Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

Today we start the New Testament Book of Second Timothy. Many people believe that second Timothy is the last New Testament letter

that Paul wrote before his death at the hands of the Roman government.

Not long after it was written, Paul is believed to be executed, probably beheaded, at the

orders of the Emperor Nero.

So who is Timothy that this book is named after? In 1st

Corinthians Paul calls Timothy his beloved and faithful child in the Lord. And later

in that book he says of Timothy I became your father through the gospel

so when we connect the dots we think that when Paul visited Leistra, Timothy's

hometown he led Timothy to faith in Christ.

Then when Paul returned a Leistra on his second missionary journey,

Act 16 says that he found that all the Christians in that area spoke well of Timothy.

So this led Paul to invite Timothy to join him on his missionary team.

Now by the time that Paul writes second Timothy, many years have passed since he began working with

ball and now Paul is in prison and Timothy is the pastor of the church in

Ephesus you get the feeling that Paul knows the end of his life is near.

In the past, he'd been in jail, but always with the expectation he'd be released.

You don't hear that note of expectation in 2 Timothy.

There have been occasions when Paul had been under house arrest,

meaning he got to live in his own quarters while under guard.

That's not the case now.

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