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#20260415 - Stir Up The Gift Of God Which Is In You - 2 Timothy 1 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Tonight's message I've entitled. Stir up the gift of God, which.
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Is in you, and I believe that's the main point of chapter 1.
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Especially and so as we take a look at the first chapter.
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I want to. Take this chapter.
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And I want to split it into. Three parts.
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The first part. Is verses one through 7.
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And that's called stir up the gift of God.
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Which is in you the second. Part is verses 8 to through 12.
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And I call that section share with me in the sufferings for
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the. Gospel and the Third.
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Section is verses 13 to 18 and I call that speak and hold.
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Fast the. Sound words of the.
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Gospel. This is Paul's last letter.
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These are his last. Official words.
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We don't know if he wrote another one, but this is the one
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that we have. Paul is in the Mamertine prison
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in the in the lowest part of the Mamertine prison there in the
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city of Rome. He is there because he is
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considered. A criminal.
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Worthy of the death. Penalty.
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Why? Because he proclaimed.
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Jesus. As Lord and not.
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Caesar is Lord, the gospel that he preached.
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Got him in such trouble, now he is going to be losing.
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His life. As a Roman citizen.
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He was taken outside the city of.
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Rome and beheaded because Roman citizens were never.
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Crucified but. He knew that was ahead of him,
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and so when you read through Second Timothy, you don't hear
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him moaning or how unfair or how unjust.
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It is. He knows.
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That he is there because of the gospel.
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And God's in charge, somehow. I mean the very first.
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Words he says after. The greeting in verse 3 is I
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thank. God.
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And I tell you what, When we're in the midst of the unjust,
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unfair deep. Trial, I thank God, is.
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Often not the first 3 words that come out.
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But it was Paul's very. First thing he said.
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This. Letter was written around 67 or
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68 AD and that's about. 3 Two or three.
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Years before Jerusalem fell. And so he's there.
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And it's so important to think. About this because Paul is
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focused. He knows why he's in there.
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He knows what God wants to do. With it and he.
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Wants to be used even though he's stuck, and isn't that a
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great? Isn't that a great thought?
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God can use us. Even when we're stuck, some of
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you might be stuck in a job, God still wants to use you.
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Some of you are in a bad relationship.
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God still wants to use you. Some of you.
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Because of health. Situations.
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You're stuck in your body. You can't get out of it.
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God still wants to. Use.
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You and so tonight. As we go through this, there is
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just such a. Strong exhortation.
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Especially. Down there in verse 6 and 7:00
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and 8:00 and that is the exhortation where?
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Paul says to. Timothy, during these really
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crazy, nervous, risky times, stir.
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Up the gift of God, which? Is in you which is given to.
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You by the. Laying on of my hands, I was
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there. For God has not.
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Given us the. Spirit of fear, but of.
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Power and of love, and of a disciplined mind.
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So don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me
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as. Prisoner but suffer along.
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With me in this, so we're going. To talk about that tonight,
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because. We're living in a.
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Society where there's. A lot of things that are unfair
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in. Just just.
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Wrong. And and some of those very
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things can just get you going in the wrong direction.
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So here is this special. Letter One of my favorite
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letters in the Bible. And so let's start with the
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word. Of prayer and then we'll launch
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into this and I think that what we're looking for is the.
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Lord to stir. All of our hearts, no matter.
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If if you're just. Brand new believer or you've
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been a. Believer for years.
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God wants to do something in your life.
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For His glory. No matter what's happened in the
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past, he wants to start now, tonight.
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But we. Have to let him.
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We have to give him the key. To the door of our heart.
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So that we'll let him do his work.
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Amen. Let's pray, Father God.
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We thank you. For your word.
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And we're asking in the name of. Jesus that you would speak to us
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through this chapter. You know what's going on in our
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life. You know what we've been
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through. You know our reasonings.
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Maybe you know our anger. But you also know what you want
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to. Do you also?
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Know what you can do and you're patient to do it.
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So tonight. Lord, as we consider this
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scripture, speak to our hearts. In Jesus name, Amen, We'll
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follow along. I'm going to read the first 7
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verses. You kind of catch a a feel.
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For it here, Paul. An apostle of Jesus Christ by
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the will of God. According to the promise.
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Of life. Which is in Christ.
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Jesus to Timothy, a beloved son. Grace, mercy and peace from God
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the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I thank God whom I. Serve with a pure.
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Conscience as my forefathers. Did as without.
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Ceasing, I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly
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desiring to see you being mindful.
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Of your tears. That I may be.
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Filled with joy when I call to. Remembrance the genuine faith
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that is in. You which dwelled?
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1st in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am
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persuaded is in you also, therefore I remind.
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You to stir up the gift of God. Which is in you through the
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laying on of my hands. For God has.
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Not given us a. Spirit of fear, but of power and
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of love. And of a sound mind in verses 1
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and 2. Here we have Paul the Apostle
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incarcerated. He's not going anywhere.
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He's chained to a Roman soldier. It's a dark.
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Dank place, smelly, stinky and he's stuck but notice in verse 1
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he. Calls himself an apostle.
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But he's not going anywhere. An apostle was once sent forth
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as an ambassador. How can he fulfill his ministry
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as an apostle when he's stuck? He's doing it right now.
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God has different ways that he wants to use us, and sometimes
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we think because I can't do this, then I can't fulfill my
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calling. And that's just not true if God
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wants to use. You where you are.
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He wants to open up doors in different ways than you've used.
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Before. I mean just recently.
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Pastor. Ed asked me to host Calvary Live
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and. And Calvary Live is a a live.
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Call in program Monday. To Friday 4. 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
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And he asked me to be one of the hosts.
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Well, yet you can't have dead air time when somebody asks a
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question, you can't just space out.
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I mean, you can't, you can't have that kind of thing going
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on. But I'm I'm not a guy that I
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like to process. When someone asks me a question,
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I like to like, think about it. But you can't do that.
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And so I've got to. I've got to.
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Think and talk at the same time. Now, you might think that's
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easy. For you.
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It's easy for my wife, but it's not easy for me and and so I've
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got to work at this and so. This is a stretch.
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For me, and I just pray that I don't say something to get
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arrested or get in or get in trouble.
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Or get sued so. So on.
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Fridays, Thursdays and Fridays. I'm hosting Calvary.
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Live, but it's a. It's a whole new area for me
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outside of my comfort zone. But God is.
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Working. So if you.
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Call in. Just don't, don't be giving me
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weird questions, OK? That's just to say so.
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Paul's an apostle. He this is his normal greeting
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here back in these days. You started with who you?
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Were writing not at the end of your letter.
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You always started with. Putting you who you were.
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And then Paul talked about. His.
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His. Calling and then.
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Look at it at the phrase. According to the promise.
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Of life. He's not in a.
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Place of life. Physically, it's a place of
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death. But you know.
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He had his eyes. Fixed on the life.
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The life. That's ahead of me.
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The life I can experience right now, I'm drawing from a
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different well. Than what this?
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World can offer me and he. Says to Timothy A.
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Beloved son Timothy, where there was nobody like minded.
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With Paul as was. Timothy as.
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Paul. Writes in Philippians 220.
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Timothy likely came to. Faith through the direct.
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Ministry of Paul on Paul's first missionary journey and then
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since the second missionary journey.
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Timothy. Timothy.
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First of all had to get circumcised because.
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Paul says we need. You to actually do this because.
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Of the people that know you here and your dad is a Greek, your
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mom is a Jew and. So we need to like.
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Take care of that. So that was his.
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Initiation into Paul's ministry, you might say.
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A little rough. But it was good.
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It was important. And so he travelled over the
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next 15 years alongside the Apostle Paul. 15 years having a
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mentor. Like Paul the Apostle.
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But the intensity of the times, I mean, you could just feel it.
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You could just scrape. It off the walls, the Roman
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Empire, this hatred was growing growing, growing against the
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Christians and it was becoming more and more dangerous and you
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know, they had the Colosseum as well where people were being,
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you know, either given to. Gladiators or.
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Or given to wild animals. And so it was a.
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It was a. Terrifying time to serve the
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Lord. And here is Timothy, now in
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charge of the house churches in the city of Ephesus, a Roman
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capital, a colony, and. So they just arrested?
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Paul and some think Alexander the coppersmith that the one
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that. Really spoke against.
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Him and got him arrested on this last time.
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Now Timothy is Paul's travelling companion.
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Paul's special. Companion.
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And now it's like now the bull's eye is on me and in the natural
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we can feel timid, we can feel a bit of cowardice, we can feel a
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bit of hiding or running. So Paul addresses that in the
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very first chapter to Timothy. And we see here that Paul
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includes grace, mercy and peace, normally his.
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Greeting to the churches earlier was.
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Grace and peace, but now he includes mercy because God.
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Has really opened. His heart in a fresh way of how
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merciful he has been over the years to him personally and to
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Timothy. So he he writes that he.
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Includes that undeserved kindness, compassion, and favor
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in the face of our unworthiness. How we need the special mercy
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of. God.
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In living out our faith in this present evil generation well in.
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Verses 3 through 5 Here is where Paul says I thank God.
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I serve him. I thank him.
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For all he's done. And notice this notice.
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That he says I. Thank God with with.
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I I serve with a pure. Conscience.
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It's not a a conscience that's been.
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Dulled by alcohol or drugs. It's a conscience that's.
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Pure. Where even doesn't mean he was.
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Perfect it. Means he was cleansed.
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How much more shall the blood of Christ cleanse your conscience
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from dead? Works.
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When you fall into sin during the week, whether it's anger.
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Or whether it is. Watching things you shouldn't.
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Watch or whatever. The sin is you.
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You need to go to the Lord by the end of the day and get a
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royal flush. You need to get that cleansed
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out of your heart and mind God wants to do.
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That. He's waiting to.
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Do it, but there's a part you play.
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You own it. You say God.
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What was I thinking that was wrong?
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So please flush that out of my. Life cleanse me by the Holy
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Spirit, the living. Water of God a.
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Pure conscience. Is of great value.
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Living in this evil. World and he says as.
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Without ceasing, I remember you in my prayers, night and day.
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Without. Ceasing the Greek word.
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It refers to a. Nagging cough.
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And so some of. You are you have nagging coughs
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right now. Well, that's just a a word to
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remind you. That's what ceasing prayer is
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like. It just kind of keeps coming up.
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You're trying to stop it and just keeps coming up.
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It doesn't mean. All you did is.
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Pray and what you. Hardly ever breathe.
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You just prayed, you know? No, it's a nagging.
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Cough it it. Comes up like I.
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Can hear that cough out there? I heard that, so, he says.
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You know, I, I. Constantly pray for.
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You, I mean, what's he going to? Do he stuck?
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To a Roman guard, he's not doing.
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He's not going anywhere. I pray for you greatly.
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Desiring to see you. Being mindful.
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Of your tears. What do you mean?
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Was this a reference to Timothy Happened to be?
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There and seeing. Paul arrested and an.
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Emotional reaction? We don't know, but it's stuck in
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Paul's mind. You know, there are some things
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you cannot Unsee. And Paul looking at Timothy as
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he maybe he's being. LED away those tears.
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Expression of love. Grief, terror, he says.
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I called to remember. It's verse 5 the.
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Genuine faith that's in you. Genuine.
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It's not hypocritical. It's the real deal.
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The genuine faith, this is important.
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Because it leads us to verse 6. Yes, Timothy.
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'S grandmother and Timothy's mother played a part in
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influencing Timothy. But I think the verse 6 says
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therefore and I think. Here's just something you can
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do. You can go through Second
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Timothy Go. Through the whole.
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Letter and just. Highlight all the words
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therefore, because therefore are.
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Pins in the wall that things hang on, and so when.
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You see therefore. Then you look ahead and say.
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OK, there's a principle he just stated.
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And now this new thing. Is hooked to that.
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And so those. Therefore are super.
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Important and how Paul writes. Therefore, I remind you to.
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Stir up the gift of God. Which is in you?
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This is in verse six and seven stirring up.
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The gift of God. Timothy, I know you're a
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believer. I know you have genuine faith.
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I know you have. The Holy Spirit.
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Living in you, but I'm reminding you based on these days we're
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living in. Stir up the gift of God, which
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is. In you through the laying on of
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my hands and the implication here.
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Is that this? Is something that happened.
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After he. Became a believer and Paul was
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intimately a. Part of that he.
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Personally laid hands on Timothy that God might give him that
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gift that he needed to carry out his ministry.
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One thing I need to mention here if you're a believer in the
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Lord. Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit.
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Comes and makes his home in your heart.
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If you haven't made a profession of faith in the Lord.
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Jesus, yet the Holy Spirit does. Not live in your.
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Heart he is. With you to convict.
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You of sin, righteousness. Righteousness and judgment, but
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he hasn't come and made his home within you yet.
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Yes, you've got your. Human spirit, but you do not
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have the Holy Spirit abiding in you until you.
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Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
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When you humble yourself, and you repent, and you.
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Profess Jesus as. Lord, and you invite him to come
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and make his home in your. Life, the Holy Spirit.
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Moves in and doesn't leave. He doesn't timeshare.
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You with the devil? He's not an Airbnb, OK?
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It's not. That's not.
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What it is? He comes and makes his home, in
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you he indwells. You but Jesus said there is a.
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Power from on high that God wants.
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To give you for. Boldness.
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For service, the fruit of the Holy Spirit has to do with
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character. Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering,
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gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness,
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self-control, character, things that are developed from the
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inside by the holy. Spirit, but the gifts of the.
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Spirit and the Baptism with the Holy.
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Spirit has to do with power. For service and brings boldness
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and you'll see in the context. That he talks about this because
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the. Days were so radical.
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That it was easy for Timothy to kind of pull back.
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That's that's interesting. All through Second Timothy,
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you're going to find 27 commands.
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At least that's what I find 27 commands from Paul to Timothy.
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And here in chapter 1, it's five.
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And this is the first command stir.
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Up the gift of God. Which is in you through the
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laying out of hands. 5 commands to stir.
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Up here is the Greek word that has to do with.
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Keep constantly blazing the fire.
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Fan the fire into a flame. Tend a dying.
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Fire There was a. Spiritual conscious activity
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involved here on Timothy. 'S part God gives you the Holy
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Spirit. To indwell you and he wants to
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empower you by his power coming upon you from on.
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High, but you've got to stir it up just.
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Because it happened once doesn't mean it's.
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Good for the rest of your life, Ephesians chapter 5 says.
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Be being. Filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Keeping to to go to him, saying God use me again, fill me again
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as a vessel. Notice the gift of God.
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Was already within him, not that Timothy had to bring it down
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from heaven. And you know I.
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Got I got saved. In in a more Pentecostal church
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and I know what this. Is all about but.
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It's it's not I'm I'm making. God obligated?
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No, because you see, prayer isn't to.
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Overcome God's reluctance. Prayer is to.
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Join with God's willingness and you've got to believe that and
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when you pray. You need to ask.
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Yourself. Am I trying to convince God or
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and or do I? Believe he already.
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Wants to work and prayer now is joining with His willingness,
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not trying to overcome. His reluctance because God.
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Is not reluctant. He wants to help.
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You he wants to bless. You.
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He wants to. Use you, but you got to stir up
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the gift of God every. One of us.
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Has at least. One gift from the Holy.
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Spirit, we see that. In First Corinthians.
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Chapter 12. When I was.
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Looking through this here. In verse 7 for God has not
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given. Us a spirit of fear, but of.
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Power and of love and of a sound mind.
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So when he says given, it's implying it's a gift.
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It's not something earned, it's a.
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Gift, the gift of the of the Holy Spirit.
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In Acts chapter 4, verses 29 to 31.
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Here's what. We read there's persecution
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that's falling upon the church from the Jewish authorities in
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Jerusalem, The. Church gets.
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Together, and here's their prayer.
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Now, Lord, look on their threats and grant to your servants that
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with all boldness they may speak.
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Your word by. Stretching out your hand to heal
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and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your
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holy servant Jesus, and when they.
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Had prayed the place where they were assembled together was.
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Shaken. And they were.
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All filled with the holy. Spirit and they spoke.
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The word of God. With boldness.
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Some people say, well, what's the?
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Proof. What's the sign that I've been
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baptized? With the holy.
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Spirit right here. Boldness.
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Yes, they spoke in tongues in Acts.
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Chapter 2. But when you're reading through
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Corinthians, you find out that it's not supposed to be the main
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point. And plus.
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As you're looking the book of Acts looking.
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Through it there are. Times where tongues aren't even
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mentioned when they're baptized. With the Holy Spirit.
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But boldness is right here. When they prayed, the place was
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shaken. Then they were filled.
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With the holy. Spirit and the proof.
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Is there is a new? Power in their life they didn't
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have before. They spoke the word.
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Of God in boldness rather than pulling back in fear so Paul
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says in verse 7 for God has not given us a.
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Spirit of fear. You know that word in the Greek
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is not the normal word for. Fear Phobos phobia the.
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Word for fear is only used here one time in the Greek in the New
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Testament, and it means it means timidity and cowardice.
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God has not given us a. Spirit of cowardice to.
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Pull away and run when things. Get difficult and that.
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Comes. By the Holy Spirit the.
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Holy Spirit will not tell you to be.
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A coward, the holy. Spirit will embolden you to
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stand strong in your. Faith, because that's what he
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says. In the second part of verse 7,
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God has given. Us a spirit.
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Of power, and that's the word dunamis, power from on high.
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And it doesn't mean you know. Power like you see.
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In some displays on Christian evangelistic TV, this is
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boldness like the book of. Acts we just read.
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Dunamis a backbone. Spiritually, but he's also.
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Given us love. Agape love it's.
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Interesting that he includes. This because love without power
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can be weak, but power without. Love can be oppressive, but not
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only those. Two but he says.
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A sound mind. He's not talking that.
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You're crazy, but the. Word in the Greek means focused,
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disciplined. Where you're.
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Focused you. You know where you're going, you
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know what you're walking into, and you're confident.
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But your heart is filled with love.
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At the same time. Here is this threefold.
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Cord necessary to stir. Up the gift of God.
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Which is in you. How do you do that?
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Well, I I. Think the threefold.
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Cord is this. First of all, it's your prayer
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life to stir up the gift of. God to, you know, poke the
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campfire and get the flame back. It's through prayer talking.
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To the Lord, being honest with the Lord, you know, asking him
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to to do work that you never thought could ever happen in
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your life. Prayer number 2 has to do.
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With. Reading the word and because
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when you see what Paul is going to say here.
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In this second section. It's kind of helping Timothy.
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Stir up the gift. Because remembering.
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What the Lord Jesus has done. For you.
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And all the privileges he has brought to you, that's.
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Part of stirring up the gift and the. 3rd has to do.
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With guarding your mind. Your thought life.
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Saying, you know what? I I don't want my mind to
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wander. Off into those areas.
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But I want. To be focused.
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On what he has done for me. It's like Paul.
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Says in verse three, I thank God in the middle of the Mamertine
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prison. How can you do?
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That knowing that he's going to die in a few months, if not a
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few. Weeks.
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And according to Christian tradition.
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It was believed that Paul counted A privilege to be able
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to die outside the city like his Lord did.
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Focused. How do you stir up the gift of
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God? God has.
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Given. Us all that's needed.
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To stir up the flame. We just have to.
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Ask him, Jesus said, if any of you.
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That's a father. Knows how to give.
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Good gifts to your. Children, how much more will the
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Father in heaven? Give the Holy Spirit to those
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who ask. Him, and just as well we're on
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the topic. Here I just.
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Want to ask you. Have you had a?
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Can you think of a time where hands were laid upon you for the
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baptism? With the Holy Spirit.
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Now I know when you're looking through the book.
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Of acts. Hands weren't laid upon people
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every single time of. Course, there's Acts chapter 2.
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And then there was Cornelius there in Acts chapter 10.
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But then you see upon believers in Acts chapter.
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Eight that Peter. And John came up to Samaria.
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They laid hands upon them, and they were.
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Baptized with the Holy Spirit, they were believers.
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And then in Acts chapter 19. Hands, Paul.
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Laid hands upon these believers, and they were.
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Filled with the Holy. Spirit and at that time they.
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Spoke with other languages. And so part of stirring up.
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The gift of God is have. I have I been baptized with the
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Holy Spirit? Yes, I'm a believer, but.
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Have I experienced that? Power from on high to grant to
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me the boldness, and at the end of the service I I would like to
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invite. You if if you.
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Haven't you're not sure? Then I invite you to come up and
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have one of the. Pastors lay hands.
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On you and pray for you. To receive the baptism.
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With the Holy Spirit because you need the power from on high.
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To deal with the society we're. Living in right now.
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Well, let's keep on going. Let's look at the second
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section. Here verses 8 through 12.
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Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor
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of me his prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings.
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For the gospel. According to the power, the
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dunamis of God, who has saved us and.
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Called us with a. Holy calling not according.
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To our works but. According to his own purpose and
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grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
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but has now been revealed by the.
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Appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death.
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And brought life and immortality to light.
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Through the gospel to which I was.
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Appointed A preacher an. Apostle and a.
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Teacher of the Gentiles for this reason.
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I also suffer these. Things nevertheless I am not
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ashamed, for I know whom. I have believed.
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And AM. Persuaded that he is able to
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keep what I've. Committed to him until that day.
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Do not be ashamed. That's the second command.
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The third command. Share with me in the sufferings.
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That's one word in the Greek. It's a compound word.
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Share with me in in the evil sufferings.
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Timothy, don't run. We are in this.
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Together so purposely share. With me in this and you know
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when you. Choose to live godly in Christ
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Jesus, You will suffer. Persecution if you're working in
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a warehouse situation and the talk during break is so.
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Ungodly. There are times you have to
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remove yourself and they say oh. There goes Holy Joe.
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You know, you know, and they make fun of you and all that.
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But let me tell you something. When you hold to your testimony
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when things go wonky in their life.
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You're probably the first. First person, they're going to
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come. To it's.
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Not that you call yourself a Christian.
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That brings persecution necessarily.
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Second Timothy, 312. Says all who desire to live.
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Godly in Christ Jesus. Shall suffer persecution so.
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When you. Choose to obey the word.
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And obey your Lord and to walk with integrity according to.
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The to the fear of God that's. When trouble comes.
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And the temptation is. Well, I I don't want to.
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Be a Holy Joe. And for those of you whose name
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is Joe, you know that's just a statement.
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Don't take it personal. Or maybe you should.
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I don't know. OK, the Holy Spirit is always.
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Faithful to point us to Jesus and all that.
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He's done so when the spirits. Working in my life, Jesus is the
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reason. He's the focus.
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How does he see it? For this reason, verse. 12 I
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also. Suffer these things
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nevertheless, I am not ashamed, even though I'm.
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Suffered I'm I'm. Suffering these things and they
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have accused me of things that aren't true.
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I'm not going to allow shame to rule my life.
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Because that's Jesus is. Not shaming me.
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Maybe other people will. Shame you, but Jesus is not
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shaming you. Why?
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For I know whom I have believed. He didn't say I know.
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What I have believed. He's not looking to doctrine,
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he's looking to the person I know whom.
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I have believed. And AM.
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Persuaded he's able to keep what I have.
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Committed to him until that day. I know it it's.
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Solid. It's not questioned.
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Let's look at the. Last section verses. 13 to 18
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and here is an exhortation for Timothy.
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To keep. Focused in the midst of this
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nonsense world, he's living in hold.
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Fast the. Pattern of sound words which you
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have heard from me in faith and love, which are in Christ.
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Jesus, that good? Thing which was.
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Committed to you keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells.
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In US this you know that all those in Asia have turned away
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from me, among whom are for jealous and homogeneous.
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You've heard of homogeneous milk Homogenized.
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OK, the Lord grant mercy to the household.
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Of onusiferous. For he OFT refreshed.
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Me and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he arrived in
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Rome he sought me out very zealously and found me the Lord.
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Grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day,
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and you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at
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Ephesus. Some Bible commentators say that
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onissimus here actually in. His effort to really.
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Try to find Paul. Ended up getting busted.
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Himself. And and I don't know for for.
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Paul to say. The Lord grant him mercy to find
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mercy from the Lord in that day. It wasn't like he was unbeliever
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or something, that there's something serious going down
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with Onissimus because he was a minister there at Ephesus and
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Timothy knew him. But look at. 13 verse 13 hold.
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Fast the. Pattern of sound words which
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you've heard. From me, that's discipleship
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over. 15 years Timothy watched, listened to, interacted with.
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Paul. It was in him.
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Paul was his mentor. You might.
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Say he was impacted, hold fast the.
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Pattern of sound words, Timothy. You've heard them directly from
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me. This is a.
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In a passion to plea a command and that good thing which was.
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Committed to you probably the the responsibility of leadership
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over the house churches. There in Ephesus.
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You keep that by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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The enabling comes. From the Holy Spirit.
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Not from you, Tim. The Holy Spirit gives you that
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ability and actually. Going back to verse 8, share
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with me in the sufferings. For the gospel according to the
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power of God, the power of. God is going to help you
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accomplish this command. Share with me in my sufferings.
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It's more than empathy. It really is all in for someone
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who is going through it now think.
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About it as we. Come to the close.
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Here. What does finishing Well look
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like in your mind? Everybody gathered around you
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and all these people telling your accolades and all.
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How about the Apostle Paul? Everybody forsook him.
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Did he finish well? Sometimes finishing well means
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you finish alone because your family hasn't followed your
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testimony, your friends have forsaken you.
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You're coming to the end in an illness, a terminal illness, and
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you're by yourself. But.
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Jesus stands with you. You are not alone.
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Finishing well means finishing well in faithfulness, and it's.
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Important Paul the Apostle. Just think of it how greatly he
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was used. And everybody split on him and
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he's saying. Timothy, please.
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Come before winter, bring cloaks.
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Because you know it's. Freezing cold come before winter
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because I think the end is coming.
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Everybody's gone, even people that served with him gone.
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Well, it it. Sheds a whole new light on in my
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mind. What's it look like to finish?
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Well, it means. How does Jesus see it?
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Not how other people see it. How does Jesus see it?
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I want to finish well, I want my last.
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Words. To be I thank.
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God, let's pray. Father God, we thank you so much
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for these exhortations today. And we ask God that you.
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Would bring us. To the place of.
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Stirring up the flame, stirring up the fire.
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Lord help us not neglect the. Gift that you have.
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Given to us and we ask Lord. That if there are those.
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That come up here. After service to be.
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To have hands laid on them for the baptism.
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With the Holy Spirit Lord that you'd.
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Honor their request and you'd grant to them specially the
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boldness and the. Power to serve you.
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With effectiveness to your. Glory, Lord, we're so grateful
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for your gifts. We're so.
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Grateful for your kindness. And so, Lord, we leave these
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words with. You.
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We're asking you. Lord, to bear fruit to your
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glory. In Jesus name, Amen, We pray
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