Unstoppable, Unquenchable, Unthwartable

Bibles let's go back to second Timothy as we continue through this New Testament epistle we been taught of this series. The second part of beautifying the broad course.

First Timothy being the first part is, Paul is writing to Timothy giving him guidance about structuring, organizing, functioning as a local church and as he gives him. This was the Mets beautifying the bride which is the church.

Now Paul spends an inordinate amount of time encouraging, exhorting, motivating, Timothy to stay the course to stay was sound doctrine to stay with proven methods and not veer off into so many heresies in and unsound things that were being embraced and taught in the name of Christianity. So we come to chapter him to verses nine through 13. Would you look there second Tiffany chapter 2 verses nine through 1310 for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal, but the word of God is not imprisoned.

This reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, and with it eternal glory. It is a trustworthy statement for if we died with zeal we will also live with him.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we did not him. He will also deny us if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself on stop. That's with the power of God is unquenchable.

That's the motivation the God gives as its unquenchable on affordable. That's the purpose of Jesus Christ.

It cannot be four to now for you scholars out there.

I'm well aware that the word unaffordable is not considered a word but I like it and I didn't like the synonym so were going to go with it. By the way, who gets to decide what a word is I'm is God said this guy shall tell you what words are no so I can make one up just like anyone else can.

First of all let's talk about the unstoppable power of the word of God. Paul McGinnis writing from the prison cell in Rome's execution, imminent, and he wants to encourage Timothy that under any and all circumstances, even the most dire we don't quit and one reason is because of the unstoppable power of the word of God… In fact this beginning in verse nine he says that he suffers hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal. That was a strong word criminal a criminal wasn't a evildoer, a malefactor, he was one worthy of all content and disdain. So Paul paid Paul basically saying this to Timothy will wire the title criminal if that's God's will for me to be faithful to Jesus Christ and his gospel. Now remember when Christ was on the earth. His enemies could not understand him or explain him. His enemies could not understand the wisdom and the authority he taught and preached with the correct explain the power he displayed through his miracles, so to just undermine him and discredit him. I said well he's doing all of this in the power of Satan. Matthew 1224 when the Pharisees heard this, they say this man Step demons by only only read the Bobby yells a ball, the ruler of the demon must think he's just of Satan which Jesus adds in Matthew 1024 25. A disciple is not above his teacher, nor slave above his master is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher and the slave like his master. If they called the head that's Christ the house of bills. A ball, how much more will they maligned the members of the household. Paul understood this.

My Lord, my king, Jesus was called Satan himself, so why should I expect them to think any less of me his disciple's minister to thoughts here in the apostle Paul's mind there is no suffering two great for the cause of Christ and the gospel.

Secondly, he's also clearing up the distortion in the lives of his enemies as wife said earlier, they're using this imprisonment.

This public shame that Paul has put on him to discredit him to undermine his credibility and to turn people away from Paul's doctrine and teaching and to their own new twist on Christianity.

Paul says as he said earlier in chapter 1 verse eight I'm Christ prisoner is Porteous, God's got a purpose in this Timothy imprisoned for the gospel as if Christ put me here because he's got a purpose for his own calls and for my good and me being here. You know in this life you can be persecuted for acting beneath the culture. If you violate the laws of the land then you could be persecuted and prosecuted. We also find out from history that Christians were often persecuted and even prosecuted for acting up. The culture as they brought the light in the holiness of God superior truth to bear against the culture and by the wife. That's our calling not to conform to the culture to win it, but to confront the culture to win it. Once Satan convinces us to cease being holy and to cease being right just to say something biblical that we quote what might win more to Christ. We've already abrogated our duty. Paul could put some twist on some things probably compromise some things and miss prison, but he wouldn't do it.

So Paul is imprisoned for acting above the culture, the light in the truth of the gospel. Paul preached, which is more light than the Roman Empire could endure so they thought will lock him in prison and shut off the light, but the word of God is unstoppable. It didn't work. Word of God as he says in verse nine to Timothy, the word of God is not imprisoned. I'm interested but God's word God's gospel is not imprisoned. This was Paul's passion that the word spread it if it can spread at least for this season effectively about him being in prison Paul would say, so be it that we know at times Paul stayed in some very nice places the he had his own playset it's a four times it was probably very comfortable and I think he stayed with Lydia.

He was a very wealthy lady. Most likely I probably stayed in very fine accommodations eat the state with Philemon, who was a well-to-do man had his own room or Suite 3rd flame is also when it was God's will. He did that but when it was God's will, being present, he said, so be it. Whatever gets the word out God's way to do this better than my way. Second Thessalonians 31 shows Paul's heart on this.

Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did. Also with you.

That's his heart and that should be our heart.

All God for our ministry here called grace. Laughter to the show's or our missions are makers in transmissions God with the word of the Lord spread rapidly.

People be converted in churches be planted in buildup. True to you and therefore you be glorified to the ends of your friends.

The gospel breaks through any and all barriers, churches, and I'm sure many of them, and many pastors with sincere motives have errantly modified the gospel to make it more effective, accountable to this culture and that's a mistake. The gospel just let it loose and do its work. It can, it can transcend all barriers. It cannot be stopped. The gospel is essential to the building of the church and the Almighty Jesus said I will build my church.

Matthew 18 it's going to be built that is going to be about the way he wants the building next to the word the gospel going out. In fact, when the world tries to stop the light of the gospel of the word of God.

They only make it stronger. It's as if, when the world persecutes God's creatures in God's message. It's as if God puts the church and the minister through a strainer so that he comes out and the message comes out purer on the other side. It even makes it more powerful.

Never forget, as I mentioned within this to you several times of the years but actually the last few years as I thought back on this experience. It was a once-in-a-lifetime maybe want to the generation are many generation experience that I we were asked to do some ministry work in Romania.

This was right at the end of the Romanian communist dictator Ceausescu's execution people had been under decades of severe oppression from communism. I'll never forget going into those churches and I'm not exaggerating high priest in pulpits where I would be in this pulpit and people's faces would be called as close as those flowers all the way around, but because they were packed in as tight as human beings could be packed all the way back to the doors.

Every aisle packed all the for your area packed and people outside the doors not to hear Jeff not to, but to hear the word of God, and they told me the stories of their pastors.

Baptist pastors who had been beaten and will often locked in prison's all it did was make the word of God is all-powerful. I've never been in a place like that, the service lasted for like two hours nontenured. Those people didn't move. Now what was strange at first was that the people were totally expressionless, but they learn to be that way because under the central government's authority any even facial expression affirmation of a statement could get you in trouble, much less if you said anything about look like you're not honoring the central authorities so they learn to be stoic and expressionless, but they would've stayed there all day long if you preach God's word all day long.

It was that precious to them on the forget one of the Baptist pastors told me that their membership process required a year of testing. While using what I'm saying. That's required biblically but were suffering for the gospel. We don't want any false professors among us will have time to fool with that stuff is funny. That was a day when there was a lot of theological liberalism and Baptist circles still lives but it was very I guess a little more pronounced in that day and asking about.

That is if you have any of these problems we have with people saying the Bible contains the word of God but is not the word of God. All those liberal concepts like the first, 11, 12 chapters of Genesis are not historical.

They're just metaphors or allegories etc. etc. the miracles are really true. He said no, no, you don't suffer for something that is not true. You don't suffer for something that's just a myth or an allegory to know everyone who that's not even a debate in Christian and evangelical circles in our country just powerful listen to me. Ceausescu and his communist regime said no word of God.

No more preaching no more gospel and the end result is the purest, most powerful churches I've ever been in word of God is unstoppable. Absolutely unstoppable.

That's why Paul when he wrote to the Philippians about his his imprisonment said Philippians chapter 112 of the 14 I want to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel. Well it's unstoppable so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well-known throughout the whole praetorian guard and everyone else that most of the brethren trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear that another place he says, by the way, all of Caesar's household greets you I'm in prison but I been winning these folks to Christ.

Here in prison, and Caesar's house corneas the power of the word is unstoppable. One of the quick illustration when Paul doing prison love these New Testament epistles per second Timothy Fisher, Philemon and many other books and so God uses in prisons maybe think lately is that a pastor in this week said Pastor Jeff, you gotta write some of this stuff down and I thought I just don't feel like a halftime of the will of God which in prison you have to possess will have Nepal ignored freight surcharge writing and we get these books of the Bible, but the majority of our New Testament written by the apostle Paul, which is been used for 2000 years to convert the lost and built the church. It's unstoppable power of the word of God. Isaiah 40 verse eight reminds us the grass withers and the flower fades with the word of our God stands forever. That's why church listen to me when I going to get cute and clever and creative and culturally relevant about our preaching and teaching is going to be a lot. Upon live truth upon truth, precept upon precept from this sacred holy book, because that's powerful look.

People will forget Jeff not blitz antiques.

Forget whatever charisma and enthusiasm are passion I have not the issue, but the spirit of God will not let them forget the word of God. If it's faithfully preached will number two Paul tells Timothy about the unquenchable motivation of being glory of God focused you think with me here on trusting the spirit to enable us to address this because we can't really comprehend it, but the spirit enables us to grasp it makes it the unquenchable motivation of being glory of God focused how you going to keep on keeping on being a godly wife in this kind of godless culture.

How are you going to keep on keeping on being a godly husband in this ungodly culture to keep on keeping on being a godly man or woman in the workplace in this ungodly culture how I going to keep on keeping on about being a godly church when churches are all of the map and what they're calling Christian ministry today but had to have a motivation that is glory of God focused now numbers 10 is a real cause and effect. Here, he says, verse 10 for this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen so that they may obtain salvation which is in Christ Jesus, and with an eternal glory, so I'm enduring all things right now. This imprisonment to the end that there's an effect coming waiting in the lost and bringing them into eternal glory because of the fact again, Paul is saying whatever it takes to build the church, whatever the cost, Fort. By the way, the building of the new creation is worth any sacrifice to the old creation, the church and those who are saved is the new creation God started the old creation started with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and that's where our physical being comes from is a part of the old creation, but were ready to sacrifice that, if necessary. If called upon, we might be a part of building the new creation that's eternal and last forever.

The building of the new creation is worth any sacrifice of the old creation, Paul uses the phrase I endure I endure all this they might be saved. The chosen can be saved and have eternal glory endures a word that means to stay under to remain the Paul says I stay under this hardship, I stay under this persecution for the cause of Christ, that he might save his chosen and bring them into eternal glory. Now Paul is not saying I go out looking to endure persecution pod and go out trying to find trouble. I'm running to Christians every now and then that they think I back to their spirituality is how much trouble I can get it out in the world really obnoxious and irritable, not holy and spiritual pulses. I don't go out looking for it. I just go out trying to stay under Christ. I think that's part of the parallel meaning here. I go out and I stay under Jesus stay under his lower lordship that often leads me into trouble. The cross reference it shine some light here. Colossians 124 now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake whose you are the chosen for the church's sake those who being say, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of his body, which is the church in filling up what is lacking in Christ affliction Paul is in no way again saying in this text I helped redeem the church through my body suffering you to say Jesus died to redeem them now uses our dying.

Our suffering to keep the process flowing as we try to equip and train and mentor pastors. I find that every single young pastors just like me. In this respect, I think they're going to be the guy who has a true glory of God focused, Christ honoring Bible saturated church that never has any real troubles and always said you hope you are. I'll be the happiest guy in the world to be wrong. So far I'm 100% right. Every pastor that strives to build a true church will go through hardships will go through persecutions and difficulties and part of that is God maturing us and humbling us to be usable you to understand I'm not naturally usable needs. Are you but through the difficulties he humbles us he breaks us. We become better repent Turner's and more usable vessels that he might use to build his church. Now he's I'm enduring all this.

Let's unpack a little bit that phrase for the sake of those who are users who are believers are who do believe he says you are the shows Eckler toss is the Greek word it's very simply and literally means to pick out. You literally translated software. I am doing Paul is saying, for the sake of those who are those gods picked out. Now this same word is used of taking out the best of a certain kind. For example, in Romans 1613. It speaks of Rufus, a chosen man. He was picked out is the best of it, this word chosen is also used of Jesus in Luke's narrative of the Transfiguration, Luke says God speaking from the God the father speaking from heaven said this is my son, my chosen one listen to him, not the others.

This one so he says that they may obtain salvation which is in Christ Jesus in here. Here we have Paul's biblical theology coming out.

What I mean by that is what's God's overarching purpose for time and eternity with which God written up in the broadest understanding what's God up to pulses foundational and what God is up to is this he's using his preachers and offering putting his preacher through suffering and other Christians to buy the way he uses Christian suffering that they not be better able to be instruments he will use in saving the chosen one exactly what God's purposes.

There's more than that and were about to get to that. So God has picked out his children. That's his purpose. He wants them saved and he uses preachers to preach the word which the spirit uses to bring those chosen ones to faith in Jesus Christ.

And Paul says that is a primary part of what keeps me going.

Now note in verse 10 that they give the new American Standard which you talk to your to bring one when I preach the wall be together but some of you want but you often. If you have the new American Standard in the last phrase of verse 10.

The interpreters sorry the translators said it this way so that they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, and with it eternal glory. However, the conjunction and in the pronoun it are not in the original Greek, but not in the original manuscript.

The translators injected in copulated. If you will put those in to better make the verse understandable in this case I think they missed a little bit.

I think they missed a little bit so it's better to read the verse without the conjunction and it without the pronoun he and I think then it reads this way, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

That's exactly what it says in ritual with eternal glory. Here's what I'm getting that you listen to me this morning. I don't run up in the balcony and stand in front of you. She got a listen. Are you listen to me Paul cannot get over the glory of God.

So you just like the salvation but their salvation brings with it eternal glory.

And then Paul and I get this in my heart it just consumes me and controls me. Paul said there's this ultimate eternal glorification thing the church is at the center that whole thing and it keeps me known and I can get over it. Yes, the salvation of the chosen not just saving them from hell. But the eternal glory that there can be a part of me continued. Unpack this a little bit. We talk about eternal glory and I think in the broad context of this verse and the balancing biblical understanding of God's eternal glory to thought should come to our mind the glory he shares with us will be a part of eternal glory and the glory he receives from saving us and glorifying us as a part of his eternal glory is youth that the glory he shares with us the honor this theme the glory he receives for doing such a wonderful thing is all a part of the glory of the eternal state.

So, us being saved as the church being say clothing is righteousness bathed in this glory is a key part of the outshining of the eternal glory of God. God the father and God the son. All are involved in this process.

This purpose that will be culminated at the end time in the eternal state. Here's what I'm pointing out this motivated Paul to stay faithful in the time in the temporal season of serving even being imprisoned now if you will go back to Ephesians right quick to do that. Go to Ephesians chapter 1 and let's see how this just is. All through Paul's teaching. This aspect of being glory of God focused in the glory God's going to have and give us and will share the eternal state is part of what drives is not part the main part of the core of what motivates us to stay faithful. Verse four Ephesians 1 a follow along with me. Don't go sleep listen to me, just as he chose us same word Paul you still be in second Timothy just as he chose us in him in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world that we would be holy and blameless before him in love he predestined us marked out beforehand to the adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the kind intention of his will towards why did God do what he choose certain ones widely predestined certain ones to be adopted as sons to be holy and blameless before him in love. Eventually, because it's according to the kind intention of his will is without me. He just want to do it that way. It's according to his will. He just wanted that way.

You consult the Southern Baptist convention to form a committee to study it on the Roman Catholic system in Rome. He said no. This is the way I chose to do it now. When I had so just shut up.

This is the way I want to do it.

But what's the purpose for all this, verse six to the praise of the glory of his grace. So what's the ultimate purpose that God's going to get great honor. A statement praise i.e. glory for doing such a marvelous wonderful thing and we get to get an audit pulses. This is what keeps me going. That's true that's going to happen and I get to be a part of the preparation work of getting all these chosen predestined ones ready for eternal glory which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved.

Verse seven in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his of his grace, which he lavished on us, he lavished on the predestined and the chosen ones, this grace and it came out verse eight it came out about his wisdom and his insight in doing it this way, that no man would ever thought of doing this will verse nine he made known to us the mystery of his will according to the kind intention, which he purposed in him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of times was that the future state. The future glorified eternal state that is the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth and have also we've obtained an inheritance, having been predestined. There he goes again. According to the purpose. His purpose rather works all things after the counsel of me as well. I mean after all, if God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit are infinite in wisdom, power and beauty. Why would they counsel with anybody else's will about it to save our predestined our chosen ones to the praise are after the Council borrowing will been verse 12 to the end that we were first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of his glory there is again glory glory glory glory glory. It's all about God's going to glorify himself wonderfully. Ultimately you'll see it pulsates one day you see it with your twitter. I see it's all about Christ. It's all about God's glory to God about God's purpose. Just purpose is to save his people, his church and bring them into this on imaginable unfathomable eternal glory that last forever and posit this is the motivation that keeps me going. Verse 13 Ephesians 1.

In him you also, after listening to the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation having also believed, not after you have believed, but having also believe there is the point in time when man's responsibility kickstand man has to repent and believe that when a pastor is an election choosing predestination for knowledge on our visit. Manley is responsible to believe how do you reconcile the true pastor never tried to reconcile old friend. These truths have always been paralleling God's word. Verse 14, the Holy Spirit is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, the redemption of God's own possession. God already possessed you before he redeemed you.

Are you thinking are you going to sleep on me. God possessed you before he redeemed you and he redeemed you because he already possessed you.

I remind you again that one of the reasons we know God will never quit loving us as he never started loving us. He's always loved us.

I loved you with an everlasting love and I just worked it out in time and space history so that you heard the gospel and reprinted believed in one day you'll all get to heaven thinking oh my goodness all my goodness, look with this is all come to you say what's the world coming to IT with the world coming to the world come to being banished. I think you make a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells in the elect glorified church will be all that's left with God the father, God the son God the Holy Spirit and the holy angels. And Paul said that eventuality keeps me going. So all of this stuff and I nonvoting did note Ephesians 321 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. We want to be as biblical and honorable and and and and spiritual as a church now are you straight now so that we reflect as much as is glory possible in this temporal imperfect sin, polluted state, because that's what were going to ultimately end up is being perfected sharing his glory and bringing praise to him, not just from our lips but praised him from the holy angels who will see what he did with us to make us worthy of his eternal presence and eternal glory and I will submit to you pastors out there small group leaders out there you can grab 1001 other motivations, but until you begin to grasp a glory of God.

Focus is the reason why you do what you do and I'm not glorifying God the way you think of glorify God by glorifying God the way he wants to be glorified by building his church, his way and looking forward to that eternal state of ultimate eternal glory.

That's got to keep going. It's no right now we have a little glory. There's a little outshining of God's infinite wisdom, beauty, trade through us right now but it's dulled it's muddied. It's muddled right now because were in such an imperfect were down to hear this unredeemed humanity and then shine out as good gave all my girls when they were 13.

The purity ring and off I think it was Anna Claire's good we went to the chiller one day and she'd been playing ball and sweating and all that stuff and her ring was just still had some glory but it was awful. Just there was this stuff growing on it or something is off so we took it to a jeweler and he cleaned it up and honestly when he brought it out and showed it to us about is that the same ring.

It was brick. That's what God is doing.

There's a little glory right now but we got jump growing on the sky like a articles on Pirates of the Caribbean's junk but we get to heaven will be Will bear his glory. We will shine like the noonday sun. Having been paid in the glory of God and God will be exalted in the steam for this great work he did was such unworthy, worthless, wretched line.

Satan controlled sin deserving riches that we naturally are Philippians 320 and 21 for our citizenship is in heaven, which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ what's motivating you, Paul. Verse 21 who will transform the body of our humble state in conformity with the body of his glory there is again glory God already posit I can't get over it. Are you listening to me not to take what I will say and balance it should powerfully motivate us to save men from eternal hell is a grievous metropolis deeply. He would be cast away to eternal hell. But that's not our ultimate motivation was not Paul's ultimate motivation, our ultimate motivation is that God's chosen be saved and they make it through the sanctification of his life and will one day that eternal glory which will exalt God the father, God the son God the Holy Spirit for the power, wisdom and beauty of what they did is the motivation is unquenchable pauses lock me in prison.

Give me the date of my execution will not stop me because I'm glory of God focused your business all of you that don't get it, you'll stay after church and going over again. I've never preached anything more important than this.

This is the heart of God and God's leading apostle of Jesus Christ.

First Corinthians 1524 and 25. Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom of the God and father when he this is Jesus has abolished all rule and all authority and all power.

For he must reign until he put all of his enemies under his feet for strengthens, 15, 25 now when all things are subjected to him, that's Jesus than the son.

Jesus himself also will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him so that God may be all in all that going back up for Sprint's 1524 he talks about when he hands over the kingdom to the Godfather your Jesus is and you can't help but but but but put this in your heart minded and in a visual if you will.

Jesus eternal state is begun. He said father you know the primary overarching central one thing that we were 100% totally Godfather God son got Holy Spirit all committed to you.

They are posted. He'll deliver up the kingdom to God the father. That's God the son, Jesus, delivering up the kingdom to God the father and do you know what the central crown jewel of the kingdom is the elect chosen the predestined the foreknown church. You are the crown jewel of the glory of the eternal kingdom.

Jesus will give the God the father. Father what you sent me to do. You know, we decided we would do and how we would do it and I would be the agent that would get it all accomplished.

His father. This also that keeps me going. That reality that conceives conceptualizing that truth is relative not know, some may say pastor you talk about the church being so glorified get so much glory. I thought Jesus was to have all the preeminent. I thought Jesus was to get all the glory. Well here is to get all the glory. And he does get all the glory. Let me illustrate this way when a man takes his wife out on the special evening. She's beautifully adorned. Hopefully the radiance of her virtues coming through her countenance. Something this world knows nothing of our world so base and sensual in its concept of beauty they would not they wouldn't see a beautiful they couldn't recognize a beautiful woman and she stood right in front of any goes to the door and he steps back, if he lets his bride going first to go to the table and he steps back and he seeks his bride first. The waiter comes up to take the order and he orders for her are lets her older first you see he didn't dishonor himself by putting her first. He actually honored himself because there one that's his bride. She bears his name sheet. She shares his character in his convictions is values so it is with the church. The church is the bride of Christ. We bear his name. We we share his convictions is values is truth and so in Christ exalts his church.

He honors and exalts himself because where his work where his product. If you will think this is all behind but have had you get that out of the last half of verse 10. The first, second Timothy 22 because you let me study for 40 years and you're in trouble in trouble. I just cannot help but say it because if you don't get this. You missed so much less reverse Timken for this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory, not with and with it eternal glory. That's okay but is better with eternal glory that glorified eternal states coming and I'm a part of God's means to help get the preparations set for. By the way, so are you yeah you in the balcony. You and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and maybe we have our role get all this ready for that time when God will be all in all.

People will look at us. The church in heaven like oh my goodness you are wonderful like righteousness you bear Christ righteousness the glory you have now. Christ, glory, and then God the father will stand up and say I thought all this up so even God the son in the sea's God the Holy Spirit, the holy angels in the elect church will just praise God for what he's done for all eternity.

Not only that one more thing, I say this a lot every day. The eternity there's not a day in eternity.

But I this is a figure speech because I don't have a saving of the way everything eternity you will learn more about the power, wisdom and beauty of God in getting this accomplished annual praise God with deeper and more meaning and deeper pleasure every day in eternity. I mean on day 1,000,129. You'll think all my goodness, I learned something else about all he did in getting us rich. Is there also that keep that's what you're doing a Sunday school's small group Sunday school class is you want to be a part of getting the bride ready, that eternal state. And that's why when many times I wanted to quit.

Part of what kept me from quitting and leaving as nobody would have me and not just the truth. I preach myself and taught myself to place were better churches didn't want me so that I have nowhere to go. Gotcha good because I don't you go anywhere behind all of that was God enabled me table and me enabling us to begin to grasp have a glory of God.

Focus. I'm going in right here because my time is gone but I pray the spirit of God has enabled all of us to her eyes upon Jesus look full in his wonderful face and the things of earth. This temporal stuff grows. Strangely, the in the lot of his peers.

Paul's work glory and grace