The Bond

Second Timothy we continue our study through this New Testament epistle second Timothy chapter 1 verses two through five for this morning. Second Timothy chapter 1 verses two through five quick, let me say this.

I have remarked before, how did it take me so long to go through the pastoral epistles with all the work we do with pastors and I think God told me, studying this Texas because I couldn't grasp nearly as well as I do now.

Years ago, if I was free to years ago.

The, the weightiness the wonder of the glory. If you will, the holiness of this apostle. This apostle to the Gentiles on death row in a Roman prison writing.

The last thing he will write to his severest associate. That means more to me now after being in the ministry for 40 years first two to Timothy, my beloved son, grace, mercy and peace from God the father in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I think God whom I serve with a clear conscience. The way my forefathers did as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day logging to see you even as I recall, your tears so that I may be feel with joy, for I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I'm sure it is in you as well. No doubt deep emotion flows through the P end of the apostle Paul, as he writes these words to Timothy.

Paul is writing full of emotion, but it's not real emotion, raw emotion is when you fly off because you've Artie been hurt or upset in the past and something triggered of this is in a fleshly raw emotion.

This is holy emotion again Paul is on death row. He knows his execution is just ahead. He's unsure if you'll see Timothy again. Timothy is closest and most trusted disciple, the one who is like a son to him more than just any sign, it's richer. It's deeper than that. A son in the faith, and a son in the ministry. I called this the bond because were on somewhat holy ground as the apostle to the Gentiles, pours his heart out and expresses his love and his union in his oneness with Timothy his son in the ministry.

So let's unpack the bond in these four ways from this verse. I let's notice the spiritual affinity and the chain of witness spiritual affinity in the chain of witness in verse two, he simply says to Timothy, my beloved son. One scholar said you could write it this way, my dearly beloved son Rich emotion and cherishing in that phrase from Paul to Timothy agape tosses the word for beloved their course.

That's the word from agape that exist in all of us the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. The Bible says and it's it's a new thing put in there. A new type of love make God love any saying Timothy, I have a fatherly love for you in this agape, you and I both share together in second Tyrone first Timothy he called him my true child so you think about Paul's experience with ministry associate you can understand something of why he's had such a motion for Timothy because Paul had a lot of folks along the way, who fell out on him. He didn't stay faithful week. We all know the story of John Mark Pauly to leave him behind the fortunately he comes back in the picture later on in his ministry. We all know his statement of Dimas Demas has forsaken me. Paul said, having loved this present world, and later in this epistle, Paul referred to his time brought before the Roman judge and he says when I was brought before my accusers.

They all deserted me. So no wonder Timothy, who never deserted him so precious and dear to him that Harris called the apostle to the Gentiles. He's a lead minister if you will.

And apostle that office does not exist anymore. Of course, and this is God's will for Paul. He made that very clear in the first verse on apostle. According to the will of God and he's writing to this one.

Who is closest to him. Timothy, I got to thinking about that is I've been a minister now for 40 years and I'm a lead pastor in a church and I got to thinking about how that compares and parallels to my experiences, Paul's writing to this Timothy, who was so loyal and so faithful I thought one of the greatest challenges of being a lead pastor is finding a a staff of associates who are true and faithful, and who are loyal and trust me it is such a joy to have a team of brothers who are really brothers in arms together, associate ministers like I have in this congregation who are godly and who are faithful and who are humble and who are loyal, there's always human reason not to be anybody that wants to be an independent spirit, and a rebel can find a reason because were all human. Timothy never found a reason to dishonor our disavowal. Paul and I know that kinda loyalty is special to me Timothy was that kind of associate to Paul and even more, he became a dear beloved son. I was less just like to say in context here that Tom my staff is very dear to me now if you been around a long time.

It hasn't always been this way, but for many years now, we've had such good relationships on our staff. We really like each other. We really like to be around each other. We we cut up sometimes and have a lot of fun together but we really are a band of brothers. I know they love me and they serve under me out of a deep love for Christ and a deep love for his church. That's exactly what I did for my former pastor for the Bob Pittman that he would tell you that what we have it. Grace life churches I think about being a lead pastor and having these faithful associates is quite unique it is quite rare and it's interesting you in an elders meeting not long ago we were talking about some things as you don't remember this but 25, 30 years ago we all voted on a policy manual and we look to the bunch of other churches and put together policies about raises in about staff bonuses and anniversaries and those kind of things and but our staff has been here so long were getting out of the bottom of policy that we we didn't have policy for people who are around 30 and 40 years. What would you do for them. So is good. Been but a unique problem I'm saying all that to say I know something of what Paul is saying. I know the apostle to the Gentiles. I'm certainly not appalled but I know what it means to have brothers, you love and you know love you when you forgive each other and work together because Christ and the church is worth and so we see this spiritual affinity just losing out. His pulse is my beloved son. First Corinthians 417 Paul writes for this reason I have sent you, Timothy, who is here goes again, my beloved son and faithful child in the Lordy like you just can't say enough about Timothy. This spiritual bond should always be in Christ churches you just saw Chris Shepherd's testimony at Grace life Church of Brookhaven, Mississippi what he did not tell you was that they had some tough days. Also they been getting blessed but likely the tough days are blessings to you. To be honest.

They had some people had to be disciplined. We had some people who had to be removed from the church.

That's tough when you got a small congregation but to listen to me.

I've never seen a true healthy church that did not go through some of that. It's almost like it has to happen. I tell all of our church planters and all the guys that we midrash like I hope you are the exception, but don't be surprised if you don't go through a series of purging's before you get to where you have the sweetness and the unity that you see at Grace laughter to the show. You see, they get around you guys and your so sweet and you're so encouraging and you're so loving and I think both that's why my church is going to be. Then they go back and they have people that don't treat them so sweet and so loving, so that they what's wrong what is just TIA event takes time to get there, but all spiritual churches should be like that and I just like to throw out a word of practical application here. That's what we want to see in all of our small groups and in two weeks.

Everything's back on again in small groups and I want you to throw yourself in their do not hold back.

Do not resist what God wants to establish in their your Timothy R Timothy yet if your lady may be in that class. Your Paul may be in that class and you get together around the word of God in you, you share your struggles and you check your trials and you encourage each other you care for each other and body.

Life happens and as this bond comes together, then you become more transparent and after bonding and transparency, then there can be correction and accountability and we all grow together.

That's body live in a true normal healthy local church we found a lot of that through the years, but he didn't just happen you got put something in it so I'm charging you this morning. Grab your set by the Napa as I wentover and start back. I will be there for the glory of God the son by brothers and sisters and help us be this Paul Timothy type affinity.

The Christian should have one for the other.

Well, verse three he builds on this spiritual affinity with what I call the chain of witness. He says in verse three I thank my God, whom I serve with a clear conscience.

The way my forefathers did, so it you got a busy signal that will tell what's Paul saying we's writing to Timothy needs talking about how dear and how affectionate he feels toward Timothy in the Lord and Denise is not Timothy. I've serve the Lord faithfully with a clear conscious just let my forefathers did think what Paul is doing. He's showing how deep the spiritual brotherhood is the spiritual bond between believers here course. Paul, the Timothy father in spirit, and Timothy the spiritual son and that they are a part of a continuum of believers forefathers he calls faithful witnesses for God in the earth. Member Hebrews chapter 11 that gives us all of those faithful witnesses that we've had in our past. The Bible says in Hebrews 1113. They were men who saw and welcomed them from a distance they were under the old dispensation.

They didn't have the revelation of Christ we had, but the spirit of God had guided them to the word of God to where they knew the Savior was coming so they looked ahead in the distance and embrace Christ and honored him in the earth.

And Paul said, I have also let my forefathers embrace Christ and been faithful in the earth, and Timothy have a clear conscience that I'm God's genuine child, and by grace I been a continuation of this witness in the earth, just like my forefathers were before me now Timothy you are God's choice among others, to continue to carry the torch of God as God's light in the world until he returns. So think about this Timothy on death row. I'm executed anytime but Timothy, I've carried the torch by my forefathers did an activity you are going to carry the torch just deepens the affinity they have one for the space shuttle have the vocabulary to tell you how wondrous that is what kind of emotion and passion is going to the heart, appalled, and then Timothy if you read think were in the lineage. A continuum of these faithful witnesses in the earth's powerful. This makes the union and the fellowship between Paul and Timothy all the more special than all the more heart stirring as they affirm their affinity one for another, and that they are a part of God's call to bear his witness in the earth, and that torch must not be dropped will secondly this notice in this bond that is being so expressed between Paul and Timothy, the intercession for in the celebration of grace, mercy, and peace. This is a common greeting, but he says there in verse two to Timothy, my beloved son, we on package that basis, grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. You know good and well, I can't read the three words, grace, mercy, and peace, and not Paul's to unpack the glory of the doctrine so that just a little bit about grace up after you tell us about race all time. I'm going to keep telling you about grace will keep singing about grace and preaching about grace grace.

As you know, it's divine favor and it's it it includes the divinely imparted desire and power to serve God and serve his church faithfully. Grace didn't just put you in a right standing with God. It did, but grace continues in us to help us have holy affections and desires to honor God and serve God faithfully. I think that's why telling Timothy.

You just keep having the grace of God to give you that desire and that power so it's likely Paul's not really emphasizing strongly in this context that the the grace that comes out as justification that you're right standing though it's included, but it's more the grace you need to keep on for God and sanctification in service until God gives through of you in this earth now. Grace always includes that we are the object of God's favor and blasted an blessing. Rather, through no merit of our own. This includes number one. The lavish love and provision of Christ death, burial and resurrection, and intercession on our behalf.

It includes number two. The favor of his indwelling presence and his support in this life and our service to him. And number three are you listening same and if you're listening. Number three.

It includes God -sized reservoirs of forgiveness and restoration.

When we fail the grace that saves you includes God sized reservoirs of forgiveness and restoration. When we fail well.

This is something of what Paul is praying for when he says grace, mercy, and peace.

It's an intercession. It's a prayer for the same time. It's an affirmation or celebration of praise God Timothy we have these we want more and more, but we are to have it to.

That's why use the phrase the intercession for in the celebration of grace, mercy, and peace. So let's go to the second one. Mercy, grace and mercy.

Mercy is God's PDN.

It includes God's emotion. He is feeling of pity toward the most undeserving God favors us with grace, but mercy is a different twist, but God looks on us in our condition and has pity for us. Psalmist said in Psalm 103 verse 14 he is mindful are rather he himself knows our frame and he is mindful that we are but dust. He looks at us and said you ain't much your pitiful but my heart goes out to you is mercy means he feels pity for us.

He's ever mindful of our frail, tedious, ever mindful of our faulting he's ever mined mindful of our are failing in our pitiful, weak condition, and he has sorrowful concern for us as he contemplates this wretched sinful law state that we all are in. Two thoughts on that. God's mercy main God God.

God sees us just as we are in deepest need and secondly it means he possesses the desire to meet our need and easy adequate in righteousness to do it, you feel sorry for somebody in your heart go up to somebody and sometimes you can't do anything about it. But God feels pity for sinful wretches like us. He has the power to do something about mercy mercy. So Paul adds mercy to grace. That's his common order when he gives a greeting, grace first and then mercy and you know that I think that's the flow that should always be there because in one sense God's favor includes mercy which is God's pity for us and desire to help us but is hard unpack and sometimes maybe we should see them as two sides of the same coin, but grace and mercy from God is an abundant river that we literally float in as Christians we should get the bigness of the what, you get the grand door of the hat we flowed in this river of grace and mercy and we do nothing to receive it.

But we enjoyed the abundant supply.

Romans 520 reminds us, the law came in so that transgression would increase was that many will, among other things, it means that you know you are a guilty sinner but when God wrote it out in the law, then your guilt greatly increased. You know the depth of your guilt. Now there's no excuse and you can't keep the law.

If you want to keep all of it, but one of the commandments. The Bible says if you felt one of the commandments are guilty of all of them but he said when transgressions increased where sin increased last part of Romans 520, grace abounded all the more. It's a God just flooded more own you when you need this. This will show you how weird I am. But when I was a child I could literally sit for hours and read the world book encyclopedia funds like to look stuff up and you know I found out that in 1969 the Niagara Falls stop flowing. Did you know that in 1969 there was no water force. That year, flowing over we call Niagara Falls what happened.

The engineers actually built the great dam and diverted the waters around the Canadian false so that they could observe the erosion problems with the United States, Niagara Falls.

Think about that. There's a little frog in New York State is called the Cricket frog he only gets in each big those cricket frogs love moisture. I bet you there were cricket frogs live in route underneath remedies of Niagara Falls just withdrawal time plan to drink what you think happened to the little Cricket frog with a drug. A bit okay for a few days get parched. Then you got to the point where he just got on his hind legs and reached his arm support toward the top of Paul's and open his mouth sit on the knuckle. That's why we are. We get a glimpse of our own hearts and we put our hands to open our mouth soon face, see God's as well listen.

Is that enough for you about that and that little frog when those guys move that damp.

Just imagine what happened. These were tumbling through that water. And that's where you and are we just caught up in the day Lodz grace and mercy. Paul intercedes and celebrates Timothy. Praise God for grace and mercy God has given us arch impressed with our multimedia presentation this morning, but I just couldn't help but show you when I saw that water. I thought man we got look at that together young preachers out there. Be careful with doing funny stuff church you preach 40 years. You can do it twice a year grace and mercy. Then we come to the third word piece that always follows because of God's grace sees he's chosen to favor us when we don't deserve it because of God's mercy. He looks at us and says hopefully fall back sooner. Your hopefully offensive to your holy rather offensive to me but I desire to help you been because of that grace and mercy. We then have peace the word peace Paul uses here is a word that means to join the simple idea of unity are union is used in Matthew 10 of union between men is used in Luke 14 of union between nations. It's used in first Corinthians 14 of unity among churches, but here is the peace the harmony of the union between God and man is like Ephesians 217 that tells us he came and preached peace to you are far away and peace to those who were near now. This piece is certainly vertical to begin with peace we have is peace with God, but it flows over to the horizontal unity of peace among the brethren. Psalm 133 verse one reminds us how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity, grace, mercy, and peace. You know why these things are not preach so much anymore. You know why these things are not embraced and people are drawn to this because today in our world. Men are so arrogant and their stupid sleep after you've used that workup template. Yet the biblical word.

People are stupid.

Proverbs 30 verse two. The writer says, surely I am more stupid than any man I do not have the understanding of a man here the writer probably just getting honest. He saying if I were left to myself I would be so stupid it means brutish. He may not be just like the beast of the field, I would just follow my instincts and my desires without no thought of consequent the writer promises. That's what mankind is left to himself. He's he's brutish.

He's blindingly stupid.

Generally, men do not see much wrong between them and God. Jeremiah reminds us again in Jeremiah 51 717 rather all mankind is stupid and devoid of knowledge. The Bible says were blind. We have utter stupidity of the eminent danger in the raging fire of divine wrath that is yearning to engulf and consume us. We are held by cord over leaping flames of divine indignation and should sovereign justice decree we would be instantly consumed without hope. But through Jesus Christ, grace and mercy. The fire of judgment is quenched. It was burned out effectually in the body of Jesus as he hung on the cross. This is grace and mercy. The death of Christ for us has tamed the lion of divine wrath. Now he's rolled over on his back paws in the air in deep restful sleep and we are with our heads nestled on his breast safely coddled into his side also fast asleep. The beast of fierce wrath has been transformed the ferocity that was once against us for wrath is redirected and now the complete force of the Godhead is to protect us and to preserve us. You'll come. How can you take that into sit there look at me the complete composite force of God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit is directed to your safety and eternal perseverance, grace and mercy. That's peace.

There's harmony now between us and God. There's peace between us and God and is a consequent consequence peace between brothers who are in Christ.

So Paul writes this to Timothy illiterates.

All of us as he is interceding in celebrating the glorious grace gifts of grace, mercy, and peace. We have all of these in God the father and in Christ Jesus our Lord polished in this brief moment of emotional painting and bonding to Timothy celebrating that Timothy it all centers in Christ and in God the father in the grace and mercy and peace that we have in him. Number three, the thanksgiving for the sincerity and the sovereignty of Timothy's faith in Paul is saying man is just glorious that you're so sincere in your faith and it's glorious the way God got you there and got us together he says in verse three as I recall, your tears, as I recall, your tears, what he saying there to Timothy your tears reflected the deep inner conviction of your heart of a deep love and gratitude for Christ and for the grace and mercy you've received in him, and by the way, Timothy. Timothy possessed those things and those things possess Timothy Parsons, I remember your tears as tears not know mama's can get all bent out of shape when their babies cry over anything missing just that reason. I remember you weeping context means you wept over the great things of God saw the sincerity. There this was Timothy's consuming focus. It's like being glory of God.

Focus that I try to talk about a lot. This was the simple central theme of Timothy's heart. Everything else in his heart serve this central focus. Paul is where he learned this the apostle Paul said in Philippians 313 brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet. One thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. Listen to me child of God. Listen to me. You must never quit fighting to let go of that which does not matter and keep focusing on that which does that was Paul's focus, and that was Timothy's focus should be our focus is connected to it being a consuming focus. This was the controlling factor Timothy's heart and life. The grace of God and the love of God held him on course controlled and kept him steady in the race. Paul said it this way about himself. Second Corinthians 514 for the love of Christ controls us. That's what makes a great church right there is not about rules about regulations, not about laws with the people of God serve faithfully because the love of Christ controls holds them on track. Capstone course there is something to the threatenings of God more powerful is the love of God is unconditionally yours you say how can I not serve him. How can I not honor him word controls their net versus the idea of just holding together, keeping us on the task.

As Paul said in first Corinthians 916 woe is me. If I do not preach the gospel is not saying God's gotta stick over me, threatening me he saying I've just seen too much. I've experienced too much.

The spirit of God has allowed me to grasp too much of the wonder of the glory of this grace in this mercy. I miss pleased how it's plowed final preach the gospel. What leases he celebrating the sincerity of Timothy's faith in this picks up even further as we talk about the sovereignty involved in Timothy's face faith. Look at verse five pieces are mindful of the sincere faith within you. There it is again reaffirmed but he said it first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I'm sure that it is in you as well three times now he's made an expression of the sincerity of Timothy's faith, but very interestingly, this is so unusual. Paul brings out Timothy's grandmother and mother. No doubt in my mind that these were godly Jewish ladies who fervently study the Scriptures and taught them to Timothy. So when Paul came to their region preaching.

It all made sense. Immediately the Spirit of God to limit that scriptural truth that Lois and her daughter Eunice and her grandson Timothy had been taken in all those years the gospel of the grace of God in Jesus Christ. The light came on and they embraced it.

Timothy kept growing. Even the Bible says he was just had a great reputation in the churches of that region, and a Paul eventually takes him along, as his associate, Paul was ever mindful a key to your salvation and your godliness is your godly grandmother and your godly mother lot application for us. There is not moms and dads, are you listening to me.

Nothing wrong with your child being a great ballplayer, but they need to know more important to my baby. My mom said I love Jesus.

Nothing wrong with your child be a great musician, but they must know my mom is in Betty's heart that's second to loving Jesus. Our listen to me moms and dads listen to me now.

It was hard when I had kids in school is harder now you know why because the world screams at you and all these things are vinyl all these things are essential human tag church own when you get through with all this other stuff there only young once in holy Scriptures. Yes, that's what you pour me into the water young that's what you pour the truth into what you again, I'm not going by your Holy Spirit. I'm not going to judge you for what you do but dads there'll be times when you have to say we don't do that one were not going to that one were going to church use God to solder your disciple of Jesus Christ you will flow with the world and tag him all that's the new evangelical way. By the way. That's why churches are reduced to Sunday morning. Showboat church meetings and nothing else. If you're to be a disciple like Paul wasn't like Timothy was none of us are called to do what they did was some of you may be called preach our pastor nuns are called to be an apostle are possible associate but were called to be genuine and faithful in this day to teach her children so that when I hear the gospel go safe and that he loves that gospel my mama loves that Christ God uses that that's the sovereign past God used in Timothy's life by the way there something in the Bible about this that this is a general a general path to God.

For most people, I should say many people because I can't dogmatically say most of the word.

The word oi costs is the word household in the Bible and it meant more than just mom and dad and a couple kids and a dog.

It usually meant the household he could be work associates and that it could be slaves and servants in an extended relatives, but it was called household interior your web of relationships in life. Listen to these understood them quickly in the in of John chapter 4 the noble man and his whole household were saved in X11 Cornelius and all his household were saved and egg. 16. Lydia and her household were baptized in acts 16. The jailer believed in God and his whole household believed there something to that, but is not absolute. This be balance. There some exceptions. If you love Jesus. Sometimes people who hate you the most for the people in your household are you willing are you okay with that. It could be. Hopefully not, but it could be.

Jesus said in Matthew 1036 a man's enemies will be the members of his household Jesus that I didn't come to bring peace.

I came to bring the sword of the words he said were not. When I throw my piece out there in this world of error is called chop up and cut up the mess up a lot of stuff make a lot of people angry. Paul's thankful for the sincerity of Timothy's faith in he's thankful for the sovereign provision through his grandmother and his mother to bring him to that point of believing on Jesus Christ. But let me use this time to save you again.

Don't you ever give up on spouse that's lost.

Don't ever give up on a child that's lost. Don't ever give up our grandchild are not cool. I work associate just don't believe in prayer in witness again what God's going to our fourth inside into the bond between Paul and Timothy, we see the deep longing for spiritual fellowship. You could add on the end of that in Paul's final days.

These are Paul's final days notice what he says down in verse four, longing to see you in the verse four so that I may be filled with joy when you can only imagine apostle to the Gentiles and basically solitary confinement in a Roman prison uses Timothy am writing to you to say this but in effect, this might be the last thing I'm able to write while on the sea not interesting to me. There's no record and I'm sure it was true. With no record of Paul sing-along to see my brothers according to the flesh are alone to see my family members according the flesh that he will see Timothy spiritual brother spiritual son Paul had a passion for his regular earthly flesh sleep kinsman. Romans 9133 pieces. I'm telling the truth in Christ do not line my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit.

I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart for I could wish that I myself were cursed separated from Christ from Christ for the sake of my brother and my kinsman according to the flesh he saying I could even wish that I was encouraged by Christ. If not, when my family to Christ, but at the end here was precious to me and dear to me of those who love my Christ and know my Christ, the spiritual families. What Paul is thinking all now the eternal family that had been built by his ministry through the years belongs to see his brother and arms belongs to see his most trusted associate. The one who never let them down, one who was ever faithful one, who proved over time, the genuineness of his faith.

He longed to see his son even his beloved son in the Lord. Timothy maybe think that you know, in principle, all of us need a Paul or two in all of us have a Timothy or two. Now think about this in my study this week about the number of people I know in this church that have basically done that they've always had somebody they were trying to bring along ladies can I say to you, are young girls in our young ladies desperately need godly mentoring the world is violently deceiving ladies today, deceiving, trying to destroy men are young mean that men desperately need mentoring discipling all of us have a Paul all of us, all have a Timothy or two place to do that is your small group for you going there in two weeks. She also Lord, who can I have encouraged gold in the faith. You cannot beat something of a Paul to you not be a Paul, I can't be appalled is only one. But, in principle, you can be a Paul somebody along in the face a little bit Lord, who can I look to the I would let her. I get permission to correct me, hold me accountable. The up all over me will that's healthy to have that in our lives because it is probable that when your days are months from death. You're going to know it and what's going better then this Jesus and those that know and love Jesus.

If you know and love it.

I'm on holy ground here, but I thought back on brother Adrian Singleton Tommy Singleton steady.

Donnie Singleton stated that we know so well. Love, Aaron was a an elected official here and most chosen loved by everybody. I'm convinced I am Singleton love Christ.

I went and visited him at the SKUs we had been diagnosed as terminal and him having to be the day. A lot of his old buddies that he hunted with and stuff with their not a run but some of the hunting buddies, let me know that I did need to be there that's fine. That was a special time for them. It was a good thing. So I left and I don't know if you days later I came back to check on him and he was weaker north them, but not to be direct that he would be departed. I don't know how the conversation went. Somehow before we prayed, he looked at me and he said brother Jeff. All that matters now is Jesus is a slot everything else, it just I thought about it just don't matter.

That's what Paul is telling Timothy here. I just want to be close to Jesus. I will be thinking on Jesus and all my brothers around the eulogies to because were all come to that day when all that matters is what we did for Jesus. How we honor Jesus, how we serve Jesus. Hopefully all my death, then hopefully on your deathbed. We can think of some Timothy's Timothy X people. We've influenced encouraged gold for God in this world. It will be worth it all. We see Jesus will be working