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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Lewis 

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Harold, assistant pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 

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County in Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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Paul was called to communicate 
the heart of God. 

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So Paul wasn't there to protest 
against slaves. 

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And we see the word slaves. 
This is not slaves the way that,

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you know, certain groups of 
people had to endure. 

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Obviously I'm African American, 
so my experience and 

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understanding about slaves is 
much different. 

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He's not talking about a group 
of people who's being oppressed.

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Slaves are actually people who 
serve other people, and some of 

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them give themselves to do it. 
What does it look like to speak 

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God's heart instead of just 
protesting the world's wrongs? 

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In today's message, Pastor Lewis
explains that Paul was sent to 

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reveal the heart of God, not to 
March against every injustice. 

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When Scripture speaks of slaves,
it's not describing the brutal 

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oppression some groups have 
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It refers to servants who 
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another. 
Paul's calling was bigger than 

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political reform. 
How do you focus on sharing 

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God's heart above every other 
'cause now? 

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Here's Pastor Lewis in the Book 
of First Timothy, chapter 6, 

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with today's edition of Living 
Waters of Grace. 

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First Timothy Chapter 6. 
Now as we go into First Timothy 

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Chapter 6, this is going to be 
more about instruction, more 

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instruction that Paul is giving 
to his young son, Timothy. 

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And as I asked you, what helps 
me because I'm kind of my wife 

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and myself are kind of visual 
people. 

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And I like to envision Paul not 
just handing Timothy a letter, 

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but I like to envision Paul 
sitting before Timothy and 

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instructing him. 
Much like the way that you have 

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mentors that you sit in front of
or people that you spend time 

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with. 
And I like to envision Timothy 

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sitting before his father in the
Spirit and receiving all these 

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truths and receiving these 
instructions and how personal 

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Paul is about giving those 
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for the church. 
Because Paul knew that this 

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would be read. 
It was intended to be read 

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before the church, just like it 
was intended in God's 

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foreknowledge that it would be 
read before this church. 

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Amen. 
But I'd like to imagine the fact

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that Timothy is getting this 
first hand instruction, these 

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things that can have serious 
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the life of the church. 
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we'll begin to see how God in 
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sovereignty, how he speaks to 
very important situations, 

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specifically giving instruction 
to his young pastor Timothy. 

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So we start with verse one, and 
he says, let as many bond 

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servants as are under the yoke 
count their own masters worthy 

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of all honor, so that the name 
of God and his doctrine may not 

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be blasphemed. 
And those who have believing 

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masters, let them not despise 
them because they are brethren, 

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but rather serve them because 
those who are benefited are 

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believers. 
And beloved, teach, teach and 

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exhort these things. 
Timothy. 

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So basically what we're seeing 
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speaking to those who are in the
church or about those who are in

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the church who are slaves. 
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and now a lot of people, you 
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minute. 
Why is Paul giving him 

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instructions about how to act as
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harder about the fact that there
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And it's a very simple 
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Paul wasn't called to do that. 
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against being slaves or not 
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Paul was called to preach the 
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Paul was called to teach 
doctrine. 

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Paul was called to communicate 
the heart of God. 

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So Paul wasn't there to protest 
against slaves. 

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And we see the word slaves. 
This is not slaves the way that,

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you know, certain groups of 
people had to endure. 

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Obviously, I'm African American,
so my experience and 

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understanding about slaves is 
much different. 

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He's not talking about a group 
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oppressed. 
Slaves are actually people who 

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serve other people, and some of 
them give themselves to do it 

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because they can't pay debts or 
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or or they can't take care of 
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Or maybe they owed something and
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they were sold into this. 
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matter about the fact that 
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What matter is that you are 
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fact that you are being a slave.
So as we look at this today, how

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will we communicate this today? 
We all have employers and we are

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employees, so it would be the 
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How do we act on our job? 
How do we treat our bosses? 

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How do we respond to things on 
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Now, this is particularly 
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give you a little quick 
illustration of how wrong we can

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do this thing, there was a time 
many years ago when I worked for

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a company and I was one of the 
only salespeople in that company

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and I had a boss. 
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me, but she was ambitious. 
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So as we were going through 
different things, there were 

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some misfilings, there were some
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And it wasn't me that did it, it
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But she was the one who met with
the Home Office and she blamed 

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it on me. 
And when I found out about this,

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I confronted her and I was saved
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And I confronted her and I 
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And she admitted that she 
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And then she threw me under the 
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She admitted that. 
So I had to do a lot of praying 

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because at that particular time,
my heart went cold. 

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It went very cold. 
And I said I will no longer go 

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above and beyond again. 
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I won't even speak to her 
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I'll just come in, go in my 
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to do. 
And at that particular time, I 

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had a friend that I was in very 
close contact with and we would 

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get together from time to time 
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And he called me out on that. 
He said, brother, you are wrong.

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You are wrong and God is not 
going to do anything to move you

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out of that situation until your
heart changes hit me right 

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between the eyes. 
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So Paul is saying here, look, it
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believing or unbelieving. 
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That means respect them. 
You're to respect your bosses or

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your owners or your masters. 
You respect them. 

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Why? 
So that the name of God and his 

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doctrine is not blasphemy. 
I was not being a very good 

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witness for Christ. 
Why would this woman ever even 

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consider being a Christian or 
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this is how a Christian acts? 
I was called on that. 

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So Paul is saying to you just 
like he's saying to me, we got 

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to be a witness no matter what 
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We got to be a witness for 
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We have to be an example of 
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God is not blasphemed, so that 
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is not blasphemed. 
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and he says, and those who have 
believing masters, let them not 

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despise them because they are 
brethren, but rather serve them 

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because those who are being 
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beloved. 
You know, sometimes we can think

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that if we're, if we're working 
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you know, we think that we can 
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get some privileges that other 
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You know, I can push things a 
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line. 
You know, I can push the 

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envelope a little further 
because hey, he's a Christian 

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just like me. 
You know, he ain't going to tell

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on me or he's not going to come 
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going to hold me accountable. 
Paula said no, no, we should 

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honor them and respect them as 
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In fact even more so, we should 
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they benefit. 
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them and they are brothers or 
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Why we wouldn't want to do 
anything that would bring or put

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them in a position that they 
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decision. 
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Why put them in a position where
they may have to consider firing

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you because you come in late all
the time or because you're doing

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things that you shouldn't be 
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because you're disrespecting 
them or because your work is 

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half of what it could be? 
That's not a good testimony and 

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you're believing boss doesn't 
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So Paul deals with that right 
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goes into verse 3 and he says if
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does not consent to wholesome 
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Lord Jesus Christ, and to the 
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godliness, in other words of the
doctrine which conforms with 

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godliness or the doctrine that 
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He is proud verse 4, knowing 
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disputes and arguments over 
words from which come envy, 

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strife, revelings, evil 
suspicions, useless wranglings 

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of men, of corrupt minds and 
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suppose that godliness is a 
means of gain. 

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Paul says from such, withdraw 
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So he says if anyone teaches 
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teaches against the gospel, 
against the doctrine, against 

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the words of Jesus Christ, if 
anyone teaches against that, as 

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Christians we should not ever 
put ourselves in a position to 

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even listen to or to be 
persuaded by any doctrine or any

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word that is contrary to the 
word of Jesus Christ, should not

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even put ourselves in that 
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But Paul says if anyone teaches 
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consenting to hold some words. 
So we shouldn't listen to them 

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if they're not consenting to 
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words of Jesus Christ and the 
things that he teaches and to 

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the doctrine which conforms with
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We know what godliness is. 
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teach that's contrary to 
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not even be listening to that. 
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at all. 
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Now this is the character of a 
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Verse 4, He's proud. 
This is a person that's puffed 

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up with pride. 
They're teaching because they 

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want to just spell out their 
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I'm deep, I'm deep. 
Listen, how deep this is, I'm 

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going to take another vantage 
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Look at this from another 
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No, we only need to see it from 
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That's from the point of Jesus 
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So they start to talk about all 
these deep words and they get 

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obsessed. 
And this is a person who gets 

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obsessed over disputes. 
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out, it's, it's really like a, a
very sick desire to argue, a 

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very morbid desire to get into 
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And this is a person who's 
spilling out false doctrine, but

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then they want to argue about 
it. 

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They want to create division 
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They want to dispute with you 
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You're sharing the word of God. 
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doctrine and trying to argue, to
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And Paul says it's an obsession,
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It's a sick desire to dispute 
and argue over words, over words

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that they take in A twist to 
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the word to say. 
Paul said be careful with that. 

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Now, from this, from someone who
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that come out of that, the 
result of that kind of teaching 

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is what follows envy, strife, 
revelings, which is basically 

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abusive language, evil 
suspicions or evil surmisings, 

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useless wrangling. 
That's constant friction, 

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constant friction. 
People constantly opposing you, 

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constantly opposing you. 
You're teaching the gospel and 

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they're constantly opposing it 
with their own thoughts, their 

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own ways, their own words, their
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These are men of corrupt minds. 
That means their minds are 

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corrupt. 
They're defiled corrupt minds 

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and destitute of the truth, 
robbed of the truth. 

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They're robbed of the truth 
because they've abandoned the 

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truth for so long. 
So they're robbed of the truth. 

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Who suppose that godliness is a 
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This is nothing more than the 
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gospel, nothing more than that. 
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gain. 
It's a way to get money for 

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them. 
It's not about building up 

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lives. 
It's not about building people 

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up spiritually. 
It's not about for them. 

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It's not about edifying people 
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It's not about that for them. 
It's about let's teach this 

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prosperity message because it 
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money from it and they're using 
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of gain. 
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That's a covetous attitude. 
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And then he says here in verse 
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contentment is great gain. 
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contentment just for a second. 
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inner sufficiency that keeps us 
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circumstances. 
Some people can only be content 

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if they have enough money. 
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if they're with the person that 
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Some people can only be content 
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their favor. 
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content. 
Paul is saying contentment is an

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inner sufficiency, not based on 
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It's not based on my bank 
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It's not based on the size of my
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It's not based on me driving the
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It's not based on me being with 
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Not because I like what's inside
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they look on the outside. 
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contentment is. 
Godliness in the heart is true 

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contentment. 
Wealth can't even purchase that 

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wealth. 
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contentment wealth can't 
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money you get, you still won't 
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you're going to always want 
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These who depend on your wealth 
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contentment will never be 
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satisfied. 
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different way back in Job 
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very healthy perspective of 
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He says, listen, naked I came 
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I shall return there in the 
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said as he came from his 
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return to go as he came, and he 
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labor which he may carry away in
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So contentment has got to be our
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godliness that goes beyond this 
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Riches only go as far as this 
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But once we leave this world, 
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It only goes as far as this 
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And Paul says from such people, 
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people who preach those things, 
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seven. 
We brought nothing into this 

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world and it is certain we will 
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And having now this is what Paul
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contentment. 
He says having food and clothing

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with fees, we shall be content 
having food and clothing. 

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Those are the particulars. 
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that we have. 
Even Jesus himself said, look, 

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you know foxes have holes and 
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the Son of Man has nowhere to 
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He has nowhere to lay his own 
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Matthew 633 said, But seek ye 
first the Kingdom of God and his

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righteousness, and these things,
these necessary things will be 

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added to you. 
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with the situation ordained by 
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So then we go into verse 9, 
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types of people as it relates to
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The first one is those who 
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We're talking about the church. 
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world. 
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he's talking about are those who
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And he says, so those who desire
to be rich fall into temptation,

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in a snare, and into many 
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drown men in destruction and 
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That's a very interesting 
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that, being a pitcher person. 
It says that those who desire to

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be rich, they fall into 
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And we know that those things 
all have to do with what's going

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on the inside of us. 
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we fall into. 
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many foolish and harmful lusts 
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Now it's the picture of a man 
being taken down underwater, 

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being taken down and held down, 
weighted down by destruction by 

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their lusts and by perdition by 
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They got so many things that 
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It's like a weight on them 
because they can never attain it

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all. 
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worrying and constant striving 
for something that they can 

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never really achieve and be 
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And it's like a weight that 
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and drowns them in it. 
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10. 
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scripture, but probably one of 
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That we have in the New 
Testament, it says for the love 

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of money is a root of all kinds 
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Now, money is not evil. 
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evil, he said. 
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Because once we develop a love 
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and we put it in a position 
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God, and we begin to do all the 
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obtain money because of our love
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And it said it is not the root 
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The Bible says it is a root of 
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There are many different paths 
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path. 
Money is just one of them, money

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is just one of them. 
But it is indeed a way to end up

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on an evil path. 
The love of money for which some

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have strayed from the faith in 
their greediness and pierced 

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themselves through with many 
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And what is so sad about that? 
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men into many, many ways of air,
many ways of air, the desire of 

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riches are traps. 
It leads us into bondages and it

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causes the word of God to become
unfruitful. 

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It being choked out the cares of
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of riches and the desires of 
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That's the word speaks about in 
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in the parable, the sober, 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. 
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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 destroys families. 

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Someone gets a trust or 
something and and you know, 

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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's so many people that I've

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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
Lord. 

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They start out using that gift 
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But as the love of money creeps 
into their hearts, because 

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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 
your disposure, and they begin 

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to leave the faith and begin to 
sing for the world. 

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And I've watched people as their
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that. 
This has been another 

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encouraging edition of Living 
Waters of Grace. 

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Pastor Louis Harrell has shared 
some good reminders for us to 

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learn and walk in today as he's 
teaching through the books of 

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First and Second Timothy. 
There are useful practices and 

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advice that the apostle Paul 
offers to Timothy in these books

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from a fellow pastor, Paul 
imparts some wisdom to Timothy 

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about solid leadership and what 
some of the criteria should be 

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for leadership. 
There are specific passages 

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directed toward men and women, 
respectively, and All in all, 

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there's much to gain in coming 
to an awareness of God's heart 

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for each person and God's 
purposes for each one. 

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We're happy that you've taken 
the time today to listen. 

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We invite you to come here the 
next edition. 

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but we're so glad that you've 

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been with us. 
There's more to dig into here in

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First and Second Timothy, so 
let's gear up for some more 

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great teachings from Pastor 
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Waters of Grace.