The Cost of Commitment
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline. |
| 0:10.0 | 2 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 7. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:20.0 | The Cost of Commitment was written and read |
| 0:22.7 | by Sotral Dixon. 2 Timothy chapter 1, verses 6 to 14. For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame |
| 0:34.0 | the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. |
| 0:39.5 | For the spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline. |
| 0:48.1 | So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, his prisoner. |
| 0:54.9 | Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God. |
| 1:01.0 | He has saved us and called us to a holy life, |
| 1:05.1 | not because of anything we have done, |
| 1:08.0 | but because of his own purpose and grace. |
| 1:12.2 | This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now |
| 1:19.3 | been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death |
| 1:27.1 | and has brought life and immortality to light through the |
| 1:31.4 | gospel. |
| 1:32.8 | And of this gospel, I was appointed a Herald and an apostle and a teacher. |
| 1:39.2 | That is why I am suffering as I am. |
| 1:42.4 | Yet this is no cause for shame shame because I know whom I have believed |
| 1:48.0 | and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. |
| 1:57.0 | What you heard from me keep is the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus. |
| 2:03.6 | Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. |
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