Address—C. Hendricks
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This afternoon I would like to.
Look at.
Various expressions.
From the Apostle Paul to this young man Timothy.
In the last epistle that he has written.
Second Timothy.
And I would like to look at.
In every chapter.
There are expressions found.
From the aged apostle to his Son in the faith.
Second Timothy, chapter 1.
Before reading these verses.
Just a few thoughts on the setting of this book.
Brings before us the last days.
Something specially solemn about the last writings or utterances.
Of any, and especially so of the Apostle Paul.
It's a day of ruin.
Day of departure.
A day of.
Discouragement.
Day of giving up.
You might say it's.
It's just the opposite of what we read of Indiana Acts chapter 4, and I'll just read a verse or two.
To get the contrast.
To the setting that we have in this epistle.
In Acts chapter 4 verse 31, and there are many other verses that we could read in the book of Acts it says and when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
And they spake the word of God with boldness.
And the multitude of them that believed were of 1 heart, and of one soul. Neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own.
But they had all things common, and with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
And in the 5th chapter.
It says.
In verse 11 and great fear came upon all the church.
And upon as many as heard these things, and by the hands of the apostles, were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. They were all with 1 accord in Solomon's porch.
And of the rest, durst no man join himself to them.
But the people magnified them.
And believers were the more added to the Lord multitudes, both of men and women.
Well, that was a day of power.
It was the day when God was establishing his testimony. This new thing, Christianity is bringing it in and backing it up with power, sign, gifts, wonders, miracles.
And.
It was rather easy.
You might say.
To be identified with such a movement.
Because.
The power of God was manifest and it was seen by all.
But in this epistle, 2 Timothy.
It's an entirely different.
Character of things and I believe it's so important that we.
We know where we are.
And we're not looking for or expecting great things.
Because we're not living in the day.
In those early days when?
There were great things that were being done even to.
Even to impress the natural man says great fear was upon them, and they didn't dare join the disciples. Well, that didn't last very long, and we know that the enemy worked very shortly, and he brought in.
Error and he brought in those who were not genuine, who were not real. Well in Two Timothy.
We have the last days and that's where we are.
Days when men turn away their ears from the truth.
And they turn their ears to fables.
A day when there's great deception everywhere.
Great deception, great imitation of what is real and true and genuine.
And.
The hands of many are being weakened. Many of you come from small gatherings.
And.
You may and going to the meeting you may pass.
Other places where there are hundreds.
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That meet there.
And you may heave a sigh.
You realize how feeble the little testimony is to which you're identified.
And it's a day when we can easily become discouraged if we look around and.
And see how weak we are.
Week the testimony is a gathering such as this is very uncharacteristic.
It's nice to be together and to have so many together, but as we go back to our home gatherings.
And we come into the sense of the reality of weakness.
In which the testimony finds itself today.
Will realize it's a day of small things.
A day not to be despised.
The day in which?
It really counts the stand for the truth of God, because by and large, men have no ear for the truth of God today. I mean all the truth.
I cannot.
Express the horror that fills my soul in talking to some.
Talking to some who are an influential positions in the in the in the church world, in the Christian world.
And the way they handle this precious book.
We ought to tremble before it.
We ought to bow to it.
Not to reason upon it.
Not to dare to inject our own thoughts.
But to say, Lord, as we pick this book up, pick it up in the conscious sense that God is speaking to our souls.
And to seek to gather in his mind, and to have his thoughts.
And to be afraid. I mean really afraid.
To impose our own thoughts in the Word of God.
To this man will I look.
To him that is of a meek.
And a contrite spirit.
And that trembleth.
At my word.
Where do we find it today?
Where there's real trembling.
And bowing in heart and conscience, and submitting to the word of God.
How dare we reason?
Upon the scriptures and reason the clear passages away, explain them away.
Well.
Timothy was a very.
Timid man.
And Paul knew that he was his son in the faith.
And so let's just look at some of the expressions that he brings before this young man, Timothy. Timothy was a special vessel. He was one we would call an Apostolic delegate. He was to even appoint elders.
And he was one that could easily, naturally speaking, be intimidated.
And as he looked around and he saw the indifference and the carelessness and.
The departure that characterized things.
He could easily have been discouraged and have slackened his energy. And So what we have in this epistle is the apostle Paul seeking to stimulate Timothy and to energize him, and to bring before his soul the solemn responsibilities which were his, And they apply a good that God has given us this epistle.
An epistle that applies to the very day in which we're living and how important to know.
Where we are.
In the sixth verse.
He says to Timothy, I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
He had received a gift.
And the apostle knew that.
The apostle had been instrumental.
In the giving of that gift, a most unique case. And he tells Timothy to stir up the gift of God which was in him.
He says in the first epistle, be not negligent.
Of the gift of God, which is in thee. With the putting on of the hospital. Well, there was a danger for him.
To to let his energies droop.
And so the first word that he says to Timothy is to stir up the gift of God, which is in you.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear.
But if power.
And of love. And of a sound bind.
Just a few words on that and then we'll go on to these other expressions. A brother was saying in the reading this morning that we have the same power available to us today that they had in the early church. And that's true, isn't it? We have the spirit of power.
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Spirit of God.
We don't expect.
Because of the failure that's come in.
Because of the governmental dealings of a faithful Lord with His assembly.
We don't expect.
The outward testimony to take the same form.
As it did in the early days before failure came in.
Failure brings in its governmental consequences and how important it is that we know where we are and why we are where we are.
And that we are intelligent.
In the Scriptures and so he says, God has not given us the spirit of fear, but if power we have all the power to live for him and to be faithful to the truth that He's committed to us, It won't be displayed before man in the same way we saw it was in the book of Acts.
But nevertheless, we have all the power needed to walk in obedience to the precious Word of God.
He has given us the spirit of love, How easy it is in these days of coldness and indifference and everyone doing what is right in his own eyes and everyone seeking his own things. And that's what characterizes these last days.
Says even without natural affection.
What a day we're living in.
It's very easy to allow love to become withered and dried up.
And that brotherly affection not flow as it should be.
And so, he says, he's given us the spirit of love.
And then a sound mind.
How many whose thoughts are not formed by the word of God have been carried away by every wind of doctrine which is in the sleight of men in cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and this Christian world that we're living in is just filled with.
Teachings that are not according to the mind of God to have a sound mind, a mind which thinks in Scripture. So he says to Timothy, God has not given us the spirit of fear. Don't be afraid, Timothy. Don't be afraid to stand in an evil day when everyone is giving up and turning aside and turning away. God hasn't given us the spirit of cowardice.
Stand and having done all to stand.
Oh, I've seen a.
Assemblies where just the presence of a young brother that stood firm for the truth.
And sought to go on, for the Lord made all the difference. Or a young sister or an older one made all the difference.
Then he says in verse 8, we'll just run through.
These directives to this young man, he says, be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. In order to know, in order to follow that instruction, we have to know what the testimony of the Lord is. In these days we have to be intelligent in the Scriptures to know what the testimony of the Lord is.
Here he says, Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony.
Of our Lord, nor of me as prisoner. Paul was in prison, and I believe that.
Today, Paul's teachings are in prison. That is the Mass of Christendom.
Lives as though Paul's teachings were never been given.
Those that call themselves Christians hardly know what a Christian is.
And if we don't understand the teachings of the Apostle Paul, here he was in prison.
They could bind him, but they couldn't bind the word of God.
But today the enemy has succeeded in practically robbing many of God's people of the precious ministry that had been recovered to us through the agency of the Apostle Paul.
Then he says, be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. And I think it's so important that ninth verse Timothy says.
God has saved us.
And he's called us with an holy calling.
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Have you ever noticed that in the last epistles, the epistles which present the darkest picture, 2 Timothy is 1. The epistle of Jude is another. He speaks of Our Calling here as a holy calling.
No letting down the standard, no compromising of holiness and truth.
What is it that characterized Philadelphia?
The Lord Jesus presents himself as the Holy One and true.
And this is what characterizes any testimony to the truth of God, His Holiness and truth in the epistle to Jude.
Of Jude we have.
That expression our most holy faith.
Being built up in our most holy faith, I believe it's the only time.
That that expression appears in all the New Testament, and it's in the darkest epistle.
The very darkest epistle, when the enemy has come in and when there's apostasy within and there's a giving up of truth, you might say, well things have come to such a state amongst us and amongst Christians in general that we're surely justified in lowering the standards, We're surely justified in compromising a little bit. It's in those epistles where he says.
Our most holy faith. And He's called us with a holy call.
Calling. It's in those epistles where he insists upon holiness.
No, we are never, never, never entitled to lower the standards.
God has one standard, and it is Christ.
It is Christ, and if we, as we claim, are in truth gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, were gathered to him who is holy, to him who is true by the Holy Spirit of God. And so it is our most holy faith. It is our holy calling. God has saved us, not according to our works.
He's called us with a holy calling. Nothing.
Nothing that we have done.
He brings before Timothy. Timothy, don't be discouraged. If others are failing to walk in their responsibility before the Lord, don't be discouraged.
He's called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, not according to anything that we have done, but according to His own purpose, His eternal purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus. Before the world began, before any of the departures set in, before the church ever existed, we were in the mind and thought of God, and He called us with a holy calling according to His eternal purpose in Christ.
And grace.
And so he says in the 2nd chapter, the first verse, Thou therefore, my Son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
A sense of grace in our souls.
Young brother. Young sister.
If you look around and you see the indifference and you see the worldliness.
And you see the self seeking.
And all that more or less characterizes things today.
You can become discouraged.
And the apostle Paul brings before Timothy, who was in this danger. He says, Timothy, be strong in a sense of grace in your soul.
Grace has picked the likes of us up who are worse than not, who deserve nothing but eternal hell, and who set us into a place of blessing and privilege the likes of which was never, never known before.
Grace we owed all to grace is not such a thing amongst us or amongst the people of God as different levels of spirituality. I know there's different measures of growth. We all know that in every family there's different measures of growth.
But what would it be if, as a father in your family, you treated your children on different levels because some were on a higher level than the other? The same love, the same compassion and the same care would go out to them according to their need and according to their particular state of growth that they were in.
But ought to be strong in a sense of grace, to realize that we owe it all to grace.
All that we are in Christ, we haven't done one thing to contribute to it. It's all grace. And so He's called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, not according to any merits that we've attained to, not according to anything that we've done, but according to his eternal purpose and grace.
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It's given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but has now made manifest. It was an eternal thought, and the graces met us in time and blessed us and brought us into blessing. It's now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ. He came in His own person, and He brought grace and truth down here.
The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came in the person of Jesus Christ.
Oh, what a blessed thing to be occupied with him. God has come out, and He's manifested all this in His heart of love for us, in the gift of His beloved Son. It is now made manifest, Paul says, by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath annulled, abolished, or annulled death. He went into death the stronghold of Satan's power, and He's come out as the mighty victor, triumphant over all the power of the enemy.
And he hath brought life and incorruptibility to life through the Gospel life.
Life has brought life.
To light through the gospel.
Life. Eternal life.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Doesn't say that life was the light of angels. Have you ever noticed in John 1 where it says in verse 4 in him was life and the life was the light of men that follows.
Verses 1-2 and three where the person of the eternal Word is described in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In that one sublime sentence you have His eternal personality. You have his His deity brought before us, and His distinct.
Unique personality.
His eternal person, the eternal.
Person of the Son of the eternal Word. In the beginning was the Word, There he was from all eternity, and the Word was with God. There you have His distinct personality.
And the word was God.
There you have him dwelling.
With God from all eternity, and it says all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made here. He is the Creator. And there isn't anything that shows God to be God more than the fact that He can bring into existence something that never existed before simply by speaking. And it is done for. He commanded and it was done.
He spake it stood fast.
That, but then there was something that was never created.
Says in him was life.
The life was the light of men.
That life was never created, He who had brought everything into existence by the word of his power.
There is something that that was from all eternity.
And he further explains about that life in the first epistle of John.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we've looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life. For the life was manifested, and we have seen it. And declare unto you that eternal life that was with the Father, and was manifested unto us, that which we have heard and seen. John says, We declare unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father.
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
He's brought to light life, eternal life, life in Christ.
That eternal life 520 tells us He is the true God and eternal life He was. That eternal life that was with the Father, an uncreated life. You never read that eternal life was created. You never read that eternal life began.
Because it always was.
Sometimes people think.
But eternal life is just something that is forever.
Well, that's true. But eternal life is a life which had no beginning and no ending. It's the life of the eternal Son of God Himself.
He is that eternal life that was with the Father and was manifested to us. And when we see Him there as a baby in Bethlehem's Manger, there was that eternal life that was with the Father when we see Him on the cross, apparently helpless. He was upholding and sustaining the universe. Again, He was that eternal life that was with the Father when we see Him on the cross, apparently helpless.
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He was upholding.
And sustaining the universe again, He was that eternal life that was with the Father.
In every possible relationship down here as a dependent man.
We were Speaking of that this morning. He had come into this world in a place of dependence. Though he were the Son, He had learned the obedience by the things which he suffered.
And now life.
Life has been brought to light, Life for the soul, Eternal life.
God wants our fellowship. Have you ever thought angels don't have eternal life?
They have a created life.
Sustained of God.
We have a life which is divine in its essence.
The very life of Christ, the very life of the eternal Son.
That we might have fellowship with the Father and with his Son. This has been brought to light by the gospel. It's something that was in the eternal thought of God. Notice it says in verse one of Second Timothy 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus. Here the apostle Paul gets very close to John's ministry on eternal life.
The promise of life which is in Christ Jesus.
If you have the son.
You have the life.
And if you have the life?
You have the sun. It's not possible.
To have the sun.
And not have the life, it's not possible. He that hath the Son of God hath the life.
He that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life.
He has it now as a present possession, but there in Jude he says, building up yourselves on your most holy faith.
Praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Unto eternal life.
I'd like to illustrate it this way.
A diver down at the bottom of the ocean, he's in a diving suit and he's receiving that life, giving air from above.
And he's breathing the life from above.
The proper sphere to which the life that he breathes belongs is above. He's in a hostile environment. He's in a scene that would slay him and kill him if he got outside of the life suit.
And then he pulls the cord and they take him up.
And then he removes the suit that he was in, and he breathes up there freely, that life giving air.
That is proper to that scene above. That's eternal life. A little picture of it. We have it now in a scene which is alien and hostile to Him, but it properly belongs to that scene above and in the eternal thought and purpose and counsel of God.
Eternal life is in a man glorified at the right hand of God.
That's the final condition that that life.
Will be in and will partake of it with Christ in glory, but that doesn't tell what the life is in its essence. The condition or the form that the life takes is not what the life is in its essence. The life in its essence is Christ Himself.
Christ, who is our life, when He shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory, and having Him we have the life.
We don't have it in the final condition of glory that God has purposed for us, but soon will be brought into it. And he brings this before Timothy, and he says he saved us, and he's called us with a holy calling, Timothy, not according to our works, not according to anything we've done, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
This calling.
This salvation that God has brought us into was formed in the mind of God from all eternity. Now He's brought us into it in time, and we're destined to enter into the fullness of it in eternal life in the glory above.
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death. He's gone into death, and he's come out the mighty victor. And Christ risen and glorified, is now our life.
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And God has brought to light life.
An incorruptibility it should read to light through the gospel.
Life for the soul. Eternal life.
And incorruptibility for the body. That's God's final thought for us. We're going to be brought into it.
I've dwelt quite a bit on that because I believe it's so essential.
In these last days, when the enemy is making an assault against the very foundations of the faith.
It's so important to be established.
In these precious foundation truths.
This is what he brings before Timothy in verse four. He says of verse 13. He says of chapter 1, hold fast the form of sound words. Have an outline of sound words.
How important it is to know what God's plan is and where we fit and where we are and all these claims of things.
Going on today in the Christian world, mighty movements, many of them apparently the Spirit of God.
Are they the Spirit of God or is it another spirit?
How important.
To have a sound mind.
And to have an outline of sound words.
So that we know.
What to expect and if claims are being put forth by this or that religious leader tested by the word of God.
By the word of God.
Verse 14 says that good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost. Again the Spirit of God is mentioned.
We're to have that form of sound words. We're to keep the deposit entrusted to us.
By the Spirit of God again, verse 1 of chapter 2. Thou therefore, my Son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. I believe the sense of grace in our souls that we are nothing.
That he's picked us up as beggars from the dunghill and set us among Princess and brought us into blessing. That it's all sovereign grace. We deserve nothing, Not one of the blessings which are ours do we deserve not one.
It's all grace, wondrous grace, and he set us on the road. And all these thoughts of God date back, not from the early days of Christianity, not from the days when the ruin began to come in, but all from the past eternity. He had us in our thoughts. Nothing that's happening in the Christian world has taken God by surprise.
And if we're in this book?
And it fills. Our souls will be kept until we hear the shout.
Endure hardness verse 3 as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. It's not a day of ease. It's not a day of.
A great movements of the Spirit of God. It's a day of small things and to stand for the truth in this day requires enduring hardness. Verse 7 he says consider what I say.
The Lord will give the understanding in all things. Consider, meditate on the precious word of God.
Ponder it.
Take walks with the Lord, be before Him.
Then he says, remember Jesus Christ of the seed of David.
Raised from the dead.
Well, I want to touch on a few more things in verse 15 of chapter 2 study.
Be diligent to show thyself approved unto God, a Workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The word of truth we hold in our hands everything, everything, every claim.
That is out there in Christendom, every movement that is there is to be tested by the word of God.
By the word of God, is it consistent with the truth of Scripture?
Is it according to the mind of God?
Study to show thyself approved unto God.
A Workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. There are going to be those of us.
Now use that in a general sense.
That will be ashamed.
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In a coming day.
Because we haven't handled this book with the reverence and the submission.
That is deserving to it.
We haven't handled this precious book. We haven't rightly divided the word of truth. How important in these days when the enemy is seeking to rob.
The Christian of what is really his.
Shun profane and vain babblings, young person. I know your tendency.
Is to try to refute the gainsayers, to get into arguments. The word of God says shun profane in vain babblings.
And then in verse 6, in verse 19, the end of the verse, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Depart from what is not right, unrighteousness. And oh, how much there is in Christendom, how much there is in that which calls itself Christian today. That is not according to the mind of God. It just isn't right.
That ought to settle it.
And told to depart from it.
Depart from that which is of an ecclesiastical nature which is not according to the mind of God.
If we would act in all simplicity of faith on these simple instructions in the Word of God, how much?
Grief and anguish and sorrow we would be spared.
Depart from iniquity.
Verse 21 He says, If a man therefore purge himself from these these vessels to dishonor in in the great house, to be separate from that which is contrary to the mind of God, to be purged from that which is not according to the mind of God.
Then he says that he shall be a vessel to honor sanctified service and need for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
And then verse 22, time is running out. Flee youthful lusts. What are youthful lusts? Well, it doesn't necessarily mean.
The the baser lust. It includes those, of course, that youth is susceptible to.
But pride?
Arrogancy.
Concede self-sufficiency.
All this kind of thing more or less characterizes youth. The apostle says flee youthful lusts. It's lovely to see a young brother or sister with a meek and quiet spirit seeking to go on in obedience and dependence without being self assertive, without being pushy.
But receptive and in a proper place of submission. How lovely to see that. And then he says in verse 22 again, follow righteousness, faith.
Love.
Charity or love Peace?
With them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
These four things give us a collective path to follow.
In a day of departure and decline, righteousness is put first because I believe the reason it's put first is because.
Everything is out, of course, in the day in which we're living.
Righteousness is not the rule, but rather the exception.
So he says, follow righteousness, that which is right, whatever is according to the word of God.
And then he says faith, That's what brings God in. That's the principle that links my soul and yours with God.
Faith.
Brings him into all.
My circumstances.
Faith.
And love.
Don't let.
The affections wither.
But go on in the spirit of love, one with another.
And then peace.
Should be our portion?
There is such a thing as peace.
At the expense of truth and holiness. And so I think it's so important to emphasize that righteousness heads the list.
That which is right and according to the mind of God. And again, there's another warning. Foolish and unlearned or undisciplined questions avoid knowing that they do. Gender strifes a clear word.
And how much we could spare ourselves from if we would just follow the instructions that we have laid before us in this epistle.
Timothy, avoid these things.
Don't don't get involved in these questions.
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If the mind is not subject to the word of God.
Avoid the person and I close with the last verses of chapter 3.
He says in verse 14, verse 13, he says evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
We don't expect, if we're instructed in the Word of God, we don't expect things to get better.
We don't expect things to improve. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. And what characterizes the last days in which we're living is deception. The enemy is a great deceiver, and he's bringing in that which looks just like the truth. He's bringing in counterfeits. He's bringing in things which are deceptive. And it takes.
A mind whose thoughts are governed by and formed by the Word of God, not to be deceived today.
Be not deceived.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
The very leaders are deceived themselves, and they're leading others into a path of deception.
They're deceived and they're leading others in deception if we see that happening, and we see it everywhere in Christendom today.
We shouldn't be surprised, it should not take us by surprise, because the Word of God says it will happen. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned. How important that is the truth of God. Young people, the truth of God, through the mercy of God has been recovered to us.
In the last century.
I believe that with all my heart.
I believe that the truth has been recovered.
And the word to us now is, Hold fast, continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them. And here the teacher was the apostle Paul himself. And then he says to Timothy, You have something else he says, And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
The Holy Scriptures. The words of the Apostle Paul.
The truth has been recovered and restored to us. It takes more energy.
It takes more energy to hold fast to what to recover truth than to recover it in the first place.
And that's why we're so in danger of letting it go.
The truth has been recovered at tremendous cost. Tremendous cost.
Let us continue in it.
Continue in it.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.
For doctrine.
For conviction.
For correction.
For instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect.
Truly furnished unto all good works.
Young people.
A young man asked me when I was out east this last winter. He said how can I know the word of the will of God for my life? And I know many of you want to know that.
How can I know the will of God for my life? And I had a Bible in my hand and I said, how? How often do you read this book?
How often do you read this book?
So that's where you'll find out the will of God for your life.
There's no easy answer to that question.
The diligent souls shall be made fat.
Make this book.
Your daily companion.
Learn the mind of God as He's been pleased to reveal it to you.
Time spent in the acquisition of God's thoughts.
Will go on for all eternity. The word of the Lord abideth forever and what we make our own.
And what is taught us by the Spirit of God? He's given us His Word.
He's given us the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth.
We have an object, Christ in glory.
And a hope that he's going to take us home. He's given us all we need.
To go on for him. May God keep us.
And help us and stir us up. Oh, there's so much more in that pistol.
I haven't been able to cover it very well.
I'm sorry for that.
But there's so much needed.
It's an epistle for the days in which we're living, the last days.
Read it. Ponder it.
Hearken to its instructions.
And the Lord will keep us until he comes. Shall we pray?