Amen and amen.

How are we doing, church?

Am I good?

I'm kind of surprised you came back after last week, but I'm glad you did.

If you got your Bible, grab it.

We're going to be in 2nd Timothy as we continue in this Marks of the Faithful series.

In our time together, we're in Chapter 4.

Second Timothy, Chapter 4.

We're only going to do four verses okay and so we're just gonna go to gonna dive in pick it up right where we left off last week you see again though

I need you to kind of get a be able to palm 2 Timothy in fact later this year

we're gonna come back to to this verse that's kind of been like the theme verse for

the whole thing where where Paul lays his hands on young Timothy and says god did not give you a spirit of fear but

of power and of love and of self-control we're going to do a three-week series just on that one

verse but but it's so as to not bog us down i wanted to like get a get an overview of the whole

thing so that you can have this understanding of each chapter and how the

whole letter from Paul to Timothy goes. And so in chapter one, again, this is review. Paul,

he is saying that faith just doesn't happen to you, that faith happens through you, that a real

disciple is somebody that's making a disciple. And in essence, if you're not making disciples,

are you really a disciple? And in essence, if you're not making disciples, are you really a disciple?

And then Paul is discipling young Timothy. God's got a call on his life to pastor this church,

the church at Ephesus. Paul's got a whole, I mean, Timothy's got a whole bunch of things

working against him. He grows up without a dad. He's raised by his mom and his grandma. He's

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