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Amen. 
How many of you truly believe 

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that He has done great things? 
I am thankful for that. 

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And as we sang a moment ago, it 
is our responsibility and our 

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duty to give Him the glory in 
that. 

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Through that, so we acknowledge 
once again that our God is a 

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great God who does great things.
Don't forget that no matter 

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where you are in life, know that
He has done and will do and is 

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doing great things, even that 
you don't even yet fully 

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understand or know. 
Get your Bibles if you would 

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turn to First Timothy as we 
continue to look at the Pastoral

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Epistles, and we began a few 
weeks ago with this. 

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First of the Pastoral Epistles 
being the 1st letter to Timothy.

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We are uncovering in this series
Biblical ministers and Biblical 

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ministry. 
We'll be looking today at verses

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18 through 20. 
As you know, if you were here 

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last week in our lesson, Paul 
gave us an example in his life 

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of the traits of an effective 
Christian leader. 

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I, I pray that we were 
challenged by that. 

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I can speak for myself. 
I was challenged by that, that I

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want to be that kind of leader, 
whether I'm leading my my 

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family, whether I'm leading this
church, wherever I find myself 

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being used for the glory of the 
gospel of Jesus Christ, I want 

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to be that kind of leader and 
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And so this week, that effective
leader Paul is going to actually

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in his leadership role as an 
apostle to the church, he's 

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going to actually give a charge 
to who we know he's already 

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referred to as his son, his true
son, Timothy, the pastor here at

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Ephesus who would have received 
this letter. 

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He's going to give Timothy this 
charge or this command so that 

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he will properly fulfill his 
role as a minister and as a 

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pastor there in the church. 
Located in Ephesus. 

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So in doing that, Timothy is 
going to receive those 

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instructions. 
But those instructions, though 

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they are uniquely and 
specifically given to Timothy in

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the time that this was written, 
they're also instructions for 

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all of us who are ministers. 
Now, before we go any further, I

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want to ask this question. 
How many of you here today would

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say I am a minister? 
If you are in Christ, you are a 

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minister. 
That doesn't mean that you're a 

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pastor of a church, that you're 
an evangelist, that you're a 

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missionary, but it doesn't mean 
that you are a minister. 

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That doesn't mean that you're 
ever going to stand in the 

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pulpit and preach a sermon, but 
all of us who are in Christ have

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been given the ministry of 
Christ, which is the ministry of

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reconciliation. 
Therefore, we are all ministers 

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and we are to shine the light of
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we do. 
Perhaps your ministry is the 

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fact that you are a father who 
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his family. 
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Maybe you don't have children in
the equation yet, but you are to

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minister to your wife and your 
wife in return is to minister 

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unto her own husband. 
And we know this in the home. 

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We are to minister to our 
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Is that not so? 
Of course, we know that to be 

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so. 
So all of us to some degree, 

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whether it's in our homes or 
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As you lead in ministry, perhaps
you were a leader in one of the 

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ministries that we have here at 
Key Life, or you are one of the 

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people who participate in one of
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At the end of the day, we are 
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And so just because Paul is 
addressing Timothy, who was 

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ministering here in Ephesus as a
pastor, giving him this charge 

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in doing the ministry that is 
before him and fulfilling that 

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which he is called to do, 
doesn't mean that you can just 

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turn your ears off. 
And to think that this is not 

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something for you. 
This is something for all of us.

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As we will see. 
We've all been given a ministry 

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and we are too carefully guard 
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John Flavel. 
Said this, he said they that 

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watch for souls must watch for 
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Or else they may destroy 
themselves while they save 

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others. 
So what's going to happen in 

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this letter today? 
Paul is going to instruct 

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Timothy. 
Yes, you are going to take care 

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of other people's souls and 
ministering to them, but also 

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take care of yourself. 
Paul is going to charge Timothy 

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to take care of that ministry to
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do to guard himself. 
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specifically given to this 
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Pastor there in Ephesus, we're 
going to see it's given to all 

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of us as well who will and who 
desire to walk in obedience and 

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ministering the gospel in every 
area of our life that we have 

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opportunity to minister the 
gospel. 

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So first Timothy chapter 1, the 
18th verse, Paul says this 

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Timothy, my son, he uses that 
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love that. 
Can you imagine when Timothy 

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read this, he's already heard my
true son, and then he hears 

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again my son. 
I can think back into my life. 

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One of the special mentors that 
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Bobby Clark. 
I love when he would call me son

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or he would call me boy. 
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would say son or boy, let me 
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or boy, let me tell you 
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It was always good that he would
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me and toward me. 
It meant something. 

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That meant that he was teaching 
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important that he needed to pass
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coming up underneath his 
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And Paul here writing this to 
Timothy, referring to him again 

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as. 
His son, he said. 

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Timothy, my son, I give you this
instruction in keeping with the 

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prophecies once made about you, 
so that by following them you 

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may fight the good fight, 
holding on to the faith, to 

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faith and a good conscience. 
Some have rejected these. 

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And so have shipwrecked to their
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Among them are Hymenaeus and 
Alexander, whom I have handed 

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over to Satan to be taught not 
to blasphemy. 

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Let's pray together. 
Father, in the name of Jesus, we

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come to you. 
We thank you for the 

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instructions that you give us in
your word. 

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We thank you for this charge to 
those of us who are in Christ 

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who find ourselves obediently 
ministering to others. 

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Maybe we are ministering to our 
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Maybe we're ministering in 
pastoral capacity in the church.

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But God, I pray that we would 
all hear these words and that we

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would take them seriously this 
morning, that we would see the 

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warnings and we would see the 
encouragement and we would see 

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the direction, that we would 
utilize it in our lives as you 

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have intended it to be utilized.
God, I pray for the soul who's 

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here today who does not know 
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Lord, make them fully aware that
they cannot truly minister to 

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anyone in the name of Christ 
because they don't yet know 

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Christ, or they can't minister 
to their families. 

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They can't minister to their 
husbands, to their wives, to 

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their children. 
They can't minister to their 

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coworkers. 
They can't minister in the 

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church because they are not a 
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God, I pray that you allow them 
to see that that sin has 

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separated them from a holy God, 
that reconciliation must occur, 

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and that reconciliation only 
comes through Jesus Christ and 

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surrendering to Him as Lord and 
Savior, repenting of their sin 

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and their unbelief in turning to
Christ. 

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And today, Lord, that you would 
grace them with your mercy, that

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they would truly see their need 
for Christ, that you would 

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fulfill that need and revealing 
yourself to them, drawing them 

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out of darkness and ushering 
them into Your marvelous light 

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for salvation, forgiveness, and 
eternal life. 

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And Lord, we'll be careful to 
give you all the glory for it. 

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And we pray and we ask these 
things in Christ's name, Amen. 

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So as we continue in our journey
in the Pastoral Epistles, I want

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us to look at this charge that 
Paul. 

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Gives to young Timothy, he says 
there in verse 18, if you'll 

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look back with me, he says, 
Timothy my son, I give you this 

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instruction now my translation 
says instructions. 

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Some of your translations will 
say charge, some of them will 

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say command. 
I think charge or command, and 

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the original language is 
probably the more accurate 

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translation. 
He is giving him a charge, a 

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command in keeping with the 
prophecies once made about you. 

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He. 
Says so that by. 

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Following them, you may fight 
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We could condense our title for 
the first point. 

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Our title for the first point is
this. 

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Fulfill your Commission. 
Paul is telling Timothy here to 

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fulfill your Commission, to 
fulfill that which you have been

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called to do. 
We could shorten it to simply 

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this, the work, the work that 
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Paul wants him to focus on that,
and he does it in such a way as 

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to call something to Timothy's 
remembrance. 

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He says look back on that time 
where you were called, where 

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prophecies were once made about 
you, where God revealed through 

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his word as through a prophet in
the church, where he revealed 

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his specific will for your life 
by that word. 

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So what he's telling Timothy in 
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calling, to obey God's calling 
on his life. 

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First, he begins with fulfilling
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will. 
He's saying, Timothy, remember 

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that this is God's will. 
That's why I'm charging you with

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these instructions and these 
commands. 

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I am reminding you that God has 
revealed His will for your life.

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And His will for your life is 
that you surrender your entire 

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existence to gospel ministry, 
that you fulfill the duty that 

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you've been given according to 
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So in order to fulfill your 
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calling. 
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when I use the word charge and 
where Paul uses the word charge 

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here. 
This is a military expression. 

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This is a military order. 
So I want for you to in your 

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mind to think that Paul is using
military language or military 

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imagery. 
And so we have this Paul 

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receiving orders from the King 
of Kings as he spent time 

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personally with the Lord Jesus 
and learning how to be a 

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faithful. 
I can definitely say this, there

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is no greater teacher than the 
Lord Jesus Christ about being a 

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faithful minister. 
And Paul is now passing this 

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along to Timothy. 
He's saying what I have received

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from the King, I as a general, 
an apostle in the faith to my 

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son. 
Maybe Timothy serves here as a 

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Lieutenant or a Sergeant, and 
he's receiving this message, 

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this charge from Paul. 
So Paul speaks in a military 

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sense and using military 
language, and he says, I give 

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you this charge, this order, 
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So that seems kind of harsh, but
it's not abnormal for Paul to 

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speak in those terms, is it? 
We see in his life, in his 

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ministry, he uses this military 
imagery and military verbiage 

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often in the things that he 
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In fact, in Second Timothy we 
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2 verse 3 where he says this 
join me in suffering like a good

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soldier of Christ Jesus. 
Paul then reminding Timothy that

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you're a soldier and you are in 
war and sometimes in war and in 

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battle we have to endure and we 
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And he says do this like a good 
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Now, I know in our sissified 
culture and society where we 

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have all but taken the warrior 
instincts out of men, this is 

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foreign to us. 
But I can remember not back too 

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long ago, even in my lifetime, 
we used to stand in church and 

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we would herald a song, Onward 
Christian soldiers, onward, 

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fighting, marching as to war 
with the cross of Jesus going on

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before you guys, some of you 
remember that hymn that we used 

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to sing Onward, Christian 
soldiers marching as to war. 

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Now we don't even talk in these 
terms because again, we have 

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sissified things in such a way 
so that we don't have warriors 

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being raised up in the church as
warriors for the gospel. 

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Paul using military language 
here to remind Timothy, Timothy,

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you were called to be a warrior,
a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 

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As we looked in our scripture 
reading this morning in 

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Ephesians chapter 6, we also see
Paul using again military terms,

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military imagery. 
He tells him that you're in a 

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fight and you were fighting 
against principalities and 

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powers and forces of darkness. 
You were fighting against evil 

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things in the unseen realm. 
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full armor of God. 
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the time and I'm so thankful 
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through and to explain each 
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soldiers armor so that we would 
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that we are in a fight. 
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equipped is to make a fatal 
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6 when he describes for us the 
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armor that we must put on. 
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this in chapter 5 and verse 8. 
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to the day, let us be sober, 
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breastplate in the hope of 
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Again, he's going back and he's 
grabbing military terminology 

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and he's using imagery from war,
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seriousness of the fight that we
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Now, I want you to know this is 
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minister. 
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serious nature of the war that 
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in and that they must endure. 
He is simply saying to Timothy, 

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these are orders that I have 
received. 

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I am passing on these orders to 
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These orders have come from the 
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This is the word of God to you. 
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uses that military charge to get
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He said, I want you to remember 
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your life. 
Paul reminding him of this. 

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Why is that important? 
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All callings come duty and 
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Have you noticed that in the 
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people want to claim to be 
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duty and the responsibility of 
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ministry. 
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want people to say, oh, you're a
minister. 

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Oh, you're a pastor. 
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the duty and the responsibility 
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that. 
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So that's what Paul is doing. 
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has a calling from God and that 
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this calling. 
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and responsibility to fulfill 
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By obeying what God has called 
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And how does he know what that 
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Well, he says that there have 
been people who spoke prophecy 

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over him, and so God is simply 
through Paul telling Timothy 

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that you are to fulfill your 
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that was revealed to you when 
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You when they laid their hands 
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He wants Timothy to fulfill his 
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but not only according to God's 
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Word. 
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references the prophecies once 
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please understand this. 
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Scripture, there was in the New 
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the prophet who were the 
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we know later the pastors and 
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also in that mix. 
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referring to the fact that there
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upon Timothy and they spoke a 
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occurred. 
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it possibly could have been 
Silas because he was a companion

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of Paul. 
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It could have been, but it 
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But we know this. 
There was a time where the Word 

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of God was spoken over Timothy 
and they were there, the leaders

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of the church, to witness this 
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were true. 
Paul is reminding him of this 

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fact. 
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took place. 
At his commissioning or his 

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ordination. 
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commissioning or an ordination 
for Timothy. 

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We have record of that in 
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In fact, First Timothy chapter 
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It says this, do not neglect 
your gift which was given to you

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through prophecy when the body 
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you. 
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this ordination service where 
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have laid their hands upon 
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hands was to signify that they 
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proven himself and he had proven
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minister and they were sending 
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canonized word of God, would 
have spoken truth that God 

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revealed to him in that moment 
concerning that specific 

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individual. 
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The pages of Scripture are no 
less and no more the Word of God

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than what that prophet spoke 
over him on that day of his 

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commissioning. 
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multiple prophets, because we 
can see that there were multiple

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prophecies, they would have 
revealed exactly what it was 

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that Timothy was called to do 
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And Paul is simply saying this 
Remember back to your 

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ordination. 
Remember back to your 

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commissioning. 
Service what was? 

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Spoken to you about the role 
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gospel ministry in your 
lifetime. 

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Second Timothy chapter one, 
verse 6, Paul obviously 

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participating there. 
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reason, I remind you to fan into
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in you through the laying on of 
my hands. 

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He's saying this when I was 
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revealed that God was 
specifically gifting you as he 

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specifically gifted me as the 
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He is now gifted you as a pastor
to his churches so that you will

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be an effective minister. 
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Speaking of in this 18th verse 
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And Paul is recounting this so 
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so that he will regard it, so 
that he will cherish what was 

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spoken of by the word of God. 
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speaks, he speaks. 
The word of God. 

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So there, that would have 
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Now we know this. 
We have Scripture, and Scripture

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in the writings that we're 
reading today, give us clear 

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instructions on what the man of 
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church is supposed to do. 
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Epistles now. 
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these things were not yet 
finished. 

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They were not yet, as we would 
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in Scripture. 
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And so because they are, we 
don't have to have some 

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prophetic word to know what our 
role as ministers is. 

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We see that we can look at the 
role that he is defining for 

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Timothy here. 
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that role is the same for. 
All who would be pastors in the 

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Church of Christ. 
But he wants them to remember 

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that so that he can obey God's 
calling. 

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Sometimes it's good for pastors.
I can speak for myself, to go 

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back and to remember that day 
where God called you to gospel 

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ministry and to know that this 
is not some invention of your 

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own mind. 
This is not something that you 

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would have desired to do on your
own. 

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But you know that you were 
commissioned specifically by God

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to do this task. 
I can tell you 100% that if God 

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wouldn't have confirmed over and
over and over to me that I am 

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called to do this, I would have 
quit a long time ago. 

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I tell people this quite 
frequently. 

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I know that God called me 
because every time I've thrown 

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in the towel, He always throws 
it back. 

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And I'm encouraged by his Spirit
to get back into the arena and 

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continue on with the work that 
He has called me to do to 

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fulfill His Commission for my 
life, obeying God's calling. 

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But not only is he instructing 
Timothy to obey God's calling on

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his life and fulfilling his 
Commission. 

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He's also telling him to offer 
yourself to God's campaign. 

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I want, I want you to see what 
he means here when he says what 

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he says again, using those 
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fighting. 
He says, I give you this 

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instruction in keeping with the 
prophecies once made about you 

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so that by following them you 
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He's encouraging Timothy to keep
offering yourself to God's 

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campaign, to keep fighting the 
good fight. 

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Let me just explain to all of 
you who are here who have said 

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yes, we're ministers. 
You're a minister in your home, 

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you're a minister in this 
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your workplace. 
I hope you are ministers in all 

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of those areas. 
Let me remind you about the 

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campaign that we are to. 
Offer ourselves to it is the 

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good fight of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

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Let me make it ever so clear 
that this is a lasting campaign.

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It will not end until the King 
of Kings and Lord of Lords comes

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and finally brings peace. 
This is the good fight. 

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It's a war. 
It's not simply a small, 

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insignificant, fleeting battle. 
We don't fight a little battle 

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and then we're done and then we 
go home and we enjoy the spoils 

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of that battle. 
No, we fight an entire lifetime 

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and we spend our entire life 
ministering for the gospel and 

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the Lord who gave himself for 
us. 

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And then and only then when that
is over, we go before him. 

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And with him we enjoy eternal 
reward because we fought the 

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good fight faithfully. 
And so please, so that you can 

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understand this, know what Paul 
is not saying. 

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He's not saying Timothy this is 
a Sprint. 

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He's saying, Timothy, this is a 
marathon and I want you to fight

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the good fight. 
I have seen many people claim to

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be called to ministry to Sprint 
out of the gate very quickly, 

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the blast out of the blocks like
they're they were on fire in 

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their rear end, only to face the
first obstacle in their ministry

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and to turn back and to throw 
into the towel. 

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Never ever participate in 
ministry again. 

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They were sprinters. 
Paul is not calling Timothy to 

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be a sprinter. 
He's saying Timothy, this is a 

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marathon. 
The good fight is a lasting 

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fight and it will last an entire
lifetime. 

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Please know that many people 
forget that in ministry, don't 

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they? 
They fight momentarily until. 

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If things get rough till they 
have to endure, persevere 

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through something. 
No church. 

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Please understand we are to 
offer ourselves to God's 

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campaign completely. 
This is a war that will last our

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entire lifetime. 
Paul here thinking about his son

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in the ministry and in the 
faith, and he wants him to 

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finish well. 
He doesn't want him just to 

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blast out of the blocks and have
a good start. 

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I've seen lots of people at the 
Olympics blow out of the blocks 

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and have a great start, only to 
lose because they didn't. 

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Endure to the end, he's saying. 
I don't want that. 

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You know. 
That was Paul's objective in his

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life too. 
That's why at the end of his 

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life he could say this. 
He says in Second Timothy 

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chapter 4 verse seven, he says I
have fought the good fight. 

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At the end of his race, I've 
fought the good fight, I've 

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finished the race, I've kept the
faith and he goes on, he says. 

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And now because of this, there 
is a reward in heaven that's 

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kept for me. 
I'm going to receive that 

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Stefano's crown, that Victor's 
crown, because I truly endured 

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and fought in God's campaign my 
entire life. 

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This campaign requires that a 
lifelong commitment to ministry 

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to devote every ounce of energy 
that you have to the Lord Jesus 

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Christ for every single second 
that you were blessed with on 

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this earth. 
I have in my lifetime witnessed 

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many who claim to be called by 
God only to quit and then never 

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return. 
I simply say this to them. 

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You were never called because 
when God calls us, he calls us 

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to fight the good fight all of 
our days. 

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It's a lasting campaign, 
acquiring A lasting commitment. 

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Paul had witnessed those in his 
lifetime that had walked away as

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well. 
In fact, he names them by name 

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here in this text. 
He names Hymenaeus and 

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Alexander, and he's going to 
call them by name. 

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For all you people who say, 
well, you shouldn't call false 

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teachers and false prophets and 
heretics by name, well, you take

454
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,440
that up with the apostle Paul. 
He wanted people to know who 

455
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,200
they really were. 
He doesn't mean any ill will 

456
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,120
toward them. 
He grieves for their souls. 

457
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,400
He hates it. 
He he's once served the Lord 

458
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,600
alongside of them, potentially 
even leading some of them to 

459
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,120
Christ. 
Now he has to say that they've 

460
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,120
defected from the faith. 
That's the whole reason for this

461
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:21,640
charge. 
He doesn't want Timothy to 

462
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:27,200
defect from the faith. 
So he's reminding him to obey 

463
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,960
God's calling and to offer 
yourself to God's campaign 

464
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,640
lifetime. 
Not being a quitter, not 

465
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,120
retreating, not. 
Surrendering, not retiring, and 

466
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:39,360
you're in this for the long 
haul. 

467
00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:44,560
As as many days as God has you 
on this earth, you are in the 

468
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,160
ministry. 
Count the cost, know what was 

469
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,720
said about you, and then live 
it. 

470
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:57,160
Unlike Hymenaeus and Alexander, 
unlike by leaders who we see in 

471
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,640
Second Timothy chapter 2 verses 
17 and 18. 

472
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,240
It says he's wandered away from 
the truth. 

473
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:07,000
He had apostatized once serving 
the Lord, professing faith in 

474
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,080
Christ. 
What about Dimas, Paul's friend,

475
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:15,560
Second Timothy, chapter 4, verse
10, where Paul says for Demas, 

476
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,920
because he loved this world, has
deserted me, he's deserted me 

477
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,080
and he's gone to Thessalonica, 
he's left me, he's left me 

478
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,640
stranded, he's left the 
ministry, and it's all because 

479
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,080
he loved this. 
World. 

480
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,320
How don't you know that? 
Grieve the heart of Paul, those 

481
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,040
close associates. 
When you look at the life of 

482
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,680
Demas, every time you see him 
prior to this, he's serving 

483
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:39,800
alongside of the Apostle Paul. 
Now he's abandoning the faith 

484
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,040
because he loves the world. 
Is that not what scripture says?

485
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,960
If you love the world, the love 
of the Father is not in you. 

486
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,600
Paul had to realize that this 
demons who had been there 

487
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,400
serving alongside of him was no 
different than Judas who served 

488
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:59,240
alongside of Jesus in the 11. 
He was never truly saved, but 

489
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,560
all he had was a love for the 
world, not a true love for God. 

490
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,000
He speaks then of a jealous and 
homogeneous and there in second 

491
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,360
Timothy chapter one. 
It says about these two that 

492
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:17,520
with them, many others in Asia 
deserted Paul and the gospel 

493
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,280
there in chapter 2, second 
Timothy, chapter one, verse 15. 

494
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,320
So Paul knew what it was like to
have his companions who would 

495
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,400
desert him and ultimately desert
Christ and the gospel. 

496
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,760
Paul didn't want this for 
Timothy. 

497
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,000
He wanted Timothy to fulfill his
calling, never forgetting that 

498
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,680
he was called by God and it was 
the will of God as revealed by 

499
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,640
the Word of God through the 
prophets that he was to do that 

500
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,200
which God had commissioned him 
to do. 

501
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:56,960
Never quitting, never wondering,
never retiring, ever becoming 

502
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,520
lazy and apathetic, but enduring
in the good fight all of his 

503
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,200
days. 
So he first tells him there in 

504
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,640
verse 18, fulfill your 
Commission. 

505
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,880
Again, if we want to make it 
short, let's just call it the 

506
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,960
work. 
Here's the work. 

507
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,760
You fulfill your Commission, the
work that has been given to you 

508
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,960
by God. 
Secondly, faithfully contend. 

509
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,640
His charge to Timothy was 
faithfully contend. 

510
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,200
This is the warfare. 
He's already told him to fight 

511
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,480
the good fight. 
Now he's going to tell him how 

512
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,600
to do this. 
How do you engage in this war? 

513
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,400
How do you engage in this fight?
He says in 19. 

514
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,720
The first part. 
Holding on to faith and a good 

515
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,680
conscience, holding on to faith 
and a good conscience, telling 

516
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,320
him exactly how he is to do 
this. 

517
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,480
Pay attention to this because 
we're going to see that 

518
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,280
Hymenaeus and Alexander did the 
opposite of this. 

519
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,760
Paul's going to make that clear.
So he's going to war and Timothy

520
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,600
of some important things in 
fighting this war. 

521
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:02,160
The warfare consists of holding 
on to faith better put holding 

522
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,240
on to the faith first he begins 
with teaching him to persevere 

523
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,120
in faith. 
Hebrews chapter 12 one the 

524
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,640
author of Hebrews, who many 
happen to think is the apostle 

525
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,920
Paul, though there's no clear. 
Evidence of that, I would 

526
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,840
probably lean that way in most 
everything that I read there. 

527
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,560
We can't say it for sure, he 
says There in Hebrews chapter 12

528
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,800
he says therefore. 
Since we are surrounded by a 

529
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,320
great cloud of witnesses, let us
throw off everything that 

530
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,240
hinders and the sin that so 
easily entangles, and let us run

531
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,040
with perseverance the race 
marked out for us. 

532
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,600
Here again, talking about that 
marathon that has been marked 

533
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,520
out for the servants of Christ 
to hold on to the faith and to 

534
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,640
persevere in the faith no matter
what we face. 

535
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,080
Looking back at all the 
witnesses right there in Hebrews

536
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,680
Chapter 11, he gives witness 
after witness after witness who 

537
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,640
persevered in faith and he says,
look back on them and you 

538
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,760
persevere just the same. 
Here he's telling Timothy hold 

539
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,840
on to the faith just as you've 
been instructed, trusting Christ

540
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:18,360
instead of what you see. 
There have been many a man 

541
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,720
claimed to be called to ministry
only to quit the ministry 

542
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,240
because he took his eyes off of 
Jesus and he put his eyes on 

543
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:30,080
other things. 
If you're ministering for the 

544
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,160
Lord, I would encourage you to 
do this. 

545
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,080
Fix your eyes on Jesus, the 
author and the perfector of your

546
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,520
faith. 
Don't look to anyone or at 

547
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:46,520
anyone or anything else as in 
ministering for the Lord Jesus 

548
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,320
Christ. 
In this war that we're in, there

549
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,640
is a constant, constant attack 
that is trying to cause you to 

550
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,680
be discouraged so that you can't
bring God glory through the 

551
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,640
ministry that He has given to 
you. 

552
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,400
Keep your eyes fixed on the Lord
Jesus Christ. 

553
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,560
Don't be of those who shrink 
back and are destroyed. 

554
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,920
That's what the author of 
Hebrews says. 

555
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,080
In Hebrews chapter 10, verse 39,
he says, but we do not belong to

556
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,240
those who shrink back and are 
destroyed, but to those who have

557
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,960
faith and are saved. 
If a person has faith, Let me 

558
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,480
make this very clear. 
You're saved because the faith 

559
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,880
has you. 
And so you were holding on to 

560
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,720
that which is holding on to you.
We know that that is Christ and 

561
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,600
faith in Christ and Christ 
alone. 

562
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,880
That is the one true faith. 
Paul reminding Timothy, hold on 

563
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,360
to that faith. 
Hold on to the faith that you 

564
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,520
once professed. 
Don't give in to the temptations

565
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,080
of focusing on anything else 
other than Christ, trusting in 

566
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:54,240
God's promises even over any 
human perception, doing us take 

567
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,720
God at His word, because aren't 
there things that we can 

568
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,040
perceive that will get us 
discouraged and disillusioned 

569
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,080
very quickly in ministry and in 
life? 

570
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,159
Amen. 
I'll go ahead and admit that 

571
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,560
you're still trying to figure 
out if you're a minister or not.

572
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,840
But in ministering to others, 
whether that's to your wife or 

573
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:21,400
to your kids or to your husband,
whether it's pastoring a church,

574
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,320
there are many things that try 
to cause you to get your eyes 

575
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,840
off of God in His Word. 
And sometimes if we continue to 

576
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,679
look with just our human 
perception, we'll find ourselves

577
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:42,080
discouraged, depressed. 
Instead, what we're to do is 

578
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,120
we're to take God at His Word. 
Why don't you know that all of 

579
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,679
His promises are yes and Amen in
Christ Jesus? 

580
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,679
That the God who's called you to
ministry and promised to sustain

581
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:55,199
you with His power through His 
Spirit is faithful to do 

582
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,320
everything that he has promised 
to do. 

583
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,520
That's why he wants Timothy to 
look back. 

584
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,640
Remember the promises that were 
spoken over to you from God 

585
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,160
through the prophets. 
Hold on to these thing. 

586
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,280
Continue to fight the fight, 
holding on to the faith. 

587
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,800
Persevering in that faith 
because God is faithful. 

588
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,000
Paul knew this and he understood
this because he writes this to 

589
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,360
Titus and Titus chapter 1 and 
another one of the pastoral 

590
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,280
epistles that we will be 
covering in our study. 

591
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,440
He says this in verse 1 of 
chapter 1. 

592
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,520
Paul is servant of God and an 
apostle of Christ Jesus to 

593
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,200
further the faith of God's elect
and their knowledge of the truth

594
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,200
that leads to godliness in the 
hope of eternal life, which God,

595
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,040
who does not lie, promised 
before the beginning of time. 

596
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,160
I find it interesting there that
he made sure that Titus knows 

597
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,400
that God does not lie, that 
everything that he has spoken 

598
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,720
will come to pass, just as he 
has said that it would even 

599
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,760
eternal life for those who by 
faith trust in Christ. 

600
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,040
So Paul teaching Timothy to hold
on to the faith, never to 

601
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,280
regress, but the clinging to it 
as the only hope that any of us 

602
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,280
have hold on to the faith. 
Not only does he want him to 

603
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,400
persevere in the faith as he 
holds on to it, he also wants 

604
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:20,560
him to contend for the faith, to
contend, to literally fight for 

605
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,960
the faith. 
The gospel of the Lord Jesus 

606
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:28,000
Christ, the one true faith, just
as scripture says, 1 Lord, 1 

607
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,640
faith, one baptism. 
He says Timothy, fight for this.

608
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,920
As you are warring in the good 
fight. 

609
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,720
Don't forget what you are 
contending for. 

610
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,720
You're not contending for your 
reputation, your well-being, 

611
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,040
your own success. 
You are contending for the 

612
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,880
gospel of Jesus Christ. 
Jude writes to the church and 

613
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,480
Jude, he says in verse three 
there dear with friends, 

614
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,800
although I was very eager to 
write you about the salvation we

615
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,680
share, I felt compelled to write
and urge you to contend for the 

616
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,520
faith that was once for all 
entrusted to God's holy people 

617
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,440
to contend for the faith. 
Why? 

618
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,520
Because the true faith was 
coming under attack from false 

619
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,920
teachers who had infiltrated the
church. 

620
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,840
Paul is reminding Timothy, you 
are called and you are 

621
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:24,160
commissioned to faithfully 
contend for this faith, the 

622
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,480
fight against everyone and 
everything that comes against 

623
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,280
the gospel. 
Philippians chapter one, verse 

624
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,840
27. 
Paul says, whatever happens, 

625
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,520
conduct yourself in a manner 
worthy of the gospel of Christ. 

626
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,640
And then whether I come and see 
you or only hear about you in my

627
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,280
absence, I will know that you 
stand firm in one spirit 

628
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,360
striving together as one for the
faith of the gospel. 

629
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:54,440
It is God's will that the church
and her ministers contend for 

630
00:37:54,440 --> 00:38:00,480
the faith, the one true gospel, 
fighting for that faith, all of 

631
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,680
their days fighting for that 
faith and fighting for that 

632
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,360
faith according to the Word of 
God, doing it just as the Word 

633
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:14,320
of God has commanded us to do. 
So we look at this charge to 

634
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,880
faithfully contend. 
He says faithfully contend as 

635
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,560
you're holding on to the faith. 
And then he says this, having a 

636
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,600
good conscience. 
Oh, this is important for 

637
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:33,040
leaders because a leader cannot 
lead effectively beyond his 

638
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,120
conscience, and if his 
conscience is good and his 

639
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:42,080
conscience is clear, his 
leadership will be effective. 

640
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,120
He says having a good 
conscience. 

641
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,280
What does this mean? 
Well, it's what Paul was 

642
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,720
striving for in his own 
ministry, as we see clearly in 

643
00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:55,280
Acts chapter 24 from his mouth. 
He says in verse 16 so I strive 

644
00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:02,120
always to keep my conscience 
clear before God and man. 

645
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,600
So when we talk about. 
Having a good conscience in this

646
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,560
fight that we are fighting, this
war that we are in, this 

647
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:14,200
campaign that we are enduring. 
We can't leave out the 

648
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,680
importance of a clear conscience
and first and foremost, a clear 

649
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,840
conscience toward God, meaning 
that you are examining your life

650
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,520
constantly. 
Is there anything in my life 

651
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,400
that is offensive to my God? 
Are there any of His commands 

652
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,080
that I am breaking in Commission
or omission? 

653
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:38,880
Am I sinning in any way that is 
offensive to a holy God? 

654
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,360
I want to confess those things, 
and I want to repent of those 

655
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:43,280
things. 
Why? 

656
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,000
So that my conscience will be 
clear. 

657
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,520
It's hard for you to minister if
your conscience isn't clear. 

658
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,440
Why? 
Because if your conscience isn't

659
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,880
clear the whole time you're 
trying to lead others, you feel 

660
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,440
like a hypocrite and the enemy 
is right there whispering to 

661
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,800
you, you hypocrite. 
How can you minister to others 

662
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,040
when you can't get this area of 
your life in order? 

663
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,000
And so a clear conscience is 
very important. 

664
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,120
Psalm 24, the psalmist said it 
like this. 

665
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,240
And Psalm 24, Who may ascend the
mountain of the Lord, who may 

666
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:20,400
stand in his holy place? 
The one who has clean hands and 

667
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,320
a pure heart, who does not trust
in an idol or swear by a false 

668
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,480
God. 
He is saying this, that the one 

669
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,760
who really communes with God is 
the one who has not only clean 

670
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,360
hands, but some of us are OK 
with just having clean hands, 

671
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,960
aren't we? 
I'm not actively doing anything 

672
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,480
sinful, but what are your 
motives that are going on in the

673
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:44,160
depths of your heart? 
Because he says, Who can ascend 

674
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,400
the mountain or the hill of the 
Lord? 

675
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,560
He who has clean hands and a 
pure heart. 

676
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,560
What is he talking about? 
He's talking about a good 

677
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,480
conscience, a clear conscience. 
You know why? 

678
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,120
Because if your conscience isn't
clear, you feel like you can't 

679
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,680
even fellowship with God, don't 
you? 

680
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,440
And so it's important that we 
see what Paul is telling Timothy

681
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,000
here. 
That is important as you fight 

682
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,160
this war, this good fight of 
faith, that your conscience 

683
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:14,280
toward God remains clear that 
everything you do, you test your

684
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,680
motives and you test your 
methods. 

685
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:23,480
And you see, are those motives 
and are those methods pure when 

686
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,040
I lay them next to the truth of 
the Word of God? 

687
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,400
Are they pure when I lay them 
next to God's holy commands in 

688
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,120
his Word? 
Are my motives pure and is my 

689
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:40,920
conscience clean? 
We're talking here about a 

690
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:45,480
person of conviction. 
Oh, some of you remember a time 

691
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,080
where we would talk about people
and we would refer to them as 

692
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,320
God fearing people of 
conviction. 

693
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,800
You know what you were saying? 
These people are concerned with 

694
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,640
having a clear conscience. 
They want to do right according 

695
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,560
to what the word of God says, 
and they want to have a clear 

696
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,120
conscience toward God, pure in 
their motives, pure in their 

697
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,720
methods, living life in 
obedience to what God has 

698
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,640
commanded. 
There's a second aspect to that 

699
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,400
as prescribed by Paul and what 
he says. 

700
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,400
He wants his conscience to be 
clean there in Acts chapter 24 

701
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,280
before God and man. 
He not only wants a clear 

702
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,960
conscience toward God, he wants 
to be right with his fellow 

703
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,280
brothers. 
He wants to be right with his 

704
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,120
neighbors. 
He wants to keep a pure 

705
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:39,920
testimony in the eyes of men. 
He wants to do right by others. 

706
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,960
He wants to treat them. 
How a gospel minister ought to 

707
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,480
treat people. 
He wants to show them kindness 

708
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,480
and gentleness and love and 
mercy. 

709
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,520
He wants to display the fruit of
the Spirit in his life and all 

710
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,520
of his dealings with man. 
And it's very important. 

711
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,040
It's very important because man 
is not like God. 

712
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,600
God is omniscient. 
He knows everything. 

713
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,760
He knows if your conscience is 
truly clean before him, if you 

714
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,480
have a good conscience toward 
him, and your motives and your 

715
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,160
means toward him are all OK. 
God knows that. 

716
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,960
But man can only go by what he 
actually sees. 

717
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,480
We're required not only to have 
a good conscience before a holy 

718
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,440
God, we are also called to have 
a good conscience and a clean 

719
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,080
conscience before man. 
Treating them right, doing right

720
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,240
to them, living out what Jesus 
tells us to do in Luke chapter 

721
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:34,520
6, verse 31, where He says do to
others as you would have them do

722
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:35,880
to you. 
You want to have a clean and a 

723
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,720
clear conscience toward men. 
Do what Jesus said in regard to 

724
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,760
men. 
Treat your neighbor how you want

725
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,480
to be treated. 
I know some of you would say 

726
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,080
that's old fashioned. 
That's something that my grandma

727
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,680
used to say or my grandma used 
to teach. 

728
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,320
Mine did too, and I'm so 
thankful for that. 

729
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,880
That's probably the first Bible 
lesson that I ever learned as a 

730
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:59,480
child to do to others how I want
them to do to me, to treat 

731
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,200
people the way that I want to be
treated. 

732
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:03,520
I can remember it like it was 
yesterday. 

733
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,760
Me and my cousin, who we love 
one another, we were like 

734
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,000
brothers. 
We would have our spats from 

735
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,960
time to time punch each other in
the nose. 

736
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,400
That's just what boys do. 
Moms don't freak out about it. 

737
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:20,360
They'll be friends in a minute. 
But I remember getting a fight 

738
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,600
with my cousin, and my grandma, 
being the Christian woman that 

739
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,440
she was, use this as an 
opportunity to teach me the 

740
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,920
principles of the Word of God 
and what Jesus Christ himself 

741
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,800
taught. 
Because my instinct was if 

742
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,040
somebody punches me in the nose,
what, I'm going to punch them 

743
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,760
back in the nose. 
Now, if you've ever been punched

744
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,080
in the nose, I hope that you 
haven't. 

745
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,440
I can't say that about myself. 
I can't say that I have not 

746
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:43,800
received. 
Punches in the nose and I have 

747
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,840
not given them. 
If you've ever been hit in the 

748
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,640
nose, it hurts. 
I don't care how big you are, it

749
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:53,040
hurts. 
Me and my cousin had a spat. 

750
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,920
He'd punched me in the nose. 
Of course I went in there with 

751
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,280
bloody nose, screaming and 
hollering as soon as the blood 

752
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,000
was stopped. 
You know what I wanted to do? 

753
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,680
Go punch him back in the nose. 
My grandma used it as an 

754
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,640
opportunity. 
Use it as an opportunity to say,

755
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,480
hey, do you like getting punched
in the nose? 

756
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:12,760
Well, no, I don't like getting 
punched in the nose. 

757
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,040
It hurts and I'm bleeding all 
over the place. 

758
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,200
Well, the Lord said to do unto 
others as you would have them do

759
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:24,560
unto you. 
My grandmother didn't make me 

760
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,840
not go in there and punch my 
cousin in the nose. 

761
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,880
She simply taught me what the 
Lord Jesus taught in this word 

762
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,520
and in his ministry on this 
earth. 

763
00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:38,640
And you know what? 
My whole attitude toward my 

764
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,000
cousin changed. 
I, I really just wanted to be 

765
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,560
his friend. 
I wanted to get along. 

766
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:44,960
You know what? 
I don't want him punching me in 

767
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,200
the nose. 
And so you know what? 

768
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,800
I'm not going to punch him back 
in the nose. 

769
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,440
We went in there, we let bygones
be bygones. 

770
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,480
And the next thing you know, we 
were playing with Ninja Turtles 

771
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,480
in the Dirt, GI Joe or something
like that. 

772
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,360
That's why I say all that to say
that the Lord has given us 

773
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,640
insight into doing right unto 
others. 

774
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,480
Do to others as you would have 
them do unto you. 

775
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,000
Want to have a good conscience 
toward men? 

776
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,800
Treat them the way that you want
to be treated. 

777
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,760
That's not an old fashioned or 
outdated message. 

778
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,880
It's just something that's not 
being preached from the pulpits 

779
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,480
in this country any longer. 
That's what Jesus Christ 

780
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,960
preached. 
Treat people the way you want to

781
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,120
be treated. 
You want a company? 

782
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,680
Treat your employees the way you
would want to be treated as an 

783
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:27,880
employee. 
If you contract out to people, 

784
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,440
treat that customer the way that
you would want people to treat 

785
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:35,040
you if you were a customer. 
You want your wife to be nice to

786
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,960
you. 
Talk nicely to your wife. 

787
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,680
You. 
Want to be a friend? 

788
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:42,000
Have friends. 
Be a friend to others. 

789
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:48,040
It's as simple do to others as 
you would have them do to you. 

790
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,000
That'll allow you to have a 
clear conscience toward others 

791
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,960
doing what's right before men. 
It's important that we do this. 

792
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:56,280
Why? 
Because we have a testimony to 

793
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,720
guard, don't we? 
Paul's definitely thinking about

794
00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:02,120
this. 
He wants Timothy to guard the 

795
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,080
testimony that which he has been
entrusted with, the testimony of

796
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,840
the Lord Jesus Christ. 
Peter wanted the same. 

797
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:09,920
If you remember when we were 
studying in first Peter, he said

798
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,400
it like this in chapter 2, verse
12. 

799
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,000
He said Live such good lives 
among the pagans that though 

800
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,120
they accuse you of doing wrong, 
they may see your good deeds and

801
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,120
glorify God on the day he visits
us. 

802
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:21,640
He says live such good lives 
among the pagans. 

803
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,920
Have your conscience so cleared 
toward even the unbelievers that

804
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,280
even though they want to talk 
bad about you, they can't talk 

805
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,400
bad about you, and in the end 
they'll actually see Christ in 

806
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:31,480
you. 
What a testimony. 

807
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,760
That is, Paul says, have a good 
conscience as you fight this 

808
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:44,320
fight, as you endure this war, 
have a clear conscience toward 

809
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:45,720
God and clear conscience toward 
others. 

810
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,320
All knew that holding on to the 
true faith and a clear 

811
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,800
conscience was the only possible
way to be an effective minister 

812
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,560
for the long haul. 
I say that to all of you. 

813
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,360
Hopefully you want to be 
effective minister for the long 

814
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,960
haul, that you realize you have 
signed up for a lasting 

815
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,880
campaign. 
In that lasting campaign. 

816
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,400
I hope your desire is to be 
effective for the long haul. 

817
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,120
It's sad to see so many times 
going back to the fact that 

818
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,000
parents are ministers. 
Parents will minister to their 

819
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,480
children, bringing them up in 
the church, teaching them even 

820
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,760
about Christ and the Scriptures.
Then, as those children grow up 

821
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,640
and they leave the house, the 
parents. 

822
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:32,320
For some reason they forget that
they're called to endure in that

823
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,920
ministry called marriage and 
even up in years they'll 

824
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,480
divorce, causing great confusion
to their grown children. 

825
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,320
Why wouldn't my parents who've 
been married 40 or 50 years get 

826
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,760
a divorce? 
This is the most foolish thing I

827
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,440
have ever seen. 
Now it's very common in our days

828
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,680
if you haven't looked around. 
And noticed why is that? 

829
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,320
Because they didn't endure the 
long haul. 

830
00:48:57,240 --> 00:49:01,000
You know what? 
All of my days as a husband, I 

831
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,160
have a duty to minister to my 
wife. 

832
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,640
In all of her days she has a 
duty to minister to me and she 

833
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,680
has to be clear in her 
conscience and ministering to me

834
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:16,840
in light of God and in light of 
me and I must do the same. 

835
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,320
Am I ministering to my wife in a
way? 

836
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:21,800
That it pleases God and am I 
ministering to a wife and in a 

837
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,880
way that it pleases my wife? 
Well, you thought ministry was 

838
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,760
just for the pastors, just for 
the elders. 

839
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,360
Oh, how you were sadly mistaken.
What would happen when the 

840
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,440
church actually realized that 
we're all ministers, we all have

841
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,080
duty and responsibility and the 
God-given callings that we have 

842
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:42,000
on our lives, we actually would 
take the word of God and we hear

843
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,360
the charge that's being given 
here to ministers and that we 

844
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:49,920
would faithfully contend in this
warfare, holding on to faith, 

845
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,960
having a good conscience. 
Paul wants this for young 

846
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,440
Timothy. 
He wants this for the church at 

847
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,600
Ephesus who Timothy would be 
leading and he makes that very 

848
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:04,360
clear. 
Thirdly, you see the fight 

849
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:10,360
against catastrophe is the next 
charge, the next aspect and 

850
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,480
element of the charge that he's 
giving Timothy. 

851
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,240
We could call this the warning. 
So we've seen Paul make it very 

852
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:19,120
clear that Timothy, there's work
to be done. 

853
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,360
You're called. 
It has been confirmed by the 

854
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:26,400
prophets when we laid our hands 
upon you at your ordination and 

855
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,440
you are to faithfully contend 
there is a warfare that is going

856
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,600
on. 
There's a war for you to be 

857
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,520
involved in a campaign that's 
never going to cease. 

858
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,760
There's also a warning that one 
exists. 

859
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,640
The fight against catastrophe 
that could happen. 

860
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,960
He says in 19 B. 
Some have rejected these and 

861
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,120
still have shipwrecked their 
faith. 

862
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:51,120
What are these? 
These are what the faith and a 

863
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,800
good conscience, he says. 
Some have rejected those things.

864
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,280
They didn't listen to me. 
They didn't adhere to my 

865
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,280
teaching. 
They didn't hear my warnings and

866
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,640
so have shipwrecked their faith.
And he's going to name them, he 

867
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,760
says. 
Among them are Hymenaeus and 

868
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,280
Alexander. 
These are real people that 

869
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,480
existed in the church, he says, 
whom I have handed over to Satan

870
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,040
to be taught not. 
To blasphemy. 

871
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,200
What an interesting statement. 
It's a kind of confusing 

872
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,400
statement for the American 
church because what you've done 

873
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,600
inadvertently, as you put the 
Lord and Satan on the same 

874
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,760
plane, you've actually made them
Co equals and they're just 

875
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,520
fighting this war and hopefully 
the good side wins. 

876
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,400
No, Satan is under the sovereign
control of the Lord God 

877
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,440
Almighty, always has been. 
Always will be. 

878
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,360
And so when we see things like 
that, don't let those things 

879
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,720
startle you. 
We'll explain them thoroughly so

880
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:40,840
that you know what he's saying. 
Well, what Paul is doing here in

881
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:46,320
this charge is he's teaching 
Timothy how to avoid catastrophe

882
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,600
in the faith, what he calls a 
shipwrecked faith. 

883
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:56,160
He's saying, I want you to avoid
any discipline or judgment that 

884
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,920
would come from God through the 
power of Satan. 

885
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:06,720
You say what? 
Yes, Satan is not above God. 

886
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:11,560
Satan must have submit to God in
every aspect and he is not able 

887
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:16,040
to do anything unless a 
sovereign God decrees it and 

888
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,520
allows it. 
So he doesn't want Timothy to 

889
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,800
fall into this. 
Trap as Hymenaeus and Alexander 

890
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:29,160
had. 
This is not something new to the

891
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,160
Apostle Paul or to what he 
taught. 

892
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,520
In fact, in First Corinthians we
see this exact same thing in 

893
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,760
chapter 5 in the first verse 
where he's dealing with a case 

894
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,880
of incest inside of the 
Corinthian church. 

895
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,880
As if orgies and sexual 
immorality weren't enough and 

896
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,040
eating food sacrificed to idols,
now we have in the Corinthian 

897
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,480
church incest. 
He says in verse 5 it's actually

898
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,200
reported that there is sexual 
immorality among you and of the 

899
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,720
kind even the pagans do not 
tolerate. 

900
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,760
A man is sleeping with his 
father's wife. 

901
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,160
That would be his stepmother. 
If you're following along, he 

902
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,080
says, and you are proud, he said
you're OK with it. 

903
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,120
Shouldn't you rather have gone 
into mourning and have put out 

904
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,920
of your fellowship the man who 
has been doing this? 

905
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:13,240
He said. 
Shouldn't you be grieving for 

906
00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:16,400
his soul, putting him out of 
fellowship for the purpose of 

907
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,480
potential repentance and 
restoration? 

908
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,120
He goes and he says, for my 
part, even though I am not 

909
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,360
physically present, I am with 
you in spirit as one who is 

910
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,600
present with you in this way. 
I have already passed judgment 

911
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,440
in the name of our Lord Jesus on
the one who has been doing this.

912
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,760
Now for all you people who like 
to throw out, judge not lest you

913
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:36,440
be judged. 
Paul says I've already passed 

914
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,280
judgment on this man. 
What's the difference? 

915
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,560
He's passing judgment on someone
who. 

916
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:44,120
Professes to be a Christian. 
He's already passed judgment on 

917
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,480
him. 
He says, So when you are 

918
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,240
assembled, and I'm with you in 
spirit, in the power of our 

919
00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:53,640
Lord, Jesus is present, hand 
this man over to Satan for the 

920
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:58,800
destruction of the flesh so that
his spirit may be saved on the 

921
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,400
day of the Lord. 
What is he saying? 

922
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,360
He's saying turn him over to 
Satan and what we will find out 

923
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,080
when he's turned over to Satan 
and he suffers that suffering 

924
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,200
and that persecution that comes 
from the evil. 1 If he is a true

925
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,480
believer, he will tuck his tail 
and he will run to the feet of 

926
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,240
the cross in repentance 
immediately. 

927
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,960
If he is not, he will continue 
on his way and his apostasy and 

928
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,320
he will confirm that he is 
apostate and never really knew 

929
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,240
Christ at all. 
So that's the same thing that 

930
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:29,400
he's saying here, that Hap is 
happening to Hymenaeus and 

931
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,680
Alexander. 
But what he's telling Timothy is

932
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,280
he's saying this. 
I don't want this to happen to 

933
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,720
you. 
Hold on to the faith and hold on

934
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,840
to a good conscience so that it 
doesn't happen to you. 

935
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,640
Another instance of it. 
Satan being used by a sovereign 

936
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,280
God to accomplish his sovereign 
will as the apostle Paul in his 

937
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:52,480
life as an apostle. 
In Second Corinthians chapter 12

938
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,520
verse 7 Paul says this. 
He says to keep me from becoming

939
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,600
conceited because of the these. 
These surpassing great 

940
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,320
revelations there was giving me 
a thorn in my flesh, a messenger

941
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:07,240
of Satan to torment me. 
Even the apostle Paul says that 

942
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:10,080
I have a thorn that is a 
messenger of Satan that is 

943
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,120
constantly tormenting me. 
Now, there are theologians who 

944
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,360
have argued about what this is 
for eons. 

945
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:16,800
I'm not going to get into that 
today. 

946
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:21,960
But what I can tell you is it is
a thorn and it is because of a 

947
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:26,240
messenger of Satan, God allowing
this to happen and Paul coming 

948
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:28,840
to this conclusion that God has 
allowed it to happen to keep him

949
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,360
humble. 
It is the Lord's continual 

950
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,600
discipline in his life. 
Are you thankful for the Lord's 

951
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,680
continual discipline in the life
of the believer? 

952
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:42,840
I'm thankful that if need be, He
will send an agent of Satan to 

953
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,320
torment me, to keep me humble, 
so that I will be all that 

954
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:50,000
Christ wants me to be, so that I
will persevere and I will hold 

955
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,880
on to the faith. 
And I will have a clear 

956
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,400
conscience before God and man, 
and I will finish the race 

957
00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:01,720
faithfully. 
Luke chapter 22 The Lord himself

958
00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:09,160
testifying now God sovereignly 
uses Satan to achieve the 

959
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:14,600
purposes and the will of God. 
Luke 22 we see the Lord say to 

960
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,600
Simon Peter. 
He says in verse 31, Simon, 

961
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,080
Simon, Satan has asked to sift 
all of you as wheat, but I have.

962
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:25,240
Prayed for you Simon, that your 
faith may not fail and when you 

963
00:56:25,240 --> 00:56:29,400
have turned back, strengthen 
your brothers. 

964
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,280
I love how the Lord words that 
there He lets him know you're 

965
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,920
the real deal. 
You're the real deal because 

966
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,800
you're going to turn back now. 
Satan is going to sift all of 

967
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,080
you as wheat. 
Now in that sifting, please 

968
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,840
understand this. 
Judas was sifted out as an 

969
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:48,480
apostate, not a true believer, 
but he lets Peter know on the 

970
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,640
front end. 
Peter, you're not those who 

971
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,720
shrink back and are destroyed. 
You are those who believe and 

972
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:56,320
who are saved. 
And when you come back, you're 

973
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,720
coming back. 
Strengthen your brothers. 

974
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,760
He's saying this. 
I'm going to let Satan do this 

975
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,800
to you. 
But there is a greater good and 

976
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,760
there is a greater cause. 
Why? 

977
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,240
Because when Satan is unleashed,
he's going to be used by God to 

978
00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:11,640
reveal things. 
What did he do in this 

979
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,160
situation? 
He revealed that Peter was a 

980
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,760
true follower of Christ. 
He revealed that Judas was not 

981
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,280
in the lives of Hymenaeus and 
Alexander. 

982
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,920
Paul says I'm going to turn them
over to Satan to be taught not 

983
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,920
to blasphemy. 
Does Paul know anything about 

984
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,560
blaspheming? 
Yes, he does. 

985
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,120
He was once a blasphemer, and 
you know what? 

986
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:33,480
Through his blasphemy, he 
realized how offensive to God he

987
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,480
really had been. 
And God used that in his life to

988
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:40,080
bring him to Christ. 
And So what Paul is wishing for 

989
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,760
Hymenaeus and Alexander is not 
I'll will toward them. 

990
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,280
You know what he's. 
Wishing that they come to 

991
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,520
repentance and they return to 
the Lord, and that it reveals 

992
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,960
that they truly are believers 
who have just drifted off into 

993
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:57,360
error and that they're not 
really apostate as Judas was 

994
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,840
only pretending, only trying to 
deceive people. 

995
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:04,360
Not a true believer at all. 
So why do I tell you all of 

996
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,000
these things? 
I want you to understand what 

997
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:07,920
Paul is saying when he says in 
verse twenty. 

998
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:10,920
Among them are Hymenaeus and 
Alexander, whom I am, whom I 

999
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,560
have handed over to Satan to be 
taught not to blasphemy. 

1000
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,240
Why is this important in the 
context of him writing to 

1001
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,920
Timothy? 
He doesn't want Timothy to fall 

1002
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:24,160
into the same trap or have to 
face the same things. 

1003
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:29,480
Paul doesn't want Timothy or 
anyone else for that matter, to 

1004
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,920
suffer the same fate. 
So what is he doing? 

1005
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:37,800
He's teaching him how to keep 
this catastrophe from happening,

1006
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,760
how to guard your yourself 
against a shipwrecked faith. 

1007
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,560
Now, if anyone knows anything 
about shipwrecks, the apostle 

1008
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,400
Paul, who was in multiple 
shipwrecks, would understand 

1009
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,960
about shipwrecks. 
Paul knew this. 

1010
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,480
Once a ship runs aground, it's 
useless. 

1011
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,360
It's just going to sit there and
it's going to get battered and 

1012
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,720
the safest thing for us to do is
try to get in a lifeboat and try

1013
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,400
to get the Malta as fast as we 
can because when as this as this

1014
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,320
ship crashes against the rocks 
and against the waves, we are. 

1015
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,640
All but dead. 
So he understands when he uses 

1016
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,160
the term shipwreck what it means
to be shipwrecked, and he's 

1017
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,840
using it as a metaphor to 
describe the faith of Hymenaeus 

1018
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,360
and Alexander. 
And he doesn't want Timothy to 

1019
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,840
shipwreck his faith as they 
have. 

1020
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,560
I'll see the concern of the 
father here. 

1021
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:29,120
You know a good father, when he 
sees a young person throwing 

1022
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:34,200
their life away, he doesn't act 
like that person's not throwing 

1023
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,040
his or her life away. 
He takes his teenage kids out of

1024
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:38,840
the same age, you say. 
You see little Johnny over 

1025
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,040
there. 
He's gotten into drugs, he's 

1026
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,680
gotten into alcohol. 
He's doing some pretty stupid 

1027
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:44,520
stuff. 
Don't fall into that trap 

1028
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:46,800
because he's headed down a 
dangerous Rd. 

1029
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,680
That's what a good father is 
going to do for a son. 

1030
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,760
Here we see Paul as that good 
father to his son Timothy, 

1031
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,400
saying don't fall into this 
catastrophe. 

1032
00:59:56,480 --> 01:00:00,480
It's dangerous, but how would 
one fall into that? 

1033
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:07,520
As Hymenaeus and Alexander fell,
he's teaching Timothy to refuse 

1034
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:11,640
satanic doctrines. 
Hymenaeus and Alexander fell 

1035
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:15,320
into false doctrine. 
They fell into unsound teaching 

1036
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,640
and began to teach these things,
therefore shipwrecking their 

1037
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,680
faith. 
He doesn't want Timothy to fall 

1038
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,760
into these satanic doctrines. 
He said, well, pastor, that's 

1039
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,440
kind of harsh. 
Do you really think that false 

1040
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:29,200
doctrine is satanic? 
Yes, I do. 

1041
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,480
Not only do I think that, but 
Paul confirms that in fact, in a

1042
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,240
few chapters over in chapter 4, 
this is exactly what he says 

1043
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:37,360
about false teaching and false 
doctrine. 

1044
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,000
He says in chapter 4 verse one 
the spirit clearly says that in 

1045
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:45,400
the later times some will 
abandoned the faith and follow 

1046
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,840
deceiving spirits and things 
taught by demons. 

1047
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:54,640
Paul is confirming there that 
the heresies that we see that 

1048
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:57,880
are being taught by these false 
teachers in this church and even

1049
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:02,200
in our day, those are doctrines 
of demons that they are 

1050
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,480
teaching. 
Anything that contradicts true 

1051
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:10,320
orthodox Christianity and is 
heretical is a doctrine of 

1052
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,320
demons. 
They're demonically designed to 

1053
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:17,680
lead you not toward Christ, but 
to lead you away from Christ. 

1054
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,880
That's the whole point of them. 
And what he's saying is because 

1055
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,560
Hymenaeus and Alexander didn't 
guard themselves and contend for

1056
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,080
thee faith. 
Having a good conscience, 

1057
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,440
they've been attacked and 
they've now fallen to the 

1058
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:35,840
satanic doctrines. 
They are involved in heresy. 

1059
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:41,600
And he's warning Timothy, don't 
embrace unsound doctrine or you 

1060
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,880
will suffer the same fate as 
Hymenaeus and Alexander. 

1061
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,480
They turned from the true faith.
They followed false teachings. 

1062
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:51,480
They gave in to the desires of 
their flesh. 

1063
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:56,000
They refused to hold on to the 
one true faith that in Jesus 

1064
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,280
Christ. 
And he's letting Timothy know 

1065
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,880
this. 
You're not above it. 

1066
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,600
You're not above it. 
Oh, let's not forget that there 

1067
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:09,600
once was a Judas who served 
alongside of the very disciples 

1068
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,520
and apostles of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who at one time seemed 

1069
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:17,040
as if he was doing all the right
things, but he had the wrong 

1070
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,520
heart. 
He was an unbeliever only 

1071
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:23,040
pretending. 
Paul doesn't want to assume. 

1072
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,680
That Timothy is going to make it
without any encouragement to 

1073
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,080
hold on to the true faith. 
And so we use this Hymenaeus and

1074
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:33,840
Alexander as an example for him 
to avoid the catastrophe that 

1075
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:38,120
could potentially await him. 
The good leader will always do 

1076
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,800
that, won't they? 
They'll warn those who they are 

1077
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,600
ministering to about the dangers
that are out there. 

1078
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,080
I'm thankful on Thursday nights 
we as men here at Key Life 

1079
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,680
Fellowship have embarked on a 
journey through just exploring 

1080
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,600
heresy. 
Heresies that are ancient in 

1081
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,840
nature, but that continue to 
thrive even in the church today.

1082
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,800
And boy, how enlightening that 
is. 

1083
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:01,840
Why do we do that? 
It's not to pick on the 

1084
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:05,560
heretics. 
We do that so that you will be 

1085
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:10,000
equipped to fight the good fight
and to stay the course and to 

1086
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,440
keep the faith and to finish the
race. 

1087
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:14,480
That's what Paul wants for 
Timothy here. 

1088
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:19,600
He wants him to refuse satanic 
doctrines, but also to resist 

1089
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:24,440
sinful desires. 
Simonnaeus and Alexander, LED 

1090
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:28,080
away by these and enticed by 
these doctrines of demons, 

1091
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,440
quickly fell to the desires of 
their sinful nature. 

1092
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:36,400
Perhaps they wanted to be 
somebody they embraced teaching 

1093
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,400
that maybe caused other people 
to think that they had some kind

1094
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:43,800
of unique knowledge or wisdom. 
Well, even in this day that Paul

1095
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:46,400
is addressing the church, there 
was the early signs of 

1096
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:49,040
Gnosticism. 
Perhaps Hymenaeus and Alexander 

1097
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,520
received some knowledge that 
nobody else had and they were 

1098
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:54,120
somehow trying to impress people
so that they would they would 

1099
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,760
see them as, as spiritual 
leaders, Follow them. 

1100
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:02,560
Instead of following the apostle
Paul and the true gospel, he's 

1101
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,920
telling Timothy you got to 
resist these sinful desires, to 

1102
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,800
intentionally fight against 
doing anything that would 

1103
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,920
violate your conscience, 
anything that would bring 

1104
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:18,840
reproach upon your ministry or 
upon your life so that you can 

1105
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:23,960
be fully effective. 
In your work for Christ, he's 

1106
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:26,960
simply telling Timothy to strive
to keep your conscience clear 

1107
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:33,040
before God and before man. 
As you fight in this war, do it 

1108
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:37,520
faithfully so that you don't 
wreck your faith. 

1109
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:41,120
Become shipwrecked like 
Hymenaeus in Alexander. 

1110
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:46,800
He's saying discipline yourself.
Discipline yourself to resist, 

1111
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:51,520
mortify the flesh and all the 
desires to be accepted by man, 

1112
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,680
to be popular in the thoughts of
man. 

1113
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,240
Stay true to sound doctrine and 
sound teaching. 

1114
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:03,280
Hold on to the one true faith, 
the one true gospel. 

1115
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,920
Do it with a clear and a good 
conscience, bringing glory to 

1116
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:12,480
God. 
Paul knew that Timothy wasn't 

1117
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,120
above it. 
Just as I'm not above it. 

1118
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:20,000
Just as you're not above, just 
as you're not above, just as any

1119
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,760
of us are not above it. 
Did you know Paul himself knew 

1120
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:27,040
that he wasn't above it as well.
Paul never wanted to become an 

1121
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:32,640
apostate shipwreck his faith 
become the laughingstock of 

1122
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:34,520
Christianity. 
In fact, he says in First 

1123
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,880
Corinthians Chapter 9 verse 27, 
he says no. 

1124
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:40,400
Instead of giving in to the 
desires of my flesh, he said no.

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01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,600
I strike a blow to my body and 
make it my slave, so that after 

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01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:47,840
I have preached to others, I 
myself will not be disqualified 

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01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:48,920
for the prize. 
You know what he did? 

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01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:53,320
He took his ministry seriously. 
He said I'm going to fight even.

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01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,520
If I if I have to. 
Fight against myself. 

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01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:58,280
He's metaphorically speaking 
here so that we understand the 

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01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,520
picture. 
He is beating his self into 

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01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:03,200
subjection. 
He is disciplining his self so 

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01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:07,000
that he does not become a 
castaway disqualified, so that 

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01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,480
his faith is not shipwrecked 
like that of Hymenaeus and 

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01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,160
Alexander. 
And Paul doesn't think he's 

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01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,600
above it, and he knows that 
Timothy is not above it. 

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01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,360
And he's writing to him and he's
encouraging him and he's 

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01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:22,440
charging him to stay true. 
Refuse Satanic doctrine. 

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01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:27,520
Resist your sinful desires and 
be a faithful minister of the 

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01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:32,080
gospel of Jesus Christ. 
Unlike those who have defected, 

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01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:38,080
namely Hymenaeus and Alexander, 
so Paul had seen the shipwrecked

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01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:45,480
faith of others and he cared so 
much about Timothy that he was 

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01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:52,240
not going to let him go. 
Unwarned Church, as your pastor,

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01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,680
I love you so much that I'm not 
going to let you go. 

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01:06:55,840 --> 01:07:01,440
Unwarned, Be warned. 
So that you. 

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01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:04,960
Don't follow in the footsteps of
Hymenaeus and Alexander. 

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01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,400
Guard yourself against satanic 
doctrines. 

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01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:11,960
Resist your sinful desires as 
you minister to others and as 

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01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:14,760
you're used by God for His glory
and for the gospel. 

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01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:20,160
Paul wanted to charge Timothy 
and remind him that until this 

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01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:25,320
life is over, we're all in 
danger. 

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01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:30,600
We're all in danger, humanly 
speaking, of a shipwrecked 

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01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,200
faith. 
Don't shipwreck your faith. 

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01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,640
Prove that you are a true 
believer. 

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01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,080
Don't be like the American 
church. 

1156
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:41,840
Or they based everything on a 
profession. 

1157
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,720
Yeah, At one time they professed
to be a believer. 

1158
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,000
So I think since they've passed,
they're in heaven. 

1159
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:49,480
Yeah, but they lived like hell 
their entire life. 

1160
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,880
And they actually defected from 
faith in Jesus Christ and said 

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01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,160
they didn't believe. 
But yeah, When they were seven, 

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01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:56,440
though, they said they did. 
Yeah. 

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01:07:56,440 --> 01:08:00,360
But when they were 21 and they 
deconstructed from the faith and

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01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,120
they said I no longer believe, 
they proved that they never 

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01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:09,400
believed. 
Perseverance is the mark of a 

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01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:12,280
true believer. 
Perseverance is the mark of the 

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01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:16,240
true minister. 
He who endures to the end 

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01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:19,600
according to the Lord Jesus will
be saved. 

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01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:25,240
Those who do not endure to the 
end will prove that they are 

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01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:30,479
apostate. 
Paul saying, Timothy, I don't 

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01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:34,359
want to have to hand you over to
Satan to see what you really 

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01:08:34,359 --> 01:08:37,680
are. 
Continue to show what you really

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01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:41,760
are so that that doesn't happen.
A man of faith and a good 

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01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:45,399
conscience, a faithful minister 
of the gospel. 

1175
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:52,040
So what does this mean to us 
taking a 2000 year old letter 

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01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:55,279
that an apostle writes to a 
pastor? 

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01:08:55,279 --> 01:08:59,560
How can this help us in our day?
There's a lesson here for all 

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01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,359
ministers. 
By your own admission, you all 

1179
01:09:03,359 --> 01:09:05,720
realize that if you're in 
Christ, you are a minister. 

1180
01:09:08,359 --> 01:09:11,040
I pray that you heed the warning
and see the charge that has been

1181
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:14,960
laid out for us today. 
You're ministering to someone. 

1182
01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:18,240
Are you ministering well? 
Are you ministering according to

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01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:22,200
the word of God? 
All here holding Timothy 

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01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:27,120
accountable by giving him this 
charge and 2000 years later that

1185
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:29,000
same charge holding us 
accountable. 

1186
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:32,479
I'm thankful for it. 
I don't want to be turned over 

1187
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:36,479
to Satan. 
Find out who I am. 

1188
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,040
I want to fight the good fight, 
as Paul said. 

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01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:47,359
I want to finish my course. 
I want to keep the faith at the 

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01:09:47,399 --> 01:09:50,640
end of this war. 
I want to hear those words. 

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01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:52,240
Well done, that good and 
faithful servant. 

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01:09:53,319 --> 01:09:58,080
Let that mean something to all 
of you who claim to be servants 

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01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:01,040
of Christ. 
That should be our objective. 

1194
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:05,360
That should be our motivation. 
That should be our eternal goal 

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01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:14,280
to the unbeliever. 
Before you can ever minister to 

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01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:19,280
anyone, you must surrender to 
the ministry of Jesus Christ. 

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01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,360
That was a ministry of 
reconciliation according to what

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01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:26,160
the the apostle Paul taught. 
What do I mean by that? 

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01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,880
It's Jesus Christ who came with 
the ministry of reconciliation. 

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01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:31,760
Is he who came to this earth and
who offered himself as a 

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01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:35,160
sacrifice on a cross. 
Paying the debt that we as 

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01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:39,080
sinners owe so that we could 
then be reconciled to God. 

1203
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:42,080
He who knew no sin became sin so
that we might become the 

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01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:44,920
righteousness of God. 
Meaning this, that those who 

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01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,200
believe in Jesus Christ, who 
trust in His sacrifice of 

1206
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,240
atonement as the only hope that 
they have for the forgiveness of

1207
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,840
sin, who surrendered to him as 
Lord and Savior, repenting of 

1208
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:58,560
their sin and their unbelief, 
and turning by faith to Jesus 

1209
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,920
Christ. 
Only those can be reconciled to 

1210
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:05,320
God. 
It is the ministry of Jesus 

1211
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:08,520
Christ, and until you are 
reconciled to God through the 

1212
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:12,720
ministry of Christ, you can't 
minister to anyone else. 

1213
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:20,080
If you're an unbeliever here 
today and you're a husband, you 

1214
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:21,840
can't rightfully minister to 
your wife. 

1215
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,080
If you're a wife, you can't 
rightfully minister to your 

1216
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:31,520
husband, fathers, mothers, you 
can't minister to your children.

1217
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:33,760
Dad, you can't lead your family 
effectively. 

1218
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:36,320
Why? 
You've not yet been born again. 

1219
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,400
You've not yet been reconciled 
to God through the ministry of 

1220
01:11:39,480 --> 01:11:41,720
Jesus Christ. 
And until Jesus ministers to you

1221
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:46,320
personally, and I pray that He 
will today, I pray that He opens

1222
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:48,360
your eyes to the fact that you 
are a Sinner and you are in 

1223
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:52,720
desperate need of a Savior. 
And that that Savior came and he

1224
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,840
died on a cross outside of 
Jerusalem by His own will. 

1225
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,600
And He gave himself for all who 
will believe and trust in him. 

1226
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,640
He was buried. 
And on the third day he rose 

1227
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:05,040
again, showing that He is the 
giver and the sustainer of life,

1228
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:09,240
and that He can give new and 
eternal life to all who trust in

1229
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,480
Him. 
I pray today that Jesus would 

1230
01:12:11,480 --> 01:12:17,720
show himself to you in that way,
causing you to desperately cry 

1231
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:22,640
out to Him in humility, calling 
on the name of Jesus. 

1232
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,520
For whosoever shall call upon 
the name of the Lord, the Bible 

1233
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:29,520
says they shall be saved. 
Call on Jesus today and be 

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01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,920
saved. 
Be reconciled unto God, and then

1235
01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:40,360
and then and only then be the 
minister that Christ desires for

1236
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,400
you to be. 
Let's pray together. 

1237
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:44,480
Father, in the name of Jesus, we
thank you for your word. 

1238
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,000
We thank you for the challenge. 
We thank you for the charge. 

1239
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,280
We thank you for the 
encouragement and the insight. 

1240
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:58,080
Or let us not be like Hymenaeus 
and Alexander. 

1241
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:06,040
Let us not shipwreck our faith, 
but let us do what we have been 

1242
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,600
instructed in Your Word to do 
today. 

1243
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:12,680
Let us fulfill the Commission 
and the calling that you have on

1244
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:17,480
our lives as ministers by the 
power of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

1245
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:22,240
Let us faithfully content as we 
fight this war all of our days. 

1246
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,920
Lord, let us be aware and to 
fight against the catastrophe 

1247
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:31,560
that potentially awaits us. 
Lord, let us fight against sound

1248
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:34,840
doctrine, satanic and demonic 
schemes. 

1249
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:40,880
Let us resist the sinful desires
of our own flesh so that we can 

1250
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:48,160
hold on to the faith with a good
conscience and bring you glory. 

1251
01:13:48,440 --> 01:13:50,800
As we ministered others. 
We pray and we ask these things 

1252
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,280
in the mighty name of Jesus. 
Amen. 

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01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,880
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