All right, good morning and welcome to our second service on Sunday morning. First service,

we devote our time to Bible prophecy and second service is the verse by verse teaching through God's Word.

Last week we finished First Timothy, and today we are going to begin our study through

2 Timothy chapter 1, and our text will be verses 1 through 8.

We'll encourage you and invite you at this time to turn there.

If you're not there already and while you're doing that, I just want to, by way of a reminder,

let you know that phase 1 of our new website at jdfarog.org.org is up and it is really exciting to see the kind of

interaction that we're having already. So if you haven't checked it out, you may want to do

that. The link to that should be below in the video description there online. All right, let's get to it. Really looking forward to what the Lord

has for us today, as I think you're going to see here in a moment. It doesn't matter where you're at

in God's word, because where you're at in God's word is where you're at.

That's not a play on words.

Because God's word is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword.

And it doesn't matter where you're at in God's word.

It speaks to where you're at in your Christian life.

And such is the case today, as I'm sure you're

going to see here shortly.

So I'll ask you to stand if you're able, if not, that's all right, where you're seated

is fine.

You can follow along as I read, beginning in verse 1, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dear son, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus, our Lord.

I thank God, verse 3, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience.

As night and day, I constantly remember you in my prayers.

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