Good fight. That's the name of our summer real men Bible study will be

going verse by verse through first Timothy. You and me up here in the

mountains real informal casual 12 weeks looking at an older man named Paul

building up and investing in a younger man named Timothy teaching him how to be

a man of God and fight a good fight. I'll tell you in a day when the world has

lost its mind and everything's going to hell. A few men need to learn how to fight.

I'll see you guys online this summer as we study first Timothy the good fight.

Alright guys welcome back to our summer real men Bible study just a little

time between us girls a little conversational chat through the book of first

Timothy good fight is the theme for our time together and if you're a man of

God you got to learn how to fight the world of flesh and the devil as well as

heretics apostates and evil doers if you want to walk in integrity and be

rewarded at the finish line by your father and so we're looking at the book of

first Timothy and it's a letter written by Paul like a spiritual father to

Timothy like a spiritual son and this week we hit command number five which is

cultivate character and it's a section in first Timothy chapter three verses one

through seven and it's really about leadership integrity and cultivating

character the context is it's a letter written to a church in Ephesus and so the

immediate context is if you want to lead in a church here's cut out how we

evaluate character and qualification but principally I want to broaden it and

say these are great principles for every man to aspire to and every young man to

intentionally and vigorously pursue these are character traits of someone who is

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