1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,520 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,200 Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,520 County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,920 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,240 He's. Preparing you. 6 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:44,800 He is causing you to be a vessel prepared for the masters. 7 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,080 Use. I don't know what he's going to 8 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:47,720 use. You for I don't. 9 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,240 Know what he has coming around? We can only see to the corner. 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,960 He's the only one that can see around it. 11 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,440 We don't know what he has prepared for us, but. 12 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,880 What we do know? Is that He can prepare us and 13 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,560 use us for great things, even us. 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,720 Do you believe that? Do you believe that God is 15 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,720 preparing you for something good? 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,240 In the mundane and humdrum of life, it can be easy to just get 17 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,000 up, get ready for work, go to work, come home from work, eat 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,920 dinner, veg out and watch Netflix, go to sleep, rinse and 19 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,880 repeat. God in heaven has a greater 20 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,280 purpose for your life. He is preparing you to do what 21 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,920 He's made you to do. And yes, you do have a purpose. 22 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,640 Today, Pastor Lewis invites you to discover that purpose and 23 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,480 take a step of obedience. Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 24 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,360 Book of Second Timothy, Chapter 2, with today's edition of 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,240 Living Waters of Grace. To argue. 26 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,120 And strive about words to no prophet to the ruin of. 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,840 Hears that has. Nothing to do with teaching the 28 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,840 word of God. Profane and idle babbling that 29 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,920 has nothing to do. With the word of God, those. 30 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,520 Things are ungodly, but when we study. 31 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,320 The Word of God and we are. Workmen. 32 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,800 The Bible says we are workmen. With the word of God we study it 33 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,680 just like Paul said a couple verses back. 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,400 That one of the things we are is a. 35 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,480 Farmer A hard working. Farmer and in doing that we have 36 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,000 to make. Sure that we are. 37 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,760 Hard workers getting into the Word of God, spending time with 38 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,280 him in prayer. So that we rightly. 39 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,360 Divide and that word. Rightly divide. 40 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,200 Actually means cutting straight, cutting the word of God. 41 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,160 Straight. We know that farmers cut furrows 42 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,120 straight. A Carpenter will cut a board 43 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,040 straight. We as pastors or as teachers of 44 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:49,320 the Word, are to cut the Word straight, cut it straight, give 45 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,760 it straight. We don't add to it, we don't 46 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,480 take away from it, we don't sugarcoat it, we don't 47 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:02,040 breakdance around sin. We cut it straight, just the way 48 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,800 the Lord gives it to us. And this and this sum, when he 49 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,680 says, Sean, that means to keep away from profane means 50 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:16,840 irreverent, unconsecrated and babbling just simply means empty 51 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,120 chatter, He said stay away from those things. 52 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,080 Because they don't lead. To godliness it leads to more 53 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,720 ungodliness. These things only lead to 54 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,920 arguments bitter arguments bitter. 55 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,600 Debates. And no one comes out of it 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,040 benefiting. No one benefits out of it but 57 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,920 when you teach. The Word of God there should be 58 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,080 a spirit that is. Along with it. 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,160 That will lead. Us to godliness. 60 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,200 It encourages us, it corrects us. 61 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,880 If need. Be it convicts us, but it. 62 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:57,560 Leads us to godliness and then in verse 17, verse 17 here it 63 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:02,000 says and their message will spread like here in my in the 64 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,240 new King James, it says cancer. But in most other versions it 65 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,160 actually uses the term gangrene. And I don't know how many of you 66 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,600 are familiar with gangrene, but it is a very nasty infection 67 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,240 that one can get and you get it from. 68 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,519 A lack of or. No blood flow. 69 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,280 Blood flow that's supposed. To be going to the tissues or 70 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,520 the limbs or organs and when it doesn't. 71 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,600 Go. The tissue dies. 72 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,480 When there's no. Blood flow to the. 73 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,440 Organs or the limbs? Or the tissue. 74 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,320 That tissue dies. And that's what Paul is saying 75 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,880 to to Timothy, that their message. 76 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,080 Will spread like gangrene. It'll spread quickly. 77 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,200 But it is an infection that gets into. 78 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,000 The body of believers. And because there's no life in 79 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,520 teaching error, there's no life in that. 80 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,960 There's no life in teaching heresy. 81 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:56,720 There's no. Life in arguing. 82 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,560 There's no life in any of that. And because of that the. 83 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,080 Remembers the tissue begins. To die the. 84 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,240 Ministry will begin to. Die the life. 85 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,400 Is in the blood, isn't it? So he. 86 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,640 Says Hymenaeus and Philetus. Are of this sort. 87 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,640 They have, you know, they are the ones who were teaching these 88 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,360 things and they were actually saying look at verse 18. 89 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,320 They have strayed from the truth, and they were saying that 90 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,560 the resurrection has. Already passed, so there's been 91 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,520 a lot of error. Teaching in. 92 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,760 Error that has. Come into the churches, even 93 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,240 back in Second Thessalonians we read about. 94 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,240 Where the teachers the false teachers? 95 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,640 Were coming to the Thessalonians and they were basically saying 96 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,360 that the second coming had already. 97 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,680 Passed had already come. Jesus already come. 98 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,080 You missed it, and they stumbled, the people. 99 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,680 And now here they're saying that the resurrection has already 100 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,120 come and they're stumbling, the people. 101 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,120 But that's what. Happens with heresy. 102 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,320 That's what happens with air teaching in air. 103 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,440 You stumble the people. And we know how important the 104 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,320 resurrection is. That is a core. 105 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,360 You know, it's it's a. Core source of our theology. 106 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,520 I mean, without the resurrection we have no. 107 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:07,800 Hope do we? Without the resurrection, we 108 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,320 have no hope. So Paul's saying these. 109 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:12,920 People, you got to. Stay away from them. 110 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,520 But then he says, he gives us that assurance here in verse 19. 111 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,360 He says nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands. 112 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,680 Having this heal, the Lord knows. 113 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,320 Those who are his, the Lord knows those who are here. 114 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,320 The solid foundation stands First Corinthians 311 for no 115 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,960 other foundation can be laid other can anyone lay than that 116 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,600 which. Is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 117 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:44,120 Who is our firm foundation? He is the solid rock Isaiah. 40 118 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,600 and 8. Says the grass. 119 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,400 Withers and the flower. Fades, but the Word of God 120 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,720 stands. First Peter one in 25, but the 121 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,880 word of the Lord endures forever. 122 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,080 And then of course, we all know about Matthew and Seven. 123 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,040 The Story of. Building a foundation on a rock 124 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,080 and building it on the difference of building on a rock 125 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,400 and building it on sand. The foundation that is built on 126 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,160 a rock will stand. That's a wise man who builds on 127 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,840 a rock. And when adversity comes, rather 128 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,760 be rain, wind. Or floods. 129 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:17,840 It can. Beat upon the house, but the 130 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,920 house will stand. If you are built. 131 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,440 On the solid foundation on the truth. 132 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,120 Of God's Word. Not heresy, not someone's ideas, 133 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,880 not someone's thoughts, not someone who wants to argue when 134 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,440 you are built on the truth. Of God's Word. 135 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,000 It is a solid. Foundation and you will stand in 136 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,320 adversity. You won't fall away, you. 137 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,600 Won't deny him. You will stand in adversity. 138 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:43,720 It can keep. You. 139 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,040 So then we go to verse. 19 Let's go to the bottom of 19, it says. 140 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,160 The Lord knows. Those who are his. 141 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,600 And let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from 142 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,560 iniquity, and those. Who are Christ? 143 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,520 Will depart from iniquity. They will not walk in the ways 144 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,880 of the Sinner. They won't walk in the way of a 145 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,400 Sinner. They will depart. 146 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:14,720 From Iniquity back in Numbers chapter 16, back around verse 5, 147 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:20,360 Moses is confronting Cora and those who are in rebellion with 148 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,080 him, and he said tomorrow the Lord are going to show. 149 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,000 Those who are with him, the Lord are going to show. 150 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,280 Those who are his. Tomorrow and then in verse 20. 6 151 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,320 after it was clear. That it was Moses who was the 152 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,799 one that the people should be following. 153 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,559 Because of the rod. That Aaron had. 154 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,360 That actually spouted. A rod that was not connected to 155 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,760 anything, just spouted. And because of that. 156 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,400 The Lord said to them. Get away, those of you who are 157 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,760 with the Lord, get away. From these tents of wickedness 158 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,320 get away from them, and that's. Exactly what, Paul? 159 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,280 Is saying here that everyone who names the name of Christ depart 160 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,040 from iniquity, And then in verse 20 says, But in a great house 161 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,840 there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also wood 162 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,200 and clay, some of honor and some of dishonor. 163 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,400 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter. 164 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,400 He will be a. Vessel of honor sanctified and 165 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:27,120 useful for the Master prepared. For every good work, this is a. 166 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,560 Very encouraging verse here because what it's saying here 167 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,240 basically that in a great. House The church is a great 168 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,600 house. And there's vessels in a church, 169 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,320 just like in your own house you have. 170 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,760 Vessels that you probably brought out. 171 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,000 On for Thanksgiving. Because they were your. 172 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,640 Good China, you know, when company comes over, we bring 173 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,640 this China out, you know? Because that's the good stuff. 174 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,480 Other stuff to use every day. I know myself. 175 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,800 We like to eat off of plate more paper plates you. 176 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,680 Know we don't have. The good stuff out every day. 177 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,040 We eat off of paper plates. Eat. 178 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:06,640 Throw them away, but in every. House there is, vessels there, 179 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:07,880 there are. Vessels of gold and. 180 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,240 Silver, they're good vessels, vessels that. 181 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,520 Stand. They're valuable. 182 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,440 And then there's. Vessels of wood. 183 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,640 And clay, those vessels are not so. 184 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,360 Valuable what Paul is. Saying here is that just like 185 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,720 they're vessels of honor, vessels of gold and silver, 186 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,240 they're vessels of honor because they contain good stuff. 187 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,760 They contain good stuff and because of that. 188 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:32,640 They are vessels of. Honor, but they're. 189 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,040 Also vessels of. Dishonor. 190 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,480 They don't contain good stuff, they contain ungodliness, things 191 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,640 that are contrary. To the word of God. 192 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,120 They are your disapproved workers of God. 193 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,640 And he says. As a result of that, but if that 194 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,160 vessel. Would cleanse himself. 195 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,400 He can. Become a vessel of. 196 00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:00,680 Honor and we cleanse by confessing and allowing the Lord 197 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,160 to cleanse us from the things that are unrighteous in our 198 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,520 life, and we can become. Vessels of. 199 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,920 Honor, we don't have to remain vessels of dishonor. 200 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,080 Don't let the enemy make. You feel guilty about. 201 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,440 Something you've done and make you feel that God can't reach 202 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,640 you now. God can't ever use you again. 203 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,360 That is the biggest lie. To Christians, and unfortunately 204 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,720 there's Christians who will tell other Christians things like 205 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,920 that. You've blew it. 206 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,920 You've blown it. God can't use you anymore. 207 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,880 You've lost that position. God loves each and every one of 208 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,320 us. And he desires for us. 209 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:42,520 To turn back to Him and we can become vessels of honor again. 210 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,800 We can repent and we can turn and become cleansed again. 211 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,760 It's the blood of Jesus. Christ that has cleansed us from 212 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,560 all sin. Is what the Bible says. 213 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,040 So then he goes on and he says, and be sanctified. 214 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,200 That means be set apart and useful for the master. 215 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:09,600 Prepare for every good work and. This preparing is important to 216 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,880 me because there are things that I go through sometimes and I 217 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,440 wonder, Lord, why am I going through this? 218 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,840 What is going on? What is going on in my life? 219 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,240 Why am I going through this? Why? 220 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,800 It just seems like it just seemed like things will keep 221 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,160 coming sometimes. You get stretches of that. 222 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,240 I don't know if anyone else can relate to that, but sometimes 223 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,040 you just get stretches of things that keeps coming time after 224 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,400 time and time again. And I'm realizing now that God 225 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,640 is preparing you. For a good work he's. 226 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:40,040 Preparing you he is. Causing you to be a vessel 227 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,040 prepared for the master. 'S use. 228 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:44,280 I don't know what he's going to use. 229 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,640 You for I. Don't know what he has coming 230 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,080 around. We can only see to the corner. 231 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:49,720 He's the only one that can see around it. 232 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,280 We don't know what he has prepared for us, but what? 233 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,440 We do know. Is that He can prepare us and 234 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,000 use us for great things, even us. 235 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:02,160 And then he goes on into verse 22. 236 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,440 He says flee also youthful lust. You know, flee those things. 237 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,560 Those things are not of servants of honor or vessels of honor. 238 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,160 That's for vessels of. Dishonor. 239 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,120 Flee those things. Flee sexual immorality. 240 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,920 Flee the love of money. Flee power. 241 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,320 But also flee talking about profane and idle babblings. 242 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,240 Flee from that. Flee from teaching and error. 243 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,920 Flee from striving. Over words, flee. 244 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,520 From those things, flee from always wanting to be right. 245 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,000 Flee from that, but then you have to pursue. 246 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,120 So God. Gives us three things here that 247 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,520 we need to do. We need to flee, pursue and 248 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,560 avoid. We know what to flee, but now he 249 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,880 tells us what we need. To pursue. 250 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,240 And we need to pursue faith. We need to pursue love. 251 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,040 We need to pursue. Peace. 252 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:53,240 And that. Righteousness is righteous. 253 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,200 Righteous. Standing right, standing with 254 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,720 God. Let's pursue that. 255 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,400 Pursue faith or faithfulness. Pursue love, that agape love. 256 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,440 That unconditional. Love that love like Jesus Christ 257 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,480 loves. It's very difficult in our flesh 258 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,960 to love that way. We usually love those who love 259 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,840 us. We usually love those who. 260 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,920 Do good things to. Us or for us, we love those who. 261 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,920 Act the way we want them to act, and then when they don't, all of 262 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,600 a sudden we don't love them as much and we know the. 263 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:23,360 World. The world. 264 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,240 'S love is very conditional. They'll walk out of a marriage 265 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,400 because they'll just say I just don't love you no more. 266 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,600 I just don't love you no more. Very conditional. 267 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,000 But the love of God is unconditional, and it never. 268 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,960 Fails. It never fails. 269 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,160 Even in his chastisement. Of us, It's his love for us. 270 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,440 When he convicts us, he's showing his. 271 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,960 Love for us and. Obviously, when he. 272 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,760 Blesses us. He's showing his. 273 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,640 Love for us, but the. Biggest act of his. 274 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,960 Love for us? Is when he sent his son Jesus 275 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,760 Christ to come and. Die on a cross. 276 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:04,200 For not his sins, our sins. That was the greatest act of 277 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,440 love ever. But he said. 278 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,640 We do that with. Those who calling the Lord. 279 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,480 Out of a pure heart. Need to find other people who 280 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,600 are seeking the Lord. The way that we. 281 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,800 Either want to seek the Lord or are seeking the Lord. 282 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,680 Everyone that sits in the Great house is not necessarily. 283 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,800 Of a pure. Heart, and if we're honest with 284 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,880 ourselves, most of us from time to time. 285 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,560 Will have a heart that's not necessarily pure. 286 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,520 There are things that come into our our thoughts. 287 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,200 There are things that come into our mind, There are things that 288 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,880 we we think about that are not necessarily. 289 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,320 Pure. But we have a God that is 290 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,320 totally pure. And we can always go to him and 291 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,760 ask him even to cleanse us from any impurity that we. 292 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,000 Do have but then. In 23. 293 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,880 He says avoid Foolish. And ignorant disputes avoid 294 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,560 pointless or stupid and. Useless. 295 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,520 Unlearned disputes avoid those things because they only 296 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,120 generate strife. That means more battles, more 297 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,560 fights, more arguments. That's all it does. 298 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,240 Getting into these debates sometimes, I mean these 299 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,920 conversations got to make sure that when we get into these 300 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,800 conversations that first of all our motives are right. 301 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,920 You know, we have men that we do breakfast with sometimes. 302 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,320 Our brother Tom runs that and we have. 303 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:26,680 Bible. Studies. 304 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,040 The men have Bible studies and I can't talk about what the women 305 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,560 have because I'm not invited to that. 306 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,920 Y'all don't ever, y'all don't invite us to y'all women's 307 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,960 studies. But I understand that that's a 308 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,120 blessing that we have those. Studies as well. 309 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,680 But the point I'm trying to make that in all of these studies, 310 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,360 whether it's men's studies or whether it's women's studies, 311 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,120 the point I'm making is that if there's a discussion, there is 312 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:46,920 discussion about. The word of God. 313 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,640 There's not debate, it's not argument, it's discussion about 314 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:52,920 the word. Of God, because it's. 315 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,200 Based on the. Word of God when? 316 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,120 Someone comes with a perspective. 317 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,320 It is rooted and grounded from the word. 318 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,560 Of God I love. Going to our breakfasts on on 319 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,960 Saturday mornings because I. Always leave there edified. 320 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,160 I've never left one of those. Breakfasts and felt. 321 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,319 Angry or bitter? Or upset. 322 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,839 Or felt like I was in. An argument with anybody. 323 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:17,560 I've never left there feeling that way. 324 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,440 The discussions that we have and we may only get through one or 325 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:21,800 two. Verses because of. 326 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,160 Discussion. But it's not discussion about 327 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,480 somebody trying to be right or somebody coming up with some new 328 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:29,440 theology. It's not. 329 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,720 That it's a discussion about the Word of God. 330 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,960 And it's based on the word. Of God. 331 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:36,480 So when you. Leave there. 332 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,520 You leave there edified. You leave there looking. 333 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,080 To. Be more godly you leave there. 334 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,080 Encouraged to be more. Godly so he says. 335 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,440 There, as in verse 24, he says and a servant of the Lord must 336 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,560 not quarrel, that means a servant of the Lord must not 337 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,640 fight, must not be battling, must not get into argument, that 338 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:57,440 word. Quarrel. 339 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,040 Actually means it's like hand to hand combat. 340 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,640 It's a military term and it actually means like hand to hand 341 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,920 combat. A servant of the Lord shouldn't 342 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,840 be involved in that. It should not be involved in. 343 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,400 Even with just words, you should not be involved in something. 344 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,880 That would symbolize. Hand to hand combat. 345 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,400 But he said. But be gentle to all, and be. 346 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,880 Able to. Teach and be patient. 347 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,760 Be able to teach. And be patient. 348 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,000 That's a servant. Of the Lord. 349 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,240 It's that and then in verse 25, it talks about that humility, 350 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,880 the humility of correcting those who are in opposition. 351 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,880 And there are sometimes that we come against people who are in 352 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,440 opposition of the word, but that doesn't mean again, that we 353 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,880 leave them wounded and bludgeon. I mean, there are times that you 354 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,920 could get into conversations with some people. 355 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,360 Who are just bitter. They're hurting anyway, so they 356 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,200 unleash. All of that wrath. 357 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,960 On you in a discussion and it's covered. 358 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,640 It's covered with thinking. We're we're talking. 359 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:02,800 About the word of. God, no. 360 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:04,760 We're. Really talking about some issues 361 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,720 that you have because you walk away. 362 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,960 From that feeling bludgeoned. Beat up. 363 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,240 Never underestimate the effect. Of our words. 364 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:22,600 It can wound and leave deep wounds, but he says in humility. 365 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,800 We should be. Correcting those who are in 366 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,120 opposition. And now this is the part I love 367 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:29,520 the most. And it's been, it's been weaved 368 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,000 throughout the entire section. There's four reasons. 369 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:34,880 Why we? Should be gentle. 370 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,640 There's four reasons why we should. 371 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,000 Be. Humble when we're correcting 372 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,280 people, even in opposition. There's four reasons why, and 373 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,040 it's the ultimate reason #1 repentance. 374 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:50,920 The whole. Reason for correcting people and 375 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,720 getting into a. Discussion about the truth of 376 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,320 God's Word. Is that that person will come to 377 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,840 repentance, or we will come to repentance if we're wrong #2 378 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,560 that they may know the truth. All of these are right here. 379 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,000 That they may know the truth. John 8 and 32 says, And you 380 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,480 shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 381 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,640 It's bondage being in heresy and under air. 382 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:22,160 But the truth will set you free. And then the third reason that 383 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,640 they may come to their senses or that they recover. 384 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:28,400 People that the devil. Are using to get into these 385 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,280 debates and get into these arguments that they enjoy. 386 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,920 That's not of God. That's all this. 387 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,480 That's of Satan. That's of the devil. 388 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,960 It's a plan to try to get there to cause. 389 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,680 Confusion in the church, that vision in the church when you 390 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,960 come with all those different attitudes and, and, and being 391 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,440 angry, that's just being used of the enemy. 392 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,120 And it's like being into like being in a drunken stupor. 393 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,600 And then the 4th and final reason. 394 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,800 Is to escape the trap of that devil. 395 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,320 To know that you've you've been used. 396 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,080 By the devil. To do things that are ungodly 397 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,800 ungodly. It causes confusion, it causes 398 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,760 opposition, causes division. It's like a plant to plant 399 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:16,320 destructive heresies, and it comes in secretly, and that's 400 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,920 the reason they want. No, Paul is saying. 401 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,280 We want to bring that person to repentance, not to just. 402 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,680 Destroy that. Person not to just belittle a 403 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,960 person who may be an heir, but that person can come to 404 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,320 repentance and sometimes that person can come to repentance 405 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,400 through you. And then at the very end it says 406 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,320 that he to escape the snare of the devil, having been taken 407 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,560 captive by him. To do. 408 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,000 His will we no longer have to do the will of the evil 1 and if 409 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,120 there. Are teachers that we. 410 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:52,040 Even know or teachers that are out there and then we talk 411 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,240 about, you know, teachers of prosperity, teachers of 412 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,320 inclusion and all these different types of theology and 413 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,800 gospels that are out to these different type of gospels that 414 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,200 people were preaching air heresy. 415 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,040 Let's pray for him. Let's pray. 416 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,760 Let's pray that God will. Bring them to repentance, not 417 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,800 just talk about them and talk about how. 418 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,400 Evil it is, or how bad it is and how they. 419 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,600 Should be ashamed of. Themselves or how they get 420 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,320 themselves. God's going to deal with them. 421 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,320 Well, we got some things God going to deal. 422 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,880 With us about too. Let's. 423 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,800 Pray for these people. That God will. 424 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,160 Perhaps bring them to repentance and that they turn. 425 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,240 They weren't always like that. And God can restore. 426 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:37,920 So if we are people who strive, if we're people who. 427 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,200 Get involved in empty chatter. If we quarrel, we can repent. 428 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,560 If we have some youthful lust that we need to flee, we can do 429 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,720 that today and repent from our youthful lusts. 430 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,520 And if we need to turn toward godliness, if we need to turn 431 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,800 toward righteousness, we need to turn toward faithfulness, love, 432 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,880 and peace, if we want God to supply more of that in our lives 433 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,640 and in our hearts, we can pray. For that and of course. 434 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,000 If you're 1, who's here that have not received Jesus Christ 435 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,480 as your Lord and. Savior, let this be the last day 436 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,800 that. You don't have eternity with. 437 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,640 Jesus Christ. Today you can repent and turn, 438 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,440 and you can receive salvation from the wrath of God that is 439 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,560 coming. You have an opportunity to do 440 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,200 that today. So, Father, we remember today 441 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,160 everything that he endured. We remember today. 442 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,480 His love for us to even leave glory. 443 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,360 To come here, not for his to die. 444 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:44,200 For his sins, but to die. For our sins. 445 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,360 And we're grateful for that. Amen. 446 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,760 You've been listening to Pastor Louis Harrell here on Living 447 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,040 Waters of Grace. We're digging into all that Paul 448 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,480 shared with Timothy in the books of First and Second Timothy. 449 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,080 Timothy was commissioned to do the following, fight the good 450 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:07,200 fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were 451 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,640 also called, and have confessed the good confession in the 452 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,120 presence of many witnesses. Timothy would be carrying on 453 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:20,560 what Paul had taught him and continuing on in ministry, even 454 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,600 though Paul knew that more hardships would come for 455 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,600 Timothy. This is the Christian life. 456 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,880 It's not glamorous. It's not some celebrity status, 457 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:36,160 It's hard fought, it's gritty, it's unpopular, but it's worth 458 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,200 it. Do you believe that today? 459 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,960 Are you willing to fight the good fight even at the cost of 460 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,680 earthly pleasures? Living the life of a follower of 461 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,600 Jesus will have its heavenly rewards. 462 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,480 To be a part of a community that's looking forward to that 463 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,240 heavenly reward, we invite you to join us at Calvary Chapel 464 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,840 Westmoreland. 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