1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:04,500 we're going to start a new series today, going through first and second Timothy. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:07,733 But before we get into that, let me just add my, 3 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:11,066 Happy Mother's Day sentiment, 4 00:00:11,066 --> 00:00:14,066 to you moms and grandmas. 5 00:00:14,133 --> 00:00:16,566 And while we celebrate 6 00:00:16,566 --> 00:00:19,566 this day and celebrate moms and grandmas, 7 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:23,100 we also I want to pastor us through this moment 8 00:00:24,033 --> 00:00:26,400 because for some, it's a, it's a very fun 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,100 and joyous and and affirming day, 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:33,966 and you get to be with your kids and, and kids good to be with their moms. 11 00:00:33,966 --> 00:00:36,966 And, but that's not true for everybody. 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,000 And, I want us to steward this time. 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,533 Well, and steward each other well and our relationships 14 00:00:44,533 --> 00:00:47,533 and for some, Mother's Day 15 00:00:48,266 --> 00:00:51,300 is another reminder of what is missing. 16 00:00:52,566 --> 00:00:57,800 And so I would like to just pray over us, 17 00:00:59,233 --> 00:01:00,333 in Thanksgiving 18 00:01:00,333 --> 00:01:04,700 for the love and the faithfulness and the sacrifice that we've seen in moms 19 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:07,700 and and grandma's, but to also acknowledge 20 00:01:08,766 --> 00:01:12,700 that there are some families going through this day without mom 21 00:01:13,833 --> 00:01:16,833 and without grandma. 22 00:01:16,966 --> 00:01:18,033 And there are some women 23 00:01:18,033 --> 00:01:21,033 going through this day without kids 24 00:01:21,366 --> 00:01:24,366 who have one who've never known that experience 25 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:27,333 or who have known it 26 00:01:27,333 --> 00:01:29,833 and now are going through this day 27 00:01:29,833 --> 00:01:32,833 in absence of it. 28 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:36,166 And so I want to steward this time with each other. 29 00:01:36,166 --> 00:01:37,800 Well, 30 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:45,000 thank God, and ask for his continued presence 31 00:01:45,966 --> 00:01:50,266 and feeling that both in celebration and in not. 32 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,800 So let's pray. 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,366 Father, we do thank you, 34 00:01:55,366 --> 00:01:59,166 for the many examples that you've given us in our world 35 00:01:59,166 --> 00:02:03,133 and in our life of reflections, of your love, of your steadfastness, 36 00:02:03,133 --> 00:02:07,000 of your faithfulness, of your acceptance of your presence. 37 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:12,866 Today, we remember that in the knowledge that in the context of moms 38 00:02:13,866 --> 00:02:15,600 and grandmas who have 39 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,200 constantly love and and been faithful and prayed, 40 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,366 and I thank you for the picture of you that that gives us. 41 00:02:23,333 --> 00:02:26,333 And father, also pray over us. 42 00:02:27,066 --> 00:02:29,266 For those of us who are experience 43 00:02:29,266 --> 00:02:32,066 experiencing this time. 44 00:02:32,066 --> 00:02:35,066 When what we feel is absence. 45 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:38,100 And I thank you for the reminder that even in this times 46 00:02:38,366 --> 00:02:41,466 that we feel absence, we're reminded of your presence. 47 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,300 And so by the authority of your name, Jesus 48 00:02:45,766 --> 00:02:48,366 and Holy Spirit, because of who you are. 49 00:02:48,366 --> 00:02:51,666 Draw close to us in this moment, both in celebration, 50 00:02:52,633 --> 00:02:54,900 and in absence. 51 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:56,233 And in loss. 52 00:02:56,233 --> 00:02:57,733 Draw close to us. 53 00:02:57,733 --> 00:03:00,200 Remind us of your presence. 54 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,000 Remind us of your goodness. 55 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,100 Draw our hearts and minds heavenward. 56 00:03:05,733 --> 00:03:10,800 And not just attached to the things and relationships of this earth. 57 00:03:11,366 --> 00:03:13,300 Draw our minds and hearts heavenward. 58 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,800 Remind us of you and I pray. 59 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,733 An extra measure of your grace and of your peace 60 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,700 and of your comfort over us, your people. 61 00:03:24,833 --> 00:03:25,633 In your name I pray. 62 00:03:25,633 --> 00:03:28,100 Amen. 63 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:29,733 I love you. 64 00:03:29,733 --> 00:03:32,733 Happy Mother's Day. 65 00:03:33,166 --> 00:03:35,700 First Timothy. 66 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:38,700 We're going to study in the next ten weeks together. 67 00:03:39,633 --> 00:03:42,633 First and second Timothy. 68 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,700 These are important letters. 69 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:46,733 There, there. 70 00:03:46,733 --> 00:03:50,033 There are two letters that Paul wrote to a man named Timothy. 71 00:03:50,866 --> 00:03:54,400 We refer to them as first Timothy and second Timothy. 72 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,233 Not real creative. 73 00:03:57,233 --> 00:03:59,033 But very plain is what they are. 74 00:03:59,033 --> 00:04:02,033 They're letters written to a young man from an old man. 75 00:04:03,033 --> 00:04:06,133 And what we're going to do is look through this in all the scripture. 76 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:07,800 We're going to go through. 77 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,800 I want you to bring a Bible 78 00:04:11,066 --> 00:04:13,800 or look on your smartphone or your little device. 79 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,800 Some of you, this is a great, 80 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,133 excuse for you to look at your phone, because a lot of 81 00:04:18,133 --> 00:04:19,966 you were looking at your phones when I had the verses up there. 82 00:04:19,966 --> 00:04:21,400 Anyway. 83 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:21,933 And so now 84 00:04:21,933 --> 00:04:24,833 you look like you're participating with us while you're on your phone. 85 00:04:24,833 --> 00:04:26,666 It'll make me feel better. 86 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:29,300 As I look at heads down. 87 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:30,533 But just just follow along. 88 00:04:30,533 --> 00:04:33,000 If you don't have either of those, look on your neighbor. 89 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,300 Get close to somebody. 90 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:35,066 Look on theirs. 91 00:04:35,066 --> 00:04:38,500 But there's there's a lot of things in first and second Timothy 92 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:43,066 that are going to be affirming and challenging as we go through this. 93 00:04:43,933 --> 00:04:48,666 But let me say right up front, the overarching kind of umbrella 94 00:04:48,666 --> 00:04:52,233 over these two letters that we'll look at over the next, 95 00:04:52,533 --> 00:04:55,933 I think about ten weeks or so, is this idea 96 00:04:57,166 --> 00:04:59,700 that what a Jesus community believes 97 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,700 will directly shape how that community lives. 98 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:05,400 We have to understand this. 99 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,866 What a Jesus community believes will directly shape how that community lives. 100 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,833 This is true for every one of us. 101 00:05:11,833 --> 00:05:16,566 What one believes will determine how one lives, 102 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,066 what we're talking about, what we 103 00:05:20,066 --> 00:05:23,533 believe is called doctrine. 104 00:05:24,633 --> 00:05:26,366 Who doctrine is that thing, 105 00:05:26,366 --> 00:05:31,533 that set of beliefs, that set of values that determine how we live. 106 00:05:31,533 --> 00:05:37,166 And every person is driven by doctrine, whether you can read, 107 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,600 whether you verbalize it like that or not, whether you acknowledge that or not. 108 00:05:41,633 --> 00:05:44,900 Every one of us is driven by doctrine, 109 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,900 what we believe and what we believe 110 00:05:48,033 --> 00:05:51,000 directly shapes how we live. 111 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,466 And for those who claim Jesus, our doctrine, 112 00:05:55,033 --> 00:05:57,833 what we believe should be driven 113 00:05:57,833 --> 00:06:00,466 by clear Scripture. 114 00:06:00,466 --> 00:06:04,533 If if one doesn't claim to be an apprentice of Jesus 115 00:06:05,233 --> 00:06:08,233 or doesn't ground themselves in Scripture, 116 00:06:08,233 --> 00:06:12,600 their doctrine is just going to be made up of whatever they happen 117 00:06:13,233 --> 00:06:18,166 to kind of glean from around them and, and kind of put together themselves. 118 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:22,200 So, so we need to understand that as we look through this, our doctrine 119 00:06:22,666 --> 00:06:25,666 is going to be driven by what we believe God's word. 120 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:26,400 Okay. 121 00:06:27,466 --> 00:06:28,700 Let me just pause for a minute. 122 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:30,433 We good. John. 123 00:06:30,433 --> 00:06:32,866 All right, man, I appreciate you, buddy. 124 00:06:32,866 --> 00:06:38,000 You have got skills that surpass anything I could do. 125 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:39,866 All right. 126 00:06:39,866 --> 00:06:42,866 It's good to see you this morning, man. 127 00:06:42,966 --> 00:06:46,966 So our doctrine is driven by scripture. 128 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:48,200 Okay. 129 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,200 And here's what we have to understand about Scripture 130 00:06:51,566 --> 00:06:53,400 is that, 131 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,433 is that we rest under the text. 132 00:06:57,166 --> 00:06:59,700 We don't stand over it. 133 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:00,733 Okay. 134 00:07:00,733 --> 00:07:02,166 With this. 135 00:07:02,166 --> 00:07:05,100 This drives this determines our doctrine. 136 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:08,100 What we believe determines how we shapes how we live. 137 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:09,100 And we stand. 138 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:12,100 We rest under the Scripture. 139 00:07:12,266 --> 00:07:14,900 We don't stand over it. 140 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:15,533 Okay. 141 00:07:15,533 --> 00:07:18,533 You follow. 142 00:07:18,933 --> 00:07:19,666 We got we got it. 143 00:07:19,666 --> 00:07:22,333 We got to get this right about about this. 144 00:07:22,333 --> 00:07:25,333 And the reason why that's so important, 145 00:07:25,366 --> 00:07:28,066 to stand to rest under this. 146 00:07:28,066 --> 00:07:31,066 Rather than just try to stand over it, 147 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:36,000 is because confusion in the culture should not create confusion in the church. 148 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:38,100 Well, okay. 149 00:07:39,366 --> 00:07:42,300 Confusion of the culture should not create confusion in the church. 150 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:45,300 And the only way the church doesn't get confused 151 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:49,566 is to rest under clear doctrine. 152 00:07:50,533 --> 00:07:51,500 Okay. 153 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:54,500 Any time we try to stand over this, 154 00:07:55,066 --> 00:07:58,700 it gets confusing because the culture drives 155 00:07:59,866 --> 00:08:02,500 what we think and how we live it. 156 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:05,000 So this is really important. 157 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:05,900 Repeat after me. 158 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:08,900 Doctrine is important. 159 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:12,333 These two letters. 160 00:08:12,333 --> 00:08:14,433 First and second Timothy. 161 00:08:14,433 --> 00:08:19,033 Paul's focus on this is that Timothy understand 162 00:08:19,033 --> 00:08:22,033 and teach clear doctrine, 163 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:27,200 because he's it's going to drive the people that he's leading. 164 00:08:27,533 --> 00:08:30,766 Now, the apostle Paul that we just we just got done 165 00:08:30,766 --> 00:08:33,400 looking through the whole book of Romans written by the apostle Paul. 166 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,633 He's at the end of his life now when he writes this letter to Timothy, 167 00:08:37,433 --> 00:08:41,500 he's going to write two letters to Timothy and one letter to a guy named Titus. 168 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,500 Right at the end of his life is going to be beheaded by, 169 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,466 the Roman emperor Nero. 170 00:08:47,466 --> 00:08:50,500 And right before he's beheaded, he pins these letters because he's 171 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:55,633 setting people up to continue the ministry that he's had in leading churches. 172 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:58,733 Paul met Timothy's 173 00:08:58,733 --> 00:09:02,133 mom and grandma in a place called Lystra. 174 00:09:02,533 --> 00:09:04,400 During his first missionary journey. 175 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,833 Paul took three missionary journeys, and during the first one 176 00:09:08,033 --> 00:09:12,100 he was in this place called Lystra, and he met Tim's mom and grandma 177 00:09:12,866 --> 00:09:16,066 later during his second missionary journey. 178 00:09:16,433 --> 00:09:19,066 Paul met this, this, 179 00:09:19,066 --> 00:09:22,066 this, this guy named Timothy. 180 00:09:22,266 --> 00:09:25,266 And and and he saw in Timothy 181 00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:29,100 the fact that God was calling Timothy into the ministry 182 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:32,100 like God was doing a work in his life. 183 00:09:32,333 --> 00:09:36,733 And because he knew his mom and grandma, he got to know this young man, Timothy, 184 00:09:36,733 --> 00:09:39,833 and eventually invited Timothy to travel with him 185 00:09:40,233 --> 00:09:42,933 in his missionary work. 186 00:09:42,933 --> 00:09:45,966 And so Timothy at this point is probably in 187 00:09:45,966 --> 00:09:49,200 his is is mid 20s or so. 188 00:09:49,933 --> 00:09:52,933 Paul is in his later 50s. 189 00:09:52,966 --> 00:09:56,733 And so you have this old man writing to this young man 190 00:09:56,733 --> 00:09:59,466 and setting this young man up to lead. 191 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:01,166 And his 192 00:10:01,166 --> 00:10:04,900 his message to Timothy is going to be you remain faithful. 193 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:07,433 You just you just stay. 194 00:10:07,433 --> 00:10:09,366 He's going to give him some advice about that. 195 00:10:09,366 --> 00:10:12,366 Timothy will begin to train under Paul, 196 00:10:12,466 --> 00:10:15,466 and Timothy wants to emulate Paul, 197 00:10:15,733 --> 00:10:18,900 and Paul knowing he's he's going to be a 198 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,200 he is arrested and he knows he's headed towards death. 199 00:10:22,333 --> 00:10:26,400 And he sets Timothy up to be the leader of the church in Ephesus. 200 00:10:26,466 --> 00:10:29,000 So that's kind of the background of all this. 201 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:29,800 Okay. 202 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:34,133 So this is an old man's words to a young man setting them up for leadership. 203 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,866 And it's the perfect chapter to go through on Mother's Day. 204 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,700 I'll get there in a minute. Follow with me. 205 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:41,400 Just just trust me, okay? 206 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,200 So so let let let's let's open let's look at this. 207 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,700 I'm just going to go slowly through this. 208 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:50,566 Chapter one, verse one 209 00:10:50,566 --> 00:10:52,433 Paul, 210 00:10:52,433 --> 00:10:56,166 an apostle of Christ Jesus, by command of God 211 00:10:56,166 --> 00:10:59,166 our Savior and of Christ Jesus, our hope. 212 00:11:01,633 --> 00:11:03,233 Let me just unpack verse one. 213 00:11:03,233 --> 00:11:05,433 There's a lot going on here. 214 00:11:05,433 --> 00:11:08,500 Paul's introducing himself and he's writing this letter to Timothy. 215 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:12,100 So Timothy will have like credentials as he leads. 216 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,800 Well, in terms of like, look, I'm not coming up with this on my own. 217 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:16,233 I'm not making this stuff up. 218 00:11:16,233 --> 00:11:20,400 This comes from the apostle Paul that we all know is called of God has authority. 219 00:11:20,733 --> 00:11:21,933 This is from him. 220 00:11:21,933 --> 00:11:25,600 Paul says, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the command of God. 221 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,400 When Paul uses that word apostle, it's used in this sense 222 00:11:29,566 --> 00:11:34,200 and in bassador on special assignment from the highest of authorities. 223 00:11:34,466 --> 00:11:35,400 That's what he's saying. 224 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,966 He said, I am on special assignment as the ambassador 225 00:11:39,966 --> 00:11:43,200 of the highest of authorities, and I am an apostle. 226 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,766 He says by the command of God. 227 00:11:45,766 --> 00:11:48,366 In every other letter, Paul writes 228 00:11:48,366 --> 00:11:51,666 about his own apostleship and ambassador of God. 229 00:11:52,033 --> 00:11:55,033 He says, I'm an apostle by the will of God. 230 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:56,833 Here it's different. 231 00:11:56,833 --> 00:11:58,933 Here he says, not by the will of God. 232 00:11:58,933 --> 00:12:01,466 Now I'm by the command of God. And here's why. 233 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,333 Most of us would 234 00:12:04,333 --> 00:12:07,766 say, yeah, I know what God's will is. 235 00:12:08,133 --> 00:12:11,000 He wants me to dot, dot, dot. 236 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,533 Right. 237 00:12:12,533 --> 00:12:14,600 We know we want. 238 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,200 Right? Right. 239 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,466 There's a difference between saying, 240 00:12:19,466 --> 00:12:22,733 this is what God wants and this is what he commands. 241 00:12:23,833 --> 00:12:27,900 Because if all I do is think God wants this. 242 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:29,100 Yeah, but I don't really want that. 243 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:31,200 Somebody mounting. 244 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,133 But if I stand there with the knowledge God doesn't just want this. 245 00:12:35,133 --> 00:12:37,333 God has commanded this. 246 00:12:37,333 --> 00:12:40,133 Now, if I don't 247 00:12:40,133 --> 00:12:43,133 now, I'm just outright 248 00:12:43,266 --> 00:12:46,266 obstinate, disobedient, 249 00:12:46,966 --> 00:12:49,966 arrogant, and full of pride. 250 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,300 There's a difference, right? Yes. 251 00:12:53,633 --> 00:12:57,033 And so Paul is like, look, God doesn't just want me to do this. 252 00:12:57,066 --> 00:12:59,333 This is his command of me. 253 00:12:59,333 --> 00:13:02,566 And I dare not say no to God's command. 254 00:13:03,333 --> 00:13:07,500 Some of us in this place need to make the transition in our life 255 00:13:09,333 --> 00:13:11,933 from the want of God 256 00:13:11,933 --> 00:13:14,933 to the command of God. 257 00:13:16,733 --> 00:13:19,733 Do you understand? 258 00:13:21,133 --> 00:13:22,366 By the command of God 259 00:13:22,366 --> 00:13:25,366 our Savior and Christ Jesus, our hope. 260 00:13:26,866 --> 00:13:29,033 Paul is so. 261 00:13:29,033 --> 00:13:32,333 He's so intelligent, but he's so sneaky and crafty, too. 262 00:13:32,633 --> 00:13:37,200 They're one of the reasons he writes by the command of God, our Savior and Christ. 263 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,133 I think he's he kind of writing this a little bit, 264 00:13:40,133 --> 00:13:43,333 like the pen presses down a little bit our savior. 265 00:13:43,733 --> 00:13:45,233 Here's why. 266 00:13:45,233 --> 00:13:49,800 Because Caesar Nero commanded that everybody in the nation 267 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,333 would call him Caesar. 268 00:13:51,333 --> 00:13:53,833 Nero the Savior. 269 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:56,833 And so Paul's like, yeah, take this Nero. 270 00:13:58,533 --> 00:13:59,800 He knows he's going to be bad. 271 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,966 He knows he going to be killed by Nero. 272 00:14:01,966 --> 00:14:05,333 And he is still as unwavering and bold. 273 00:14:07,133 --> 00:14:08,966 It's like I me for a better country. 274 00:14:08,966 --> 00:14:11,966 Heaven. Not this. You're not the savior. 275 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,000 There's one. His name is Jesus. 276 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,066 I just love that about Paul 277 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,000 of Christ Jesus. 278 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,900 Our hope. 279 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:23,000 Look at verse two to Timothy, my two child in the faith, 280 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,033 grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 281 00:14:27,333 --> 00:14:31,433 This is why this is the perfect chapter to talk about on Mother's Day, 282 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:34,466 because Paul says to Timothy 283 00:14:34,466 --> 00:14:37,466 that packs a lot of information. 284 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:39,366 Timothy 285 00:14:39,366 --> 00:14:41,600 and Paul's second letter to Timothy. 286 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,600 We get an understanding of who this Timothy is 287 00:14:44,733 --> 00:14:47,733 and and his heritage. 288 00:14:47,866 --> 00:14:52,000 And in second Timothy one five it says, I am reminded of your sincere faith 289 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,433 and faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois. 290 00:14:56,733 --> 00:14:58,000 And your mother Eunice. 291 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,733 And now I am sure, dwells in you as well. 292 00:15:02,366 --> 00:15:04,733 This guy Timothy 293 00:15:04,733 --> 00:15:07,000 was the one who would apprentice under Paul, 294 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 who would take up Paul's mantle of leadership. 295 00:15:10,233 --> 00:15:13,366 One of the first leaders of the church in the first century. 296 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,100 A man of faith, a man of leadership, a strong, 297 00:15:18,933 --> 00:15:23,100 a man who started out timid, who became an oak tree. 298 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:24,633 And he 299 00:15:24,633 --> 00:15:28,600 became that because of the faith and the prayers 300 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,600 and the faithfulness of his mother and his grandmother. 301 00:15:34,133 --> 00:15:37,133 Notice who's not listed. 302 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,366 His dad. 303 00:15:39,366 --> 00:15:42,000 Timothy's parents. Mom and dad. 304 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,400 Mom was a Jew. 305 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,700 A woman of the faith. 306 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:51,133 His father was a Greek, so his home was of mixed 307 00:15:51,833 --> 00:15:54,700 race and mixed faith. 308 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:57,066 And it was his mother. 309 00:15:57,066 --> 00:15:59,366 Her faithfulness, her prayers, 310 00:15:59,366 --> 00:16:02,366 her witness, her testimony, 311 00:16:02,866 --> 00:16:05,300 her trust in God 312 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:09,000 and his grandmother's faith that set this foundation for him, 313 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,166 that put him in a position to respond to God's call on his life 314 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:16,966 and respond to Paul's invitation to follow him in ministry. 315 00:16:17,066 --> 00:16:22,200 What incredible woman women Timothy had raising him. 316 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,200 Yeah. 317 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:27,666 Listen, 318 00:16:27,666 --> 00:16:29,700 moms, 319 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:32,566 grandmas. 320 00:16:32,566 --> 00:16:36,700 There is so much power in your prayers 321 00:16:38,133 --> 00:16:39,666 and your trust in God 322 00:16:40,766 --> 00:16:43,766 and your surrender to your Savior, 323 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,033 in your faithfulness in your witness. 324 00:16:47,533 --> 00:16:50,533 There's so much power in your life, 325 00:16:51,666 --> 00:16:55,400 in those that are watching you and those that are coming up 326 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,400 after you, in your kids and grandkids. 327 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,066 Your faithfulness is vitally 328 00:17:02,066 --> 00:17:05,066 and crucially important. 329 00:17:07,133 --> 00:17:08,400 I know you know that. 330 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,400 I don't know if you feel that 331 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:13,433 sometimes 332 00:17:13,433 --> 00:17:16,433 parenting in general, especially moms, 333 00:17:17,066 --> 00:17:20,200 it gets exhausting, doesn't it? 334 00:17:21,066 --> 00:17:22,366 Doesn't it? 335 00:17:22,366 --> 00:17:26,200 So it's so interesting the difference in moms and dads. 336 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:29,966 Moms raise their children to nurture 337 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,800 and to guide and to protect. 338 00:17:34,166 --> 00:17:35,500 That's a mom's heart. 339 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,100 It's a nurturing heart. 340 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:41,100 A dad raises his kids to conquer. 341 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,933 Right. 342 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:46,833 And so when the time comes 343 00:17:46,833 --> 00:17:49,833 for the children to leave, 344 00:17:50,433 --> 00:17:53,533 if they leave, well, the dad's like, well, yeah, go get it. 345 00:17:56,066 --> 00:17:58,733 The moms like. 346 00:17:58,733 --> 00:18:01,533 But now I 347 00:18:01,533 --> 00:18:04,533 know I'm losing. 348 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:08,166 Right. 349 00:18:08,166 --> 00:18:11,233 Well, there's a sense of of pride. 350 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:15,300 There's also a great sense of loss. 351 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:18,900 And so so so moms, 352 00:18:19,566 --> 00:18:22,200 your prayers, your faithfulness, 353 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,566 your commitment, your witness are so powerful, so profound. 354 00:18:28,533 --> 00:18:31,533 Don't back off. 355 00:18:31,966 --> 00:18:34,966 Don't slow down. 356 00:18:36,966 --> 00:18:39,433 This man Timothy. 357 00:18:39,433 --> 00:18:43,000 This is what honestly, every Christian 358 00:18:43,033 --> 00:18:46,033 mom and grandma desires for their kids. 359 00:18:46,866 --> 00:18:48,233 Like you're following the Lord. 360 00:18:48,233 --> 00:18:50,000 You're loving the Lord. 361 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 You're being faithful, right? 362 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,966 It was because of her prayers 363 00:18:55,966 --> 00:18:58,233 and her faithfulness 364 00:18:58,233 --> 00:19:01,233 and her steadfastness. 365 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,700 My wife is like Lois and Eunice. 366 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:12,600 When I got married, 367 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,600 I didn't want to marry a capacitor. 368 00:19:15,666 --> 00:19:18,366 I wanted to marry a godly woman 369 00:19:18,366 --> 00:19:21,366 whose primary ministry would be Joe and Caleb and Wyatt, 370 00:19:23,033 --> 00:19:27,200 and whose primary ministry was our kids in our home. 371 00:19:28,433 --> 00:19:28,700 And the 372 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:32,633 reason our sons are walking with the Lord. 373 00:19:32,633 --> 00:19:35,500 Aside from the grace and mercy of God. 374 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:38,500 But the reason our three sons are walking with the Lord 375 00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:42,833 is because of Shelby's ministry in our home. 376 00:19:46,666 --> 00:19:49,666 Moms press in 377 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,100 and keep pressing in, 378 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:56,100 though others may never hear your prayers, 379 00:19:56,266 --> 00:20:00,400 and others may never see your faithfulness behind the doors of your home. 380 00:20:00,433 --> 00:20:03,433 God does, and he is faithful. 381 00:20:05,266 --> 00:20:08,266 Do you understand? 382 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:10,200 And because of these two women, 383 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,200 this young man God raised up 384 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,200 in Hebrews, it's just a beautiful, beautiful picture 385 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,400 of what was going on behind the scenes 386 00:20:19,566 --> 00:20:22,566 that created this young man and who he was. 387 00:20:24,533 --> 00:20:26,100 And Paul says, Timothy 388 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:29,100 may grace, mercy and peace from God our father be yours. 389 00:20:29,233 --> 00:20:32,900 Whenever Paul writes to churches, he starts the same way. 390 00:20:32,933 --> 00:20:35,733 Grace and peace be upon you. 391 00:20:35,733 --> 00:20:39,566 When he writes to Timothy and Titus, first Timothy second to ministries, 392 00:20:39,633 --> 00:20:43,866 he adds an element there he has to grace and peace. 393 00:20:44,266 --> 00:20:47,500 What mercy is like. Look. 394 00:20:51,066 --> 00:20:52,966 People 395 00:20:52,966 --> 00:20:55,833 need not just not grace and peace. 396 00:20:55,833 --> 00:20:58,466 People. Individuals need what 397 00:20:58,466 --> 00:21:00,600 we need a lot of mercy. 398 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,333 May the mercy of God be on you. 399 00:21:03,333 --> 00:21:03,733 Right. 400 00:21:03,733 --> 00:21:06,733 And so he includes that in Timothy and in Titus. 401 00:21:07,933 --> 00:21:10,400 And so, so he kind of set the stage for Timothy 402 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,400 to remember who you are, remember your heritage. 403 00:21:13,466 --> 00:21:14,733 Remember your charge. 404 00:21:14,733 --> 00:21:16,666 And now, he said, now he gets into it. 405 00:21:16,666 --> 00:21:20,000 And there are six things that Paul tells Timothy about. 406 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,000 Remaining is huge for for Timothy in this in verse three, 407 00:21:24,233 --> 00:21:28,500 as I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus. 408 00:21:28,933 --> 00:21:33,866 So so the idea of remaining is huge for Timothy. 409 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:38,900 Timothy, when he started, was pretty timid, had a lot of doubt. 410 00:21:39,566 --> 00:21:44,166 He was a little bit sickly and and so Timothy was fine 411 00:21:44,166 --> 00:21:47,633 as long as he was under the umbrella of Paul, because Paul was the strong one. 412 00:21:48,133 --> 00:21:50,233 Timothy was wired a little bit different. 413 00:21:50,233 --> 00:21:53,233 Timothy was a little bit like, I don't know if I got what it takes. 414 00:21:53,366 --> 00:21:54,333 I felt that way. 415 00:21:54,333 --> 00:21:57,400 Like, I don't know if I'm really like what you've asked me to do, right? 416 00:21:57,933 --> 00:22:01,400 And so Paul is going to press in and say, look, Timothy, here's to go. 417 00:22:01,566 --> 00:22:04,533 Just remain. Just stay. 418 00:22:04,533 --> 00:22:07,000 God hasn't called you to anywhere but here. 419 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:07,766 Just. 420 00:22:07,766 --> 00:22:10,966 And so we're going to see six times in this first chapter 421 00:22:11,133 --> 00:22:14,500 where Paul's pressing and saying, remain, remain and reign. 422 00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:16,633 Remain because you got a job to do that 423 00:22:16,633 --> 00:22:19,266 God has equipped you for, though you may feel inadequate. 424 00:22:19,266 --> 00:22:21,166 God has equipped you. Here's the deal. 425 00:22:21,166 --> 00:22:23,800 Whatever God has called you to, he's equipped you for. 426 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:24,733 Mom's here. That. 427 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:30,900 Here that. 428 00:22:31,233 --> 00:22:32,200 We're God guides. 429 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,933 God provides. 430 00:22:34,933 --> 00:22:35,833 So let me just say this. 431 00:22:35,833 --> 00:22:37,200 I feel like I gotta say this. 432 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,200 Even if you are a mom by surprise. 433 00:22:41,166 --> 00:22:44,166 It was an accident, and God wasn't surprised. 434 00:22:44,766 --> 00:22:47,766 So wherever God has guided you, he's also equipped you. 435 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:48,133 Just. 436 00:22:48,133 --> 00:22:51,133 Just press into this 437 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:53,700 that Timothy says. 438 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:57,466 Or Paul says to Timothy, as I urge you, when I was going to Macedonia 439 00:22:57,466 --> 00:23:00,700 to remain in Ephesus, so that you may charge certain persons 440 00:23:00,833 --> 00:23:05,066 not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths. 441 00:23:05,066 --> 00:23:08,866 And in this genealogies what promote speculations rather than the stewardship 442 00:23:08,866 --> 00:23:09,866 from God, that is, by faith. 443 00:23:09,866 --> 00:23:11,966 Here's what he's saying. 444 00:23:11,966 --> 00:23:14,966 He's saying one reason you have to remain 445 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,166 is is because hard places need hard truth. 446 00:23:19,166 --> 00:23:21,833 Ephesus was a hard place. 447 00:23:21,833 --> 00:23:25,366 Ephesus was was a place where in Ephesus, 448 00:23:25,366 --> 00:23:28,500 in the mountains above the city was the temple of Diana. 449 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,600 And at the temple of Diana they had a thousand temple prostitutes. 450 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:39,300 Diana was this, this, this goddess of of sensuality and fertility. 451 00:23:39,633 --> 00:23:42,366 And these prostitutes from the temple of Diana 452 00:23:42,366 --> 00:23:45,233 in the evening would come down in the city of Ephesus 453 00:23:45,233 --> 00:23:48,200 and propositioned the men. 454 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,200 They were mixing sex and spirituality 455 00:23:52,366 --> 00:23:57,266 and and they convinced the culture that if the men had sexual relations 456 00:23:57,266 --> 00:24:00,966 with the prostitutes, the goddess Diana would bless them 457 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:05,100 fertility and increase and abundance and all that stuff. 458 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,466 So it was a really it was a spiritual. 459 00:24:07,466 --> 00:24:10,300 It was a really dark place. 460 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:12,700 But also what was going on in this place. 461 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:16,100 At the base of the temple of Diana, the women in the church. 462 00:24:18,766 --> 00:24:21,900 I got say this in a way that I don't get myself in trouble, and it's hard for me. 463 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,566 These next couple weeks are going to be tough. 464 00:24:24,566 --> 00:24:28,233 So the like, don't think of the temple prostitutes like pole dancers. 465 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:29,000 They didn't look like that. 466 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,833 Not that any of us would know what a pole dancer looks like, 467 00:24:30,833 --> 00:24:34,366 but I'm just saying, maybe we've seen a movie just like they did. 468 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,800 They were just ornately. 469 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,300 They were just dressed ornately, 470 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,066 uncovered heads and faces and stuff. 471 00:24:42,066 --> 00:24:44,700 And so the women of the church, 472 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,400 dressed ornately, also. 473 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,733 And so it's hard to tell the difference between culturally 474 00:24:51,966 --> 00:24:54,966 and the women of the church and the women of the culture. 475 00:24:55,066 --> 00:24:57,300 They just look like the women out in the world. 476 00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,333 Not only 477 00:24:59,333 --> 00:25:02,533 that, the men of the church were a bunch of weak 478 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:07,733 kneed, limp wristed, passive men that just kind of sit back 479 00:25:07,733 --> 00:25:10,733 and let the women do whatever they wanted to do, like whatever. 480 00:25:11,866 --> 00:25:14,533 Just how familiar 481 00:25:14,533 --> 00:25:16,866 to any culture. 482 00:25:16,866 --> 00:25:19,866 So Tim's in a tough spot. 483 00:25:21,266 --> 00:25:24,933 And and and so there was internal pressure. 484 00:25:24,933 --> 00:25:28,300 There was external pressure that he just wanted to leave. 485 00:25:28,333 --> 00:25:28,766 It was. 486 00:25:28,766 --> 00:25:30,800 It was too tough. 487 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,700 He's a young man. He's in a tough spot. 488 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:35,200 Did you know that currently 489 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,500 this is regarding pastors? 490 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,800 65% of pastors feel as though they live 491 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,800 in complete isolation. 492 00:25:42,833 --> 00:25:45,833 It's tough. 493 00:25:46,033 --> 00:25:49,033 Everybody gets a piece of us. 494 00:25:49,533 --> 00:25:51,166 It's. 495 00:25:51,166 --> 00:25:52,800 And so Paul's pressing. 496 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,133 He says, look, look, I urged you, when you're in Ephesus, 497 00:25:56,566 --> 00:26:00,300 you have to stay so that you can charge certain persons 498 00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:03,633 not to teach different doctrine or to devote themselves to genealogy. 499 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,200 When he says, Timothy, I'm charging you with this. 500 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,833 That's a military term from a commanding officer over a subordinate. 501 00:26:10,833 --> 00:26:13,133 I'm charging that you cannot get out of this. 502 00:26:13,133 --> 00:26:18,166 I'm charging to stay there and to make sure that you're teaching the like. 503 00:26:18,166 --> 00:26:22,000 You're making sure these people don't teach different doctrine. 504 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:23,966 This is a doctoral issue. 505 00:26:23,966 --> 00:26:27,533 Make sure that they know what their their doctrines sound. 506 00:26:27,533 --> 00:26:29,066 Because doctrine is. 507 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:36,933 I ask you to repeat 508 00:26:36,933 --> 00:26:39,933 this earlier, and you did it like you knew what 509 00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:43,933 your word is important. 510 00:26:44,966 --> 00:26:47,966 So he's saying, teach these guys strong doctrine 511 00:26:47,966 --> 00:26:50,966 because doctrine is doctrines important. 512 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,900 He said, don't, don't, don't. 513 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:55,166 I'm charging us. Come here. 514 00:26:55,166 --> 00:27:00,066 Don't let these young idiots start chasing down rabbit trails 515 00:27:00,566 --> 00:27:05,033 because it leads unto endless debates and and fights with each other. 516 00:27:05,033 --> 00:27:08,100 And they get away from the doctrine of God, 517 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,133 which is the grace of God, which is salvation. 518 00:27:11,133 --> 00:27:14,166 Quit messing around with all this other stuff that's out there 519 00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:17,400 that you're going to absorb your time with, and chase and Rabbit Trail 520 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,300 after, Rabbit trail after Rabbit Trail about all this useless stuff. 521 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:26,700 You understand? 522 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,600 Hard places need hard truth. 523 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,100 So protect the doctrine. 524 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:37,400 Because what you believe is going to shape how you live. 525 00:27:38,166 --> 00:27:43,433 And some of your people, Timothy, are living useless lives 526 00:27:43,666 --> 00:27:48,200 and wasting time and energy because they got bad doctrine. 527 00:27:50,633 --> 00:27:53,966 Listen, truth starved people 528 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,200 need truth fed leaders. 529 00:28:00,333 --> 00:28:03,333 You stay put. 530 00:28:06,266 --> 00:28:08,100 The aim of our charge, verse five, 531 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:12,100 is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 532 00:28:12,133 --> 00:28:17,700 Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussions, 533 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,300 desiring to be teachers of the law without understanding either what 534 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:26,200 they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. 535 00:28:26,733 --> 00:28:28,700 They say, look, 536 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:31,666 some of these guys are just 537 00:28:31,666 --> 00:28:33,466 vain discussions. 538 00:28:33,466 --> 00:28:36,466 Have you ever realized that youth was wasted 539 00:28:37,666 --> 00:28:40,500 minutes and hours and days 540 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:43,433 chasing down rabbit trails and conspiracy theories 541 00:28:43,433 --> 00:28:46,433 and podcasts and swipes 542 00:28:46,533 --> 00:28:50,400 and stupid discussions about stupid stuff that makes no difference 543 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,300 whatsoever? 544 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,733 As far as the gospel and faith and salvation is concerned, you ever been there? 545 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:01,266 Saying, look, Timothy, you're in a tough spot. 546 00:29:01,266 --> 00:29:03,266 It needs hard truth. 547 00:29:03,266 --> 00:29:05,400 Just stay put and do what needs to be done. 548 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,633 Your role is to teach good doctrine because that's the important thing. 549 00:29:11,566 --> 00:29:14,433 Don't get caught up in vain discussions 550 00:29:14,433 --> 00:29:17,300 and arguments about 551 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:19,133 non-essential stuff. 552 00:29:19,133 --> 00:29:20,400 Look at what he says. 553 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,100 Verse eight. 554 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:23,766 Now we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully. 555 00:29:23,766 --> 00:29:25,266 I'm gonna talk about unjust mean. Just hang with me. 556 00:29:25,266 --> 00:29:28,800 Let's read understanding this that the law is not laid down for the judge, 557 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,500 but for the lawless and disobedient, 558 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:33,033 for the ungodly incentives for the unholy and profane. 559 00:29:33,033 --> 00:29:37,066 And then he lists a bunch of stuff for those who strike their father and mothers. 560 00:29:37,133 --> 00:29:39,033 I can't, 561 00:29:39,033 --> 00:29:42,033 I kids. 562 00:29:44,266 --> 00:29:45,600 Strike their father. 563 00:29:46,966 --> 00:29:49,966 Look, my daddy. 564 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Former marine and sergeant in Vietnam. 565 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:58,066 There's no way 566 00:29:58,066 --> 00:30:00,333 I would have crossed my father 567 00:30:00,333 --> 00:30:02,666 to understand. 568 00:30:02,666 --> 00:30:06,300 And there's no way I will cross my mama. 569 00:30:06,333 --> 00:30:09,333 Because that would mean I'd have to with my papa. 570 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:12,166 You understand? Yeah. 571 00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:15,800 And he's saying you got people there, these young ones 572 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,333 who are so insolent and so arrogant 573 00:30:20,833 --> 00:30:23,066 as to disregard 574 00:30:23,066 --> 00:30:25,866 their mothers and their fathers. 575 00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:28,866 Are you kidding me? 576 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,400 Does that sound familiar? 577 00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:37,800 When a child is not afraid 578 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,500 to disrespect his mother because there's no fear of his father. 579 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,200 Paul's like Timothy. 580 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,200 You got a tough job, 581 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,266 and you better lay into some good doctrine 582 00:30:52,266 --> 00:30:55,266 for these folk. 583 00:30:57,366 --> 00:30:58,033 For murders. 584 00:30:58,033 --> 00:31:01,133 For the sexually immoral men who practice homosexuality 585 00:31:01,133 --> 00:31:04,133 and slavers, liars, purges and whatever else. 586 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,433 That's everything else that is contrary to sound doctrine 587 00:31:08,133 --> 00:31:10,966 in accordance with the gospel, the glory of the blessed God 588 00:31:10,966 --> 00:31:13,800 with which I've been entrusted. Here's what he's saying. 589 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,700 Hard places need hard truth and 590 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:23,500 you remain because hard places need you. 591 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,466 They're not going to get the truth from anywhere else. 592 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,100 God's placed you there to give it. 593 00:31:33,266 --> 00:31:35,766 God's placed you there to show it. 594 00:31:35,766 --> 00:31:38,766 God's placed you there to live it. 595 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:42,000 And he's saying 596 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 part of that thing that you need to press into 597 00:31:45,033 --> 00:31:48,500 and they need you to do it is this whole thing on law. 598 00:31:48,533 --> 00:31:50,666 Here's what they thought. 599 00:31:50,666 --> 00:31:55,600 They thought that God gave us his law so we would obey his law. 600 00:31:55,833 --> 00:31:59,100 Because if we obeyed his law, we would be right with him. 601 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:02,200 And Paul's like, that's so wrong. 602 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:07,200 God gave us his law so we would realize how perfect his law is 603 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:12,000 and how imperfect we are, which is such a safe place to be. 604 00:32:12,666 --> 00:32:16,666 Because if I realize that God's law is perfect and I am imperfect, 605 00:32:16,833 --> 00:32:20,933 what God's law has showed me is that I need someone to make me perfect. 606 00:32:21,833 --> 00:32:22,533 Does that make sense? 607 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:24,800 And so what he's saying here is 608 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,100 these people are getting so confused about how to live rightly. 609 00:32:29,666 --> 00:32:32,666 And they they're hard hearted people 610 00:32:32,866 --> 00:32:37,233 who have rejected Christ and rejected his mercy and rejected his grace. 611 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,966 And they need you, Timothy, to be that person 612 00:32:40,966 --> 00:32:44,166 in their lives to with truth and love. 613 00:32:44,166 --> 00:32:49,966 Show them that though this points out their inadequacy, 614 00:32:49,966 --> 00:32:53,633 it also points to the one who makes up for their inadequacy. 615 00:32:53,633 --> 00:32:54,866 Jesus. 616 00:32:54,866 --> 00:32:56,700 That's their job. 617 00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:58,400 Moms, 618 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,000 your job is not to convince your kids 619 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000 that they're perfect. 620 00:33:04,133 --> 00:33:07,066 It's to point out you are not perfect. 621 00:33:07,066 --> 00:33:12,000 And I love you, and you sin and mess up and God loves you. 622 00:33:12,266 --> 00:33:15,266 And I'm going to live that out before you. 623 00:33:15,366 --> 00:33:18,366 Do you understand what I'm saying? 624 00:33:19,366 --> 00:33:22,800 Remain because hard places need you. 625 00:33:24,566 --> 00:33:27,566 You don't get it back out of this. 626 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,066 It's such a safe place to admit I'm a sinner. 627 00:33:31,866 --> 00:33:35,733 Because Paul will say later, Jesus came to save sinners. 628 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:41,066 So the only people that get saved are sinners. 629 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:44,533 So when I try to convince myself I'm not a sinner, I'm taking myself 630 00:33:44,533 --> 00:33:47,866 out of the possibility of being saved. 631 00:33:49,633 --> 00:33:52,500 That's a hard truth for some people to hear 632 00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:55,500 right? 633 00:33:55,966 --> 00:33:58,400 Stay there 634 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,000 because our places need you. 635 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,533 And then it goes on. 636 00:34:03,533 --> 00:34:04,100 He'll. Oh, here's. 637 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:04,500 Let me tell you. 638 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:05,133 Let me tell you this. 639 00:34:05,133 --> 00:34:07,266 Here's here's our understand we understand this out here in the 640 00:34:07,266 --> 00:34:09,000 in the valley turf fields. 641 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,200 And you tell farmers 642 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,600 you understand? 643 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,000 Yeah. 644 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Some of you need to hear this about your home. 645 00:34:19,166 --> 00:34:20,066 Some of you are in a home. 646 00:34:20,066 --> 00:34:21,266 That's a pretty tough field right now. 647 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,100 It doesn't mean you tap out. 648 00:34:27,733 --> 00:34:28,566 It means that turf field 649 00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:31,566 needs some tough farmers. 650 00:34:33,133 --> 00:34:33,833 He says, Timothy, 651 00:34:33,833 --> 00:34:37,000 you stay because hard pieces need hard truth. 652 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:37,866 And you stay. 653 00:34:37,866 --> 00:34:40,866 You remain. 654 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,100 Because hard places need you. 655 00:34:44,233 --> 00:34:46,566 And then he says, you remain 656 00:34:46,566 --> 00:34:49,533 because God uses unworthy people. 657 00:34:49,533 --> 00:34:52,533 Just look at what he says here. 658 00:34:52,566 --> 00:34:54,033 Verses 12 and following. 659 00:34:54,033 --> 00:34:57,200 I thank him, God, who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, 660 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:00,666 because he judge me faithful, appointing me to his service. 661 00:35:00,666 --> 00:35:05,566 Though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. 662 00:35:06,066 --> 00:35:08,933 But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly 663 00:35:08,933 --> 00:35:12,133 in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me 664 00:35:12,366 --> 00:35:16,166 with the faith and love that Christ Jesus came. 665 00:35:16,566 --> 00:35:17,966 Oh, that are in Christ Jesus. 666 00:35:17,966 --> 00:35:20,900 The Saint is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance 667 00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:23,533 that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 668 00:35:23,533 --> 00:35:25,800 There it is of whom I am the foremost. 669 00:35:28,233 --> 00:35:29,033 But I received 670 00:35:29,033 --> 00:35:32,866 mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost of sinners, 671 00:35:33,033 --> 00:35:37,100 Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example 672 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,066 to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. 673 00:35:39,066 --> 00:35:40,500 Here's what he's saying. 674 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:43,366 You remain because though you feel 675 00:35:43,366 --> 00:35:46,366 unworthy, God uses unworthy people. 676 00:35:46,866 --> 00:35:48,633 How many of us? Some of them. 677 00:35:48,633 --> 00:35:52,166 So some of the people feel the most unworthy. 678 00:35:52,166 --> 00:35:54,500 Are parents 679 00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:57,500 because we know. 680 00:35:58,066 --> 00:35:59,133 How many parents 681 00:35:59,133 --> 00:36:02,133 have this feel like, man, if I could go back 682 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,300 and do that part differently. 683 00:36:06,066 --> 00:36:09,300 I mean, how many of us you want to raise your hand as parents grandparents? 684 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:11,200 I absolutely 685 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,466 like like there's this overwhelming feeling of if I just 686 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,300 I got so much wrong, 687 00:36:18,566 --> 00:36:21,566 if I could just. 688 00:36:22,433 --> 00:36:23,966 And then Paul's telling to me, 689 00:36:23,966 --> 00:36:27,200 look to me, don't get discouraged by remain there 690 00:36:27,833 --> 00:36:31,933 because us unworthy people are the exact ones God uses. 691 00:36:32,433 --> 00:36:35,433 Like what he says, I used to be. 692 00:36:35,533 --> 00:36:36,366 And these just. 693 00:36:36,366 --> 00:36:38,833 But the grace of God. 694 00:36:38,833 --> 00:36:42,833 Every one of us has an I used to be, but I used to. 695 00:36:42,933 --> 00:36:44,366 But the grace of God. 696 00:36:44,366 --> 00:36:46,800 But I used to. But the mercy of God. 697 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:47,866 But I used to. 698 00:36:47,866 --> 00:36:52,333 But Jesus, now every one of us has an I used to be. 699 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,366 Not every one of us has, but the grace of God. 700 00:36:55,366 --> 00:36:57,000 Every one of us has. And I used to be. 701 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,466 But not every one of us has a but the mercy of God. 702 00:36:59,466 --> 00:37:02,133 Every one of us has an I used to be, but not every one of us has a better. 703 00:37:02,133 --> 00:37:03,300 Now. Jesus has. 704 00:37:04,433 --> 00:37:07,400 And so if you haven't, I used to be. 705 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,333 Paul says, understand there is a God who will give you the grace of God 706 00:37:11,333 --> 00:37:15,533 now in the mercy of God now and the Jesus now, just stay put. 707 00:37:16,033 --> 00:37:18,966 Don't tap out because you think you're not able to. 708 00:37:18,966 --> 00:37:20,700 Don't tap out because you think you're not worthy. 709 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,800 There's the grace of God that is sufficient. 710 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,666 There's the mercy of God that is profound. 711 00:37:24,666 --> 00:37:27,066 There's the Jesus who is in your present right now. 712 00:37:27,066 --> 00:37:28,300 Just stay. 713 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:31,733 God is in the beautiful work of using unworthy people. 714 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:33,833 And he's. 715 00:37:33,833 --> 00:37:36,833 And Paul says, I was the worst of them. 716 00:37:38,566 --> 00:37:39,100 Listen, 717 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:42,000 he says, God counter the proof that God kind of means faithful. 718 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,033 It takes no talent to be faithful. 719 00:37:44,033 --> 00:37:46,000 It takes no gifting to be faithful. 720 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,166 You just have to be 721 00:37:48,666 --> 00:37:50,300 faithful. 722 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,133 I tell my football boys all the time. 723 00:37:53,133 --> 00:37:56,133 The most important things about a football player 724 00:37:56,233 --> 00:37:59,233 are the stuff that takes no talent. 725 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:00,700 Hustle. 726 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:02,933 Work hard. 727 00:38:02,933 --> 00:38:04,800 Do your damndest. 728 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,600 Be a great teammate. 729 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,600 That's the most important stuff in football 730 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,366 and has nothing to do with talent. 731 00:38:10,366 --> 00:38:13,366 That's what Paul's saying. 732 00:38:14,166 --> 00:38:16,600 I don't care if you feel them where they just be faithful. 733 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,366 Let God make up the lack. 734 00:38:19,366 --> 00:38:20,500 And I love as he goes to this. 735 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,200 I used to be formula. I was but the grace of God now. 736 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,800 And as you, as you look at Paul, he says, I am the foremost of all sin. 737 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:28,800 I'm the chief of all sinners. 738 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,233 It's such growth in Paul, because when Paul first started talking 739 00:38:32,233 --> 00:38:37,533 about himself after he came to faith in Jesus in acts 23, he talks about himself. 740 00:38:37,633 --> 00:38:40,200 He says, I was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. 741 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,300 That was the top echelon of the religious leaders for the Jews. 742 00:38:43,766 --> 00:38:47,566 He said, that's what I was a Pharisee, the Pharisees of the best of the religious 743 00:38:47,566 --> 00:38:49,200 Jews. I was top notch. 744 00:38:50,766 --> 00:38:54,266 And then, as he goes on in the book of First Corinthians 745 00:38:54,266 --> 00:38:58,366 15, he stops talking about being the chief of all the Pharisees. 746 00:38:58,433 --> 00:39:01,433 He says, I was the least of the apostles. 747 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:03,600 So he stepping down a little bit. 748 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,500 Do you understand 749 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,500 now? He's still saying, now I'm still an apostle. So. 750 00:39:10,366 --> 00:39:12,466 But I was the least of them. 751 00:39:12,466 --> 00:39:16,500 And now, at the end of his life, he says, I'm 752 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:19,500 the worst of all sinners 753 00:39:20,466 --> 00:39:22,600 see maturity 754 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,833 is when you realize how far from God you are, 755 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,033 not when you play as though 756 00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:32,033 you are nearly God. 757 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:35,500 And here's why 758 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:38,500 he said himself of the chiefest of all sinners, 759 00:39:38,933 --> 00:39:41,366 because he 760 00:39:41,366 --> 00:39:43,566 talked aloud, tortured, set up 761 00:39:43,566 --> 00:39:46,733 the torture of Christ followers to renounce 762 00:39:46,733 --> 00:39:49,733 Jesus as Lord. 763 00:39:49,766 --> 00:39:50,600 And he's like, that's 764 00:39:51,566 --> 00:39:54,100 really bad. 765 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:57,100 And if God. 766 00:39:57,133 --> 00:40:00,133 Can do a transformed work in me. 767 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,200 His grace overflow. 768 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,333 And he did it so you wouldn't have an excuse. 769 00:40:06,333 --> 00:40:09,133 Thinking you to a foregone. 770 00:40:09,133 --> 00:40:12,133 He says, I'm a I'm a trophy of God's grace, man. 771 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:15,900 And God looks really good. 772 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:18,900 When you look at how bad I've been. 773 00:40:19,566 --> 00:40:22,533 He says, you can do that for me. 774 00:40:22,533 --> 00:40:23,700 He says, so push you into this. 775 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:24,833 I'm glad you feel unworthy. 776 00:40:24,833 --> 00:40:27,300 That's right where you should be and you should feel, 777 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:30,300 because there's nothing to do with your worthiness. 778 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,600 Let me just keep going real quick. 779 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,800 Look at verse 17. 780 00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:43,000 To the King of the ages, 781 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,000 immortal, invisible, the only God be honor and glory forever and ever. 782 00:40:47,066 --> 00:40:49,433 He's saying, just remain. 783 00:40:49,433 --> 00:40:50,566 Stay. 784 00:40:50,566 --> 00:40:55,600 Don't tap out and push into this because you serve a great God. 785 00:40:56,733 --> 00:40:58,133 It's not about your past. 786 00:40:58,133 --> 00:40:59,566 It's not about your failure. 787 00:40:59,566 --> 00:41:01,066 It's not about your unworthiness. 788 00:41:01,066 --> 00:41:04,066 It's about the greatness of God. 789 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,800 He just burst out into praise 790 00:41:08,166 --> 00:41:11,566 to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God be honor, 791 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,100 glory forever and ever. Amen. It's as if he's going to look. 792 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:18,033 It might have been this way in the past, but my God is so good. 793 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,600 He's so powerful. He's so strong. 794 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:21,500 Can't be praised. 795 00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:24,700 He just burst out into praise like he can't help himself. 796 00:41:24,733 --> 00:41:27,133 God is so good. And here's what I know. 797 00:41:27,133 --> 00:41:30,766 If it's difficult for you and me to praise God, it's because we don't know him 798 00:41:30,766 --> 00:41:33,766 very well. 799 00:41:35,466 --> 00:41:37,166 Stay. 800 00:41:37,166 --> 00:41:38,600 Push in. 801 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,900 Don't tap out because you serve a great God. 802 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:47,100 Who is so much more capable than you are. 803 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:51,433 Moms, you serve a great God 804 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,533 who is so much more capable 805 00:41:54,533 --> 00:41:57,933 and faithful to your kids than even you are. 806 00:41:59,966 --> 00:42:01,133 Lead well. 807 00:42:01,133 --> 00:42:02,566 Dads. 808 00:42:02,566 --> 00:42:05,300 You serve a great God. 809 00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:10,166 Though we have failure we would never dare mention in polite company. 810 00:42:10,833 --> 00:42:13,833 We serve a great God 811 00:42:14,566 --> 00:42:17,566 whose grace is sufficient. 812 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:21,300 Press in and remain. 813 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:23,733 He says 814 00:42:23,733 --> 00:42:26,966 Timothy, hard places need hard truth. 815 00:42:27,033 --> 00:42:29,133 Hard places need you. 816 00:42:29,133 --> 00:42:31,833 God who stay because God uses unworthy people. 817 00:42:31,833 --> 00:42:34,833 You remain because you serve a great God. 818 00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:37,800 Don't ever let it be difficult 819 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,800 for you to praise God. 820 00:42:42,466 --> 00:42:44,233 Know him well enough. 821 00:42:44,233 --> 00:42:46,100 Like it's on the tip of my tongue. 822 00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:49,100 Every like he is so good. 823 00:42:49,366 --> 00:42:50,600 Remain. 824 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:54,233 Timothy, because a big God deserves 825 00:42:54,233 --> 00:42:57,533 big faithfulness and a big God deserves big praise. 826 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,600 Remain. 827 00:43:01,666 --> 00:43:04,666 The fifth thing he says remain. 828 00:43:05,133 --> 00:43:08,133 Because it's a battle that you must not surrender. 829 00:43:08,533 --> 00:43:10,500 This is too important. 830 00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:11,666 It's too important. 831 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:15,100 This charge 832 00:43:15,100 --> 00:43:18,666 I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies 833 00:43:18,666 --> 00:43:23,066 previous made about you, that by them you may wage a good warfare, 834 00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:26,200 holding faith and a good conscience. 835 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,200 By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith. 836 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,766 He said, look, I'm charging you. 837 00:43:31,766 --> 00:43:34,100 You're in this battle 838 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:35,966 and it's too important. 839 00:43:35,966 --> 00:43:38,433 It must never be surrendered. 840 00:43:38,433 --> 00:43:41,300 And I love the fact that he says, in accordance with the prophecies 841 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:42,666 that were prophesied about you. 842 00:43:42,666 --> 00:43:45,666 In my mind, I think he's talking about his mom and his grandma 843 00:43:45,666 --> 00:43:49,666 who spoke over him a prophecy of God's call on his life. 844 00:43:50,133 --> 00:43:53,933 He says he got they made that prophecy over you. You. 845 00:43:54,466 --> 00:43:55,833 This was a war you're fighting. 846 00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:57,600 And it's too important to tap out. 847 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,500 You never surrender from this battle. 848 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:02,200 Battles and wars are made to be difficult. 849 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,900 They're not made to be easy. And it's going to be hard. 850 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:07,200 But stay in it because it's too important. 851 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,300 Don't walk out. 852 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:09,500 Don't back off. 853 00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:12,433 Don't let up. Don't relent. You understand? 854 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,800 Yes. Moms, you get this. 855 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,433 The battle for your children is too important to be surrendered. 856 00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:23,333 I know it gets tired. 857 00:44:23,333 --> 00:44:24,733 It's okay to be tired in it. 858 00:44:24,733 --> 00:44:27,733 Just don't get tired of it. 859 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,733 Dads, I know the battle for 860 00:44:30,733 --> 00:44:34,200 our families is too important to surrender. 861 00:44:34,466 --> 00:44:36,233 We don't get to be passive. 862 00:44:36,233 --> 00:44:39,233 We don't get to back off 863 00:44:39,533 --> 00:44:40,500 young people. 864 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:41,833 It's too important. 865 00:44:41,833 --> 00:44:44,666 The battle for faith is too important. 866 00:44:44,666 --> 00:44:47,400 That rests on the shoulders of the younger generation. 867 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,200 It's too important to be surrendered. 868 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,666 You don't get to give in to the whims and and currents of culture. 869 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,600 You get to stand in defiance of the current. 870 00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:02,133 The battle we're in is too important to be surrendered. 871 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,800 He's giving it to you. 872 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,366 He's giving you the battle. 873 00:45:07,366 --> 00:45:09,566 You hold to that faith and a good conscience. 874 00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:15,100 It says you remain. 875 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,200 The battle isn't over, and neither are you. 876 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,200 You understand that? 877 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:23,300 Don't you dare tap out. 878 00:45:25,266 --> 00:45:27,666 You remain 879 00:45:27,666 --> 00:45:30,666 because some don't remain. 880 00:45:30,666 --> 00:45:32,733 You remain 881 00:45:32,733 --> 00:45:35,666 because some have tapped out. 882 00:45:35,666 --> 00:45:38,200 You remain 883 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,866 and you fight with strong doctrine. 884 00:45:39,866 --> 00:45:41,833 And you fight with knowledge. And you fight with faith. 885 00:45:41,833 --> 00:45:44,100 And you stay in it. 886 00:45:44,100 --> 00:45:47,100 And you fight day and night 887 00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:52,166 by the grace of God, not by your ability, but by your faithfulness. 888 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,800 Because some have tapped out, 889 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,500 too many have remained two ignorant, 890 00:45:57,500 --> 00:46:02,900 and too many have gotten too fearful, and too many have tapped out. 891 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,400 We have seen too many walk away. 892 00:46:06,433 --> 00:46:09,833 We've seen too many moms cash out. 893 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:12,800 We've seen too many dads tap out. 894 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,400 We've seen too many churches fold. 895 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,700 We've seen too many pastors walk away. 896 00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:19,666 We've seen too many. 897 00:46:23,633 --> 00:46:25,066 And because we've seen so 898 00:46:25,066 --> 00:46:28,066 many, don't be one of them. 899 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,466 We've seen too many families fall apart. 900 00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,100 Remain. 901 00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:37,400 Not because you're able. 902 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,500 Because he's able, though. 903 00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:39,400 You got a pastor. 904 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:40,800 You got grace, though. 905 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,033 You got a pass. You got mercy. 906 00:46:43,033 --> 00:46:46,633 God is able to make up and he's calling us 907 00:46:46,633 --> 00:46:49,633 to remain. 908 00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:51,566 To guard the truth. 909 00:46:51,566 --> 00:46:54,566 To guard doctrine and guide people into it 910 00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:55,866 often. 911 00:46:55,866 --> 00:46:58,866 Because, remember, doctrine is. 912 00:47:00,733 --> 00:47:02,133 Live. 913 00:47:02,133 --> 00:47:05,266 And because some have rejected it, they've made a shipwreck of their faith, 914 00:47:05,266 --> 00:47:09,166 among whom are Harmonies and Alexander, whom I've handed over to Satan, that 915 00:47:09,166 --> 00:47:10,766 they may learn not to blaspheme. 916 00:47:10,766 --> 00:47:13,833 Apparently, Paul never got the memo that it's impolite 917 00:47:13,833 --> 00:47:16,833 to name names. 918 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,300 It's like, look, I'm calling them out. 919 00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:22,133 Let's just be honest. 920 00:47:22,133 --> 00:47:25,200 They got bad doctrine and they shipwrecked their faith. 921 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,800 Now they've given over that to the destruction of their own ways. 922 00:47:29,233 --> 00:47:30,166 That they may learn. 923 00:47:30,166 --> 00:47:34,033 What Paul saying is that they may learn and come back. 924 00:47:35,133 --> 00:47:38,133 Not that they're gone forever. 925 00:47:38,866 --> 00:47:41,700 It's too important to walk away is too important to tap out. 926 00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:42,900 Some have. 927 00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:45,900 Don't to understand. 928 00:47:46,333 --> 00:47:48,900 Don't 929 00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:51,600 listen. 930 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,400 Quitting and abdication 931 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,400 aren't part of God's plan. 932 00:47:57,966 --> 00:47:58,500 Quitting 933 00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:01,500 abdication are not part of God's plan. 934 00:48:01,700 --> 00:48:03,433 Mom's 935 00:48:03,433 --> 00:48:06,433 quitting and abdication are not part of God's plan. 936 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:08,500 Dad's. 937 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:09,966 Guess what? 938 00:48:09,966 --> 00:48:12,200 Quitting and abdication and passivity 939 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,200 are not part of God's plan. 940 00:48:15,833 --> 00:48:17,633 Husbands, wives, 941 00:48:17,633 --> 00:48:20,100 quitting and abdication are not 942 00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:23,100 part of God's plan. 943 00:48:25,333 --> 00:48:27,900 Church 944 00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:29,266 quitting and abdication 945 00:48:29,266 --> 00:48:32,266 are not part of God's plan. 946 00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:34,766 We don't tap out. 947 00:48:34,766 --> 00:48:35,733 We don't back off. 948 00:48:35,733 --> 00:48:38,733 We don't light, and we don't slow down. 949 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:40,266 It may be tough. 950 00:48:40,266 --> 00:48:43,200 Fields may be rough. We may be inadequate. 951 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,366 We serve a great God, the immortal, invisible God. 952 00:48:46,366 --> 00:48:48,466 To him be praised. 953 00:48:48,466 --> 00:48:50,466 We press in. 954 00:48:50,466 --> 00:48:51,200 Do you understand? 955 00:48:53,066 --> 00:48:54,633 We guard doctrine. 956 00:48:54,633 --> 00:48:57,633 We guide people to it. 957 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,600 And we ask for the grace of God. 958 00:49:06,833 --> 00:49:09,833 That's first Timothy one. 959 00:49:09,833 --> 00:49:13,100 And Paul is going to press into some stuff 960 00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:16,700 that when I teach it, 961 00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:19,700 some of you are going to get really upset at me 962 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,000 and I don't care. 963 00:49:26,433 --> 00:49:29,433 And it's going to push us men and women. 964 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:35,200 Because Paul says doctrine is important 965 00:49:35,633 --> 00:49:38,633 and it will shape how we live. 966 00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:42,000 And so before we go 967 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000 any further, we're going to ask God, 968 00:49:45,266 --> 00:49:48,266 give us your overwhelming grace. 969 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,400 And we're going to say, God, I will remain. 970 00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:55,333 Let's pray. 971 00:49:55,333 --> 00:49:57,000 Father, thank you. 972 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000 Thank you for your word. 973 00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:02,400 Father, 974 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,400 we sit here not as people who've got it right. 975 00:50:06,366 --> 00:50:09,033 Not as people who 976 00:50:09,033 --> 00:50:10,033 are never in error. 977 00:50:10,033 --> 00:50:11,566 We sit here as people who are needy. 978 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,266 And God, we need your overwhelming grace. 979 00:50:15,266 --> 00:50:16,266 The same grace you gave Paul. 980 00:50:16,266 --> 00:50:19,800 The same grace you gave Timothy the same grace that you showed 981 00:50:20,366 --> 00:50:23,366 through Lois and Eunice, Timothy's mom and grandma. 982 00:50:24,833 --> 00:50:27,333 We need your grace. 983 00:50:27,333 --> 00:50:29,133 God, give us strength when we're weak. 984 00:50:29,133 --> 00:50:30,800 Give us faith when we're fearful. 985 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,433 Give us courage in the storm. 986 00:50:33,433 --> 00:50:35,833 And give us a trust in you 987 00:50:35,833 --> 00:50:38,833 that will enable us to remain. 988 00:50:41,566 --> 00:50:44,566 Give us a trust in you. 989 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,133 That will push us into faith. 990 00:50:47,133 --> 00:50:50,133 A trust in you that will push us. 991 00:50:50,566 --> 00:50:53,566 That we would trust your sovereignty and your providence. 992 00:50:54,766 --> 00:50:58,466 That we would trust your grace that is greater. 993 00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:02,300 Your grace that is sufficient. 994 00:51:03,633 --> 00:51:05,100 Give us a trust in you 995 00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:08,100 that becomes unwavering, 996 00:51:08,333 --> 00:51:11,333 that becomes unabated, 997 00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:13,700 that is strong. 998 00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:15,466 A trust in you that is fearless. 999 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,600 That we trust in you. 1000 00:51:20,866 --> 00:51:21,300 We love you. 1001 00:51:21,300 --> 00:51:22,866 Jesus. 1002 00:51:22,866 --> 00:51:25,033 In your name I pray. Amen. 1003 00:51:25,033 --> 00:51:28,033 Listen, go this week and read chapter one 1004 00:51:29,033 --> 00:51:29,966 with some fresh eyes. 1005 00:51:29,966 --> 00:51:32,233 And read chapter two. 1006 00:51:32,233 --> 00:51:32,900 Thank you. 1007 00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:34,566 Get ready to maybe be offended next week. 1008 00:51:34,566 --> 00:51:36,133 You'll be all right. 1009 00:51:36,133 --> 00:51:37,900 I'll be all right. 1010 00:51:37,900 --> 00:51:40,400 Remember what we're going to do. 1011 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:41,733 We're going to remain. Yeah. No. 1012 00:51:41,733 --> 00:51:42,400 That's good Charlotte. 1013 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,733 That's fine. You can do that. Yeah, 1014 00:51:44,733 --> 00:51:47,700 but we're going to stand under it right? 1015 00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:49,800 And not over it. 1016 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,266 You understand that? 1017 00:51:51,266 --> 00:51:52,800 Okay, so here's what I want. 1018 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,800 We're going to sing a song, and I want you to use song as your prayer. 1019 00:51:56,866 --> 00:51:59,033 That, God, I'm gonna trust in you. 1020 00:51:59,033 --> 00:52:00,533 I'm gonna stand under your word. 1021 00:52:00,533 --> 00:52:01,333 I'm gonna rest on your word. 1022 00:52:01,333 --> 00:52:03,166 Because I trust you. 1023 00:52:03,166 --> 00:52:05,466 Use this song. Is that prayer? Yeah. 1024 00:52:05,466 --> 00:52:05,833 Let's sing.