What 2 Timothy Teaches Christians Today: Endurance, Scripture, and the True Gospel

What does it mean to remain faithful when the world grows hostile to truth?

In this teaching on 2 Timothy, we explore the Apostle Paul’s final letter—written from prison and filled with urgency, love, and spiritual clarity.

3This epistle speaks directly to modern Christian seekers wrestling with doubt, cultural pressure, false teaching, and spiritual fatigue. Paul calls believers to guard the gospel, endure suffering, and remain grounded in Scripture, reminding us that God’s Word is sufficient for life, faith, and perseverance.

Whether you’re new to Christianity or seeking deeper biblical understanding, 2 Timothy offers timeless wisdom on discipleship, leadership, endurance, and finishing the race well. This study connects ancient faith to modern life—helping you understand what it truly means to follow Christ with courage and conviction today.

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SPEAKER_00 0:02

Welcome to another Modern Mind Ancient Book where we're going back to move forward. We're finding a love for the law, the prophets, and the writings. We are in the New Testament doing the second book of Timothy. We've been on a journey through the New Testament as well as the Old Testament, where we went through in chronological order. And so today we've finally made it after the book of Titus to the second book of Timothy, which, if you remember from the Old Testament, it is a departure from what we had learned there. That, for instance, Chronicles was one whole book, not two separate books. When we get to the New Testament, these are called pastoral epistles. They were written at two separate times, to Timothy in this case, but concerning two separate instances incidences for his church. My name is Roger. I'll be your host. Feel free to reach out to us at modern mindancientbook at gmail.com. Modernmindancientbook at gmail.com. There we go. If you'd like to learn more, we have more information that you can view. We have videos on YouTube and we're available at all your podcasting locations. Today we have Pete with us. Welcome, Pete. Good morning. And we've got Landon with us again. Welcome.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Good morning. Good morning.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

And so, you know, let's let's jump into Timothy. The title of this epistle is designated after Timothy, the person to whom it's addressed. This is the second epistle that Paul wrote to Timothy, his spiritual son. So who's the author in this one? Paul. Okay, and and you know, where's Paul writing this from? He's writing from prison. He's in prison. So this is, you know, in terms of New Testament documents, this is getting toward the latter end of the writings. Because quite frankly, they all got murdered.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

And so, you know, this follows the book of Titus, where we actually saw the image of the one true man. With Paul being a Pharisee, a Jew of Jews, Timothy being a half-Jew who was taken to be circumcised in the temple. So us Christians have something to think about there. Because if the law doesn't matter, why was Timothy circumcised? You know, what do we do with that? Right? That's a question that should be answered. And, you know, Paul got in trouble because Titus was there.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Right.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Who is a Greek. So a Greek, a half Jew, and a Pharisee walked into a bar. Right. Sounds like a bad joke coming up here. Or into the temple, you know? So it's just uh God is a mystery. Yeah. And it takes more than just cursory reading of any of these ancient documents to get the idea of what actually took place. Right. I mean, I think that's very fair. We don't read these books as if they're newspapers. Right. We don't read these books to find out what it says to me. We read these books to find out what it meant at the time of its writing to the people in their culture and for what reasons was it written. And so, you know, once once you can do that, then you can figure out what it means to me. Right. Because unless you know what it meant from the mind of the author and to the person hearing or reading, you don't really know what it means. Right. Right. So, you know, meaning is meaning is derived from study. Fair?

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Fair. That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Right? So, you know, the the problem I've seen in my you know, 15 years of show studying the Bible is that most commentaries just repeat what you read. Right. They tell the exact same story that's actually in the text already. Right. So, you know, Paul wrote it to Timothy, and then there'll be three paragraphs about how Paul wrote it to Timothy. Right. But you know that already.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Right. There's no background.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

There's no background. So, you know, I'm I'm a big fan of the story about the story. Right. And how that story then tells the rest of the story. Right. And I know that seems convoluted, but the fact of the matter is, is you can't understand the three little bears without understanding, was it the three little bears? Three little pigs? I don't know. A child's story. Let's just put it that way. You can't understand a child's story unless you know what came before it. Right. Right? So if you're reading that uh the yeah, the the Goldilocks story, whatever it was. Goldilocks and the the bears, whatever it was. So if if you just pick up that Goldilocks was sleeping in the bed and not know the rest of the story prior to it, I mean, what are you gonna make up that you know God wants you to rest? I mean, it's just it's sort of a silly thing that we do with these texts. We want to know the whole story and then let what came before color what we understand today or in the in the text at that point, and then if you know the rest of it, well, that's kind of how these work, right? It's like it's a storied approach from start to finish. From Job to Revelation, it's basically the same story over and over again, just told with different actors' characters, but the God that put his hand in history is still working exactly the same way. Yeah, like the Exodus story is the beginning of Tevilamikvas or baptisms, right? Right? So baptisms stem from God becoming the protector of the people, taking them through and out of the waters. When you get baptized, that's why you get baptized. God has now become your protector. You identify with his people, right? That he is the one who is your leader. And so, you know, by the time we get to 2 Timothy, we've seen the growth, the explosive growth of the church. Not just growth, not among proselytes and Jewish people, not people who understand Judaism, but among pagan Gentiles. Right. The church is just exploding. And you know what the pastoral epistles address? Error. Apostasy problems. Problems, turning away. But turning away from what? The purified Judaism of Jesus. That being said, is it Judaism proper? No, because the Pharisees and Sadducees murdered him. Because he wasn't Judaism proper. He was, in my mind, the restoration of what came before him, that God delivered himself, being God Himself delivering. Right? So, and that's what I mean about the storytelling story. If we don't understand that God has been working among the people, delivering the way prior to Jesus, then we can't understand that Jesus delivered the way, the restoration to it. Right?

SPEAKER_01 7:49

We've been an Exodus story for a long time until Jesus came.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I mean, the Exodus story finds twelve tribes being called out, changed, and taken from the world. Right. The Jesus story is an Exodus story. There are twelve disciples called out from the world, changed, and brought into a different way. Through baptism. Right? So, you know, if if we get the storied approach, then we can make life in light of the truth. Right. Right? The Bible can come alive based on the story. If we approach this as some silly document that's totally disjointed, and what came before it is just another book that's another book of another book that has nothing to do with the other one, then what we're doing is we're not treating the scripture as it's meant to be treated. This is a philosophical argument starting from creation about how men are to live their lives. We can live for the seed of the Satan, the adversary, we can live that way, which is selfish, arrogant, prideful, broken, you know, self-seeking, or we can live under the God who has reached his hand in history and become the seed of the woman, which, spoiler alert, he crushes the head of the seed of the adversary.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Which wasn't meant for us at first.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Well, it's it's Jesus. I mean, it's one particular seed that makes this happen, right? So in our theology, it's the one particular man that makes this happen, right? Now, that being said, as two Jews, get three opinions. Okay? So this is an old story. I mean, people have been thinking about this for 4,500 years, yeah, right? But that's the whole point of doing this, is to say, Christian, hello. People have been thinking about this for 4,500 years. It's not what you think it is, it's potentially so much more. And if you're ready to be confused, get confused first and then create a theology. Right. Right? Don't create a theology being sure, because the surety of the Pharisees murdered Jesus. Right. Right? I mean, you can be real sure and be real wrong. Oh, yeah. And in case we don't, you know, believe that, like if we're saying, well, you're making Jewish arguments, and you know, the Jews are obviously wrong, then we could just go to Jesus, who was Jew, by the way, and listen to him, and he says, Many are called and few are chosen. Why does death narrow to life? Or how about this one? They would say to me, and I would say to them, I never knew you. Those are people who said they knew him. Yes. That is not good. No. So if Jesus is willing to say those things, we probably ought to take that as a gospel. Yeah. Pun intended. Yeah. Okay, so the date of this, um, you know, Eusebius, an ancient historian, writes that Paul was martyred in AD 67. You know his head chopped off by Nero?

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

He made it all that time under somewhat fair rulers. And you know why he got his head chopped off? Because he was a Roman citizen. Right. Christians who were Roman citizens got beheaded. Right. You know what happened to non-Christians? Or I'm sorry, non-Roman citizens who were Christians? Colosseum. Yeah. Flayed. Right. Uh what is it? Striped, flayed, and fed to the animals.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

Crosses?

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:49

Yeah.

unknown 11:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

So, you know, I mean. Have you ever heard of preterism? Yeah. Yeah. So the preterists believe that Nero was the 666. Or the 616. Right? That his that he was the Antichrist. But the literal Antichrist. Right? And so, you know, you pretty much have to be what would be an a millennialist. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Yep. I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Do you know what can you define an a millennialist for me?

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Not quite right now.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

There's not gonna be a millennialist. Yeah, there's no thousand year reign. There's no thousand-year reign. Right? That's very story.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

So, okay, so there's there's different there's there's the millennialists that believe when Jesus Jesus will come and he will rule from Jerusalem for a thousand years. Right. Right? Now, if you ask me, that harkens back to the Assyrian evil rule of a thousand years. And so basically it's saying there will be an earthly kingdom that rivals that but of righteousness, right? So the millennium is about that. Right, right. It's about rivaling that which was evil. Now, if you are an omillennialist and you're a preterist, what you believe is that everything was fulfilled, that this generation saw the coming of Jesus on power, and that the Antichrist was there. So, how does that work theologically? What that means is that the church should have taken over the earth by now. Right? That we should be living in a righteous world.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

You can have multiple Antichrists, but it doesn't mean that he was the Antichrist.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

He was a really bad one, let's put it that way. So whatever he was or wasn't, pretty sure he wasn't the uh end version of Antichrist. So, you know what what you have is Again, the story is about the story, and the story replays, okay? Yeah, so human nature is no difference. No different, right? We're gonna have we had Nero and Hitler, which one was worse? Yeah, Nero and Pol Pot, which one was worse. Nero and names, I don't even know, but they have been there doing horrible things. You know, Boko Haram, uh the what are the Nigerians going through right now? I mean, there is no shortage of the seed of the adversary doing evil things.

SPEAKER_03 14:23

Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

I mean, all you gotta do is turn on the TV right now and listen to people talk about evil, evil things. Yeah. And know that they're just not living in reality. Right. So, okay. Is preterism real? Kinda. You know, like kinda. I mean, you could see the points, you can see, but you know what the problem with theology is? Is if it doesn't explain everything, it's not anything. Right. If it makes sense of a short thing, or if it makes a sense of a bunch of periods of things, but it faults in one particular thing, then it can't be the true theology. Right. And so the question is this how much time should we put in to creating this whole system of theology and becoming dogmatically opposed to any other version of theology because this is the one. Right. I would say no. Because the theology that was present at the time of Jesus was so convincing to some that they could look Jesus in the face and say, What is truth? Right. The Romans had theology.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Right? So, you know, I would say this to the discerning individual. Be convinced of what you believe you know, but be convinced that God is much more awe-inspiring and capable and mysterious than you actually could know. Because then in the long run of that, you can find a homeless guy and have compassion on him because he said, love your neighbor as yourself.

SPEAKER_03 16:07

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

And what that means is something you don't understand. Right. But if you if it means to you that your neighbor is your peer, those who take care of themselves, then when you see the homeless man, you go, well, he's obviously not taking care of himself. Right. Not sure I owe that guy a thing. But I don't think Jesus meant that at all. I think that the more capable are to take care of those who are less capable, even in their brokenness. Right. Just like he was willing to die for us when we were willing to murder him. Right.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Which in their culture is unheard of.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Yeah, it's ridiculous. Well, it's ridiculous in general. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, right? Right. And and is that the law? Yes. But Jesus told us the real version of that. Right. Which is to love your neighbor as yourself, and this I leave you a new commandment love as I have loved you. Which is ridiculous. To give up the very life force you have for another. Right. Which he says is the true way of God. So instead, so this is what you do with the law, okay? You go back to the beginning in God created, and he gave everything to us. Right. Then we fell. Then you have the Torah, which comes into existence, which eventually became eye for an eye. And so what do you do with that? Do you say eye for an eye is God's character? I don't think so. I think what you say is that eye for an eye was spoken into a culture that was so hellbunt on vengeance, that was stuck in such a violent world, that the seed of Satan had taken such great control that all they could handle to try to be fair at that point was eye for an eye. Right. Because they were murderous and horrible. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

I mean, I've I've had quite a few people come to me and ask about slavery in the Old Testament. Right. It's a very touch of topic nowadays. And they're like, well, God was so loving, but why did he abolish slavery back in the Old Testament? And I'm like, he did later on. So unfortunately, back there in that culture, it was just so hard of our reason.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Well, we have a more contemporary idea for this anyway. The United States was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. Right, right. The documents themselves were greater than the reality that we lived in for a very long period of time. And is that because the documents were bad and the mind that wrote them was evil? No. No. It's because the culture that that was written to that that was it for the that document was written to wasn't ready for it. So you know, I mean, okay, let's get back to our notes here. So the date of this is gonna be somewhere around AD 66. But Paul was murdered in A.D. 67. Now, Paul is the greatest theologian in the New Testament.

unknown 19:11

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

By far.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

He's got the most documents, and he was constantly, constantly battling not only Gen, not only Jewish people for being Judaizers, but Gentiles too. Because all this stuff is just creeping in, right? Like, I am convinced that the way Jesus' teachings, the way of the Essenes, the purified Judaism, Jesus, it's just a soft, supple, kind Judaism.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

That its focus is on accepting you where you are today and not putting a bunch of stuff on you. Right. Because God Himself will teach you. Right. That's what Jeremiah 31 says that God will put his law. On you. So when God calls, and this was the hard part for Jewish people in the first century, when God calls, you didn't immediately have to look like you're Jewish. Right. And that was hard. And when God calls Gentiles, and this is what you saw, suddenly they started turning away from everything that they previously loved and knew. But it wasn't to the Judaism of the first century. Instead, it was away from idol worship and offering sacrifices to the emperor and following all these like statues and sexual immorality. But that not even completely, because that's a big part of these books.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

So there's a process of sanctification, and every single one of us has to be patient with one another, not to be dogmatic about that which we see as righteousness. Because what you're convinced and convicted of is what God is doing in you.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

And will He lead the other to the same place as you? Perhaps. Perhaps they'll never be ready to be like you. But what they will perhaps you aren't where God wants you to be. A million percent. Yeah, I mean, you know, truth be told, can we be bastions of truth and righteousness? I doubt it. At any given short term. Short term. Yeah. You might have a really good run for a while. Right. You know? But it's just this world has a prolific liar in it. Right. And at all times, you're constantly being bombarded, especially if you're not diving into these books consistently and constantly. If music in the world is what you love, it is full of evil.

SPEAKER_03 21:59

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

If drinking, drugs, partying, friends, if you're f even if good things like your family, if they become your focus, and your only focus, you're eventually just gonna turn the way that you want to be. Right. Which is the nature of man. The the fall was can't you see that God is holding back something from you? Yep. That you could be like him. Don't you want to be like him? And that's just being autonomous, making your own decisions, doing your own thing. Right? Right. Creating your own morality, having your own theology.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

And and uh and a lot of humans, we've all been there being like, oh, I want to do my own thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

It's appealing, it looks good.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Well, doing your own thing is fulfilling to the degree that you get to be your own maker. Right. And that's where sin is. Right. You're not your own maker. Yeah. Instead, we should be in service to the one who made us. Right. But it's not, again, we go back to the principle that when Jesus restored the way, he didn't restore us to be automatons. Right. He restored each individual in the way that he is restoring them. Right. God is reaching out from the internal nature, from the inside of a man. He said that we would be his temple, your body. Right. If God is your temple, I mean if you're his temple, then God is inside of his temple and doing a work. He is working, God is always working. We're the only ones that get to rest on the seventh day.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

And that was a lesson for us. Now, on that day we should let him rest too by resting ourselves and not engaging in the things of anything except for him. That on the seventh day we're supposed to give thanks and find peace and enjoy our friends and enjoy community. God's world is community. When he called out the people in the Exodus, he created a community. When he called out the people in Jesus' Exodus, he created a community. The first thing they did was come together, sell everything, put everything in a communal pot. It was not communism. It was better than communism. But it wasn't something that lasted either. No. Because the greed of people was present. I mean, Peter had to confront greed in the very beginning of that movement. People, I tell ya. So, you know, Paul writes that consciousness of his uh that he knows that his night life is nearly over. And that his word is an epologia, a defense. That he's writing these documents in support of the truth of the church. Right. Right? The truth of what the echlesia should be. The truth of what the called-out ones should be and how they should conduct their lives. I assure you, this is a very Jewish document, regardless of what we think it is. Timothy was a half-Jew, Paul was a Pharisee, Titus did not set the tone for what was being taught. The Greek way was not the way. The way of Jesus was the way. And that's what he's teaching. So Timothy was one of Paul's personal converts. One while Paul was at Lystra on the first missionary journey, Acts 14, 8-20. Paul considered Timothy his convert as evident from his language about him in 1 Corinthians 4 17. Paul describes him as a beloved and faithful child of the Lord. In 1 Timothy 1 2, he addresses him as my true child of faith. And in 2 Timothy 1 2, my beloved child. Apparently, Timothy's mother was also converted during his first visit to Lystra. For upon Paul's return to the city, she's spoken of as a Jewess that believed. So this is how you want to read 2 Timothy. Okay? And this is really important because you have to have an imagination to step out of yourself, right? We're supposed to learn this when we're kids. We're supposed to learn how to have an imagination. And if we can hearken back to that lesson to be able to engage in something, a play friend, a whatever, right? And this is also how you empathize with someone. Right. Having an imagination. When somebody is suffering, and you say, I'm so sorry, and you never think about what they're suffering through and how that would affect you if you were that person. Then you can't empathize with them, right? And so that's what we're asking when we say how to read this is to empathize with the author and the recipients of these books. To imagine yourself in this place. And take that imagination and temper it with knowledge. Don't just make stuff up. Because this is a real place at a real time. This isn't an imaginary friend. Right. There's a difference. So you're a church leader, and for many years you have overseen the development and expansion of the churches in Ephesus. You're growing tired of the work of ministry, and you need to renew your commitment and energy to the kingdom of God. You're fearful about the future because false teachers and persecution continue to challenge your church. Your mentor, the Apostle Paul, has been in prison, and it doesn't look like he'll be released. You're growing older, and you want to make sure that your life counts for the cause of the one whom you love, Jesus. You've suffered many hardships over the years and feel discouraged, and some of the circumstances and challenges that you face are very difficult. There are false teachers who have secretly infiltrated the church. They're spreading false doctrines that can only hurt the Christian walk. You need to be encouraged and reminded about the important aspects of the ministry. You receive this letter from Paul, you read it with great anticipation of knowing how this man whom you dearly loved is surviving in his imprisonment. You read so that you might know how to confront these false teachers with the Word of God. You hope that you have another opportunity to visit Paul and fellowship with him. That sounds like a desperate situation.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

That's right. Not a letter to a church.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Yeah, I mean, he probably took and preached some of it. You know what I mean? But yeah, you're not wrong. I mean, Timothy was a leader of the church. Yes. And he was a leader of a church during the lead up to a very dark time.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

And, you know, if you know, you know, you can sense it's coming. You can sense it's coming today.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

We we are in 2025, and something dark this way comes. Right. And you know, Timothy's got the world in front of him, the world of challenges in front of him.

unknown 29:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

First of all, he's a have to, and he just got circumcised, and he probably doesn't have the training that Paul had. Right. And so there's a certain feeling of inadequacy in short. Right? So if we, you know, if we were to go through this whole thing and empathize and think deeply about it, we could probably come up with a hundred points of why Timothy would really be struggling right now.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

He also is considered a traitor by both sides. Yes. He wasn't a full Jew and he wasn't a full Greek.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Right. Yeah, half-breed's not so good. Right. Right? Especially in a time when being Roman was a very big deal. Ethnic Romans were a very big deal. Meanwhile, to Jewish people, and still today, ethnic Jewish is a very big deal. So he's in a he's in a first of all, he's in a synagogue. They're not churches yet. He's in a synagogue with a bunch of Gentiles in it, and his own people are like, you have to. What are you doing? Not only did you follow this Essene, right? This backwater nobody place, but now you're fellowshipping with pig eaters.

unknown 31:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

I mean, he's in a bad place. Right. But he's doing it because God is calling people. And that's what God does. That's why when Jesus said, and we should take it seriously, that you should love as I have loved you. That means so much more than we actually realize.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

You know, I actually told someone at work because I was debating with the Bible. Um and the biggest thing that I I told him, I said, if I wanted to believe any religion and follow their ways, the Bible would not be one of them. He said, Well, why is that? You're a Christian though. And I said, Because it's really, really hard. Yeah. It's really hard to follow the way.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

Well, it doesn't allow you to be self-righteous. Right. Yeah? Right? There's nothing in this Bible that says that people are good. There's nothing in this Bible that says that you will ever be good enough. Right, right. What it says is no matter how good you are or you think you are, the only thing that matters to you is what God has done for you. Right, right. And you need to fall in line and be willing to die to yourself first and not love the world second. Right. It is not a people religion. No. This is a divine mission of looking out at a dying place and recognizing it's dying, which most people can't.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

No.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

Right. Even though you can clearly see death. Right. Which is one of the unique things about the human mind. We can convince ourselves of that which is not true for convenience. Meaning, it's fine. I mean, yeah, there's murders and things, but there's good things. Right. Well, how about you're gonna die? How about the world is decaying? Right. Just listen to the news. All we hear is crazy weather floods are coming. We have to, the government's constantly trying to take control because it's gonna go bad. And we're like, no, it's fine. Meanwhile, the Bible says, no, they're right. Yeah, right. The problem is that they want to take control to change you, to turn you away from me, to remove the world from me. Right. Yeah. But I'm telling you, I'm taking everything from them by death. So if you want the future, you have to see the death that reigns. Right. And come to me and let me be your protector through the blood, through the sacrifice of the greatest high priest that ever lived. Right. But nobody wants, I mean, Jesus' name means it's a curse to some people. Right. They won't even say it. They won't entertain the idea of it. But there's no other religion on the face of the earth like this.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Because all the other religions are created by people. Right. This is the only one where God created and then God entered the world and then God made a way. Right. Right. And it has nothing to do with you'll never be righteous. Right. But except for he made you righteous. Right. And why? Because he loves you. Right. That's the only reason. Not because you're right. Not because you have some propensity to be right.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

Not because you followed some kind of 12-step plan to get there.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

There's no mikvas that are gonna save you. There's no righteous acts. There's no commands. Zadakah isn't gonna lead you anywhere. Right, right. But what is going to lead you somewhere is the righteous one who justifies you and puts you under his name because he cared. He gave up his life. He showed you that this is dying and he was willing to take part in it. But he's the one who didn't remain in the grave. So he showed us, yes, this is dying, but this is life. Right, right. And there's that's the caveat. That's where the story changes. Because there's nobody on earth who can make that happen. Right. Only God. What's the key verse on this one? You got that pulled up?

SPEAKER_02 35:31

The key verse: what you heard from me, keep as a pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Jesus Christ. Second Timothy 1.13.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

And the things you've heard from me say in the presence of many witnesses, and trust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. So hear, learn, teach.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Right? That's that's the formula. Because we have to pass on the truth. That God entered, that God saved, that God conquered death. Right. Hear, learn, teach, be the sieve. Pour it in and pour it out. Right. So the argument of 2 Timothy is that Paul argues that Timothy must be strong in moral character and sound doctrine, so he may be able to refute the apostasy and false doctrine that has and will continue to affect the churches. Right. Does it sound like an idealized world? No. The first church was full of fallen people. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

Today's church is full of fallen people.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Yeah. Amen. Yeah. And here we are today talking about the one who conquered death still. Yeah. Because the one who conquered death can make you righteous if you would but call on him. And that's what we're asking to do today. Call on Jesus and say, Lord, I want to be righteous. Make me right. I will come to the foot of the cross, but I won't stay there. I'll dive into your word and I'll become a sieve because what I learned, I will pass on, and I ask this for you in Jesus' name. Thank you for joining us, boys. Thank you. Have a great night, day, afternoon, evening, wherever you are. We love you. We're thank you for you. Please reach out to us at modernmindhbook at gmail.com and check out YouTube. Thank you so much. Bye bye.

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Bye.