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  Speaker 1: What if you knew your time was running out, not
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  Speaker 1: just in a vague, far off way, but with the
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  Speaker 1: certainty that your next words could be your last. What
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  Speaker 1: if everything you had fought for, your faith, your calling,
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  Speaker 1: your legacy depended on one final message. What would you say?
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  Speaker 1: Who would you entrust with the truth. This is exactly
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  Speaker 1: where Paul found himself in the Book of Tewod Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: chained in a Roman prison, abandoned by many of his
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  Speaker 1: friends and awaiting execution, Paul writes his last recorded letter.
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  Speaker 1: But this is not a letter of defeat. This is
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  Speaker 1: a warrior's final charge, a father's last words to his
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  Speaker 1: spiritual son, a leader's final stand against deception, compromise, and fear.
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  Speaker 1: And his message was clear, stay strong, keep the faith,
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  Speaker 1: finish the race, no matter what it costs you. Because
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  Speaker 1: the truth is, faith isn't just about starting strong, it's
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  Speaker 1: about finishing well. Obedience isn't about convenience, It's about standing
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  Speaker 1: firm when trials come. And truth isn't something to be adjusted,
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  Speaker 1: It's something to be defended, even in the face of death.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound familiar? In today's world, believers are facing
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  Speaker 1: pressures just like Timothy did. False teachings are spreading, faith
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  Speaker 1: is under attack, and culture is constantly trying to redefine truth.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul's letter to Timothy isn't just a historical message.
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  Speaker 1: It's a call to action for every believer today, and
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what we're going to unpack. In this video.
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  Speaker 1: We are breaking down ten of the most powerful messages
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  Speaker 1: from two Timothy in a way you've never heard before, Deep, dramatic,
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  Speaker 1: and directly applicable to your life. Because by the time
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  Speaker 1: you finish this video, you won't just understand the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Tewod Timothy, you'll know how to live it. You'll
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  Speaker 1: see what it truly means to stand firm when the
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  Speaker 1: world shakes, to guard the truth when deception rises, and
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  Speaker 1: to run your race with endurance until the very end.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you, what if God placed you
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  Speaker 1: in this exact moment to stand for truth. What if
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  Speaker 1: your faithfulness to day could impact generations to come. What
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  Speaker 1: if your endurance now is the key to your greatest
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  Speaker 1: spiritual breakthrough. Because this isn't just about Paul, It's about
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  Speaker 1: us right here, right now, we have created a deep
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  Speaker 1: explainer video for the Book of Tewod Timothy, breaking it
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  Speaker 1: down in a way that makes it easy to understand.
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  Speaker 1: We've also created a special e book to help you
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  Speaker 1: study and apply these lessons even further. You can find
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  Speaker 1: both linked in the description. It is our prayer that
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  Speaker 1: this video helps you draw closer to God and live
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  Speaker 1: out your faith with strength, boldness, and unwavering confidence. With
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  Speaker 1: that being said, let's get started. The first and most
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  Speaker 1: urgent lesson from Second Timothy is this guard what has
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  Speaker 1: been entrusted to you, because truth is under attack. This
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  Speaker 1: is not just about protecting ideas or traditions. This is
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  Speaker 1: about guarding the very foundation of faith itself. Paul knew
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  Speaker 1: that deception was coming. He knew that in every generation
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  Speaker 1: there would be pressures to compromise, to water down the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: to make truth more acceptable to the culture. And so,
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  Speaker 1: with urgency in his voice, Paul tells Timothy in Second
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  Speaker 1: Timothy one thirteen to fourteen, hold fast the pattern of
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  Speaker 1: sound words which you have heard from me in faith
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  Speaker 1: and love, which are in Christ Jesus, that good thing
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  Speaker 1: which was committed to you. Keep by the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: who dwells in us. Paul was not speaking hypothetically. He
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  Speaker 1: was speaking from experience. By the time he wrote this letter.
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  Speaker 1: Paul had seen churches split, false teachers rise, and people
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  Speaker 1: abandon the faithful lies that sounded more comfortable. He had
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  Speaker 1: seen persecution increase, and he knew his time was running out.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just advice. This was a final command,
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  Speaker 1: a plea from a man who had fought for the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel with everything he had, and now it was Timothy's turn.
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  Speaker 1: It's our turn. The Gospel is not just information, it's
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  Speaker 1: an eternal trust given by God himself. And once something
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  Speaker 1: is entrusted to you, you are responsible for it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't just possess the truth. You protect it, you defend it,
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  Speaker 1: you live it, because if you don't, some one else
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  Speaker 1: will distort it, twist it, or replace it with a counterfeit.
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  Speaker 1: And to day we see this happening everywhere. Look around.
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  Speaker 1: False teachings are everywhere. Some preach a gospel without repentance,
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  Speaker 1: a message that tells people they can follow Christ but
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  Speaker 1: never change. Others preach a gospel of works, that salvation
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  Speaker 1: must be earned by human effort instead of received by grace.
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  Speaker 1: And then there are those who teach a gospel of prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: convincing people that faith is all about wealth, success, and comfort.
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  Speaker 1: None of this is the true gospel, Paul warned in
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  Speaker 1: Galatians one eight. If anyone preaches to you a gospel
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  Speaker 1: other than what we preached, let them be under God's curse.
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  Speaker 1: That's how serious this is. Timothy was young, and he
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  Speaker 1: was leading in a time when deception was creeping into
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  Speaker 1: the church. There were people twisting scripture to fit their
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  Speaker 1: own desires Second Timothy four to three, and others abandoning
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  Speaker 1: truth for myths. Tewod Timothy four three four sound familiar
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  Speaker 1: because this is exactly what is happening today. We live
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  Speaker 1: in a time where people say truth is whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want it to be. But truth is not a feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Truth is a person Jesus Christ, John fourteen six. And
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  Speaker 1: if we do not guard what has been entrusted to us,
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  Speaker 1: we will lose it. But how do we guard the truth?
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  Speaker 1: First we hold fast to scripture. Paul told Timothy to
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  Speaker 1: hold fast the pattern of sound words, meaning don't let go,
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  Speaker 1: don't dilute it, and don't replace it with something easier.
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  Speaker 1: The world will always try to make Christianity more inclusive,
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable, more progressive. But truth doesn't evolve, truth doesn't change,
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  Speaker 1: Truth remains Second, we live it out. Paul didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: Timothy just to defend doctrine intellectually. He told him to
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  Speaker 1: keep it in faith and love. The truth is not
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  Speaker 1: something we only talk about. It's something we demonstrate through
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  Speaker 1: how we live. If you say you believe in the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: does your life prove it? Do you show grace and
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  Speaker 1: love or do you just argue? Do you live with
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  Speaker 1: integrity or do you just quote scripture. Truth is not
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  Speaker 1: just words, it's a way of life. Third, we rely
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  Speaker 1: on the Holy Spirit. Notice what Paul says, that good
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  Speaker 1: thing which was committed to you keep by the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about relying on our own wisdom or effort.
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  Speaker 1: This is about walking in daily dependence on God. Because
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  Speaker 1: the truth is Guarding the Gospel is not just hard,
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible without the Holy Spirit. We don't just need knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: we need power. But let's make this personal. What has
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  Speaker 1: been entrusted to you? Has God given you a family
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  Speaker 1: to lead, then guard it. The world is coming after
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  Speaker 1: your children. Culture is trying to disciple them before you do.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing to guard their faith? Has God
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  Speaker 1: given you a platform, a ministry, a voice, Then use
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  Speaker 1: it for truth. Don't water it down for likes. Don't
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  Speaker 1: compromise to fit in. Stand firm even if you stand alone.
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  Speaker 1: Has God given you the Gospel, then protect it In
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  Speaker 1: an age of deception, truth is the most valuable thing
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  Speaker 1: we have. But if we do not fight for it,
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  Speaker 1: we will lose it. There will come a time when
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  Speaker 1: standing for the truth will cost you something. That time
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  Speaker 1: is already here. You will be labeled judgmental, intolerant, old fashioned, extreme.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul reminds us in Second Timothy one seven, for
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  Speaker 1: God has not given us a spirit of fear, but
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  Speaker 1: of power, love, and a sound mind. So let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you, are you guarding what has been entrusted to you?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you letting the world redefine it? Because the
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  Speaker 1: first and most urgent lesson from Second Timothy is this,
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  Speaker 1: if we do not stand firm on the Gospel, we
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  Speaker 1: will lose it. If we do not guard the truth,
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  Speaker 1: we will let deception take its place. And if we
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  Speaker 1: do not fight for what is right, the next generation
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  Speaker 1: will inherit something that is no longer Christianity at all.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy's time to lead had come. Now it's ours. The
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  Speaker 1: second lesson from Second Timothy is this, do not be
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of the gospel, because the world will try to
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  Speaker 1: silence you. Paul understood this better than anyone. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: writing these words from the safety of a pulpit or
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  Speaker 1: the comfort of a church gathering. He was writing from
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  Speaker 1: a cold, dark prison cell in Rome, awaiting execution. And
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  Speaker 1: what was his crime? Preaching the Gospel without fear? In
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  Speaker 1: Second timothath he one eight to nine, Paul urges Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: nor of me his prisoner, but share with me in
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  Speaker 1: the sufferings for the Gospel according to the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: Paul wasn't asking Timothy to do something he hadn't already
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  Speaker 1: done himself. He had been beaten, imprisoned, and rejected all
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  Speaker 1: because he refused to stay silent, and now he knew
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  Speaker 1: his time was almost up. He wasn't trying to impress anyone.
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  Speaker 1: He had nothing to lose, nothing to gain except a
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  Speaker 1: crown waiting for him in heaven tewod Timothy four eight.
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  Speaker 1: His only concern was making sure Timothy and every believer
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  Speaker 1: who came after him did not back down from the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: no matter the cost. Let's be real, it's easy to
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  Speaker 1: be a Christian when there's no pressure. It's easy to
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  Speaker 1: say I love Jesus when you're surrounded by others believers.
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  Speaker 1: But what happens when the world pushes back, What happens
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  Speaker 1: when your faith makes you an outcast, What happens when
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  Speaker 1: standing for Christ cost you relationships, opportunities, or even your reputation.
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  Speaker 1: That's when you find out if you're truly unashamed of
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. Being unashamed means standing firm even when culture
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  Speaker 1: calls you foolish. In Paul's time, the message of the
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  Speaker 1: Cross was considered ridiculous. The Greeks valued philosophy and human reasoning,
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  Speaker 1: the Romans valued power and dominance, and yet here was
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  Speaker 1: Paul boldly proclaiming that salvation came through a crucified man,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. To them, it was absurd, it was offensive,
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  Speaker 1: but Paul didn't care. He wrote in Romans one sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: for I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it
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  Speaker 1: is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone
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  Speaker 1: who believes. But what about to day? Has anything changed?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. If you talk about spirituality, self help, or
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  Speaker 1: religion in general, people will accept it. But the moment
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  Speaker 1: you say Jesus is the only way. Suddenly you're intolerant.
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  Speaker 1: If you say God loves you, people applaud But if
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  Speaker 1: you say God calls you to repent, people get offended.
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  Speaker 1: The world doesn't mind faith as long as it's silent,
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  Speaker 1: personal and powerless. But the moment it becomes bold, public
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  Speaker 1: and unshakable, that's when the attacks come. Paul warned Timothy
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  Speaker 1: about this. He told him everyone who wants to live
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  Speaker 1: a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted tewod
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  Speaker 1: Timothy three twelve. Notice not some believers, not just preachers,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone who truly follows Jesus will face opposition. If
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  Speaker 1: you've never faced resistance for your faith, it might be
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  Speaker 1: time to ask have I been hiding it? Being unashamed
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  Speaker 1: means embracing suffering for Christ. This is the part no
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  Speaker 1: one likes to talk about. Many people want the blessings
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  Speaker 1: of following Jesus, but not the burdens. They want grace
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  Speaker 1: without sacrifice, salvation without surrender. But Jesus himself said in
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  Speaker 1: Luke nine twenty three, whoever wants to be my disciple
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  Speaker 1: must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and
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  Speaker 1: follow me the cross is not comfortable. The cross is
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  Speaker 1: not convenient, but the cross is the way to life.
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  Speaker 1: Paul tells Timothy to share in suffering for the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: according to the power of God. This is key. Paul
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  Speaker 1: was not saying be strong on your own He was
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  Speaker 1: saying rely on God's power. Because here's the truth. If
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  Speaker 1: you try to be bold in your own strength, you
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  Speaker 1: will fail. Fear will take over, pressure will break you.
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  Speaker 1: But when you stand in the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: you will find a boldness that does not come from you.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Peter. Before Jesus was crucified. Peter denied him
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  Speaker 1: three times. He was afraid of what people thought. He
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  Speaker 1: was afraid of suffering. But after Peter was filled with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit in Acts two, everything changed. The same
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  Speaker 1: man who once ran away from danger now stood before
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  Speaker 1: thousands boldly preaching the gospel. And when the authorities told
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  Speaker 1: him to stop, he replied, we must obey God rather
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  Speaker 1: than men, Acts five twenty nine. So let me ask you,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever been tempted to stay silent about your faith?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever avoided mentioning Jesus because you were afraid
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  Speaker 1: of how people might react, Maybe at wor work in school,
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  Speaker 1: or even in your own family. You are not alone.
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  Speaker 1: But the question is will you be ashamed of Christ?
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  Speaker 1: Or will you stand firm? In Matthew ten thirty two
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  Speaker 1: to thirty three, Jesus made it clear, whoever acknowledges me
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  Speaker 1: before others, I will also acknowledge before my father in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before
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  Speaker 1: my father in heaven. Those are serious words. Faith is
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  Speaker 1: not private, it is public. The world is bold about sin.
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  Speaker 1: Why should we not be bold about salvation. Timothy was young,
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  Speaker 1: He was in a culture that mocked the Gospel, just
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  Speaker 1: like ours to day. Paul knew the pressure Timothy faced,
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  Speaker 1: but his message was clear, do not be ashamed. And
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  Speaker 1: that message is for us too, because if we are
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of the Gospel, we are ashamed of Christ himself.
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  Speaker 1: So are you ready to stand? Are you ready to
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  Speaker 1: speak the truth even if it costs you something? Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready to suffer for the sake of Jesus? Because
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  Speaker 1: the second lesson from Second Timothy is this, The Gospel
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  Speaker 1: is worth more than your comfort. It's worth more than
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  Speaker 1: your reputation, It's worth more than your status. If you
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  Speaker 1: must choose between pleasing the world and pleasing God. Choose God,
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  Speaker 1: because one day, when we stand before Him, we will
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  Speaker 1: not regret a single moment we stood for the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The third lesson from Second Timothy teaches us a truth
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  Speaker 1: that many Christians struggle to accept. Faith is not easy,
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  Speaker 1: and following Christ will cost us something. Paul tells Timothy
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  Speaker 1: in Second Timothy two three to four to endure hardship
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  Speaker 1: like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. A soldier doesn't
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  Speaker 1: live for his own comfort. He doesn't get entangled in distractions.
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  Speaker 1: He stays focused on his mission, ready for battle, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that his life is not his own. This is the
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  Speaker 1: kind of endurance Paul is calling us to. The Christian
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  Speaker 1: life is not a casual stroll. It is a battlefield,
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  Speaker 1: and if we are not prepared, we will be caught
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  Speaker 1: off guard when trials come. Imagine a soldier signing up
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  Speaker 1: for war but expecting luxury and ease. The moment the
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  Speaker 1: battle gets hard, he wants to quit. That is how
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  Speaker 1: many believers approach faith. They love God when things are
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  Speaker 1: going well, but when hardship comes, they start doubting, complaining,
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  Speaker 1: or giving up. Paul is warning Timothy, do not be
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  Speaker 1: like that do not expect an easy road. Be like
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  Speaker 1: a soldier, fully committed to the mission, no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: If we only follow God when it's convenient, our faith
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus himself said in John sixteen thirty three. In
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  Speaker 1: this world you will have trouble, But take heart, I
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  Speaker 1: have overcome the world. Hardship is not a sign that
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  Speaker 1: God has abandoned us. It is a sign that we
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  Speaker 1: are in the fight of faith. Paul doesn't stop at
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  Speaker 1: the soldier analogy. He also tells Timothy to be like
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  Speaker 1: an athlete who competes according to the rules, and like
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  Speaker 1: a hard working farmer who waits for the harvest. What
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  Speaker 1: do these three examples have in common. They require discipline, patience,
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  Speaker 1: and endurance. An athlete does not win by being lazy
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  Speaker 1: or undisciplined. A farmer does not see results overnight. He
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  Speaker 1: must plant water and wait before he sees the harvest. Likewise,
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  Speaker 1: our spiritual growth and calling require persistence. Too. Many Christians
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  Speaker 1: want immediate success, quick blessings, and instant breakthroughs. But real
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  Speaker 1: faith is proven in the waiting, in the struggle, in
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  Speaker 1: the perseverance when things do not go as planned. Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: twelve one to two reminds us to run with perseverance
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  Speaker 1: the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the pioneer and perfector of our faith. Faith is not
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  Speaker 1: a sprint, It is a marathon. Think about your own life.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever faced a time when you felt like quitting?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you were praying for something and the answer didn't come.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you were serving in ministry but you felt unappreciated
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  Speaker 1: and exhausted. Maybe you were fighting temptation but kept failing
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  Speaker 1: and you felt like giving up. This is why Paul's
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  Speaker 1: words to Timothy are so powerful. He is saying, stay
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  Speaker 1: in the fight, don't give up, endure like a soldier.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy wants you to believe that hardship means God
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  Speaker 1: has forgotten you, But in reality, it is through hardship
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  Speaker 1: that God strengthens your faith, builds your character, and prepares
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  Speaker 1: you for greater things. James one two to four tells us,
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  Speaker 1: consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you
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  Speaker 1: face trials of many kinds, because you know that the
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  Speaker 1: testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let's be real. Endurance
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  Speaker 1: is not easy, discipline is not fun. But without them
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  Speaker 1: we will never grow into the people God has called
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  Speaker 1: us to be. A soldier must go through rigorous training
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  Speaker 1: to be ready for battle. An athlete must push through
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  Speaker 1: exhaustion to build endurance. A farmer must work tirelessly before
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  Speaker 1: seeing results. And as believers, we must train ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: stand strong even when things get hard. The enemy will
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  Speaker 1: try to distract us, tempt us, and discourage us, but
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  Speaker 1: we cannot afford to be passive. So what about you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you living like a so an athlete and a farmer,
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  Speaker 1: or have you been looking for short cuts, avoiding hardship
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  Speaker 1: and getting discouraged too easily. This lesson from Second Timothy
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  Speaker 1: is clear. If we want to see the victory, we
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  Speaker 1: must stay in the fight. We must remain faithful even
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  Speaker 1: when the battle is long. The reward is coming, but
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  Speaker 1: only to those who endure. Galatians six' nine reminds us
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  Speaker 1: let us not grow weary in doing, good for at
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  Speaker 1: the proper time we will reap a harvest if we
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  Speaker 1: do not give. Up The christian life is not for
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  Speaker 1: the faint of. Heart but if we hold, on if we,
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  Speaker 1: endure if we refuse to give, up we will See
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  Speaker 1: god's promises fulfilled in ways we never. Imagined the third
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  Speaker 1: lesson from Secod timothy is this faith requires. Endurance The
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  Speaker 1: christian life is not about. Comfort it is about. Commitment
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  Speaker 1: it is not about avoiding. Hardship it is about standing
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  Speaker 1: firm in the midst of. It it is not about quick.
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  Speaker 1: Blessings it is about long term. Faithfulness the question is
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  Speaker 1: will you? Endure will you fight the good fight even
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  Speaker 1: when it costs. You will you stay in the race
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  Speaker 1: even when you feel like, quitting because if you, do
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  Speaker 1: there is a reward waiting for you that is greater
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  Speaker 1: than anything this world can. Offer the fourth lesson From
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  Speaker 1: Second timothy is one of the most urgent warnings for
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  Speaker 1: believers to. Day paul Tells timothy in Tewod timothy two,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen do your best to present yourself To god as
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  Speaker 1: one approved a worker who does not need to be,
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  Speaker 1: ashamed and who correctly handles The word of. Truth in
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  Speaker 1: a world filled with, opinions philosophies and, misinformation the most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous thing is not the lies outside the, church it
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  Speaker 1: is the distortion of truth within. It paul understood That
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  Speaker 1: timothy was leading in a time of confusion where false
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  Speaker 1: teachers were twisting scripture to fit their own agendas and,
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  Speaker 1: today we face the same battle more than. Ever we
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  Speaker 1: must learn to rightly handle The word of, truth because
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  Speaker 1: if we, don't we risk being led. Astray think about.
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  Speaker 1: It how many people today base their faith on feelings
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  Speaker 1: rather than. Scripture how many believe half truths because they sound,
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  Speaker 1: good rather than testing them Against god's. Word how many
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  Speaker 1: churches preach messages that entertain but fail to. Equip this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly What paul was warning. Against he knew that
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  Speaker 1: without careful study and accurate, teaching the truth would be.
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  Speaker 1: Compromised this is why he Tells timothy be, diligent be a,
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  Speaker 1: worker and do not be. Ashamed handling The word Of
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  Speaker 1: god is not something to take. Lightly it is not
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  Speaker 1: about quoting verses to support. Opinions it is about, studying,
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  Speaker 1: understanding and applying scripture. Correctly but here's the. Reality rightly
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  Speaker 1: handling The word requires. Effort it is not. Automatic it
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  Speaker 1: is not something we master. Overnight it takes, study, discipline
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  Speaker 1: and a heart that seeks truth over. Convenience hebrews five
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  Speaker 1: twelve to fourteen talks about the difference between spiritual infants
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  Speaker 1: and mature. Believers it, says though by this time you
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  Speaker 1: ought to be teachers you need someone to teach you
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  Speaker 1: the elementary truths Of God's word all over. Again many
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  Speaker 1: believers remain spiritually weak because they never go deeper in The.
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  Speaker 1: Word they rely on, sermons social media, quotes or second
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  Speaker 1: hand knowledge rather than digging into scripture for. Themselves But
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  Speaker 1: paul is making it clear every believer has the responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to know and correctly Handle God's. Word the consequences of
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  Speaker 1: mishandling scripture are. Serious in the very next, Verses paul
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  Speaker 1: warns against false teachers who wander from the truth and spread.
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  Speaker 1: Deception this is not just a problem From timothy's, time
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  Speaker 1: it is happening to. Day how many false teachings have infiltrated.
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  Speaker 1: Churches how many so Called christian movements prioritize emotions over biblical.
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  Speaker 1: Doctrine how many people are deceived because they don't test
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  Speaker 1: what they hear against. Scripture jesus himself warned In matthew
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  Speaker 1: twenty four twenty four that in the last, days false
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  Speaker 1: teachers would arise and deceive even the. Elect the only
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  Speaker 1: way to stand firm is to know The word for.
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  Speaker 1: Ourselves think about how deception. Works it doesn't appear as
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  Speaker 1: an obvious. Lie it is. Subtle it mixes truth with,
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  Speaker 1: falsehood making it sound. Convincing this is why discernment is so.
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  Speaker 1: Critical just because something sounds spiritual does not mean it is.
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  Speaker 1: Biblical just because someone quotes scripture does not mean they
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  Speaker 1: are teaching it. Correctly satan himself used scripture to Tempt
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  Speaker 1: jesus in the Wilderness matthew four, six Twisting god's word
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate. Him If jesus countered deception by quoting scripture,
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  Speaker 1: correctly how much more do we need to be rooted in?
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  Speaker 1: Truth but here's the good. News god does not leave us.
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  Speaker 1: Defenseless he has given us his word as a, weapon
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  Speaker 1: and if we take the time to study, it we
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  Speaker 1: will not be. Deceived psalm one hundred nineteen one hundred
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  Speaker 1: five says a word is a lamp to my feet
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  Speaker 1: and a light to my. Path when we rightly handle,
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  Speaker 1: scripture we walk in, wisdom, clarity and. Confidence we are
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  Speaker 1: not easily swayed by every new. Teaching we are not
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  Speaker 1: shaken when culture. Shifts we are anchored in. Truth so
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  Speaker 1: how do we apply this? Lesson, first we must commit
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  Speaker 1: to studying scripture for. Ourselves this means going beyond surface
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  Speaker 1: level Reading it means understanding, context comparing, passages and seeking
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  Speaker 1: The Holy spirit's. Guidance, second we must test everything we
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  Speaker 1: hear Against god's. Word if a teaching contradicts, scripture it
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  Speaker 1: is not From. God First john four one tells us
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  Speaker 1: to test the spirits to see whether they are From.
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  Speaker 1: God we cannot afford to be. Passive we must be. Discerning,
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  Speaker 1: finally we must teach and share the truth. Boldly paul
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  Speaker 1: Told timothy not only to know the, word but to
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  Speaker 1: handle it, well meaning he was responsible for sharing it.
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  Speaker 1: Accurately this applies to us, too whether we are, parents, teachers,
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  Speaker 1: mentors or simply believers sharing The, gospel we must ensure
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  Speaker 1: we are passing on, truth not. Opinion the fourth lesson
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  Speaker 1: From Second timothy is this handling The word Of god
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  Speaker 1: is a, responsibility not an. Option it is not enough
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  Speaker 1: to listen to, sermons follow Popular christian, influences or assume
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  Speaker 1: that everything Labeled christian is biblically. Sound we must be
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  Speaker 1: diligent in, studying careful in, teaching and bold in standing for,
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  Speaker 1: truth because in a world full of, deception the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that will keep us firm Is god's unshakable. Word
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  Speaker 1: the question is are we workers who are unas shamed
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  Speaker 1: of how we handle? It or have we been careless
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  Speaker 1: allowing the truth to be diluted by, culture, opinions and.
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  Speaker 1: Convenience the fifth lesson From Second timothy is a battle
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  Speaker 1: cry for every believer striving to live a life that Honors.
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  Speaker 1: God paul Tells timothy In Second timothy two twenty. Two
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  Speaker 1: flee the evil desires of youth and pursue, righteousness, faith,
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  Speaker 1: love and peace along with those who call on The
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  Speaker 1: lord out of a pure. Heart notice What paul, says
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  Speaker 1: do not entertain these, desires do not negotiate with, them
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  Speaker 1: do not try to control. Them, flee, run get as
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  Speaker 1: far away as. Possible because when it comes to, sin
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  Speaker 1: especially youthful, passions our best strategy is not to, Fight
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  Speaker 1: it is to. Escape if we are. Honest many believers
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  Speaker 1: struggle with the same sins over and over because they
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  Speaker 1: do not take paul words. Seriously instead of, fleeing they.
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  Speaker 1: Linger instead of running toward, righteousness they run toward. Compromise
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  Speaker 1: and this is where the battle is. Lost sin is.
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  Speaker 1: Deceptive it does not always seem dangerous at. First it
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  Speaker 1: disguises itself as, entertainment as just a little fun as
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  Speaker 1: everyone is doing, it but before we know, it we are.
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  Speaker 1: Trapped this is Why paul uses strong. Language he does
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  Speaker 1: not Tell timothy to resist or to manage these. Desires
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  Speaker 1: he says to run from. Them but here is the.
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  Speaker 1: Key paul does not just say. Flee he also says.
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  Speaker 1: Pursue it is not enough to run away from. Sin
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  Speaker 1: we must run toward something. Greater many believers struggle with
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  Speaker 1: temptation because they try to stop sinning without actively chasing after.
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  Speaker 1: Righteousness but holiness is not just about what we. Avoid
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  Speaker 1: it is about what we. Pursue paul Tells timothy to
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  Speaker 1: chase after, righteousness, faith, love and. Peace in other, words
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  Speaker 1: do not just leave sin. Behind fill your life with
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  Speaker 1: the things Of. God if we do not actively Pursue,
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  Speaker 1: god we will always be drawn back to the things
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  Speaker 1: we left. Behind think About joseph In genesis thirty, nine
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  Speaker 1: When potiphar's wife tried to seduce. Him he did not
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  Speaker 1: stand there and. Debate he did not try to prove
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  Speaker 1: his self. Control he. Ran he fled so fast that
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  Speaker 1: he left his coat. Behind why because he knew that
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  Speaker 1: staying in that moment would only lead to. Destruction but
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  Speaker 1: contrast that With david In Second samuel, eleven instead of,
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  Speaker 1: fleeing he. Lingered he Saw bathsheba and did not turn.
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  Speaker 1: Away he allowed desire to take, root and before he knew,
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  Speaker 1: it he had committed adultery and. Murder one man fled
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  Speaker 1: and was. Saved the other lingered and was. Destroyed the
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  Speaker 1: lesson is. Clear when temptation, calls do not. Answer. Run
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  Speaker 1: but what does this look like in our daily. Lives
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  Speaker 1: it means setting. Boundaries if you struggle with sexual, sin
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  Speaker 1: do not put yourself in compromising. Situations if gossip is your,
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  Speaker 1: weakness distance yourself from conversations that lead you into. It
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  Speaker 1: if you battle, addiction remove access to the things that enslave.
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  Speaker 1: You Too many believers pray for victory over sin while
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  Speaker 1: keeping the door open to, temptation but you cannot overcome
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  Speaker 1: what you are still. Entertaining true freedom comes when we
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  Speaker 1: stop asking how close we can get to sin without
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  Speaker 1: falling and start asking how far we can run Toward.
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  Speaker 1: God paul also highlights another key to, purity surrounding ourselves
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  Speaker 1: with the right. People he Tells timothy to pursussue these
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  Speaker 1: things along with those who call on The lord out
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  Speaker 1: of a pure. Heart who we surround ourselves with. Matters
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  Speaker 1: proverbs thirteen twenty says walk with the wise and become,
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  Speaker 1: Wise for a companion of fools suffers. Harm if we
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  Speaker 1: want to live, righteously we must walk with others who
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  Speaker 1: are pursuing the same. Goal, accountability, encouragement and godly friendships
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  Speaker 1: are essential in this. Battle we are not meant to fight.
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  Speaker 1: Alone but let's take this even. Deeper why Does paul
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  Speaker 1: specifically Worn timothy about youthful Passions because young believers and
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  Speaker 1: even Seasoned christians can easily fall into traps that appeal
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  Speaker 1: to their emotions and. Desires these passions can be sexual, sin,
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  Speaker 1: yes but they can also be, pride, ambition, selfishness and impulsive.
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  Speaker 1: Decisions many people make life altering mistakes because they follow
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  Speaker 1: their emotions instead Of god's. Wisdom this is Why poor
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  Speaker 1: contrasts youthful passions with, righteousness, faith, love and. Peace one
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  Speaker 1: path is driven by fleeting, desires the other is built
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  Speaker 1: on eternal. Truth jesus himself gave a powerful warning In
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  Speaker 1: matthew five twenty nine to, thirty, saying if your right
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  Speaker 1: eye causes you to, stumble gouge it out and throw it.
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  Speaker 1: Away if your right hand causes you to, stumble cut it,
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  Speaker 1: off and throw it. Away he was not saying to
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  Speaker 1: literally harm, ourselves but he was making a. Point take
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  Speaker 1: radical steps to remove sin from your. Life do not
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  Speaker 1: treat it. Lightly do whatever it takes to stay. Pure
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  Speaker 1: so how do we apply this? Lesson, first identify the
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  Speaker 1: areas where you need to. Flee what temptations have you
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  Speaker 1: been entertaining instead of a, skins where have you been
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  Speaker 1: lingering When god is telling you to? Run, second replace
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  Speaker 1: those desires with godly. Pursuits if you remove sin but
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  Speaker 1: do not fill your life with, righteousness you will go
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  Speaker 1: back to your old. Ways, third walk with people who
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  Speaker 1: will hold you. Accountable surround yourself with believers who encourage,
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  Speaker 1: holiness not. Compromise and, finally take sin. Seriously do not
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  Speaker 1: assume you are strong enough to handle. Temptation even the
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  Speaker 1: strongest can. Fall the best way to win the battle
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  Speaker 1: is to refuse to fight, it just. Run the fifth
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  Speaker 1: lesson from Tewod timothy is this spiritual maturity requires more
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  Speaker 1: than just avoiding. Sin it requires aggressively pursuing. Righteousness it
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  Speaker 1: is not enough to walk away from. Darkness we must
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  Speaker 1: run toward the. Light the question is are we truly
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  Speaker 1: fleeing from the things that pull us away From? God
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  Speaker 1: or are we, hesitating keeping one foot in the world
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  Speaker 1: while trying to Follow. Christ because in the, end only
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  Speaker 1: those who run After god with all their hearts will
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  Speaker 1: experience the fullness Of his. Presence the sixth lesson From
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  Speaker 1: Secod timothy is a sobering warning that should make every
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  Speaker 1: believer take a hard look at the world around. Them
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  Speaker 1: In Secod timothy three one to, Five paul, writes but mark,
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  Speaker 1: this there will be terrible times in the last. Days
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  Speaker 1: he then goes on to describe a world where people
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  Speaker 1: will be lovers of, themselves lovers of, money, boastful, proud,
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  Speaker 1: abusive disobedient to their, parents, ungrateful unholy without, love, unforgiving
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  Speaker 1: slanderous without self, control, brutal not lovers of the, good, treacherous, rash,
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  Speaker 1: conceited lovers of pleasure rather than lovers Of, god having
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  Speaker 1: a form Of godliness but denying its. Power if that
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  Speaker 1: does not sound like the times we are living, in
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  Speaker 1: then what. Does paul is not just giving a general.
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  Speaker 1: Prediction he is describing an urgent reality that would unfold
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  Speaker 1: as the world moves further away From. God but here
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  Speaker 1: is the. Key paul is not just talking about those
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  Speaker 1: outside the. Church he is also warning about those inside.
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  Speaker 1: It people who have a form Of godliness but deny its.
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  Speaker 1: Power are not. Atheists they are religious. People they claim
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  Speaker 1: to Follow, god but their lives reflect the. World they
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  Speaker 1: go to, church they know the right words to, say
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  Speaker 1: but they do not truly submit To. Christ they pick
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  Speaker 1: and choose what parts of The bible they want to,
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  Speaker 1: follow and they justify their sin rather than. Repent this
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  Speaker 1: is why this warning is so, crucial because deception will
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  Speaker 1: not always come in obvious. Ways it will come subtly
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  Speaker 1: dressed in religious, language blending just enough truth with lies
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  Speaker 1: to make it sound. Appealing so what do we do
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  Speaker 1: with this. Warning the first thing we need to understand
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  Speaker 1: is that we cannot afford to be. Naive some believers
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  Speaker 1: think the world is just going through a, phase that
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  Speaker 1: things will get better with, time But paul makes it
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  Speaker 1: clear things will not get. Better they will get. Worse
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  Speaker 1: the love of many will grow, cold people will become
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  Speaker 1: more self, absorbed more, rebellious more resistant to. Truth if
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  Speaker 1: we are expecting culture to eventually align With, christianity we
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  Speaker 1: are going to be. Disappointed jesus himself said In matthew
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, twelve because of the increase of, wickedness the
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  Speaker 1: love of most will grow. Cold The bible does not
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  Speaker 1: paint a picture of a world that gradualually becomes more.
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  Speaker 1: Righteous it warns of a world that continues to Reject.
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  Speaker 1: God but here's the good. News while the world, Declines
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  Speaker 1: god's people can still stand. Firm paul does not give
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  Speaker 1: this warning to scare. Us he gives it to prepare.
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  Speaker 1: Us the question is will we be shaken by what we?
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  Speaker 1: See or will we stand in? Faith jesus told his
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  Speaker 1: disciples In john sixteen thirty. Three in this world you
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  Speaker 1: will have, Trouble but take, HEART i have overcome the.
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  Speaker 1: World the chaos around us does not change the power
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  Speaker 1: Of god within. Us just because the world is getting
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  Speaker 1: darker does not mean our faith as to grow. Weaker in,
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  Speaker 1: fact now more than, ever we must shine. Brighter paul
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  Speaker 1: also Tells timothy to have nothing to do with such.
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  Speaker 1: People that does not mean we stop witnessing to the.
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  Speaker 1: Lost it means we must be careful about who influences.
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  Speaker 1: Us if we constantly we surround ourselves with people who are, prideful,
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  Speaker 1: selfish and rebellious Against, god it will start to affect.
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  Speaker 1: Us First corinthians fifteen thirty three reminds us bad company
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  Speaker 1: corrupts good. Character we cannot claim to stand for truth
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  Speaker 1: while constantly immersing ourselves in an environment that opposes. It
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  Speaker 1: there comes a time when we must separate from those
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  Speaker 1: who refuse to walk in. Righteousness but let's make this
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  Speaker 1: even more. Personal paul's warning is not just about other.
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  Speaker 1: People it is about. Us we have to ask, ourselves
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  Speaker 1: are there any of these traits in my own? Life
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  Speaker 1: DO i love pleasure more THAN i Love? God AM
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  Speaker 1: i ever guilty of, pride? Ungratefulness or lacking self? Control
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  Speaker 1: the reality is we all struggle with some of these at.
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  Speaker 1: Times the danger is when we stop struggling and start
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  Speaker 1: accepting them as. Normal paul's warning is not just about
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  Speaker 1: recognizing these issues in, Others it is about making sure
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  Speaker 1: they do not take root in. Us so how do
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  Speaker 1: we stand firm in a world like? This, first we
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  Speaker 1: stay grounded In god's. Word the more we know, scripture
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  Speaker 1: the more we recognize. Deception many people fall into false
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  Speaker 1: teachings because they do not truly know what The bible.
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  Speaker 1: Says when you know the. Truth you will not be
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  Speaker 1: fooled by a. Lie, second we stay connected to the
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  Speaker 1: body Of. Christ isolation makes us. Vulnerable we need, Accountability
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  Speaker 1: we need. Encouragement we need brothers and sisters who will
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: challenge us to stay. Faithful, third we stay committed to.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer if we are not daily Seeking god's, strength we
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  Speaker 1: will not have the power to. Endure we cannot fight
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual battle with human. Strength the sixth lesson From
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  Speaker 1: Second timothy is this difficult times are not, coming they
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  Speaker 1: are already. Here but we do not have to live in.
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  Speaker 1: Fear we were born for this. Moment god has placed
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  Speaker 1: us in this generation for a. Reason while the world grows,
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  Speaker 1: darker we have the opportunity to shine. Brighter the only
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  Speaker 1: question is will we stand firm or will we be
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  Speaker 1: swept away by the compromise around? Us because in the,
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  Speaker 1: end only those who remain faithful will receive the reward
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  Speaker 1: that lasts. Forever the seventh lesson From Second timothy is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most foundational truths in The christian. Faith
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  Speaker 1: In Second timothy three sixteen to, Seventeen paul declares all
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  Speaker 1: scripture Is god breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
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  Speaker 1: correcting and training in righteousness so that the servant Of
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  Speaker 1: god may be thoroughly equipped for every good. Work this
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  Speaker 1: is not just a casual. Statement it is a defining
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  Speaker 1: truth that Separates christianity from, opinion, speculation and human. Traditions
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  Speaker 1: paul is saying that every word Of scripture comes directly
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  Speaker 1: From god. Himself it is not just a collection of ancient,
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  Speaker 1: texts not just wise sayings from religious, leaders and not
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  Speaker 1: just cultural traditions from. History it is the, living, breathing
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  Speaker 1: authoritative word Of. God and if that is, true then
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  Speaker 1: what we do with The bible determines everything about how we.
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  Speaker 1: Live in a world filled with, voices media, influences, scholars
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  Speaker 1: and even religious leaders who twist, scripture it is easy
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  Speaker 1: to question what truth really. Is some say The bible is.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Outdated others say it is a good book but not completely.
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  Speaker 1: Reliable some even to mix it with other, philosophies treating
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  Speaker 1: it as one source of wisdom among. Many But paul
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  Speaker 1: does not leave room for any of. That he, says
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  Speaker 1: all scripture Is god, breathed not some of, it not
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  Speaker 1: just the parts we, like not just the verses that
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  Speaker 1: fit our personal. Views all of, it and because it
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  Speaker 1: is From, god it carries absolute authority over our. Lives
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: so why does this? Matter because if we do not
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: believe in the full authority Of, scripture we will never
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  Speaker 1: have a solid foundation for our. Faith if we start
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  Speaker 1: picking and choosing what parts of The bible we want to,
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  Speaker 1: follow then we are no longer Letting god shape. Us
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  Speaker 1: we are Shaping god into our own. Image and this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what is happening in the world. Today many
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: people claim to Follow, jesus but they reject the parts
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Of scripture that confront their, lifestyle their, opinions or their desire.
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  Speaker 1: Wires they want a version Of christianity that does not require, surrender,
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  Speaker 1: be adjusted to fit our. Lives our lives are meant
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  Speaker 1: to be adjusted to fit The. Bible paul Tells timothy
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  Speaker 1: that scripture is useful for four key things, teaching, rebuking,
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  Speaker 1: correcting and training in. Righteousness teaching means it reveals. Truth
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  Speaker 1: rebuking means it exposes. Sin correcting means it helps us,
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  Speaker 1: change and training means it prepares us for the Life
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  Speaker 1: god has called us to. Live in other, Words The
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  Speaker 1: bible does not just give us, Information it transforms us
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  Speaker 1: from the inside. Out it is not just a book to.
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  Speaker 1: Read it is a book that reads. Us it, conveys it,
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  Speaker 1: Challenges it stretches us beyond our comfort. Zone it forces
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  Speaker 1: It how often do we struggle with, confusion, fear or
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  Speaker 1: doubt when the answers have already been given to us
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  Speaker 1: In god's? Word how often do we wrestle with, decisions
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to do when the guidance
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  Speaker 1: we need is already. Written psalm one hundred nineteen one
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  Speaker 1: hundred five says your word is a lamp for my,
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  Speaker 1: feet a light on my. Path imagine walking through a
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  Speaker 1: dark forest at night with no. Flashlight that is what
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  Speaker 1: life is like without The. Bible we, stumble we make wrong,
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  Speaker 1: turns we fall into. Traps but when we live by
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  Speaker 1: The word Of, god we walk in, light we see,
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  Speaker 1: clearly we avoid, deception we stay on the right. Path
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  Speaker 1: but here is the. Challenge are we actually reading The?
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  Speaker 1: Bible are we studying? It are we applying it to our?
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  Speaker 1: Lives because the sad reality is that many believers treat
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  Speaker 1: scripture like an emergency. Hotline they only turn to it
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  Speaker 1: when they are in. Trouble they keep it on the,
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  Speaker 1: shelf unopened until life gets. Difficult but that is not
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  Speaker 1: How god intended it to. Be The bible is meant
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  Speaker 1: to be our daily, bread not a last. Resort jesus
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  Speaker 1: said In matthew four to. Four man shall not live
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  Speaker 1: on bread, alone but on every word that comes from
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  Speaker 1: the mouth Of. God just like we need food every
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  Speaker 1: day to stay physically, strong we need scripture every day
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  Speaker 1: to stay spiritually. Strong this is why we cannot afford
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  Speaker 1: to rely on second hand. Faith some believers depend entirely
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  Speaker 1: on their pastor's Favorite christian speakers or social media posts
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  Speaker 1: for their spiritual. Nourishment while learning from others is, good
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  Speaker 1: it should never replace our personal time In god's. Word
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  Speaker 1: we need to open The bible for. Ourselves we need
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  Speaker 1: to meditate on. It we need to ask The Holy
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  Speaker 1: spirit to reveal its truth to us, personally because when we,
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  Speaker 1: do we will be equipped for every good. Work we
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  Speaker 1: will not be easily. Deceived we will not be shaken
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  Speaker 1: by every new trend or false teaching that comes. Along
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  Speaker 1: we will stand. Firm the seventh lesson from Two timothy
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  Speaker 1: is This god's word is not optional for The christian.
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  Speaker 1: Life it is the. Foundation it is the source of,
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  Speaker 1: truth the weapon against, deception the light in the, darkness
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  Speaker 1: and the key to spiritual. Growth if we do not
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  Speaker 1: know The, word we will be, weak, vulnerable and easily.
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  Speaker 1: Misled but if we commit to, studying, believing and applying,
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  Speaker 1: it we will be. Transformed we will be equipped for every,
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  Speaker 1: challenge every, battle and every Purpose god has for. Us
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  Speaker 1: the question is are we treating scripture as the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: authority in our lives or are we letting the world
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  Speaker 1: define our? Truth because at the end of the, day
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  Speaker 1: only one foundation will, stand and that foundation is the
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  Speaker 1: Unshakable word Of. God the eighth lesson From Second timothy
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most urgent warnings for believers. Today
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  Speaker 1: In Second timothy four two to, Three paul Commands timothy
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  Speaker 1: preach the, word be prepared in season and out of, season, correct,
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  Speaker 1: rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful. Instruction for
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  Speaker 1: the time will come when people will not put up
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  Speaker 1: with sound. Doctrine instead to suit their own, desires they
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  Speaker 1: will gather around them a great number of teachers to
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  Speaker 1: say what their itching ears want to. Hear this is
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  Speaker 1: not a soft. Suggestion this is a, direct urgent charge
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  Speaker 1: from a man who knows his time is running. Out
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  Speaker 1: paul is Telling timothy that no matter how much the world,
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  Speaker 1: changes no matter how unpopular truth, becomes no matter how
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  Speaker 1: much resistance, comes he must preach the. Word we live
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  Speaker 1: where people do not Seek god's voice but voices that
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  Speaker 1: want to be, Convicted they want to be comforted in their.
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  Speaker 1: Sin they do not want, transformation they want. Validation and
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous part this deception is not just outside the,
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  Speaker 1: church it is creeping into the church. Itself paul warned
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  Speaker 1: that there would come a day when people would reject
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  Speaker 1: sound doctrine and replace it with teachings that cater to their,
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  Speaker 1: desires and that time is. Now think about. It have
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  Speaker 1: you ever heard people Say god just wants me to be,
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  Speaker 1: happy or times have, changed we need to adjust The
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  Speaker 1: focus on love and stop talking about. Sin these statements
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  Speaker 1: sound good on the surface they are wrapped in half,
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  Speaker 1: truths but at their core they are distortions of the.
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  Speaker 1: GOSPEL a gospel that does not call people to, repentance
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  Speaker 1: a gospel that does not challenge, sin a gospel that
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  Speaker 1: does not demand, holiness is no gospel at. All it is.
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  Speaker 1: Deception and that is exactly Why paul Tells timothy and
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  Speaker 1: us to preach The, word not, opinions not culture's version of,
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  Speaker 1: truth not what is easy or, comfortable but the, unfiltered,
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  Speaker 1: unchanging Powerful word Of, god and preach it in season
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  Speaker 1: and out of. Season that means when it is easy
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  Speaker 1: and when it is, hard when people accept, it and
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  Speaker 1: when they reject, it when the culture welcomes, it and
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  Speaker 1: when the culture fights against. It because the truth is
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  Speaker 1: not meant to be adjusted based on. Feelings it is
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  Speaker 1: not meant to be softened to fit the trends of the.
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  Speaker 1: Time it is meant to be proclaimed boldly without. Compromise
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  Speaker 1: but let's be, honest this is not. Easy standing for
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  Speaker 1: truth in today's world will make you, Unpopular it will
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  Speaker 1: make people. Uncomfortable it may even cost you, relationships, opportunities or.
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  Speaker 1: Reputation and that is why many believers. Hesitate they do
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  Speaker 1: not want to, Offend they do not want to be
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  Speaker 1: labeled as. Judgmental they do not want to deal with the.
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  Speaker 1: Backlash but here is the. Reality if we only speak
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  Speaker 1: truth when it is, safe if we only stand For
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  Speaker 1: christ when it is, convenient then we are not truly
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  Speaker 1: standing for him at. All jesus never said following him
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  Speaker 1: would be. Easy in, fact he said the. Opposite In
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  Speaker 1: john fifteen eighteen to. Nineteen he, warned if the world hates,
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  Speaker 1: you keep in mind that it hated me. First if
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  Speaker 1: you belong to the, world it would love you as its.
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  Speaker 1: Own as it. Is you do not belong to the,
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  Speaker 1: world BUT i have chosen you out of the. World
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  Speaker 1: that is why the world hates. You so the real
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  Speaker 1: question is are we willing to preach the word even
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  Speaker 1: when it costs, us even when people reject, it even
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  Speaker 1: when it Offends because if we stay silent to keep the,
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  Speaker 1: peace we are not loving. People we are failing. Them
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  Speaker 1: to tell them because he does not want to upset,
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  Speaker 1: them is that. Love if a firefighter sees a house
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  Speaker 1: because he does not want to disturb, them is that?
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  Speaker 1: Love Number love tells the truth even when it is.
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  Speaker 1: Hard love warns people when they are heading toward. Destruction
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  Speaker 1: love stands firm even when the world says to back.
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  Speaker 1: Down think about. This how often do we stay silent
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  Speaker 1: when we should? Speak how often do we avoid sharing
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  Speaker 1: the gospel because we are afraid of how people will.
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  Speaker 1: React but what if the person we are afraid to
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  Speaker 1: offend is the very Person god is trying to. Reach
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  Speaker 1: what if the message we are hesitant to share is
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  Speaker 1: the exact truth that could save someone's. Life we cannot
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  Speaker 1: control how people will, respond but we are responsible for
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  Speaker 1: delivering the. Message ezekiel thirty three seven through eight says
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  Speaker 1: son Of, MAN i have made you a watchman for
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  Speaker 1: the people Of, israel so hear the WORD i speak
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  Speaker 1: and give them warning from. Me WHEN i say to the, wicked,
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  Speaker 1: you wicked, person you will surely, die and you do
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  Speaker 1: not speak out to dissuade them from their, ways that
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  Speaker 1: wicked person will die for their, sin AND i will
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  Speaker 1: hold you accountable for their. Blood this is. Serious if
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  Speaker 1: we do not share the, truth if we do not
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  Speaker 1: warn people about, sin if we do not proclaim The,
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  Speaker 1: gospel then we are failing in our. Mission but if
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  Speaker 1: we preach the word. Boldly if we stand firm even
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  Speaker 1: when others turn, away then we are fulfilling the call
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  Speaker 1: That god has given. Us the eighth lesson from Tewod
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  Speaker 1: timothy is, this The word Of god must be preached
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  Speaker 1: no matter the. Cost we are living in a time
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  Speaker 1: where deception is, increasing where people are rejecting, truth where
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  Speaker 1: The gospel is being. Distorted and yet now more than,
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  Speaker 1: ever we must remain faithful to the message Of. Christ
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  Speaker 1: we must not water it, Down we must not. Compromise
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  Speaker 1: we must not be, silent because one day we will
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  Speaker 1: stand Before god and give an account not for how
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  Speaker 1: popular we, were not for how many people liked, us
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  Speaker 1: but for whether we were faithful to What he called
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  Speaker 1: us to. Do, so the question is will we be,
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  Speaker 1: Bold will we stand? Firm will we preach The word
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  Speaker 1: in season and out of, season no matter, What because
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the, day the truth is not
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  Speaker 1: ours to, change it is ours to. Proclaim the ninth
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  Speaker 1: lesson From Second timothy is one of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: declarations of perseverance in the Entire. Bible In Second timothy
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  Speaker 1: four seven to, Eight paul, SAYS i have fought the good,
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  Speaker 1: FIGHT i have finished the. RACE i have kept the.
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  Speaker 1: Faith now there is in store for me the crown of,
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  Speaker 1: righteousness which The, lord The Righteous, judge will award to
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  Speaker 1: me on that, day and not only to, me but
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  Speaker 1: also to all who have longed for his. Appearing these
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  Speaker 1: are not just the words of a man looking back
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  Speaker 1: on his. Life these are the final words of a
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  Speaker 1: warrior who never gave, up never, compromised and never lost
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  Speaker 1: sight of. Eternity this is the battle cry of a
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  Speaker 1: man who endured, suffering persecution and, trials yet remained faithful
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  Speaker 1: until the very. End imagine for a moment that you
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  Speaker 1: are reaching the final lap of a. Marathon your legs are,
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  Speaker 1: aching your lungs are, burning and everything in you is
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  Speaker 1: telling you to. Stop but then you look ahead and
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  Speaker 1: see the finish. Line you realize that all the, pain
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  Speaker 1: all the, struggles and all the exhaustion will be worth
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  Speaker 1: it in the. End this is What paul is. Describing
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  Speaker 1: The christian life is not a, Sprint it is a,
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  Speaker 1: marathon and many people start the race, strong full of
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  Speaker 1: passion and. Excitement but as time goes, on distractions, come struggles,
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  Speaker 1: hit and many fall. Away they begin to, compromise slow,
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  Speaker 1: down and eventually give. Up But paul is reminding us
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  Speaker 1: this race is not just about how we, start it's
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  Speaker 1: about how we. Finish think about how many people you
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  Speaker 1: have seen start out strong in, faith only to fall
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  Speaker 1: away when things got. Hard maybe they were once passionate About,
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  Speaker 1: god but then life became difficult and they lost. Heart
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  Speaker 1: maybe they let the cares of this world pull them.
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  Speaker 1: Away maybe they became, discouraged, hurt or. Weary jesus warned
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  Speaker 1: about this in The parable of The sour In matthew
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  Speaker 1: thirteen twenty to twenty. One the seed falling on rocky
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  Speaker 1: ground refers to someone who hears the word and at
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  Speaker 1: once receives it with. Joy but since they have no,
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  Speaker 1: route they last only a short. Time when trouble or
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  Speaker 1: persecution comes because of The, word they quickly fall. Away
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  Speaker 1: this is why endurance. Matters it is not just about
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  Speaker 1: an emotional moment of. Faith it is about a lifetime of.
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  Speaker 1: Perseverance but how do we stay faithful until the. End
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  Speaker 1: how do we make sure we finish? Strong paul gives
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  Speaker 1: us three key, actions fight the good, fight finish the,
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  Speaker 1: race and keep the. Faith, first we must fight the good.
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  Speaker 1: Fight this means that faith is not. Passive it is
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  Speaker 1: a battle it is a fight against, sin against, deception against,
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  Speaker 1: fear and against the enemy who wants to pull us
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  Speaker 1: away From. God ephesians six twelve reminds, us for our
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  Speaker 1: struggle is not against flesh and, blood but against the,
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  Speaker 1: rulers against the, authorities against the powers of this dark,
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  Speaker 1: world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly.
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  Speaker 1: Realms every day we are in a spiritual, battle and
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  Speaker 1: if we are not actively fighting to stand firm in our,
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  Speaker 1: faith we will be swept away by the current of this. World,
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  Speaker 1: second we must finish the. Race notice That paul does
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  Speaker 1: not say he ran part of the, race or that
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  Speaker 1: he did well for a. While he says he finished.
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  Speaker 1: It this means pushing through, difficulties staying faithful in times of,
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  Speaker 1: twelve one through two tells, us let us throw off
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  Speaker 1: everything that hinders and the sin that so easily, entangles
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  Speaker 1: us fixing our eyes On, jesus the pioneer and perfector of.
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  Speaker 1: Faith the only way to finish the race is to
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  Speaker 1: Him and, third we must keep the. Faith this means
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  Speaker 1: holding on to truth even when the world tries to twist.
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  Speaker 1: It it means standing firm in righteousness even when others.
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  Speaker 1: Compromise it means choosing obedience even when it is. Difficult
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  Speaker 1: so many people lose faith because they let, discouragement, fear
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  Speaker 1: or temptation take. Over But paul is showing us that
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, happens whether in, chains whether, rejected whether facing,
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  Speaker 1: trials faithfulness To god must remain our. Priority but here
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  Speaker 1: is the most powerful part Of paul's. Words he does
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  Speaker 1: not just say that he endured for endurance's. Sake he
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  Speaker 1: endured because there was a reward waiting for. Him he,
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  Speaker 1: says now there is in store for me the crown of.
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  Speaker 1: Righteousness this is the promise that makes all the, suffering
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  Speaker 1: all the, trials and all the sacrifices worth. It paul
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  Speaker 1: mind and he knew that one day he would stand Before,
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  Speaker 1: jesus And jesus would place a crown on his. Head
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  Speaker 1: not Because paul was, perfect not Because paul had an easy,
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  Speaker 1: life but because he had remained faithful until the. End
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  Speaker 1: and here is the beautiful. Part this crown is not
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  Speaker 1: just For. Paul it is for ever believer who stays,
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  Speaker 1: faithful who fights the good, fight who finishes the, race
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  Speaker 1: and who longs For christ's. Return this means that you
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  Speaker 1: AND i have the same. Opportunity we too can stand
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  Speaker 1: Before jesus one day and hear the words well, done
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  Speaker 1: good and faithful Servant matthew twenty, five twenty. Three we
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  Speaker 1: too can receive the crown of. Righteousness but it will
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  Speaker 1: not happen by. Accident it will not happen by drifting through.
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  Speaker 1: Life it will happen by intentionally choosing every day to
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  Speaker 1: remain faithful no matter. What so let's, reflect where are
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  Speaker 1: you in the? Race are you still running? Strong are
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  Speaker 1: you pushing forward despite the? Struggles or have you started
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• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Away If paul could endure through, imprisonment, beatings rejection and
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  Speaker 1: suffering and still finish, strong then so can. We not
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  Speaker 1: because we are, strong but Because god gives us the
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  Speaker 1: strength to Endure philippins one six reminds, us being confident of,
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  Speaker 1: this that he who began a good work in, you
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  Speaker 1: will carry it on to completion until the day Of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the ninth lesson from Two timothy is this faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: is not about how we, start it is about how we.
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  Speaker 1: Finish The christian life is a, race and every day
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  Speaker 1: we are either moving forward or falling. Behind but the
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  Speaker 1: goal is not just to, run it is to finish.
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  Speaker 1: Well paul could look back on his life with, confidence
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  Speaker 1: knowing that he had given everything for the cause Of.
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  Speaker 1: Christ the question is will we be able to say the?
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  Speaker 1: Same will we stand Before jesus one day knowing that
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  Speaker 1: we did not, quit that we did not, compromise that
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  Speaker 1: we remained. Faithful so the challenge is, this keep, running keep,
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  Speaker 1: fighting keep holding on too, faith because one day all the,
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  Speaker 1: struggles all the, sacrifices and all the endurance will be worth.
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  Speaker 1: It the finish line is, ahead and the reward is
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  Speaker 1: greater than anything this world can. Offer the tenth and
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  Speaker 1: final lesson from Second timothy is one of unshakable confidence
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  Speaker 1: In god's. Faithfulness In Second timothy four, Eighteen paul, declares
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  Speaker 1: The lord will rescue me from every evil attack and
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  Speaker 1: will bring me safely To his heavenly. Kingdom to him
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  Speaker 1: be glory forever and. Ever. Amen these are not the
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  Speaker 1: words of a man who is Hoping god might save.
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  Speaker 1: Him these are the words of a man who is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely convinced Of god's faithfulness even in the face of.
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  Speaker 1: Death this is a man who has been, imprisoned, beaten,
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  Speaker 1: shipwrecked and. Abandoned yet he still declares That god will rescue.
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  Speaker 1: Him but here is what Makes paul's words even more.
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  Speaker 1: Powerful he is writing this knowing that his execution is.
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  Speaker 1: Near he knows he will not be physically saved from,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: death yet he still proclaims The lord will rescue. Me
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  Speaker 1: what does that. Mean it means That paul understood a greater.
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  Speaker 1: Truth god's faithfulness is not just about delivering us from.
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  Speaker 1: Trials it is about bringing a safely home to. Him
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  Speaker 1: imagine standing on the edge of your greatest, fear knowing
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  Speaker 1: that everything around you is, uncertain yet having complete. Peace
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  Speaker 1: that is What paul. Had The Roman empire could take his,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: life but they could not take his. Soul the enemies
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  Speaker 1: Of christ could silence, him but they could not erase his.
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  Speaker 1: Testimony he had already won because he belonged To. God
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  Speaker 1: this is the kind of confidence that every believer is
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  Speaker 1: called to have because the reality is we will all face, hardships,
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  Speaker 1: trials and even moments where we feel like we are
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  Speaker 1: being attacked from every. Side but the question is do
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  Speaker 1: we trust That god will be faithful to the very.
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  Speaker 1: End think about a time in your life when everything
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be falling. Apart maybe it was a season of,
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  Speaker 1: loss pain or. Betrayal maybe you felt completely. Alone maybe
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  Speaker 1: you even questioned If god was still with. You plus
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  Speaker 1: knew what that felt like just a few verses, earlier
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  Speaker 1: in Two timothy four, sixteen he, says at my first,
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  Speaker 1: defense no one came to my, support but everyone deserted.
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  Speaker 1: Me may it not be held against? Them can you imagine,
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  Speaker 1: that standing trial for your, faith facing the threat of,
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  Speaker 1: death and not a single person stands by your. Side
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  Speaker 1: Yet paul does not dwell on the. Betrayal, instead in
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  Speaker 1: the very next, verse he, says but The lord stood
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  Speaker 1: at my side and gave me strength Two timothy four.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen this is the. Key when people fail, us when
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  Speaker 1: circumstances overwhelm, us when everything seems, Uncertain god is still
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  Speaker 1: faithful And paul's faith was not blind. Optimism he was
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  Speaker 1: not ignoring. Reality he knew that life would not be.
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  Speaker 1: Easy in, fact earlier in this same, letter he Told,
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  Speaker 1: timothy every one who wants to live a godly life
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  Speaker 1: In Christ jesus will be Persecuted Second timothy three. Twelve
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  Speaker 1: paul understood, suffering but he also understood something. Greater our
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  Speaker 1: suffering is, temporary But god's faithfulness is. Eternal that is
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  Speaker 1: why he could say with, confidence The lord will rescue
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  Speaker 1: me from every evil. Attack he was not saying That
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  Speaker 1: god would prevent. Suffering he was saying that no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: Happens god will never let him be. Defeated even if
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  Speaker 1: if his earthly life, ended he would still be victorious
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: because his ultimate destination was secure. Heaven this is the
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  Speaker 1: promise that every believer holds on. To jesus himself said
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  Speaker 1: In john sixteen thirty. Three in this world you will have,
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  Speaker 1: trouble but take, HEART i have overcome the. World our
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  Speaker 1: faith is not in A god who removes all, hardships
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  Speaker 1: but in A god who walks with us through. Them
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  Speaker 1: it is not in a savior who prevents all, pain
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  Speaker 1: but in a savior who promises that pain will never
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  Speaker 1: have the final. Word but here is where we must ask.
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  Speaker 1: Ourselves do we truly believe, that do we live with
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  Speaker 1: the confidence, that no matter what happens in this, life
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  Speaker 1: we are safe In god's? Hands or do we let, fear,
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  Speaker 1: worry and doubt control. Us paul's final words challenge us
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  Speaker 1: to shift our. Perspective he knew that his time on
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  Speaker 1: earth was, ending yet he saw his death not as a,
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  Speaker 1: tragedy but as a. Victory he was not afraid because
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  Speaker 1: he knew where he was. Going he knew That jesus
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  Speaker 1: had already secured his. Eternity and this is the hope
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  Speaker 1: that we have as. Well no matter what we, face whether, trials,
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  Speaker 1: persecution or even death, itself nothing can separate us From god's.
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  Speaker 1: Love romans eight thirty eight to thirty nine reminds, us
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  Speaker 1: FOR i am convinced that neither death nor, life neither
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  Speaker 1: angels nor, demons neither the present nor the, future nor any,
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  Speaker 1: powers neither height nor, depth nor anything else in all
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  Speaker 1: creation will be able to separate us from the love Of,
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  Speaker 1: god that is In, Christ, jesus Our, lord that is
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  Speaker 1: the Rescue paul was talking. About it was not just
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  Speaker 1: about being saved from momentary. Troubles it was about being
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  Speaker 1: secure in the hands Of god for all. Eternity so let's.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: Reflect how do we respond to. Difficulties when trials, come
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  Speaker 1: do we? Panic or do we stand firm In god's?
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  Speaker 1: Promises when we feel? Alone do we remember that The
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  Speaker 1: lord stands at our? Side when we face the reality of,
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  Speaker 1: death do we hold onto the hope of eternal. Life
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  Speaker 1: paul's confidence was not just for. Him it is for
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  Speaker 1: all of us who belong To. Christ the Same god
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  Speaker 1: who was faithful To paul will be faithful to. Us
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  Speaker 1: the tenth and final lesson from Two timothy is This
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  Speaker 1: god is our, rescuer and he will bring us safely,
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  Speaker 1: home no matter what we, face no matter how dark
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  Speaker 1: the world, becomes no matter what trials come our, way
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  Speaker 1: we can stand firm knowing that our future is. Secure Like,
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  Speaker 1: paul we can declare with, confidence The lord will rescue
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  Speaker 1: me and bring me safely To his heavenly. Kingdom this
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  Speaker 1: is not just a promise For. Paul it is a
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  Speaker 1: promise for. You if you belong To, christ your future
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  Speaker 1: is not, uncertain your hope is not, fragile your destiny
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  Speaker 1: is not in question Because The god who saved you
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  Speaker 1: is The god who will keep you until the very.
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  Speaker 1: End so the challenge is, this will you trust? Him
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  Speaker 1: will you live with the confidence, that no matter what
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  Speaker 1: happens in this, life you are safe in his. Hands
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  Speaker 1: will you declare Like, paul that even in the face of,
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  Speaker 1: trials suffering an, uncertainty you know That god is. Faithful
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  Speaker 1: because one, day when we cross that finish, line when
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  Speaker 1: we enter into the presence Of, jesus we will see
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  Speaker 1: with our own eyes What paul knew all. Along The
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  Speaker 1: lord will rescue, us and he will bring us safely.
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  Speaker 1: Home the final lesson From Second timothy has been. Clear
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  Speaker 1: god will rescue us and bring us safely. Home but
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: now the question, remains will we stand firm until the.
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  Speaker 1: End paul had every reason to give. Up he was
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  Speaker 1: abandoned by, friends persecuted by, enemies and facing certain. Death
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  Speaker 1: yet he never. Wavered his faith was not shaken by,
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  Speaker 1: suffering nor was his confidence diminished by. Trials, instead he
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  Speaker 1: declared with certainty that The lord would remain faithful to
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  Speaker 1: him until the very. End and now his words echo through,
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  Speaker 1: time challenging us to do the. Same but let's be,
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  Speaker 1: honest standing firm in faith is not always. Easy there
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  Speaker 1: are moments when the world feels, overwhelming when opposition, rises
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  Speaker 1: when doubts creep. In maybe you've experienced seasons where your
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  Speaker 1: faith felt. Weak maybe you've wrestled with, questions wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you have the strength to. Endure maybe you've even felt
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  Speaker 1: tempted to compromise just to make things a little. Easier
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  Speaker 1: if that's, you know, this you are not. Alone Even,
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  Speaker 1: timothy a faithful servant Of, god needed to be reminded
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  Speaker 1: to stay. Strong that's Why paul wrote this letter to encourage,
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  Speaker 1: him to equip him and to remind him that no
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  Speaker 1: matter what he, Faced god had already given him everything
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  Speaker 1: he needed to remain firm in his. Calling and that
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  Speaker 1: same encouragement is for us to. Day god has not
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  Speaker 1: left us. Powerless he has given us his word to guide,
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  Speaker 1: us his spirit to strengthen, us and his promises to sustain.
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  Speaker 1: Us the world may grow, darker but his light never.
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  Speaker 1: Dims the pressure to compromise may, increase but his truth never.
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  Speaker 1: Changes the battle may be, fierce but the victory is already.
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  Speaker 1: Won think about. This When paul Wrote Second, timothy he
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  Speaker 1: was at the end of his. Journey he had fought
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  Speaker 1: the good, fight finished the, race and kept the. Faith
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  Speaker 1: and as he looked, back he had no. Regrets he
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  Speaker 1: did not wish he had played it. Safer he did
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  Speaker 1: not wish he had avoided. Suffering he did not wish
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: he had blended in with the world to escape. Persecution,
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  Speaker 1: no he was grateful that he had remained. Faithful he
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  Speaker 1: knew that everything he endured For christ was worth, It
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  Speaker 1: and now he challenges us to follow his. Example so
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  Speaker 1: let me ask, you are you truly holding on to the.
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  Speaker 1: Faith are you standing firm in the truth or are
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: you letting the world shake? You are you guarding what
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  Speaker 1: has been entrusted to you or are you allowing compromise
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  Speaker 1: to creep. In are you running the race with endurance
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: or are you slowing down losing. Focus the reality is
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: every believer will face these moments of. Testing the enemy
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: will try to discourage, us the culture will try to influence.
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  Speaker 1: Us our own doubts will try to weaken. Us but
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  Speaker 1: in those moments we must remember What paul Told. Timothy
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  Speaker 1: god has not given us a spirit of, fear but of, power,
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  Speaker 1: love and a sound. Mind Tewod timothy, one. P. Seven
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  Speaker 1: it is time to live like we believe. That it
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  Speaker 1: is time to silence the, fear reject the, doubt and
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  Speaker 1: press forward with. Confidence because the Same god who Strengthened,
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  Speaker 1: paul the Same god who stood By, timothy is the
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  Speaker 1: Same god who is with us, today and he has
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  Speaker 1: already equipped us with everything we need to remain. Strong
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  Speaker 1: maybe today is the day you make a decision to
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: stop wavering and start standing, firm to stop fearing opposition
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: and start boldly proclaiming the, gospel to stop living for temporary,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: things and start pursuing what truly, matters because at the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: end of the, race nothing else will. Matter accept. This
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  Speaker 1: did we remain faithful To? Christ did we guard the?
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  Speaker 1: Truth did we stand firm until the very? End paul's
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  Speaker 1: last words were not just For, Timothy they were for.
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  Speaker 1: Us his final challenge was not just for a young
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  Speaker 1: leader in the Early. Church it was for every believer
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  Speaker 1: who would come after. Him and now that challenge is
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  Speaker 1: in front of. Us the world is, watching the next
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  Speaker 1: generation is depending on. Us The kingdom Of god is
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  Speaker 1: advancing and we have been called to be part of.
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  Speaker 1: It so will we stand firm until the? End will
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  Speaker 1: we fight the good? Fight finish the race and keep the.
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  Speaker 1: Faith the choice is, ours and if you are ready
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  Speaker 1: to say, yes if you are ready to commit to
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  Speaker 1: standing firm no matter, what then let us. Know drop
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  Speaker 1: a comment below and tell us which lesson spoke to
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  Speaker 1: you the. Most let this be a moment where you,
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  Speaker 1: declare just As paul, did that you will not give,
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  Speaker 1: up that you will main, faithful that no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: comes you will trust In god's faithfulness and stand firm
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: until the very. End let's pray this prayer. Together Heavenly,
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  Speaker 1: father we come before you with open, hearts knowing that
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  Speaker 1: without you we are, weak but with you we are.
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  Speaker 1: Strong you have called us to stand firm in, faith
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  Speaker 1: to endure, hardships and to boldly proclaim your. Truth But,
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  Speaker 1: lord we confess that there are times when we feel.
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  Speaker 1: Weary there are moments when we are tempted to. Compromise
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  Speaker 1: there are days when the battle seems too. Great and
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: yet you remind us that your grace is, sufficient that
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: your strength is made perfect in our. Weakness, god we
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the lessons we have learned From Second.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy we thank you For paul's example of unwavering faith
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  Speaker 1: even in the face of. Suffering we thank you for
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: the challenge to guard The, gospel to endure hardship like
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  Speaker 1: a good, soldier and to fight the good fight of
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: faith until the very. End But, lord we don't just
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  Speaker 1: want to hear these, Words we want to live. Them
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to be hearers only deceiving. Ourselves we
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: want to be doers of your, word walking in obedience
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  Speaker 1: no matter the. Cost, father strengthen us to stand boldly
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: even when the world opposes. Us give us courage when
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  Speaker 1: we face rejection for speaking your, Truth give us endurance
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: when trials, come and help us to remember that suffering
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: for The gospel is an, honor not a. Burden let
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: us not be ashamed of The, gospel but let us
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: proclaim it with, confidence knowing that it is the power
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: Of god unto. Salvation, lord we ask for discernment in
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: a time of great, deception in a world that twists
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: your word and distorts the. Truth help us to rightly
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: handle the word of. Truth let us be rooted in sound,
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  Speaker 1: doctrine not swayed by, culture, opinions or popular. Trends guard
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  Speaker 1: our hearts against false, teachings and give us a hunger
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  Speaker 1: for your word that we may grow in wisdom and.
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  Speaker 1: Maturity we ask for purity and righteousness in our. Lives
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  Speaker 1: your word says to flee youthful passions and to pursue.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Godliness but we, Know lord that we cannot do this
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  Speaker 1: in our own. Strength we need Your Holy spirit to
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: purify our, hearts to renew our, minds and to lead
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: us into. Holiness help us to be set apart in
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  Speaker 1: a world that calls us to. Compromise help us to pursue, righteousness, faith,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: love and, peace and to surround ourselves with those who
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: are also Seeking. You. Father we acknowledge that we are
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  Speaker 1: living in difficult, times just As paul. Warned we we
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  Speaker 1: see the increase of, sin, deception and rebellion against. You
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: but we will not be. Afraid we will not shrink. Back,
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  Speaker 1: instead we will stand, firm knowing that you are with.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Us you have not given us a spirit of, fear
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: but of, power, love and a sound. Mind strengthen, Us,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: lord to endure when others fall. Away let us remain
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: steadfast when the world mocks our. Faith let us not
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: waver when persecution. Comes let us rejoice that we are
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: counted worthy to suffer for your. Name, Lord help us
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: to love your, word help us to treasure the scriptures
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: as the very breath Of. God let us not neglect The,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: bible but let it be our, guide our, foundation and
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: our greatest weapon against the. Enemy when the world tells
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: us to, compromise let us cling to your. Truth when
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: we are unsure of what to, Do let us turn
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: to your word for. Direction And, father help us to
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: fulfill the calling you have placed on our. Lives your
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: word tells us to preach the truth in season and
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: out of. Season that means we must be ready at
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: all times to share The, gospel to defend our, faith
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: and to encourage those who are. Struggling give us, Boldness,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: lord let us not be silent when we should. Speak
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: let us not be passive when we should. Act let
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: us not be afraid when we should stand. Strong, lord
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: we pray for endurance to finish the. Race paul fought
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: the good, fight finished the, race and kept the, faith
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: and now we ask for that same. Strength let us
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: not grow weary in doing, good for in due season
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: we will reap a harvest if we do not give.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: Up let us not chase after the temporary things of this,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: world but let us fix our eyes on. Eternity let
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: us run this race with, perseverance throwing off everything that
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: hinders and fixing our eyes On, jesus the author and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: finisher of our. Faith and, Finally, lord we take comfort
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: in your promise that you will rescue us and bring
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: us safely, home no matter what we, face no matter
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: how difficult the, road we know that our hope is
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: secure in. You we trust that you are with us
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  Speaker 1: every step of the, way and that one day we
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: will stand before you and hear the words well, done
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: good and faithful. Servant, father we commit ourselves to. You strengthen,
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  Speaker 1: us equip, us fill us with your, spirit and let
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: us live each day with, faith, endurance and boldness until
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  Speaker 1: the very. End In Jesus mighty, name we. Pray. Amen
• 1:22:44
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