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\nman Timothy as a sensitive
\nperson who instinctively thought<\/p>\n
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\nof others, and so we look
\nforward to learning more of this<\/p>\n
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\nyoung man and how he bore the
\nyoke in his youth. <\/p>\n
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\nTimothy serving his brethren in
\nyouth. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Andrew, my dearly love
\nto brethren and sisters and our <\/p>\n
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\ndear young people.
\nTimothy’s name means valued of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, and indeed he was, and at a
\nvery young age at that. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, I would go as far as as
\nto say at the commencement of <\/p>\n
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\nour study tonight, young people,
\nthat Timothy is one of the <\/p>\n
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\ngreatest characters in the New
\nTestament. <\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps the evidence of that
\nwill unfold as we go along, but <\/p>\n
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\nhis life basically is a
\ntestimony to the power of the <\/p>\n
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\nWord of God to change us so that
\nGod can use us. <\/p>\n
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\nLet me say that again, because
\nthat’s the essence of his life. <\/p>\n
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\nHis life is a testimony to the
\npower of the Word of God to <\/p>\n
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\nchange us so that God can use
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, we know of no words
\nthat ever came from his mouth <\/p>\n
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\nrecorded in the New Testament,
\nand yet we see his character <\/p>\n
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\nclearly imprinted in the
\nepistles and in the historical <\/p>\n
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\nsections in the New Testament.
\nAnd we not not only see his <\/p>\n
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\ncharacter, brethren and sisters
\nand young people, but the <\/p>\n
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\npowerful effect of his words and
\nhis life amongst his brethren. <\/p>\n
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\nIt stands out in bold relief.
\nFrom the Epistles and from the <\/p>\n
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\nActs of the Apostles.
\nThough we don’t. <\/p>\n
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\nRead of his name very many
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
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\nHe truly is one of the great
\nindividuals that took up the <\/p>\n
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\nyoke in youth in the time of the
\n1st century and that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nessence of his life.
\nI believe that the truth was <\/p>\n
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\nbelieved and manifested in his
\nlife in youth. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s bearing the yoke.
\nThat’s what bearing the yoke is <\/p>\n
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\nall about.
\nAnd we meet him in Acts. <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 16, first of all, and
\nit’s always very interesting to <\/p>\n
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\nsee how this how the scriptures
\nintroduce us to various <\/p>\n
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\ncharacters, and we’ve already
\nseen that in the past week, and <\/p>\n
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\nthis one is no exception.
\nBecause in acts. <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 16 On Paul’s second
\njourney while he comes to <\/p>\n
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\nLystra, we find in verse one of
\nActs 16. <\/p>\n
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\nThen he came to Derby and
\nLystra, that is, the apostle <\/p>\n
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\nPaul, with Silas, who was his
\ncompanion at this stage. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd behold, a certain disciple
\nwas there named Timotheus, the <\/p>\n
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\nson of a certain woman, which
\nwas a Jewess and believed, but <\/p>\n
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\nhis father was a Greek, which
\nwas well reported of by the <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren that were at Lystra and
\nIconium and him. <\/p>\n
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\nWould Paul have to go forth with
\nhim? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a very interesting
\nintroduction. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know this little incident
\nhere that we read when he came <\/p>\n
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\nto Derby and Lystra?
\nIn fact, it was at Lystra that <\/p>\n
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\nhe picked Timothy up.
\nIs the only thing that’s <\/p>\n
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\nrecorded in any detail in Paul’s
\nsecond epistle until he gets <\/p>\n
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\nright over into Philippi on the
\nother side of the Aegean Sea. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s nothing recorded apart
\nfrom just a very summary comment<\/p>\n
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\nin all his dealings all around
\nthrough, through Asia Minor, <\/p>\n
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\nSyria and Silesia, except for
\nthis one thing that he picked up<\/p>\n
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\ninto his party, the young man,
\nTimothy. <\/p>\n
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\nBut notice very carefully.
\nWe’ve got to read our Bibles <\/p>\n
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\ncarefully.
\nYoung people, look at this. <\/p>\n
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\nLet me read this again, verse
\none. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he came to Derby and Lystra
\nand behold, a certain disciple <\/p>\n
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\nwas there.
\nIf you want a little exercise, <\/p>\n
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\nwhen you go home, you get a
\ncoloured pencil and you colour <\/p>\n
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\nin the word behold in the acts
\nof the apostle. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you’ll find that on every
\noccasion Luke is using it to <\/p>\n
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\nintroduce something that we’ve
\ngot to take notice of, something<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s either unusual or
\nsurprising, something that ought<\/p>\n
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\nto catch our attention.
\nAnd here, talking about going <\/p>\n
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\noff onto the second journey,
\nthey came to Lystra and behold, <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a certain disciple
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nHis name happened to be valued
\nof God, and he had a Jew for his<\/p>\n
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\nmother and a Greek.
\nFor his boy like that from a <\/p>\n
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\nmixed marriage ever be valued to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the Jews would have thought,
\nbut. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re already told here that
\nhe’s a disciple already. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s interesting.
\nHis mother, we are told, already<\/p>\n
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\nbelieved.
\nAnd the Apostle Paul, we know, <\/p>\n
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\ncame through this region on his
\nfirst missionary journey only <\/p>\n
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\nabout 18 months before this this
\nparticular time. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we know this too, though
\nwe’re not told it here, that he <\/p>\n
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\nwas young.
\nHe must have been young because <\/p>\n
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\ndo you know 15 or 16 years
\nlater, after this time, the <\/p>\n
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\napostle Paul wrote a letter to
\nTimothy near the end of his <\/p>\n
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\nlife, that is near the end of
\nthe apostles life. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he said to him, let no man
\ndespise thy youth, Timothy. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, if we put him into his mid
\n30s at that stage, the very <\/p>\n
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\nleast he must have been is his
\nlate teens at this point. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so if we take him at being
\nsay 17 or 18 at this time, we <\/p>\n
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\nought to be fairly safe in
\nassessing his age, though we <\/p>\n
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\ncan’t pin it exactly.
\nThere’s no question that at this<\/p>\n
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\nstage he was young.
\nAnd at that young age, look what<\/p>\n
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\nverse 2 says.
\nHe was well reported of by the <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren that were at Lystra and
\nIconium, not only his hometown <\/p>\n
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\nyoung people.
\nAnd you don’t get a reputation <\/p>\n
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\nlike that overnight.
\nYou don’t get a reputation like.<\/p>\n
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\nThat just because.
\nYou happen to make a commitment <\/p>\n
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\nto be baptized into Christ.
\nHere’s a young. <\/p>\n
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\nLad, who at 17 or 18 is already
\nalready known to your own <\/p>\n
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\necclesia in Lister and.
\nTo the next town’s ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nDoes that mean that he went over
\nand helped them? <\/p>\n
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\nI think it’s highly likely.
\nWhen we have a look at the <\/p>\n
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\ncharacter of this young lad and
\nhim, Paul wanted to come with <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nWell, that was possibly because <\/p>\n
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\nof the prophecies that went
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
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\nJust make a note of it.
\nBut in first of Timothy 1 and at<\/p>\n
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\nverse 18, which we won’t look at
\nat the moment, the apostle <\/p>\n
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\nspeaks of the prophecies that
\nwent before on him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it could have been a
\nreference to a prophecy that <\/p>\n
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\nthat was made before Paul even
\ngot Solystra on this occasion. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know that Silas, in fact, was
\na prophet. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd had the gift of prophecy
\nwhether. <\/p>\n
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\nIt came through that means.
\nWhether in fact that had <\/p>\n
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\nanything to do with this or not,
\nwe do not know for sure. <\/p>\n
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\nIt may have been, but we know
\nthis. <\/p>\n
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\nThat Paul.
\nObviously had noticed this young<\/p>\n
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\nlad as well.
\nIf he was well. <\/p>\n
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\nReported of the brethren at
\nLithgra and Iconium. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Apostle Paul in his, with
\nhis astute mind, would certainly<\/p>\n
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\nhave picked up on talking and
\nseeing and hearing that young <\/p>\n
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\nman.
\nThere was some considerable <\/p>\n
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\npotential in him.
\nYou know, it’s never ever <\/p>\n
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\nrecorded in the rest of the Acts
\nof the Apostles that the Apostle<\/p>\n
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\nPaul picked up anyone else on
\nany occasion like this. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we know that he did.
\nWe know that he had many <\/p>\n
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\nfollowers.
\nWe know that he had many very <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful individuals.
\nWho pursued the work of the <\/p>\n
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\ntruth in many places.
\nAnd did a great deal to extend <\/p>\n
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\nthe gospel to the far-flung
\nreaches of the empire. <\/p>\n
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\nBut this is.
\nThe only time in all of Acts <\/p>\n
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\nthat it tells us that Paul
\nstopped and said, lad, I want <\/p>\n
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\nyou to come with me.
\nThere was something about this <\/p>\n
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\nlad that God valued and that the
\nApostle Paul saw in him as well.<\/p>\n
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\nWell, what do we know about him?
\nWe know this, that he came from <\/p>\n
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\na divided family.
\nIt obviously wasn’t a difficult,<\/p>\n
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\nit was a difficult childhood
\nthat he had because his father <\/p>\n
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\nwas a Greek and his mother
\nbelieved being a Jewess. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there was a conflict in, in
\ncustoms, in beliefs, in all <\/p>\n
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\nsorts of things in that
\nhousehold. <\/p>\n
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\nThere must have been, as
\ninevitably would have been the <\/p>\n
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\ncase when a Jew, Jewess married
\na Greek. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he was of good reputation,
\nas we saw a moment ago amongst <\/p>\n
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\nthe brethren in that place.
\nI’d like you to come to 1st of <\/p>\n
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\nTimothy, Second of Timothy,
\nsorry, chapter 1, because we get<\/p>\n
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\na little insight into some of
\nthe characteristics of this <\/p>\n
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\nyoung man by what Paul tells us
\nhere. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re no doubt very familiar
\nwith these words, but let’s just<\/p>\n
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\nglance our eyes across them
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 5 in what was in fact his
\nlast letter, his final message <\/p>\n
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\nto Timothy before his death, the
\napostle says, when I called to <\/p>\n
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\nremembrance.
\nVerse 5, The unfeigned faith <\/p>\n
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\nthat is in thee, which dwelt
\nfirst in thy grandmother Lois <\/p>\n
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\nand thy mother Eunice.
\nAnd I am persuaded that in thee <\/p>\n
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\nalso.
\nIt’s a strange word, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nThis unfeigned faith in the
\nGreek. <\/p>\n
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\nThe word is an Hippocrates.
\nSounds like hypocrite, doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nit?
\nIt’s the word from which <\/p>\n
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\nhypocrite comes.
\nBut it’s got the Greek word for <\/p>\n
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\nnot on the front.
\nHypocritical without hypocrisy. <\/p>\n
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\nWithout.
\nPretense. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the apostle Paul remembered
\nhis unfinded faith, his sincere <\/p>\n
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\nfaith that was without the
\ntense, without hypocrisy, which <\/p>\n
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\nhe said dwelt in his mother
\nLois, and his in his grandmother<\/p>\n
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\nLois, and in his mother Eunice.
\nWhat is unfeigned faith, Young <\/p>\n
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\npeople?
\nWe know what faith is, a belief,<\/p>\n
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\na belief in those things that
\nhave been revealed or that are <\/p>\n
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\ncoming.
\nBut here’s a faith, young <\/p>\n
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\npeople, that’s matched by
\naction. <\/p>\n
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\nHis life.
\nThat’s what the Apostle Paul’s <\/p>\n
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\nsaying.
\nHis life was consistent with his<\/p>\n
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\nprofession and his belief
\nabsolutely consistent, and we <\/p>\n
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\nnone of us find that an easy
\nthing to do, do we? <\/p>\n
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\nremembrance, that they’ll stir <\/p>\n
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\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nKnow there’s no indication
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\nThat’s all he’s saying.
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\nAccept it. <\/p>\n
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\nhis faith was so great that his.<\/p>\n
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\nActions matched it in every
\nrespect and he stood up in <\/p>\n
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\nfeel comfortable in. <\/p>\n
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\nverse four of second of Timothy <\/p>\n
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\ngreatly desiring to see him, <\/p>\n
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\nbeing mindful of his tears that
\nhe may be filled with joy and on<\/p>\n
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\ntheir parting, obviously their
\nlast parting, there were tears <\/p>\n
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\nOn the Old Testament himself was<\/p>\n
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\ngreatly desiring, mindful of the
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\n5 and verse 23, which we won’t <\/p>\n
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\nlook at the moment, that he was
\noften sick, often sick. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that wouldn’t have made life
\nin Paul’s company very easy. <\/p>\n
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\nA lad who would have had to
\ntravel many hundreds, nay, <\/p>\n
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\ncompassionate and encouraging. <\/p>\n
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\ncharacteristic of his a little
\nlater. <\/p>\n
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\nWord of God.
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\nTimothy chapter 3 to words that
\nwe can all recite, no doubt by <\/p>\n
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\nheart, I hope in verse 14, the
\napostle says, and this is his <\/p>\n
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\nlast words to to Timothy says,
\nbut continue thou underline that<\/p>\n
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\nwhich thou hast learned.
\nIt wasn’t as if this is an. <\/p>\n
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\nContinue thou on the things
\nwhich thou hast learned has been<\/p>\n
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\nassured of knowing of whom thou
\nhast learned them, and that from<\/p>\n
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\na child, from an unborn babe.
\nThe word means thou hast none. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Holy Scriptures which are
\nable to make thee wise unto <\/p>\n
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\nsalvation through faith that is
\nin Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause all.
\nScripture says the Apostle. <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t know this. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did he tell him that all <\/p>\n
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\ninspiration of God? <\/p>\n
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\nprofitable for doctrine, for <\/p>\n
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\ninstruction in righteousness, <\/p>\n
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\nperfect. <\/p>\n
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\nTruly furnished, properly
\nequipped unto all good works. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you think Timothy didn’t know
\nthat? <\/p>\n
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\nHaving been in the company of
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\nCourse, he knew it. <\/p>\n
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\npower that had already driven <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s all the apostle’s doing <\/p>\n
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\ndriving force of his life, his <\/p>\n
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\nown life as well as Timothy’s.
\nIt was a characteristic that he <\/p>\n
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\nsaw in that lad at the age of 16
\nor 17 in the town of. <\/p>\n
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\nlived with his mother, where <\/p>\n
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\nhypocritical faith. <\/p>\n
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\nverse 15 there which are able is<\/p>\n
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\nA word which means powerful. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the word from which we get
\nour English word Dynamo. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’d seen this effect in
\nthis lad. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul had already seen it.
\nHe’d seen it from a lad when he <\/p>\n
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\npicked him up in Lystra on those
\n15 or 16 years before this time.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’d seen it ever since.
\nHe’d seen the Scriptures as a <\/p>\n
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\nDynamo in the life of that lad
\nbecause he knew there was power <\/p>\n
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\nnatural characteristics that we <\/p>\n
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\nInto something that. <\/p>\n
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\nScriptures are powerful, more <\/p>\n
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\ncredence, because we don’t tap <\/p>\n
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\nAnd brother and sisters, we’re <\/p>\n
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\nall in this situation, aren’t
\nwe? <\/p>\n
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\ngive our minds to it.
\nBut the scriptures will not <\/p>\n
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\njust.
\nAffect our minds, they’re. <\/p>\n
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\nPowerful to fit, to affect the
\nwhole man. <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be affected if we allow<\/p>\n
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\nPower to generate in our minds. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it will end up in.
\nGood works inevitably. <\/p>\n
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\ngood work in the. <\/p>\n
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\nhasn’t been working. <\/p>\n
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\nhypocrisy. <\/p>\n
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\nLives that have been changed by
\nthe power that’s in this book. <\/p>\n
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\nknown the Scriptures from a <\/p>\n
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\nbabe, the Apostle Paul, at the
\nage of 16 or 17, laid a yoke <\/p>\n
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\nupon his neck, a yoke that yoked
\nhim and Timothy together. <\/p>\n
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\nreally didn’t understand at that<\/p>\n
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\nthat when the Apostle Paul came <\/p>\n
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\nto that town on that day,
\ntotally unexpected to him and <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, lad, I want you to come
\nwith me. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we think that young lad
\ndidn’t know what that entailed, <\/p>\n
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\nand read the Scriptures because <\/p>\n
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\nActs chapter 14, we know that <\/p>\n
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\nthe apostle came to that region
\nand we won’t look at it now, but<\/p>\n
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\nhe came to that region, young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he was stoned and taken out
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\nin heat.
\nAnd you know what? <\/p>\n
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\nAll the believers have just <\/p>\n
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\naccepted the truth.
\nAnd we find when he came the <\/p>\n
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\nsecond time, that his mother.
\nAnd he are called disciples. <\/p>\n
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\nTimothy, maybe 15 or 16, watched<\/p>\n
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\nthose angry Jews stone the
\napostle. <\/p>\n
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\nTo to almost to death.
\nDrag him like a piece of rag and<\/p>\n
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\ndump him outside the city.
\nAnd he went with tears in his <\/p>\n
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\neyes and stood outside that
\ncity. <\/p>\n
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\nJust heard? <\/p>\n
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\nheart burned, and he watched <\/p>\n
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\n00:24:29,280 –> 00:24:34,320
\nthat man get up by the parallel
\ngrowth. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:34,600 –> 00:24:38,880
\nHe’s resurrected in front of his
\neyes, and he went back and they <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:38,880 –> 00:24:43,120
\nbathed.
\nHis wounds and he didn’t rest <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:43,120 –> 00:24:47,800
\nthere for three months.
\nThere’s work to be done. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:47,800 –> 00:24:52,600
\nHe’s got to sit around.
\nThis man had work to do and on <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:52,600 –> 00:24:56,360
\nthat first journey he moved on
\nto the next town and the next <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:56,440 –> 00:24:58,280
\nand then came back and followed
\nthe same. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:58,280 –> 00:25:03,360
\nPath again, And Timothy knew all
\nof that. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:05,880 –> 00:25:08,080
\nAnd the apostle tapped him on
\nthe shoulder, and he said, <\/p>\n
348
\n00:25:08,640 –> 00:25:12,760
\nTimothy, I want you to come with
\nme. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:14,320 –> 00:25:15,720
\nWhat do you think that did to
\nthat? <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:18,840 –> 00:25:26,600
\nHe knew what it meant to deny
\nself, take up the cross daily, <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:26,880 –> 00:25:31,680
\nand follow him.
\nAnd as the Apostle Paul was was <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:31,800 –> 00:25:39,520
\nChrist to the Gentiles, so now
\nthe Christ to the Gentiles had <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:39,520 –> 00:25:43,920
\nyoked this young man to him.
\nAnd he said to. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:43,920 –> 00:25:51,320
\nHim in effect, Timothy, bear
\nthis yoke in your youth. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:52,600 –> 00:25:56,760
\nTake this yoke upon me.
\nRemember from our study last <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:56,760 –> 00:26:00,280
\nSaturday night.
\nTake this yoke upon me, and <\/p>\n
357
\n00:26:00,280 –> 00:26:03,240
\nlearn from me and the.
\nApostle was now saying just <\/p>\n
358
\n00:26:03,240 –> 00:26:08,920
\nthose words to this young lad,
\nbecause this man to whom he was <\/p>\n
359
\n00:26:08,920 –> 00:26:12,840
\nnow to be yoked.
\nWas able to say like no other <\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:13,080 –> 00:26:18,680
\ncould ever have said no history
\nbe he follows of me as I also am<\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:18,680 –> 00:26:24,360
\nof Christ and to walk in his
\nsteps or to be LinkedIn yoke <\/p>\n
362
\n00:26:24,360 –> 00:26:27,240
\nwith him.
\nWas to be LinkedIn yoke with <\/p>\n
363
\n00:26:27,240 –> 00:26:31,280
\nChrist.
\nAnd so began young people, the <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:31,280 –> 00:26:34,040
\ngreatest and most productive
\npartnership. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:34,160 –> 00:26:36,880
\nIn the history of the New
\nTestament, and that’s no <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:36,880 –> 00:26:41,960
\nexaggeration, during the next
\neight years, the apostle Paul <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:41,960 –> 00:26:45,920
\nfounded over the world, all over
\nthe world. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:46,120 –> 00:26:49,520
\nYou know the story of Acts.
\nHe cared and nourished with him.<\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:49,520 –> 00:26:55,920
\nHe travelled back, he stayed up
\nall night in prayer times on <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:55,920 –> 00:26:58,040
\nbehalf of those Aquinas.
\nHe recalled that he wrote <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:59,800 –> 00:27:06,120
\nmessengers all over the world.
\nAnd every eight years Timothy is<\/p>\n
372
\n00:27:06,120 –> 00:27:11,040
\nyoked to him.
\nDo you know that half of the New<\/p>\n
373
\n00:27:11,040 –> 00:27:14,160
\nTestament?
\nWas written more than half of it<\/p>\n
374
\n00:27:14,160 –> 00:27:19,760
\nwas written by the apostle Paul,
\nbut half of it also has Paul and<\/p>\n
375
\n00:27:19,760 –> 00:27:27,800
\nApostle and Timothy unto the.
\nTimothy, a young man at that <\/p>\n
376
\n00:27:27,800 –> 00:27:33,280
\nstage, has his name as one of
\nthe authors of half of the New <\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:33,320 –> 00:27:38,760
\nTestament.
\nBecause he’s yoked inseparably <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:39,320 –> 00:27:44,800
\nwith the great apostle Paul.
\nBecause that man tapped him on <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:49,800
\nthe shoulder and said, I want
\nyou to learn in youth what it <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:49,800 –> 00:27:54,720
\nmeans to bear the yoke.
\nNow, the Apostle Paul was a <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:54,720 –> 00:27:59,520
\nunique individual.
\nHe was prophesied right back in <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:59,520 –> 00:28:03,720
\nthe times of Isaiah.
\nAnd he was called by gods to <\/p>\n
383
\n00:28:03,760 –> 00:28:06,360
\nfill up the sufferings of
\nMessiah. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:28:06,920 –> 00:28:11,120
\nHe was Christ to the Gentiles,
\nand he even used the language of<\/p>\n
385
\n00:28:11,120 –> 00:28:14,040
\nMessiah on occasions.
\nHe was a remarkable man, <\/p>\n
386
\n00:28:14,240 –> 00:28:16,600
\nabsolutely remarkable in every
\nrespect. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:17,320 –> 00:28:21,520
\nHe was a man of powerful
\nintellects, of incredible <\/p>\n
388
\n00:28:21,520 –> 00:28:26,680
\nconviction and determination.
\nWe can scarcely imagine the <\/p>\n
389
\n00:28:26,680 –> 00:28:30,720
\ndetermined will of steel.
\nThat man had pushed him all over<\/p>\n
390
\n00:28:30,720 –> 00:28:33,800
\nthe then known world.
\nHe was a man of vision, a man of<\/p>\n
391
\n00:28:33,920 –> 00:28:36,960
\nincredible drive.
\nAnd you know, brothers and <\/p>\n
392
\n00:28:36,960 –> 00:28:38,680
\nsisters and young people, anyone
\nthat. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:38,840 –> 00:28:39,600
\nFell.
\nIn. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:39,800 –> 00:28:42,000
\nTo that company with the Apostle
\nPaul. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:42,240 –> 00:28:47,240
\nWas profoundly affected for the
\nrest of their lives, and no <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:47,320 –> 00:28:52,160
\none’s ever stayed in his company
\nwho was unprepared to put the <\/p>\n
397
\n00:28:52,160 –> 00:28:56,360
\ntruth before all personal
\ncomforts, all personal <\/p>\n
398
\n00:28:56,360 –> 00:28:59,440
\nconsiderations.
\nYou couldn’t be in the company <\/p>\n
399
\n00:28:59,440 –> 00:29:02,720
\nof the apostle and travel around
\nthe world and be thinking of <\/p>\n
400
\n00:29:02,720 –> 00:29:05,360
\nyour own personal needs.
\nCouldn’t do it. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:29:06,360 –> 00:29:10,160
\nThat’s the sort of man he was.
\nHe set very tough personal <\/p>\n
402
\n00:29:10,160 –> 00:29:15,880
\nstandards and with a great
\ninspiration to all those in his <\/p>\n
403
\n00:29:15,880 –> 00:29:18,320
\ncompany.
\nYou know, if anyone, it doesn’t <\/p>\n
404
\n00:29:18,320 –> 00:29:21,000
\nmatter who it was, came into
\nPaul’s company. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:29:21,960 –> 00:29:25,880
\nThey would very quickly learn
\nthe meaning of self denial, of <\/p>\n
406
\n00:29:25,880 –> 00:29:28,520
\nsacrifice, of the meaning of
\nservice. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:29:29,320 –> 00:29:33,600
\nThey’re things that we really,
\nin this soft and savvy age, know<\/p>\n
408
\n00:29:33,600 –> 00:29:34,880
\nvery little.
\nAbout. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:29:35,920 –> 00:29:40,840
\nAnd we ought.
\nTo know more, they knew how to <\/p>\n
410
\n00:29:40,840 –> 00:29:46,200
\nabound and how to suffer need.
\nThey would very quickly learn <\/p>\n
411
\n00:29:47,080 –> 00:29:51,840
\nwhat it was to suffer unjustly
\nfor the name of Christ. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:29:53,040 –> 00:29:58,920
\nThey would learn what it meant
\nto be patient, to endure in well<\/p>\n
413
\n00:29:58,920 –> 00:30:02,760
\ndoing.
\nThey would learn very powerfully<\/p>\n
414
\n00:30:02,760 –> 00:30:04,960
\nhow to rightly.
\nDivide the word of truth and. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:30:05,720 –> 00:30:07,800
\nThey’d learn the thrill of the
\nscriptures. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:30:07,880 –> 00:30:11,320
\nThen you imagine sitting down at
\nnight with the Apostle Paul as <\/p>\n
417
\n00:30:11,320 –> 00:30:15,480
\nhe began to sow his tent to make
\nsome money so that the party <\/p>\n
418
\n00:30:15,480 –> 00:30:20,920
\nthat he was travelling with were
\nwere cared for, as he began to <\/p>\n
419
\n00:30:20,920 –> 00:30:27,360
\ntalk about Isaiah, the visions
\nof of Ezekiel and the glory of <\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:27,360 –> 00:30:30,880
\nthe Kingdom.
\nCan you imagine the exhilaration<\/p>\n
421
\n00:30:30,880 –> 00:30:35,040
\nof of that time, those times,
\nprecious though they must have <\/p>\n
422
\n00:30:35,040 –> 00:30:42,520
\nbeen to a young lad of 17 who
\nwas soaking up all that he <\/p>\n
423
\n00:30:42,520 –> 00:30:46,480
\nheard?
\nNo one could be in the company <\/p>\n
424
\n00:30:46,720 –> 00:30:54,120
\nof the apostle and not know what
\nit was to be committed to <\/p>\n
425
\n00:30:54,120 –> 00:31:00,120
\nChrist.
\nAt the end of the apostles life.<\/p>\n
426
\n00:31:02,000 –> 00:31:05,640
\nHe wrote to Timothy.
\nWe’ve got the words open here, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:07,920
\nhaven’t we?
\nChapter 3 of Second Timothy. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:31:08,280 –> 00:31:11,840
\nLet’s read them.
\nThis is what the apostle said. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:31:13,520 –> 00:31:17,480
\nVerse 10 of. 2nd of Timothy.
\nThree. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:31:18,480 –> 00:31:20,720
\nBut thou hast fully known my
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:31:20,960 –> 00:31:23,840
\nLook at the margin.
\nA much better translation. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:31:25,200 –> 00:31:36,440
\nBut thou hast been a diligent
\nfollower of my doctrine, of my <\/p>\n
433
\n00:31:36,440 –> 00:31:45,720
\nmanner of life, of my purpose to
\nwin Christ, of my faith, which <\/p>\n
434
\n00:31:45,720 –> 00:31:49,160
\nis the same as yours, Timothy,
\nwithout hypocrisy. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:31:49,520 –> 00:31:54,480
\nOf my long-suffering, of my
\nlove. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:31:55,360 –> 00:32:03,360
\nOf my patient endurance in well
\ndoing, of my persecutions, of my<\/p>\n
437
\n00:32:03,360 –> 00:32:06,640
\npressures and afflictions that
\ncame unto me at all these other.<\/p>\n
438
\n00:32:06,640 –> 00:32:08,240
\nPlaces out of which the Lord
\ndelivered me. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:32:09,080 –> 00:32:14,160
\nTimothy, you’ve been a patience
\nand diligent follower of all of <\/p>\n
440
\n00:32:14,160 –> 00:32:19,360
\nthose things in my life.
\nWhat a testimony and eight <\/p>\n
441
\n00:32:19,480 –> 00:32:23,000
\nyears.
\nAfter leaving Lystra, the <\/p>\n
442
\n00:32:23,000 –> 00:32:30,160
\napostle Paul was locked in a
\nyoke with that young man, and <\/p>\n
443
\n00:32:30,160 –> 00:32:33,680
\nTimothy went.
\nThrough all the pressures, all <\/p>\n
444
\n00:32:33,680 –> 00:32:39,640
\nthe troubles, all the
\nsufferings, all the joys in <\/p>\n
445
\n00:32:39,640 –> 00:32:44,120
\nfounding new eccleses, and
\nseeing this spontaneous response<\/p>\n
446
\n00:32:44,120 –> 00:32:46,920
\nof brethren who turned from the
\nworld and come to. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:32:46,920 –> 00:32:53,320
\nChrist, but the anguish of
\nthose, the Jews particularly, <\/p>\n
448
\n00:32:53,440 –> 00:32:58,520
\nwho fought him at every step.
\nLet’s just follow the early part<\/p>\n
449
\n00:32:58,520 –> 00:33:03,120
\nof the life of this young man
\nwhen he’s in his youth, probably<\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:03,120 –> 00:33:06,960
\nstill his teens.
\nCome back to Acts Chapter 17. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:29,080 –> 00:33:35,280
\nThey left the little town of
\nLystra and moved across Asia <\/p>\n
452
\n00:33:35,280 –> 00:33:37,840
\nMinor.
\nThey were prevented of the <\/p>\n
453
\n00:33:37,840 –> 00:33:40,080
\nSpirit.
\nWe know the story of of these <\/p>\n
454
\n00:33:40,080 –> 00:33:43,320
\njourneys.
\nNo doubt they came across being <\/p>\n
455
\n00:33:43,320 –> 00:33:45,640
\nprevented by the Spirit until
\nthey got to Trois. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:33:45,640 –> 00:33:47,440
\nWhere they saw a.
\nVision and they went across the <\/p>\n
457
\n00:33:47,440 –> 00:33:53,120
\nsea and into Macedonia and came
\nto Philippi and there we know <\/p>\n
458
\n00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:57,040
\nwhat happened, Paul and Silas.
\nWere put in prison. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:33:58,800 –> 00:34:04,120
\nThey weren’t just put in prison,
\nthey were beaten with many. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:04,120 –> 00:34:07,920
\nStripes, the record tells us.
\nAnd I ask you. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:07,920 –> 00:34:15,080
\nWhere was Timothy in all that?
\nHe was in that party, along with<\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:15,080 –> 00:34:20,000
\nLuke and possibly others.
\nWe don’t know, but Silas. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:20,040 –> 00:34:23,560
\nAnd and Paul were taken.
\nBeing quite clearly the leaders <\/p>\n
464
\n00:34:23,560 –> 00:34:29,440
\nof that group and beaten with
\nmany stripes, so much so that <\/p>\n
465
\n00:34:29,440 –> 00:34:32,679
\ntheir backs were bleeding and
\nraw, and they went into that <\/p>\n
466
\n00:34:32,679 –> 00:34:36,280
\nprison house that night.
\nAnd Can you imagine the this <\/p>\n
467
\n00:34:36,280 –> 00:34:41,560
\nyoung lad, Timothy, only months
\nout of his mother’s home at 17, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:34:41,560 –> 00:34:48,400
\nperhaps standing up to that and
\nstaying awake all night <\/p>\n
469
\n00:34:48,880 –> 00:34:51,679
\nwondering what was going to
\nhappen next? <\/p>\n
470
\n00:34:52,360 –> 00:34:57,000
\nWhat had he got himself into?
\nYou know, I don’t believe he <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:57,000 –> 00:35:02,200
\nthought like that at all.
\nI believe that night he would <\/p>\n
472
\n00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:08,400
\nhave been praying earnestly,
\npraying earnestly for the <\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:08,400 –> 00:35:12,600
\napostle and Silas.
\nBut he saw. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:18,280
\nIt all and he saw the response.
\nWhen they eventually, after the <\/p>\n
475
\n00:35:18,280 –> 00:35:19,840
\nearthquake, had come out of that
\nprison. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:35:21,120 –> 00:35:25,760
\nHe saw the the joy and.
\nPower in that ecclesia, the <\/p>\n
477
\n00:35:25,760 –> 00:35:29,080
\nenthusiasm of that little
\necclesia that formed around <\/p>\n
478
\n00:35:29,080 –> 00:35:36,000
\nLydia’s house in Philippi, and
\nPaul and Silas, still with very <\/p>\n
479
\n00:35:36,000 –> 00:35:42,920
\ndeep wounds, still in very bad
\nshape, made their way on. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:35:44,400 –> 00:35:51,200
\nThey couldn’t rest for too long.
\nVerse 1 of chapter 17 And now <\/p>\n
481
\n00:35:51,200 –> 00:35:54,520
\nwhen they had passed through
\nAnthropolacan Apollonia, they <\/p>\n
482
\n00:35:54,520 –> 00:35:57,480
\ncame to Thessalonica, where was
\nthe synagogue of the Jews. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:35:59,280 –> 00:36:03,040
\nAnd we find that in the next two
\nverses the apostle Paul goes to <\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:03,040 –> 00:36:07,080
\nreason in the Sabbath and.
\nAnd with great courage and <\/p>\n
485
\n00:36:07,360 –> 00:36:12,080
\ndexterity.
\nHe out reasoned the Jews opening<\/p>\n
486
\n00:36:12,080 –> 00:36:14,560
\nin alleging verse three that
\nChrist must needs to have <\/p>\n
487
\n00:36:14,560 –> 00:36:15,800
\nsuffered and risen from the
\ndead. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:36:16,160 –> 00:36:17,320
\nWouldn’t you like to have been
\nin that? <\/p>\n
489
\n00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:19,640
\nAudience and nor was the young
\nTimothy listening to. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:36:19,640 –> 00:36:21,240
\nAll those words, these things
\nare the. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:36:21,240 –> 00:36:25,680
\nMasterly handling by the Apostle
\nPaul of the Word of God in. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:36:25,680 –> 00:36:30,200
\nPublic divide in defence of the
\ntruth, upholding Christ as being<\/p>\n
493
\n00:36:30,200 –> 00:36:33,840
\nthe center of all the prophets
\nand of all God’s revelation, in <\/p>\n
494
\n00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:38,120
\nfact the center of His purpose.
\nThen the evidence of God’s love <\/p>\n
495
\n00:36:38,120 –> 00:36:42,600
\ninto the world and then there’s
\nan uproar starts because the <\/p>\n
496
\n00:36:42,600 –> 00:36:45,720
\nJews get word of it and they
\ncome and try and looking for <\/p>\n
497
\n00:36:45,720 –> 00:36:50,560
\nSaul and Silas, and they attack
\nJason’s house in verse 5. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:36:50,720 –> 00:36:52,760
\nAnd they sought to bring them
\nout to the people, but they <\/p>\n
499
\n00:36:52,800 –> 00:36:54,280
\nweren’t there.
\nVerse 6. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:36:54,280 –> 00:36:57,760
\nAnd when they found them not,
\nthey drew Jason and certain <\/p>\n
501
\n00:36:57,760 –> 00:37:00,040
\nbrethren under the rulers of the
\ncity crying. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:37:00,720 –> 00:37:04,280
\nThese that have turned the world
\nupside down are come. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:04,480 –> 00:37:05,680
\nYou know, hit her.
\nAlso. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:37:06,640 –> 00:37:09,200
\nNow who did they take?
\nOf course, there were some who <\/p>\n
505
\n00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:12,000
\nhad accepted the truth in those
\nin the little time that they’d <\/p>\n
506
\n00:37:12,000 –> 00:37:15,120
\nbeen in personal like her, but
\nthey didn’t find Silas and they <\/p>\n
507
\n00:37:15,120 –> 00:37:16,960
\ndidn’t find Paul.
\nThat’s who they were. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:20,800
\nAfter we read it, we don’t even
\nread that Timothy was here, but <\/p>\n
509
\n00:37:20,800 –> 00:37:24,240
\nwe definitely know that he was
\nbecause just a little further <\/p>\n
510
\n00:37:24,240 –> 00:37:26,040
\ndown the column we find that he
\nappears. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:37:26,320 –> 00:37:30,080
\nBut he must have been around
\nsomewhere, and perhaps brethren <\/p>\n
512
\n00:37:30,080 –> 00:37:33,800
\nand sisters and young people.
\nPerhaps he was one of those <\/p>\n
513
\n00:37:33,800 –> 00:37:37,480
\ncertain brethren in verse 6
\nbecause they said to the rulers,<\/p>\n
514
\n00:37:37,480 –> 00:37:40,120
\nlisten to these words, these
\nthat have. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:37:40,120 –> 00:37:45,040
\nTurned the world upside down.
\nThey didn’t find Saul, Paul and <\/p>\n
516
\n00:37:45,040 –> 00:37:47,200
\nSilas.
\nSo who were they talking about? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:37:48,040 –> 00:37:52,240
\nHad they grabbed?
\nLuke and and possibly young <\/p>\n
518
\n00:37:52,240 –> 00:37:57,440
\nTimothy well on bail.
\nThey let them go, and the <\/p>\n
519
\n00:37:57,440 –> 00:38:01,840
\nbrethren in verse 10 went away
\nand to Berea after that narrow <\/p>\n
520
\n00:38:01,840 –> 00:38:05,080
\nescape like you to remember that
\nthey were just in Thessalaika. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:05,080 –> 00:38:08,440
\nAnd that was a close shave for
\nTimothy, because we’ll come back<\/p>\n
522
\n00:38:08,440 –> 00:38:10,800
\nto that in just a moment.
\nAnd they come to Berea. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:38:11,080 –> 00:38:15,200
\nAnd there, as we well know in
\nverse 11, they were more noble <\/p>\n
524
\n00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:17,840
\nthan those in Thessalaika in
\nthat they received the Word with<\/p>\n
525
\n00:38:17,840 –> 00:38:20,720
\nall readiness of mind and
\nsearched the Scriptures daily <\/p>\n
526
\n00:38:21,000 –> 00:38:24,000
\nwhether those things were so.
\nAnd you can just imagine young <\/p>\n
527
\n00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:26,720
\nTimothy in his absolute.
\nElement here was not the. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:38:26,720 –> 00:38:28,640
\nRough and tumble crowd.
\nBecause he wasn’t. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:38:28,920 –> 00:38:34,800
\nHe wasn’t a boisterous and and
\nstrong and dominant character at<\/p>\n
530
\n00:38:34,800 –> 00:38:38,400
\nall.
\nHe was rather the reverse. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:38:39,400 –> 00:38:43,920
\nAnd here in Berea he sat down
\nquietly and searched the <\/p>\n
532
\n00:38:43,920 –> 00:38:45,360
\nscriptures daily.
\nThe. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:38:45,360 –> 00:38:47,760
\nScriptures that had been
\ninculcated. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:51,360
\nInfused into his mind since he
\nwas a young lad were. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:38:51,360 –> 00:38:55,120
\nAll now being put into place and
\nhe’s finding that he’s teaching <\/p>\n
536
\n00:38:55,120 –> 00:39:00,280
\nalready at.
\nThe age of possibly only 18, but<\/p>\n
537
\n00:39:00,280 –> 00:39:06,040
\nyou know that didn’t last too
\nlong and we find that though <\/p>\n
538
\n00:39:06,040 –> 00:39:09,640
\nmany believed in that place and
\nit must have been a thrill to <\/p>\n
539
\n00:39:09,640 –> 00:39:14,040
\nhis heart to see those turning
\nfrom from idols unto the living <\/p>\n
540
\n00:39:14,040 –> 00:39:16,280
\nGod.
\nYet the disruption of those <\/p>\n
541
\n00:39:16,280 –> 00:39:20,400
\nfanatical Jews from Thess and
\nAlaika soon bursting on that <\/p>\n
542
\n00:39:20,400 –> 00:39:21,640
\ntown.
\nThey followed them down the <\/p>\n
543
\n00:39:21,640 –> 00:39:24,760
\ntrack and eventually they got
\nthere and they were asked to <\/p>\n
544
\n00:39:24,760 –> 00:39:30,160
\npull and we find in verse 14 and
\nthen immediately the brethren <\/p>\n
545
\n00:39:30,160 –> 00:39:31,880
\nsent away.
\nPaul to go, as it were by. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:39:31,880 –> 00:39:35,920
\nSea, but Silas and Timotheus
\nabode their still. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:39:36,520 –> 00:39:40,000
\nAha, here he is.
\nThis is the second occurrence of<\/p>\n
548
\n00:39:40,000 –> 00:39:43,560
\nhis name in the record.
\nNow why was it left out and why <\/p>\n
549
\n00:39:43,560 –> 00:39:45,240
\nis it now here?
\nBrethren and sisters. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:39:45,520 –> 00:39:48,640
\nSurely.
\nSomething has changed. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:39:48,880 –> 00:39:51,440
\nNow he’s being called in the
\nrecord. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:55,080
\nHe’s being named in this record
\nas one that’s staying back here <\/p>\n
553
\n00:39:55,080 –> 00:39:57,240
\nwith Silas.
\nClearly, these Jews were. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:39:57,240 –> 00:40:00,600
\nAfter the head of the Apostle
\nPaul, he was their number one <\/p>\n
555
\n00:40:00,600 –> 00:40:07,520
\ntarget, but now he’s mentioned
\nNotice as a partner in the. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:40:07,520 –> 00:40:10,560
\nWork.
\nUp until now, it’s only been <\/p>\n
557
\n00:40:10,560 –> 00:40:15,560
\nPaul and Silas, and even though
\nwe know that there were others <\/p>\n
558
\n00:40:15,560 –> 00:40:17,160
\nin that party, they’re never
\nmentioned. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:40:17,440 –> 00:40:20,440
\nBut now, once Paul’s taken out
\nof the way the record. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:40:20,440 –> 00:40:24,080
\nTells us that.
\nSilas and Timotheus are standing<\/p>\n
561
\n00:40:24,080 –> 00:40:25,480
\nthere.
\nThey’re left. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:40:25,480 –> 00:40:27,680
\nThere to hold.
\nThe foot to stand up for the <\/p>\n
563
\n00:40:27,680 –> 00:40:30,000
\ntruth.
\nTo be a witness in that place <\/p>\n
564
\n00:40:30,560 –> 00:40:33,560
\nand Paul was taken off, as we
\nfind, down to Athens. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:40:34,480 –> 00:40:38,160
\nAnd how long he was there, we
\ndon’t know, but it doesn’t seem <\/p>\n
566
\n00:40:38,160 –> 00:40:41,080
\nas though it was very long
\nbefore he called Silas and <\/p>\n
567
\n00:40:41,080 –> 00:40:43,920
\nTimothy back to him.
\nAnd though he. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:40:43,920 –> 00:40:46,760
\nWhile they were absent, went up
\non to Mars Hill and gave the <\/p>\n
569
\n00:40:46,760 –> 00:40:50,320
\nspeech that we find in Acts 17.
\nLet’s turn straight over that <\/p>\n
570
\n00:40:50,320 –> 00:40:53,440
\nand come to chapter 18 where we
\npick up the thread of the story <\/p>\n
571
\n00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:59,240
\nbecause here we find that after
\nthese things, but from Athens <\/p>\n
572
\n00:40:59,760 –> 00:41:03,280
\nand came to Corinth, Paul
\ndeparted from Athens. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:41:03,560 –> 00:41:06,120
\nWhere’s Silas and Timothy?
\nHe had. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:41:06,120 –> 00:41:11,720
\nWhen he was there in in Corinth,
\noh sorry, in Athens had called <\/p>\n
575
\n00:41:11,720 –> 00:41:16,040
\nfor them to come up to him.
\nAnd now we find that he’s moving<\/p>\n
576
\n00:41:16,040 –> 00:41:19,960
\non alone down to Corinth.
\nAnd there he met Aquila and <\/p>\n
577
\n00:41:19,960 –> 00:41:27,200
\nPriscilla, we find in verse 2.
\nBut verse 5 And when Silas and <\/p>\n
578
\n00:41:27,200 –> 00:41:32,520
\nTimotheus were come from
\nMacedonia, Paul was pressed in <\/p>\n
579
\n00:41:32,520 –> 00:41:35,480
\nthe Spirit and testified to the
\nJews that Jesus was Christ. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:39,040
\nSo they obviously hadn’t got
\nthere, or so it seems. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:41:39,520 –> 00:41:42,360
\nThat Paul had moved on.
\nAlready before they got there, <\/p>\n
582
\n00:41:42,360 –> 00:41:45,160
\nyou know.
\nThat’s not actually the. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:41:45,280 –> 00:41:50,120
\nCase because we’re told in
\nThessalonians that Paul called <\/p>\n
584
\n00:41:50,120 –> 00:41:54,560
\nthem back when he was still
\nthere in Athens. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:58,320
\nTo give them a Commission to go
\nback into Macedonia, into the <\/p>\n
586
\n00:41:58,320 –> 00:42:01,240
\nregion of Thessalonica and
\nPhilippi, to strengthen the <\/p>\n
587
\n00:42:01,240 –> 00:42:05,480
\npresident there because he was
\ndeeply concerned that the <\/p>\n
588
\n00:42:05,720 –> 00:42:07,800
\nfanatical.
\nJews who had chased them all the<\/p>\n
589
\n00:42:07,800 –> 00:42:11,680
\nway down to now he’s being at
\nCorinth had chased him all the <\/p>\n
590
\n00:42:11,680 –> 00:42:17,160
\nway down the Aegean Peninsula
\nwould likewise be putting great <\/p>\n
591
\n00:42:17,160 –> 00:42:20,120
\nstrain and pressure on the
\nbrethren who had only just newly<\/p>\n
592
\n00:42:20,120 –> 00:42:22,600
\naccepted Christ.
\nYou know, the apostle Paul had <\/p>\n
593
\n00:42:22,600 –> 00:42:26,160
\nthis enormous breadth of vision
\nand concern. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:42:27,120 –> 00:42:32,160
\nIt’s a tremendous spirit to to
\nemulate brethren and sisters and<\/p>\n
595
\n00:42:32,160 –> 00:42:34,880
\nyoung people.
\nA concern for his brethren, <\/p>\n
596
\n00:42:34,880 –> 00:42:38,200
\nwherever they were.
\nIf they didn’t belong to the <\/p>\n
597
\n00:42:38,200 –> 00:42:39,600
\nequation that.
\nHe was in. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:42:40,200 –> 00:42:41,720
\nIt didn’t mean that he had
\nnothing to do. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:42:41,720 –> 00:42:43,000
\nWith them, that didn’t mean that
\nhe didn’t. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:45,160
\nPray for them.
\nHe was always. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:42:45,160 –> 00:42:48,040
\nConcerned for his brethren
\nwherever they were, and the <\/p>\n
602
\n00:42:48,040 –> 00:42:51,560
\nbreadth of his vision was
\nastronomical. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:42:52,080 –> 00:42:56,520
\nYou know that young lad Timothy
\nlearned to view the whole <\/p>\n
604
\n00:42:56,520 –> 00:43:00,560
\necclesial world in the same way.
\nIt’s a remarkable thing that we <\/p>\n
605
\n00:43:00,560 –> 00:43:05,080
\nfind Timothy eventually having
\nthe same spirit as this great <\/p>\n
606
\n00:43:05,080 –> 00:43:07,280
\napostle.
\nThe apostle didn’t. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:43:07,720 –> 00:43:09,360
\nHe could hardly.
\nThink this was fair? <\/p>\n
608
\n00:43:09,360 –> 00:43:12,400
\nThis Timothy ended.
\nOnly picked up six months <\/p>\n
609
\n00:43:12,480 –> 00:43:14,640
\nbefore.
\nTaken him through and seen all <\/p>\n
610
\n00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:17,760
\nthese horrendous events down
\nthrough the track and he calls <\/p>\n
611
\n00:43:17,760 –> 00:43:21,200
\nhim through here to Athens and
\nhe says to him now Timothy, I’ve<\/p>\n
612
\n00:43:21,200 –> 00:43:24,040
\ngot an assignment for you 6
\nmonths in. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:43:24,680 –> 00:43:29,840
\nHe’s 18 young people and he says
\nI’ve got assignment for you too,<\/p>\n
614
\n00:43:29,840 –> 00:43:31,720
\nSilas.
\nSilas, I want you to go back <\/p>\n
615
\n00:43:31,720 –> 00:43:35,560
\ninto Macedonia and to strengthen
\nthe ecclesias up there in <\/p>\n
616
\n00:43:35,560 –> 00:43:37,160
\nPhilippi.
\nYou remember where we got <\/p>\n
617
\n00:43:37,160 –> 00:43:40,040
\nbeaten?
\nI want you to go right back into<\/p>\n
618
\n00:43:40,040 –> 00:43:44,280
\nthe lion’s mouth.
\nAnd Timothy, do you know where I<\/p>\n
619
\n00:43:44,280 –> 00:43:46,840
\nwant you to go?
\nI want you to go to <\/p>\n
620
\n00:43:46,880 –> 00:43:53,720
\nThessalonica, where the
\nopposition was its fiercest and <\/p>\n
621
\n00:43:53,720 –> 00:43:58,600
\nTimothy would have weakened at
\nthe knees, but and especially <\/p>\n
622
\n00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:00,600
\nalone.
\nAnd the apostle must have said <\/p>\n
623
\n00:44:00,600 –> 00:44:03,800
\nto him.
\nTimothy Silas will accompany you<\/p>\n
624
\n00:44:03,800 –> 00:44:07,280
\nthere and then go on.
\nAnd I want you to gather up the <\/p>\n
625
\n00:44:07,280 –> 00:44:09,360
\nEcclesia.
\nYou have a look at what he says.<\/p>\n
626
\n00:44:10,160 –> 00:44:12,280
\nAbout this lad in First of
\nThessalonians. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:44:12,480 –> 00:44:16,080
\nIn chapter Chapter 3.
\nThe apostle himself couldn’t go <\/p>\n
628
\n00:44:16,080 –> 00:44:18,080
\nback.
\nWe’re told that in <\/p>\n
629
\n00:44:18,080 –> 00:44:21,520
\nThessalonians, first of
\nThessalonians, chapter 3. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:44:24,160 –> 00:44:28,880
\nSuppose first of all in chapter
\n2 and verse 18 he says there <\/p>\n
631
\n00:44:28,880 –> 00:44:32,920
\nthat even I Paul once again
\nwe’re just going to come under <\/p>\n
632
\n00:44:32,920 –> 00:44:35,040
\nthem, but Satan hindered.
\nUS. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:44:35,400 –> 00:44:37,280
\nThe Jews, that’s who.
\nSatan is there. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:44:37,280 –> 00:44:40,080
\nThose fanatical Jews had
\nprevented him going. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:44:40,160 –> 00:44:42,040
\nHe knew that he’d lose his wife
\nand. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:44:42,240 –> 00:44:46,040
\nPossibly he’d been given a
\nvision to to say not to go, but <\/p>\n
637
\n00:44:46,040 –> 00:44:48,200
\nhe knew that it was very
\ndangerous for him to go. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:44:48,440 –> 00:44:51,600
\nBut he could send Timothy and he
\ncould send Silas. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:44:51,600 –> 00:44:55,720
\nSilas.
\nAnd in verse 1 of chapter 3, and<\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:55,720 –> 00:44:57,800
\nthis is a letter written not
\nlong after. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:59,000 –> 00:45:02,320
\nHe says, Wherefore, when we
\ncould no longer for bear, we <\/p>\n
642
\n00:45:02,320 –> 00:45:03,440
\nthought it.
\nGood. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:45:03,440 –> 00:45:06,400
\nTo be left at Athens alone.
\nThe Apostle Paul never ever <\/p>\n
644
\n00:45:06,400 –> 00:45:09,360
\nwanted to be alone, never ever
\nwanted that. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:45:09,880 –> 00:45:12,520
\nBut he thought it good to be
\nleft alone, and he sent <\/p>\n
646
\n00:45:12,520 –> 00:45:15,200
\nTimotheus.
\nOur brother and minister of God,<\/p>\n
647
\n00:45:15,200 –> 00:45:18,520
\nand our fellow labourer in the
\ngospel of Christ, to establish <\/p>\n
648
\n00:45:18,520 –> 00:45:21,080
\nyou and to comfort you
\nconcerning your faith, that no <\/p>\n
649
\n00:45:21,080 –> 00:45:23,720
\nman should be moved from these
\nafflictions for yourselves. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:45:23,720 –> 00:45:25,560
\nKnow that we are appointed
\nthereunto. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:25,880 –> 00:45:28,760
\nFor verily, when we were with
\nyou, we told you before that you<\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:28,760 –> 00:45:31,800
\ncould suffer tribulation even
\neven as it came to pass. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:31,800 –> 00:45:35,440
\nAs you know, what an amazing
\nthing. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:36,840 –> 00:45:41,960
\nDid you notice what the Apostle
\nPaul says about this 18 year old<\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:41,960 –> 00:45:44,040
\nlad that he’d picked up six
\nmonths before? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:44,880 –> 00:45:53,880
\nHe calls him our brother, the
\nminister of God, and our fellow <\/p>\n
657
\n00:45:53,880 –> 00:45:57,240
\nlabourer in the Gospel of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:58,560 –> 00:46:05,040
\nWhat an incredible testimony.
\nAnd he sends this young lad of <\/p>\n
659
\n00:46:05,040 –> 00:46:10,960
\nshy and timid disposition right
\nback into one of the worst areas<\/p>\n
660
\n00:46:10,960 –> 00:46:14,160
\nof persecution and.
\nUproar in order to gather up. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:46:14,240 –> 00:46:19,920
\nThe brethren and to do 2 things
\nto establish we find here to <\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:19,920 –> 00:46:22,360
\nestablish.
\nYou or to establish. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:22,360 –> 00:46:24,760
\nYou in the.
\nFaith in your faith, as the RSV <\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:27,840
\nsays, and to comfort.
\nYou that no man should be moved <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:27,840 –> 00:46:35,880
\nby these afflictions, and he
\nsent Timothy, but all to comfort<\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:35,880 –> 00:46:37,960
\nand exhaust them, that they
\nshouldn’t be moved by <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:37,960 –> 00:46:40,320
\nafflictions.
\nAnd here’s the poor young lad <\/p>\n
668
\n00:46:40,560 –> 00:46:47,120
\nskating in his boots.
\nNo, it wasn’t an easy thing for <\/p>\n
669
\n00:46:47,120 –> 00:46:48,280
\nTimothy.
\nDid you go back there? <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:48,920 –> 00:46:52,520
\nNot an easy thing at all.
\nHe was often sick and the <\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:52,520 –> 00:46:55,080
\nApostle Paul told him to take a
\nlittle wine for his stomach. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:46:55,080 –> 00:46:58,520
\nSo just settle his stomach.
\nAnd here his stomach must have <\/p>\n
673
\n00:46:58,520 –> 00:47:00,920
\nbeen an absolute NOx as he
\ntrudged out that ring. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:47:00,960 –> 00:47:02,880
\nHe didn’t argue with the
\napostle. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:47:03,920 –> 00:47:08,080
\nHe had a faith that believed so
\nimplicitly in God that he’d. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:47:08,600 –> 00:47:10,640
\nHe’d go the road that the
\napostle had told him. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:47:11,840 –> 00:47:14,800
\nHe was yoked with that man, and
\nthough he had to stay back there<\/p>\n
678
\n00:47:15,560 –> 00:47:18,360
\nand the apostle was unable to
\ngo, he would go himself alone <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:18,880 –> 00:47:22,360
\nand would go he did.
\nAnd despite his natural <\/p>\n
680
\n00:47:22,360 –> 00:47:28,240
\nreticence and and natural lack
\nof courage and boldness, he goes<\/p>\n
681
\n00:47:28,240 –> 00:47:31,800
\nto that little ecclesia.
\nWhy did the apostles send him? <\/p>\n
682
\n00:47:32,200 –> 00:47:34,600
\nWhy did he send one of the other
\ncompanions that were there? <\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:34,600 –> 00:47:37,920
\nOh, for a very good reason,
\nrather than sisters and young <\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:37,920 –> 00:47:39,800
\npeople.
\nFor a very good reason. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:47:40,600 –> 00:47:47,920
\nHe sent him precisely because he
\nwas timid, because he was <\/p>\n
686
\n00:47:47,920 –> 00:47:51,440
\nnaturally scared.
\nOf those circumstances. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:47:51,800 –> 00:47:54,080
\nBecause he wasn’t a as bold as a
\nlion. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:47:54,440 –> 00:47:56,920
\nHe wasn’t going to March into
\nthat ecclesia and say, now <\/p>\n
689
\n00:47:56,920 –> 00:48:01,960
\nlisten, don’t worry about them,
\nGod will deal with them. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:48:01,960 –> 00:48:04,440
\nAnd some time later, he.
\nDidn’t March in and say that. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:48:04,640 –> 00:48:07,640
\nHe came in, knees knocking back
\ninto them, and gather that <\/p>\n
692
\n00:48:07,640 –> 00:48:11,040
\nlittle.
\nGroup together and he opened the<\/p>\n
693
\n00:48:11,040 –> 00:48:16,880
\nscriptures and he got excited by
\nwhat he saw and it gave him <\/p>\n
694
\n00:48:16,880 –> 00:48:22,240
\ncourage and he said, brethren.
\nThis is what God has for us to <\/p>\n
695
\n00:48:22,240 –> 00:48:26,560
\ndevelop our characters.
\nWe have to overcome our natural,<\/p>\n
696
\n00:48:26,920 –> 00:48:30,080
\nour natural fear of those awful
\nfaces out there. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:48:30,080 –> 00:48:33,080
\nDon’t be afraid of them.
\nI’ve come all the way back here.<\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:33,320 –> 00:48:36,200
\nBrethren, lift your eyes onto
\nthe Kingdom. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:36,760 –> 00:48:40,000
\nIf they took your next moment
\nwill be with Christ. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:48:40,680 –> 00:48:42,440
\nAnd so he continued to exhort
\nthem. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:48:43,680 –> 00:48:45,440
\nAnd they knew that he was
\nterrified. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:48:46,240 –> 00:48:50,080
\nThey knew he was terrified in
\nthat place, but it didn’t stop <\/p>\n
703
\n00:48:50,080 –> 00:48:52,560
\nhim going there and it didn’t
\nstop him encouraging him. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:48:52,880 –> 00:48:55,800
\nIt didn’t stop him opening the
\nword of God and being excited by<\/p>\n
705
\n00:48:55,800 –> 00:48:57,800
\nthat.
\nYou know what that’s saying, <\/p>\n
706
\n00:48:57,800 –> 00:49:01,400
\nyoung people, the word of God
\nhas power to change us. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:49:01,400 –> 00:49:06,000
\nIt’s got power in to change our
\nnatural behaviour. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:49:06,160 –> 00:49:11,080
\nNever ever let it be simple.
\nWe can’t do this or that that. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:49:11,080 –> 00:49:14,120
\nIt’s not in our makeup wasn’t in
\nhis either. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:49:14,240 –> 00:49:17,640
\nAnd the apostle Paul marched him
\ninto that city and said. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:49:18,680 –> 00:49:21,840
\nTimothy do this for me, and he
\ndid it. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:49:24,480 –> 00:49:26,800
\nAnd the Apostle Paul is sitting
\non the edge. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:49:26,800 –> 00:49:30,200
\nOf his seat.
\nAll the time pacing up and down <\/p>\n
714
\n00:49:30,200 –> 00:49:33,560
\nin Corinth, wondering what to
\ndo, how things are going. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:49:33,840 –> 00:49:36,160
\nWere there any brethren left in
\nany of those centres? <\/p>\n
716
\n00:49:36,440 –> 00:49:40,040
\nHow was Silas?
\nManaging And what about Timothy?<\/p>\n
717
\n00:49:41,040 –> 00:49:45,000
\nAnd every night and every
\nmorning, he was on his knees in.<\/p>\n
718
\n00:49:45,000 –> 00:49:52,680
\nPrayer for their safety.
\nCome back to Acts 18, Acts 18 <\/p>\n
719
\n00:49:52,680 –> 00:49:56,800
\nand verse 5 and when Silas catch
\nthe. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:49:56,800 –> 00:50:00,520
\nSpirit of this When Silas and
\nTimotheus were come from <\/p>\n
721
\n00:50:00,520 –> 00:50:07,320
\nMacedonia, Paul was urged on in
\nthe Word, as Rotherham says, and<\/p>\n
722
\n00:50:07,320 –> 00:50:10,000
\ntestified to the Jews that Jesus
\nwas Christ. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:50:10,200 –> 00:50:14,400
\nHe’d been waiting anxiously, and
\nwhen they arrived invite his <\/p>\n
724
\n00:50:14,400 –> 00:50:18,760
\nspirits because he saw them
\nagain, His beloved companions <\/p>\n
725
\n00:50:18,760 –> 00:50:21,480
\nwho had faithfully carried out
\nhis will, and they brought with <\/p>\n
726
\n00:50:21,840 –> 00:50:25,800
\nwith them a message of joy and
\nhope that the desert had <\/p>\n
727
\n00:50:26,120 –> 00:50:29,120
\ntenaciously hung on and held the
\nfaith and they. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:50:29,160 –> 00:50:35,120
\nWeren’t weren’t being pushed
\naround by those wretched Jews <\/p>\n
729
\n00:50:35,560 –> 00:50:42,360
\nand being afraid by them.
\nAnd it inspired him to greater <\/p>\n
730
\n00:50:42,360 –> 00:50:46,120
\nefforts.
\nBut they were in Corinth for 18 <\/p>\n
731
\n00:50:46,120 –> 00:50:50,240
\nmonths and moved across to
\nEphesus, across the sea. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:50:51,440 –> 00:50:55,160
\nAnd then Paul went to Jerusalem.
\nWe don’t know whether Timothy <\/p>\n
733
\n00:50:55,160 –> 00:50:57,440
\nactually went to Jerusalem.
\nPaul had a vow. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:50:58,960 –> 00:51:02,280
\nAnd he went back to the feast.
\nWe don’t know whether Timothy <\/p>\n
735
\n00:51:02,280 –> 00:51:06,880
\nwas left in Ephesus or not.
\nPaul left Aquila and Priscilla, <\/p>\n
736
\n00:51:06,880 –> 00:51:10,400
\nwho he took with him there in
\nEphesus and. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:51:10,680 –> 00:51:13,520
\nWe do find Timothy appearing
\nagain in Ephesus. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:51:13,680 –> 00:51:16,880
\nOn the 3rd journey, whether he
\nwent with Paul all the way and <\/p>\n
739
\n00:51:16,880 –> 00:51:20,200
\nback through to Ephesus, we
\ndon’t know, but that’s where he <\/p>\n
740
\n00:51:20,200 –> 00:51:22,920
\nended up with him in Ephesus
\nagain. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:51:23,120 –> 00:51:28,520
\nBecause Ephesus in the third
\njourney of the Apostle was the <\/p>\n
742
\n00:51:28,520 –> 00:51:33,040
\ncentre of a tremendous campaign
\nthroughout all Asia, a <\/p>\n
743
\n00:51:33,040 –> 00:51:37,440
\ntremendously a successful
\ncampaign that saw the truth <\/p>\n
744
\n00:51:37,440 –> 00:51:41,440
\ngoing all directions.
\nSo much so that. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:51:41,640 –> 00:51:43,640
\nEven the opposition could say
\nthat. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:51:44,720 –> 00:51:47,000
\nAll.
\nThey in Asia have heard the <\/p>\n
747
\n00:51:47,000 –> 00:51:52,640
\ntruth, and there for 2 1\/2 years
\nor three years, the Apostle, <\/p>\n
748
\n00:51:52,840 –> 00:51:57,200
\nalongside many faithful
\nbrethren, laboured to extend the<\/p>\n
749
\n00:51:57,200 –> 00:51:59,040
\nWord and the Apostle.
\nWrote to the. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:51:59,040 –> 00:52:02,120
\nCorinthians and he said about
\nthis time. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:52:02,280 –> 00:52:04,440
\nHe said a.
\nGreat door and effectual has <\/p>\n
752
\n00:52:04,440 –> 00:52:09,320
\nbeen opened unto me, and there
\nare many adversaries. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:52:11,000 –> 00:52:12,600
\nYou know, if we just.
\nRead Acts. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:52:13,280 –> 00:52:17,160
\nWe get the impression that it
\nwas a time of great expansion <\/p>\n
755
\n00:52:17,440 –> 00:52:21,080
\nand great happiness amongst the
\nEccleses, but when you read the <\/p>\n
756
\n00:52:21,080 –> 00:52:25,000
\nEpistles you find that it was an
\nabsolutely. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:52:25,000 –> 00:52:28,120
\nTerrible.
\nTime for the apostle, poor a <\/p>\n
758
\n00:52:28,120 –> 00:52:32,800
\ndraining time for him, because
\nhe said on another occasion <\/p>\n
759
\n00:52:32,800 –> 00:52:34,160
\nconcerning that same.
\nPeriod. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:52:34,440 –> 00:52:39,560
\nAll we fought with beasts.
\nAt Ephesus he said, and this was<\/p>\n
761
\n00:52:40,040 –> 00:52:45,160
\nwritten under the pen of not
\nonly Paul but Timothy as well. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:52:46,240 –> 00:52:49,640
\nAnd these words come from the
\nRSV of Second of Corinthians <\/p>\n
763
\n00:52:49,640 –> 00:52:51,480
\nchapter 1.
\nDon’t turn to it now. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:52:51,640 –> 00:52:54,040
\nSecond of Corinthians chapter
\none, verse 8 and 9. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:52:54,520 –> 00:52:57,000
\nThe apostle said this about his
\ntime in Ephesus. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:52:58,120 –> 00:53:06,120
\nHe said we were so utterly and
\nunbearably crushed that we <\/p>\n
767
\n00:53:06,240 –> 00:53:09,160
\ndespaired of life itself.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
768
\n00:53:09,160 –> 00:53:12,760
\nHe says we felt that we’d
\nreceived the sentence of death <\/p>\n
769
\n00:53:13,040 –> 00:53:19,960
\nin us, but that was to make us
\nrely not on ourselves, but on <\/p>\n
770
\n00:53:19,960 –> 00:53:26,960
\nGod, who raises the dead.
\nAnd the we there included the <\/p>\n
771
\n00:53:26,960 –> 00:53:32,280
\nyoung lad Timothy.
\nThey were so utterly and <\/p>\n
772
\n00:53:32,280 –> 00:53:35,280
\nunbearably crossed that they at
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:53:35,280 –> 00:53:39,560
\nDespaired of the life itself,
\ngreat apostle, with this <\/p>\n
774
\n00:53:39,560 –> 00:53:43,880
\nindomitable spirit was almost
\ncrushed to death. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:53:44,480 –> 00:53:48,680
\nBy the opposition that they
\nexperienced there in Ephesus. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:53:48,880 –> 00:53:54,160
\nAh, and there’s the young lad.
\nLocked with this apostle in the <\/p>\n
777
\n00:53:54,160 –> 00:53:58,680
\nyoke of his youth.
\nAnd then, across the sea, Paul <\/p>\n
778
\n00:53:58,680 –> 00:54:01,760
\nheard of all the problems that
\nwere arising in the new <\/p>\n
779
\n00:54:01,760 –> 00:54:03,600
\necclesias.
\nThat he’d established on the <\/p>\n
780
\n00:54:03,600 –> 00:54:07,200
\nGrecian Peninsula.
\nThere was a Corinth party <\/p>\n
781
\n00:54:07,200 –> 00:54:10,000
\nfactions the the Ecclesia.
\nWas putting itself a glass <\/p>\n
782
\n00:54:10,960 –> 00:54:13,880
\nfighting in the midst.
\nWhat a crazy thing to do for a <\/p>\n
783
\n00:54:13,880 –> 00:54:14,680
\nnew.
\nEcclesia there were. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:54:17,000 –> 00:54:19,040
\nWhat did he?
\nGive you all against the police.<\/p>\n
785
\n00:54:19,520 –> 00:54:21,320
\nThere were brethren taking
\nothers to court. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:54:21,720 –> 00:54:23,680
\nThere was idolatry in the midst
\nof the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:54:23,680 –> 00:54:25,840
\nCan you believe it?
\nThere were problems with the <\/p>\n
788
\n00:54:25,840 –> 00:54:27,320
\nSpirit gifts.
\nThere were problems with the <\/p>\n
789
\n00:54:27,320 –> 00:54:30,040
\nstatus of women.
\nThere were problems of all. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:54:30,040 –> 00:54:33,000
\nKinds in moral areas.
\nAnd you know what? <\/p>\n
791
\n00:54:34,320 –> 00:54:38,120
\nThe Apostle Paul said they need
\na visit, and you know who he <\/p>\n
792
\n00:54:38,120 –> 00:54:40,200
\npicked?
\nI’ll tell you who he had with <\/p>\n
793
\n00:54:40,200 –> 00:54:42,880
\nhim.
\nHe had Aquila and Priscilla. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:54:43,200 –> 00:54:44,640
\nHe had.
\nTitus he had. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:54:44,640 –> 00:54:46,440
\nDigitus.
\nHe had Erasmus, he had <\/p>\n
796
\n00:54:46,440 –> 00:54:51,240
\nTrephemus, he had Apollus.
\nAn eloquent odor and you know. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:54:51,240 –> 00:54:59,320
\nWho he sent come to 1st of
\nCorinthians chapter 16. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:55:00,040 –> 00:55:04,360
\nWhat an amazing thing this is
\nthat he sent Timothy, and look <\/p>\n
799
\n00:55:04,360 –> 00:55:07,360
\nat what he said to the
\nCorinthians when he was sending <\/p>\n
800
\n00:55:07,360 –> 00:55:10,560
\nhim.
\nFirst of Corinthians 16 verse <\/p>\n
801
\n00:55:10,560 –> 00:55:15,160
\n10.
\nHe says Now, if Timothy has <\/p>\n
802
\n00:55:15,160 –> 00:55:22,000
\ncome, see that she may be with
\nhim without fear, don’t you make<\/p>\n
803
\n00:55:22,000 –> 00:55:27,000
\nhim frightened, for he worketh
\nthe work of the Lord, as I also <\/p>\n
804
\n00:55:27,000 –> 00:55:29,440
\ndo.
\nAnd let no man therefore despise<\/p>\n
805
\n00:55:29,440 –> 00:55:32,240
\nhim, but conduct him forth in
\npeace, that he may come back to <\/p>\n
806
\n00:55:32,240 –> 00:55:35,400
\nme, for I look for him with the
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:55:36,240 –> 00:55:40,160
\nWhat an amazing thing, the
\ntestimony to the to the natural <\/p>\n
808
\n00:55:40,160 –> 00:55:45,320
\ntimidity and and lack of
\nforthright boldness of this <\/p>\n
809
\n00:55:45,320 –> 00:55:47,760
\nyoung man.
\nHe wasn’t a man to put himself <\/p>\n
810
\n00:55:47,760 –> 00:55:50,120
\nin front of the ecclesia.
\nHe wasn’t a man to go around <\/p>\n
811
\n00:55:50,120 –> 00:55:53,480
\nlauding it over other people.
\nIt wasn’t his nature, young <\/p>\n
812
\n00:55:53,480 –> 00:55:57,840
\npeople and brethren and sisters,
\nbut the apostle Paul picked him.<\/p>\n
813
\n00:55:59,160 –> 00:56:03,560
\nWhy send Timothy?
\nWell, the apostle tells us, come<\/p>\n
814
\n00:56:03,560 –> 00:56:07,480
\nback a few pages to chapter 4
\nfrom first of the Corinthians <\/p>\n
815
\n00:56:07,800 –> 00:56:16,160
\nchapter 4.
\nAnd at verse 14 he says, I write<\/p>\n
816
\n00:56:16,160 –> 00:56:20,800
\nnot these things to shame you,
\nbut as my beloved sons, notice <\/p>\n
817
\n00:56:20,800 –> 00:56:26,800
\nthat phrase my beloved sons read
\ncarefully as my beloved sons, I <\/p>\n
818
\n00:56:26,800 –> 00:56:30,520
\nwarn you, for though you have
\n10,000 instructors in Christ, <\/p>\n
819
\n00:56:31,400 –> 00:56:35,000
\nyet have you not many fathers.
\nFor in Christ Jesus I have <\/p>\n
820
\n00:56:35,000 –> 00:56:39,040
\nbegotten you through the gospel.
\nTherefore, wherefore I? <\/p>\n
821
\n00:56:39,040 –> 00:56:41,600
\nBeseech you be.
\nFollowers of me and so has our <\/p>\n
822
\n00:56:41,600 –> 00:56:43,920
\nfather.
\nHe appealed to them as His <\/p>\n
823
\n00:56:43,920 –> 00:56:49,760
\nbeloved sons to follow him as
\nthe Father, because He generated<\/p>\n
824
\n00:56:49,760 –> 00:56:52,720
\ntheir life in Christ when he was
\nthere amongst them. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:56:54,240 –> 00:56:59,400
\nBut the next verse goes on to
\nsay, for this cause, for this, <\/p>\n
826
\n00:56:59,720 –> 00:57:05,200
\n’cause I am sending as the RSV
\nmargin says, I am sending unto <\/p>\n
827
\n00:57:05,200 –> 00:57:10,320
\nyou Timotheus, who is my beloved
\nson. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:57:10,360 –> 00:57:12,320
\nNotice the link back to verse
\n14. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:57:12,800 –> 00:57:18,000
\nAnd faithful in the Lord, as
\nsome of you are not, who shall <\/p>\n
830
\n00:57:18,000 –> 00:57:23,160
\nbring you in into remembrance of
\nmy ways, which be in Christ, as <\/p>\n
831
\n00:57:23,160 –> 00:57:26,320
\nI teach everywhere in every
\necclesia. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:57:26,760 –> 00:57:30,360
\nWhat an amazing thing that was,
\nyou know, because he couldn’t go<\/p>\n
833
\n00:57:30,360 –> 00:57:32,040
\nhimself.
\nBrethren and sisters, he picked <\/p>\n
834
\n00:57:32,360 –> 00:57:35,760
\nTimothy, who was his beloved
\nson, to go to his other beloved <\/p>\n
835
\n00:57:35,760 –> 00:57:40,200
\nsons for the very ’cause.
\nThat he himself could not. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:57:40,200 –> 00:57:41,840
\nGo.
\nAnd he knew that that. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:57:41,840 –> 00:57:45,080
\nSon would so faithfully
\nrepresent him. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:57:46,680 –> 00:57:49,120
\nThat it was as if he was there
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:57:50,760 –> 00:57:52,440
\nBut it’s, there’s more in it
\nthan that. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:57:53,760 –> 00:57:55,600
\nYou see what he says in verse
\n17. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:57:56,040 –> 00:58:02,920
\nWho shall bring you into
\nremembrance of my ways. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:58:03,880 –> 00:58:07,520
\nHe wasn’t just going to remind
\nthe Corinthians of all the <\/p>\n
843
\n00:58:07,520 –> 00:58:12,040
\nthings that Paul had taught.
\nOf all the doctrines, of all the<\/p>\n
844
\n00:58:12,040 –> 00:58:15,840
\nmoral issues, he said this man
\nwhen he comes. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:58:16,400 –> 00:58:21,160
\nWe’ll put you in remembrance or
\nwe’ll remind you of my ways. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:58:24,560 –> 00:58:29,280
\nThe problem generally wasn’t in
\nCorinth, wasn’t that they didn’t<\/p>\n
847
\n00:58:29,280 –> 00:58:33,120
\nhave a knowledge of the
\nfundamentals of the truth. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:58:33,560 –> 00:58:35,600
\nThe problem was the practice of
\nit. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:58:36,280 –> 00:58:38,760
\nAnd now the.
\nApostle Paul sought out of all <\/p>\n
850
\n00:58:38,760 –> 00:58:43,560
\nhis companions to send not one
\nwith boldness of speech. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:58:44,480 –> 00:58:50,880
\nBut to send a living
\ndemonstration of how to live the<\/p>\n
852
\n00:58:50,880 –> 00:59:00,240
\ntruth, unassuming, unfeigned,
\nsincere, unhypocritical and <\/p>\n
853
\n00:59:00,240 –> 00:59:03,760
\ndevoid of all self-interest.
\nYou know, brothers and sisters <\/p>\n
854
\n00:59:03,760 –> 00:59:11,560
\nand young people, that it is
\nconcern for self that’s at the <\/p>\n
855
\n00:59:11,560 –> 00:59:16,720
\nroot of most of our own personal
\nproblems and ecclesial problems.<\/p>\n
856
\n00:59:17,080 –> 00:59:20,320
\nYou think about that, it’s.
\nConcern for self. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:59:20,920 –> 00:59:25,560
\nThat’s that the root very often
\nof very many family problems and<\/p>\n
858
\n00:59:25,560 –> 00:59:27,560
\nof very many.
\nProblems that occur in the <\/p>\n
859
\n00:59:27,560 –> 00:59:31,680
\nequator of God not all.
\nBut that’s at the very root. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:59:32,520 –> 00:59:36,720
\nAnd the apostles sent into their
\nmidst a young lad who was yoked <\/p>\n
861
\n00:59:36,760 –> 00:59:43,080
\nwith him, who had learned what
\nit meant to give up his own life<\/p>\n
862
\n00:59:43,680 –> 00:59:49,040
\nin service to others.
\nTimothy had been so changed by <\/p>\n
863
\n00:59:49,040 –> 00:59:53,760
\nthe truth that he could now be a
\nwitness of how to live it. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:59:54,760 –> 01:00:04,280
\nAnd he’s only 21 years old.
\nThe apostle Paul knew very well <\/p>\n
865
\n01:00:04,280 –> 01:00:07,040
\nthat if he sent an Apollo into
\ntheir midst, and and with <\/p>\n
866
\n01:00:07,040 –> 01:00:08,760
\nmighty.
\nOratory He’d got up on the <\/p>\n
867
\n01:00:08,760 –> 01:00:11,640
\nplatform and told them what they
\nhad to do and outlined. <\/p>\n
868
\n01:00:11,760 –> 01:00:13,600
\nThis Scripture and that
\nScripture put it all together <\/p>\n
869
\n01:00:13,960 –> 01:00:15,960
\nthat it wouldn’t have made any
\ndifference in Corinth. <\/p>\n
870
\n01:00:16,200 –> 01:00:18,680
\nIt would have gone straight over
\nthe heads. <\/p>\n
871
\n01:00:21,160 –> 01:00:25,720
\nBut they’re putting the young
\nman Timothy, who would behave <\/p>\n
872
\n01:00:26,320 –> 01:00:30,320
\nand react exactly as the the
\napostle Paul himself would have <\/p>\n
873
\n01:00:30,320 –> 01:00:34,720
\nin those circumstances.
\nThere was power indeed, because <\/p>\n
874
\n01:00:34,720 –> 01:00:40,000
\nthey could see the power of the
\nWord of God to change lives, to <\/p>\n
875
\n01:00:40,040 –> 01:00:44,920
\nfix behaviour, to mould it to
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
876
\n01:00:46,560 –> 01:00:52,480
\nWhat a marvellous man of insight
\nthe apostle was, but what a <\/p>\n
877
\n01:00:52,480 –> 01:00:58,560
\ntremendous testimony that was to
\nthe character of this young 21 <\/p>\n
878
\n01:00:58,560 –> 01:01:01,880
\nyear old.
\nYou know the might the the yoke <\/p>\n
879
\n01:01:01,880 –> 01:01:05,400
\nof Christ was mightily at work
\nin Corinth there on that <\/p>\n
880
\n01:01:05,400 –> 01:01:07,800
\noccasion.
\nYou know what we need brethren <\/p>\n
881
\n01:01:07,800 –> 01:01:14,560
\nand sisters and young people.
\nIs a spirit like that a spirit <\/p>\n
882
\n01:01:14,560 –> 01:01:19,680
\nyoung people that can learn in
\nCo operation yoked together with<\/p>\n
883
\n01:01:19,760 –> 01:01:23,960
\nolder experienced brethren?
\nWho know what it means to have <\/p>\n
884
\n01:01:24,480 –> 01:01:28,240
\nto have borne the heathen burden
\nof the day, who have their lives<\/p>\n
885
\n01:01:28,240 –> 01:01:33,480
\ndown to a fine art who are not.
\nSeeking self anymore, as the <\/p>\n
886
\n01:01:33,480 –> 01:01:36,960
\napostle himself was not seeking
\nhimself anymore. <\/p>\n
887
\n01:01:38,680 –> 01:01:42,840
\nBut Timothy very quickly learnt,
\nand he’s only 21. <\/p>\n
888
\n01:01:43,920 –> 01:01:46,640
\nHe learnt the meaning of living
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
889
\n01:01:47,000 –> 01:01:50,560
\nOh yes, he had his head in the
\nBible, young lads, he had his <\/p>\n
890
\n01:01:50,560 –> 01:01:54,920
\nhead in the Bible.
\nHe didn’t spend his Saturdays <\/p>\n
891
\n01:01:54,920 –> 01:02:03,280
\nsurfing or playing sport.
\nHis life was devoid of self and <\/p>\n
892
\n01:02:03,280 –> 01:02:09,120
\nnow devoted to others.
\nThat’s real leadership, real <\/p>\n
893
\n01:02:09,720 –> 01:02:15,440
\nleadership and in an age that’s
\ndevoted to self worship because <\/p>\n
894
\n01:02:15,440 –> 01:02:19,240
\nthere’s nothing else that this
\ngeneration around us all about <\/p>\n
895
\n01:02:19,240 –> 01:02:23,800
\nis doing but worshipping the God
\nof self and the God of Mammon. <\/p>\n
896
\n01:02:24,360 –> 01:02:27,480
\nIn an age where they’re
\nworshipping their own lusts and <\/p>\n
897
\n01:02:27,480 –> 01:02:30,800
\ntheir own desires and doing
\neverything for themselves. <\/p>\n
898
\n01:02:31,000 –> 01:02:35,040
\nWhat we desperately need is the
\nspirit of this young man who, <\/p>\n
899
\n01:02:35,040 –> 01:02:38,160
\nwhen the apostle said the
\nbrethren, needs something over <\/p>\n
900
\n01:02:38,160 –> 01:02:44,480
\nhere, in timidity he went to.
\nEndeavour to encourage and his <\/p>\n
901
\n01:02:44,480 –> 01:02:49,240
\nvery example of selflessness in
\ntheir midst fixed many of their <\/p>\n
902
\n01:02:49,240 –> 01:02:54,000
\nproblems.
\nThat’s bearing the yoke and it <\/p>\n
903
\n01:02:54,000 –> 01:02:59,320
\ncould be born in youth.
\nYoung people and the ecclesia’s <\/p>\n
904
\n01:02:59,320 –> 01:03:05,960
\nneed desperately need young
\npeople bearing that yoke in <\/p>\n
905
\n01:03:05,960 –> 01:03:09,600
\nyouth.
\nCome over to Timothy, First of <\/p>\n
906
\n01:03:09,600 –> 01:03:14,760
\nTimothy chapter 4. 1st of
\nTimothy, chapter 4. <\/p>\n
907
\n01:03:27,720 –> 01:03:30,480
\nThe Epistles to Timothy.
\nWere written very late in Paul’s<\/p>\n
908
\n01:03:30,480 –> 01:03:35,920
\nlife.
\nAnd we find his advice, the <\/p>\n
909
\n01:03:35,920 –> 01:03:39,720
\napostles advice to him in verse
\n12 of chapter 4. <\/p>\n
910
\n01:03:39,760 –> 01:03:45,520
\nHe said, let no man despise thy
\nyouth, Timothy, but be thou an <\/p>\n
911
\n01:03:45,520 –> 01:03:50,000
\nexample.
\nAnd he was a tremendous example,<\/p>\n
912
\n01:03:50,840 –> 01:03:54,200
\na leader in many ways, though he
\nnever, ever put himself forward <\/p>\n
913
\n01:03:54,360 –> 01:03:58,080
\nand never felt confident to take
\na lead. <\/p>\n
914
\n01:03:58,080 –> 01:04:02,440
\nIn many respects, he was one of
\nthe greatest leaders in <\/p>\n
915
\n01:04:02,440 –> 01:04:06,360
\nApostolic times.
\nBut be thou an example, he says,<\/p>\n
916
\n01:04:06,360 –> 01:04:14,640
\nto the believers in Word, in way
\nof life, in love, in faith, in <\/p>\n
917
\n01:04:14,640 –> 01:04:17,760
\npurity.
\nAnd he’s talking to a young man <\/p>\n
918
\n01:04:19,720 –> 01:04:23,360
\nbe an example, young people and
\ntill I come, he says give <\/p>\n
919
\n01:04:23,360 –> 01:04:25,680
\nattendance to reading through
\nexhortation to doctrine. <\/p>\n
920
\n01:04:26,160 –> 01:04:28,680
\nVerse 15 meditates upon these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
921
\n01:04:30,160 –> 01:04:32,560
\nGive thyself wholly to them.
\nIt’s. <\/p>\n
922
\n01:04:33,600 –> 01:04:37,360
\nSomething that few people do.
\nIn this age, give themselves <\/p>\n
923
\n01:04:37,360 –> 01:04:42,960
\nwholly to them.
\nBe habitually in them is what it<\/p>\n
924
\n01:04:42,960 –> 01:04:46,960
\nreally means, that thy
\nprofiting, profiting may appear <\/p>\n
925
\n01:04:46,960 –> 01:04:49,240
\nunto all.
\nAnd take heed unto thyself, and <\/p>\n
926
\n01:04:49,240 –> 01:04:50,960
\nunto the doctrine, continuing
\nthem. <\/p>\n
927
\n01:04:50,960 –> 01:04:55,120
\nFor in doing this, thou shalt
\nboth save thyself and them that <\/p>\n
928
\n01:04:55,120 –> 01:04:57,840
\nhear them.
\nYou know, devotion to spiritual <\/p>\n
929
\n01:04:57,840 –> 01:05:03,040
\nthings, young people will make
\nprogress or profiting apparent <\/p>\n
930
\n01:05:03,040 –> 01:05:07,200
\nto all.
\nIt’s very apparent. <\/p>\n
931
\n01:05:07,720 –> 01:05:09,680
\nYou know, I could name.
\nI could name. <\/p>\n
932
\n01:05:09,680 –> 01:05:11,760
\nI’m not going to.
\nAnd there are many other older <\/p>\n
933
\n01:05:11,760 –> 01:05:15,560
\nbrethren and sisters in this
\nhall who could name the young <\/p>\n
934
\n01:05:16,760 –> 01:05:20,520
\nsisters and the young brethren
\nwho are serious about the truth.<\/p>\n
935
\n01:05:20,880 –> 01:05:24,800
\nWithin our young.
\nPeople’s Group, It shows young <\/p>\n
936
\n01:05:24,800 –> 01:05:27,680
\npeople.
\nIt’s seen in Ecleses. <\/p>\n
937
\n01:05:30,680 –> 01:05:33,600
\nTake note.
\nGive thyself wholly to them, <\/p>\n
938
\n01:05:33,600 –> 01:05:36,680
\nsaid the apostle.
\nHe’s only encouraging that this.<\/p>\n
939
\n01:05:37,080 –> 01:05:40,000
\nThis mighty young man to
\ncontinue doing what he’d always <\/p>\n
940
\n01:05:40,000 –> 01:05:44,120
\ndone, that the property might
\ncontinue to grow and continue to<\/p>\n
941
\n01:05:44,120 –> 01:05:47,160
\nappear.
\nBut he says in verse 16, take <\/p>\n
942
\n01:05:47,160 –> 01:05:49,880
\nheed unto thyself and unto the
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
943
\n01:05:49,880 –> 01:05:53,680
\nThere’s two things there.
\nYou empty yourself, Timothy, as <\/p>\n
944
\n01:05:53,680 –> 01:05:56,560
\nyou have done, and take.
\nHand to the doctrine, to the <\/p>\n
945
\n01:05:56,560 –> 01:06:00,240
\nattention to the service of God
\nand the service of physicalism, <\/p>\n
946
\n01:06:00,600 –> 01:06:03,080
\nto the service of one another.
\nTake heed to that. <\/p>\n
947
\n01:06:03,080 –> 01:06:06,200
\nAnd in so doing, he says, you’ll
\nsave yourself. <\/p>\n
948
\n01:06:06,320 –> 01:06:10,240
\nAnd those that hear you and see
\nyou, you know that’s the essence<\/p>\n
949
\n01:06:10,280 –> 01:06:12,000
\nof the atonement.
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
950
\n01:06:12,000 –> 01:06:15,040
\nAnd young people, it’s the
\nessence of the truth. <\/p>\n
951
\n01:06:15,040 –> 01:06:20,960
\nIf we can only take 10 here to
\nour own selves and to get rid of<\/p>\n
952
\n01:06:21,040 –> 01:06:26,000
\nself and fill ourselves with the
\ndoctrine, the doctrine of God <\/p>\n
953
\n01:06:26,440 –> 01:06:31,800
\nthat’s out to manifest his
\ncharacter in US, that will be. <\/p>\n
954
\n01:06:31,920 –> 01:06:36,040
\nOutgoing to others.
\nFor God so loved the world that <\/p>\n
955
\n01:06:36,080 –> 01:06:38,880
\nhe gave his only begotten Son.
\nGod didn’t sit in heaven and <\/p>\n
956
\n01:06:38,880 –> 01:06:43,240
\nsay, now fix yourself.
\nIt’s not the spirit of our God. <\/p>\n
957
\n01:06:44,160 –> 01:06:48,840
\nAnd that doctrine working in
\nhim, would outwork a spirit of <\/p>\n
958
\n01:06:48,840 –> 01:06:55,160
\nservice, selfless service.
\nOh, sometimes young people, we <\/p>\n
959
\n01:06:55,160 –> 01:06:57,080
\nask the wrong questions about
\nlife. <\/p>\n
960
\n01:06:57,120 –> 01:06:58,640
\nWe say why?
\nCan’t we do this? <\/p>\n
961
\n01:06:59,320 –> 01:07:01,960
\nWhy can’t we go there?
\nWhy shouldn’t we do this? <\/p>\n
962
\n01:07:02,560 –> 01:07:06,920
\nInstead of asking.
\nWhat should I do to give more <\/p>\n
963
\n01:07:06,920 –> 01:07:12,400
\nglory to God, and will this or
\nthat activity or this action <\/p>\n
964
\n01:07:12,400 –> 01:07:14,440
\ndevelop the Spirit of Christ in
\nme? <\/p>\n
965
\n01:07:14,640 –> 01:07:17,680
\nWill this help my brethren and
\nmy fellow young people to get to<\/p>\n
966
\n01:07:17,680 –> 01:07:22,400
\nthe Kingdom?
\nThat’s the spirit of this man, <\/p>\n
967
\n01:07:23,440 –> 01:07:29,160
\nit’s the spirit of the apostle,
\nand it’s the spirit of his true <\/p>\n
968
\n01:07:29,160 –> 01:07:32,680
\nyoke fellow that was bound
\ntogether with him. <\/p>\n
969
\n01:07:34,440 –> 01:07:36,760
\nCome back to Philippians chapter
\n2. <\/p>\n
970
\n01:07:37,680 –> 01:07:41,360
\nBecause when the apostle got
\ninto Rome in prison during his <\/p>\n
971
\n01:07:41,360 –> 01:07:46,160
\nfirst imprisonment, Timothy came
\nto see him. <\/p>\n
972
\n01:07:49,000 –> 01:07:51,440
\nHe’d been separated from him
\nprobably for some time. <\/p>\n
973
\n01:07:52,120 –> 01:07:56,280
\nHe’d been for two years in
\nCaesarea in a prison, and now he<\/p>\n
974
\n01:07:56,280 –> 01:08:00,360
\nwas two years in Rome.
\nAnd at about the age of 27 or <\/p>\n
975
\n01:08:00,360 –> 01:08:07,520
\n28, Timothy seeks Paul out.
\nAnd the apostle speaks in a <\/p>\n
976
\n01:08:07,520 –> 01:08:09,480
\nletter that he wrote for the
\nPhilippians. <\/p>\n
977
\n01:08:11,120 –> 01:08:15,000
\nAnd he says in verse 2, verse
\nthree, Sorry, let nothing be <\/p>\n
978
\n01:08:15,000 –> 01:08:17,399
\ndone through strife and
\nVainglory, but in loneliness of <\/p>\n
979
\n01:08:17,399 –> 01:08:19,080
\nmind.
\nLet each esteem other better <\/p>\n
980
\n01:08:19,080 –> 01:08:23,800
\nthan themselves.
\nAnd look not every man on his <\/p>\n
981
\n01:08:23,800 –> 01:08:26,560
\nown things, but every man on the
\nthings of others. <\/p>\n
982
\n01:08:28,279 –> 01:08:32,399
\nAnd let this mind, the very
\nepitome of those characteristics<\/p>\n
983
\n01:08:32,399 –> 01:08:35,080
\nbe in you which was in Christ
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
984
\n01:08:35,279 –> 01:08:40,000
\nBecause verse 7 He made himself
\nof no reputation, and he took <\/p>\n
985
\n01:08:40,000 –> 01:08:43,920
\nupon himself the form of a
\nservant, and humbled himself in <\/p>\n
986
\n01:08:43,920 –> 01:08:45,520
\nverse 8 and became.
\nObedient unto death. <\/p>\n
987
\n01:08:45,880 –> 01:08:48,000
\nThat was the Spirit of Christ
\nand he says. <\/p>\n
988
\n01:08:48,439 –> 01:08:52,240
\nThis mind be in you.
\nThat’s essentially the essence <\/p>\n
989
\n01:08:52,319 –> 01:08:55,000
\nof a yoke, is it?
\nRemember the spirit that we were<\/p>\n
990
\n01:08:55,000 –> 01:08:56,040
\ntalking about last Saturday
\nnight? <\/p>\n
991
\n01:08:56,600 –> 01:09:01,439
\nThat’s essentially the point of
\nthe yoke of Christ of. <\/p>\n
992
\n01:09:01,439 –> 01:09:06,080
\nLowliness of mind.
\nOf humility that God might raise<\/p>\n
993
\n01:09:06,080 –> 01:09:09,040
\nus up and use us.
\nUsefully to bring forth the <\/p>\n
994
\n01:09:09,040 –> 01:09:13,040
\nfruit to the glory of His name.
\nAnd then the apostle gives 2 <\/p>\n
995
\n01:09:13,040 –> 01:09:15,760
\nliving examples, many of these
\nin Philip. <\/p>\n
996
\n01:09:15,760 –> 01:09:20,120
\nI had never, ever seen Christ.
\nThey’d only heard about him, but<\/p>\n
997
\n01:09:20,120 –> 01:09:21,399
\nhe gives.
\nThem two examples. <\/p>\n
998
\n01:09:21,399 –> 01:09:25,080
\nThat they knew one from their
\nown ecclesia and one who was <\/p>\n
999
\n01:09:25,080 –> 01:09:27,880
\nthere when the ecclesia started
\nand had been back many times <\/p>\n
1000
\n01:09:27,880 –> 01:09:29,720
\nbefore.
\nAnd it’s not other than Timothy,<\/p>\n
1001
\n01:09:29,720 –> 01:09:33,240
\nhe says in verse 19.
\nBut I trust he says in the Lord <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:09:33,279 –> 01:09:35,200
\nJesus to send Timotheus shortly
\nto you. <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:09:35,920 –> 01:09:39,359
\nThat I may be of good.
\nThat I may also be of good <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:09:39,359 –> 01:09:43,640
\ncomfort when I know of your
\nstate, for I have no man like <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:09:43,640 –> 01:09:46,920
\nminded who will naturally care
\nfor your state. <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:09:47,120 –> 01:09:52,040
\nFor all seek their own, and not
\nthe things that are Jesus. <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:09:52,040 –> 01:09:56,120
\nChrist’s see the powerful.
\nLink with what he’s just been <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:09:56,120 –> 01:10:01,120
\nsaying about the mind of Christ
\nnot seeking his own things. <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:10:01,840 –> 01:10:06,360
\nAnd here he holds up Timothy at
\nthe age of 27, a man they knew <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:10:06,360 –> 01:10:10,040
\namongst them whom had seen on
\nmany occasions and he says I <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:10:10,040 –> 01:10:17,080
\nhave no man like minded.
\nThe Greek is isosukos 1 sold. <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:10:17,440 –> 01:10:21,160
\nThere was no other man that he
\nfelt so much at one week as if <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:10:21,160 –> 01:10:26,880
\nit was the same person as this
\nman who he says will genuinely <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:10:26,880 –> 01:10:31,080
\ncare or anxiously care for your
\nwelfare. <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:10:31,400 –> 01:10:33,600
\nWhat an amazing thing Timothy
\nhad so. <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:10:33,840 –> 01:10:36,240
\nCarefully followed the apostle,
\nthat the apostle. <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:10:36,440 –> 01:10:38,200
\nHimself now.
\nCould completely. <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:10:38,640 –> 01:10:43,760
\nIdentify with this young man as
\nif he was the same person, and <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:10:43,760 –> 01:10:47,080
\nif he sent him he could have
\ncomplete confidence that he <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:10:47,080 –> 01:10:49,280
\nwouldn’t.
\nSit his own if he wasn’t a man. <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:10:49,960 –> 01:10:51,640
\nThat was out.
\nFor everything that he could <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:10:51,640 –> 01:10:53,640
\nget, or for any glory in.
\nHimself. <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:10:53,880 –> 01:10:59,240
\nThat had all been worn off by
\nthe yoke of Christ that had come<\/p>\n
1024
\n01:10:59,240 –> 01:11:03,440
\nupon his neck at the age of 16
\nor 17, and now he’s quite <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:11:03,440 –> 01:11:06,480
\ncontent 1.
\nSoul. <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:11:06,560 –> 01:11:10,440
\nIn that yoke to go forward with.
\nWith Paul and with Christ. <\/p>\n
1027
\n01:11:10,960 –> 01:11:13,520
\nAnd it didn’t matter where’s
\nPaul sent him around the Roman <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:11:13,520 –> 01:11:14,400
\nworld.
\nHe could have. <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:11:14,400 –> 01:11:18,320
\nComplete confidence in his, in
\nHim, and you know what he said <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:11:18,320 –> 01:11:23,880
\nin verse 22, He said, But ye
\nknow the proof of him, that as a<\/p>\n
1031
\n01:11:23,880 –> 01:11:29,240
\nson with a father, he hath
\nserved with me in the Gospel. <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:11:30,960 –> 01:11:32,800
\nYou know.
\nPhilippians. <\/p>\n
1033
\n01:11:32,880 –> 01:11:37,920
\nYou know, experience that what
\nI’m saying is true. <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:11:38,160 –> 01:11:43,960
\nThis man does not sink himself
\nand he has a genuine concern for<\/p>\n
1035
\n01:11:43,960 –> 01:11:49,520
\nall the brethren, not only in
\nall around the world because the<\/p>\n
1036
\n01:11:49,520 –> 01:11:53,120
\ngospel of God has lodged in
\ntheir hearts and that is all <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:11:53,120 –> 01:11:56,520
\nhe’s concerned about and he
\nloves them because of that and <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:11:56,520 –> 01:11:59,360
\nhe won’t seek his seek his own.
\nOh. <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:11:59,680 –> 01:12:01,280
\nHe is a man who’d borne the
\nyoke. <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:12:01,280 –> 01:12:04,640
\nThat’s the essence of the yoke.
\nWho’d lost his identity and <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:12:04,640 –> 01:12:08,280
\nservice to Christ and.
\nIt was visible. <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:12:09,200 –> 01:12:11,720
\nEvident to all.
\nWhat a marvellous. <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:12:11,720 –> 01:12:13,280
\nPicture, that is, of ecclesial
\nlife. <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:12:13,520 –> 01:12:17,360
\nYoung and old yoked together,
\nlabouring in the service of the <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:12:17,360 –> 01:12:19,520
\ntruth in the.
\nService of the. <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:12:19,520 –> 01:12:25,360
\nBrethren, young people, get
\nalongside some of the precious <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:12:25,480 –> 01:12:29,640
\nolder brethren and sisters in
\nyour ecclesia and yoke yourself <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:12:29,640 –> 01:12:32,320
\nto them.
\nIt’s a spirit we need to <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:12:32,320 –> 01:12:36,480
\ncultivate this self thinking,
\ngodless age. <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:12:36,480 –> 01:12:40,120
\nAnd there’s nothing of that.
\nAnd we are so easily distracted <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:12:40,120 –> 01:12:41,760
\nby it.
\nWe go to work or school or <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:12:41,760 –> 01:12:45,560
\nwherever and we come back
\nthinking like that, wanting <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:12:45,560 –> 01:12:48,880
\nthings ourselves, making
\nourselves the centre of <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:12:48,880 –> 01:12:53,160
\nattention, but not this.
\nWe’ve got to pull our eclizes <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:12:53,160 –> 01:12:56,360
\ntogether and between the Cleeses
\nyoung people and brethren and <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:12:56,360 –> 01:12:59,840
\nsisters, young and old, all
\ntogether, we’re the deep and <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:12:59,840 –> 01:13:03,560
\ncaring concern that was seen in
\nthis 27 year old. <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:13:04,560 –> 01:13:09,640
\nWe’ve got to learn to encourage.
\nIt’s easy to pull down. <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:13:10,280 –> 01:13:13,440
\nIt’s easy to criticize.
\nThere’s plenty to criticize. <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:13:13,680 –> 01:13:18,240
\nBut it’s so difficult to build,
\nso difficult to encourage. <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:13:18,240 –> 01:13:21,640
\nAnd we all desperately need each
\nother, don’t we? <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:13:21,720 –> 01:13:24,280
\nWe all desperately in this age,
\nneed each other. <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:13:25,280 –> 01:13:28,240
\nWe’re not going to get into the
\nKingdom as individuals who stand<\/p>\n
1064
\n01:13:28,240 –> 01:13:31,120
\non our garden and fail on our
\nown path in the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:13:32,200 –> 01:13:35,400
\nWe’re going to get there
\ntogether because we’ve served <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:13:35,400 –> 01:13:38,000
\nthe brethren, because we’ve lost
\nour own identity. <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:13:38,360 –> 01:13:42,720
\nWe need to foster a feeling of
\nof fellowship amongst us. <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:13:42,720 –> 01:13:45,760
\nWhat a wonderful opportunity we
\nhave in this city that we ought.<\/p>\n
1069
\n01:13:45,760 –> 01:13:48,760
\nNever to throw away.
\nNever to throw away. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:13:49,160 –> 01:13:51,440
\nThat’s the words of the.
\nApostle over the page in chapter<\/p>\n
1071
\n01:13:51,440 –> 01:13:56,200
\n3 and verse 17, he said,
\nBrethren, be followers together <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:13:56,200 –> 01:14:00,000
\nof me, and mark them, which so.
\nWalk as ye. <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:14:00,440 –> 01:14:06,040
\nAs ye have us as an example.
\nOh, what a spirit. <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:14:07,880 –> 01:14:13,120
\nMark them out, he said.
\nIn your ecclesia, who’ve got the<\/p>\n
1075
\n01:14:13,120 –> 01:14:17,520
\nsame spirit as me, who are
\nwalking the same path as Timothy<\/p>\n
1076
\n01:14:18,200 –> 01:14:21,240
\nand as I have?
\nThe same spirit as of our Lord, <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:14:21,720 –> 01:14:26,560
\nwho came not to be ministered
\nunto, but to give his life a <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:14:26,680 –> 01:14:30,760
\nransom for many.
\nDo we think it’s one thing to <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:14:30,800 –> 01:14:32,560
\nthe Master and another for your
\nservants? <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:14:34,160 –> 01:14:39,160
\nNo, mark them out.
\nThere are truly great examples <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:14:39,160 –> 01:14:41,880
\nin our midst.
\nTruly great brethren and sisters<\/p>\n
1082
\n01:14:42,280 –> 01:14:46,400
\nwhose stature is enormous in our
\nmidst, and they don’t have to be<\/p>\n
1083
\n01:14:46,400 –> 01:14:48,240
\non a platform, and many of them
\nare not. <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:14:50,200 –> 01:14:54,000
\nBecause they’ve got their eyes
\nfixed on the interests and needs<\/p>\n
1085
\n01:14:54,000 –> 01:14:57,720
\nof others, and their lives are
\ntotally bound in the work of <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:14:57,720 –> 01:15:00,160
\nChrist devoted to the
\nministering of the. <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:15:00,160 –> 01:15:04,000
\nSaints for whom the truth is
\nmore than words on a page, but <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:15:04,000 –> 01:15:08,240
\nliving power because it’s
\nchanged their natural. <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:15:08,240 –> 01:15:11,040
\nCharacteristics into something
\nthat God can use. <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:15:12,000 –> 01:15:16,640
\nHe says and it’s all worthwhile.
\nMark those men out and women out<\/p>\n
1091
\n01:15:16,800 –> 01:15:20,760
\nin your ecclesia, he said and
\nfollow them verse verse 20 for <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:15:20,760 –> 01:15:23,920
\nour conversation for our
\ncitizenship is in heaven for <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:15:23,920 –> 01:15:25,720
\nonce.
\nAlso we look for the Saviour, <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:15:25,720 –> 01:15:29,200
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
\nchange our vile bodies that. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:15:29,560 –> 01:15:32,400
\nMay be fashioned like unto his
\nglorious body, according to the <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:15:32,400 –> 01:15:35,760
\nworking where money is.
\nAble even to do subdue all <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:15:35,880 –> 01:15:39,280
\nthings unto himself.
\nWe’re not playing around with my<\/p>\n
1098
\n01:15:40,560 –> 01:15:43,960
\ninsignificant things.
\nIf only we can bear that yoke <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:15:43,960 –> 01:15:47,400
\nfor a little time.
\nWhat an enormous vision we had <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:15:47,400 –> 01:15:49,520
\nbefore us.
\nAs he went on to say to them, <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:15:49,520 –> 01:15:54,680
\nisn’t it all wet?
\nSisters and young people, who of<\/p>\n
1102
\n01:15:54,680 –> 01:15:58,600
\nyou or I deserve any of that?
\nThey have these vile bodies, <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:15:58,600 –> 01:16:02,640
\nwhich is what they are, bodies
\nof humiliation that pull us down<\/p>\n
1104
\n01:16:02,920 –> 01:16:07,520
\nevery day.
\nWho of us deserves the honour of<\/p>\n
1105
\n01:16:07,520 –> 01:16:10,640
\nhaving that transformed into a
\nspirit body forever? <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:16:11,280 –> 01:16:13,480
\nWho?
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:16:13,480 –> 01:16:18,000
\nThat’s what God has held out.
\nThe love of God has been shed <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:16:18,000 –> 01:16:20,760
\ninto a shed abroad into.
\nOur hearts as a powerful <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:16:20,760 –> 01:16:24,320
\nmotivating force in our lives
\nwith faith that can make that <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:16:24,600 –> 01:16:28,480
\nreal faith unfeigned.
\nWho will separate us, said the <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:16:28,480 –> 01:16:31,480
\napostle.
\nFrom that will the pressures of <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:16:31,480 –> 01:16:35,280
\nthis large young people.
\nI say no, they will not. <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:16:36,000 –> 01:16:40,800
\nWill this stress or persecution
\nwill the difficulties of an age?<\/p>\n
1114
\n01:16:40,960 –> 01:16:43,360
\nWhere do they stand in relation
\nto all of that? <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:16:43,640 –> 01:16:49,280
\nIf God be for us, said Paul in
\nRomans 8, if God be for us, who <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:16:49,280 –> 01:16:53,720
\ncan be against us in all things?
\nWe are more than conquerors. <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:16:53,720 –> 01:17:00,040
\nThrough him that loved us and
\ngave his life, we’re bound <\/p>\n
1118
\n01:17:00,040 –> 01:17:03,400
\ntogether.
\nThere’s not a distinction <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:17:03,400 –> 01:17:06,040
\nbetween young and old, between
\nmale and female. <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:17:06,040 –> 01:17:11,080
\nWe’re one we’ve got to see each
\nother as heart of that beauty <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:17:11,280 –> 01:17:17,080
\nwith one marvellous hope.
\nAnd by God’s grace all changed <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:17:17,080 –> 01:17:20,800
\none day.
\nOh, we desperately need each <\/p>\n
1123
\n01:17:20,800 –> 01:17:22,000
\nother.
\nBrothers and sisters and young <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:17:22,000 –> 01:17:25,640
\npeople.
\nTo encourage and to inspire by <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:17:25,680 –> 01:17:29,400
\nexample and word, by little
\nthings and big. <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:17:31,600 –> 01:17:39,000
\nAnd to take the spirit of this
\nmarvellous young man, the <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:17:39,000 –> 01:17:46,520
\ncaption of whose life would have
\nto be selfless service of his <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:17:46,520 –> 01:17:53,320
\nbrethren, motivated by an
\nunfeigned faith and the love of <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:17:53,320 –> 01:17:59,200
\nGod, if only we could all.
\nCherish. <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:17:59,360 –> 01:18:03,240
\nThat same spirit there would be
\nnone lost. <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:18:03,640 –> 01:18:06,600
\nNone.
\nLet us stir our hearts. <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:18:06,600 –> 01:18:10,160
\nTherefore, and enliven our faith
\nand widen our vision. <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:18:10,360 –> 01:18:13,600
\nTo incorporate all the household
\nof God encourage each other <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:18:13,600 –> 01:18:17,800
\nyoung and old and everything you
\nhave opportunity and rejoicing <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:18:17,800 –> 01:18:20,640
\nthe joy of the truth.
\nWhat that has put into our hands<\/p>\n
1136
\n01:18:20,640 –> 01:18:23,200
\nand in the fellowship of the
\nSaints. <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:18:23,200 –> 01:18:27,040
\nIt’s a great thing that we’ve
\nthat we have. <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:18:27,400 –> 01:18:31,880
\nAnd patiently bear the yoke of
\nChrist, young and old, together,<\/p>\n
1139
\n01:18:33,080 –> 01:18:37,160
\nthe yoke of selfless service.
\nThat will bring. <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:18:37,240 –> 01:18:38,760
\nFruit to the glory of God, What
\ndo? <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:18:41,880 –> 01:18:58,260
\nWe say
\nthat we should make the Word of <\/p>\n
1142
\n01:18:58,260 –> 01:19:04,460
\nGod our daily delight as the
\nyoung man Timothy, but unplain <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:19:04,460 –> 01:19:11,220
\nfaith without hypocrisy, change
\nour natural characteristics, and<\/p>\n
1144
\n01:19:11,700 –> 01:19:13,780
\nhave a powerful influence on
\nothers. <\/p>\n
1145
\n01:19:15,280 –> 01:19:18,200
\nThat our devoted attention to
\nthe Word of God and the service <\/p>\n
1146
\n01:19:18,200 –> 01:19:24,160
\nof others, especially in youth.
\nWe’ll save ourselves and others,<\/p>\n
1147
\n01:19:26,000 –> 01:19:29,960
\nalways be an example to the
\nbelievers, and learn to look <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:19:29,960 –> 01:19:32,720
\noutside of our own interests and
\nminister to the needs and the <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:19:32,720 –> 01:19:36,080
\nconcerns of others and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
1150
\n01:19:38,640 –> 01:19:48,480
\nYouth is the best time, the best
\ntime to bear the yoke of self <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:19:48,480 –> 01:19:56,920
\ndenial and service.
\nTake up the challenge and I’d <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:19:56,920 –> 01:20:06,760
\nlike to leave you with a prayer
\nof the apostle when he said, now<\/p>\n
1153
\n01:20:06,760 –> 01:20:13,320
\nthe God of patience and
\nconsolation grant you all that. <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:20:14,320 –> 01:20:19,360
\nYou be like minded one toward
\nanother, after the example of <\/p>\n
1155
\n01:20:19,360 –> 01:20:29,040
\nChrist Jesus, that she may with
\none mind and one mouth glorify <\/p>\n
1156
\n01:20:29,040 –> 01:20:33,400
\nGod, even the Father of our Lord
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