Timothy... Don't Quit!

Well, grab your Bible. So let's go back to first Timothy were in chapter 6 count on the downhill slope here at the end of this letter of the apostle Paul to use younger understudy Timothy. He has placed Timothy in Ephesus to continue reforming in setting up the church. We call this beautifying the broad he's telling Timothy. Here's the way the church, the bride of Christ is to be faction structured and to function and we've seen so much about that. And of course all the way through. He's giving personal admonitions, even commands to Timothy about what Timothy needs to do and how Timothy needs to respond and we come to this last session, and there may be several parts to this, but I've entitled the exposition of first Timothy 612 Timothy don't quit Lewis Ira look at the camera and film again flip I tell her, but you might come up with him. No, look at the camera will you wanted to go into the woods with me and that's we were starting back up the hill I knew for 23-year-old that was going to be tough and brush that I'm not going. I want him to learn that you got a new thing to do. You think you can't do this part of the reason why boys need fathers around marble to pick him up over that branch took him to the buggy but most guys are prone to want our young guys to begin to learn how to be men face things lessor, Timothy years, Timothy was struggling along in some ways I asked myself the question, why would Paul not just here at the end of the letter but numerous times throughout the letter. He basically tells Timothy to keep on keeping on Timothy don't backup don't give up. Don't quit. But then I remember some things about Timothy first about Timothy was raised by women by his mother, Eunice, about his grandmother, Lois, so probably things were softer in his raising than if you had a dad or granddad around a lot, so maybe he needed a little more manly challenge so you don't quit keep going. Also, Timothy was a man who tended toward timidity insecurity he would face challenges in battles. Williams is harder for him. I think the reference Paul makes to him having stomach problems was probably from the difficulties of the challenges in the warfare's of reforming the church to be biblically healthy.

Third reason why think he just often since Timothy don't quit is that Paul is now rotting from the perspective that he's at the end of his race. Paul has done it and he knows how hard it can be. He knows how crafty the enemy years. He knows how tempting it is to quit so he's charging Timothy Frakes, Timothy Dalton quit and this is a word for all of us here this morning.

You might not be called into the ministry, but your child of God and God's word to you this morning's were not quitting were not slowing down were not backing up were not coasting were not quitting. Let's glean from it for ourselves this morning. First of all, I Timothy don't quit.

Instead, you must keep on fighting the good fight of faith get there in our verse second to number the first Timothy chapter 6 verse 12 fight the good fight of faith.

So Timothy, first of all, here you plus keep on fighting the good fight of faith limit readable birth take hold of the eternal locked with your call and you made the good confession of the presence of many witnesses. So this first phrase that according quitting Timothy keep on fighting the good fight of faith. I got to thinking about that I thought you don't really every person on the earth is fighting a fight they really are. Everybody's fighting in this life there fighting for more time there fighting for more money there fighting to find more pleasure there fighting for more popularity.

Is it not amazing with with the Internet. The way people use it to promote themselves more popularity there fighting for more power and more control over see that everywhere there fighting for a longer life and for better health. Not saying all these fights are wrong.

There's good and that certainly we should fight for those things that I remember visiting with the beer man who was quite wealthy and he lived in an area of the country were very wealthy people live and donning these people just independently wealthy, and he said yes would believe these people. They spend every waking moment looking for the next juice to drink to make their health better. The next vitamin concoction. The next workout or yoga are whatever it is to squeeze every bit of time they can out of living longer all this are fighting, fighting for peace, fighting for contentment and on and on we could go just to squeeze out of life, something more something better, but the problem is this fighting is never ending. Because this world never truly satisfied in the context of judgment but also there's another side of the coin of what I'm about to say also to show that God was revealing to Israel now that you turn to the world and not to me. You're never really satisfied. Look at Hosea 410 they will eat but will not have enough just not enough I will play the harlot but not increase.

You went after other gods playing the harlot spiritually. But it's just not enough because they start giving heed to the Lord Hagy chapter 1 verse six you have sown much but harvested little. You eat, but there's not enough to be there is a satisfied you drink, but there's not enough to become drunk you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes. Again, God's judgment is causing leanness to their lives. But the other side, the court is also true when you look to this world, which is what Israel had begun to do instead of looking to God for their peace, their joy, their satisfaction, their supply to the world and got it working out for you. Never enough is all. But compare Proverbs 1325 the righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite. But the stomach of the wicked is in need. So actually friends this morning. Whether you're a Christian or not a Christian. Fighting is no option all men are fighting through this life. The man of the world is finding in frailty and in vanity and no matter how hard he fights against ends up rather would total loss and eternal destruction, but not contrast what he saying to Timothy.

Timothy don't quit.

Instead, you keep on fighting the good fight the good fight of faith, the Christian you say like Timothy fights not just any fight he fights the good fight. The word good. In verse 12 is a Greek word that has the idea of excellence and sometimes it's translated beauty are beautiful. I think they actually go together. For example, it used in Luke 521. The temple was adorned with beautiful stone same word we have here for good.

A beautiful thing. While the best translation I believe is the word good is it not also true that it's a beautiful thing when you give yourself to the good fight, follow Christ. Find your joy and satisfaction in him.

Give yourself to advance his work and his kingdom. It's beautiful because it's beneficial to yourself for both time and for eternity if you don't give yourself to the good fight of faith is beneficial to you for time and for all eternity and ways to one person to marvelous to even comprehend. It's also beneficial to all those who will watch you and learn from you if you'll fight the good fight of faith. You do the best you be doing the best you can possibly do to bless and help those around you as they watch your example learn from your witness.

And of course when you fight the good fight of faith. You are most beneficial to Christ eternal church and that again last for time and for eternity. So it's a good fight but it's a beautiful fight at the beautiful thing. So here in verse 12 Timothy is exhorted even commanded Timothy don't quit keep on fighting the good fight.

By the way, let's remind ourselves that it's actually a grace gift to get in on the good fight.

You didn't just in your wisdom, decide I'm going to follow Christ. You didn't just in your inherited virtue because you naturally have no virtue decide I'm going to be a Christian. I'm going to follow Jesus Christ.

It's a grace gift that you aren't able to see the good fight and get in on it and put her arms around and embrace it with our hearts and listen to all of this we find in a battle where victory is assured.

We fight from victory to victory, victory is already been one. He's arty safe because he's placed us in his heavenly kingdom I were fighting for the ultimate victory one day when we get home to a beautified glorified eternal state. Jesus Christ in every way.

This is the good fight Timothy Paul says don't quit instead keep on fighting the good fight of faith. Now let's see here Roman to.

He continues on here and he says and take hold of the eternal life to which you were call so Timothy don't quit, but instead I want you to take hold of eternal life to which you can call now when you think about what is it mean to take hold of the eternal life well in the balance of biblical truth, the eternal life has at least two major component eyes were talking about. What is this mean to take hold. Timothy don't quit but reach out and grab and embrace what's been given you.

This eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord two parts eternal life. One is that this eternal life speaks to what Jesus called the abundant life you might have life and have it more abundantly.

We might call it the Christ centered life of the Christ empowered life. Paul, on another occasion, calls it the spirit filled life. I believe all of these are talking about the same thing.

Ephesians 518 do not get drunk with wine for this dissipation, but be filled with the spirit of the rich would you drink an alcoholic beverage to smaller grid, a great degree, you're getting alcohol. The control of your life.

FISA don't do that. Let the word of God by the power of the spirit of God be the controlling factor in your life that's embracing and living out this abundant life, spirit filled life, Christ centered life strive to walk Timothy in Christ in this life you received at the new birth. Timothy don't quit instead.

Take hold of eternal life.

So one part of eternal life. Is it something we live out in everyday life we have it now. We embrace it we walk with Christ today you have the special illuminating enablement of the Holy Spirit of God within you to help you grasp the truth of the word of God, that you might live out these timeless eternal truths right now in everyday life will another part of eternal life would be the glorified state the eternal state that we will all get to one day.

I think part of what he saying here. Maybe this is the major thrust is Timothy don't quit until you get all the way home to the place were headed to know why you can't quit because you're still here. Amen. You can't quit because you still here.

There's no retirement on honoring Jesus.

There's no retirement on loving Jesus Christ.

There's no retirement on dedicating your heart and your life in your resources to Jesus Christ as a pastor I thought about retirement. I thought well I may not physically, mentally be able to do what I've done in the past but I've asked the Lord, Lord, just let me grow old effective for you. Some things may change, but we never retire. We don't quit walking with Jesus Christ until we get all the way home. Until we get to that final eternal state. Paul wrote about it to the Philippians. This way, Philippians 312 not that I already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on, so that I may lay hold of that for which I was late hold by Christ Jesus. Jesus healed his sovereign grace. Late hold of me and brought me to this place of being his child, but on the other side of the coin, I'm in time and space history. I must choose to labor to please him and live for him and honor him and lay hold up until I get all the way home to that glorified eternal state.

We work until we get all the way home.

There's no quitting until we get to the finish line pastor. Where's the finish line.

When you look like Jesus when you're glorified with him in heaven. That's the finish line. Now there's a little phrase here on this part of the text, and you'll notice my outline is just breaking down the verse into one phrase at a time, to Timothy, don't quit instead take hold of eternal life than that.

Here's the phrase to which you were call to which you were called.

What a strong motivation. This is to us to never quit. Simply put, are you listening, you cannot stop what you didn't start if you stop go ahead and quit. Go ahead and one sentence because you didn't start this new can't stop it. You didn't capture your heart and mind capture your heart and mind of the preaching of his gospel and the power of his spirit. You didn't choose him first.

He first chose you. All of this ridiculous worldly blasphemous nonsense today that church is been dumbed down and reduced to going to some event on Sunday and hopefully it's entertaining and uplifting enough to make me want to come back. What nonsense charts just because God saved me and God changed me transform my heart.

I map my affections and my desires and he has placed me into his local church and that's where I belong.

All and that's why I attend her meeting church is not something you attend the churches that organism that organization to which you belong your call to that you didn't start this thing so you can't stop it. Timothy God called you to this. What a humbling that is what an endearing motivation. This is not couldn't just leave us alone. I have several thoughts on calling here.

Timothy don't quit, but instead keep laying hold that eternal life to which you were called to aspects of this calling. I want us to think about.

First of all, based on the balance of biblical truth. We know he called us to be with us.

He called us that he might be with us or you could say he called us, that we might we might be with him. He called us to fellowship.

The tribunal God of all glory, honor and power, placed his heart upon me in eternity past lesson that I might be his own and I might be with you about security of your salvation. Christ desires you to be with him. He's not but nobody can thwart his will. We need to dwell upon the glorious truth of this. Remember the focus of God in saving us was not primarily to keep men out of hell.

The primary focus of God in saving us is that he might have a people that would be his and be with him forever. That's wonderful beyond compare that getting save you missile, but that's a secondary point in the balance of Scripture.

The primary poorness. God says I want you to be mine were called out people were necklace he appears, what about 100 times in the New Testament is translated church. It almost always means a local church's literally the word echo Seo means called out ones you're the called of God, called to be with him called to be in fellowship with him. You know it's interesting the called is a tidal that's seldom ever used today as they were Christians were say where this and that I would have a piglet. Who are you sound I'm one of the called. Why don't you is thoroughly biblical. It emphasizes an aspect of truth that I believe Satan wants us to forget this a few verses Romans 166 Paul addresses the church at Rome and says, among whom you also be called your the called ones of Christ Jesus. First Corinthians 124 to those who are the called your the call, both Jews and Greeks. Jude 112. Those who are the called again what I really love this one because of the image it creates for us.

Revelation 1714. This is after the church has been glorified with Christ our our our groom and now we return with him and final judgments. As these will wage war against the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of Kings and those who are with him. That's all of us are the call and the chosen and the faith that orders very important because if you are not the called and the children.

You'd never be faithful get over your arrogant pride. You would not of chosen him to be faithful you're only faithful because he first chose you call it is interesting that Paul still laid out on Timothy insights Timothy called one so you can quit. I love this emphasis there were still talking about that first of all, were called to be with him fellowship with him.

Mark 313 and 14 truth here and he Jesus went up on the mountain and summonsed those whom he himself wanted and they came to him and he appointed 12 and here's the phrase so that they would be with him. Don't miss that. And then that he might send them out know what some of you feel like God may be leading you the pastoral ministry. I know many many watch our broadcast will weigh the other pastor text me this morning and said were leaving for church. My wife was listening to something. This actually happened just a moment ago and the pastor satisfy what you listening to Lisa.she said I'm listening to brother Jeff preach about silly women in the church anyway.

These were these disciples that Jesus selected were called to be with you, so that through their witness all the called ones may one day be with him and this is what his high priestly prayer was centered on concerning us. John 1724, Jesus prayed as the cross is looming right before him. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me there it is. Be with me going to be with me Lord, we with me. Father can't quit being God called you to be as it isn't it precious Timothy isn't a humbling Timothy visited marvelous Timothy God wants your fellowship can't quit on it. Slack off now glory. This is well.

Another aspect of this calling. That certainly was a part of what Paul was saying to Timothy was the call to a mission all in effect, sensitivity, Timothy.

Be reminded that you were called to a mission, the King of Kings and the Lord of lords has called you Timothy. He's called all of us to join him in the task of all task Matthew 20 882 through 20 Jesus came up and spoke to them saying all authorities been given to me in heaven on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nation, baptizing them that includes local church assemblies bag. Tossing them in the name of the father the son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I've commanded you low on with you always, even to the end of the age. That's the task of all task Timothy remember what you're called to the fact that's what Timothy's call to every minister of God is called that but every Christian is called to join their minister said let's all together is God's family keep this going in the earth, call to mission. What an honor. What a privilege this calling from the highest of beings, God himself to give ourselves to the highest of commissions.

This can't be neglected.

Timothy you can quit now some of you sitting here this morning under my voice and you're leaning toward quitting to work for you.

This is why God is to glory is to undress.

If you let this pass you by your the phone about those that what Paulson did not Timothy. I don't think is at this point. Doing this at all. He's just saying Timothy I know you're kinda tidbit I know you're insecure. I know you been really hurt when people rose up against you in the church say this, but you were raised by me in your motion raised by women. They were probably to papering the view Timothy you need to man up and keep going. Don't quit well. The next thing Timothy don't quit. You can't quit because you need to remember something and remember you work you've made the good confession of the presence of many. Remember, you've made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses is the last part of the verse. There, and that the conjunction means.

Paul's just building one charge and principal upon another, and Suzanne Timothy. By the way you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses God did call you Timothy in his sovereign grace that you answered and publicly made your confession, you could say profession known in front of me and the word confession. Here is the Greek word Homo Lucia Loki. I guess you could say Homo dear means the same, and then to speak means you've made this statement that your one with Christ are the same here want to feel your followers is you've made the confession Timothy. When we talk about our confession of faith as a church we use the New Hampshire confession of faith which was the earliest of the more popular confessions of faith among Baptist in America many years ago and we've modified it, not to change what's in it, but to amplify some of the elements in it. That's our confession. It is just words, Loki.

It's the wording. It speaks the word of what we believe someone said that confession is the substance of our profession. Timothy your profession here is that you confess Jesus Christ as Ward and Savior Timothy did this before. I know you did this unlock coney amended list related regions where you grew up and you did this in your home.

You did this in your community. It's out there. Timothy baptism, by the way is the profession of faith in Jesus Christ in baptism.

What are we doing were confessing that Jesus is our Lord and Savior and were confessing. Because of that, we pledge our loyalty to this local church.

Baptism is never baptism. If it's not before the local church in which you're going to serve Christ. It makes both of those pledging our testimony of your conversion and your allegiance to Christ as Lord and Savior and then to serve Christ as your Lord and Savior in a local church. Timothy done that. Timothy, you must finish what you started. What a shame Timothy to turn back or even fall back now.

Ever Timothy. There's 1/3 component. Not only do you confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

Not only that you pledge loyalty to serve him in the local church. Timothy you also confess God has led me to the office. A pastor not use that in a general sense, because at this point, you might technically call him apostles, the system, but he is functioning as pastor in full-time ministry in the church at Ephesus.

We had 1/3 component full-time ministry and for Timothy this profession are this confession was more than a one time thing. And that's true for all of its it's more than just words. It includes our life, our lifestyle, he sent Timothy your whole life thus far has been a good strong confession of Jesus Christ. It would be the utmost shame Timothy and the utmost disgrace at this point the fall back. Someone said, the more we have progressed the last excuse. We have to digress. While church. I couldn't help but think of grace laughter to the shoulder truck there. Hopefully it's true. I believe it's true that by God's grace for 40 years together.

Now we progressed I remember those early days when I I looked at our church and I thought this thing of what conversion to Christ.

Salvation were missing something here.

I know some things were bad wrong but no one is sure what it will. So I begin to take us through a deep study of the Scriptures and of badness, history, and I found out some things are bad this forefathers would be shocked but a lot of the motions, the procedures, if not the antics of what badness do today to say get you saved, they would never know the history is clear on Charles Haddon Spurgeon is probably the greatest evangelistic Baptist pastor who ever lived that he never had a mourner speech he never had an altar call me never call people the front you know why it's not in the book he get them everything. The book said you do to get people say we didn't give them fleshly dependent antics or who jump so I thought something's wrong at Grace life. How can we be baptizing all these people in six weeks or six months later, we can't find them anymore so we went on a long journey together. A lot of people are unhappy about that lot of other churches and badness folks outside of our simply were unhappy about it, let us know. They were unhappy about our tell you I want to quit.

A lot of times now, today we got that fixed and now today it lit and I'm not just exaggerating and going up percentages instead of having like 90% of the votes we baptized begin active or become inactive. Two years later now 90+ percent of our people are faithful to years later when to quit. We were informed well by God's grace to quit thought about membership. I wonder pastor just a little while. I got to look at the membership on a thought. Good not there's almost 2000 people in her membership roll that the FBI couldn't find and we did know about quite a few of them and I lived out there in the world like they were haven's never been changed by the power of the gospel.

Yet we said our church membership roll their members in good standing and good disciples of Jesus Christ of the war.

This is gonna change about the way we didn't do it all right.

We did the best we knew how to do, but we didn't have any example follows.

We just did the best we know we started updating our membership roles don't remember the Sunday I dismissed 500 people for forsaking sure was fun. The next six months. After that I had some mom was calling me her baby was 4545 years old and today we have a very accurate true membership grace lecture you don't on our biggest Sundays, some Sundays are biggest Sundays will have to to 300 people more in attendance than we have been membership. That's healthy. We come too far to quit now. We can't turn back now that we've got to take this and thought arts and I need you with me. I need you prayers I need your support. I need your example and not need your money. Thought about corrective church discipline and how I read about it and studied about it.

In 1875 the Baptist churches of Georgia excommunicated discipline for membership 75,000 people there were some abuse I thought today throughout the opposite to that you get excommunicated from the Baptist Fellowship.

If you discipline people is just the truth. It took years and years and years. I was learning you were learning. But today that's just the pattern of healthy church life.

If your church has no discipline. Listen to me is not mature. This is not church I'm sorry I don't know what is not church by God and grace actually say some people in that setting but is not your and we got that going in its running well: the spirit is right about and that's what blesses me the most is never to convene him and is never enough.

Boast us up as arrogant or better. It's loving compassion and humility of the glory of God, we come too far to quit now personalize strategic world missions. What a journey that's been we come too far to turn back now, small groups, how we've reformed that through the years. How blessed it is and on and on we could go and now we come to the place we been doing this for many years were now mentoring other pastors and churches in the last piece of the machine having some structured way to help us do that is not everything but structured training is needed and now we've got that in places needs a lot of work. Tim sales help me a lot on all of this but needs a lot of work but it's is this rolling can't quit now just can't distinguish mobile equipment distributed. I'm go somewhere you can go nowhere else.

Only let the air out your tires can quit now come to far too far. We can't quit now supposed to Timothy is made a lot of progress.

You've helped this church. Timothy just don't quit quit now you've made the good confession grace lecture to the shows you've made a good confession that you believe the Bible used to you've made a good confession that we can actually structure our church to be thoroughly biblical and God will bless it.

Churches made a good confession you made a good confession don't quit now quit now the world makes their confessions of faith than not make you go out and told people were there making their confessions of faith there that they trust in science to make a confession are our faith isn't science sides will save.

I get so tickled today when they start criticizing us conservatives don't trust the science science was saying when I was a teenager that were having another. I say true. You know why. When I was a boy in a teenager.

We had some just a series of very bad winters here in the mid South.

I later remember sledding for weeks at a time always.

We can have some more that that would be so fun.

The science about the way it would really true science. It was their speculative hypotheses have another Ice Age matter saying Raven global warming, but now that's not panning out as the data keeps coming into Vegas so I would just call it climate change when the pandemic started.

I'm not saying these people at evil motives when the pandemic started. Don't don't don't wear a mask mask don't have nowhere mask now where mask where mask is the only thing that will save us time for wearing a mask. I believe there's wisdom in it but what I'm saying inside Steve's tele-stuff and changing its mind but people have faith in science. Remember, we just need 15 days to flatten the curve where were about six months and the curve got flattened but now, now they change the end result now we gotta make sure nobody in America ever get sick again.

I focus for something to be scientific. It scientific it has to be observable and reproducible. Every time you have these things in order to get this result, every time that science so what I'm saying. You and I trust science. This is just not science but people had little folks. People have their whole faith in man and his scientific abilities girlfriend put their faith in religion. They put their faith in education to put their faith in human goodness. I put their faith in their own morality and their own ethics and that the end of the day it's all faith in self people like their confessions of faith who don't know Christ. You know what they're called to Teresa Timothy you are called to this and you made this good confession with her called and they make their confessions up this not the good call is the call of the antichrist spirit is the cross of the unholy spirit. Jesus said in John 823 and you say to them you are from below they're getting a call from below pieces but I'm from above. James 315.

This wisdom, this worldly wisdom that man put their men put their faith in. This is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural natural rather and demonic in this unholy spirit called the people to put their faith in anything and everything but God's provision. His son, Jesus Christ. This unholy unholy spirits call begin in the garden of Eden when Satan told Eve when the that tree you will be like God. When you do that in effect you build your own God. You'll make your own rules you decide for yourself what's right and wrong, good and bad.

You don't need anybody outside of yourself. Is that not where our world is today the makeup morality what's good and bad.

By the way, it changes every week.

That's the calling of the unholy spirit. It's not the good calling and is not the good confession, but Timothy Paul is saying you're not. Of these, you are called to a better confession, Timothy, to the good confession good meaning that which is excellent and beautiful. The confession of one called, not of the unholy spirit of the blessed true Holy Spirit of God to Timothy stay the course and lastly he says in verse 12, in the presence of many witnesses and became quit keep on fighting the good fight of faith you to hold of this eternal life is what needs to which you been called, you've Artie made the good confession and you made it in front of many witnesses. Timothy you been example so many not end well.

Now finish up well don't quit. Hebrews 12 one reminds us. Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us out as well throw this EN during this pandemic.

I'm believe. Not many grace life is doing very well for this, but I believe there some of the brethren. These are good brothers and sisters that the evil ones taken advantage of them. I may not acquit with their leaning over him quitting and you give them a message from me and the apostle Paul. Don't quit the pandemic outside Sunday school. He got us out of coming together for worship got us out of this if some of you may have gotten out of giving. I don't know.

It's time you get back with you've made the good confession from any witnesses right up there in that baptistery on somebody's baptistery you belong to God and God's local church and by the way, we need you. It's just not about what I think it just as much if I listen to. This is not about us but didn't boil where Saar made to saying you see you singing the songs of the five help them serve God when he gets older begin chart we need each other, but Junior girl lady needs to see you praying with a tear in your because your love for Jesus Christ, the stove went to that something will help early wrong thing. I'm going over Jesus no matter what these hellish ungodly professors, a massive University tell me we need each gotta have each other honestly honest, I am. I am wholly depended upon you. You keep me going. We need each other.

Timothy, you made this confession in front of so many witnesses as to how much damage it would be quit St. Paul. He hadn't quit. There's no evidence equip a VW multi-one. You let me say passed) are screaming at me yeah but you won't quit one day you will can't stop what you did start. God called this one essence what Paul is telling to Timothy, here is Timothy. What will everyone think what will everyone thing lets us know them proper motivation. If you discount a fallout Timothy in affect policy anger young man you have established a strong profession both by word and vide before all was not quit rice like church and all of you dear precious individual members of grace like church files and one ways you individually and we as a body have made a good confession wing to do what Paul tells Timothy don't slack off now. Don't fall back now. Don't close now, don't quit, we done yet. Great, great days are ahead for God's church and God's people