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\nand benefit from the
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\nStephen Palmer for today.
\nHe will be exhorting, God <\/p>\n
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\nwilling, tomorrow in the Los
\nAngeles Ecclesia and then he <\/p>\n
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\nleaves in the afternoon to go
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\nWe want you to take our loving
\ngreetings with you, Stephen, to <\/p>\n
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\nyour Ecclesia and Cardiff from
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\nhere in Southern California.
\nThe 4th class title is Healthy <\/p>\n
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\nWords, the example of Timothy.
\nWe’ll ask our brother Mark <\/p>\n
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\nPatterson of the Los Angeles
\nEcclesia to read for US one <\/p>\n
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\nTimothy chapter. 4 1st letter.
\nOf Paul to Timothy, chapter 4, <\/p>\n
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\nand I will be reading from the
\nRevised Standard Version. <\/p>\n
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\nNow the Spirit expressly says
\nthat in latter times some will <\/p>\n
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\ndepart from the faith by giving
\nheed to deceitful spirits and <\/p>\n
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\ndoctrines of demons, through the
\npretensions of liars whose <\/p>\n
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\nconsciences are seared, who
\nforbid marriage and enjoy and <\/p>\n
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\nenjoin abstinence from foods
\nwhich God created to be received<\/p>\n
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\nwith Thanksgiving by those who
\nbelieve and know the truth. <\/p>\n
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\nFor everything created by God is
\ngood, and nothing is to be <\/p>\n
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\nrejected if it is received with
\nThanksgiving, for then it is <\/p>\n
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\nconsecrated by the Word of God
\nand prayer. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you put these instructions
\nbefore the brethren, you will be<\/p>\n
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\na good minister of Christ Jesus,
\nnourished on the words of the <\/p>\n
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\nfaith and of the good doctrine
\nwhich you have followed. <\/p>\n
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\nHave nothing to do with godless
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\nTrain yourself in godliness, for
\nwhile bodily training is of some<\/p>\n
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\nvalue, godliness is of value in
\nevery way as it holds promise <\/p>\n
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\nfor the present life and also
\nfor the life to come. <\/p>\n
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\nThe saying is sure and worthy of
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\nFor to this end we toil and
\nstrive, because we have our hope<\/p>\n
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\nset on the living God who is the
\nSavior of all men, especially of<\/p>\n
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\nthose who believe, command, and
\nteach these things. <\/p>\n
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\nLet no one despise your youth,
\nbut set the believers an example<\/p>\n
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\nin speech and conduct, in love
\nand faith, in purity. <\/p>\n
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\nTill I come, attend to the
\npublic reading of Scripture, to <\/p>\n
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\npreaching, to teaching.
\nDo not neglect the gift you have<\/p>\n
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\nwhich was given you by prophetic
\nutterance when the elders laid <\/p>\n
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\ntheir hands upon you.
\nPractice these duties. <\/p>\n
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\nDevote yourself to them so that
\nthey all may see your progress. <\/p>\n
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\nTake heed to yourself and to
\nyour teaching. <\/p>\n
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\nHold to that, for by so doing
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\nyour hearers.
\nThank you brother Mark 4th class<\/p>\n
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\nHealthy Words, the example of
\nTimothy, our brother Stephen <\/p>\n
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\nPalmer.
\nIn this class, dear Brand <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, we’d like to take a New
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\nwhich the Word of God and the
\nway in which we live our lives <\/p>\n
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\nis brought together.
\nThat’s what we’re trying to <\/p>\n
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\naddress, the gap between the
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\nthe practice of it in our daily
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\nAn example I want to take is
\nfrom Paul and his epistle to <\/p>\n
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\nTimothy.
\nWe like to set the scene, really<\/p>\n
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\nby getting some points about
\nwhat Paul and Timothy were like <\/p>\n
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\nas people at this time.
\nIt’ll find, it’ll provide a <\/p>\n
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\nbackground for looking at some
\nof the words that Paul chooses <\/p>\n
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\nto use by the Spirit to Timothy.
\nWhat we find is in Timothy that <\/p>\n
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\nthe apostle is speaking about
\nstrong men. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s speaking about soldiers in
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\nHe’s speaking about fighting the
\ngood fight, about warring, the <\/p>\n
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\nwarfare.
\nHe’s speaking about being men of<\/p>\n
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\nGod, all terms of robust
\nspiritual strength. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Paul himself and Timothy
\nwere not like that naturally <\/p>\n
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\nspeaking.
\nIn fact, it’s quite amusing <\/p>\n
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\nreally to think that how Timothy
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\nthey wrote and read these
\nepistles. <\/p>\n
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\nFor a start, the apostle Paul
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\nhealth.
\nHe had critics in Corinth and <\/p>\n
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\nthis is what 2nd Corinthians 10
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\nWhat they thought of Paul.
\nThey said his bodily presence is<\/p>\n
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\nweak and his speech
\ncontemptible. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the apostle Paul didn’t cut a
\nfine figure at all. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was no person that would have
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\nBy that it seems Paul may well
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\nspeech, just like Moses.
\nRemember that Moses says he <\/p>\n
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\ncan’t couldn’t speak because he
\ncouldn’t speak properly and. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God says, well I’ll give you
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\nYou can tell Aaron what to say. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd isn’t it interesting that
\nGod chose 2 great men? <\/p>\n
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\nMoses under the old covenant had
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\nappropriate for it.
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\nsend on a missionary journey,
\nare they? <\/p>\n
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\nSomebody who couldn’t get his
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\nhappening in the epistle that
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\nHe himself was a man who had a
\nthorn in the flesh. <\/p>\n
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\nPeople have speculated over what
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\nhave been, but perhaps Galatians
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\nit was.
\nThree times Paul prayed that it <\/p>\n
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\nmight be removed from him, but
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\nnot going to be removed, and
\ndon’t ask me again about it. <\/p>\n
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\nthe living God and not in your
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\nAnd that may be true for us.
\nMind it, that some of the <\/p>\n
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\nthere for a purpose to remind us
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\nGalatians 4.
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\nAnd my temptation which was in
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\ninfirmity of the flesh that he
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\nspake on, for I bear you record
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\nwould have plucked out your own
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\nSo the infirmity of the flesh
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\nSo clearly Paul had something <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s been suggested he was <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering from trachoma and
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\nClearly something was
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\nYou see, when he did the work of
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\nto city, wasn’t like coming on a
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\nThis was a man who walked <\/p>\n
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\nwherever he went, hundreds and
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\nexpression, a speech which the
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\ncontemptible and the care of all
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\nwith him.
\nAnd so here is a man who <\/p>\n
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\nnaturally speaking his burden,
\nwriting to a man who naturally <\/p>\n
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\nspeaking is not much better.
\nSo when you look at Timothy in <\/p>\n
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\nthe first epistle and chapter 5,
\nwe have an insight into this <\/p>\n
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\nyoung man where we’re told in
\nverse 23 of first Timothy 5. <\/p>\n
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\nDrink no longer water, but use a
\nlittle wine for thy stomach’s <\/p>\n
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\nsake and thine often infirmity.
\nSo yours of robust health. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had a chronic problem with
\nhis stomach. <\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps maybe you had an ulcer.
\nHe’s a sort of worrying, <\/p>\n
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\nfretting sort of person.
\nIt seems he seems to bottle <\/p>\n
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\nthings up.
\nA man who was rather timid in <\/p>\n
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\nhimself.
\nPaul, when he writes to the <\/p>\n
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\nCorinthians and says Timothy’s
\ncoming, he gives them some <\/p>\n
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\nadvice on how they should treat
\nTimothy. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, now, if Timothy has
\ncome, see that he may be with <\/p>\n
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\nyou without fear.
\nNow you lay off Timothy. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, he’s a very sensitive
\nsort of person. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s the sort of person that if
\nhe saw a lot of people in the <\/p>\n
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\nroom, I’ve imagined that he’d
\njust stay on the door. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, he wouldn’t really
\nlike to come in. <\/p>\n
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\nYou wouldn’t go charging in and
\nI’d be the centre of attention. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wouldn’t like that.
\nHe was reserved and shy, <\/p>\n
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\nprobably a Welshman, and that
\nwas an impediment. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a real problem, you know.
\nHe was so worried perhaps about <\/p>\n
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\nothers and now they react to him
\nthat that he went back into his <\/p>\n
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\nshell and he had to be drawn out
\nand others had to help in that <\/p>\n
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\nrespect.
\nThe Corinthians had to make <\/p>\n
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\nallowances because he was the
\none who was going to help them <\/p>\n
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\nto put their problems straight.
\nPerhaps not the sort of person <\/p>\n
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\nthat we would imagine could have
\nhelped us to timid. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat could he contribute?
\nAnd if you look at the second <\/p>\n
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\nepistle and chapter one, this is
\nbrought out by the apostle who <\/p>\n
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\nsees in Timothy talents which
\nare being hidden and obscured by<\/p>\n
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\nthis natural fearfulness and
\ntimidity. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had a good upbringing.
\nHe had known the truth from a <\/p>\n
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\nchild.
\nHis mother and his grandmother <\/p>\n
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\nhad had instructed him well.
\nHe had a good foundation, but he<\/p>\n
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\nwasn’t using it.
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\nwell. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it’s the point of whether we
\nare using that potential anyway.<\/p>\n
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\nto remembrance the unfeigned
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\nAnd I am persuaded that in thee
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\nWherefore I put thee in
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\nFor God has not given us the
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\nsubject of creation and
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\nsituation that probably arises
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\nus now. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know, it, it’s a big
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\nnot upon the God in whom we
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\nash flies off all over the food,
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\nis concerned.
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\nI don’t believe is the Roman
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\narmy speaking to somebody under
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\nthee, son Timothy, according to
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\non thee, that by them thou
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\nThe word charge is a military
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\nthat the soldiers been given, <\/p>\n
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\nthat they knew what his job was
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\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nStir up yourself, fan the fire
\ninto flames. <\/p>\n
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\nto be numbered with the soldiers<\/p>\n
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\nof Israel because they weren’t
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\nThey didn’t have the same
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\nthe language that numbers
\nchapter 4 uses of the Levites. <\/p>\n
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\nTabernacle of the congregation. <\/p>\n
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\ntells you that against the <\/p>\n
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\nexpression to perform the
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\nCorinthians 16 and verse 10
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\nyou.
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\nyou, see that he may be with you<\/p>\n
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\nwithout fear, for he worketh the
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\nThat’s beautiful, isn’t it?
\nIt’s one of those little joys <\/p>\n
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\nyou’d get during the Bible
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\nI knew about the warring, the
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\nCorinthians and it stood out
\nlike a beacon. <\/p>\n
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\ndo. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Timothy, Paul must have been <\/p>\n
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\nwith Timothy. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, Timothy says, oh, Paul, <\/p>\n
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\nburden.
\nI can’t carry it. <\/p>\n
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\nyou know, think of yourself as a
\na spiritual warrior or the <\/p>\n
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\nwarfare work, the work you’ve
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\nHe’ll give you the strength to
\ncarry on. <\/p>\n
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\nNumbers chapter 3 and you can
\nsee a word there. <\/p>\n
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\nfamilies, numbers and charge of
\nthe Levites. <\/p>\n
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\nverse 7 they shall keep His
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\nThe charge that was the <\/p>\n
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\nYou can follow it through in <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s used more than once. <\/p>\n
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\nson Timothy, that the war of <\/p>\n
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\nPaul is saying, Timothy, <\/p>\n
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\nThe Levites are the pattern of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Saints under the law.
\nSo we could look at the Levites <\/p>\n
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\nthe Levites now we could. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve given them the clue,
\naren’t we, to opening up Bible <\/p>\n
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\nteaching concerning the Levites.
\nThe Levites are portraits of the<\/p>\n
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\na Commission to wage war against<\/p>\n
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\nin the Word of God. <\/p>\n
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\nEpistle to Timothy can open up a<\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the spirit in which
\nhe’s speaking out. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:24:11,120 –> 00:24:15,360
\nCome on, let’s pan the flames,
\nlet’s good up our loins, let’s <\/p>\n
338
\n00:24:15,680 –> 00:24:18,560
\nstiffen our resolve.
\nLet’s get on with the work. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:24:18,920 –> 00:24:21,040
\nLet’s trust in the Lord to
\nstrengthen us. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:21,200 –> 00:24:24,080
\nI can do all things, says Paul
\nthrough Christ, which <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:24,080 –> 00:24:30,480
\nstrengtheneth me.
\nAnd so can we if we will but <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:30,480 –> 00:24:36,080
\nlean upon him.
\nWell, again, in that context, <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:36,080 –> 00:24:41,320
\nnow we’d like to look at the
\nlanguage that Paul uses to <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:41,320 –> 00:24:46,360
\nTimothy, because it’s it strikes
\na chord with Timothy. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:46,360 –> 00:24:54,560
\nSurely he uses a word four
\ntimes, a Greek word from which <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:54,560 –> 00:25:05,560
\nwe get our English word hygiene.
\nThese are hygienic words in in <\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:05,560 –> 00:25:10,400
\nthe third epistle of John
\nchapter 3, it is to be in health<\/p>\n
348
\n00:25:11,400 –> 00:25:15,800
\nhealthy words.
\nLet’s just note where this is <\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:15,800 –> 00:25:21,480
\nused in chapter 1 and verse 10.
\nHe says for whoremongers, for <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:21,480 –> 00:25:25,320
\nthem that defy themselves with
\nmankind, for men, Steelers, for <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:25,320 –> 00:25:29,360
\nliars, for perjured persons.
\nAnd if there be any other thing <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:29,360 –> 00:25:34,960
\nthat is contrary to sound
\ndoctrine, according to the <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:34,960 –> 00:25:39,840
\nglorious gospel of the blessed
\nGod, which was committed to my <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:39,840 –> 00:25:43,640
\ntrust.
\nSo those things of the world, <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:43,640 –> 00:25:47,560
\nadultery and fornication and
\nhomosexuality, those things <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:47,560 –> 00:25:51,760
\nwhich pervade all aspects of
\nsociety today, those things <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:51,760 –> 00:25:55,480
\nwhich would count escape just by
\nreading even the front page of a<\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:55,480 –> 00:25:59,640
\nnewspaper or or just listening
\nto the the main BBC News on the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:59,640 –> 00:26:02,880
\nradio.
\nIt’s almost guaranteed that <\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:02,880 –> 00:26:08,960
\nevery news broadcast will have
\nsomething on this subject put <\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:08,960 –> 00:26:14,480
\nforward in the pretence of news,
\nbut actually winning audiences <\/p>\n
362
\n00:26:14,480 –> 00:26:18,040
\nbecause of the vicarious
\npleasure that it gives people. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:26:20,160 –> 00:26:23,640
\nThat’s the society we’re in.
\nYou can’t leave the radio on <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:23,640 –> 00:26:27,360
\nduring the day in the house.
\nThe danger of the children <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:27,360 –> 00:26:29,960
\nhearing something that none of
\nus would want to hear. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:31,840 –> 00:26:35,520
\nNow, those are the things that
\nhe he lists there that the law <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:35,520 –> 00:26:38,440
\nwas given against.
\nAnd he says at the end of first <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:38,440 –> 00:26:43,360
\nten, that these things are
\ncontrary to sound doctrine, or <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:43,360 –> 00:26:46,920
\nthe word sound.
\nIs the word hygienic, healthy <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:46,920 –> 00:26:49,640
\ndoctrine.
\nThese are the things which <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:49,640 –> 00:26:55,120
\npollute our minds and make us
\nsick in mind and spirit. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:59,000 –> 00:27:04,120
\nAnd knowing that, why then do we
\nallow them to come into our <\/p>\n
373
\n00:27:04,120 –> 00:27:09,560
\nthoughts and minds by deliberate
\nacts of what we do with our <\/p>\n
374
\n00:27:09,560 –> 00:27:13,760
\ntime?
\nThey, they crowd in as it is <\/p>\n
375
\n00:27:15,560 –> 00:27:19,720
\nwithout much effort, just
\nwalking down the street, the the<\/p>\n
376
\n00:27:19,720 –> 00:27:22,960
\nhoardings and the, the
\nbillboards and the and so on. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:27,200 –> 00:27:29,560
\nThey’re contrary to sound
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:30,240 –> 00:27:35,840
\nThey are unhealthy teaching.
\nThey infect and contaminate the <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:35,840 –> 00:27:38,600
\nmind.
\nBut the things which the gospel <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:38,600 –> 00:27:43,600
\nspeaks of, they give help.
\nBut Timothy must say, well I <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:43,600 –> 00:27:48,840
\nneed help, where’s he going to
\nget it from? <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:50,000 –> 00:27:59,360
\nChapter 6 and verse 3 and verse
\n3 of chapter 6. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:28:01,960 –> 00:28:08,560
\nIf any man teach otherwise and
\nconsent not to wholesome words, <\/p>\n
384
\n00:28:09,520 –> 00:28:13,120
\neven the words of our Lord Jesus
\nChrist and to the doctrine which<\/p>\n
385
\n00:28:13,120 –> 00:28:19,240
\nis according to godliness.
\nHe is proud knowing nothing but <\/p>\n
386
\n00:28:19,240 –> 00:28:22,480
\ndoting about questions stripes
\nof words. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:23,560 –> 00:28:25,800
\nThe word wholesome in verse
\nthree. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:28:26,040 –> 00:28:32,720
\nThat’s the same word who gain
\nno, it means healthy, sound <\/p>\n
389
\n00:28:35,880 –> 00:28:40,040
\nwholesome words.
\nIt’s a wonderful tone to that <\/p>\n
390
\n00:28:40,040 –> 00:28:42,320
\nexpression.
\nIt’s wholesome. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:28:43,520 –> 00:28:45,920
\nNow.
\nThat’s what people look for <\/p>\n
392
\n00:28:45,920 –> 00:28:48,400
\ntoday, don’t they?
\nPeople are worried about what <\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:48,400 –> 00:28:51,680
\nthey eat.
\nThey’re worried about the the E <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:51,680 –> 00:28:53,400
\nnumbers.
\nThey’re worried about the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:53,400 –> 00:28:57,120
\npreservatives, about the
\nchemicals that are in the food. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:57,760 –> 00:29:01,920
\nUnderstandably, people want
\nsomething that is wholesome, but<\/p>\n
397
\n00:29:01,920 –> 00:29:05,520
\na beautiful expression of the
\nteaching of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
398
\n00:29:05,520 –> 00:29:09,600
\nChrist.
\nThere’s nothing but health in <\/p>\n
399
\n00:29:09,720 –> 00:29:13,720
\nthe words of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist, the doctrine which is <\/p>\n
400
\n00:29:13,720 –> 00:29:19,840
\naccording to godliness.
\nSo when we fill our minds to <\/p>\n
401
\n00:29:19,840 –> 00:29:22,960
\nthose things, the world just
\ncan’t make any inroads. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:29:24,120 –> 00:29:27,960
\nIf you have that experience, we
\nhave been written a preaching, <\/p>\n
403
\n00:29:27,960 –> 00:29:32,840
\npreaching efforts we call
\ncampaigns where say 15 people <\/p>\n
404
\n00:29:33,160 –> 00:29:36,760
\nwill go and live in a town
\nperhaps where there’s no <\/p>\n
405
\n00:29:36,760 –> 00:29:40,800
\necclesia for a week and preach
\nthe word. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:29:41,640 –> 00:29:44,840
\nWe have say, 30 campaigns here
\nin different parts of Britain. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:29:45,280 –> 00:29:50,240
\nAnd some Ben and sisters, they
\nspend all their holiday going on<\/p>\n
408
\n00:29:50,240 –> 00:29:55,880
\ncampaigns, going to strange
\ntowns and giving out leaflets, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:29:55,880 –> 00:30:02,000
\nknocking on doors, canvassing,
\nstanding by these exhibitions <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:02,000 –> 00:30:05,520
\nthat we have.
\nAnd what you find when you’re on<\/p>\n
411
\n00:30:05,520 –> 00:30:09,080
\nthat sort of thing where you
\nspend a whole week, it happens <\/p>\n
412
\n00:30:09,080 –> 00:30:12,320
\nin Bible school as well.
\nThe whole week doing that is <\/p>\n
413
\n00:30:12,320 –> 00:30:14,240
\nthat you hardly have a wrong
\nthought. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:30:15,360 –> 00:30:19,720
\nYou come to the pride and think
\nperhaps there’s a note of pride <\/p>\n
415
\n00:30:19,720 –> 00:30:21,120
\nin it.
\nBut I don’t think I’ve sinned <\/p>\n
416
\n00:30:21,120 –> 00:30:25,760
\nthis week because you feel so
\nwholesome. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:30:26,640 –> 00:30:31,480
\nYou feel you feel right.
\nIt isn’t really pride. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:30:31,480 –> 00:30:33,160
\nIt’s not saying look how good I
\nam. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:30:33,160 –> 00:30:35,960
\nIt’s you just feel right with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:36,120 –> 00:30:39,520
\nYou feel everything is is in the
\nright order in your mind. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:30:40,120 –> 00:30:42,560
\nSo you get up in the morning
\nwith brethren and sisters, you <\/p>\n
422
\n00:30:42,560 –> 00:30:46,280
\ndo the readings, you sing hymns,
\nyou have some study out, you <\/p>\n
423
\n00:30:46,280 –> 00:30:49,720
\nspeak to the adversary, you
\nspeak to people ridiculous. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:30:49,840 –> 00:30:53,280
\nYou carry a placard down the
\nroad and the street is laughing <\/p>\n
425
\n00:30:53,280 –> 00:31:00,160
\nat you and you feel good for it
\nbecause you’re suffering in some<\/p>\n
426
\n00:31:00,160 –> 00:31:04,360
\nlittle way for Christ.
\nAnd you stand on a street corner<\/p>\n
427
\n00:31:04,360 –> 00:31:07,120
\nand you shout at the top of your
\nhead to pass us by. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:31:07,880 –> 00:31:11,280
\nAnd they think you’re mad and
\nyour brothers and sisters are <\/p>\n
429
\n00:31:11,280 –> 00:31:16,480
\ncheering you on and you feel
\nwholesome, but you’re out on the<\/p>\n
430
\n00:31:16,480 –> 00:31:19,240
\nstreet with the world, but
\nyou’re not. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:31:21,280 –> 00:31:24,200
\nYou come back and you have a
\nmeal together and you do another<\/p>\n
432
\n00:31:24,200 –> 00:31:27,760
\nreading and you go out again.
\nYou come back exhausted and you <\/p>\n
433
\n00:31:27,760 –> 00:31:30,600
\ndo another reading and and you
\nstay up there 2:00 in the <\/p>\n
434
\n00:31:30,600 –> 00:31:36,760
\nmorning singing hymns and you
\nfeel wholesome because you know <\/p>\n
435
\n00:31:36,760 –> 00:31:39,280
\nit’s the place to be.
\nYou know of, of anywhere in the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:31:39,280 –> 00:31:45,760
\nworld this is the place to be.
\nAnd it’s not often that we feel <\/p>\n
437
\n00:31:45,760 –> 00:31:54,720
\nlike that because unwholesome
\nthings are contaminating us and <\/p>\n
438
\n00:31:54,720 –> 00:31:59,040
\nour homes because we’re not 100%
\ncommitted. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:31:59,040 –> 00:32:02,600
\nIt’s only when we are 100%
\ncommitted that we feel like <\/p>\n
440
\n00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:04,840
\nthat.
\nThat’s what the Epistle of John <\/p>\n
441
\n00:32:04,840 –> 00:32:06,040
\nsays.
\nWe didn’t have time to look at <\/p>\n
442
\n00:32:06,040 –> 00:32:09,000
\nit in relation to our first
\nsubject, but have a look at the <\/p>\n
443
\n00:32:09,000 –> 00:32:14,320
\nWord to know and how we know.
\nWe know that we’re in Christ. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:32:14,920 –> 00:32:19,200
\nIt’s when we’re 100% committed
\nto practising the truth. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:32:19,800 –> 00:32:21,840
\nAnd that’s where the real
\nblessing comes. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:32:22,280 –> 00:32:25,360
\nAnd it’s wholesome.
\nIt’s healthy. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:32:27,520 –> 00:32:35,480
\nIn chapter 1 of the second
\nepistle and verse 13, he repeats<\/p>\n
448
\n00:32:35,480 –> 00:32:40,760
\nthis idea when he says, hold
\nfast the form of sound words <\/p>\n
449
\n00:32:40,760 –> 00:32:44,400
\nwhich thou hast heard of me in
\nfaith and love, which is in <\/p>\n
450
\n00:32:44,400 –> 00:32:47,800
\nChrist Jesus.
\nAnd it seems that in verse 13, <\/p>\n
451
\n00:32:47,800 –> 00:32:51,200
\nhe’s speaking about a statement
\nof faith as we would understand <\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:51,200 –> 00:32:57,120
\nit, a written record of the
\ntruth of the gospel, a a form of<\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:57,120 –> 00:33:02,400
\nwords which he would hold fast
\nto because this represented the <\/p>\n
454
\n00:33:02,400 –> 00:33:08,720
\nlife giving word of God in faith
\nand love. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:15,840
\nNot a a letter to be applied
\ncoldly, but a doctrine to be <\/p>\n
456
\n00:33:16,280 –> 00:33:19,200
\nencouraged in through faith and
\nlove. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:33:19,280 –> 00:33:21,880
\nWhy?
\nBecause it was help giving. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:33:24,240 –> 00:33:31,480
\nAnd in chapter 4 and verse 3,
\nsadly, he warns Timothy that the<\/p>\n
459
\n00:33:31,480 –> 00:33:34,400
\ntime was going to come when
\npeople would depart from that <\/p>\n
460
\n00:33:34,880 –> 00:33:37,920
\nstatement of faith.
\nShall we say that form of sound <\/p>\n
461
\n00:33:37,920 –> 00:33:41,520
\nwords, verse 3.
\nFor the time will come when they<\/p>\n
462
\n00:33:41,520 –> 00:33:47,320
\nwill not endue a sound doctrine,
\nbut after their own lusts shall <\/p>\n
463
\n00:33:47,320 –> 00:33:50,800
\nthey keep to themselves.
\nTeachers having itching ears, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:33:51,040 –> 00:33:54,080
\nand they shall turn away their
\nears from the truth, and shall <\/p>\n
465
\n00:33:54,080 –> 00:33:59,560
\nbe turned and to fables.
\nThey will not endure a sound <\/p>\n
466
\n00:33:59,560 –> 00:34:02,760
\ndoctrine.
\nHealthy doctrine becomes boring.<\/p>\n
467
\n00:34:05,800 –> 00:34:11,600
\nIt is not exciting enough.
\nThey want something new and <\/p>\n
468
\n00:34:11,600 –> 00:34:16,040
\nthey’re given something new and
\nthey turn to fables and away <\/p>\n
469
\n00:34:16,040 –> 00:34:18,000
\nfrom the truth.
\nIt’s a sad day, isn’t it, when <\/p>\n
470
\n00:34:18,000 –> 00:34:22,320
\nthe truth, the first principles
\nof the truth, become boring to <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:22,360 –> 00:34:25,840
\nus.
\nNow we’ve been talking about the<\/p>\n
472
\n00:34:25,840 –> 00:34:29,400
\nseminar series and those who’ve
\nbeen privileged enough to to sit<\/p>\n
473
\n00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:32,360
\nin or teach the seminars.
\nI’ve been thrilled. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:34:32,760 –> 00:34:37,080
\nEverybody’s experience is the
\nsame, to see how people respond <\/p>\n
475
\n00:34:37,080 –> 00:34:40,199
\nto the first principles of the
\nWord of God when they discover <\/p>\n
476
\n00:34:40,199 –> 00:34:43,639
\nthem for themselves.
\nWhy, you just lay before <\/p>\n
477
\n00:34:43,639 –> 00:34:47,400
\nsomebody averse and say, well,
\nthere’s a verse which speaks <\/p>\n
478
\n00:34:47,400 –> 00:34:51,760
\nabout this subject and without
\nall the prejudices that have <\/p>\n
479
\n00:34:51,760 –> 00:34:54,679
\nbeen stripped away by the
\napproach that’s taken. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:34:54,679 –> 00:34:59,320
\nThey read, they’re saying, oh,
\nOh dear, look at that. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:34:59,840 –> 00:35:03,560
\nOh, well, if that’s the case,
\nthen what about people in <\/p>\n
482
\n00:35:03,560 –> 00:35:05,160
\nheaven?
\nHow’s that fit in? <\/p>\n
483
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:08,400
\nAnd you say, well, what do you
\nthink? <\/p>\n
484
\n00:35:08,400 –> 00:35:12,080
\nWhat’s it say?
\nWell, oh, so there’s nobody in <\/p>\n
485
\n00:35:12,080 –> 00:35:13,840
\nheaven.
\nPeople come to that conclusion <\/p>\n
486
\n00:35:13,840 –> 00:35:16,920
\nthemselves.
\nAre they stunned by it? <\/p>\n
487
\n00:35:18,960 –> 00:35:23,200
\nAnd those who accept the truth
\nare thrilled by it because it is<\/p>\n
488
\n00:35:23,400 –> 00:35:28,280
\na quick way of presenting,
\nperhaps by not giving sufficient<\/p>\n
489
\n00:35:28,280 –> 00:35:33,160
\nattention, or by not allowing
\nthe word to speak for itself, by<\/p>\n
490
\n00:35:33,160 –> 00:35:34,720
\ngetting in the way of it
\nsomehow. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:35:35,040 –> 00:35:38,160
\nSee, if the brother presenting
\nis not interested, why should <\/p>\n
492
\n00:35:38,160 –> 00:35:42,720
\nanybody else be?
\nIf the brother presenting hasn’t<\/p>\n
493
\n00:35:42,720 –> 00:35:47,520
\nfound time enough to prepare,
\nwhy should the audience think <\/p>\n
494
\n00:35:47,520 –> 00:35:49,920
\nit’s interesting?
\nNo reason at all, is it? <\/p>\n
495
\n00:35:52,520 –> 00:35:55,920
\nSo come on, brethren, let’s stir
\nup the fire. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:35:57,440 –> 00:35:59,960
\nLet’s make things interesting
\nbecause they are interesting. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:35:59,960 –> 00:36:03,280
\nLet’s be interested.
\nThey can’t complain about our <\/p>\n
498
\n00:36:03,280 –> 00:36:04,800
\nyoung people not being
\ninterested. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:36:04,880 –> 00:36:11,360
\nIf we’re not interested, we
\ncan’t make our young people read<\/p>\n
500
\n00:36:11,360 –> 00:36:13,400
\nthe scriptures.
\nIf we don’t read the scriptures,<\/p>\n
501
\n00:36:13,520 –> 00:36:16,080
\nwe can’t make them live the
\ntruth if they’ve got no example <\/p>\n
502
\n00:36:16,080 –> 00:36:20,600
\nto follow.
\nSuppose say, come on, Timothy, <\/p>\n
503
\n00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:24,600
\ndon’t be so fearful.
\nStir up the gift. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:36:27,480 –> 00:36:29,400
\nThis is where you get your
\nhealth back. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:36:30,120 –> 00:36:34,320
\nYou’re going to get it on
\ntablets or drinking water all <\/p>\n
506
\n00:36:34,320 –> 00:36:38,200
\nthe time, so frightened that
\nsomething’s going to poison you.<\/p>\n
507
\n00:36:38,920 –> 00:36:42,680
\nGet back to the word, the
\nhygienic word of God. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:36:45,080 –> 00:36:48,120
\nThere’s a second word we want to
\nlook at. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:36:48,720 –> 00:36:53,400
\nIt’s the word which has to do
\nwith mental health, Sophron, and<\/p>\n
510
\n00:36:53,400 –> 00:36:59,680
\nit’s got some variations and
\nit’s translated sober sobriety <\/p>\n
511
\n00:37:00,440 –> 00:37:05,240
\nand sound mind.
\nWe won’t look at them all, but <\/p>\n
512
\n00:37:05,480 –> 00:37:08,880
\nwe look at the last one and
\nSecond Timothy chapter 1 and <\/p>\n
513
\n00:37:08,880 –> 00:37:13,040
\nverse 7.
\nAs we’ve read Timothy, God hath <\/p>\n
514
\n00:37:13,040 –> 00:37:18,440
\nnot given us the spirit of fear,
\nbut of power and of love and of <\/p>\n
515
\n00:37:18,480 –> 00:37:28,200
\na sound mind, a healthy mind.
\nYou know, an unsound mind is is <\/p>\n
516
\n00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:36,520
\na mentally ill mind in spiritual
\nterms and the power of this <\/p>\n
517
\n00:37:36,520 –> 00:37:41,640
\nword, we can see it by
\nconnecting it to Mark chapter 5 <\/p>\n
518
\n00:37:41,960 –> 00:37:47,960
\nand verse 15 because this basic
\nword of Sophron and it’s <\/p>\n
519
\n00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:53,120
\nvariations is derivations.
\nOne of them is used in Mark <\/p>\n
520
\n00:37:53,120 –> 00:38:00,160
\nchapter 5 and verse 15 where it
\nis translated right mind. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:02,520 –> 00:38:08,720
\nIn Timothy it’s Sophronismos and
\nin Mark 5 it’s sophronio or <\/p>\n
522
\n00:38:08,720 –> 00:38:12,640
\nsomething like that.
\nBut in Mark chapter 5 and verse <\/p>\n
523
\n00:38:12,640 –> 00:38:17,400
\n15 it is recorded of a legion.
\nRemember the man who was mad, <\/p>\n
524
\n00:38:18,000 –> 00:38:21,680
\nThe man who lived in the
\ncemeteries, who ran naked on the<\/p>\n
525
\n00:38:21,680 –> 00:38:26,680
\nhills, who cut himself.
\nA man that they tried to tame, <\/p>\n
526
\n00:38:27,160 –> 00:38:29,720
\nbut they couldn’t.
\nA man who was out of control. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:38:29,880 –> 00:38:33,280
\nA man whose mind was racing
\neverywhere, filled with all, as <\/p>\n
528
\n00:38:33,280 –> 00:38:36,920
\nif the world was in his head.
\nThey were a legion of things, <\/p>\n
529
\n00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:42,080
\ncontaminating him, driven by
\nevery influence. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:38:43,360 –> 00:38:45,080
\nHe didn’t have a mind of his
\nown. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:38:46,640 –> 00:38:49,600
\nHe had been invaded by the Roman
\narmies. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:38:49,800 –> 00:38:57,920
\nThey were a legion of spirits.
\nBut he can see the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
533
\n00:38:57,920 –> 00:39:00,720
\ncoming across the water.
\nHe runs down to meet him. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:39:01,680 –> 00:39:04,280
\nHe must have recognised him and
\nheard of him. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:39:04,280 –> 00:39:07,680
\nThere would have been times when
\nhe would have had some clarity <\/p>\n
536
\n00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:10,960
\nof thought.
\nAnd of course the Lord sends the<\/p>\n
537
\n00:39:10,960 –> 00:39:15,960
\nlegion out into the swine.
\nAnd there’s a dramatic <\/p>\n
538
\n00:39:15,960 –> 00:39:21,520
\ntransformation in verse 15,
\nbecause when the country folk <\/p>\n
539
\n00:39:21,520 –> 00:39:25,640
\ncome to see what was going on,
\nit says they come to Jesus and <\/p>\n
540
\n00:39:25,640 –> 00:39:30,360
\nsee him that was possessed with
\nthe devil and had the legion <\/p>\n
541
\n00:39:30,800 –> 00:39:36,240
\nsitting and clothed and in his
\nright mind. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:39:36,240 –> 00:39:38,240
\nAnd each of those statements is
\na contrast. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:39:38,840 –> 00:39:42,040
\nHe ran on the hills, but now he
\nwas sitting. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:39:43,400 –> 00:39:49,080
\nHe was naked before, but now he
\nwas closed and he was out of his<\/p>\n
545
\n00:39:49,080 –> 00:39:52,920
\nmind before, and now he is in
\nhis right mind. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:39:55,080 –> 00:39:58,560
\nSo see that man sitting at the
\nfeet of the Lord Jesus Christ? <\/p>\n
547
\n00:40:00,000 –> 00:40:02,720
\nOne of the disciples must have
\ngiven him one of his coats. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:40:05,160 –> 00:40:06,560
\nPerhaps the Lord gave him his
\nown. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:40:09,080 –> 00:40:14,080
\nThere he is sat, clothed by the
\nLord Jesus Christ, quiet, <\/p>\n
550
\n00:40:15,560 –> 00:40:20,840
\nsitting, listening.
\nHe’s in his right mind. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:40:22,800 –> 00:40:24,520
\nYou know what happens when we
\nhave problems? <\/p>\n
552
\n00:40:24,520 –> 00:40:28,520
\nOften we try to shut out the
\nproblem by increasing the noise,<\/p>\n
553
\n00:40:29,640 –> 00:40:36,360
\nby racing to and fro, by filling
\nour time with distractions, by <\/p>\n
554
\n00:40:36,440 –> 00:40:39,840
\ndoing everything except what we
\nought to do, which is come to <\/p>\n
555
\n00:40:39,840 –> 00:40:48,280
\nthe feet of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist and sit and listen and <\/p>\n
556
\n00:40:48,280 –> 00:40:54,800
\nthen pray.
\nWhen we do everything but that, <\/p>\n
557
\n00:40:54,800 –> 00:40:59,680
\nwe are out of our minds.
\nWe are being driven by the <\/p>\n
558
\n00:40:59,680 –> 00:41:02,120
\nforces across the mountains.
\nLike Legion. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:07,560
\nWe could see ourselves racing up
\nand down the mountains, sleeping<\/p>\n
560
\n00:41:07,560 –> 00:41:17,200
\namongst dead men, naked.
\nBut God hasn’t called us to <\/p>\n
561
\n00:41:17,200 –> 00:41:19,080
\nthat.
\nHe’s called us to the power of a<\/p>\n
562
\n00:41:19,080 –> 00:41:21,920
\nsound mind, which is to sit
\nquietly. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:41:21,920 –> 00:41:24,400
\nYou know, you have to be at ease
\nto sit quietly. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:41:26,240 –> 00:41:29,200
\nNow.
\nIf we can’t sit still on our own<\/p>\n
565
\n00:41:31,440 –> 00:41:34,800
\nmore than a couple of minutes,
\nthere’s probably something <\/p>\n
566
\n00:41:34,800 –> 00:41:39,280
\nwrong.
\nIf the silence worries us so <\/p>\n
567
\n00:41:39,280 –> 00:41:44,040
\nmuch or our thoughts are so
\ndisturbing that we have to talk <\/p>\n
568
\n00:41:44,040 –> 00:41:47,040
\nto somebody, we have to race
\nhere or race there. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:41:47,040 –> 00:41:49,360
\nWe have to put the wireless on
\nthe television on. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:52,560
\nWe have to go out.
\nWe have to do something to to <\/p>\n
571
\n00:41:52,560 –> 00:41:54,440
\nblock out the thoughts from our
\nmind. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:41:56,240 –> 00:41:57,800
\nWell, we’re not in our right
\nminds there. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:42:00,600 –> 00:42:01,920
\nThat’s what the apostle is
\nsaying. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:42:01,920 –> 00:42:07,400
\nGo and sit at the feet of the
\nLord Jesus Christ and you will <\/p>\n
575
\n00:42:07,400 –> 00:42:16,360
\nfind wholesomeness there.
\nInterestingly, in Timothy <\/p>\n
576
\n00:42:16,360 –> 00:42:19,360
\nthere’s a word for sickness of
\nmind. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:42:19,360 –> 00:42:24,400
\nIn First Timothy chapter 6 and
\nverse 4, it talks about the <\/p>\n
578
\n00:42:24,760 –> 00:42:28,360
\nopposite of wholesome words.
\nThere are a number of words <\/p>\n
579
\n00:42:28,360 –> 00:42:31,160
\nactually in Timothy which are
\nabout disease. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:42:31,200 –> 00:42:35,200
\nLet me just mention one or two.
\nNow we’ve got time. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:42:35,480 –> 00:42:38,360
\nFirst Timothy chapter 6 and
\nverse four. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:43,040
\nIn contrast to the wholesome
\nwords of verse three, it says he<\/p>\n
583
\n00:42:43,040 –> 00:42:48,000
\nis proud, knowing nothing but
\ndoting about. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:42:48,000 –> 00:42:52,600
\nQuestions and stripes of words
\nwere off come with envy, strife,<\/p>\n
585
\n00:42:53,080 –> 00:42:58,200
\nrailings, evil surmisings,
\nperverse disputings of men of <\/p>\n
586
\n00:42:58,200 –> 00:43:02,400
\ncorrupt minds.
\nAnd the word doting is the word <\/p>\n
587
\n00:43:02,400 –> 00:43:05,600
\nnosio, which is the word for
\ndisease. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:43:06,520 –> 00:43:13,160
\nNosology is the study of the
\nnames of diseases, right? <\/p>\n
589
\n00:43:13,360 –> 00:43:19,400
\nThis is no seal disease that
\nthose who have rejected the <\/p>\n
590
\n00:43:19,400 –> 00:43:26,440
\nwholesome words are sick about
\nquestions and stripes. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:43:26,600 –> 00:43:31,480
\nThere is a way of debating the
\ntruth of being involved in Bible<\/p>\n
592
\n00:43:31,480 –> 00:43:36,040
\nclass which is sick and not
\nwholesome. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:40,520
\nThere is a way of being engaged
\nin discussion, to beat your <\/p>\n
594
\n00:43:40,520 –> 00:43:45,040
\nopponent, to catch them out, to
\nask them a question they can’t <\/p>\n
595
\n00:43:45,040 –> 00:43:51,960
\nanswer, to trip them up, to
\ntrick them, to take the <\/p>\n
596
\n00:43:51,960 –> 00:43:56,160
\nlimelight, to have people in
\nadmiration. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:43:58,160 –> 00:44:03,080
\nAnd that is completely and
\nutterly false, unhealthy, and <\/p>\n
598
\n00:44:03,080 –> 00:44:08,400
\nnothing at all to do with
\nScripture study, but everything <\/p>\n
599
\n00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:14,200
\nto do with the pride of man.
\nThe whole point of Bible study <\/p>\n
600
\n00:44:14,680 –> 00:44:19,200
\nis to minister wholesome words
\nto build up faith. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:44:24,040 –> 00:44:27,400
\nSo Timothy was being told, don’t
\nbe distracted by these <\/p>\n
602
\n00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:29,520
\nquestions, which are trick
\nquestions. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:44:29,800 –> 00:44:33,680
\nYou’ve stopped arguing about
\nwhat somebody meant by that and <\/p>\n
604
\n00:44:33,680 –> 00:44:36,280
\nhow somebody else has
\ninterpreted it and you get lost <\/p>\n
605
\n00:44:36,280 –> 00:44:44,760
\nin a morass of words to no
\nprophet rather get back to the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:44:44,760 –> 00:44:47,960
\nwholesome words of the Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:44:47,960 –> 00:44:50,640
\nThat’s not but it gets Bible
\nstudy a bad name, doesn’t it <\/p>\n
608
\n00:44:51,480 –> 00:44:55,960
\nthat be drawn into that
\nfruitless and prophetess <\/p>\n
609
\n00:44:59,040 –> 00:45:06,760
\ncharade.
\nChapter 2 of Second Timothy, we <\/p>\n
610
\n00:45:06,760 –> 00:45:11,320
\nget another idea of this sort of
\ndisease of the word, because <\/p>\n
611
\n00:45:11,320 –> 00:45:14,960
\nthis is the apostles showing
\nTimothy the stages that the <\/p>\n
612
\n00:45:14,960 –> 00:45:17,960
\necclesia was going to descend
\ninto before it wouldn’t endure <\/p>\n
613
\n00:45:17,960 –> 00:45:19,680
\nsome doctrine.
\nYou know, it was the IT was the <\/p>\n
614
\n00:45:19,680 –> 00:45:24,600
\nbeginning of the rot that was
\nsetting in Bible class, given <\/p>\n
615
\n00:45:24,600 –> 00:45:29,920
\nover to to questions, to no
\nprofit, not aimed at ministering<\/p>\n
616
\n00:45:29,960 –> 00:45:34,640
\nand edifying, but just an
\nintellectual curiosity. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:45:35,520 –> 00:45:41,640
\nThe whole point of Bible study
\nis to minister wholesome words <\/p>\n
618
\n00:45:41,960 –> 00:45:49,600
\nto build up faith.
\nSo Timothy was being told, don’t<\/p>\n
619
\n00:45:49,800 –> 00:45:52,480
\nbe distracted by these
\nquestions, which are trick <\/p>\n
620
\n00:45:52,480 –> 00:45:55,240
\nquestions.
\nYou’ve start arguing about what <\/p>\n
621
\n00:45:55,240 –> 00:45:58,880
\nsomebody meant by that and how
\nsomebody else has interpreted <\/p>\n
622
\n00:45:58,880 –> 00:46:04,040
\nit, and you get lost in a morass
\nof words to no profit. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:46:07,400 –> 00:46:10,760
\nRather, get back to the
\nwholesome words of the Lord <\/p>\n
624
\n00:46:10,760 –> 00:46:12,880
\nJesus Christ.
\nThat’s not, but it gets Bible <\/p>\n
625
\n00:46:12,880 –> 00:46:17,080
\nstudy a bad name, doesn’t it?
\nIt’d be drawn into that <\/p>\n
626
\n00:46:17,200 –> 00:46:23,440
\nfruitless and prophetess
\ncharade. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:46:27,320 –> 00:46:33,080
\nChapter 2 of Second Timothy.
\nWe get another idea of this sort<\/p>\n
628
\n00:46:33,080 –> 00:46:37,040
\nof disease of the word because
\nthis is the apostle showing <\/p>\n
629
\n00:46:37,040 –> 00:46:39,800
\nTimothy the stages that the
\necclesia was going to descend <\/p>\n
630
\n00:46:39,800 –> 00:46:42,680
\ninto before it wouldn’t endure
\nsound often, you know, it was <\/p>\n
631
\n00:46:42,680 –> 00:46:47,480
\nthe IT was the beginning of the
\nrot that was setting in fibre <\/p>\n
632
\n00:46:47,480 –> 00:46:52,520
\nclass given over to to questions
\nto no prophet, not aimed at <\/p>\n
633
\n00:46:52,600 –> 00:46:58,120
\nministering and edifying, but
\njust an intellectual curiosity. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:47:01,680 –> 00:47:06,320
\nSo in verse 15 of chapter 2 of
\nthe second epistle, Paul says to<\/p>\n
635
\n00:47:06,320 –> 00:47:11,160
\nTimothy, study to show thyself
\napproved unto God. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:47:11,880 –> 00:47:16,200
\nThat’s the purpose of study.
\nIt’s not talking about study in <\/p>\n
637
\n00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:19,920
\nthe sense that we speak of it,
\nbut it’s helpful. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:47:20,280 –> 00:47:25,600
\nA Workman that needeth not to be
\nashamed, rightly dividing the <\/p>\n
639
\n00:47:25,600 –> 00:47:28,680
\nword of truth.
\nNow This is why you can’t rush <\/p>\n
640
\n00:47:28,720 –> 00:47:31,880
\nBible study.
\nIt’s not a matter of throwing <\/p>\n
641
\n00:47:31,880 –> 00:47:34,840
\nsome verses together and and
\nputting them down, perhaps on <\/p>\n
642
\n00:47:34,840 –> 00:47:39,000
\npaper and or perhaps not.
\nIf we’ve got the ability to put <\/p>\n
643
\n00:47:39,000 –> 00:47:41,600
\nwords together as we go along.
\nYou know, they’ve got some <\/p>\n
644
\n00:47:41,600 –> 00:47:42,680
\nthoughts.
\nThere we are. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:47:46,080 –> 00:47:48,960
\nStudy to show thyself approved
\nunto God. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:47:48,960 –> 00:47:51,680
\nYou see, we want gods to prove
\nwe don’t want brethren and <\/p>\n
647
\n00:47:51,680 –> 00:47:53,200
\nsisters come and talk.
\nIt’s a great talk. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:47:53,240 –> 00:47:58,360
\nThanks very much.
\nWe don’t want to be <\/p>\n
649
\n00:47:58,360 –> 00:48:00,320
\ndiscourteous, but that’s not
\nwhat we want. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:48:01,720 –> 00:48:05,400
\nI mean, it’s good if they’ve
\nenjoyed it, but let’s hope that <\/p>\n
651
\n00:48:05,400 –> 00:48:09,760
\nwhat people get out of it is
\nthat they say isn’t the word of <\/p>\n
652
\n00:48:09,760 –> 00:48:12,920
\nGod.
\nMarcus, what a wonderful thing <\/p>\n
653
\n00:48:12,920 –> 00:48:15,160
\nGod has done for us.
\nThat’s what any speaking brother<\/p>\n
654
\n00:48:15,160 –> 00:48:17,840
\nhere, I’m sure will say.
\nThat’s that’s what we want to <\/p>\n
655
\n00:48:17,840 –> 00:48:21,200
\nachieve.
\nWe want the word of God to be in<\/p>\n
656
\n00:48:21,200 –> 00:48:24,880
\npeople’s minds, but it’s got to
\nbe rightly divided. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:48:24,880 –> 00:48:29,520
\nThe lines have to be cut in the
\nright places for it to actually <\/p>\n
658
\n00:48:29,600 –> 00:48:36,040
\nopen up for us.
\nI’m just thinking of an AMA <\/p>\n
659
\n00:48:36,040 –> 00:48:37,960
\nletter.
\nYou know, we get them sometimes <\/p>\n
660
\n00:48:37,960 –> 00:48:41,200
\nwhere they’re folded and, and
\nstuck around the edge. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:48:41,200 –> 00:48:44,800
\nAnd I always cut it the wrong
\nway so that I’m reading a <\/p>\n
662
\n00:48:44,800 –> 00:48:48,160
\nletter, you know, and I have to
\nkeep doing this because I <\/p>\n
663
\n00:48:48,160 –> 00:48:50,200
\nhaven’t rightly divided the
\nword. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:48:51,320 –> 00:48:53,280
\nI didn’t follow the
\ninstructions. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:48:54,240 –> 00:48:57,840
\nOpen this in you know, so cut it
\nwherever I want. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:49:01,480 –> 00:49:04,480
\nSo we have to give attention,
\nand the only way to do that is <\/p>\n
667
\n00:49:04,480 –> 00:49:09,520
\nto listen to what it says.
\nVerse 16 Shun profane and vain <\/p>\n
668
\n00:49:09,520 –> 00:49:12,920
\nbabblings, for they will
\nincrease unto more ungodliness, <\/p>\n
669
\n00:49:13,320 –> 00:49:15,560
\nand their word will eat us
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:49:15,560 –> 00:49:22,680
\nA canker.
\nThe word canker gangreina means <\/p>\n
671
\n00:49:22,680 –> 00:49:30,560
\nto gnaw as a rodent gnaws away.
\nYou’ve had rats or mice around. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:49:30,560 –> 00:49:33,640
\nYou see the signs.
\nI’ve been gnaw away. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:49:34,320 –> 00:49:39,320
\nAnd this is what these false
\nstudents are doing. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:49:40,000 –> 00:49:42,720
\nThe teaching, which is not
\nscriptural, it’s not based on <\/p>\n
675
\n00:49:42,720 –> 00:49:44,920
\nscriptures, It’s not trying to
\nrightly divide. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:49:45,280 –> 00:49:48,960
\nIt is acting as an ulcer.
\nThere is a skin condition, a <\/p>\n
677
\n00:49:48,960 –> 00:49:52,920
\nsort of cancer, but doesn’t
\nspread, metastasize. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:49:52,920 –> 00:49:57,960
\nIt’s called a rodent ulcer.
\nA rodent ulcer. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:49:58,560 –> 00:50:02,680
\nIt gets its name from the fact
\nthat it gnaws away through the <\/p>\n
680
\n00:50:02,680 –> 00:50:06,040
\nskin.
\nSlowly but surely it gnaws away.<\/p>\n
681
\n00:50:08,040 –> 00:50:14,240
\nAnd I saw a patient once who
\ncame in to see the surgeon and <\/p>\n
682
\n00:50:14,320 –> 00:50:18,480
\nshe had this problem for a
\nnumber of years and she covered <\/p>\n
683
\n00:50:18,480 –> 00:50:22,480
\nit over.
\nShe’d put lint on it and cream. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:50:22,480 –> 00:50:30,240
\nAnd when she took off the Linton
\ncream, the chest wasn’t there. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:50:32,320 –> 00:50:35,600
\nAll that were there were the you
\ncould see the bones of her rib <\/p>\n
686
\n00:50:35,600 –> 00:50:39,440
\ncage.
\nThe flesh had gone and she just <\/p>\n
687
\n00:50:39,440 –> 00:50:43,160
\ncovered it up.
\nOver a couple of years, she’d <\/p>\n
688
\n00:50:43,160 –> 00:50:47,840
\nbeen so frightened to face up to
\nthe truth of what she had she <\/p>\n
689
\n00:50:47,840 –> 00:50:51,960
\nhad not sought out.
\nBut the surgeon said I can’t do <\/p>\n
690
\n00:50:51,960 –> 00:50:57,880
\nanything for you and he sent her
\nhome. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:51:00,040 –> 00:51:08,640
\nThey can’t do anything for you.
\nTheir word will eat Asda a <\/p>\n
692
\n00:51:08,640 –> 00:51:12,880
\ncanker.
\nWhat a dramatic warning then to <\/p>\n
693
\n00:51:12,880 –> 00:51:14,560
\na man who was concerned about
\nhis health. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:51:15,560 –> 00:51:19,920
\nStay away from that prophet.
\nLet’s debate and dispute, which <\/p>\n
695
\n00:51:19,920 –> 00:51:23,760
\narises from the philosophy of
\nmen and is not the wholesome <\/p>\n
696
\n00:51:24,000 –> 00:51:27,720
\nlistening to the Word of God.
\nThough I wonder what our Bible <\/p>\n
697
\n00:51:27,720 –> 00:51:30,400
\nclasses are like in relation to
\nthis epistle. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:51:30,400 –> 00:51:35,480
\nBrethren, sisters, do they match
\nup to what Paul is speaking to <\/p>\n
699
\n00:51:35,480 –> 00:51:41,160
\nTimothy about?
\nWell, let me just finally draw <\/p>\n
700
\n00:51:41,160 –> 00:51:46,200
\nattention to this last word that
\nis used in Timothy. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:51:46,200 –> 00:51:49,320
\nIt’s a characteristic of this,
\nthese epistles. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:51:49,680 –> 00:51:55,120
\nIt’s the word eusebia, and it’s
\ntranslated in all those places <\/p>\n
703
\n00:51:55,680 –> 00:52:00,520
\nby the word godliness doesn’t
\nhave the word God in it. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:52:00,680 –> 00:52:04,200
\nSo it’s not a good translation.
\nLiterally, it means good <\/p>\n
705
\n00:52:04,480 –> 00:52:09,720
\ndevotion.
\nI’ll see how Paul brings all <\/p>\n
706
\n00:52:09,720 –> 00:52:13,680
\nthese threads together in
\nchapter 4 of the first epistle. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:52:19,040 –> 00:52:23,600
\nIn the at the end of chapter 3,
\nhe has spoken about the mystery <\/p>\n
708
\n00:52:23,920 –> 00:52:29,560
\nof godliness.
\nThat’s the Word, the mystery of <\/p>\n
709
\n00:52:29,560 –> 00:52:35,680
\nthat good devotion which is what
\nwe are trying to achieve, that <\/p>\n
710
\n00:52:36,000 –> 00:52:40,080
\nbridging the gap between our
\nbelief and our practice. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:52:41,200 –> 00:52:45,600
\nThe mystery of good devotion was
\nmanifested in the flesh. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:52:47,920 –> 00:52:53,200
\nThe Word was made flesh and
\ndwelt among us, and we beheld <\/p>\n
713
\n00:52:53,200 –> 00:52:55,800
\nHis glory.
\nThe glory is of the only <\/p>\n
714
\n00:52:55,800 –> 00:53:00,800
\nbegotten of the Father, full of
\ngrace and truth. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:53:02,800 –> 00:53:06,960
\nThe mystery of godliness was
\nseen in the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:53:07,880 –> 00:53:12,440
\nBut in chapter 4 the record
\nbegins, not with the Word now, <\/p>\n
717
\n00:53:12,800 –> 00:53:18,840
\nbut with the Word But but the
\nSpirit speaketh expressly that <\/p>\n
718
\n00:53:18,840 –> 00:53:22,520
\nin the latter times some shall
\ndepart from the faith. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:53:24,280 –> 00:53:26,480
\nWe don’t dwell on that.
\nThat’s the warning. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:53:26,680 –> 00:53:30,280
\nHow are we going to combat it?
\nVerse 6. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:53:31,960 –> 00:53:35,480
\nIf thou put the brethren in
\nremembrance of these things, <\/p>\n
722
\n00:53:36,080 –> 00:53:42,240
\nthou shalt be a good minister of
\nJesus Christ, nourished up in <\/p>\n
723
\n00:53:42,240 –> 00:53:47,680
\nthe words of faith and of good
\ndoctrine, were unto thou hast <\/p>\n
724
\n00:53:47,680 –> 00:53:52,080
\nattained nourished in the good
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:53:53,320 –> 00:53:57,800
\nThat’s the antidote.
\nVerse 7 Refuse profane and old <\/p>\n
726
\n00:53:57,800 –> 00:54:03,720
\nwives fables, and exercise
\nthyself rather unto godliness. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:54:05,200 –> 00:54:10,560
\nFor bodily exercise profiteth
\nlittle, but godliness is <\/p>\n
728
\n00:54:10,560 –> 00:54:14,600
\nprofitable unto all things.
\nAnd there’s your definition of <\/p>\n
729
\n00:54:14,600 –> 00:54:18,760
\ngodliness.
\nBodily exercise, physical <\/p>\n
730
\n00:54:18,760 –> 00:54:23,720
\ngymnastics profits little.
\nLiterally for a little time it <\/p>\n
731
\n00:54:23,720 –> 00:54:30,240
\ndoes profit.
\nKeeping fit is a good idea if it<\/p>\n
732
\n00:54:30,240 –> 00:54:32,440
\nreduces our risk of heart
\ndisease and so on. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:54:32,440 –> 00:54:35,560
\nIsn’t that a good thing?
\nIf we can live a little bit <\/p>\n
734
\n00:54:35,560 –> 00:54:38,720
\nlonger to serve the Lord, then
\nsurely we should. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:54:40,040 –> 00:54:42,680
\nBut it’s a little.
\nA study was done in the United <\/p>\n
736
\n00:54:42,680 –> 00:54:45,840
\nStates to estimate how many
\nextra years of life we’d have if<\/p>\n
737
\n00:54:45,840 –> 00:54:49,120
\nyou could remove one disease
\nafter another. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:54:49,120 –> 00:54:52,320
\nThese are actuarial calculations
\nfor the insurance industry. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:54:52,400 –> 00:54:55,040
\nThey calculate that if you
\nremoved heart disease at a <\/p>\n
740
\n00:54:55,040 –> 00:54:58,800
\nstroke, that’s not what you want
\nto do. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:54:58,800 –> 00:55:02,440
\nIf you remove heart disease, If
\nyou had a vaccine against heart <\/p>\n
742
\n00:55:02,440 –> 00:55:06,000
\ndisease and you gave it to
\neverybody, how many extra years <\/p>\n
743
\n00:55:06,000 –> 00:55:10,760
\nwould we live on average?
\nThe answer was 7. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:55:13,000 –> 00:55:16,880
\nIf you took away cancer or
\ncancer, the answer was 2. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:55:20,680 –> 00:55:23,360
\nIf you took away all the disease
\nand accidents, the answer was <\/p>\n
746
\n00:55:23,360 –> 00:55:30,000
\nabout 30 years.
\nIt profits a little for a little<\/p>\n
747
\n00:55:30,000 –> 00:55:35,680
\ntime, but godliness is
\nprofitable and to all things, <\/p>\n
748
\n00:55:36,760 –> 00:55:41,640
\nhaving promise of the life that
\nnow is, and of that which is to <\/p>\n
749
\n00:55:41,640 –> 00:55:44,680
\ncome.
\nIt has a promise of the life <\/p>\n
750
\n00:55:44,680 –> 00:55:47,960
\nthat now is.
\nBecause if we are wholesome in <\/p>\n
751
\n00:55:47,960 –> 00:55:52,080
\nmind, then that is a wonderful
\nstate to be. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:55:54,280 –> 00:56:01,440
\nImagine sitting clothed and in
\nour right minds at the feet of <\/p>\n
753
\n00:56:01,440 –> 00:56:06,800
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nBut a wonderful position to be. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:56:08,160 –> 00:56:10,920
\nIt is profitable for the life
\nthat now is. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:56:10,920 –> 00:56:15,080
\nIt is Peace of Mind.
\nBut it also has promised of <\/p>\n
756
\n00:56:15,080 –> 00:56:23,880
\neternal life, that unending life
\nof fullness and joy to be with <\/p>\n
757
\n00:56:23,880 –> 00:56:26,760
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ now and
\nforever. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:56:28,280 –> 00:56:32,920
\nThat is the day that we hope to
\nattain to by the grace of God. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:56:34,120 –> 00:56:38,520
\nThis is a faithful saying and
\nworthy of all acceptation. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:56:39,240 –> 00:56:43,360
\nFor therefore we both labour and
\nsuffer reproach, because we <\/p>\n
761
\n00:56:43,360 –> 00:56:47,680
\ntrust in the living God, who is
\nthe Saviour of all men, <\/p>\n
762
\n00:56:48,440 –> 00:56:54,880
\nespecially of those that believe
\nthese things, command and teach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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