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 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,800 We all have a purpose and we should not, we should not make a 6 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,680 a mistake of putting our purpose as being the same as Our 7 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,160 Calling. It is not. 8 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,520 We all have a purpose. Everyone who was saved have the 9 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,280 purpose. And our purpose is to glorify 10 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,840 God and to worship God. That's the purpose of those of 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,520 us who are in Christ Jesus. It's to glorify God. 12 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,920 Paul's purpose is to worship and to glorify God as well, even 13 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,520 though his calling was to take the gospel to the Gentiles. 14 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,920 Many people go through life looking for purpose. 15 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,200 Some find a sense of purpose in things like careers, family, 16 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,080 college education, or other accomplishments. 17 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,480 And although those may be good things to do, they are far from 18 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,320 being a purpose for existence. In today's message, Pastor Lewis 19 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,520 wants you to know that God created you for a purpose, and 20 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,840 that purpose is to bring him glory. 21 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,560 He may call you to do great things in life, but your purpose 22 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,320 is to worship him in everything that you do. 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,480 Now here's Pastor Lewis in the Book of Second Timothy, chapter 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,440 3, with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace, I'm. 25 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,200 Going to ask that you would turn your Bibles, please, to the 26 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,640 Second Timothy, chapter 3. And we're going to beginning at 27 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,840 verse 10, we're going to go through to verse 17 today. 28 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,280 And while you're doing that, I'm going to just welcome everyone 29 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,800 for coming this morning. Thank you for blessing us with 30 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,880 your presence. Those of you who are new to 31 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,000 Calvary Chapel, if this is your first time being here, we want 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,200 to welcome you. And we want to thank you for 33 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,000 choosing to worship with us this morning. 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,360 And we pray that your worship experience would be good and 35 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:22,840 that you'll come back and see us again. 36 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,440 Amen. And those of you who are 37 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:30,400 listening by way of Grace FM or listening on YouTube or any 38 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:35,080 other social media option, we thank you for your presence and 39 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,520 we just welcome you with us this morning. 40 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,080 And as always, we want to welcome those who are listening 41 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,000 behind prison walls. We want to welcome you this 42 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,960 morning and say hello to you. And we pray that the service 43 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,520 would be a blessing to you as well. 44 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,480 Why don't we pray and go into the word of Godfather? 45 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,600 We need you. We thank you, Lord, that you did 46 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,440 plead for us on Calvary. We thank you, Father, for the 47 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,040 many blessings that you bestow upon us, particularly your 48 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,240 blessings of salvation, redemption. 49 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,880 You sanctify us by your word, the wisdom, Lord, that you give 50 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,040 us through your word. We thank you Father for meeting 51 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,960 every need in our lives. Lord, we thank you for the very 52 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,400 breath in our in our lungs this morning. 53 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,760 And Father, we need you this morning. 54 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,520 Father, we desire to have a manifestation of your spirit 55 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,360 this morning that you would speak to all of us, Lord, that 56 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,760 we would know that we are with you, Lord. 57 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,920 And when we leave here today, Lord calls us to be deeper in 58 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,800 you. Cause us to be convicted, cause 59 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,440 us to be encouraged, cause someone to turn their life 60 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,840 towards you. Lord Father, we can only do 61 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,160 these things or through the power of Your Holy Spirit. 62 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,480 No one came here today to hear me. 63 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,120 Father, we're all here to hear you. 64 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,880 We're your people and we're gathered before you this morning 65 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,760 and we're asking Lord, that you would speak to us. 66 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,480 In Jesus name we pray, Amen. So we are in the second Timothy. 67 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,680 We're in chapter 3 and we're going to start right there at 68 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,440 verse 10. I'm going to read a few verses 69 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,240 and then we'll go back and we'll make some commentary. 70 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,320 It simply says, but you have carefully followed my doctrine, 71 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,720 manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, 72 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,920 perseverance, persecutions, afflictions which happened to me 73 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:35,440 at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions I 74 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:40,080 endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me. 75 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,000 We can stop there for a second. And I just want to take us back 76 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,080 a few verses to when we first started, just to give you a 77 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,040 little background of where we're going. 78 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,800 When we first opened up this particular chapter, we talked 79 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,520 about the perilous times and the fact that we're in those last 80 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,440 days. And in doing so, Paul's talking 81 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,840 to Timothy, which is probably his last letter that he would 82 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,240 ever write. And he's telling Timothy about 83 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,680 the character of the men, the false teachers who will be 84 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,080 around in those last days, the unbelievers who will be around 85 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,040 in those last days, and how bad things will get, the depravity 86 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,720 of man and how bad things will get. 87 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,440 And in doing so, he focuses primarily on the fact that men 88 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,520 will become lovers of themselves, which will give 89 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,760 birth to a number of other negative characteristics that 90 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,000 men will have. And he listed things like 91 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,880 they'll be lovers of money, they'll be boasters, they'll be 92 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,680 proud, they'll be blasphemers, they'll be disobedient to 93 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:48,520 parents, unthankful, unholy. They'll be unloving, unforgiving 94 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,720 slanderers. They'll be without self-control, 95 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,040 brutal despisers of good. They'll be traitors. 96 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:00,640 They'll be headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than 97 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,760 lovers of God. And then he kind of summarizes 98 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,760 that whole thing by saying that they will have a form of 99 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,200 godliness, but denying its power. 100 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,600 And then he admonished Timothy by saying from such turn away. 101 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,200 So Paul's just got finished giving Timothy this list of 102 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,680 traits that ungodly men, false prophets, false teachers will 103 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,480 demonstrate. And, and, and we see, I can see 104 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:33,520 some of those things in myself sometimes. 105 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,080 And you may be able to see some of these things in yourself. 106 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,600 And we can always ask for forgiveness. 107 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,920 We can go and repent of those things and ask for forgiveness. 108 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,960 And we serve a God who's willing and gracious enough to grant it. 109 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,880 But then we also have men who will not ask for forgiveness 110 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,400 because they are deceived. They are deceived and they're 111 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:58,040 blinded by the things of the enemy and they will not ask for 112 00:06:58,040 --> 00:06:59,520 forgiveness. They think that they're doing 113 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,600 things the right way, but they are deceived. 114 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,880 So he switches from there. As he gets to verse 10, he 115 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:13,000 switches from that and he says, but you, oh Timothy, you oh man 116 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,200 of God. So we're we're seeing that 117 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,640 there's a switch here. We're going from the 118 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,920 characteristics that we want to stay away from the 119 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,040 characteristics that mark ungodly false teachers. 120 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,040 And now we're turning Paul's turning to Timothy and saying, 121 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,760 but you, Timothy, it's going to be different for you because you 122 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,400 have seen something different. You have witnessed something 123 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,560 different. You have known something 124 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,520 different, Timothy, in your lifestyle and he says, for you 125 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,240 have carefully followed my doctrine or you have carefully 126 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,600 examined my doctrine. You, you've examined my life. 127 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,960 You have been around me to imitate the things that I've 128 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,680 seen. You've examined, you know, 129 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,640 whether or not I'm real or if I'm fake, you know, because you 130 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,280 have been with me long enough to see these things. 131 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,040 So you've seen my life, Timothy. So he gets to and he says 132 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,200 you've, you've followed my doctrine. 133 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,040 He's going to list about 8 things that Timothy have 134 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,960 witnessed in his life. He said you have witnessed my 135 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,280 doctrine, Timothy. You've seen the things that I 136 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,200 teach. You've heard the things that 137 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,480 I've teach. You set out to me, you know 138 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,440 whether these things line up with the true Word of God. 139 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,520 You know, you know that I didn't make anything up. 140 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,760 You know that I didn't come up and start teaching psychology or 141 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,240 philosophy. I didn't get off into the 142 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,840 astrology and all these other wild things, New Age things. 143 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:36,159 I didn't get off into all that. I stuck with the Scriptures. 144 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:40,000 Timothy, you know that about me. You also know, Timothy, my 145 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,400 manner of life, and I love the fact. 146 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,440 Please don't miss this. The fact that Paul mentions his 147 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,240 manner of life right after he mentions his doctrine, that is 148 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,800 significant because that's the way it should be in our lives. 149 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,640 The doctrine and our manner of life should go together. 150 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,560 We should be, Paul is saying, I don't teach anything, Timothy, 151 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,520 that I'm not living in my life or endeavoring to live in my 152 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,480 life every day. And that should be us as well. 153 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,280 We should not be proclaiming anything to anybody that we are 154 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,440 not endeavoring to live ourselves. 155 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,000 So it's, it's, it's fitting that doctrine and manner of life 156 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,640 would follow one another. The manner of life, it's so 157 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,160 important because it's the manner of life that actually 158 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,360 gives, gives evidence to the doctrine that we're teaching. 159 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,520 The power of what we're teaching is lived out in our lives. 160 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,400 And that's what brings glory to God. 161 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,320 That's what brings glory to God. And Paul understands that 162 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:42,160 because the power truly worked in his life, because Paul wasn't 163 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,640 always this way. In fact, he told us back in 164 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,520 First Timothy chapter 1 and in verse 13 as he's given his 165 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:54,360 testimony, Paul says although I was formerly before I've met 166 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,720 Christ, before I gave my life to Christ, I was formerly A 167 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,440 blasphemer. I was a persecutor and an 168 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,720 insolent man. In other words, I was a violent 169 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,120 man, a violent and angry man, a prideful man. 170 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:11,160 So I wasn't always these things, but the power of God working in 171 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,880 me has changed me, Timothy. And you have seen my life. 172 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,840 And that's exactly what each and everyone of us probably had that 173 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,720 same testimony. We can all say that at one point 174 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,680 in our lives, we were a lot of things that we aren't now, thank 175 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:27,520 God, right? A lot of things that we are not 176 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,600 now. And that's good because that's 177 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,960 the power of God. That's the witness of the power 178 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,480 of God working in our lives. People are still looking for 179 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,080 miracles. They're looking for these, the 180 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,560 things that happened with Peter and the things that happened 181 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:45,320 with Paul and the other apostles back when the church was first 182 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,160 starting. How people were getting healed 183 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,960 from handkerchiefs and, and how people were the miracles of 184 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,000 people who were limping or was, you know, you know, they were 185 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,840 paralyzed and all of a sudden they were walking and people 186 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,280 coming back from the dead. We start to look for those 187 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,840 things, but we see these things spiritually now in our own 188 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,200 lives. We limp. 189 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,680 We didn't walk or run into salvation. 190 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:09,400 We limped into salvation. We were those who were 191 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,840 paralyzed. Our lives are paralyzed and Paul 192 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,480 is saying here that God has done miracles in my life and it 193 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,200 changes the power of God working in my life. 194 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,320 And now that's how you are able to see and witness the manner, 195 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,960 my manner of life. And then he goes on into purpose 196 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,800 and he gives, he starts to talk about his, his purpose. 197 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,800 And we all have a purpose and we should not, we should not make 198 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,880 a, a mistake of putting our purpose as being the same as Our 199 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:40,320 Calling. It is not. 200 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,560 We all have a purpose. Everyone who was saved had the 201 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:48,000 purpose, and our purpose is to glorify God and to worship God. 202 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,080 That's the purpose of those of us who are in Christ Jesus. 203 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,720 It's to glorify God. Paul's purpose is to worship and 204 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,200 to glorify God as well. Even though his calling was to 205 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,960 take the gospel to the Gentiles, it was to take the gospel to to 206 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,280 all these different nations. That was his calling, Our 207 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,040 Calling maybe something different, but that was Paul's 208 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,240 calling. But his purpose, His purpose was 209 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,440 to worship God. One of my favorite authors is AW 210 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:23,320 Tozer, and in The Purpose of Man, that the book he has called 211 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,400 The Purpose of Man, he makes this quote. 212 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,480 He says worship is a man's full reason for existence. 213 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:34,880 Worship is why we are born, and it's why we are born again. 214 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,720 And then he goes on. He talks about his own purpose 215 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,760 and he says, I desire to deliver my soul as a prophet of God and 216 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,360 explain from the Bible why we were created and why we are 217 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,120 here. It may not satisfy the temporary 218 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:54,400 needs at that time, but it will satisfy something bigger, 219 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:58,800 grander and more eternal. And then he goes in to this and 220 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:05,520 says that biblically defined purpose is this, that we might 221 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,600 worship God and enjoy him forever. 222 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,800 That's our purpose. And from that we all have 223 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,560 different callings, but the purpose is to glorify God and 224 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:19,600 everything that we do in life should be in worship and praise 225 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,040 to God. We come on Sundays and we 226 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,400 worship and thank God that we have a place that we can come 227 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,440 together corporately and worship. 228 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,000 Thank God we have that we can do that together. 229 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 We encourage each other. All that is worship. 230 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,440 Everything we do is worship up here. 231 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,960 The the fact that we we hear the songs of worship, the fact that 232 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,360 we have people working in AV they're doing it in worship. 233 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,680 The people who are working with our kids and teaching them the 234 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:50,120 word of God on their level at this age is all in worship and 235 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,960 in praise to God. Clark and myself, when we stand 236 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,840 at the sacred desk and we share the gospel, we share the 237 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,200 scriptures, that is in worship to God. 238 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,400 Listening to the Word of God and sitting under the word of God is 239 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,000 in worship to God. But our worship does not stop 240 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,480 there. When we get up on Monday morning 241 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,360 and we say hello to our wife in the morning, it should be in 242 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,200 worship to God. When we deal with our kids, it 243 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,160 should be in worship to God. When we go on our jobs, it 244 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,800 should be in worship to God and we're in the in the supermarket, 245 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,520 we should be in worship to God. Any contact that we have with 246 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:29,680 anybody should be an example of our worship to God, and that 247 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,040 should happen seven days a week, not just on Wednesdays and on 248 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,680 Sundays. And God, I pray that you would 249 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,560 help us to be able to live a life that's in worship to Him. 250 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,080 And that should be our prayer, you know, because we need the 251 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,600 Holy Spirit to help us to do that. 252 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,160 Because sometimes we don't worship God, We worship 253 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,640 ourselves. We worship our thoughts and we 254 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,480 worship our own feelings. And that's, we're normal, 255 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,280 that's, that's being human. And that's why we need the Holy 256 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:02,240 Spirit to help us to always be cognizant of who it is that 257 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,080 we're living for, of who it is that died for us. 258 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,120 So everything we should do should be in worship to him. 259 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,520 In first Peter chapter 2 and verse 9, he says, but you are a 260 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,520 chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his 261 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,200 own special people. I love the way that the King 262 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,080 James says it. It says a peculiar people that 263 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,280 you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of 264 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,800 darkness into his marvelous light. 265 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,480 And again that happens through the power of the Holy Spirit. 266 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,360 We do not need a neon sign to and tell anyone that we're saved 267 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,480 or that we're Christians. They only should be able to see 268 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,720 our lives and be able to examine our lives and they would be able 269 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,440 to see our purpose and be able to see who it is that we live 270 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,520 for now. The next three that he states or 271 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,880 that he mentions, the next three traits that he tells Timothy 272 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,800 that he has observed are things that are consistent with the 273 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,240 fruit of the Spirit. He says my faith or 274 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,920 faithfulness. He says my long-suffering or his 275 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,800 patience and his love. Love is really significant with 276 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,160 Paul. In fact, Paul wrote a whole 277 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,280 chapter on it back in first first Corinthians chapter 13. 278 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,880 He wrote a whole chapter on love because that's how significant 279 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,040 it is to him. And he says the love bears all, 280 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,200 believes all, helps all, and endures all. 281 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,480 Love would be important to Paul because that's why he wrote this 282 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,720 letter. He wrote this letter under the 283 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,640 power of God because of his love for his son in the Spirit, 284 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,160 Timothy. He wrote it because of the love 285 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,560 that he had for the Church of Ephesus. 286 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,640 The same thing he did when he wrote to the Church of the 287 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,800 Thessalonians. Paul loved the people that he 288 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,640 ministered to. In fact, he loved him so much 289 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,080 that he literally put his life on the line to be able to share 290 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,280 the gospel to all of these people. 291 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,480 That where he started churches. He literally put his life on the 292 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,120 line to do it and that was because of his love. 293 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,280 Of course, he had a very good example. 294 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,319 His Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who did the exact same 295 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,160 thing for us, put his life, it took him all the way to the 296 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,319 cross because of his love for us, because of his love for us. 297 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,640 And he says to us that we should deny ourselves, that we should 298 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,040 not be selfish about our lives, but we should deny ourselves and 299 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,720 that we should pick up our crosses or the hardships that we 300 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,319 have, the things that we have to deal with on a daily basis, pick 301 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:29,280 up those crosses, sacrifice ourselves on those crosses, die 302 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,440 daily to ourselves, and that we should follow him. 303 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,400 That's what he asks us to do out of love. 304 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,720 So Paul does love. In fact, he loves so much that 305 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,920 in Romans Chapter 9, Paul said of his brethren, he said, I wish 306 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:50,000 that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, for my 307 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,800 brother. And then at First Thessalonians 308 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:56,160 2 and 8, he says We not only imparted the gospel to you, but 309 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:01,520 also our own lives because you became dear to us. 310 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,120 So Paul understood love, and he definitely understood that it 311 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:11,040 was necessary to have that agape love that can only come through 312 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,960 the Holy Spirit in order for him to do what it is that God had 313 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,560 called him to do. And that's the same for us as 314 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,400 well. So Mark of a Christian, that's 315 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,640 why Jesus said that. This is how you'll know that 316 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,640 we're all Christians because we have love one for another. 317 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,320 When people come in this house, I love the fact that people will 318 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,600 say that, man, you know, you can tell that they love each other 319 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,520 and they should be able to say that. 320 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,680 They should be able to say that and I know that I feel love when 321 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,160 I come into this house. I feel love. 322 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,480 Thank God for that. He goes on and he talks about 323 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,320 the perseverance, you know, being steadfast. 324 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,560 Verse 11, he says the persecutions, afflictions which 325 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,800 happened to me at Antioch. Paul was very clear about the 326 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,720 fact that he did go through a number of persecutions and 327 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,760 sufferings that he did at different places where he would 328 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,880 preach the gospel. When he went to Antioch, he 329 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,720 taught the gospel there. When he went into the 330 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,840 synagogue's there were number of people who believed and as a 331 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,160 result of that, the unbelieving Jews, they wanted to stir up the 332 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,560 people, stir up the Gentiles that were there. 333 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,040 And they ended up rising up in persecution against Paul and his 334 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,520 companions and they had to leave. 335 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,560 And they went into Iconium. And when they went to Iconium, 336 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,560 the very same thing. He taught the scriptures and 337 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,800 Iconium, he taught the word of God and he preached the gospel 338 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,680 and there were many people who heard the gospel and they 339 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,600 listened and they became, and, and they put their faith in 340 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,680 Jesus Christ. And as a result of putting their 341 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,560 faith in Jesus Christ, they began to gather together and, 342 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,880 and, and, and, and have an assembly themselves. 343 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Well, the people who lived there who were not believers didn't 344 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,960 like that either. So they persecuted Paul and 345 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,240 wanted to stone him and ran him out of Iconium. 346 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,200 And then when Paul got the Lystra, it was so bad that when 347 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,960 Paul preached the gospel there and I and in Lystra, which is 348 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,160 probably where Timothy heard the gospel from Paul the first time, 349 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,840 we understand that it was the people from. 350 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:10,080 Antioch that got together with the people from Iconium and all 351 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,760 of them came down to Lystra, and they began to want to persecute 352 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,080 Paul. That's how bad it was for Paul. 353 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,560 But in every situation, he continued to put his life on the 354 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:25,320 line to share the gospel because he believed that the one that he 355 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:30,920 believed in was able to keep him, was able to keep him, and 356 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,800 so he did what God called him to do. 357 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:38,360 It may be sometimes where it seems hairy or seems dangerous 358 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,800 for us to share the gospel or seem that it may cost us 359 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,720 something if we share the gospel. 360 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,960 But we have to believe that the one that we're serving is 361 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,360 greater than anyone else. And He's able to keep us. 362 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:54,960 He's able to protect us. He's able to deliver us from any 363 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,840 situation that we may run into as a result of being faithful to 364 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,720 him. So he gets to Lystra and there 365 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,920 he is stoned. So Paul witnessed that. 366 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,600 He witnessed being stoned in. And it's possibility, don't know 367 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,040 for sure because the Bible never really says so, but it's a 368 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,600 possibility that when he was there in Lystra and when they 369 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,600 stoned him and they thought he was dead, then they took him 370 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,120 outside of the city and their disciples gathered around him 371 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,320 and they supposed that he was dead, That it was a possibility 372 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,920 that maybe he was truly dead at that particular time. 373 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,880 And maybe we don't. Again, we don't know because the 374 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,440 Bible doesn't say that. But that could have been where 375 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,880 he actually had the experience of the 3rd heaven during that 376 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,160 particular time. He could have had that 377 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,200 experience at that particular time where he went into the 3rd 378 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,880 heaven and witnessed the things that he was not even able to 379 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,720 talk about, but he was stoned. He was thought to be dead. 380 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,920 But then he got up and again, because of his steadfastness or 381 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,640 his perseverance, because of his love and because of his 382 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,680 faithfulness, Paul got up and went right back into the same 383 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,840 city that they had actually stoned him and continued to do 384 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,440 the work that God had called him to do. 385 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,040 What an example of steadfastness. 386 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,200 What an example of someone who is just relentless to do what it 387 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,800 is that God has called him to do. 388 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,360 Lord, give me that steadfastness. 389 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,880 Give me that relentlessness, that fearlessness in you, 390 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,120 Father, so that I can under any circumstance, do Your will. 391 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,080 And then in verse 12, Paul makes it clear to Timothy, I mean, 392 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,760 this is this is not something that you probably want to put on 393 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,640 your mirror or your refrigerator when you get up in the morning. 394 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,160 Verse 12, yes, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will 395 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,200 suffer persecution. That's probably not a good 396 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,800 motivation speech for those who, you know, want to serve the 397 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,040 Lord. I mean, you probably would have 398 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,920 thought that Paul or, you know, will want to say something a 399 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,520 little bit more encouraging, but Paul was a straight shooter and 400 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,400 his attitude was I'm going to give you the truth because you 401 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,760 know what? Jesus Christ gave us the truth 402 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,200 when he talked about, you know, following him. 403 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,800 And if you go to the 10th chapter of Matthew just for a 404 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,400 2nd 10th chapter of Matthew, Jesus makes a very interesting 405 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,920 statement over here, Tim chapter over here in verse 16. 406 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,360 He says, behold, I send you out his sheep in the midst of 407 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:23,840 wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents 408 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,960 and harmless as doves, but beware of men for they will 409 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,400 deliver you up. And this is his rallying speech 410 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,640 to get them to be motivated to go out and serve him. 411 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,000 They're going to deliver you up to councils. 412 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:36,160 They're going to scourge you in the synagogues. 413 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:40,480 You will be brought before governors and and kings for my 414 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,680 name's sake. And he goes on and say, You'll 415 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,200 be delivered up, but don't worry, because we'll give you 416 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,680 what to speak at that particular time, for it will be given to 417 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,360 you in that hour what you should speak. 418 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,920 For it is not you who will speak, but the spirit of your 419 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,520 Father who speaks in you. This has been another 420 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,720 encouraging edition of Living Waters of Grace. 421 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,840 Pastor Louis Harrell has shared some good reminders for us to 422 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,600 learn and walk in today as he's teaching through the books of 423 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,200 First and Second Timothy. There are useful practices and 424 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,400 advice that the apostle Paul offers to Timothy in these books 425 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,440 from a fellow pastor, Paul imparts some wisdom to Timothy 426 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,080 about solid leadership and what some of the criteria should be 427 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,480 for leadership. There are specific passages 428 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,360 directed toward men and women, respectively, and All in all, 429 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:37,720 there's much to gain in coming to an awareness of God's heart 430 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,760 for each person and God's purposes for each one. 431 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,160 We're happy that you've taken the time today to listen. 432 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,800 We invite you to come here the next edition. 433 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,200 In the meantime, when you have some time to spare today, go 434 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,640 check out our website, calvarychapelonline.com. 435 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,760 There you'll find additional messages as well as a variety of 436 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,080 resources and information about how to meet with us in person. 437 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,880 We're also on Facebook, so you can be a part of what we share 438 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,920 there as well. 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