Shalom and welcome to Scripture Central, the Old Book of Mormon Central, for Come Follow Me.

I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson and we've got the four last books of Paul's prison letters today.

We have Philemon, First and Second Timothy and Titus.

I put Philemon first because chronologically that's where it fits.

All four of these letters were written from prison.

We usually call the last three Timothy, Timothy Titus, the pastoral letters.

He's writing these to pastors.

He's giving advice to bishops and to deacons and to the ward members and to how they can

serve and build the community of Christianity.

These letters fall in the third decade of Christianity.

And so we see the church going beyond just the missionary focus to the living together as a community

and how to build and strengthen each other and edify as saints.

If you'd like to look at my slides or my handouts, they're all online. You go to Book

of Mormon Central or Scripture Central archives and pull down, come follow me, New Testament,

and you can find them. But I wanted to present today chronological order. Remember the books

of the New Testament were put together in the order by length. But I have here on my chart, the chronological order. Remember the books in the New Testament were put together in the order by

length. But I have here on my chart the chronological order. And we know that Philemon is written

first because there's an enormous natural disaster that destroys the city that he's writing to

where Philemon lived in 63 AD. And so this letter, it probably predates the other three to Timothy and to Titus.

As far as figuring out where historically these pastoral letters fit in in these prison epistles,

just go back to the book of Acts, chapter 28.

The very end of Acts is where these fit, but most of them fit after Acts. Remember, Axe stops

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