Good evening brothers and sisters take your Bibles if you have them turn please to 2

Timothy in chapter 2. To hear the word of the living God. 2, 1st. 1 through 13.

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you've heard from me in the presence of many witnesses in trust to

faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled

in civilian pursuits since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not

crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first

share of the crops. Think over what I say for the Lord will give you understanding and everything.

And I think because he said that in verse 7 we should read that verse again.

Think over what I say. For the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Remember Jesus Christ.

risen from the dead, the offspring of David,

as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering bound with chains as a criminal, but the

word of God is not bound. Therefore, I endure everything for the sake of the elect

that they also may attain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is

trustworthy for if we have died with him we will also live with him.

If we endure, we will also reign with him.

If we deny him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

He remains faithful. He remains faithful.

Say it with me. He remains faithful.

Pastors and missionaries. say it with me, he remains faithful. Our father, you are the

God that we've read of from your holy word. We bow in

contemplation of your greatness and your glory and we agree in our hearts that you are God the faithful and that lion lamb at your right hand.

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