You have Paul the sacrificial rejoicer, you have Timothy the single-minded

sympathizer whose interests were only the things of Christ, and now you have this

loving gambler apaphroditis who literally threw his life away as it were

risking great danger to fill up that which

someone else want it done on behalf of someone else.

What a man. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Lenny Scutnik was just an average guy, but he did something extraordinary on the afternoon of January 13, 1982.

He jumped into the icy waters of the Potomac River and saved a nearly drowned flight attendant.

Though he received special recognition from President Reagan for his heroic act.

It's safe to say that Scutnik's name isn't widely remembered today.

Time has a way of making even heroes fade from memory.

Well, there are also heroes of the faith that we tend to forget.

Every day people who God used for great things in their day and who can use in

your life today as you follow their examples and today John

MacArthur looks at one of those lesser-known heroes a man named Epaphroditis.

To continue his study on Grace to You titled Heaven's Heroes, here is John MacArthur.

Let's open our Bibles for our time in God's word to Philippians chapter 2.

In this wonderful second chapter, the Apostle Paul selects himself as one

model of a spiritual servant then he selects Timothy as the second and as we shall

see the third is a man by the name of

apaphroditis and we will look at verses 25 through 30 of chapter 2 and

there we will come to know perhaps in a very special way this wonderful man

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