1 00:00:04,433 --> 00:00:04,866 We're starting 2 00:00:04,866 --> 00:00:08,800 a new series and new series, just a new book in the series 3 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:14,666 from Second Timothy chapter and chapter one this morning we just got done 4 00:00:14,666 --> 00:00:18,666 looking through first Timothy and Jeff did a great job wrapping up last week. 5 00:00:18,666 --> 00:00:20,166 Thank you my friend. Great job. 6 00:00:20,166 --> 00:00:21,600 Good job on that song too. 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,866 That hit like I wanted it to. That's good stuff. 8 00:00:23,866 --> 00:00:26,733 Y'all need to look up that song on Spotify and download it 9 00:00:26,733 --> 00:00:29,733 and let it play in your ears all day long. 10 00:00:30,566 --> 00:00:33,200 Anyway, second Timothy, 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,200 let me just kind of set the background here. 12 00:00:36,433 --> 00:00:39,766 Paul wrote, I think, four letters to individuals. 13 00:00:39,833 --> 00:00:42,566 Most of his letters were to people groups in churches, 14 00:00:42,566 --> 00:00:45,300 but four of them were two individuals, the Apostle Paul. 15 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,300 First Timothy, second Timothy, Titus, and Philemon 16 00:00:48,533 --> 00:00:51,233 were the only four written to specific individuals. 17 00:00:51,233 --> 00:00:52,266 And so this is really, really, 18 00:00:52,266 --> 00:00:56,100 really unique territory that we're in as far as the Scripture is concerned. 19 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:58,366 And this letter 20 00:00:58,366 --> 00:01:01,666 he wrote somewhere around 64 to 65 A.D. 21 00:01:02,166 --> 00:01:05,800 and the occasion of this letter is he's in prison now. 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 He's been in prison before, but it was a different scenario. 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,300 The first time he was a prisoner in Rome, he was under house arrest 24 00:01:13,666 --> 00:01:17,233 and allowed a great deal of liberty to travel and have visitors. 25 00:01:17,233 --> 00:01:18,466 And a guard was always with them. 26 00:01:18,466 --> 00:01:20,933 But he had a great freedom in Rome. 27 00:01:20,933 --> 00:01:22,200 The first time. 28 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,366 And then we know he was released from custody for a while 29 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:29,266 and for, I don't know, maybe 5 or 6 years or so. 30 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:32,000 He was free to travel. He wasn't in custody anymore. 31 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,400 And so he made some travels. 32 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,433 He always wanted to go to 33 00:01:34,433 --> 00:01:37,633 what was known as Asia back then, and we think he made it there. 34 00:01:38,233 --> 00:01:41,433 But he gets arrested a second time, 35 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,733 taken back to Rome, and now he's in prison. 36 00:01:45,733 --> 00:01:48,233 But this is a different scenario. Is not under house arrest. 37 00:01:48,233 --> 00:01:52,133 Now, as an old man, he's in his 60s is in 38 00:01:52,533 --> 00:01:56,066 what we most commonly think of as a prison in Rome. 39 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:59,100 And what was unique about this prison is 40 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:02,733 there were basically cisterns or dungeons 41 00:02:02,733 --> 00:02:06,166 in it, big circular underground rooms 42 00:02:06,466 --> 00:02:09,466 with no windows, no light, 43 00:02:09,766 --> 00:02:13,800 no access to anything, just a stone hole. 44 00:02:14,133 --> 00:02:19,300 And over the roof was an o, a circular opening where the prisoners 45 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:22,466 could, or the prison guards could drop food down to the prisoner. 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,800 And it was like on death row, and you knew when you were there 47 00:02:26,833 --> 00:02:29,200 your execution was going to be soon. 48 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,000 And so this is where he is 49 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,633 when he writes this letter to second Timothy. 50 00:02:34,633 --> 00:02:38,133 It's the last known writing we have of the Apostle Paul. 51 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,866 He knows his beheading is going to be beheaded. 52 00:02:42,966 --> 00:02:44,833 He knows that's coming soon. 53 00:02:44,833 --> 00:02:49,666 And he wants to impart to Timothy, who's in his 30 probably, 54 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,366 that he's been mentoring these final instructions. 55 00:02:57,066 --> 00:03:00,066 He was eventually beheaded in about 67 A.D. 56 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:01,800 under the, 57 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,800 the auspices of, Caesar Nero. 58 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,366 The interesting thing about Nero is 59 00:03:08,366 --> 00:03:11,366 Nero was a brilliant builder. 60 00:03:12,266 --> 00:03:14,166 But he just went crazy, 61 00:03:14,166 --> 00:03:17,466 and I think he just got possessed, demonically. 62 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,300 And and he so badly wanted to rebuild Rome. 63 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:26,166 This was all whilst Paul was still like he so badly wanted to rebuild Rome 64 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,300 that he asked the Senate for permission to leverage the 65 00:03:30,733 --> 00:03:34,233 the state taxes so that he could rebuild Rome. 66 00:03:34,233 --> 00:03:37,700 He was a brilliant builder and the Senate said, we don't have enough money 67 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:42,333 in the coffers of the state for you to go through the process of rebuilding Rome. 68 00:03:42,333 --> 00:03:44,900 So what did Caesar do? What did Nero do? 69 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:48,633 He lit on fire. 70 00:03:48,633 --> 00:03:50,566 He lit. He lit Rome on fire. 71 00:03:50,566 --> 00:03:51,600 Haven't ever heard that. 72 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,533 The saying that that, See, Caesar, fiddled while he watched Rome burn. 73 00:03:57,566 --> 00:03:58,733 You ever heard that? 74 00:03:58,733 --> 00:03:59,933 Well, he did watch Rome burn. 75 00:03:59,933 --> 00:04:01,333 He didn't play a fiddle. Fiddles run. 76 00:04:01,333 --> 00:04:04,166 And then I think till, like, the 15 or 14 hundreds or so. So? 77 00:04:04,166 --> 00:04:07,366 So, like he didn't play a fiddle, but he probably played a harmonica. 78 00:04:07,366 --> 00:04:09,700 I don't know, he just, like he wrote. 79 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:14,566 He he destroyed ten of the 14 districts of Rome by fire. 80 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:18,100 Completely burned it down. 81 00:04:18,133 --> 00:04:21,366 He had to have a scapegoat for the fire because he couldn't claim. 82 00:04:21,766 --> 00:04:24,766 Well, I didn't like you told me. No. So I. 83 00:04:24,833 --> 00:04:27,766 So the scapegoat or the Christians 84 00:04:27,766 --> 00:04:30,866 and so demonically possessed was Nero. 85 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,666 That in what started was probably the one of the greatest 86 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,033 waves of persecution against the church that the world has seen. 87 00:04:40,366 --> 00:04:42,800 It was so brutal and grotesque 88 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:49,500 that Caesar would douse Christians in oil, tie them to stakes around his garden 89 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:53,066 and light them on fire so he could look at his garden at night. 90 00:04:55,033 --> 00:04:57,466 So brutal was it that he would cover 91 00:04:57,466 --> 00:05:01,833 Christians in in animal skins, give them a head start, 92 00:05:01,833 --> 00:05:04,833 and then turn the hunting dogs loose on them? 93 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,933 I mean, it was just demonic in nature. 94 00:05:07,933 --> 00:05:11,866 And it's under this Caesar Nero that Paul is arrested, 95 00:05:11,866 --> 00:05:16,933 sitting in maritime jail, knowing that his beheading is coming soon. 96 00:05:18,333 --> 00:05:21,333 And so he writes this final letter. 97 00:05:22,066 --> 00:05:25,066 You know, there's. 98 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:27,300 There's 99 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:30,066 an overlooked benefit 100 00:05:30,066 --> 00:05:33,066 to knowing your death is near. 101 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,866 Because when you have those, though, the honor of knowing 102 00:05:36,866 --> 00:05:39,900 that it can bring great clarity 103 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:43,500 and if need be, correction. Right. 104 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:45,200 And so Paul's 105 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,700 using this time to look back on his 30 plus years 106 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:53,133 of ministry and church planting and this incredible work of God. 107 00:05:54,133 --> 00:05:56,633 And he's looking back thinking, what is it like? 108 00:05:56,633 --> 00:05:59,600 Have you ever thought, like, if you knew 109 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,433 with like sometime this year, you were going to die, 110 00:06:03,933 --> 00:06:06,466 have you ever thought about what your words 111 00:06:06,466 --> 00:06:09,466 would be to those you're leaving behind? 112 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,800 Have you ever thought about scripting that out? 113 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:14,966 Probably not. 114 00:06:14,966 --> 00:06:16,700 So many of us do. 115 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:21,000 Like, oh, this is kind of a downer, but this is where Paul is in. 116 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,733 So look, I know that I'm going to die soon. 117 00:06:23,733 --> 00:06:26,733 And so one of the last things I want to say, 118 00:06:26,733 --> 00:06:30,000 and he writes this letter to Timothy called Second Timothy. 119 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,366 So we're just going to go through this and and I'm going to bring some things out. 120 00:06:34,366 --> 00:06:37,900 But, but here's the big idea for this, for this whole mess. 121 00:06:37,966 --> 00:06:39,000 Here's the big Paul's. 122 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,800 One big idea for Timothy is God lights the fire, but you better bring the wood 123 00:06:44,933 --> 00:06:47,266 like God's lights the fire in us. 124 00:06:47,266 --> 00:06:48,800 We don't choose God first. 125 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,900 He chooses us first. That's what the Bible says. 126 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:52,633 And by the grace of God, 127 00:06:52,633 --> 00:06:56,400 he extends the first invitation to have a relationship with him. 128 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:57,833 We don't seek him out. 129 00:06:57,833 --> 00:07:01,966 He seeks us out first, and then we respond to his seeking. 130 00:07:02,266 --> 00:07:03,900 That's all done by grace. 131 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:06,833 So he starts that fire. 132 00:07:06,833 --> 00:07:08,966 But it's our 133 00:07:08,966 --> 00:07:10,100 responsibility now. 134 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:13,100 After accepting him as our Savior, 135 00:07:13,633 --> 00:07:16,633 to bring the wood, to keep the fire burning. 136 00:07:17,466 --> 00:07:18,900 You understand, I'm saying. 137 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:20,166 And so this one is going to tell Timothy. 138 00:07:20,166 --> 00:07:23,566 So I've been praying for the last couple of days that God gives me, 139 00:07:24,766 --> 00:07:27,766 a pace and a temper about this, 140 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:30,666 that isn't overwhelming. 141 00:07:30,666 --> 00:07:33,666 And and I don't present it with both barrels blazing. 142 00:07:34,566 --> 00:07:36,566 And so I'm going to do my best to be calm 143 00:07:38,133 --> 00:07:41,133 and to just walk through this 144 00:07:41,333 --> 00:07:43,800 like a gentle pastor 145 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,766 who don't laugh because I said so. 146 00:07:46,766 --> 00:07:48,000 Anyway, verses one two, three here 147 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,133 this Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, 148 00:07:51,133 --> 00:07:54,566 according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus. 149 00:07:54,966 --> 00:07:58,766 To Timothy, my beloved child, he's in his 30s, but grace, 150 00:07:58,766 --> 00:08:01,933 mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 151 00:08:01,933 --> 00:08:05,966 Verse three I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, 152 00:08:05,966 --> 00:08:10,300 with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. 153 00:08:10,533 --> 00:08:12,133 Let me start in verse one. 154 00:08:12,133 --> 00:08:17,433 Paul identifies I am Paul and he says, I'm an apostle of Christ by the will of God, 155 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,100 according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus. 156 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:26,800 He he reasserts his call and at the end of his life. 157 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,366 And this is what's so great 158 00:08:28,366 --> 00:08:31,900 about knowing that you're walking towards the finish line. 159 00:08:32,333 --> 00:08:36,800 You start to assess what has has God called me to do? 160 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,633 Who has God called me to be? 161 00:08:39,633 --> 00:08:44,266 And when that becomes clear, then you can assess, have I accomplished that task? 162 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:45,900 Have I fulfilled that purpose? 163 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:50,666 And Paul says, God, by the will of God, he has called me as an apostle. 164 00:08:50,833 --> 00:08:54,833 I wasn't put in this position by a vote of a congregation. 165 00:08:54,833 --> 00:08:56,633 I wasn't appointed this by a man. 166 00:08:56,633 --> 00:09:00,200 This was God's call from God himself to me 167 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,300 of my role in this world for his kingdom. 168 00:09:03,566 --> 00:09:06,966 And he is, he asserts that, and he solidifies that again in his mind 169 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,133 because he knows 170 00:09:09,233 --> 00:09:10,700 I need to know 171 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:14,233 who I am and what God has called me to do. 172 00:09:15,166 --> 00:09:18,600 And he says, he's called me that according to the promise of the life 173 00:09:18,766 --> 00:09:20,600 that is in Christ Jesus. 174 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,833 He knows he's going to die, and his focus is not on his death. 175 00:09:24,933 --> 00:09:27,600 His focus is on what 176 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,700 he just said it according 177 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,000 to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus. 178 00:09:33,266 --> 00:09:34,200 He knows his. 179 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,833 He's going to be beheaded soon, but his focus isn't on his beheading. 180 00:09:37,833 --> 00:09:39,600 His focus isn't on his death. 181 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,733 His focus is on what life that is in Christ Jesus. 182 00:09:43,866 --> 00:09:48,300 Most of us, when we and I've been with a lot of people in those final moments, 183 00:09:48,366 --> 00:09:51,566 and as they get the news that that time is coming sooner than later 184 00:09:51,566 --> 00:09:56,200 than they didn't expect it, most of the focus of that is on death. 185 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,266 Why God, why don't you? 186 00:10:00,833 --> 00:10:02,466 When will you? 187 00:10:02,466 --> 00:10:07,366 I mean, I understand humanly, I understand the focus on the death part. 188 00:10:07,533 --> 00:10:08,566 But Paul, 189 00:10:09,633 --> 00:10:12,633 having a transformed mind 190 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:14,833 is not focused on his death. 191 00:10:14,833 --> 00:10:16,800 He's focused on the life that is. 192 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,800 He is in Christ Jesus 193 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,800 is a different breed. 194 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,166 And this is what Christ 195 00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:28,766 followers in Scripture did. Did. 196 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:32,200 If any of you have had the privilege of sitting in a school like this, 197 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,300 teaching and preaching, you know what? 198 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:36,333 I know that 199 00:10:36,333 --> 00:10:40,266 sometimes you preach it to yourself before you preach it him for years, right? 200 00:10:40,366 --> 00:10:42,566 I think that's what Paul's doing. 201 00:10:42,566 --> 00:10:45,966 He's reminded himself, Paul, God has called me. 202 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:49,166 I've run this race 203 00:10:49,166 --> 00:10:52,733 and I'm focused on the life that is mine in Christ Jesus. 204 00:10:52,733 --> 00:10:55,266 Like he's preaching to himself. 205 00:10:55,266 --> 00:10:57,233 He's preaching fear out of his mind. 206 00:10:57,233 --> 00:10:58,733 You know what I'm saying? 207 00:10:58,733 --> 00:11:01,733 And sometimes we gotta do that. 208 00:11:01,833 --> 00:11:03,900 And he says to Timothy, my beloved, grace, 209 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:06,900 mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 210 00:11:07,133 --> 00:11:11,233 When Paul writes to churches and, and, and, and groups, 211 00:11:11,466 --> 00:11:16,133 he always starts with grace and peace from God to you. 212 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,566 Whenever he writes to the individuals, Timothy, 213 00:11:18,566 --> 00:11:21,566 Titus for them, he adds this issue of mercy. Why? 214 00:11:22,266 --> 00:11:25,266 Because he knows individuals need mercy. 215 00:11:25,433 --> 00:11:28,000 Yeah. And especially pastors, 216 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,033 these are pastoral epistles. 217 00:11:31,033 --> 00:11:31,400 You're right. 218 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,400 Timothy was a pastor. Titus was a pastor. 219 00:11:34,533 --> 00:11:37,533 He knows how much mercy he has needed from God. 220 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:40,533 And he says, if you're in a leadership position, guess what? 221 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:43,466 You need the mercy of God. 222 00:11:43,466 --> 00:11:44,700 And so includes it here. 223 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:49,500 So that's all the setup, he says, I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors. 224 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,166 The clear conscience as I remember you constantly in my prayers. 225 00:11:52,166 --> 00:11:53,866 Night and day. 226 00:11:53,866 --> 00:11:56,866 Did you know that Paul only prayed two times 227 00:11:57,333 --> 00:12:00,333 whenever it was night, whenever it was day? 228 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:04,900 Night and day. 229 00:12:07,233 --> 00:12:09,433 Sometimes 230 00:12:09,433 --> 00:12:13,000 God puts us in positions of dungeons and isolation 231 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:17,100 as preparation, not as punishment. 232 00:12:18,433 --> 00:12:23,066 And we seem to not understand that when we go through those seasons in life 233 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:26,500 where it is completely isolated, 234 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:30,933 lonely and places of desolation, we think God, why? 235 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:34,600 Why, what have I done that this is happening 236 00:12:34,866 --> 00:12:37,666 and something not all, but sometimes 237 00:12:37,666 --> 00:12:40,233 those are places not of punishment. 238 00:12:40,233 --> 00:12:43,233 Those are places of preparation. 239 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:46,200 Because it's in those times that God says, 240 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,266 if I don't strip everything away from you right now, 241 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:53,933 you will not approach me in desperation that you need to. 242 00:12:54,233 --> 00:12:54,800 You won't. 243 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,433 You'll get so sidetracked by everything else. 244 00:12:57,433 --> 00:13:01,833 And sometimes I gotta put you in a dungeon so you'll realize that I'm all you got. 245 00:13:01,833 --> 00:13:02,966 I'm all you need. 246 00:13:02,966 --> 00:13:05,400 And this intimacy with you and me gets revealed. 247 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:06,633 What happens is, 248 00:13:06,633 --> 00:13:10,000 most of the time when we're in those those seasons of desolation 249 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:13,733 and isolation, we turn to all kinds of other things before God. 250 00:13:13,866 --> 00:13:16,866 And when we turn to God, it's not a complaint, not intimacy. 251 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,233 We'll turn to drink. 252 00:13:18,233 --> 00:13:19,733 We'll turn to distraction. 253 00:13:19,733 --> 00:13:22,333 We'll turn to hobbies. We'll turn to other people. 254 00:13:22,333 --> 00:13:28,133 But we will not in, in, in, in humbled desperation, seek the face of God. 255 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:33,233 To understand, understand. 256 00:13:33,233 --> 00:13:36,233 And so, Paul, God puts Paul in this place. 257 00:13:37,033 --> 00:13:39,866 He's got nothing else 258 00:13:39,866 --> 00:13:41,800 but God 259 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,366 because Paul knew that's all he ever needed. 260 00:13:46,766 --> 00:13:49,266 And so what does Paul do? 261 00:13:49,266 --> 00:13:51,200 There's nobody to preach to. 262 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,800 There's no missionary journey. So what does he do? 263 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,600 He prays 264 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,333 because Paul knows prayer is the greater work. 265 00:13:57,333 --> 00:13:59,800 It doesn't prepare for the greater work. 266 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,800 It is the greater work. 267 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,766 S.D. Gordon has a great quote about he says this 268 00:14:04,766 --> 00:14:07,233 you can do more than pray after you pray, 269 00:14:07,233 --> 00:14:10,233 but you cannot do more than pray until you pray. 270 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:14,033 Like prayer is not all we get to do. 271 00:14:14,033 --> 00:14:17,566 We can do all kinds of stuff after we pray, but we can't do anything 272 00:14:17,566 --> 00:14:19,400 until we pray. 273 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:21,133 You follow 274 00:14:21,133 --> 00:14:22,700 friends. 275 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:26,266 This is why our first Tuesday thing is so important, 276 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:30,500 is so important. 277 00:14:30,733 --> 00:14:32,666 When we get together, we see God's heart 278 00:14:32,666 --> 00:14:35,666 according to how Jesus taught us to pray. 279 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,600 And it's just as intimate communication 280 00:14:39,766 --> 00:14:42,766 praising him for who he is, thanking him for what he's done. 281 00:14:43,033 --> 00:14:46,033 Affirming your will needs to be done on this earth. 282 00:14:47,633 --> 00:14:49,866 Your kingdom needs to come 283 00:14:49,866 --> 00:14:52,866 and then bring his supplications and requests, 284 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,400 seeking God of forgiveness. 285 00:14:57,666 --> 00:14:59,633 Like a church that tries to do stuff 286 00:14:59,633 --> 00:15:02,666 before it does that it's useless. 287 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,900 And I'm so proud of the 288 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:11,066 five or 6 or 7 of us that do that 289 00:15:11,066 --> 00:15:14,066 every month. 290 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:21,033 Verse four. 291 00:15:21,033 --> 00:15:24,300 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. 292 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:28,800 Have you ever, if you ever had those people in your life that 293 00:15:30,166 --> 00:15:31,366 God put their 294 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:33,900 to bring you joy? 295 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:36,033 Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? 296 00:15:36,033 --> 00:15:38,100 Like you probably got we probably got a lot of people in my life. 297 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,100 I like a. 298 00:15:42,433 --> 00:15:45,433 But there are some. 299 00:15:45,533 --> 00:15:48,433 That it's like you are 300 00:15:48,433 --> 00:15:51,433 like God's joy in my life. 301 00:15:52,033 --> 00:15:55,200 And Paul is saying, Timothy, that was you, man. 302 00:15:56,033 --> 00:15:58,200 And I thank God for you. 303 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,300 Verse five, I'm reminded of your sincere faith, of faith that dwelt 304 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:03,833 first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice. 305 00:16:03,833 --> 00:16:06,300 And now, I'm sure, dwells in you as well. 306 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:09,300 So look, Timothy, I'm so thankful. 307 00:16:09,566 --> 00:16:11,833 I'm so thankful 308 00:16:11,833 --> 00:16:14,000 that you've got this grandma 309 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 who loved the Lord and this mom who loved the Lord. 310 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:22,233 I'm so thankful that that you had that foundation because what Paul knows is this 311 00:16:24,233 --> 00:16:28,266 that second hand faith can't feel first hand relationship. 312 00:16:28,266 --> 00:16:31,666 And so Paul says, I'm glad you had that heritage and the foundation. 313 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,600 But he says, but 314 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,766 I'm sure dwells in you as well. 315 00:16:36,766 --> 00:16:40,533 Just because the foundation is there at home doesn't mean it's 316 00:16:40,533 --> 00:16:43,900 transferred into the into the child at home. 317 00:16:45,100 --> 00:16:48,933 Now it's it's God has ordained it so that it goes 318 00:16:48,933 --> 00:16:51,966 from the grandparent to the parent to the child. 319 00:16:53,033 --> 00:16:55,700 But just because the parent, the grandparent, the parent have 320 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:57,566 it doesn't mean the child will. 321 00:16:57,566 --> 00:16:59,266 And so he's affirming. 322 00:16:59,266 --> 00:17:02,466 Timothy, I'm glad that you have chosen the head of the faith heritage 323 00:17:02,533 --> 00:17:03,800 that was modeled to you. 324 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,633 Now, let me say this. 325 00:17:05,633 --> 00:17:08,066 There are some parents and grandparents in this church 326 00:17:08,066 --> 00:17:12,300 have done an amazing job at laying a faith foundation for their kids. 327 00:17:12,566 --> 00:17:14,400 Amazing job. 328 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,933 And you stand before God with a clear conscience 329 00:17:17,933 --> 00:17:21,433 that father, we have done the best we could at laying the foundation. 330 00:17:21,433 --> 00:17:23,500 And though you've done the best you could lay the foundation. 331 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:26,333 Your kids still have not accepted him 332 00:17:26,333 --> 00:17:30,466 as their Savior and continued in him and have rather rejected him. 333 00:17:32,433 --> 00:17:34,566 And that hurts. 334 00:17:34,566 --> 00:17:36,700 And that's painful. 335 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:39,700 But please understand 336 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:42,900 that a child walking with Jesus 337 00:17:43,666 --> 00:17:45,766 is not because the parents 338 00:17:45,766 --> 00:17:49,233 have done a great job, and a child not walk with 339 00:17:49,233 --> 00:17:51,066 Jesus doesn't mean the parents have not done a great job. 340 00:17:51,066 --> 00:17:53,633 It's by the grace of God in that child. 341 00:17:53,633 --> 00:17:56,633 Yes, that that child has to accept 342 00:17:57,033 --> 00:18:00,033 and has to bend the knee of submission. 343 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,833 Our job is to do our job 344 00:18:03,833 --> 00:18:07,066 and trust that God, in his mercy 345 00:18:07,066 --> 00:18:11,100 and grace, allows that child to get to whatever point they need to get to. 346 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:13,800 So they will then bend the knee of salvation. 347 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,800 And so, parents, thank you for the job you've done. 348 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,800 Grandparents, thank you for the job you've done. 349 00:18:20,233 --> 00:18:21,333 You've done all you could do. 350 00:18:23,566 --> 00:18:26,533 Now we trust the mercy and grace of God to do what he does get. 351 00:18:26,533 --> 00:18:29,533 Understand? I'm saying. 352 00:18:30,233 --> 00:18:33,233 But don't neglect your job. 353 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,833 And says, Timothy, you have the foundation, 354 00:18:35,833 --> 00:18:38,833 and I'm thankful that you've chosen that as well for your life. 355 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:46,733 And then the charge 356 00:18:46,733 --> 00:18:49,833 for this reason, I remind you to fan into flame 357 00:18:49,833 --> 00:18:53,266 the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 358 00:18:53,266 --> 00:18:57,566 For God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self-control. 359 00:18:57,833 --> 00:19:01,566 This is the crux of what Paul's message will be to this man 360 00:19:01,666 --> 00:19:03,033 at the end of Paul's life. 361 00:19:03,033 --> 00:19:06,033 Fan into flame. 362 00:19:06,666 --> 00:19:09,533 The Greek word for fan into flame 363 00:19:09,533 --> 00:19:12,366 is ana zo perreo. The. 364 00:19:12,366 --> 00:19:14,733 You aren't going to remember that, and I'm not going to ask you to say it, 365 00:19:14,733 --> 00:19:16,633 but think of the word pyro, 366 00:19:17,933 --> 00:19:19,466 okay? 367 00:19:19,466 --> 00:19:22,466 A pyro is someone who what 368 00:19:22,633 --> 00:19:25,633 starts fires like big ones. 369 00:19:25,766 --> 00:19:27,500 That's this word. 370 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:30,300 And what he's saying is Timothy. 371 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:33,200 Timothy, this fire was started 372 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,333 in you through your grandma and your mom. 373 00:19:36,333 --> 00:19:40,233 And by the grace of God, he lit this fire in you. 374 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:45,333 But over these past seven years or so, you're letting that fire die out. 375 00:19:45,533 --> 00:19:50,133 It's getting cold and nobody can see the flames in your life anymore. 376 00:19:50,433 --> 00:19:54,666 Here's this whole picture that Paul's encouraging to fan into flame 377 00:19:54,866 --> 00:19:59,366 is that of a campfire, or in your house of a of a fireplace. 378 00:19:59,933 --> 00:20:04,266 And the the flames used to be there, and now it's kind of died down. 379 00:20:04,333 --> 00:20:08,300 But you still, if you look closely, you can see the glowing embers. 380 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:09,733 Right. You understand? 381 00:20:09,733 --> 00:20:12,600 You know, if you look close, like you don't see the flame. 382 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,400 But if you, if you, if you investigate, 383 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,400 you'll see some, you'll see some coals grow in there. 384 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:22,000 He said, listen, you let the flame die down into embers, 385 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:25,633 and someone has to look real close to see if there's any fire burning. 386 00:20:25,633 --> 00:20:28,633 Stoke it into flame. Timothy. Yeah. 387 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:29,866 Quite saying. 388 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:31,966 And similarly, in our 389 00:20:31,966 --> 00:20:35,333 lives, God has started something. 390 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 And maybe the flame used to burn bright and hot, 391 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,000 but now it's kind of dwindle. 392 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,066 And if people look close, they'll see the ember. 393 00:20:45,533 --> 00:20:48,533 They shouldn't have to look close. 394 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,166 You understand? 395 00:20:51,166 --> 00:20:53,233 And he's saying, fuel that, 396 00:20:53,233 --> 00:20:56,133 get some oxygen in it, feed it, 397 00:20:56,133 --> 00:20:59,766 put some fuel on it because it's got to come back to life. 398 00:21:00,866 --> 00:21:03,866 Most. 399 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:08,900 So here's my question. 400 00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:12,266 How are you fueling the flame? 401 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:19,100 If your fuel consists of one day a week, listen to me. 402 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:22,100 I'm glad you're here, but that's not much fuel. 403 00:21:24,733 --> 00:21:26,433 Fanning the flame. 404 00:21:26,433 --> 00:21:28,166 The gift of God. That word. Gift. 405 00:21:28,166 --> 00:21:29,900 It's a Greek word. Charismatic. 406 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:33,633 It means the spiritual gift given to you by discretion of the father. 407 00:21:33,633 --> 00:21:34,500 Through the Holy Spirit. 408 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:37,800 When you accepted Jesus, he gave you a spiritual gift, 409 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,966 at least one that is to be used in the service. 410 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:43,933 The further so the kingdom, through the church and he's saying, 411 00:21:43,933 --> 00:21:49,433 you have to understand what that is and fuel that so that it rages fire. 412 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,400 You let it grow cold. 413 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,800 Nobody can even see the gift you of God's given you, 414 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,800 because you don't use it and you're not feeding it. 415 00:22:02,566 --> 00:22:04,166 Fuel it. 416 00:22:04,166 --> 00:22:05,066 Notice what he says. 417 00:22:05,066 --> 00:22:06,600 Fuel. Fan the flame. 418 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,200 The gift God gave you. 419 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,900 Notice what he doesn't say. 420 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:12,900 He doesn't say fan into flame. 421 00:22:13,766 --> 00:22:16,066 Your hobby. 422 00:22:16,066 --> 00:22:18,533 He doesn't say fan into flame. 423 00:22:18,533 --> 00:22:20,466 Your career. 424 00:22:20,466 --> 00:22:23,100 He doesn't say fan into flame. 425 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:24,900 Your education. 426 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:27,333 He doesn't say fan into flame. 427 00:22:27,333 --> 00:22:30,333 Your athletic acumen. 428 00:22:32,033 --> 00:22:35,033 Not that those are bad things, 429 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,900 but he says what you put fire to 430 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:42,466 is the gift of God and His testimony through you to the world, 431 00:22:42,666 --> 00:22:45,266 through the church. 432 00:22:45,266 --> 00:22:48,866 He doesn't say fan into flame the potential that is in you. 433 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:53,233 I get so sick and tired of people talking about personal potential 434 00:22:53,833 --> 00:22:57,200 that's such a dangerous, potentially evil word. Why? 435 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Because your personal potential can you lead you away from the kingdom? 436 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:04,700 Because my personal potential 437 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:09,933 is based on who I am, my desires, my skills. 438 00:23:12,266 --> 00:23:13,733 And it's so dangerous. 439 00:23:13,733 --> 00:23:17,866 When parents focus on the potential of their children. 440 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,666 Don't focus on potential. 441 00:23:19,666 --> 00:23:22,666 Focus on calling 442 00:23:23,066 --> 00:23:24,800 potential a self-serving, 443 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,800 calling his kingdom. 444 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,800 We got to be very careful. 445 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,966 So a lot of good things aren't there, 446 00:23:32,966 --> 00:23:35,933 but they'll let us away from the kingdom. 447 00:23:35,933 --> 00:23:38,433 I think every Christian would say, oh no, the kingdom is really, 448 00:23:38,433 --> 00:23:40,133 really, really important to us. Absolutely. 449 00:23:40,133 --> 00:23:43,933 Unless the pursuit of my potential he has, you know, comes in conflict 450 00:23:43,933 --> 00:23:47,033 with a Sunday morning or Wednesday night or giving finances in, 451 00:23:47,100 --> 00:23:50,100 I'm up to see my potential. 452 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,033 I wish 453 00:23:54,033 --> 00:23:57,033 I could talk to every young parent 454 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,400 personally 455 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,333 and encourage them. 456 00:24:00,333 --> 00:24:03,166 Listen as you raise your children, 457 00:24:04,966 --> 00:24:05,666 be very 458 00:24:05,666 --> 00:24:09,466 mindful of what you champion and critique 459 00:24:09,966 --> 00:24:12,966 and what you celebrate and what you criticize. 460 00:24:13,266 --> 00:24:16,966 Make sure that what you champion and critique, celebrate and criticize 461 00:24:17,766 --> 00:24:21,300 is leading towards the 30 year old Christian disciple 462 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:24,833 you're raising, rather than the 11 year old athletic 463 00:24:24,833 --> 00:24:27,833 prodigy. 464 00:24:31,866 --> 00:24:34,866 Against an. 465 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:39,100 Parents you're raising 466 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:42,200 think you should be raising 30 year old disciples right now. 467 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:47,100 Not successful high school kids. 468 00:24:50,133 --> 00:24:52,700 You get that in your head that will change everything 469 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:55,700 that you celebrate and promote and invest in. 470 00:24:57,133 --> 00:24:59,200 Is it any wonder why kids 471 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,866 graduate high school, go to college, and get seduced 472 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:07,200 by progressive liberalism and walk away from the church? 473 00:25:08,733 --> 00:25:10,500 It's really no surprise, 474 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:14,766 because most people have made the mistake of celebrating 475 00:25:14,766 --> 00:25:18,733 and championing their kids potential rather than their calling. 476 00:25:25,966 --> 00:25:26,800 You okay? 477 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,466 Oh yeah. 478 00:25:29,466 --> 00:25:32,466 Yeah. 479 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,633 How do you know the. 480 00:25:34,633 --> 00:25:35,400 Well, how do you know? 481 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,100 How do you know personally what you're supposed to fan into flame? 482 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:39,700 Because it's different. 483 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:40,633 God gifting of you. 484 00:25:40,633 --> 00:25:43,266 What he's given you and asked of you is different than what he has to me. 485 00:25:43,266 --> 00:25:45,600 How do you know? I'm going to tell you, 486 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,300 if God were to call you aside and you and it's 487 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:51,300 just you and God talking one on one, 488 00:25:51,666 --> 00:25:54,100 and God were to say, hey, 489 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:57,100 I want to talk to you about that one area 490 00:25:57,233 --> 00:26:00,233 that I gave you that you let get cold. 491 00:26:00,266 --> 00:26:03,266 What would he say that one area is 492 00:26:03,466 --> 00:26:04,733 if we're just you and him? 493 00:26:04,733 --> 00:26:05,566 And he said, hey, I want 494 00:26:05,566 --> 00:26:09,600 I want to talk to you about this, this one area that you need to stoke in flame. 495 00:26:11,433 --> 00:26:12,300 What would that one that 496 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:15,300 you know what it is. 497 00:26:17,233 --> 00:26:19,566 See what happens 498 00:26:19,566 --> 00:26:22,566 is that our fire doesn't die. 499 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,333 It doesn't. 500 00:26:23,333 --> 00:26:26,300 It's not from attack. It's from neglect. 501 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:28,300 Yeah. Oh, yes. 502 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:32,433 You understand that, Sean, thank you for verbalizing what other people are saying. 503 00:26:32,433 --> 00:26:36,733 But then everybody else is like, oh, I'm not going to say anything other than me. 504 00:26:37,166 --> 00:26:40,666 Oh, this seriously, some of you went to he was like, oh yeah. 505 00:26:40,666 --> 00:26:43,000 You're like, oh, that's what he said. 506 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000 I mean, right, I, you 507 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:47,466 like that fire. 508 00:26:47,466 --> 00:26:51,100 It's it's, it's it doesn't die from attack from outside. 509 00:26:52,866 --> 00:26:55,866 It dies out from neglect inside. 510 00:26:59,166 --> 00:27:02,100 Listen, don't give anything more fuel 511 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:05,100 than you give your faith. 512 00:27:05,933 --> 00:27:06,433 For God 513 00:27:06,433 --> 00:27:09,600 gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control. 514 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:13,066 Whatever you live 515 00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:16,066 in fear of did not come from God. 516 00:27:16,933 --> 00:27:18,833 Let me say it again. 517 00:27:18,833 --> 00:27:23,666 Whatever you live in fear of did not come from God because he has not 518 00:27:23,666 --> 00:27:26,666 given you a spirit of fear or timidity, 519 00:27:26,933 --> 00:27:29,933 but of power and love and a sound mind. 520 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,300 Every fear that we have learned 521 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:37,200 to let control our lives is a learned fear 522 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:40,700 that's come to us from a life from the devil. 523 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:44,400 Humans are only born digital, humans only born 524 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,733 with two fears, the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. 525 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,833 Every other fear that we have is a learned, accepted fear 526 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:55,033 and it didn't come to us from God. 527 00:27:55,033 --> 00:27:59,466 Most fears, more commonly, are the result of believing the lies of the devil. 528 00:27:59,466 --> 00:28:02,733 The fears in your life are not because of the presence of the Holy Spirit. 529 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,000 Think about it 530 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,700 like if, if, 531 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:13,800 if I were standing right here and Jesus was right here, 532 00:28:14,433 --> 00:28:17,433 like if you show him bodily form, we. 533 00:28:19,266 --> 00:28:22,266 What would I be fearful of? 534 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,766 Not seeing, 535 00:28:25,766 --> 00:28:26,100 right? 536 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:30,833 Like after the resurrection, all 11 of the apostles died 537 00:28:30,833 --> 00:28:33,100 a violent martyr's death. 538 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,166 Fearless. Why? Because the resurrection. 539 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:39,600 Because there's no fear in a Christ follower of a resurrected Jesus. 540 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:45,300 So every fear that we let control our lives is a life from the devil. 541 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:48,300 It's not because we're close to Jesus. 542 00:28:50,666 --> 00:28:53,666 Don't mean to push us more. 543 00:28:53,733 --> 00:28:56,733 Every fear you have of your child, 544 00:28:56,866 --> 00:28:59,700 for your child, 545 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,700 it's not because you're walking close to Jesus that you're fearful for him. 546 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,166 I understand being concerned. 547 00:29:04,166 --> 00:29:06,033 I'm not saying don't be concerned. You're a parent. You better be concerned. 548 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,166 But you don't parent out of fear. 549 00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:13,166 You don't control out of fear. 550 00:29:14,033 --> 00:29:17,033 All that hell stuff you're dealing with. 551 00:29:18,766 --> 00:29:19,400 Paul started 552 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,500 this whole thing because I'm convinced the life 553 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:25,500 that is mine, not the death that's impending, 554 00:29:25,933 --> 00:29:28,933 fearless. 555 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,433 Right. 556 00:29:30,433 --> 00:29:33,433 All right. 557 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:34,133 Is giving us 558 00:29:34,133 --> 00:29:37,133 a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind. 559 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:39,733 A sound mind 560 00:29:39,733 --> 00:29:42,733 doesn't give in to the spirit of fear. 561 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:45,900 When you and I are paralyzed by fear, 562 00:29:46,266 --> 00:29:48,766 we are acting against the spirit. 563 00:29:48,766 --> 00:29:51,366 God has given us. 564 00:29:51,366 --> 00:29:54,366 Because a peaceful mind lives in stark contrast 565 00:29:54,366 --> 00:29:58,500 to a panic, fear and chaos of a frightful mind. 566 00:30:00,333 --> 00:30:02,633 So some of you 567 00:30:02,633 --> 00:30:05,400 may need to pray 568 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,400 that the God 569 00:30:08,466 --> 00:30:10,800 of the resurrected 570 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,200 Christ 571 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,166 gives you more of his transforming presence in your life, 572 00:30:17,266 --> 00:30:20,233 and lay hold of the sound mind 573 00:30:20,233 --> 00:30:24,266 that he's already provided for you, that you have neglected 574 00:30:24,266 --> 00:30:27,266 receiving. 575 00:30:28,633 --> 00:30:30,333 And I never want to be one of those pastors says, 576 00:30:30,333 --> 00:30:33,333 hey, maybe you should pray and then don't give him a chance to pray. 577 00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:36,200 And so 578 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,200 for all of the fearful ones 579 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:42,700 who have lived in a spirit of fear. 580 00:30:44,066 --> 00:30:45,600 I want to give you a chance to pray. 581 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,600 If you are Christ's and he is yours, 582 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:53,166 and accept the gift of a sound mind 583 00:30:53,166 --> 00:30:56,166 that is already yours. 584 00:30:57,966 --> 00:31:00,966 Some of you need this. 585 00:31:01,366 --> 00:31:04,333 And so let's pray. 586 00:31:04,333 --> 00:31:05,333 In your own words. 587 00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:06,633 But let me just walk you through it. 588 00:31:06,633 --> 00:31:08,400 It's real simple. 589 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,866 It's already been granted you. 590 00:31:09,866 --> 00:31:11,166 It's already been gifted you. 591 00:31:11,166 --> 00:31:13,066 You might not have received it yet, 592 00:31:14,533 --> 00:31:15,400 but I would invite you 593 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,600 to say something along the lines of, Lord, I am sorry 594 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,433 that I have let fear run my mind. 595 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,800 Chaos rule my life. 596 00:31:25,833 --> 00:31:28,100 That's not the spirit you've given me. 597 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,100 That's not the spirit from you. 598 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:36,900 I have given myself to the lies and the worries of the evil one. 599 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:40,100 And this morning I reject those. 600 00:31:42,433 --> 00:31:43,500 In the authority 601 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:46,566 of the name of Jesus, I accept. 602 00:31:46,933 --> 00:31:50,133 And I receive the spirit of power 603 00:31:50,366 --> 00:31:53,566 and love and a sound mind that are already mine. 604 00:31:55,933 --> 00:31:57,500 Help me live in 605 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,500 and help me live with that spirit. 606 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,400 It's already mine. 607 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,166 In your name I pray. 608 00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:07,166 Amen. 609 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,500 Listen. 610 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,066 That government. 611 00:32:13,066 --> 00:32:16,066 I know what time it is. 612 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:17,500 Come. You'd like it. 613 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:19,200 More verses. 614 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:19,900 I'll do chunk. 615 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:22,200 So to go quick. No. 616 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,400 Look at verse 889 ten. 617 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,133 Therefore don't be ashamed 618 00:32:25,133 --> 00:32:29,000 of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering 619 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,066 and share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us 620 00:32:33,066 --> 00:32:37,533 and called us to be to a holy calling, not because our works, 621 00:32:37,866 --> 00:32:41,000 but because of his own purpose and grace, 622 00:32:41,433 --> 00:32:44,400 which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 623 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,300 and which now has been manifested through the appearing 624 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,300 of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death 625 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:53,766 and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 626 00:32:54,266 --> 00:32:55,633 He said, don't be ashamed. 627 00:32:55,633 --> 00:32:58,133 Now the testimony this this is solid stuff. 628 00:32:58,133 --> 00:33:00,766 You grab on to this stuff. Don't be ashamed of this stuff. 629 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,700 Share in the verse eight. 630 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:06,566 Share in the suffering of the gospel by the power of God. 631 00:33:06,566 --> 00:33:09,833 Paul's invitation to Timothy on behalf 632 00:33:09,833 --> 00:33:12,833 of Jesus is to share in the suffering for Jesus. 633 00:33:12,933 --> 00:33:15,933 That's not a popular invitation. 634 00:33:15,933 --> 00:33:19,466 We want to add Jesus to our life to alleviate suffering. 635 00:33:20,166 --> 00:33:22,533 Jesus said, in this world, you're going to have trouble. 636 00:33:22,533 --> 00:33:24,666 It hit him. He's going to hit you too. 637 00:33:24,666 --> 00:33:27,466 Paul says, I want to invite you into suffering for Jesus. 638 00:33:27,466 --> 00:33:30,700 Listen, if you are living a life of a of an 639 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:35,366 on fire person for Christ, it's going to cause you trouble. 640 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:37,600 It just is. 641 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,666 When you and I start speaking up on behalf of Christ 642 00:33:40,666 --> 00:33:45,466 to those who are degrading him, it's going to cause some issue, he said. 643 00:33:45,466 --> 00:33:47,333 I'm inviting you into that, Timothy. 644 00:33:47,333 --> 00:33:49,800 Embrace that. Don't run away from it. 645 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,833 You don't have a spirit of fear, timidity about what others might say or think. 646 00:33:52,833 --> 00:33:53,900 Or do you have others? 647 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:57,000 Do you have a spirit of power, of love and sound so pressed into that? 648 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,766 Engage in that it's okay and you'll suffer 649 00:34:00,766 --> 00:34:03,766 well when you have the Spirit of God and the power of God in you. 650 00:34:03,766 --> 00:34:05,366 So here's a question. 651 00:34:05,366 --> 00:34:08,000 Do you know that kind of power in your life? 652 00:34:09,033 --> 00:34:09,566 Can you 653 00:34:09,566 --> 00:34:13,166 suffer willingly and press into that and suffer with joy? 654 00:34:13,933 --> 00:34:16,233 That's the power of God. 655 00:34:16,233 --> 00:34:18,500 Send that into flame. 656 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:21,266 Speak up when others are speaking down. 657 00:34:21,266 --> 00:34:23,166 Yeah, 658 00:34:23,166 --> 00:34:25,566 he said, he's called us sinners from the beginning of time. 659 00:34:25,566 --> 00:34:28,766 By his grace, he's the one that sought us out. 660 00:34:28,766 --> 00:34:30,366 We don't seek him out. 661 00:34:30,366 --> 00:34:32,100 We respond to his seeking. 662 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:34,333 But by his grace he seeks us. 663 00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:37,333 And then in response, we say, okay, 664 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,166 I'll follow you and I'll give you my life. 665 00:34:40,166 --> 00:34:42,200 And he says, all of this has been manifested, verse 666 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,233 ten, through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ. 667 00:34:44,233 --> 00:34:46,466 He said, So Jesus illuminated this. 668 00:34:46,466 --> 00:34:47,666 And what did he illuminate? 669 00:34:47,666 --> 00:34:51,600 He illuminated life and immortality is brought to light through the gospel. 670 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,600 Verse ten says, if you look through the Old Testament, 671 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 death and eternity is really a mystery, 672 00:34:58,066 --> 00:35:02,100 like some people have a kind of developed understanding, some not so much. 673 00:35:02,166 --> 00:35:04,133 And it's real kind of really all over the map. 674 00:35:04,133 --> 00:35:07,166 But after Jesus, his death and his resurrection, 675 00:35:07,166 --> 00:35:11,400 Paul says Jesus illuminated life and immortality. 676 00:35:11,433 --> 00:35:13,933 Now there's no more question. There's no more chaos 677 00:35:14,933 --> 00:35:17,933 because of Jesus, his death and his resurrection. 678 00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:21,866 He illuminates what life is all about and the reality of immortality 679 00:35:21,866 --> 00:35:23,233 and eternal life. 680 00:35:23,233 --> 00:35:25,133 So we don't question it. 681 00:35:25,133 --> 00:35:27,366 There's no fear, there's no chaos. 682 00:35:27,366 --> 00:35:29,133 It's all been brought to light by Jesus. 683 00:35:29,133 --> 00:35:31,133 Now watch this. 684 00:35:31,133 --> 00:35:34,400 For which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle and a teacher, 685 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,800 which is why I suffer as I do. 686 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:41,666 But I'm not ashamed, for I know who I am. 687 00:35:41,666 --> 00:35:46,433 I have believed, and I'm convinced that he's able to guard it until the day, 688 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,800 until that day, what has been entrusted me? 689 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,800 He said, look, Jesus. 690 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,666 He called me out of his grace. 691 00:35:53,666 --> 00:35:56,100 I responded, I'm not ashamed. 692 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:57,700 And he made me. What do you say? 693 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:01,100 A preacher, an apostle, a teacher, three rolls of Paul. 694 00:36:01,366 --> 00:36:04,366 He's a God. Ask this of me and a preacher. 695 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,400 I'm refer claim the gospel of Jesus and all kinds of people God saved. 696 00:36:08,666 --> 00:36:09,766 I'm an apostle. 697 00:36:09,766 --> 00:36:12,200 He traveled around the world starting churches. That's what. 698 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,566 That's the gift of apostleship. 699 00:36:13,566 --> 00:36:15,900 And I'm a teacher. It's what we do on Sunday morning. 700 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:17,900 We go into doctrine, he said. 701 00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:21,500 These are my three rules that God gave me to do because of God's grace. 702 00:36:21,566 --> 00:36:24,300 And I did them, and because I was faithful to God 703 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,333 and because I did what God damn it led me to do. 704 00:36:26,333 --> 00:36:28,600 Now I'm in a dungeon waiting to be beheaded. 705 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,000 Welcome to Christianity. Yes. Yeah. 706 00:36:32,833 --> 00:36:35,333 Right, right. 707 00:36:35,333 --> 00:36:36,333 Okay. Whoa, wait, wait. 708 00:36:36,333 --> 00:36:39,200 Hold on. God, I served you. 709 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,700 I let people to you. 710 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,500 I built churches for you. I taught sound doctrine. 711 00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:46,700 And this is how you're going to pay me back for it, right? 712 00:36:47,133 --> 00:36:50,133 Right. Wouldn't that be our response? 713 00:36:50,266 --> 00:36:51,500 I've done all this. 714 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:52,966 And look at what you've done for me. 715 00:36:52,966 --> 00:36:55,966 Nothing. 716 00:36:56,966 --> 00:36:57,700 And Paul says, 717 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:00,866 I did it all, and that's why I suffer. 718 00:37:00,933 --> 00:37:04,233 And I would do it again and again and again 719 00:37:04,233 --> 00:37:07,233 and again and again. 720 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,000 I regret that I have 721 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,600 but one life to live and die for the kingdom of God. 722 00:37:12,866 --> 00:37:15,033 Amen. 723 00:37:15,033 --> 00:37:15,600 Vanity. 724 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,266 The flame. 725 00:37:18,266 --> 00:37:20,833 Right, right. 726 00:37:20,833 --> 00:37:23,833 God. So good. 727 00:37:24,866 --> 00:37:26,700 Jim Elliot, great missionary 728 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:30,900 who literally lost his head by the Indians headhunters before he died. 729 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:32,533 Obviously 730 00:37:32,533 --> 00:37:35,800 he said he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. 731 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,300 Listen, you're no fool to give what you cannot 732 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:43,266 keep your life to gain what you could never lose. 733 00:37:43,966 --> 00:37:46,966 Eternity. 734 00:37:47,833 --> 00:37:50,766 I'll do it all over again. 735 00:37:50,766 --> 00:37:52,433 My one regret at the end of my life will be that 736 00:37:52,433 --> 00:37:55,433 I don't have another life to do it again. 737 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:57,733 30. 40. 738 00:37:57,733 --> 00:38:00,733 I'm almost done. 739 00:38:01,166 --> 00:38:03,866 He says I'm convinced that it God is able to guard it until that day. 740 00:38:03,866 --> 00:38:04,833 Like God will take care of me. 741 00:38:04,833 --> 00:38:06,033 I don't have any doubt about that. 742 00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:09,600 Verse 13 follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me 743 00:38:09,666 --> 00:38:11,833 in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 744 00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:15,500 When Paul uses that word sound words, it literally means healthy words 745 00:38:16,433 --> 00:38:20,433 like I've given you doctrine that are it's good for you, it's healthy for you. 746 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,933 Follow that guard at Timothy and guide people into it. 747 00:38:24,933 --> 00:38:27,566 That's why we call the soul series guard and Guide. 748 00:38:27,566 --> 00:38:31,133 These are healthy words by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. 749 00:38:31,166 --> 00:38:33,666 Guard the good deposit entrusted to you. 750 00:38:33,666 --> 00:38:35,266 Verse 15. 751 00:38:35,266 --> 00:38:38,666 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, 752 00:38:38,666 --> 00:38:41,666 among whom are the jealous and homogenize. 753 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:45,266 So look, at the end of the day, everybody walked away. 754 00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:49,166 Like I 755 00:38:49,166 --> 00:38:52,166 started with, some people aren't with me anymore. 756 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:55,566 And it's not because they moved. 757 00:38:55,566 --> 00:38:57,433 It's because they don't want to be with me anymore. 758 00:38:57,433 --> 00:38:59,300 And they left. 759 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:01,066 And he calls to them out by name. 760 00:39:01,066 --> 00:39:04,100 I guess Paul didn't realize you're not supposed to call people 761 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:07,600 on the carpet in public, but he does the jealous and homogenize 762 00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:11,700 says the only place in all Scripture these two men are listed 763 00:39:13,133 --> 00:39:14,633 there. Lasting life. 764 00:39:14,633 --> 00:39:18,266 Legacy is a legacy of the desertion. 765 00:39:19,966 --> 00:39:22,333 Here's the warning. 766 00:39:22,333 --> 00:39:25,333 Don't let that be your legacy 767 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,066 of deserting 768 00:39:28,066 --> 00:39:30,833 the call of God on your life. 769 00:39:30,833 --> 00:39:32,900 That you neglect the flame so much 770 00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:35,900 it dwindles to nothingness, 771 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000 and the only thing you're remembered for 772 00:39:39,466 --> 00:39:40,433 is quitting. 773 00:39:40,433 --> 00:39:44,600 It's been said the only thing worse than quitting is being remembered for it. 774 00:39:51,066 --> 00:39:52,933 May the Lord grant mercy of the household of honor. 775 00:39:52,933 --> 00:39:57,233 Suffer us, for he often reached, refresh me, and was not ashamed of my change. 776 00:39:57,233 --> 00:40:00,233 But when he arrived in Rome, he searched for me earnestly and found me. 777 00:40:00,233 --> 00:40:03,733 May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day, 778 00:40:03,733 --> 00:40:06,733 and you will know all the service he rendered in Ephesus. 779 00:40:07,833 --> 00:40:11,133 Those two are contrasted by the one on the Severus, 780 00:40:11,866 --> 00:40:15,866 who fanned the flame, and was of good service to the kingdom. 781 00:40:17,166 --> 00:40:20,100 Let that be our story. 782 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:21,500 I finish with this band. 783 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:24,500 Come on up here. I finished with this. 784 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:26,833 We are either fire extinguishers 785 00:40:26,833 --> 00:40:29,833 or fire fuels. 786 00:40:29,833 --> 00:40:31,200 That's it. 787 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,066 We're going to extinguish the fire in us and others, or we're going to fuel it. 788 00:40:35,733 --> 00:40:38,733 Fan into flame. 789 00:40:38,833 --> 00:40:39,500 Verse six. 790 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:43,200 For this reason I remind you to fan into the flame that gift of God in you. 791 00:40:45,866 --> 00:40:47,666 And so, friends, please, in 792 00:40:47,666 --> 00:40:50,666 light of that verse, in light of the big idea, 793 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:55,533 make a habit of that which fuels the fire. 794 00:40:57,700 --> 00:40:59,600 Make a habit. 795 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,966 Here's here's our as a Christian. 796 00:41:01,966 --> 00:41:05,066 And if you're if you haven't accepted this yet here here's 797 00:41:05,066 --> 00:41:08,066 the difference in religion and Christianity. 798 00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:10,400 Religion says I'm going 799 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,533 to live defensively, and I'm going to make sure 800 00:41:13,533 --> 00:41:16,533 I try to avoid everything that might make me a bad person. 801 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:18,066 Good luck. 802 00:41:18,066 --> 00:41:20,566 You'll never succeed. 803 00:41:20,566 --> 00:41:23,700 The call is to live offensively 804 00:41:24,233 --> 00:41:27,466 and pursue those things that fanned the flame. 805 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,500 Give a shout out, I'm saying. 806 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:32,666 So there's a lot of people in church who are trying to live defensively, 807 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,633 and the flame is going out, because all you're doing is trying to avoid. 808 00:41:38,133 --> 00:41:39,066 And Paul says, 809 00:41:39,066 --> 00:41:42,900 press in, do those things that fanned the flames. 810 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:45,900 What are those? 811 00:41:45,900 --> 00:41:49,500 Well, the things like reading your scripture for yourself, being at worship. 812 00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:51,300 I'm proud of you today. 813 00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:54,300 Giving and sacrificing and serving. 814 00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:58,900 What are those things that fuel faithful living? 815 00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:00,333 Here's the deal. 816 00:42:00,333 --> 00:42:03,333 When you're fueling the fire, 817 00:42:03,966 --> 00:42:06,800 there's nothing going to come against that is going to put it out 818 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,800 the way you put out fires, cut off the fuel. 819 00:42:10,133 --> 00:42:11,533 Do you understand? 820 00:42:11,533 --> 00:42:14,533 Because. 821 00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:17,733 So what are those things that are going 822 00:42:17,733 --> 00:42:20,733 to advance the faith in your life? 823 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,400 The flames that are apparent so people don't have 824 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,400 to look and investigate for embers 825 00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:29,700 fan that. 826 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,600 So the question, the commitment 827 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,600 will you commit to fanning the 828 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,600 flame daily? 829 00:42:40,966 --> 00:42:42,000 To burn bright 830 00:42:42,966 --> 00:42:45,966 and to burn faithful. 831 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,333 Someone said their greatest desires 832 00:42:48,333 --> 00:42:50,900 that God would light a fire and light them on fire. 833 00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:53,900 So the world could watch and burn. 834 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,500 That's the goal. 835 00:42:57,500 --> 00:42:59,633 God, light a fire in me and let the world 836 00:42:59,633 --> 00:43:02,633 watch me burn. 837 00:43:03,533 --> 00:43:04,466 I want you to pray with me, father. 838 00:43:04,466 --> 00:43:07,033 Thank you. 839 00:43:07,033 --> 00:43:10,033 Thank you for your amazing grace that calls people like me 840 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,033 and people like us. 841 00:43:13,033 --> 00:43:15,200 I pray that because of your amazing grace 842 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,200 that calls us, that we would respond. 843 00:43:19,933 --> 00:43:21,466 And that we would add wood 844 00:43:21,466 --> 00:43:24,466 to the fire that you've started. 845 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,800 That you would light us on fire 846 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,800 and let the world watch us burn. 847 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:33,000 Friends, if you were here who have never accepted 848 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,566 Jesus as your Savior, I would invite you in this moment. 849 00:43:35,566 --> 00:43:38,400 It's real simple. It'll cost you everything. 850 00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:41,700 But you begin it 851 00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:45,100 just simply by a statement of faith in your heart. 852 00:43:46,166 --> 00:43:49,733 God, I admit I'm a sinner, separated from you by sin. 853 00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:54,666 Jesus, thank you that you died on the cross so I could be forgiven. 854 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,966 I accept what you did on the cross for my forgiveness. 855 00:44:00,733 --> 00:44:03,733 And this morning I trust you as my Savior. 856 00:44:05,066 --> 00:44:07,033 It's that simple. 857 00:44:07,033 --> 00:44:08,800 But if you do, 858 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,700 it'll cost you everything. 859 00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:14,700 And you will gain everything 860 00:44:14,966 --> 00:44:17,833 in eternity. 861 00:44:17,833 --> 00:44:20,266 If you're already Christian, 862 00:44:20,266 --> 00:44:21,366 would you. 863 00:44:21,366 --> 00:44:23,700 Would you dare to pray? 864 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:24,633 God, be clear with me. 865 00:44:24,633 --> 00:44:27,633 What's the one thing I need to fan into flame? 866 00:44:27,633 --> 00:44:30,766 And I commit to you to fanning it every day? 867 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,400 Would you tell them God set me on fire? 868 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,133 Let this world watch me burn. 869 00:44:38,133 --> 00:44:39,400 I'll gladly burn for you. 870 00:44:40,566 --> 00:44:43,266 Because your grace have been so great. 871 00:44:43,266 --> 00:44:44,866 Father, we love you. 872 00:44:44,866 --> 00:44:46,266 Thank you for your word. 873 00:44:46,266 --> 00:44:49,100 In your name I pray. Amen. Amen. 874 00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:50,200 Hey. We okay? 875 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,400 Oh, yeah. Go. Go back and read this week. 876 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,400 First Timothy two or first Timothy or second Timothy one. 877 00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,500 I'm getting dyslexic with my numbers. 878 00:44:59,500 --> 00:45:01,433 Second Timothy one. 879 00:45:01,433 --> 00:45:03,933 And we'll keep going through Timothy and dive into it. 880 00:45:03,933 --> 00:45:06,666 Throughout this next month or so. 881 00:45:06,666 --> 00:45:07,566 I love you. 882 00:45:07,566 --> 00:45:09,633 I would love to talk to you about accepting Jesus, 883 00:45:09,633 --> 00:45:12,066 about following him, about whatever that is. 884 00:45:12,066 --> 00:45:14,700 You want to talk to me after church or Jeff or Allie or anybody? 885 00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:16,966 We'd love to. We'd love to talk with you. 886 00:45:16,966 --> 00:45:18,600 All right, one more song here. 887 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,333 Amazing Grace. Let's sing our blessing.