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But once again, I've missed y'all greatly as I was going last week.

Preaching in Searcy, Arkansas preaching, for our dear brother.

And today, I get to stand again, filling in, for brother ways.

He is doing a lot better.

As I talked to him last night, I pray, you still doing well and wait, if you're listening, we miss you.

And we love you and looking forward to being back, but it is an honor to stand in this Pulpit.

Once again, this morning I want to talk to y'all about being a faithful.

Witness being a faithful Witness.

And as we get started this morning or some things, I want us to remember, Paul is writing this letter to Timothy from prison.

And one would think that prison is the last place that we could expect words of encouragement.

And Paul begins this letter by sharing Timothy of his continuing love and his prayers and he reminds Timothy of a spiritual Heritage in the responsibilities.

This time I pause in prison, it is in his last days he has been sentenced to death and Paul here in chapter 3 warns that Timothy that hit his teaching will come under attack as men desert the truth for ear scratching words and then on the chapter for Paul and courage is Timothy to preach.

What do you preach?

Preach, God's word.

Keep preaching.

As a result of Paul's missionary journey and the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, local churches were formed.

These Believers met in homes or wherever they could gather to continue.

And the apostles teachings and to live out their Christian faith.

Among another among one another as well as among the unbelievers as well.

Why is Paul writing this letter?

Will you see when Paul visited Ephesus after his release from Roman is Roman house, arrest that you read about in Acts chapter 28 minutes, cover that the church I've been played with all kinds of spiritual problems during his absence the city itself with all this corruption and idolatry was a spiritual Battle Ground for the congregation of believer.

Today, We Live in such an environment.

Do we not everything that we see attacks?

The moral capacity of what God has given to us through his scripture?

Everything we see today attacks what God has laid out as the foundations for us as Believers.

Satan is using every Avenue that he can to attack us and turn us away from God. Paul having faith Lee done.

All he could do to develop and teach the truth of the Gospel throughout his ministry.

Paul is cancer near the end of his life that his faithful disciples would entrust these truths to other Christians who was in turn and trust them to others.

You see that is our purpose to glorify God.

And how do we do that?

We do that by sharing, what God has taught us.

Paul is encouraging Timothy to stay on course.

I sense this truth least the Goblins by Pony Believers to Jesus Christ, they was the most valuable of treasures.

You see the local church leaders are not only to Faithfully teach true to their congregations but also to sternly resist all attempts to undermine pollute or attack the one true gospel.

So with that in mind will read our texts.

2nd Timothy chapter 2, Starting verse 1.

Our Bible says you therefore my son be strong in the grace, that is in Christ, Jesus.

And the things that you have heard from among many witnesses.

Commit these to a faithful man who will be able to teach others.

Also, you, therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

No, 1 engaged in Warfare, entangled himself with the Affairs of this life that he may, please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

And also, if anyone compete and Athletics, he is not crowned unless he completes according to compete, according to the rules, the hardworking farmer must be first partake of the crops.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Remember That Jesus Christ of the seed, of David was raised from the dead.

According to my gospel, for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer even to the point of chain, but the word of God is Not chained.

Therefore, I Endure all things for the sake of the elect.

They also May obtain the Salvation, which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

This is a faithful say for if we died with him, we shall also live with him.

If we endure.

We shall also reign with him if we deny him, he also will deny us and if we are faithless, he will he remains faithful.

He cannot deny himself.

Let's pray, they're my father again, we come to you this morning.

Father is seeking you out, father glasses.

You just buying site from this place and Bonnie from our hearts and their minds father.

And and just casting far away from here, father.

And father, I pray that you fill us with your Holy Spirit, father and draw as to what you wants to see you in your Father, we love you in Jesus name.

I pray.

Amen.

So as we look at being a faithful witness.

The first thing I want to point out this morning is he must be faithful.

It's kind of hard to be a faithful witness without being faithful, right?

Cuz we look at the first one.

We read again, you therefore my son, be strong and the grace that is in Christ.

Jesus.

And look at how he starts his chapter here.

He says you, therefore, he's saying, you then have?

I got your attention, you then he's calling Timothy to careful.

Attention pay attention.

Timothy says, you then my son be strong in the grace.

That is in Christ Jesus.

You see, Paul was concerned for the future of the church and also for the well-being of Timothy and he calls him, my son showing his deep affection for Timothy, his disciple and procedures to exhort him to be strong.

Please tell Timothy to receive strength and to be strengthened here and look, here, we must understand that the source of all that strength is not within Timothy.

He did not tell Timothy to be strong by believing in yourself.

No, he didn't.

He did not say be strong for me.

My son.

He did not say that he said be strong and what Grace be strong in the grace.

The source of strength is in Grace and what we know that Grace is unmerited favor and we know that Grace is a gift.

It's freely given from God and the source of Grace is in Jesus Christ.

Now that we know what, we get our strength from, right.

We get it from Christ, we don't get it up of our own.

The source of strength is Grace in the source of Grace is in Christ.

Jesus, Timothy is to stand out sharply for Spiritual strength and he's going to do it by putting his trust in Jesus Christ.

Why does he need to be strong for grace?

And we look at like yes it is because if he stands against a general backdrop of failure, which is his human nature, it is only that only by the grace that is in Christ Jesus that he is able to secede at all.

You see our Salvation is by grace and since you are saved, also in is any strength that we may have to be faithful in these days of such spiritual Decline and World eclectic a and this these are days of spiritual Decline and moral Decay video games, Facebook Twitter, whatever the case may be news.

I said, every time I'm up here, I'll say it because it's true, anything that Satan can use to distract us to turn our emotions against each other.

He is going to use

These Are Spiritual decline in, moral Decay days.

We see that through the politicians that we elect politicians that want to.

Like I said this morning and Sunday school, they want to rewrite what the Bible says, by firming to homosexual marriage, to affirming to this new gender, whatever you want to call it.

God described marriage in the Bible, God has described.

What gender is in the Bible this morning?

We talked about how God's word is trustworthy.

It's never changing.

It's true, it's pure, it's holy and just but these people do this so they can have votes.

So they can keep their jobs and have that money, that they so much enjoy.

You see the only way we stand today?

Is that we stand by grace alone?

Look in your birth to the says in the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses.