All right, good morning and welcome to our Sunday morning second service. We have two services on

Sunday, the first of which is devoted to Bible prophecy. We do our weekly Bible prophecy update.

And the second service is our sermon, our verse by verse study through the Bible. We are currently

in the book of 2 Timothy. And our text today is going to be chapter 2,

the first seven verses, so we'll encourage you and invite you at this time to turn there

if you're not already there.

And while you're doing that, I just want to, by way of a reminder, let you know about the

new site at J.D.Farag.org.

There is a forum on that site and quite active and really quite a

blessing as well, a challenge for sure, but a blessing as well. So if you haven't already,

you might want to check that out at jdfarag.org. All right, let's get to the Word. Ah, so looking forward to our study today.

If I can ask you to stand if you're able, you can follow along as I read. If not, where you're seated is fine.

Beginning in verse 1, chapter 2, 2, 2nd Timothy, the Apostle Paul is writing to a young pastor by the name of Timothy.

Don't think of him as like a teenager. He's probably some believe in his 30s, which is still young.

And Paul, of course, is at the end of his life. And this is the last letter he's going to write.

It's almost like his parting words.

And what a better letter to write than to Timothy, who he loves and sees as a son.

And he even says as much here in verse one.

You then, my my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And verse two, the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses in trust to reliable people

who will also be qualified to teach others.

Join with me, verse 3, in suffering.

Oh, that's what I said. Like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving,

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