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going on in Port City? 
Family and friends. 

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Isaac here with the one and only
Pastor Tanner. 

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Reverend, future doctor. 
Maybe I could see it. 

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I could see it one day. 
One day. 

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I joke with I joke with my wife 
like once. 1/4 I look up PhD 

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programs and then I remember I 
have 4 kids. 

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Are you even in ministry? 
If you want. 

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To yeah, it's like it's our our 
daydreaming is a yeah. 

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Yeah, how you doing, Tanner? 
I'm doing good man, excited to 

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be here with you. 
Love second Timothy. 

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We do have some good coffee 
right now y'all? 

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Isaac works at Coalescence now, 
and he knew his coffee before, 

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but now? 
No, I've seen the light. 

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You're ruined. 
For a lot I've been baptized in 

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the spirit of. 
Coffee, you are ruined. 

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I remember in seminary those 
jokers who had like that set up 

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at their house where like 
they're basically making their 

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own coffee from scratch. 
You're. 

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Roasting their own beans. 
I'm not there yet. 

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You're close. 
I'm not there yet. 

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Yeah. 
Well, let's go ahead and jump 

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in. 
Sounds good. 

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Second Timothy. 
Yep, where? 

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Where is it at in the Bible? 
Who wrote it? 

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Give us a little bit of 
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It's good. 
So Second Timothy is a letter 

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written by the apostle Paul, one
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We did a Series A few years ago,
13 letters on all of his 

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epistles. 
Epistles. 

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Another term for the letter. 
It is called Second Timothy 

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because it is the second letter 
Paul wrote to Timothy. 

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He wrote it in the like 806365 
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And for context, Jesus died 86 
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So Jesus dies, you know, soon 
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obviously the resurrection and 
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with that. 
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apostle Paul, Acts 9, it goes 
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And then within 25 years of that
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So in a lot of ways, this is the
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Like if you love Acts and like 
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spreading and what would it have
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We'll go read a letter like. 
This you know. 

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What I mean, so like, I love 
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the epistles. 
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encouraging just how normal it 
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Like you read the letter and 
what it doesn't have is a ton of

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just like Timothy, go out and do
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things. 
Not that we don't believe in the

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miraculous. 
We do. 

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We're continuationists, but so 
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doctrine, they're about the 
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And I mean, just for example, in
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8, he, this is literally what 
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Remember Jesus Christ, risen 
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David has preached in my gospel,
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You got clearer than that, yeah.
That's what you got for your 

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man, the apostles right hand 
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What he's having to write him a 
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You know what I'm saying? 
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Jesus. 
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we're struggling with 2000 years
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They're really not, man. 
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We need to. 
Same thing. 

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Jesus Christ, baby. 
Yeah, that's that's so true. 

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What are some of the major 
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Yeah, I know you kind of just 
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of the other things Paul breaks 
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Yeah. 
For Timothy, what's he doing? 

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So essentially Paul is writing 
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This is his last letter. 
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Timothy is a little bit afraid. 
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famous 1. 
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reason, I remind you to fan him 
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is in you through the laying on 
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For God gave us a spirit not of 
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self-control. 
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Timothy is like experiencing 
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love in his first letter to 
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people look down on you because 
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them an example. 
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Timothy is starting to feel the 
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And Paul in this letter is 
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to the club, buddy. 
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be ashamed of the gospel. 
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don't be afraid to stand up on a
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He means suffer for the gospel. 
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Guard the Gospel. 
So he uses so many phrases, fan 

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the flame, guard the good 
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preach the word. 
Like there's so many just anchor

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metaphors he's going to use. 
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play your role Timothy and like,
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game. 
Don't you give up. 

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But a lot of it is just just do 
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like they were going to hate you
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Like it's, it's pretty just 
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gospel, don't let go of Jesus. 
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theme in a lot of different 
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Is this guarding the gospel? 
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are gospel courage, gospel 
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workers, gospel opposition, 
gospel foundation, gospel 

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ministry and gospel people. 
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it's all highlighting the gospel
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Like we'll say in in chapter 3, 
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everyone who follows the Lord is
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You know, all believers are 
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some kind that follow, follow 
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And so he's just giving Timothy 
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way out. 
He's like, here's my last will 

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and testament to my guy. 
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ends with a bunch of people. 
Paul's like, shout out, shout 

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out, shout out. 
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And what he's got is a lot of 
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A lot of investments, a lot of 
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And I think in some ways that's 
what he wants Timothy to end his

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ministry with when he's done is 
be able to say I fought the good

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fight, I finished the race, I've
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That's good. 
Does that make sense? 

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Absolutely. 
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listening to that going, oh, 
wow, that's great, Really 

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inspiring. 
Paul's right into a younger 

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minister. 
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I'm not a minister, though. 
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Yeah. 
Why should I care? 

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What would be kind of your 
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what's in Second Timothy? 
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Yeah. 
I think the most 1 to 1 is a 

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minister of the gospel. 
But a lot of those themes apply 

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to you if you're a plumber, you 
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You got to guard the gospel, 
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And like, all of the themes are 
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vocations not one to one, right.
That makes sense because you 

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have the same. 
You have a heart, you have a 

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soul, We have a heartbeat. 
You know he's going to talk 

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about the concept of being a 
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like the the Christian plumber, 
and it's funny even saying that 

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phrase, the Christian who is a 
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Christian? 
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happens to be a Christian, you 
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the master of the house, set 
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good work and you need to flee 
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righteousness, faith, love and 
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So the way vocationally that 
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meant different things. 
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guarding the gospel, it's going 
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going to waste your life, you 
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So hopefully you can get to the 
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fight. 
I finished the race, I kept the 

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faith. 
That's not like I did a good 

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job. 
It's like my heart inside and 

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out guarded the gospel, you 
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And I saw that in my parenting, 
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my school, the community. 
Like they know I guarded the 

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gospel. 
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So why should we guard the 
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Yeah. 
And how do we? 

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Because I think when people hear
the word guard, they think of 

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the guy who's out St. preaching 
maybe has a. 

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Massive picket. 
It's a term. 

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Not that I'm offending you, but 
it's offensive if I need to go 

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do. 
Something I need to be 

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aggressive. 
Good, good, good, good. 

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Yeah. 
To be clear, we're not guarding 

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the gospel against other people.
It's in our own heart. 

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You know, it's like Timothy, 
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says, therefore do not be 
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me, his prisoner. 
So at some level, a cost came 

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with being associated with Paul.
So guard, the gospel just means,

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hey, man, like, you know, there 
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Jesus, you know what I mean? 
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man, you just get lumped into 
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And like, it just means 
accepting that, you know? 

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So yeah, the term guard is the 
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have on your heart, you know 
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And the expectations of what it 
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And we're going to talk about 
sometimes you got to cut out 

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sinful stuff in your life. 
Sometimes it's just silly stuff,

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you know, like sometimes I've 
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how much NBA I'm consuming 
because it impacts everything in

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Does that make sense? 

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That's a youthful passion, if 
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So yeah, the guard is not 
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opponent out there somewhere. 
It's about it's the version of 

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your heart that could eventually
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gospel. 
You're like, it's not worth it. 

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It's live your life in such a 
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you are just as fired up about 
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That's what I want for everybody
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cities to get to the end of 
their life and be like, man, you

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know the, the, the phrase that 
that John Piper used was don't 

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waste your life. 
Like second Timothy is the 

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letter of how you don't waste 
your life. 

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That's good. 
That makes sense. 

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It's how you just live a life 
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way to the end and just live a 
life that matters. 

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And yeah, the the word that 
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we name the series, Towards Your
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towards Your Own heart about the
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Does that make sense? 
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But I think that's a helpful 
clarification. 

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Yeah. 
So in closing and kind of 

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wrapping up our time, what are 
you hoping people get out of our

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series in Second Timothy? 
Yeah, I hope that people come 

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out just fired up about Jesus, 
that they've been saved. 

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Man, just some banger verses in 
this man. 

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I mean second Timothy 2 one 
through 7, I feel like is my 

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life, you know, like I'm trying 
to model my life on this. 

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You then, my child, be 
strengthened by the grace that 

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is in Christ Jesus. 
Like strength comes y'all not 

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through promises of a promotion 
or you know, strength comes 

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through grace that is in Christ 
Jesus. 

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You know, like the whole 
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trying to grow in the grace that
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And then from that, what you've 
heard from me in the presence of

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many witnesses in trusts of 
faithful men and women who will 

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be able to teach others also, 
like pass this on. 

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Yes. 
You know, our dream, of course, 

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is that every member will 
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You might multiply every year. 
You might multiply every five 

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years or just once in your whole
life, but multiply your life 

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into another human being who 
then can go multiply into 

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somebody else and teach them 
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Sharing suffering is a good 
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No soldier gets entangled in 
civilian pursuit since his aim 

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is to please the one who 
enlisted him, which many in our 

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community will understand that 
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says. 
An athlete is not crowned unless

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he competes according to the 
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first share of the crops. 
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Lord will give you understanding
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And so I think that this letter 
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That's great. 
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there anything in Second Timothy
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that you're just pumped to 
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share with our people? 
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through 7 is is literally like 
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I think another one I was 
listening to some of y'all might

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know who Tony Morita is just a 
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He writes on preaching. 
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professor at Southeastern and he
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3 one time because Second 
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verses to memorize about the 
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All Scripture is breathed out by
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Hey, and profitable for 
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correction, for training and 
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God may be complete. 
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And he said preacher or he says,
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think you should read it? 
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God wrote a book, don't you 
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And it sounds simple, y'all. 
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against out there somewhere, it 
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that thinks we can find a way to
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preaching the word, without like
keeping it simple, without 

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sharing Christ with people. 
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how nice you love your kids. 
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through your kindness. 
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You know what I'm saying? 
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word, you got to teach the word,
you got to know the word, you 

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got to live the word. 
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the word, even back to first 
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yourself to the public reading 
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man, I think there's just a 
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gets me fired up of it's not 
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just have to live with Christ. 
His word is central to that. 

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We're not biblicists, meaning 
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But what I mean by that is it 
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second Timothy 316 and 17 
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pick up line. 
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You know what that says? 
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No, but the Bible should be what
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it should. 
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Just eat it. 
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You know, Eugene Peterson wrote 
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in it he paints a view of having
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in your DNA, it's. 
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thinking how you speak, even. 
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second, you know what I mean, 
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You should be living it. 
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had a prayer, and I mean, I used
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students or so and I when I say 
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students, but anybody I had a 
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like a month, you know, like it 
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That joke is a genius. 
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If your student memorize this 
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You know, I just hope that 
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encouraged about the role of 
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difficulty of guarding gospel 
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that our church would just go 
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Yeah, that's awesome. 
Well, sweet. 

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Yep. 
I know you're going to get into 

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it. 
Going to be more city. 

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It's been good talking to you, 
Grace. 

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Grace and Peace. 
Still haven't figured out a good

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way to end that. 
That's hard, man.