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

But aside from these sorts of things, the apostle seems more to be getting at the sort of nonsense espoused by the false prophetess Ellen G. White,

one of the chief founders of Seventh-day Adventism,

who proclaimed that eating meat at all was the problem.

Still to this day, few people realize the close connection between the Seventh-day Adventists and the present push for plant-based food.

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 First 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. So in our previous study, Paul reminded Timothy that he was planning on returning to Ephesus to see him soon,

but he knows that human plans may go awry, and so he wrote to Timothy the instructions contained in the epistle so that one may know how one ought to behave in the church, the household of the

living God. Families have their way of doing things, and that holds also

for the family of God. Remember also that Paul called the church a pillar and buttress of the truth.

I mentioned how many Roman Catholic and Orthodox apologists likes to use that verse to buttress their

contention that whatsoever the church comes to teach,

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