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All the all of the men that are 
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to preach for us tonight or 
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Bibles out and what he's coming.
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men gone, I thought it'd be 
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husbands or wives, submit 
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But that's not what I'm going 
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So we're not we're going to look
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gives us about a month heads up,
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sooner. 
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was just asking the Lord what, 
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and is that we're sitting down 
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We're looking at our hold fast. 
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appropriate just to refresh our 
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I didn't on purpose. 
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what he preached on the vision 
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didn't want to know because if 
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just that's the way it worked 
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So anyway, let's turn to Second 
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We'll start there. 
I'm just going to read the first

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13 verses. 
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as fast as Pastor Simeon you 
know he was that that guy could 

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that guy could book reading the 
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chapter 1 Paul an apostle of 
Jesus Christ by the will of God 

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according to the promise of life
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Timothy, my dearly beloved son, 
grace mercy and peace from God 

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the Father and Jesus Christ our 
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I thank God, whom I serve from 
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conscience, that without ceasing
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prayers night and day, greatly 
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mindful of thy tears, that I may
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to remembrance the unfeigned 
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dwelt first in thy grandmother 
Lois and thy mother Eunice. 

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And I am persuaded that in Thee 
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remembrance, that thou stir up 
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thee by the putting on of my 
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For God hath not given us the 
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and of love, and of a sound 
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Be not thou therefore ashamed of
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of me his prisoner. 
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afflictions of the Gospel, 
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who hath saved us and called us 
within holy calling, not 

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according to our works, but 
according to His own purpose and

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grace, which was given us in 
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began, but is now made manifest 
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our Savior Jesus Christ, who 
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brought life and immortality to 
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Where? 
Whereunto I am appointed A 

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preacher and an apostle and a 
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which 'cause I also suffer these
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Nevertheless I am not ashamed, 
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and am persuaded that he is able
all he's able to keep that which

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I have committed unto him 
against that day. 

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Hold fast the form of sound 
words which thou has heard of me

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in faith and love, which is in 
Christ Jesus. 

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And that'll be our basically our
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But I was just thinking about 
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I I like you'll warf more movies
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And I think about like the time 
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fighting, they fought with, you 
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And so back in Second Samuel. 
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real quick. 
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23, it's talking about David's 
mighty men. 

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These be the names of the mighty
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Tachmanite that sat in the seat,
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same as Adino, the Eznite. 
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800, whom he slew at one time. 
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son of Dodo the Yahoo height, 
one of the three mighty men with

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David. 
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defied the Philistines that were
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in the middle of Israel were 
gone away. 

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He arose and smote the 
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weary and his hand clave unto 
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And the Lord brought a great 
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He was holding on with a a 
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So different meanings of the 
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with hold fast means completely 
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So I can just picture that with 
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combat with that sword, his hand
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just having to peel his fingers 
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fast. 
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weapon go. 
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That was his protection and his 
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So but anyway, the that is 
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giving to Timothy, I think in in
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this is Paul's last words that 
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4, Second Timothy, it says in 
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But watch thou in all things 
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of an evangelist, make full 
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For I am now ready to be 
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departure is at hand. 
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I have finished my course. 
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serious and sober because he 
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Timothy as his last message to 
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And Timothy being a good 
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a good and close friend. 
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He, he listened, He wanted to 
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to say. 
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listener. 
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And that's something we all need
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He traveled with Paul, he sat 
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his life and he heard the pure 
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apostles lips. 
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don't water it down, don't trade
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Hold fast. 
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this from my phone because I 
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see where hold fast is in the 
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including our our text verse 
first job, my righteousness, I 

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hold fast and typically it's 
hold fast. 

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It's in a positive manner where 
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righteousness, holding fast to 
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But Jeremiah on the other hand, 
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of Jerusalem slidden back by a 
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They hold fast deceit they 
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So there's holding fast on to 
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holding fast on to the wrong 
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And we don't want to be that 
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to sin. 1st Thessalonians 521 
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that which is good. 
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Timothy 113 Hebrews 36. 
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house, whose house are we, if we
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rejoicing of the hope firm unto 
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And then he was 414 Seeing then 
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that is passed into the heavens.
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hold fast our profession. 
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fast the profession of our faith
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faithful that promised it. 
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Revelations where Jesus speaking
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fast till I come. 
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So Paul preached that Jesus 
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definitely want to be following 
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to Timothy? 
What was he telling Timothy to 

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hold fast? 
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says hold fast the form of sound
words which thou has heard of me

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in faith and love, which is in 
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Hold fast the form of sound 
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The phrase hold fast, we already
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tightly, to retain firmly, never
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It's it's it's active. 
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doing. 
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being lazy or just drifting and 
not doing anything with what 

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you've been given. 
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besides the for this form of 
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I was thinking of a form, as 
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out when you're going to pour 
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you want the cement to look a 
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those forms have to be just 
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And so when you put that cement 
in there, it hardens, you remove

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the form, but that sidewalk is 
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be. 
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stick with that and holding, 
holding a form of sound words, 

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then we're going to be 
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we'll be, we'll be doing what 
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So Paul's teaching is very, very
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It's not his opinion. 
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So it's it was clear and a 
definite path like like that 

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following the form of for 
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My illustration there, sound 
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wholesome or healing words. 
These are teachings that produce

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spiritual health, not sickness. 
They lead to godliness and not 

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error. 
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pure doctrine of the gospel. 
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wanted to be clinging to holding
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death, burial, and resurrection,
about salvation by grace through

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faith. 
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Paul was teaching through his 
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the Scriptures, the holiness of 
God, the reality of judgment and

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eternal life. 
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Christian say, but there's also 
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the unsaved. 
In verse 14 says that good thing

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which was committed unto thee 
keep by the Holy Ghost, which 

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dwelleth in us. 
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Timothy with a good doctrine 
given by the Holy Spirit and it 

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was passed from Paul to Timothy,
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next person to to the next 
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We've been given the true gospel
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perfect word of God in the 
Scriptures and we are to pass 

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that on. 
So I think about that and to, 

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you know, our children, we need 
to be passing that on to our 

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children so that they can pass 
it on to their children and 

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future generations so that we 
have what's happened for the 

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last 2000 years, just a 
perpetuation of the gospel going

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forward. 
And then so we know what we're 

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all to hold fast to, how are we 
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And that our verse tells us hold
fast the form of sound words 

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which thou has heard of me in 
faith and love, which is in 

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Christ Jesus. 
Hold fast in faith and love 

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which is in Christ Jesus. 
Paul doesn't just say hold fast,

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he tells, he tells Timothy, he 
tells us how in faith we hold 

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the truth with sincere trust in 
the Lord Jesus. 

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So our our faith is in the Lord 
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That's our first believing faith
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And then it's our our faith in 
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our Christian life. 
It's not a dry intellectual 

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knowledge. 
It's believing the truth with 

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all our hearts, trusting Christ 
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If you've never trusted Christ 
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us that today is the day of 
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So really some of the younger 
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Wednesday night trusted the Lord
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But some of these younger kids 
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It's something that as parents, 
you talked with them and deal 

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with them and, and the Holy 
Spirit will lead you and 

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hopefully them to to the saving 
knowledge of the Lord Jesus 

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Christ. 
So in faith and in love, we hold

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it with genuine love for Christ 
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others. 
So we love as a Christian, we 

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love him because he first loved 
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The Bible tells us, and but we 
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And that's part of, I think, 
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families so that they we can 
perpetuate the gospel, but then 

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sharing it with others that are 
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And that's I'm telling you, 
that's a hard thing for me to do

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because I don't know. 
You just see the wickedness of 

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the world if you watch the news 
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it's like this is such a wicked 
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horrible. 
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they're horrible. 
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be better at that. 
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love, we don't hold fast to 
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strength or cleverness. 
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relying on His power, abiding in
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in US and through us. 
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me, of whom are jealous and 
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The Lord give mercy unto the 
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offered fresh me, and was not 
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and found me and the Lord. 
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verse 15 thou this thou knowest 
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be turned away from me, of whom 
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well, and he wanted to share 
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prepared. 
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against bulls and sheep clothing
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against those that are outside 
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him. 
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strength to do that and not fall
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learned from Paul. 
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where we have the pressures of 
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churches that have gone away 
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the, the true word of God and 
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work up spiritual spirituality 
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what we've all talked about. 
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about that many times having a 
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people in, but you're not 
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crowd and maybe make money 
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church ministry. 
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like they call biblical truth 
hate speech and we be we need to

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be able to stand against that 
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scripture and fit modern 
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relevant like being the cool guy
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up here. 
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and personal trials that make us
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finances or health or whatever 
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If we let go of sound doctrine, 
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becomes powerless. 
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believers become unstable, and 
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power in our proclamation. 
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gospel, if we don't have the 
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we've lost that, then we're not 
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that gospel in a way that it 
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But when we hold fast, we stand 
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storm, guiding others to safety.
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a church, a lighthouse guiding 
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And we, I think our church, you 
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encouraging us to be that 
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And we are out here with the 
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knocking on doors. 
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room, we'll have a bus ministry.
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that day. 
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It brings a lot of excitement to
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the buses. 
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What's the practical 
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Know the Word of God, read, 
study, and memorize Scripture. 

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Second Timothy 2:15. 
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these verses, but I'll read a 
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Second Timothy 2:15. 
Says Study to show thyself 

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approved unto God, a Workman 
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rightly dividing the word of 
truth. 

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And second Timothy 3:15 it says 
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known the Holy Scriptures, which
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salvation through faith, which 
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So Timothy was taught by his 
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Scriptures and he knew them from
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So that's important that we know
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it. 
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memorizing the Bible as I'm 
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used to be. 
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week. 
I'm like, man, how many verses 

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to say and I look at the date 
and the last when was the last 

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time you remember you said a 
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month ago? 
I really need to work on that. 

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You know, I take the brain 
supplements and everything. 

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It just doesn't doesn't doesn't 
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Believe and obey. 
Let the truth shape your life. 

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Live it out in faith and love. 
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Titus 38 says this is a faithful
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that thou affirm constantly that
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might be careful to maintain 
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These things are good and 
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So believe and obey doing the 
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as Christians teach and pass it 
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Talked about that earlier 
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in Deuteronomy chapter 6. 
Go there. 

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I'm just going to read it when I
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So if you don't get there, sorry
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Here, O Lord, the Lord our God 
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And thou shalt love the Lord thy
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with all thy soul, and with all 
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shall be in thine heart, And 
thou shalt teach them diligently

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unto thy children, and shalt 
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in thine house, and when thou 
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thou liest down, and when thou 
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And thou shalt bind them for a 
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shall be as frontlets between 
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And thou shalt write them upon 
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gates. 
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you go to somebody's house and 
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around. 
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that or the Bible is always 
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house. 
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and a blessing. 
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passing it on, rely on the Holy 
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Spirit's power daily. 
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faithful. 
Help us to hold fast by by 

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having the Holy Spirit's power, 
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costs. 
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gospel just as Paul did. 
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his words. 
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text chapter there. 
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'cause I also suffer these 
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Nevertheless, I am not ashamed 
for I know whom I have believed 

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and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have 

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committed unto him against that 
day and then hold fast, hold 

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fast. 
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hold fast to sound the form of 
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And basically that's the sound, 
the most sound words you can 

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have is from God's Word. 
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the culture, don't want to 
compromise to make our lives 

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easier. 
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empty promises. 
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Hold fast in faith and love that
are in Christ Jesus. 

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Let's pray. 
Heavenly Father, Lord, we love 

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you and we thank you for your 
goodness to us. 

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Thank you for this. 
Just a reminder of our need to 

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hold fast in the truths of your 
word and the truth of salvation 

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that provided by you and in the 
truth of the the importance of 

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sharing the gospel and 
perpetuating it through our 

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families, see our children, our 
grandchildren saved and 

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spreading that to future 
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Lord, I pray you'd help us to do
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I pray you just work in our 
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the week. 
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Belize and we thank you for 
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down there and work. 
Pray that you would just bless 

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the work that they do there. 
Bless the rest of this evening 

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and we thank you for your word. 
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Amen. 
I don't know, it's been several 

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months now, maybe maybe even a 
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There was a Baptist pastor that 
came out and he was pretty proud

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of the fact that he was 
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You guys remember hearing about 
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There's been a few few people 
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and things like that. 
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How did you how do you I'm not 
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He said some of them went out 
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us. 
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So that that's very likely the 
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But how do you grow up in a 
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preached here, good doctrine, I 
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be a pastor yourself and then go
and say, you know what, the 

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Catholic, the Catholic religion.
I think that's, that's the truth

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there. 
You're not holding fast. 

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And I, I was thinking this, you 
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your grandparents house, My 
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lived in Indiana and they lived 
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I was like 8 hours away. 
And every time without failing 

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it, I'm sure everybody that 
doesn't live near their 

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grandparents hears this. 
Every time we saw them. 

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What was their phrase? 
Ma, you're getting so big when 

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you're looking at each other, 
you don't, you don't see each 

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other grow. 
And you, you know, your, your 

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siblings, you don't seem to 
change that much day-to-day. 

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But when you don't see somebody 
for a year and then you see 

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them, there's a big change. 
That's what happens when you 

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don't hold fast. 
You may not see the changes 

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day-to-day, but we pastor has 
said it many times. 

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If you're not going forward, 
what's happening? 

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You're you're going backwards, 
you're backsliding. 

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And Proverbs warns about it. 
The backsliding, that's not 

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hold. 
That's what not holding fast is.

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And so you know, you don't hold 
fast. 

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And I don't mean go to church. 
I mean hold fast. 

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That truth that we've been given
from God. 

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What happens? 
Somebody sees you a year later 

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and they're shocked at how far 
you've drifted, right? 

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We may not see it ourselves, but
that's what happens when we 

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don't hold fast. 
I think it's very important. 

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We're not passing down. 
He said, mentioned this right at

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the very end that we pass the 
past, this truth down generation

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to generation. 
We're not passing down herbal 

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remedies, right? 
We're passing the truth of the 

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gospel from generation to 
generation to generation. 

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And he says that that good thing
which was committed unto thee, 

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this was not just, you know, a 
recipe that hey, it's not 

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written down. 
So my mom had had some of those.

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I'm sure others have secret, 
secret ingredients and secret 

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recipes that I'll pass down to 
one of my daughters and she'll 

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be the only one that knows it. 
That's not what this is. 

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This is the truth that Christ 
died for our sins. 

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And he says that good thing 
which was committed unto thee, 

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keep it by the Holy Ghost which 
dwelleth in US. 

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That's a really, really powerful
verse fact that we cannot do it 

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by ourselves. 
You're not going to be able to 

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keep that truth and and and hold
fast and do all that on our own.

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Keep it by the Holy Ghost which 
dwell within us. 

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Very important part of that 
verse there. 

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But yeah, that's great, Great 
reminder. 

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But these are things that we do 
on a daily basis. 

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I was just talking to a guy at 
work and he said I can't, I just

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don't want to go to church and 
not know. 

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He didn't grow up in church, but
he said I don't want to go to 

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church and not understand what's
being talked about. 

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So once I kind of have a grasp 
on the Bible, then I'll start 

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going to church. 
And I said, you'll, you'll never

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have a full grasp on the Bible. 
A, if you're not saved, but B, 

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if you don't just start sitting 
under the truth of the word of 

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God. 
But for those of us that are 

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coming to church on Sundays, 
Sundays not enough. 

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You need to be in God's Word 
daily. 

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And we see lots of that in the 
Bible. 

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But so that we can keep that, 
that good thing, we can hold 

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fast to that which was committed
unto us. 

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That's how you you read the 
Bible and you're meditating on 

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it and the Holy Spirit's working
on you. 

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And that's what motivates us and
gets us eager to go out and 

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share it with others. 
We don't have that on our own 

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only through the Holy Spirit and
that, that power that that he 

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gives us will we go out and 
share it with others. 

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And that's how we keep that good
thing that was committed unto 

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us. 
We, we keep it going. 

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Not a religion as this is the 
only true Christianity is the 

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only faith that is not religion.
And that's a, that's a pretty 

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powerful thing. 
There's so many religions out 

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there that are all just man 
made. 

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They're, they're, they are 
trying to perpetuate it because 

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it's not truth. 
They have to keep it, keep it 

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going, keep it exciting because 
it's not true. 

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We have the Holy Spirit that is 
ready to do it through us if we,

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if we let them. 
And so that's a, that's a good 

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reminder and a good challenge to
us, not just to keep it in our 

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hearts or to know what the truth
is, which is why it's so 

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important that, you know, God 
puts us in our own little 

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corner. 
You know the song Brighten the 

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corner where you are? 
I always thought it said right 

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in the corner where you are. 
When I was a kid, I didn't know 

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what the song meant, but 
brighten the corner where you 

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are. 
Most of us will never be in that

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corner, right? 
I forget what school you're at, 

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Brother Paul, but I'll probably 
never even step foot in that 

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school. 
But that's your corner. 

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He'll never meet most of the 
guys at Columbia Gas, but that's

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my corner. 
And we each have our own little 

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corner that we are entrusted to,
to keep, to hold fast and to to 

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give that gospel to those in our
corner. 

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So great reminder. 
Go ahead and stand with me. 

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We'll play a couple verses of 
invitation. 

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And if God has spoken to your 
heart, you come forward and deal

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with Him.