occult into the Church.
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  It is this swerving that will lead them into eternal
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  damnation. Friends, this heretical
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  teaching, this apostate church, this blasphemous approach to
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  God's Word where we try to intermingle the things that are
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  being propagated at the highest levels into the Church.
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  We need to stay away from same sex marriage.
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  We need to stay away from the changing of our genders.
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  Friends, we need to stay away from all of the disgusting,
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  deplorable things that this world is propagating at a high
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  level. We must follow what the Word of
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  God tells us. But how would you know if you're
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  not in it? And there's such an attack on
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  the word of God and they want to call it barbaric and they want
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  to call it archaic of of antiquity.
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  They want to get rid of it, but you cannot.
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  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of his words.
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  Friends, they stand the test of time.
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  They will not ever be done away with.
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  There have been many who have set out to disprove and
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  discredit the Word of God, but they have only found that it is
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  His spoken word and it is reliable and it is true.
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  And we must be found standing on it, and we must be found when
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  the smoke clears on the right side of history.
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  Friends, standing with the Jews, standing with Israel, friends do
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  not believe the deception of the spirit of the age that is
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  creeping in and it is fear of man, friends, that is entangling
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  us more than anything else. It is wanting to mix the world
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  in with the Word of God and it'll never happen.
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  It'll never be profitable. Friends, we must stand on the
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  complete authority of God's Word and call none of it into
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  question and to go with blind faith, the faith of a child.
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  Friends, unless you have the faith of a child, you shall not
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  enter into the Kingdom of God. This vain jangling is what
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  you're hearing propagated at the highest levels.
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  It's propagated in all the false religions and the false
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  doctrines in the heretical teachings that are prevalent in
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  our day and our hour is the vain jangling 7 desiring to be
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  teachers of the law. They understand neither what
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  they say nor where of they affirm.
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  That is the problem of our day and our hour is they are
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  affirming things that are not of God.
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  They are not biblical truth. They're affirming the things
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  that are heretical teachings. And you can see the false
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  teachers and you can see the false prophets, and they're
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  rising at an alarming rate. And we must be on guard and we
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  must protect our families from all of this garbage that is in
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  the world right now. And it is pulling and dragging
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  people away at an alarming rate. And the Bible said it would be
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  so. They said in the last days
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  people will not put up with sound doctrine, but they will
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  amass to themselves people who tickle their ears and they lead
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  them astray. Friends a But we know that the
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  law is good if a man use it lawfully.
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  There was no one in the history of mankind from Adam until now,
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  and there will never be a human being on planet earth that can
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  fulfill the Law to the complete letter other than Jesus Christ
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  Himself. And that is why we need Jesus
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  more than we need the keeping of the Law.
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  If we were to keep the complete law and not break one of them,
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  not even a single one, then we could be justified before God.
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  But we can never. And if you break one of the law,
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  then you have broken the entire thing and you are guilty of all
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  of it. Which is why we need Jesus
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  Christ. That is why we need His
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  substitute in our stead. We need to be clothed in His
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  righteousness and His Holiness and His innocence, friends,
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  because He was the only one who could ever obey the law to the
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  last letter. 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a
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  righteous man, but for the lawless disobedient, for the
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  ungodly, for sinners, for unholy profane murderers of fathers and
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  murderers of mothers, manslayers.
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  So the entire purpose of the law was to show us our need for the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. Man tried and it was a futile
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  effort, friends. Man tried to fulfill the law,
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  even building rules on top of it to try to keep people from
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  penetrating the inner law, and it was to no avail.
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  We failed throughout all the generations leading up to Jesus
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  Christ. We failed and could never
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  fulfill the law, and it was put there on purpose to show us that
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  we are deplorable in our own flesh, and we could never save
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  ourselves. 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves
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  with mankind, for men, Steelers, for liars and perjured persons,
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  if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.
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  11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which
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  was committed to my trust. So Paul had a very special
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  privilege of God Almighty being well pleased to pour out his
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  plan for the church through Paul.
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  And it was hidden prior, but Paul received it and it was
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  given to him. And he's saying, when we compare
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  what God's perfection and what he requires in comparison to our
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  filthy, despicable lives, there's such a contrast of our
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  sinfulness and His Holiness. Friends 12 And I thank Jesus
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  Christ our Lord, who has enabled me for that.
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  He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.
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  Paul just breaks out into song. Paul can't believe that he was
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  the one chosen and God used Paul's Pharisee of the Pharisee
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  background, his Hebrew of the Hebrew background.
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  He used it to expound upon what is said and what is needed and
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  what is beneficial for the church.
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  And it was well pleasing to God Almighty to pour out so much
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  into this learned man 13 who was before a blasphemer and a
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  persecutor, injurious. But I obtained mercy because I
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  did it ignorantly, in unbelief. And that same mercy is available
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  to anyone, regardless of race, creed, background, regardless of
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  the sentence that's been pronounced against you,
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  regardless of what position you find yourself in, regardless of
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  all the lies that you have believed.
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  It is available to anyone. And if it was available to Paul,
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  who caused the early church to be thrown into prison and to die
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  horrible deaths, and he caused them to blasphemy Jesus Christ,
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  if it was available to him, it is available to anyone who still
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  has breath in their lungs. Never forget that, friends.
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  We were ignorant whenever we were lost, but He took the
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  blinders off. He called us to Himself.
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  He justified us and sanctifies US, Friends.
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  He makes us white as snow friends, and it is available to
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  anyone who will come to Him and admit that they are a Sinner and
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  admit that they need a Savior and that they cannot save
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  themselves. If they will confess with their
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  mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in their heart that God
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  raised him from the dead, they shall be saved from eternal
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  damnation. 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant
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  with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
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  It is grace through faith, friends, that saves us, and it
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  is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and by faith we put on
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  his righteousness. 15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of
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  all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to
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  save sinners, of whom I am the chief.
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  When we really start to understand just how lost and
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  sinful we are and how perfect and holy He is, you will start
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  to understand the sentiment Paul had when he saw how he
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  blasphemed God and how he persecuted good people who loved
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  Jesus and who wanted the best for the world.
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  And he persecuted them and he threw them into prison.
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  And I want you to know, friends, that people are never the
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  problem, that it is the spirit behind those people.
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  The spirit of the Antichrist has already gone out into the world
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  and is deceiving people in mass droves.
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  And it's not people that we war against.
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  It is the principalities, it is the darkness, friends, it is the
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  demonic haunts that we war against.
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  Friends, they are hostile towards a good and loving God
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  who wants nothing more than for them to come to Him and for them
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  to be saved and reconciled to Him.
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  Friends, and for the curse to be removed and for them to have
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  eternal life with Him and life abundant.
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  Now they are blinded and delusional and reprobate, and it
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  is sad, and we pray that the scales will fall off of their
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  eyes before they take their last breath. 16 How be it for this,
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  'cause I obtain mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show
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  forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should
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  hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting.
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  That is what we get when we come to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And you cannot get to the Father except through Jesus Christ.
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  That is what you need to understand.
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  There is not another way. There is only one way to the
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  Father. And his name is Jesus Christ.
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  And that is how we obtain life. Everlasting, Friends 17 Now unto
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  the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God be
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  honor and glory, forever and ever.
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  Amen. Paul breaks out into praise and
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  worship here and he's letting us know some attributes of God
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  Almighty. God is the King eternal.
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  There is no one higher than Him. No one can dethrone him.
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  He is the only uncreated God is immortal.
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  There is no death for God Almighty.
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  He does not sleep, nor is He dead.
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  He is invisible. You cannot even look at God.
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  God dwells in unapproachable light, and He sent Jesus Christ
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  so that we can know Him, and He is the only wise God.
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  There is no wisdom apart from God.
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  The wisdom of this age is futile, and the wisdom of this
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  age leads to destruction and death.
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  Friends, and it is God who we honor, and it is his glory that
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  we desire forever and ever. We want to bask in God's glory.
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  18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the
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  prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war
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  a good warfare. We war on our knees.
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  We put on the full armor of God, so that we can stand against all
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  the schemes of the enemy. We lift up our shield of faith
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  against the fiery darts of our adversary.
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  We remember our salvation. We overcome by the blood of the
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  Lamb and the words of our testimony.
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  We do word and rightly divide the word of God.
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  We do war. And as we rightly divide the
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  word of God, friends, we run the race well.
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  We take the gospel to the whole world.
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  We receive our peace as we stand on truth, Jesus Christ.
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  We protect our heart friends, by living the right way and putting
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  on His righteousness. It is God Almighty who we serve,
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  and we do war with all of the wicked, demonic, satanic
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  theology, this doctrine of demons that is coming in and we
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  stand on the word of God, the immutable character of God
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  Almighty, the same yesterday, today and forever.
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  And we do not back down and we war against it all on our knees.
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  19 holding faith a good conscience, which some, having
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  put away concerning faith, have made shipwreck that's what
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  happens when you give the devil a foothold.
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  That's what happens when you attach yourself to some new
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  idea, new teaching. That's what happens when we
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  think of the Word of God as trying to come in to our
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  perspective. When we try to take the Word of
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  God and we try to make it fit into the current culture, you
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  will find yourself in a shipwreck.
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  We will catch up to the Word of God and not the other way
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  around. The Word of God does not catch
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  up with mankind in the progressive nature of today.
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  This is still just as relevant for our time as it was whenever
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  it was written, not the other way around.
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  We don't try to cherry pick the verses out of the Bible to fit
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  into our current situation that we find ourselves in.
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  And that is how you become shipwrecked is whenever you try
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  to make the word of God into your own image, when you try to
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  form God into what you want him to be.
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  And it is fear of man which is prevalent amongst society, and
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  we want to try to water down God's word to escape
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  persecution. And you see it at an alarming
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  rate. We'll end on twenty of whom is
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  Hymanius and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that
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  they may learn not to blasphemy. So this Hymanius and Alexander
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  were teaching false doctrine and heresy, and Paul thought it was
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  right, as he did for the man in Corinth who was in an incestual
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  relationship with his stepmother.
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  He did the same thing to him as he has done to Alexander and
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  Hymanius by turning them over to Satan.
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  And if they were to repent, if there was breath in their lungs
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  and they had enough mental fortitude and wherewithal to
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  repent and see the air of their ways, then Paul would receive
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  them back into the fold. But he has turned them out and
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  excommunicated them from the true capital C Church, which the
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  gates of hell will not prevail against.
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  And it is a lonely place outside of the fold of God.
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  And you are subject to Satan's attacks when you're outside of
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  the will of God. And if we will stay in step,
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  lock step with Christ Jesus, there is protection and peace
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  that this world does not know about.
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  I pray that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you, so does God. Stay rooted and grounded in
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  God's word. Devour it, feast on it.
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  Let it be the first thing that you set your eyes upon in the
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  morning and as you go through your day, the last thing that
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  you do before you go to bed, have this communion and this
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  intimacy with God Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ,
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  with the help of the Holy Spirit.
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  God bless you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.