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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, you'll hear a message from Bobby Scott from TGC's 2018 West Coast Conference.

Good evening. Let me first of all bring greetings to you all from community of faith,

Bible church, and Southgate, and express my thanks to the committee that invited me to come

and thankful for my wife who's here and my co-pass and his wife's sharing. But I do want to spend

our time working through the Word of God in 2 Timothy. My assigned passage is chapter 3, and I

invite you to turn there with me to 2 Timothy chapter 3, and I will read in my new American standard

verses 10 through 17. And when you're there say amen. Okay. All right, let's read.

Now you follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

persecutions, and suffering such as happened to me at Antioch and at Iconium and at Lystrum,

where persecutions I endured and out of them all, the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to

live God in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, but evil men and pastors will proceed from bad to

worse, deceiving and being deceived. You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become

convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the

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