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This is living. 
Waters of Grace, the teaching 

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ministry of Lewis Harold, 
assistant pastor of Calvary 

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Chapel of Westmoreland County in
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Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 
continues teaching through God's

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Word. 
I love the fact that we can send

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out a text or ask someone to do 
something and it's done and they

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don't do it because of what He 
asked me or she had. 

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They do it because they're 
serving the Lord. 

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And whenever you're serving the 
Lord, doing anything, it's not a

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job, it's not inconvenient. 
All you got to do is think about

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all He done for you. 
It's very easy to go out and do 

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something for the Lord. 
Love agape, love unconditional 

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sacrificial love. 
Seek to give, not to gain. 

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What turns a simple task into an
act of worship? 

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In today's message, Pastor Lewis
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someone serve the moment they're
asked. 

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They don't move because a person
asked. 

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They move because they're 
serving the Lord. 

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When you truly see all Jesus has
done for you, no request feels 

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inconvenient. 
It's no longer a job. 

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It becomes an offering. 
Love like His makes service a 

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delight, not a duty. 
How do you turn everyday tasks 

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into offerings of love for 
Jesus? 

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Now here's Pastor Lewis in First
Timothy Chapter 6 with today's 

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edition of Living Waters of 
Grace. 

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Those who desire to be rich, 
they fall into temptation and a 

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snare. 
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all have to do with what's going
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And the snare are pitfalls that 
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And it says and have fallen to 
many foolish and harmful lusts 

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which drown men in destruction. 
Now it's a picture of a man 

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being taken down underwater, 
being taken down and held down, 

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weighted down by destruction by 
their lust and by perdition, by 

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their lust. 
They got so many things that 

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they're lusting for. 
It's like a weight on them 

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because they can never attain it
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So it's just constant, constant 
worrying and constant striving 

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for something that they can 
never really achieve and be 

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satisfied with. 
And it's like a weight that 

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takes them down and holds them 
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And then it says here in verse 
10, And this is a very well used

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Scripture, but probably one of 
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we have in the New Testament. 
It says for the love of money is

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a root of all kinds of evil. 
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God created money. 
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He said the love of it is what's
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love for money, it becomes an 
idol and we put it in a position

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that's even higher than we put 
God, and we begin to do all the 

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kind of things in order to 
obtain money because of our love

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for money. 
And it said it is not the root 

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of all kinds of evil. 
The Bible says it is a root of 

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all kinds of evil. 
There are many different paths 

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and ways to end up on an evil 
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Money is just one of them. 
Money is just one of them. 

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But it is indeed a way to end up
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The love of money, for which 
some have strayed from the faith

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in their greediness and pierced 
themselves through with many 

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sorrows. 
The love of money. 

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And what is so sad about that? 
Because the love of money leads 

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men into many, many ways of 
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Many ways of error. 
The desired riches are traps, it

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leads us into bondages and it 
causes the Word of God to become

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unfruitful, being choked out the
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deceitfulness of riches and the 
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That's the word speaks about in 
Mark chapter 4, verse 18, which 

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in the parable to solar, it 
chokes out the truth of the word

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and instead people focus on the 
cares of this world and the 

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deceitfulness of riches, and 
riches are deceitful and the 

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desire for other things. 
These foolish and harmful lusts 

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will take us down. 
And it has destroyed many of 

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people. 
It's the love of money that has 

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destroyed marriages. 
It's destroyed companies, it's 

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destroyed relationships, it 
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Someone gets a trust or 
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someone passes and when it's 
time to go read the will, Oh my 

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goodness, people begin. 
I mean, they stop speaking 

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because they got more than they 
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It breaks up families. 
People stop speaking for years 

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over money and the bad thing 
about it and I've watched this 

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happen before when it says here 
for some have strayed from the 

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faith in their greediness and 
pierced themselves through with 

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many sorrows. 
There are so many people that 

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I've seen I've witnessed myself 
that has a gift given by God to 

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either sing. 
There are great musicians or 

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very gifted communicators of the
Word of God, and they may start 

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out using that gift to serve the
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They start out using that gift 
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But as the love of money creeps 
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somebody said to them, you could
be making so much more money. 

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You could be driving so much of 
A better car. 

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You could be living in such a 
bigger house, You could be 

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having so many more things at 
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And they begin to leave the 
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world. 
And I've watched people as their

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lives crumble as a result of 
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You could probably name many 
artists that are very popular 

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who have started off in the 
gospel, ended up singing for the

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world, and made shipwreck of 
their faith and of their life. 

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Made shipwreck. 
Guard your ministry. 

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Guard the anointing that God has
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Don't use it frivolously. 
It cannot be shared in the world

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and with the faith. 
It's to serve God. 

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It is to serve God. 
He gave it to us for that 

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purpose and they pierced 
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And that's like a picture of a 
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Somebody hangs up bait over an 
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comes, and because he's so 
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love for that flesh, he's so 
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He takes a leap for that bait 
and he falls into the pit, which

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has a stake that he falls onto 
and pierces himself through. 

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But he was deceived by the bait,
and that's exactly what the love

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of money is. 
It's like a bait. 

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People who sit in casinos all 
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love of money. 
People become drug dealers 

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because of the love of money. 
People become liars in business 

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and fraud because of the love of
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Cheat on insurance, Medicare, 
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because of the love of money. 
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over family. 
So the family never sees them 

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anymore because they're spending
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It's a very sad thing. 
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It says, but you old man of God,
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And I love the way Paul makes 
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He makes that difference. 
He was initially talking about 

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ungodly people and people doing 
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not you, Timothy, man of God, 
you're not going to do that. 

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Timothy. 
I want you to flee these things.

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Flee what things? 
All the things that we just got 

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finished talking about. 
Flee the love of money, flee 

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false doctrine. 
Flee these arguments and these 

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debates over over empty things. 
Flee those things. 

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Flee the desire to be rich, 
Timmy, flee from those things. 

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The Bible tells us that we 
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flee those things, run away from
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The title of this message was 
actually flee, follow, and 

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fight. 
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Christianity, throughout our 
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of being a Christian, we're 
going to have to flee from some 

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things, follow after the right 
things, and fight to stand on 

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what God has given us to stand 
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It can all be summed up in those
three things, but in this one he

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says flee, flee. 
That means get out of there, 

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flee away from those things, 
turn from those things, go the 

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opposite direction of those 
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And then he says and pursue. 
And he's going to talk about now

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what to pursue. 
Pursue righteousness, pursue 

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godliness. 
Righteousness is a right 

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standing in Christ and personal 
integrity, godliness, living 

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holy, having a conduct that 
displays Jesus Christ, that 

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witnesses with Jesus Christ 
faith, which is faithfulness, 

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being dependable in the faith 
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I love the fact that we can send
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something and it's done and they
don't do it because of what he 

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asked me or she had. 
They do it because they're 

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serving the Lord, and whenever 
you're serving the Lord, doing 

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anything, it's not a job, it's 
not inconvenient. 

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All you got to do is think about
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It's very easy to go out and do 
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Love agape, love unconditional 
sacrificial love. 

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Seek to give, not to gain. 
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Seek to give and not to gain. 
That's what godliness does. 

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And also patience. 
Patience is that endurance, that

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perseverance, that steadfastness
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testing and suffering and 
affliction, He says have 

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patience through those things 
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of those things, God have a 
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He's adding things to you. 
He's adding things, adding 

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things that will help you to be 
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Hebrews 1036 says for you have 
need of patience, that after you

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have done the will of God, you 
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And then gentleness or meekness,
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It's a form of self-control. 
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says that we should be following
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And then he says here in verse 
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of faith, lay hold on eternal 
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called and have confessed the 
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of many witnesses. 
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life, lay hold on the Christian 
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all of these things that pursue 
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He said lay hold on those 
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to those things. 
Let that be our life, even in 

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Timothy as you have confessed 
the good confession in the 

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presence of many witnesses. 
Verse 13 says I urge you and 

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what he's saying here is I 
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the sight of God who gives life 
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Jesus who witnessed a good 
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Pilate. 
So it's not just us that he sent

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and have made a good confession.
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example of one who made a good 
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death and evil. 
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Pilate back in Matthew chapter 
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him, are you the King of the 
Jews? 

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Are you the King? 
Jesus said, you've said right, 

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You said correctly. 
He didn't dodge it, He admitted 

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it. 
He made that confession before 

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Pilate. 
You have said right. 

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So he said, make that that good 
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Christ gave before Pilate. 
And then in verse 14, he said 

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that you keep this commandment 
without spot blameless until our

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Lord Jesus Christ appearing now.
So when you talk about making a 

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good confession, we have to 
think about what is it that 

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would stop us from making a good
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What is this that stop us from 
making our profession our 

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proclamation? 
Is there anything that pushes 

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you off to the edge and closes 
your mouth and causes you to be 

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quiet or to hide who you are or 
to deny who you are? 

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Is there anything that the world
could threaten or anything that 

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the world could put before you 
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hold on what the Lord has given 
you this life? 

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And those are the things that we
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Lord, I'm weak in this area. 
Help me, Holy Spirit, help me. 

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This is an area, Lord, that 
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Lord, strengthen me, strengthen 
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We can go to him for any of 
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to us because we're his 
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He loves us. 
He wants us to have a good 

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confession before the world, but
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We don't have to feel condemned 
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We go to the Lord and we ask him
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So then in verse 15, I love this
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It's probably my favorite part 
because Paul basically ain't 

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doing him a worship in here. 
He's just worshipping straight 

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up worship. 
He's preaching and I love to 

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hear Paul preach. 
He says which he will manifest 

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in his own time, meaning Jesus 
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He will manifest his own 
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He who is now listen to this, 
listen to this doxology here. 

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He who is the blessed and only 
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sovereign. 
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have to be afraid of kings 
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of kings and Lord of Lords. 
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afraid of whoever's in power 
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Don't be afraid of that, because
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you serve the Lord of Lords. 
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and greater than anybody that 
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to. 
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rejoice on that. 
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and someone's trying to do us 
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I don't have to worry about 
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You are not the king. 
You are just a king. 

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I serve the King of Kings and we
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And then he goes on. 
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has immortality? 
He's preaching. 

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He alone has life. 
He there is no death in him. 

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He's alpha and Omega. 
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end. 
He's the 1st and he is the last.

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He's everlasting. 
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He alone has immortality. 
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light, whom no man has seen or 
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everlasting power. 
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Unapproachable light. 
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light, and in him is no darkness
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Not that there's some darkness 
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He said there's no darkness at 
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There's nothing that taints the 
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Nothing contain it. 
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And then he goes in verse 17, he
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in this present age not to be 
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riches, but in the living God 
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to enjoy. 
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riches, but we trust in the 
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But he says those who were rich,
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probably thinking around here, 
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wait a minute, that's not us, 
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You know that ain't me. 
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else. 
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it, those of us that are in this
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what most people are in other 
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Just about everybody here has a 
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feet. 
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walk to a refrigerator and get 
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Just about everybody here can at
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or Burger King and get whatever 
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Just about everybody here, 
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destitute here. 
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rich, that's pretty much all of 
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people who live in ways that you
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We are rich. 
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to trust in uncertain riches. 
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anything that's temporal is 
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Money is uncertain riches. 
You can have money today and not

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have it tomorrow. 
People can come in and steal 

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your money, take your assets. 
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You can't trust in that. 
You can't trust in those things.

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Bible says that that we have to 
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are things that have eternal 
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Those are the things that we 
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And then he said he who gives 
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God gives us things to enjoy, 
but not to abuse and not to 

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worship, but He gives us all 
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Let them do good that they may 
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Now this is the true, this is 
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asking for us to do good and 
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willing to share, storing up for
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the time to come that they may 
lay hold on eternal life over in

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Matthew chapter 6. 
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up for yourself treasures on 
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destroy and where thieves break 
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But lay up for yourself 
treasures in heaven, where 

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neither the moth nor the rust 
destroys, and where the thieves 

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do not break in and steal. 
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there your heart will be also. 
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that are eternal. 
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So we don't have to trust in 
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And then over in verse 20, we're
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He says, O Timothy, guard what 
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avoiding the profane and idle 
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what is falsely called 
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He says, guard what is committed
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What was committed to Timothy's 
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of God, the gospel, just like it
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Paul said this word was 
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1, and here he's saying it's 
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Timothy, because I've given it 
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And Timothy, I've given it to 
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You know, it's always a blessing
when someone gives you something

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and you can give that to someone
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condition as the way that you 
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That's how we should receive the
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We should receive the Word of 
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we give it to somebody else. 
We should give it the same way 

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it was given to us, as 
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mercy and righteousness as it 
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profane of idle babblings. 
Forget those empty things, those

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worldly empty words, Timothy. 
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Avoid those things and what is 
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narcissism that was starting to 
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to make its way into the church.
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a belief that all matter is evil
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basically through knowledge. 
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theories and things were coming 
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Stay away from that because the 
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by grace through faith in Christ
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That's how we are saved, not 
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that has empty value. 21 By 
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those empty things, those 
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called knowledge, by professing 
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concerning the faith. 
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started to get into them, and 
next thing you know, they have 

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strayed away from the faith. 
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anymore. 
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the gospel, something that's not
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And then these last four words 
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Grace be with you. 
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Grace, this is not just the 
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is the power of God to be able 
to do all those things that Paul

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has given Timothy instructions 
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We all need grace to be able to 
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gospel we need grace to do. 
We can't do it in our own 

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strength. 
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You can have a whole list of 
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own strength to go out there and
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It won't work. 
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Be with you, and that's plural. 
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So as we prepare, I just want us
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that Jesus Christ gave up the 
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sacrificed his life to bring us 
this gospel truth, to bring it 

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to us so that we can walk it 
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we can live it out. 
He gave it to us to do. 

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Thank you for tuning in to 
Living Waters of Grace with 

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Pastor Lewis Harold. 
We're currently in the books of 

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First and Second Timothy. 
Some of the things included in 

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these New Testament letters from
Paul are that the young and 

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newly established Pastor Timothy
was being encouraged to hold 

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fast to what was true. 
He was challenged to confront 

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and address the false teachers 
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He was also reminded to accept 
his calling to the ministry with

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gratefulness and to address the 
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Ephesian church. 
Paul was imparting his 

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experience and knowledge to the 
next generation. 

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Timothy was receptive to 
learning and gleaning what he 

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could from Paul's wisdom. 
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ministry across multiple 
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Those who have lived a little 
more life should be open to 

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sharing their successes and also
things they've learned along the

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way that we're not a win. 
The younger generations coming 

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up can learn and appreciate much
from those ahead of them and 

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perhaps avoid some of the same 
pitfalls that their mentors 

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worked through mentoring. 
It's a beautiful relationship 

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when the hearts are in the right
place to learn and grow. 

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You trust that you're in a 
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happening. 
Older ones providing advice and 

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wisdom and each side learning 
and growing from one another. 

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This certainly was the case for 
Paul and Timothy, as they were 

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comrades for the sake of the 
gospel. 

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For more information on where 
this teaching came from, go to 

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calvarychapelonline.com. 
There you can also learn about 

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our service times to join us in 
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This has been Living Waters of 
Grace.