1 00:00:04,240 --> 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 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,160 Boy, don't we all need that refreshing sometime. 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,920 We need it from each other. We need it from the Holy Spirit. 7 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,720 We just need a refreshing. Most of us are here right now to 8 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,840 be refreshed, to sit under word, to have to get away from the 9 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,600 toils of life Monday through Saturday and deal with all those 10 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,080 pressures and all those turns, all the political stuff, all 11 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,080 that. Get away from all that and let's 12 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,360 just sit under the word of God and be refreshed. 13 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,200 Be refreshed. Isn't that why you've tuned in 14 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,240 to listen to Living Waters of Grace? 15 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,560 You find yourself smack dab in the middle of the struggles of 16 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,320 this life, working the 9:00 to 5:00, clawing to get those bills 17 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:23,200 paid, striving to see that child walk in obedience to the Lord. 18 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,640 I'll need refreshment in our souls and spirits. 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,480 You need to hear the Word of God. 20 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,560 Drink it in and truly experience the living waters of Grace. 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,720 And there's nothing like it. There's nothing in this world 22 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,320 that can compare to the refreshment that Jesus brings to 23 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:43,160 us now. Here's Pastor Lewis in the Book 24 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,280 of Second Timothy, chapter one with today's edition of Living 25 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,000 Waters of Grace. Let's pray and then we'll get 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,160 into the Word, Father God in Jesus name. 27 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:59,680 Lord, we do thank You once again that we have the privilege of 28 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,640 sitting under Your Word, Lord, and hearing Your Word, being 29 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 taught Your word, not by me, Lord, but by Your Spirit and 30 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,920 Father, I need Your spirit now. We all need a filling of Your 31 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:15,600 spirit, regardless of what is said. 32 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:21,160 Lord, how logical we may sound. You are the one who gives us the 33 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,760 understanding, the revelation, the illumination of Your Word 34 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,160 that comes from You. So Father, I pray as I give 35 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,720 myself away to you and make myself available for you to use 36 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,080 this broken vessel. I pray Father, that you would 37 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,280 just fill me up with Your Spirit. 38 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,200 Allow Your Spirit to be overflowed so that we all will 39 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:50,680 be able to receive the seed of the Word in our hearts and that 40 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,720 our lives will be changed by make us more like your Son, 41 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,520 Jesus Christ. We thank you, Lord, in Jesus 42 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:03,000 name we pray, Amen. So as we go back to chapter 1, 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,840 the end of chapter 1 and we look at verses 13, we're going to 44 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,640 review verse 13 again because it is significant. 45 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:12,600 It's very significant, particularly as we go forward 46 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,040 and what he says here, what Paul says here, and remember, this is 47 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,040 Paul who is facing imminent death. 48 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,360 I want to keep reminding us of that because this is not like 49 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:27,400 it's just two men sitting and talking who have equal, you 50 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,480 know, it's an equal place or in the same place. 51 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,680 Paul is facing imminent death and he knows that. 52 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,560 And the things that he is sharing with Timothy are the 53 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,280 things that he's receiving from the Lord that's on his heart 54 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,720 that Timothy will need. He's passing the mantle to 55 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,400 Timothy and basically saying, Timothy, I'm not going to be 56 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,640 here anymore. You are going to have to carry 57 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:52,160 the mantle, brother, young son. So therefore we need, I need you 58 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,200 to hear me. I need you to listen. 59 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,400 And there's some things that I need to impart in you before I 60 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,480 depart. So he goes in here, verse 13, 61 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,400 and he says, once again, we talked about it last week. 62 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,560 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from 63 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:14,600 me in faith and love what you're in Christ Jesus. 64 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,519 So Paul is saying, it's not just the fact that you're hearing 65 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:24,040 sound words from me and you just repeat what you hear, but it's 66 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,760 important that you hold the form of the way that you're getting 67 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,280 this. Hold the form. 68 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,560 Don't change it, Timothy, and don't allow anyone else to 69 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,640 change it. Don't add to it and don't take 70 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,280 away from it. It's important that you hold the 71 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:44,040 pattern of the Word just the way you're getting it, just the way 72 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,520 you're getting it when you share the gospel. 73 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,160 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 that whosoever shall believe on him shall not perish, but have 75 00:04:56,280 --> 00:05:00,600 everlasting life. That's the gospel. 76 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:06,680 First Corinthians chapter 15, The Bible says that Christ died 77 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,800 for our sins. He was buried and that he arose 78 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,280 again according to the Scriptures. 79 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,440 That's the gospel, Timothy. Don't change that and don't 80 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,280 allow anyone else to change it. That's coming into your 81 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:21,480 ministry. It's very important to hold fast 82 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,160 the form of sound doctrine. But then he goes on and he says, 83 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,280 do that in faith and love. We have to believe what we're 84 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,520 teaching. So not only do we do it 85 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,560 faithfully, meaning that we're holding the form of God 86 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,280 faithfully, where we're being reverent to it, we're being 87 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,960 faithful to what we've been taught. 88 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,680 Not only are we doing it faithfully, but our lives are 89 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,840 faithful to it so that the testimony in the presentation of 90 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:50,800 the testimony has the backing of the power of God working through 91 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,200 our lives. We cannot underestimate the 92 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:01,200 power of God working in us to establish and to make clear the 93 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:06,720 gospel and the power of God's Word when someone who knows you. 94 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,040 Clark talks about this all the time because, you know, there's 95 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,480 people, we're here, you know, we're here in Greensburg. 96 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,400 And I'm sure there's people who knew him when he lived in Irwin. 97 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,840 And Clark talks about his old hippie days and, and how the 98 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:20,880 people knew him back when he was a hippie. 99 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,480 So a lot of those people would probably say, wait a minute, he 100 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:29,120 is a pastor of the church him. And if you were to go back to 101 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,000 Stilton and Harrisburg and you would talk to people and say, 102 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,880 yeah, Lewis is a pastor. He's a pastor. 103 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,520 Are you sure, Lewis, that played here, that was here in Stilton, 104 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,480 that's that's a pastor. There's no way they believe it. 105 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,120 But it's only by the power of God who's able to change lives. 106 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,240 And just like he's changed your lives, every one of us have that 107 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,480 testimony. He's able to change lives. 108 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:57,000 So he says, look, do it in faith, but also do it in love. 109 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,400 When we speak, we speak the truth in love. 110 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,920 We speak the truth in love. This gospel is saturated with 111 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,400 love. It was love that took Jesus to 112 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,400 the cross. It was love that had the the 113 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,720 Father to send Jesus to die for our sins. 114 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,040 That's all saturated in love. It's motivated in love. 115 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,840 Everything Jesus did when He walked here on the earth for 3 116 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,720 1/2 years was motivated by love, right down to the giving of His 117 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,360 own life. So when we speak the word, we 118 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,840 should speak it in love. And this is in Christ Jesus. 119 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,240 And then in verse 14, it says that good thing which was 120 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:44,400 committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in you, 121 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:50,080 that good thing, that deposit, that treasure, that treasure 122 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,720 that was given to you, that was committed to you, it was 123 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,960 entrusted to you When someone shared the gospel with you, I 124 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,800 don't know if you knew it then, but know it now. 125 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:08,040 They shared a treasure with you. It's valuable, more valuable 126 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,600 than gold and silver. It's a treasure that you 127 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,200 receive, and when you meditate on that word and you study that 128 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,560 word, it's a treasure that's in you that now you can impart and 129 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,960 share with other people. It's a treasure. 130 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,400 And so he said that treasure, that deposit that was committed 131 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:33,559 to you, he says keep it not by your strength, Timothy. 132 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:35,240 Don't try to keep it by your strength. 133 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,280 Don't try to keep it by your own will, but keep it by the Holy 134 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:45,040 Spirit. The Holy Spirit, once again we 135 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,200 see the significance and it runs through the entire Bible when we 136 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,520 see the significance of the Holy Spirit. 137 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:54,640 We cannot do this Christian walk without the Holy Spirit. 138 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,360 And the more that we get into the study, because God is 139 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,240 directing us toward understanding endurance as we 140 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,560 move into chapter 2, but the more we move into this study, 141 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,840 you will see that there's no way that we can do any of this 142 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,040 without the grace of God through the Holy Spirit. 143 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,960 There's no way we can do it. No way. 144 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,840 So he goes on and he said, who dwells in us? 145 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,520 Not what dwells in US, Who dwells in US? 146 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,400 Holy Spirit is a person. Now this, you know, now he's 147 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,320 changing gears here. He's changing gears and he says 148 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,680 this, you know that all those in Asia have turned away from me, 149 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:37,240 among whom are 5 jealous and homogenies Now that everybody 150 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:38,800 turned away from Paul. I don't know. 151 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,480 You know how I mean, sometimes as men we can be a little, you 152 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,840 know, extreme. You know, you always do that. 153 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,240 You say that all the time. You know, we can be a little 154 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,280 extreme. Everybody turned away from me. 155 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,000 I don't know if everyone turned away from Paul, but I tell you 156 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,640 what, it's very clear that there are two men in particular that 157 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,560 turned away from Paul. And these are obviously these 158 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:07,200 were men who at one point were trustworthy men with him, men 159 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,760 who were close to him, men that he probably imparted this 160 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,080 treasure to. Phi Jealous and homogenies. 161 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,000 He pointed them out. How would you like to be one of 162 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,480 those people that know? Paul pointed out, and it's in 163 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,560 the word of God now it's in the word of God. 164 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:27,080 And everybody who will ever read this will know that you betrayed 165 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,200 Paul, that you betrayed Paul. But Phi Jealous and Homogenies, 166 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,960 among them are these two men who turned away from him. 167 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,600 But he's also saying, but I want to be fair. 168 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,080 I want to be fair to Phi Jealous into homogenies. 169 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,360 At that particular time, they were going through tremendous 170 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,200 persecution, tremendous. And if you weren't really rooted 171 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:57,080 and grounded in the faith, if the Spirit was not in you, then 172 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:04,520 it would be very, very difficult for you to be able to stay the 173 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:10,040 course because the threat of death was always with you. 174 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:11,840 The threat of death was always there. 175 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,280 Just being associated with Jesus Christ being in the way is what 176 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,040 they called it. It was the threat of that was 177 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,960 always there, always there. And I'm sure there were many 178 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,680 people, you know, who felt like, well, you know, I can't, I can't 179 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,720 do this. I can't do this. 180 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,720 I mean, my family, they want to cut off my head. 181 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,520 They want to, you know, kill me. They want to torture me. 182 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,160 They want to throw me in jail just because I'm following 183 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:37,440 Jesus. I can't do this. 184 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,240 I'm sure there's a lot of people who felt that way and they 185 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,760 turned away. And this is probably some of the 186 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,560 people that that Paul is talking about. 187 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,680 But in particular, we're probably these two men who were 188 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:51,000 close to him. They turned away, could not deal 189 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,120 with it. And that's part of why Paul is 190 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,840 going to be going into the whole endurance issue. 191 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,680 But he does give Timothy a good example. 192 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:01,680 He says, Timothy, don't be like these two guys, you know, who 193 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:07,160 give up and give out and turn away, you know, begin to deny 194 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,920 God and turn away from Jesus Christ and turn away from me. 195 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,120 Don't want to be associated with me because it's dangerous to be 196 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,360 associated with someone like Paul, you know, who the at that 197 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,520 particular time almost an entire state wanted to kill. 198 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,640 So he says don't be like them. But there is a good example that 199 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,640 I have here, a Niciphoris, which is really interesting because 200 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,640 Arnisiphoris, you know, was he was Ephesian, he was from 201 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,200 Ephesus family and they all believed. 202 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,480 They all believed his name actually means bringing prophet 203 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,840 or to be useful. That's his name. 204 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,200 That's what his name means. And he says here that Arnisor, 205 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,960 he said the Lord grant mercy to the household of Arnisorus, for 206 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,760 he refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 207 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,360 And that's exactly what the issue was. 208 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,840 A lot of the other people were ashamed to be associated with 209 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:03,120 Paul. And that a shame mean 210 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,520 disappointed, disillusioned, like, Oh my God, I'm following 211 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,880 this and this may be my end, this may be what I have to deal 212 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:16,120 with, and they fall away. But this Unnisrius, he wasn't 213 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,160 even from the Paul's in Rome at this time. 214 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,360 Remember that Paul's in Rome at this time. 215 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:24,920 Unnisrius is still in Ephesus. And as the Word says here, he 216 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,160 came and refreshed Paul. Boy, don't we all need that 217 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,160 refreshing sometime. We need it from each other. 218 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,880 We need it from the Holy Spirit. We just need a refreshing. 219 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,120 Most of us are here right now on Sundays. 220 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,480 We come here every Sunday to be refreshed, to sit under word, to 221 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:47,120 have to get away from the toils of life Monday through Saturday 222 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,840 and deal with all those pressures and all those turns, 223 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,160 all the political stuff, all that. 224 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,760 Get away from all that and let's just sit under the word of God 225 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,280 and be refreshed. Be refreshed. 226 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,000 Have someone speak an encouraging word instead of 227 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,880 someone talking a doom word or giving me a doomsday word. 228 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,240 Oh, we're done. We're not. 229 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,200 Oh, it's not going to get any better. 230 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,080 This is it. Hopeless word. 231 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,120 But we can come on Sunday and hear an encouraging word from 232 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,840 the Lord. He refreshed Paul. 233 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,360 I don't know how he refreshed him. 234 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,720 I don't know if he refreshed him with clothing or refreshed him 235 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,240 with with food or with drink, because I'm sure he didn't have 236 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,760 that in abundance. So he refreshed him or did he 237 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,080 just refresh him by his encouragement to Paul? 238 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,040 Brother, hang in there man, hang in there. 239 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,680 There's many people that you have blessed that you have 240 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,760 shared the gospel with, Paul, and those people are living for 241 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,080 the Lord. Hang in there, Paul. 242 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,920 You're doing all right, brother. God is with you, Paul. 243 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,000 He's holding you up. I'm here because God loves you. 244 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,040 Isn't it awesome when you get a call from someone that you're 245 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,640 not expecting to get a call from? 246 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,000 Or you get a text or an e-mail from someone that you're not 247 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,400 expecting to hear from and it's right out of time when you need 248 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,200 it the most. Because maybe you were going 249 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,800 through some challenges, going through some difficulties, 250 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,000 having some time, struggling with your face, struggling with 251 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,120 your circumstances. And all of a sudden your, your 252 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,600 phone rings and you pick up the phone and there's someone 253 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,960 calling with a message to encourage you, someone sending 254 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,080 you an encouraging e-mail, sending you a scripture that's 255 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,720 encouraging you. A thought or just to say, you 256 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,880 know what I was thinking about you. 257 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,360 I was thinking about you. Sometimes we can feel really 258 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,280 alone and isolated in this walk with the Lord. 259 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,240 But when someone can call you and tell you, I was thinking 260 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:57,800 about you, that's of the Lord. That is of the Lord. 261 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,520 And this is what initiatives, you know, he came and he, he 262 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,240 refreshed Paul. He wasn't ashamed of the message 263 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,400 that Paul was preaching, nor was he ashamed of his chains, Verse 264 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,160 17 says. But when he arrived in Rome, he 265 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,080 sought me out very zealously and found me the Lord. 266 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:21,000 Grant to him that he find mercy from the Lord in that day. 267 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:26,280 And you know very well how many ways he refreshed me from Rome. 268 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,520 Now here if you have a King James Version, it'll say refresh 269 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,840 me at Rome, but the translation of that is actually refreshed me 270 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,120 from Rome. So even while Paul was in Rome 271 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,360 on this wrist was sending and blessing him with with help and 272 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,360 refreshing him and it but that wasn't enough. 273 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,800 He actually came and searched out Paul. 274 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:55,520 He came and he travelled and searched Paul out so that he 275 00:16:55,520 --> 00:17:00,160 could be a blessing to Paul, which again within itself was 276 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,680 just a work of the Spirit. Because just to be associated 277 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,400 with Paul, come looking for Paul, that means you're letting 278 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,839 yourself be known that you're a Christian too. 279 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,839 And that wasn't the best thing back at that particular time. 280 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,720 So he goes on here. So now we're about to move in to 281 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,520 Chapter 2. And this is going to make more 282 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,160 sense to you covering it from where we just came from. 283 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,480 Because you saw an example of men who gave up, gave out, 284 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,640 turned away, betrayed Paul because they just could not deal 285 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,440 with that anymore. Maybe even begin to give in to 286 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,320 strange doctrine because he just couldn't deal with it anymore. 287 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,680 So then here with Chapter 2, it says therefore, therefore that 288 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:48,280 means based on what I said to you previously, Timothy, based 289 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,080 on the fact that you got these two men, Homogenies and 290 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,000 Fragilis, who turned away from me and betrayed me. 291 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,360 And also you have a good example and omnisforous. 292 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:06,880 Therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ 293 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,600 Jesus. Be strong in the grace that is 294 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,640 in Christ Jesus. So once again, Paul makes it 295 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,160 clear to Timothy. Timothy, I know that you've been 296 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,920 a little timid, sometimes a little fearful. 297 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,720 We talked about that earlier in Chapter 1. 298 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,560 He's been a little fearful, a little timid. 299 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,120 We also know that Timothy, his health wasn't all that great. 300 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,360 You know, Paul had told him a while back, look, I know your 301 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:32,360 stomach's a little, you know, a little bad. 302 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:33,920 So take some wine for your stomach. 303 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,240 His health is not all that great. 304 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,000 And then on top of that, he's young. 305 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,880 So Timothy really needed a lot of encouragement. 306 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,520 And he had a church that was right in one of the most Pagan 307 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:50,440 cities in the world in Ephesus, and he was the pastor of that 308 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,200 church. So he had to let Timothy know, 309 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,120 Timothy, you're not going to be able to lean on your own 310 00:18:56,120 --> 00:19:02,240 strength, brother. So be strong in the grace that 311 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,680 is in Christ Jesus, be strong in the grace that is in him. 312 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,200 That grace is not only unmerited favor for Timothy that he would 313 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,720 be able to be in a place to be able to do this ministry, or 314 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,880 it's not just the fact that he's saved that we're all saved by 315 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,400 grace. It's not even just that, but to 316 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,640 be in the grace, to be strong in the grace that is in Christ 317 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,520 Jesus. That grace is also the 318 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,800 enablement for Timothy to be able to do all that the Lord has 319 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,800 called him and assigned him to do your ministries. 320 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,680 Whatever it is that God has given you to do your ministry, 321 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,800 you'll never be able to fulfill it. 322 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,080 If you try to depend on your own strength and your own power, 323 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,520 you'll never be able to do it. You're going to give out. 324 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,200 You're going to give out. You're going to get frustrated. 325 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,040 We've all done it. We've all done it. 326 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,480 You get frustrated. You know you have to deal with 327 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,080 some opposition. That can wear you out. 328 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,880 We have tons of pastors all the time that's giving up their 329 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,920 churches because they can't deal with it anymore. 330 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,080 And if you're trying to do this in your own strength, I don't 331 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,640 care what your ministry is, You will not be able to do it. 332 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,040 If you're dependent on your own strength, your own wisdom, your 333 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:26,600 own logic, your own knowledge. You need the grace that is in 334 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:31,360 Christ Jesus. You need to grace this in Christ 335 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,240 Jesus. Pray for that grace, that 336 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,040 enablement that gives us what we need to do the ministry. 337 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,440 So he's saying to Timothy and these things, verse 2 and the 338 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,880 things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit 339 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,920 these to faithful men. And you know what, I love that 340 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,840 because when you go back and really look at what Paul was 341 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,120 talking about, these things that you heard from me. 342 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,560 Well, let's look at first of all, who did Paul get it from? 343 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,040 Right, Who did Paul get it from? If you go to the book of 344 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,960 Galatians, because you see, one of the things that we have to 345 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:12,000 learn is that the source of what is given to you or what is said 346 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,720 to you is just as important as what is said to you. 347 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,040 Kids got that down already. Kids got that down. 348 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,120 If you have more than one kid, I guarantee you, you've heard this 349 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:27,240 before, Johnny, cut off the TV and do your homework. 350 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,760 Who said everybody can relate to that, right? 351 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,360 If you got kids, you can relate to that. 352 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,600 Who said it's time to come in Now it's time for The Who said 353 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,280 it's always who said? Because kids understand that the 354 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,920 authority is not in what's being said. 355 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,960 The authority is in who's saying it. 356 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,920 If it's just my brother that's saying it, I'm ignore that. 357 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,120 But if they tell me mom or dad said it, OK, I'll do it. 358 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,760 Who said? And that's exactly what we need 359 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,360 to understand when it comes to doctrine, when it comes to the 360 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,200 word of God, when we're being preached something. 361 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:14,280 Who said, who said? Look at what he says here in 362 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,520 Galatians. This is what he says here. 363 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:22,120 Paul is letting Timothy know, just like he's letting us know 364 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,960 that what Paul is giving to Timothy, he didn't just get it 365 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,840 from man. See, when Paul got saved, he 366 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,880 didn't just go right to the men and ask them to teach him the 367 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,560 gospel. That's not what happened. 368 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,520 Paul was taught the gospel directly from the revelation of 369 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,520 Jesus Christ himself. Look at what it says here in 370 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,040 Galatians chapter one, verse 11. But I make known to you, 371 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,800 brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not 372 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:51,320 according to man, verse 12 For I neither received it from man nor 373 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,520 was taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus 374 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,880 Christ. So Paul is saying what I'm 375 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,280 giving to you, Timothy. I got it from Jesus Christ. 376 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,360 This is legit. This is legit, this is for real. 377 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,800 You don't have to worry about questioning it. 378 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,320 So this is what I want you to share with other people. 379 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,880 So now we go back here to Second Timothy chapter 2 right there in 380 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,520 verse 2. And he says, and the things that 381 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:23,080 you heard from me among many witnesses, commit these things 382 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:28,760 to faithful men who will be able to teach others also, not just 383 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,200 to men. Don't just commit them to men, 384 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,080 but commit them to faithful men. Commit them to other men who 385 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,640 will handle this word faithfully and who will handle it 386 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,800 reverently. Other men who were faithful, men 387 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,080 who were seeking the Lord, faithfully seeking the Lord 388 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,000 themselves, Men who were sitting under the Word, Men who are 389 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:54,600 receiving and being fed the Word just as much as they're being 390 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,520 taught the word. This has been another 391 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,720 encouraging edition of Living Waters of Grace. 392 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,840 Pastor Lewis Harrell has shared some good reminders for us to 393 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,640 learn and walk in today as he's teaching through the books of 394 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,240 First and Second Timothy. There are useful practices and 395 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,880 advice that the Apostle Paul offers to Timothy in these 396 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,480 books. From a fellow pastor, Paul 397 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,040 imparts some wisdom to Timothy about solid leadership and what 398 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,080 some of the criteria should be for leadership. 399 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,280 There are specific passages directed toward men and women, 400 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,000 respectively. 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