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Welcome to the Word of the Lord Enduresres forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

I suspect the lion here is the accuser, Satan, who, as St. Peter reminds us, prowls around like a lion,

looking for someone to devour. See 1. Peter 5, verse 8. You see, if Paul had caved into fear or despair,

then he'd be food for Satan. But the Lord strengthened him with great boldness, so that even

though he stood alone to earthly eyes, he gave a full and joyous witness to the despite of Satan.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of 2nd Timothy.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit,

be with you all. Amen. Greetings, people, loved by God. Well, in our previous study, we consider

verses 9 through 16 of 2. Timothy 4. In it, we heard Paul beg Timothy to waste no time in coming to him.

He not only felt strongly that his death was imminent, but he was lonesome.

His erstwhile companion, Demas, had returned to Thessalonica,

and Paul accused him of being in love with this present world,

thus by implication, shirking the persecution and suffering that

might have awaited him if he had stayed there with Paul and Rome. We learn also that several

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