095: Dennis Paggi – Exhortation: Flee, Pursue, and Listen Quietly

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Welcome to the good Christian
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For talk this week or listening
to an expectation.

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That was given at the Simi
Hills.

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Ecclesia back in May 24th.
Just this past year, that was

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given by her brother.
Dennis pagi from the Verdugo

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Hills, Ecclesia during see, nice
live stream and he’s focusing

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specifically on 1st Timothy
Chapter 6, verses 11 through 16.

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If you would like to turn those
up, while you listen to you his

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expectation, that would be a
good place to go and he is

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taking a really close.
Look at these six verses.

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And specifically, three words
that come out of these verses,

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the words fully pursue and
listen quietly.

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And also this expectation was
given right after a baptism by a

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new sister, send during the
excitation brother, Dennis is

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mentioning that sister a couple
different times and mentions

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that these five verses, which
are Paul’s expectation to

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Timothy, is Timothy starts his
service to the effusion.

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Ecclesia.
That this excerpt Station this

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chunk of versus is applicable to
all of us just in the same way

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that Paul mentored Timothy as a
spiritual father.

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Also these words can be used to
encourage and push us forward

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brother.
Dennis has a really great manner

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about him when he gives these
expectations where he’s very

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structured, he breaks it down
but he has lots of little

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nuggets that he’ll almost like
pull in at random points while

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he’s talking, he’ll make a
comment and then he’ll make a

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little little side comment that
brings just that little bit more

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depth.
Into the topic that is looking

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at.
So it was a really enjoyable

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one.
I really encourage you one.

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Uplifting 11 that kind of Lights
a fire under you get you kind of

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passionate and moving forward
and one of the other things that

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are really interesting
throughout his brother, Dennis

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is really great Storyteller.
So as a result, the provides

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these very detailed stories of
some camping trips that he and

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his family used to go on that.
Help, really give you a real

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visual anchor to grab hold of
when it comes to describing

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these three words fully pursue
and listened quietly.

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It was a great expectation.
I remember when I when I heard

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it it was one that sounded
really good and wanted to share

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And with that, we’ll turn it

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over to our brother.
Dennis patchy for his

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extrication, flee pursue and
listened quietly.

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Good morning, everyone.
Near and far here all of us and

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remote few.
Thanks.

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First of all, thank you to the
see me Ecclesia.

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And the see me brethren for
providing all of us the

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spiritual life line.
During this time of covid-19,

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and a special thank you to
brother.

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Jim who has been behind the
scenes working diligently from

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the very beginning.
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appreciative.
Thankful, very thankful to our

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Heavenly Father, for what we saw
this morning and thank you to

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our new Sister Lisa, for making
this a special Sunday for all of

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us.
Our thoughts, this morning will

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come from 1st, Timothy Chapter
6, verses 11 to 16 and while you

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are turning it up.
I would like to share two

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experiences to help all of us.
Remember to keywords in Paul’s

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charge to Young Timothy Those
who of you who know, our family

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know that we love the Virginia
Lakes area, and the eastern

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Sierras and that we have had
canoes and kayaks in our family

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for many decades.
And I’d like to share two

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experiences from being on the
water that will help us.

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Hopefully, remember to keywords
from the Apostle Paul.

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One evening about dusk is, I was
fishing in my kayak.

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I witnessed a good example of
the meaning of the word flee.

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There was a young woman.
Perhaps in her mid-20s, who was

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fishing from the shore on the
opposite side of the lake about

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500 feet from me.
All of a sudden she began to

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hoot and a holler.
She had hooked a large trout,

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and was letting the world.
Know what she had on the end of

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her line.
After a few minutes, she was

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able to pull it to Shore and
held it up for her companions to

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admire about five minutes before
she had hooked the trout a bear

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had come out of the forest down
to the lake and slowly began

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moving in the direction of the
young woman.

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It was making its rounds.
Foraging for fish that had been

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that it died during the day and
were floating on the surface of

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the water.
The bear was heading generally

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in her Direction but very
slowly.

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So she was in no immediate
Danger.

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She and her friends were making
so much noise, and we’re so

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focused on the big fish.
They were unable to hear any of

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the warnings that were being
shouted to her by the fishermen

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that were nearby when the young
woman and her companions.

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Finally looked up from their
celebration, they too saw the

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bear.
Now, about 200 feet away, they

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had plenty of time to get away
from the bear but I Could see

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from over 500 feet away in
darkening, light that there was

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panic in their movements.
There were quick decisions about

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what to grab.
Should we take the fish?

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Especially that big one or just
leave them all for the bear to

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eat rather than eating us.
What about the chairs?

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What about the fishing tackle?
What about what about my jacket

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over there so I could see all
that activity going on.

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I’m happy to report that the
woman and her friends were able

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to escape, taking all their gear
and the big fish and they lived

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to tell the tale.
It was a graphic example of the

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meaning of the word to flee.
Another experience again on a

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lake.
This time, Mono Lake usually on

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our trips to the Sierras.
We drive down to Mono Lake,

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which is a very large and salty
body of water.

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It’s home to algae Alkali flies,
and brine shrimp, and the feed.

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It is the feeding and resting
spot for millions of migratory

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birds in the breeding and
nesting grounds for a very large

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percentage of the Nia seagull.
Mono Lake is famous in the water

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wars of the Owens Valley versus
Los Angeles and has unique

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structures called tufas tall
spires which are deposits of

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calcium carbonate which with the
receding Waters over the past

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decades, to centuries are now in
some places above the water and

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visible.
Some even on dry land, some a

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few hundred feet offshore and
some still deeply submerged in.

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The depths of Mono Lake, we love
to canoe and kayak around the

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two photos that are in the
water.

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And we enjoy seeing the nesting,
Ospreys owls and swallows in the

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tufas.
Sometimes we paddle over to Rush

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Creek which is about three miles
away towards the Western end of

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the lake and I’ve also paddled
around two large islands on the

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Northwestern side of the lake
also about three miles away.

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We like to be off the water by
11 a.m. because on most summer

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days, there is a strong wind
that usually blows from the

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south we park at Navy Beach on
the southern shore of the lake.

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So when the wind comes up, it
blows us across the lake away

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from where our vehicles are on a
few occasions.

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The wind has come up earlier and
stronger than we have in

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Subpoenaed and we have had to
work hard, to make it back to

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the southern Shore, where the
trucks are parked.

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When you are paddling as hard as
you can with your head down your

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legs braced against the sides of
your craft, all your muscles

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being used to generate maximum
power for each stroke.

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It is a graphic experience that
illustrates the meaning of the

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word to pursue.
Back to First Timothy.

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Timothy.
First Timothy is one of four

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letters written to individuals
in the New Testament first and

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second Timothy Titus and
Philemon are the four written to

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individuals in the New Testament
and the letters to Timothy and

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Titus are considered to be
pastoral letters.

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For they deal with matters of
organization within the

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Ecclesia.
And Philemon is considered to be

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a private letter.
But really all four of these

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letters contain, both pastoral
and private encouragement from

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the Apostle Paul a bit of
background on 1st Timothy.

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Paul Silas and Timothy and
others were with Paul in Ephesus

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for the two years that he stayed
and preached there.

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And towards the end of his, it
was towards the end of his third

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missionary journey and Paul left
Ephesus soon after the riot that

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was instigated by Demetrius.
The silversmith and we are told

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that Timothy and erastus had
left just before that Riot the

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details of Acts. 19 make for
very noisy reading.

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You will remember that.
The Ephesian mob was in the

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theater shouting for two hours.
Great is Artemis.

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Great is Diana of the Ephesians
The ruins in that area indicate

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that the theater was about 150
yards by 100 yards in size and

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it had excellent acoustics.
And they estimate that it held

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between 17 to 22, thousand
people at full capacity, think

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Staples Center in Los Angeles.
As I think about that incident

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in Acts chapter 19, just as I
think about it, my ears ring

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thinking of the constant noise
and the constant intensity of

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those two hours.
Imagine two hours.

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Great is Artemis, the god of the
Ephesians First Timothy chapter

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1 verse 3 tells us that Paul
urged Timothy, to stay at

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Ephesus, to help guide and
organize, the Ecclesia Timothy

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was probably in his late teens.
When he started to travel with

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Paul and he was still considered
a young man.

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In 1st Timothy 4:12 from our
readings yesterday, when Paul

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told him to let no one despise
him for his youth.

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And we’re now about 13 14 years
after his first encounter with

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the Apostle Paul.
And so Timothy is now in his

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early 30s.
Brother Brad last week spoke to

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us about the mentorship of
Joshua by Moses and we see the

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same pattern with Paul and
Timothy in the acts and in the

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Epistles.
So Timothy is perhaps in his

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early 30s when he is given the
responsibility in Ephesus and it

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must have been a challenging
task.

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From what we are told in the
epistle itself, the occlusal

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environment was at times chaotic
and contentious, there was

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strong personalities, holding
wrong beliefs and teaching wrong

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Doctrine.
There were rich in poor, there

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were a Jew and Gentile, there
was brother and sister slave

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owner in their brother and
sister slaves within the

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Ecclesia.
And the Great temple to Artemis

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Diana in Ephesus was one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient

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World and no doubt there were
some in the Ecclesia who came

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from that background as well.
The temple to Diana was a major

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tourist destination for its day.
It was one of the Seven Wonders

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of the Ancient World and
pilgrims from all over.

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The Roman Empire would come not
just to see the Great temple in

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the Statue of the Goddess, but
to buy the silver shrines at

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Demetrius was so worried about
They would also need places to

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stay food to eat entertainment
of all sorts.

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And so, the whole city was
affected by this Pagan Temple.

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And would certainly benefit
financially from The Busy

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tourist trade, We would like to
focus our attention on today’s

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reading chapter 6 verses 11
through 16.

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We’re in a few words, a few
verses Paul encourages, young

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Timothy after sharing
instructions for the Ecclesia

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and the first five chapters.
The Apostle moves to consider

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false teachers and true
contentment in chapter 6, from

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the middle of verse 22 verse 10
and he concludes this section in

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verses.
Nine and ten with warnings about

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the love of money and return to
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through 19.
So, sandwich between those two

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warnings about money and about
materialism, we find are many

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excitation to Timothy and for us
this morning.

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And if the apostle was concerned
about materialism in the

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Ecclesia at Ephesus, he might
well, be concerned about the

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same.
Chewin, the cliches of our

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Western World, so let’s look
over Timothy’s shoulder as he

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reads Paul’s warning.
And First Timothy chapter 6,

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verses 9 and 10 he says, but
those who desire to be rich fall

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into temptation into a snare and
too many senseless and harmful

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desires that plunge, people into
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And that first phrase is the key
point, isn’t it?

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Those who desire to be rich
because when he uses the word

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desire, he focuses on our inward
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The way we think the way we feel
towards money and towards

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material things and perhaps,
Paul has Demetrius, the

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silversmiths in mind here.
If you remember an instigating,

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the riot and Ephesus, Demetrius
says, a couple of things and

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we’ll turn back pretty quickly
to Acts chapter, 19, verses 26

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and 27.
Context.

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Again, this is Ephesus at the
time that Paul had preached

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there now for two years And
there arose verse 23, no little

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disturbance, concerning the way
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A silversmith who made silver
shrines of Artemis brought no

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little business to the Craftsman
and here’s what he says to

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instigate the riot verses 26 and
27.

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And you see and hear that not
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all of Asia, this Paul has
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A great, many people saying that
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Gods verse 27 and there is
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Not only that, this trade of
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also that the Temple of the
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counted as nothing and that
Shane that she may even be.

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Posed from her magnificence.
She humo Asia in the world

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worship so insert it in his
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Diana.
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this trade of ours maybe may
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And so he’s concerned about
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be rich and he desires that
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And Paul says those Those who
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to the Ecclesia fall into
temptation into a snare and into

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many senseless and harmful
desires that plunge, people into

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ruin and destruction.
Then he goes on to verse 10 and

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it’s a verse that is often
misquoted, isn’t it?

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And so because it’s misquoted we
need to be sure we read it

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carefully.
What does it say?

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The love of money is a root of
all kinds of evil, not money

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itself but the love of money.
And he goes on to say that it is

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through this craving that some
have wandered away from the

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faith and pierced themselves
with many pain.

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Was when Paul says Love of
Money, it is the Greek word

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fill.
Our gorya phileo is part of that

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word.
And that’s our old friend, love

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friendship.
So, Paul says it is friendship.

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It is the love, friendship with
money and the word that he used

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that is translated.
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silver.
And perhaps again, there is that

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reference back to the riot and
Ephesus, where Demetrius the

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silversmiths with his love of
silver, was instigating the riot

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that would result.
Finally, in Paul leaving

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Ephesus.
And not until Timothy would come

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back to continue to work with
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So as Paul concludes this first
epistle, he now begins to exhort

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Timothy about spiritual goals.
About his courageous Savior and

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about his powerful, Heavenly
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So, let’s think about his word
starting in verse 11.

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He starts out this little
section, but as for you, oh man,

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of God.
Paul could see what Timothy was

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capable of and he challenges him
to fulfill that vision and he

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names him with it, he gives him
a title.

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He gives him a new name if you
will.

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Oh man of God, we just saw this
morning, the beginning of a walk

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in Christ of a young lady who
now has a new name.

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It is now Lisa woman of God.
It is now Sister Lisa sister to

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now as we apply as we imagine

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these words, applying to Timothy
and to ourselves Sense.

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How you feel when you hear this
phrase addressed to you.

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But as for you, oh woman of God.
But as for you o sister of the

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Lord Jesus Christ that applies
to all of us, doesn’t it?

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Wherever we might be however
long ago our baptism was and

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insert your name here in the
passage but as for you Brad or

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James or Lisa or Paula or
whatever that name might be as

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for you.
Oh man and woman of God.

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All of a sudden, you take a
little deeper breath, and your

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shoulder is get back a little
bit more because you are being

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called to a high position and
great responsibility and

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wonderful blessing.
So, this is how Paul begins this

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mini exhortation to Timothy as
he closes this epistle.

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But as for you o, man of God
flee these things and they are

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the these things that he just
talked about with false teachers

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in true contentment with
godliness with warnings against

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materialism.
And flee here means to run away

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from Tashan to get away from.
And think of our earlier

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example, realize what this
action verb requires us to do it

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requires us to recognize Danger.
Sure, for what it is.

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And then run away from it.
Now, it’s easy to recognize a

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300 pound, bear, 200 feet away.
That’s pretty easy to recognize,

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isn’t it?
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it’s harder to recognize what
those dangers are quite often.

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They are attitudes and thought
patterns and our own weaknesses

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at our that draw us away from
God.

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And so when Paul says to Timothy
flee these things, it requires a

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perception, doesn’t it?
And it requires us to run away

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from those things.
He told the Corinthians to flee

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from idolatry and he will tell
Timothy and second Timothy to

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flee, youthful passions.
And again it requires a

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recognition of the danger that
we find ourselves in.

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And the wisdom in the energy to
turn from them and go in a

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different direction.
And then he says pursue notice

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that contrast flee from these
things.

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And now pursue and Paul does
that a lot, doesn’t he?

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And other Epistles?
He talks about the works of the

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Flesh and the fruit of the
spirit he speaks of putting off

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and putting on.
He speaks of recognizing the man

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of the Flesh and choosing to be
the man, the woman of the

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spirit.
It.

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And pursue here means to follow
after to run swiftly in order to

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catch a person or a thing to
press onto earnestly Endeavor.

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And again, think of the example
of head down body braced muscle,

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straining to earnestly,
Endeavor, to reach that Shore

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Against the Wind.
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It tells us for one thing that
we have, not yet completely

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attained.
We need to pursue it.

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We need to chase after it.
We need to earnestly Endeavor.

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So, what are the things we need
to pursue?

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Righteousness godliness Faith
love steadfastness gentleness.

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It sounds like, attributes and
list that Paul uses quite often

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in his writings.
It’s the fruit of the spirit,

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it’s think on these things.
So let’s let’s very briefly

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think about these things that we
are supposed to pursue.

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We are supposed to pursue
righteousness being right with

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God, being right, with man being
right with each other serving.

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God serving man.
Godliness.

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Word means piety and reverence
has the idea of living our lives

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in the presence of God faith.
It’s not just the conviction,

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but the Trust In The God Who has
promised Not just to understand

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intellectually what he has said
in his word and what we see

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throughout the Old and New
Testament about the covenants

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that he made those covenants of
Promise.

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He is a faithful God but it
means as well and more

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importantly for us perhaps the
trust that whatever happens in

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our lives.
And in our world Our God will

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fulfill what he has promised we
are to pursue love The love that

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God has for us the love which
motivated.

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Jesus the love, which needs to
change us.

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And that word there is the
agape.

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Love steadfastness In some
versions, it’s translated

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patients.
And it means perseverance under

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trial or during exertion.
It means we have that goal and

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we want to get there and we have
to keep working at it, not that

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in and of ourselves, we can
achieve that.

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But with God’s help, we can get
closer to the type of character

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that he has called us to become.
The word means burying up to be

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able to overcome. and finally,
gentleness, Word.

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That means mildness my old nest,
meekness, the ability to fight

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our own sin and struggle with
our own sin, but to be able to

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forgive and to be patient with
weakness in others, and that’s

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tough, sometimes isn’t it?
And then he goes on and says,

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fight the good fight of the
faith.

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And this phrase has the flavor
of a wrestling match in the

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presence of Spectators, doesn’t
it?

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And we can hear Echoes back to
Hebrews 12:1 where we have this

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great cloud of witnesses and we
are in the middle of a stadium

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competing, it’s the same kind of
idea, fight the good fight of

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faith.
Take hold of the eternal life

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and this is a funny phrase,
isn’t it?

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It’s a bit of a paradox, the
word itself means to grasp

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something.
So as not to let it get away

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from you and again it’s the
feeling of a wrestling match.

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Think Jacob wrestling the angel,
but in this case, it is take

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hold of eternal life.
Well, how can we Mortals?

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Take cold and grass.
Something that is immortality

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Perhaps a better way to think
about this is not so much

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eternal life in terms of the
immortality part of it.

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But rather the spiritual things
in life, which are Eternal

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grasp, the life, grasped the
values that are Eternal values.

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Take, hold of that.
Don’t let that go.

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And then Paul goes on and talks
to him about the good confession

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that you made Timothy in the
presence of many witnesses.

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That’s the end of verse 12, and
perhaps, this is a reference

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back to Timothy as he now comes
into contact with the Apostle,

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Paul back in lystra and in
Derby.

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And perhaps Timothy was before
the occlusal elders and

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answering questions and talking
to the Apostle Paul and he gave

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a good confession of his faith.
and so he was chosen by Paul to

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go with him as a co-worker as a
friend as one that Paul could

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trust in and send on any Aaron
that he would have him go and in

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later life we know that Timothy
did go to prison and so in later

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life he would give a good
confession to Roman authorities

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and tradition has it that That
Timothy died.

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A martyr’s death.
Just like the Apostle Paul.

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Paul doesn’t leave the matter.
There he goes on and he reminds

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Timothy verse 13.
I charge you in the presence of

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God who gives life to all things
and of Christ, Jesus who in his

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testimony before, Pontius Pilate
made the good confession.

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And so now, he begins to expand
the mind of Timothy said, not

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only did you give a good
confession before many witnesses

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but you’re following in the
footsteps?

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Of your Lord and Master think
about him, he gave that good

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confession before Pontius
Pilate.

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So Timothy now steps back and
realizes that he is part of a

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pattern part of a fabric, if you
will of spiritual life and he is

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reflecting in his life with the
Lord Jesus Christ, did he is

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confessing and making a good
confession before the Elders of

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an Ecclesia.
Just as the Lord, Jesus Christ

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confessed before Pontius Pilate
and made that good confession

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and showed his courage and his
resolution His faith in his

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Heavenly Father.
But Paul doesn’t leave it there

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either does, he verse 14 to keep
the commandment unstained and

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free from reproach until the
appearing of our Lord Jesus

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Christ.
And so Paul is challenging and

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exhorting and encouraging
Timothy, not just to look back

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to his good confession and to
the good confession of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
He says, Timothy look forward to

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the appearing of the Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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Look forward to that Kingdom
have that in your mind as you

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live your life, and make your
changes and make your

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suggestions in the Ecclesia at
Ephesus.

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And then in verse 15, he takes
his mind even further a field,

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because he reminds him of the
God that he serves verse 15,

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which he God will display at the
proper time, who is the blessed,

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and only Sovereign, the king of
kings and Lord of lords.

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That’s just, it is, it is, as if
Paul can’t contain himself now

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that pain just keeps going and
going and they’re not too many.

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As in this section are there.
It’s one of those run-on

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sentences that the Apostle Paul.
So often writes for us, Paul

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can’t contain himself and he
wants Timothy to not contain

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himself as he thinks about not
only the Lord Jesus Christ, and

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not only the coming Kingdom, but
the god of gods who is king of

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kings, and Lord of lords, who
alone has immortality who dwells

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in unapproachable light whom no
man has ever seen or Or can see

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to him.
Be honor and eternal Dominion.

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Amen.
So this is your excitation

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Timothy.
These are the things I want you

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to remember.
And here’s why I want you to

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remember them. until we’ve
thought about Paul’s stirring

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words to a young brother and to
a young sister, we come now to

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remember our Lord who
demonstrated perfectly when and

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how to flee.
And how to pursue and live those

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perfect virtues that we strive
for, let’s return to our Lake in

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the Eastern Sierra for our final
thought.

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Most of the time at dusk there
is a strong Breeze, down the

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canyons and Watershed which feed
Virginia Lake the breeze

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requires that we throw out an
anchor to keep us from drifting

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as we’re fishing.
But every once in a while.

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Usually when the sky slips Into
Darkness, there is complete

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Stillness, the wind dies down
and it’s magical.

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The water becomes Inky black and
you can hear the Fish Feeding,

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see the faint outlines of deer
coming down to the lake for a

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final drink of coyotes and yes
Bears.

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Making their final rounds before
dark the Osprey and the eagle

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died for their final Catch of
the Day and the bats are about

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their business.
So foraging for insects one that

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quietness Happens.
I sometimes pull up the anchor

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and my fishing line and just
listen quietly to the beauty of

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the world around me.
And I allow the Deep slow

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current of the lake to take me
where it wants to go.

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Covid-19 has made us slow down.
Perhaps to listen more

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carefully.
To think more deeply to

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appreciate more fully the beauty
of the age to come just as Jesus

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is the perfect example of when
to flee and how to pursue.

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He is also the master of
listening quietly We see hints

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of this attitude throughout his
ministry when he spends the

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night in prayer and
communication with his father.

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when you take the 12 to a quiet
place apart, as we remember him

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now and bread and wine.
Let us be encouraged by Paul’s

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words, to Timothy the perfect
example of our Lord, Jesus

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Christ.
Let us resolve to flee to

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pursue.
To listen quietly.

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Amen.
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