Carried by Charisma

Activities we continue with beautifying the bride part two her form and her fashion, Paul is writing to Timothy SC pastors are overseas the church in Ephesus and the apostle Paul is telling Timothy what to do in the church, but in writing to Timothy about these things. He has a lot to say to Timothy, it gets more personal. In this second letter. Second Timothy because Paul is imprisoned. He's at the end of his life. He knows his execution is imminent and so he's saying some things more personally, more directly to Timothy as a younger minister and we come to a second Timothy chapter 1 verse eight and will just spend all of our time there this morning and the purpose is to cover much more territory than one verse next Sunday morning, the second Timothy chapter 1 verse eight Paul writes from prison in Rome and says therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God. I've entitled this carried by charisma carried by charisma. Referring back to the word gift uses up in verse six, where he tells Timothy to Kindle afresh the gift is the Greek word charisma.

It means that special spiritual enablement you received at the new birth, and Timothy received an extra portion. You might say in his ordination by the apostle Paul, but nevertheless we all have a charisma we all have a gift given to us that strengthens us that emboldens us that enables us to stay faithful at the task of honoring Christ and not falling back down I lists talk again about the charisma that carries you the charisma that carries you. He begins verse eight with the word therefore that just means look back at the previous verse, and you'll find out why, therefore, is there so he says therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord or of me will based on what will verse seven for God has not given us, given refers to that charisma that gift God is not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. So Timothy Paul writes you have a special enablement that the spirit of God has put in you whereby you have the capacity now to not grow fearful and be ashamed of the Lord, or ashamed of me his apostle. You have the capacity to stay strong and stay faithful and not shrink back with a difficult season comes along. This charisma is there in effect to carry us now listen to me did mean you have no responsibility and you're not to be diligent and determined about some things as far as being faithful just means listen to me.

We are not in the self-help business self self invigoration business are our behavior modification business, wherein the heart transformation business. I'm not trying to get you to take your natural born strengths and abilities and serve God. Well, that's blasphemy.

No land of is natural fallen, sinful flesh can honor God. But I am charging you to draw up the special charisma the Holy Spirit in you the power it gives you and rely all that to carry you and remain faithful in your service to Christ and once again back in verse seven he lit mentions three components are elements of this gift. This charisma usually mentions power, love and discipline. These are the things God's given us to enable us to progress in our sanctification were saved at one time.

You believe in Christ you are saved, but then you are also being saved and that's what this charisma enables you to to keep walking out and living out the salvation you have been giving given by God. So as I use the illustration last week as a blacksmith will put the bellows to keep the air going on the fire where to put the bellows if you will, on the charisma get and keep it strong inside of us. Now there are things we can do that that parallel. This pumping of the bellows like listening to the preaching of the word reading the Bible and are all studying the word of God, always having a verse or two. You're memorizing in your meditating out. I think it's one of the most wonderful gifts God gives a pastor is it every week. I have a new text. I'm a chewing on little of the word medicate meditation rather than original language meant chewing the cud like a cow choose the cut in theirs he should be chewing on some of the word of God and that helps blow the bellows on the flame that helps strengthen the charisma gift that will keep you from falling back the course the Fellowship of the church and fellowship with other Christians.

It gives you the encouragement and the accountability and also not only are these things that you should be putting on things she should be practicing people you should be spending time with that helps strengthen you. There also those things you must stay away from where I could say those people that you must stay away from. Remember what Proverbs told us. Proverbs 1320 says the companion of fools will suffer harm stay away from the right people and hang out with the right people and do the right spiritual disciplines and you'll be pumping the bellows to keep the flame full and keep the strength in your life to stay faithful to Christ. That's what he's telling Timothy. Timothy Paul is saying I'm in prison I'm suffering. I have a lot to say about that in a moment about to be executed, but Timothy I'm charging you to stay faithful to the finish. Keep on keeping on.

So it's the charisma Paul is saying using that word.

Therefore, in verse eight that's going to carry you to do what I'm charging you to do. Timothy well, what's he going to charge Timothy to number two the righteous concerning shame and honor. So what I'm presupposing here is that there is a righteous honoring and there is a righteous shaming.

Did you hear that there's a right and righteous way to honor and those who are righteously honored and there's a right and righteous way to shame are those who should be ashamed. Again Paul was in prison in Rome writes to Timothy's is Timothy, don't be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord. Timothy don't be ashamed of me and here's Timothy.

He was Paul's associate for 16 years. Timothy love the Paul's, Christ, Timothy, loved Paul's churches that he started Timothy loved Paul's doctrines now don't mean it because it was God's but Paul was the instrument. Timothy embraced all these things, he was widely known as Paul's first Lieut. in the work of ministry, so Paul is to the telling Timothy after all this Timothy don't become fearful and did not association with our Lord and with me now. The reason Paul is saying that is because when the world really comes down hard on you as a Christian it's easy to get careful and it's easy to grow ashamed of things you want to be honoring and it's easy to start honoring things that you will be ashamed when the fear comes, will Timothy do this will Timothy turn against the Christ. Paul taught him and preached, will Timothy turn against the church. As Paul started Timothy turn against the doctrines.

Paul taught him. I agree with WE vines as he describes this phrase in verse eight do not be ashamed. The ideal there is. Do not fall into fear and let that fear leads you to being ashamed of the testimony of the Lord or of me. So you have to be on ashamed. You have to control the fear that comes when opposition comes against you, and against our faith in Timothy, you must maintain the discipline of rightly are righteously honoring that that God says to be honored, and rightly and righteously being ashamed of our shaming that that God's is all to be showing you and I live in a world that's upside down you now live in a world that honors that which is shameful, and wicked and dishonors that which is truly honorable and they're putting more and more pressure on his church more and more pressure on us. We can shrink away and start being afraid and start being ashamed of their own things and honorable of the wrong things that's interesting to note the phrase do not be ashamed is not in the present tense. The present tense means continual action if it was a present tense verb, it would mean Timothy, you started being ashamed. It you started being ashamed of the Lord's testimony and of may not stop it but that's not what is exactly the Aristotelians which means something that starts and continues his point is Timothy don't let it start after this court. Timothy Broadwell, be careful as you go forward. Don't ever start letting fear get control and you become ashamed of the testimony of the Lord or of me and Timothy you been giving in the new birth, and by the anointing of your ordination special charisma special gifts that will strengthen you and help you rely on these and don't become ashamed about this talk about two things for just a moment to talk about. First of all, don't be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord. That's the first thing he says that in a moment.

We will talk about and don't be ashamed of me. The apostle Paul now. Romans 116 reminds us, for I am not ashamed of this is Paul. Of course, I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

So Paul says I have never shrunk back in fear I become ashamed of my Lord in any public setting in any context anywhere in the culture.

I've been clear about my loyalties to Christ and my love for him and you know it's a serious thing. The Bible teaches to let fear come in and you fall back into being ashamed of your Lord Mark 838 for whoever is ashamed of me. Jesus says in my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him. He comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels serious. Hebrews 1038 and 39 but my righteous one shall live by faith. And if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him, but we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the persevering of the soul not getting back to the immediate context here who were talking were talking Timothy, a young preacher is being advised by his older mentor in the ministry.

So now Timothy of all people would be the most guilty if he succumbs to fear and starts being ashamed of the testimony of the Lord by the tip Timothy's heard more of it than anybody else. His mom and his grandmom poured the word of God, and him and he said 16 years to be an associate of Polly Sir Paul preach it and preach it, teach it and teach it. Nobody heard more at this point in history possibly been Timothy of the truth of Christ and the gospel. Not only that in his life for many years now. He strongly embraced and experience the power of the Lord and the Lord's gospel is shown in this life and that is also for many years now proclaimed this very gospel. In this very Christ Ellis come down to us a little bit here.

We must remind ourselves that all of us are bound to Christ to listen to the stop right there. You are bound to Christ, you are Christ slave all of us been bought with a price by his precious blood. How can we fall into fear and deny him or be ashamed of him.

We must never shrink back to that but looking at Timothy as the example here is a minister, ministers whom God has set apart, and God has called to be the proclaimers of the testimony of the Lord. They are the most guilty if they fall back, you know how many pastors I know before. At one level or another are pastoring their churches ashamed of Christ, which is, leave this doctrine often will lead this standard off will leave this conviction and discipline in the church office start leaving some things off because in the present culture that might cause a lot of trouble. Fear comes in. They shrink back and begin to be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord, the testimony, the Lord makes the doctrines of Christ, the doctrines of Christianity will. The second thing Paul says, don't just not talking about being ashamed of the testimony of the Lord.

This is interesting. He said, or of me as a horizontal plane right there.

Paul puts himself right is an extension of the testimony of the Lord reminds me Ephesians 321. The horizontal plane that's there. To him be glory in the church horizontal and Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.

Your pulse is just as you would not be ashamed of the testimony of Lord will be ashamed of me, your mentor, your if you will pastor and the Lord Scripture allows no separation of one's support of God in God's causes and one support of God's man. Scripture let you separate that's we've talked before in our exposition of the previous book about the man of God, whose have a long proven reputation of working hard at preaching and teaching is to be shown double honor. Two weeks ago you celebrated my fourth anniversary and I don't know that you shall double honor. You probably showed RRR you went overboard. You were deeply joyous and generous and toward me and told my family, my true honor the listen church my true honor is that you showed me this double our triple honor out of your deep love for Christ because I'm Christ, pastor Scott be that weight can't be separated. God forbid not be the kind of pastor that while she you are impressed as you is not skills and abilities and charisma and personality nets, laughable or not you are on my ability to plan and strategize and organize an Division I could do that as a lost man got the ad you feel good about me all that, but you must want to honor God's man because you love the God of the man.

That's what blesses a pastor God called so about bipolar writing Timothy in but every scholar.

I looked at agrees with this fully well I found the limit disagree just not all of the mentioned that Timothy if you fall back on honoring Christ you fall back on honoring median Timothy if you fall back on honoring me you fall back on. Honor Christ. There is no righteous way to bypass the man of God in order to serve God and others. A balance here. We have people come to our church sometimes and they come from another congregation somewhere in there convinced the pastor is walking in willful compromise, not just the past struggles and fails, we all do but just as a willful purpose and intent things are unsound, so I understand. In those cases, you may not can honor that person the way others honor their pastors so there's a balance there. Get that. But even though situations of those people want to come in our fellowship. We strongly exhort them you leave that other fellowship honorably respecting the office of pastor. Even if you believe there were serious compromises and failures. There let me give you an illustration of how you can't be ashamed of Paul, without deeply being same Christ, all is Christ ambassador. He's Christ representatives so was Timothy but in our context falls over looking at here is a site you and your wife are out somewhere and someone approaches your wife in was a tall real personally and directly to her when you're out biomes you don't approach a man's wife without going through her husband to get a man there guys. He's there to be her head in the sense of loving her and protecting her, you have no right to approach a woman in any personal or direct way. Unless you get permission of her husband. They go together and you can't go around Paul and say I'm gonna get to know God. You've got to go through God's ordained means you can't separate those off his separate husband and wife. Once the marriage is taken place. So our service to Christ flows down one channel it flows through our local church and how we function under our pastors and elders and then our Christianity in our influence flows out in various streams into the home in the marriage into child raising into the workplace and the social life, but it flows down one channel and then goes out into those streams can't go wrong and go independent. So if Timothy succumbs to fear, and Timothy becomes ashamed of the testimony of the Lord. He will also be ashamed of the apostle Paul, the Lord's minister because in God's economy.

You cannot claim to love and honor Christ and at the same time withhold love and honor to the pastor God has placed over you. Timothy Paul was saying I'm over you in the Lord don't dishonor Christ and don't dishonor me. Remember the converse of the apostle Paul. Paul's on the road he's persecuting Christians in a bright light shone from heaven. He's not down in an Paul says, who are thou, Lord, was his Axa 95 and six. Who are you, Lord, and he said I am Jesus whom you are persecuting and focus and what you may have persecuting you I just persecuting these Christian feasible, you can separate us. I'm in them there.

And may you persecute them. Your persecuting me same principle Timothy you reject me, you reject Christ. Think about with me just for second why would Paul like this, like this. Why wouldn't Paul just say Timothy, don't be ashamed of the testimony, the Lord, why does Paul add and me his prisoner.

I think I know one because Paul had seen so many false teachers in his day and backslidden Christians do just that. The Gnostic heresy.

False teachers rose up, they thought they had a superior wisdom, then the doctrines of abyss apostle Paul and the other apostles, the Judaizers, Colton R.

False teaching rose up who said yeah you gotta believe on Christ but you also must add components of the Mosaic law to be pleasing to God and then you had others begin to rise up and generally speaking, their modus operandi was this no way love this Christ Fenway embraces teaching that we we don't know about the apostle Paul. We don't really agree with all the power of knowing Jesus, but we just don't know if we go along with Paul and then called run commences, now that's impossible. You cannot throw me out so you love the Christ who called me to establish the doctrine for the church in writing the New Testament, powerful principle here talking to the Corinthians. The Corinthians were claiming to be Christians. I'm sure most of the church. There were but there was a uprising in the in the Corinthian church against the apostle Paul. Never he had this everywhere you went everywhere he went there. People who claim to be Christians who would rise up and start chipping away at the foundation of Paul's office of the authority they start undermining and questioning all of Paul's doctorates told were good Christian.

What the Corinthians had some of that going all well were Christians and we believe this gospel but not Paul.

Paul's not impressive at all in his speech course the Corinthian culture was one where they put high esteem on the great orators of the day. Paul's one grade or three Windex ring speaker Vanessa then Paul writes to them when he says in second Corinthians 11 five I may be unskilled in speech, but not in knowledge, I might not be impressive in ways that would make you want to think I'm special. But I do know the truth is God's given to now. We talked about, don't be ashamed of the test. When the Lord don't be ashamed of God's man pauses or of me now let me for application sake, talk about this concept of being ashamed or shaming we talk about shaming someone. Generally what we mean when someone is put to shame or if we shame someone by our our actions or our words were calling them this Hon. were calling them unacceptable were calling them inappropriate were calling them disgraceful the Christian context were calling them unrighteous. That's what it means when you shame someone you know in our culture today. We have all these catchphrases you have you noticed that about every week.

Some radical liberal comes out with a new fragrance a new part of the narrative, but if you don't agree with them, then you're a bad person and will shame you leave. We've heard of fat shaming you know RRR mask shaming you in the store and somebody thinks you have a mask on and there were in their masking. They criticize you and condemn you and call you out and what they're saying is I'm putting shame on you and consequently also, it is always like this.

I put shame on you, and I'm honoring me virtuous, careful, and I'm compassionate sometimes that's true. Like I said in our culture, our culture's on biblical and soulful error. They turn things upside down and they will shame you for what's righteous and good and they honor what's unrighteous and evil. We have a lot going on, or culture. Putting shame on another person. Conversely, always puts on her own yourself or own something else. I guess I could say there's always a shaming and a corresponding honoring now is someone publicly dishonors our disgraces lifecycle misuse this illustration you and your wife you're some sort of public setting and you're there with your wife and a person comes up and they say something to her that they cleared disgraceful dishonoring something you can choice this no neutral ground here. You can either read prove him or more, sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's got the Bible says don't speak in the hearing of a fool some papers so phony she can help him just get away from, but it could be that if a fool loses a few teeth. He might not be so foolish next of this man asked disgrace dishonored your wife. You prove him and correct him and ask him to ask her forgiveness. What if you done you've taken his shame. He put on your wife and you put it back on him. I'm sending you I'm honoring her.

But if you're silent or worse. If you agree with that man. Then you're saying I'm putting shame on my wife and I'm honoring you her accuser. It always works. Basically that's what Paul is telling Timothy fear Timothy by the grace gift that's given you this Christmas gift. Walk righteously and what you shame and what you honor whatever else you shame and honor. Make sure you never seem to the Lord and make sure you're never send me his apostle we find ourselves doing if were not comfortable you listen this morning you get out in the workplace you get in the school you get in the neighborhood and I will say this. First, much of the time the right responses being quiet. Okay, but things are said and suggested in the gangs kinda go along with it and they're dishonorable to God and their things are dishonorable to Christ you don't deal with it. So what are you doing you join in the shame on your Lord and you thrown honor on his enemies. Are you with me church. It also was known at some you think will just be a neutral ground. There's no neutral ground Jesus.

It is not for me is against me.

Now there is a context I want to be balanced here where if you go out there and you correct everything you run into this antichrist. You don't event with those appropriate settings, especially the people you gotta be around a lot people you live around people you work around that.

You need to set something straight always in a gracious and honorable spirit that you're not going this honor your Christ or me that okay with you or his man.

Paul said those go together so in Christianity both our actions and our words must draw on the charisma, the power, the love the sound thinking he's put in us so that we righteously saying that all that which ought to be ashamed and we righteously honor that which ought to be honored and by the way strapping here for a moment, keep listening what you shame and what you honor.

The Bible says is a powerful exposure of the validity of your faith price those you honor and those you shame reveals the nature of your faith is of the true faith. What James is a dead faith are false faith, so I'm going to go through things. I don't get caught caught up in the minutia of these verses are you today I want to get the general principle of when you shame in our barest start this honor that which God honors then you are exposing. You might not be God's.

James 215 and seven through 17 you to study James in small groups if you did not teach this in the context of the local church and ministering to Christians, particularly you missed it, don't feel bad I missed it for about 25 years because that's what this is James writing to local churches who are being fiercely persecuted, like Paul was causing prison, but the executor that persecution is always a Timothy keep identifying with me.

Don't be ashamed of me in this setting a know it might cost you greatly Timothy to sell association with me.

Don't do it. Keep honoring me know. Be ashamed same context to your James to fit into something of a brother or sister is without clothing while they without clothing. In this context because the persecution so bad the persecution was so bad.

Many families wondered like nomads, not knowing where the next set of clothing was coming from.

That's literally true in this age you got interpreted that context, and in need of daily food. Many Christians literally didn't know where the going to eat next because they lost their job because of they profess faith in Christ and what you says to them going. Please be warm to be filled and you do not give them what is necessary for the body, what use is that another words you didn't associate with them. You can identify with them and you didn't help them you nicely put shame on them and you conveniently separated yourself so that that malady. That difficulty might not come on you to. That's what this is something even sober 17 faith if it has no works, is dead, being by itself is a you got a faith that is not Christian. Saving faith if those Christian saving faith.

You could not, as a pattern of your life disassociate from Christians who are struggling under the persecution you would identify with them and you would help them you've exposed the non-validity of your faith. Thank God we don't have that right now. Amen.

But they are locking pastors in prison in Canada right now. Who knows how close that kind of persecution may be to us.

First John 317 and 18 same context.

Local church severe persecution. But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him. That's important Frank instead of bringing him into your heart and identifying with him being counted as one with him use push him away. How does the love of God abide in him little children, was not love in word or tongue, but in deed and in truth. If that's the pattern of your life to disassociate in separate from those who are being persecuted for the faith than you're probably not God's.

Your shaming them pulling away from them and actually honoring the enemies of God. In doing so.

Hebrews 1032 through 39. Remember the former days when after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of suffering local church great persecution and suffering. Verse 33, partly by being made a public spectacle the reproaches and tribulations stop right there. So Christians are some Christians who publicly are being shamed and reproached, they become a spectacle to the community.

He said would you do last part of verse 33 and partly by becoming shares with those who were so treated you identified even shame that you identified with the you said I want on them and they are right… I love and they serve in Christ I serve and I am one with them unable to shame them. I going to stand with them and by doing that when you sing.

Shame on you. Governing authorities you people of this culture, who would persecute them.

That's the position you took honored your Christian brothers and sister and you shame the enemies of God that's righteous honoring and changing verse 34 of Hebrews to you before you show sympathy to the prisoners and accept joyfully the seizure of your property you so identify them and refuse to shame. Those brothers and sisters who been persecuted within the persecution came upon you, and I start getting your stuff knowing that you have for yourselves a better position and a lasting one.

What enables you to know that if they take the home if the type of clothes if the take my income whatever they take. I'm still okay because I got some glorious coming up. What enables you to think that way the charisma he putting you the spirit in you that came in at the new bar gives you the power to do that and to stand on that now.

In all of us to turn back to that text. I've looked at with you several times but will do it again this morning. Matthew 25. Would you turn there. Matthew 25.

What's the context is the context of suffering Christians and whether or not you associated with them and help them or separate from them and shame them now.

I'm going to insert a phrase as we go through so you'll get the meaning of what were coming at here. Matthew 25 verse 34 then the king that Jesus will say to those on his right calm, you who are blessed of my father and the carrot inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world you are God's elect predestined one before the world began, and you're very special and here's how we know you are one of those saved elect chosen ones verse 35 for I was hungry and you are not ashamed of me.

I inserted that and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you are not ashamed of me and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you are not ashamed of me and you invited me in naked and you are not ashamed of me and you close me. I was sick and you were not ashamed of me and you visited me, I was in prison and you are not ashamed of me and you came to me that the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you are thirsty and give you something to drink with it. We see you a stranger and invite you enter naked and clothe you when did we see you sick or in prison, and come to you and the king will answer and say to them, truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of the one of these brothers of mine, other Christians, even to the least of them. You did it to me just continue on verse 4190 turns to the unbeliever non-Christians and said here's what characterized you said those on his left. The part from the accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels, for I was hungry and you are ashamed of me and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you are ashamed to be associated with me and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you were ashamed and you did not invite me in. I was naked and you were ashamed of me and did not clothe me sick and in prison, but you were ashamed of me and did not visit me. I did not visit Christians when they were in dire straits because of persecution than they themselves will also enter Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or stranger, naked, or sick or in prison, it did not take care of you and he will ask them truly say, to the extent you did not do it to one of the least of these hooves that these in this con takes the she thought he was talking about.

So it can be. We sang Jesus that you can't separate this you can't say on of the Lord, but I'm not going be associated with God's people are, but I'm not going to be faithful under God call preacher pulse of that's impossible. Jesus is that's impossible. So Paul writes Timothy if you allow fear to control you.

If you do not utilize the charisma gift God has given you the strength and you then you could fall into shaming your Lord and shaming may because we always go together at the same time and shaming me and shaming the Lord you honor those who are the Lord's enemies. Thus Timothy you start acting like a nonbeliever so church my expectation to you this morning.

At this point is are you about word or actions shaming the Lord and the Lord's preacher.

I have walked into business after business place owned by our church members and I'm telling you, especially in the last 15 years since the persecution has toned down. I've been honored. I received with respect I received with honor has always been that way but I because you can't love our Christ and not love Christ preacher. This is not about you concerning the things you honor the things you do not show on our shame. If I woke up to you at the ballpark. I'm at the ballpark somehow got grandchildren now playing ball.

You know what I find. I found my church members run up to me and bother me while I'm trying to watch my grandchildren play ball so not ashamed of you. I don't mean it that way, no. But what I mean by that seriously is I get love and respect and honor. I could point out the businessmen in this church. I can walk in their companies. Lots of employees. This is my pastor there on ashamed context out there where you not recall fully brother just shows up romance shows up with Steve brother David Tim, another brothers. If you have a pattern of shrinking back and shaming are being ashamed of that which God says I'll be honored if you have a pattern of shrinking back and unfortunately honoring that which you won't be ashamed of not charge you this morning in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to save us by his blood, and to whom we belong, and whose church we are repent. Right now she got the line in the same is drawn I will never again knowingly dishonor the things of God. The man of God.

The testimony of Christ not going happen because I know that says something about the validity of my faith. III I'll try to hurry some of you already squirm in obit only one of three God's perfect sovereign path and what I want to point out here's is Paul is telling Timothy Timothy being in prison awaiting my execution, for Christ's sake is God's perfect sovereign path for me. He says there verse eight. I'm his prisoner, slave of Christ. Not only were all slaves of Christ, but glory hallelujah our master is one whose yoke is easy and his burden is light. Paul would not allow himself the notices wording the look of her site and he is prisoner. He didn't say I'm wrong, prisoner. He said I'm he is on Christ prisoner Paul would not allow himself nor anyone else to view him as the prisoner of Rome.

Paul says the Lord's prisoner Lord ordained this rejection.

I have endured the suffering I've endured this imprisonment.

I'm enduring is my Lord's doing, my Lord put me here is okay lock me up, praise his name. Timothy don't be ashamed of it.

That's good stuff. I did appear in red rave about it and you can sit back there not your head in a jail sale failed with since, the gearheads coming up and I'm not unless you denounce Christ and then you raise your hands hallelujah have a prisoner of Christ, that is. Paul had charisma going up in his heart given him power that strength is different here preacher I'm telling you here's what we think has all the fun doing I Don't Know That It Had That Kind of Strength This You Don't Get the Grace to Do It until You Need It.

All Part of God's Perfect Sovereign Plan, but Tim All Those Years in Louisiana and Other Places. We Try to Build the Church on the Truth and God Did Bless Your Efforts to Build a Good Church but Afford after That Suffering Persecution, God's Perfect Sovereign Plan, You Were Suffering for Christ in God. Good Jesus Told Us the Journey Would Likely Be Difficult 10 Times in the Gospels, Jesus Himself Says We Will Be Hated for Following Him. John 1518 and I Think If the World Hates You, Know That It Hated Me before It Hated You.

If You Are the World.

The World Would Love Its All That Because You're Not of the World, but I Chose You Out Of Work Because of This, the World Hates You, Not Just Looking at One Word Hate There's Many Other Words, You Could Use to Show You How Exhaustively Jesus Taught Us, I Saved You Out Of a God Hating World and As You Get Closer to Me Than What You Are Now We've Had Something of a Respite Here in America.

Here in the Southeast Because in the past.

Generally Speaking, We Were of a Christian Consensus, the Culture Generally Supported Our Christian Values That's Eroding Rapidly the Persecution Will Increase.

So Paul Tells Timothy Not Only Timothy Don't Be Ashamed of the Testimony, the Lord, Not on Timothy Don't Be Ashamed of Me Not Only to Me, to My God Prisoner You Here in Rome. He Said Also.

Timothy Join with Me in Suffering Timothy If They Didn't to My Lord, Though Due To Million If They Did It to My Lord and Did It to Me.

Timothy Don't Do It to You so so Grace Left Church Just like You Telling Timothy Good, a Prelaunch Strap at the Belt and Get Ready If You're Faithful to Christ. The World's Going to Give You Some Troubles It's Part of God's Perfect Sovereign Plan Actually Perfect and Sovereign Are Redundant, Because It Sovereign Is Perfect, but I Want to Say Perfect Because You Need to Think about Is Perfect.

God's Perfect Sovereign Plan. I Think God Planned Paul Suffering. Remember in Acts Chapter 9 Paul Struck down He's Trying to Get over This. This Conversion Experience As I Get over the Lease Get over the Blindness and He's He's There, Doing Nothing and God Speaks to Men. They Met a Nice Incident and Isolate You What Lay Hands on Him and Minister to This Saul of Tarsus and I Saw Dotson Walk Oh God's Peace Having Christians Locked-In President Tiny Standing by Not Having Friends Pretty Conflicted. The Lord Says This with Horses. Acts 916 for I Will Show Him That's Paul How Much He Must Suffer for My Namesake before He Just Got Saved and God Saying I Got Suffering Plan for Him, but Also Got Sufficient Grace for Him to Get Him through the Suffering Philippians 129 Tells Us That Not Only Are We Granted to Believe but Also Granted to Suffer the Means God Ordains It and Provides It for His Namesake, and As We Suffer for What's Right. It Perfects Us and It Purifies Us and It Increases Our Joy First Peter Five Not Intend to Resist Him, Firm in Your Faith, Knowing That the Same Experiences of Suffering Are Being Accomplished by Your Brothers Who Are in the World. And after You Suffered for Little While, the God of All Grace, Who Called You to His Eternal Glory in Christ, Will Himself Perfect for Confirm, Strengthen and Establish You.

It's Part of God's Perfect Sovereign Plan to Sanctify You and It's All Going to Ian Gloriously, but We Met One with Peter and Silas Were Were in Prison or the Dinner Singing Singing Because the Suffering Perfected Their Joy Singing with Tom You Want Have a Good Car Pray God Bring Suffering in Their Lives. I Don't Know about You but I'm Not Signing up for Anymore Experience My Name Being Scott.

I Experience Been Called Everything in the Book I've Experienced Hordes of People Who Say We Love Jesus Will of the Gospel with That Knob Guy. We Hundred and Him Never Opened the Bible Should Here's Where Your Piloting True Doctrine. I've Been through Enough of That.

I'm There Been More Paul Is My Fact I Thought Recently Listening to Him This Morning about Recently.

What Is the Apostle Paul Suffer and Feel in a Roman Prison Awaiting His Execution and I Do Celebrate My 40th Anniversary Not Have a Host of Church Members That Love Me and Honor Me Think of Going Natural That You Really Think I Got an Answer for That Is Not Do with Me Being Any More Worthy Than Paul. That's Not the Point. Paul Sacrifice.

Paul Gave up the Blessed Joys of Being a Part of Mature Church Family to Go around and Start As Many Churches As He Could and Let His Associates Come behind and Help Pastor Them and Bring Them to Maturity As You Don't Enjoy What I Enjoy As a Pastor Unless You Had a Long Long Time. First Want to Grow Yourself and Your Church to Grow Spiritually with You, Paul Never Had That He Spent All His Energies Going from One Place Another, Which Is God's Will for Him and so He Sacrificed. If You Will, the Joys of a Healthy Church Home in Life and Pastorate for the Gospel As Far As He Possibly Could. I'll Not Mention Number Four. Let the Charisma Care. You Is like the Press Secretary for the White House.

Paul Circles Back in at the End of Verse Eight He Circles Back to What He Was Talking about in Verse Seven Which He Alludes to the Beginning of Her Site Is to Suffer with Me with the Gospel.

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Timothy's the Power of God. What Did You Say in Verse Seven It's Power, Love, and Dismiss This Thing God Gives You That It's Not Natural. You Didn't Get in This World.

It's a Gift of the New Birth. It's a Charisma Gap That Timothy Let Me Say Again As I'm Concluding This Part of My Remarks. You Got to Do This According to the Power of God Is Not the Power Man. You Can't Grit Your Teeth and Do This If You Do You Check a Box, Your Daughter and You'll Cross a T and You Will Have No Joy. If You Do in the Strength of the Flesh, Only the Spirit of God in You Can Put You through Difficulties with Cross Site. You Raise Your Hands and Say Price God Christ Prisoner Locked Me in Prison How to Sing Hymns Joy Comes When the Power of God Is Holding Us so I Come to IV and I Say the Same Thing I Said in I Because He Circles Back to the Same Point. The Same Principle. Let the Charisma Care You Let It Be Your Strength. So Paul Reiterates at the Very End of Verse Eight Would He Sit at the in Verse Seven That Is He God in You Christ in You, Only He Can Enable You to Righteously Endure the Suffering Timothy. That's the Only Way I'm Able to Do It and That's the Only Way You're Going to Be Able to Do It. Christ Life Church.

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