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The Apostle Paul still has the most successful Prison ministry in history. Centuries after the Apostle's death, Ken Smythe looks at the Bible's second letter to Timothy, which Paul wrote whilst chained up in a dark, cold and lonely prison cell awaiting his fate.
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Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.
Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.
Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH
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Recorded on Sunday, 17th May 2026.
Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.
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The Apostle Paul still has the most successful Prison ministry in history. Centuries after the Apostle's death, Ken Smythe looks at the Bible's second letter to Timothy, which Paul wrote whilst chained up in a dark, cold and lonely prison cell awaiting his fate.
Ken Smythe YouTube Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLtfVhcCUFsHo6mxlPChSfzACF5LaKY2
Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.
Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.
Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH
The village Church with an international audience.
Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:
Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:
https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300
Please make cheques payable to Chartridge Mission Church and send them to the address above, attention Pastor Barry Kempson.
Recorded on Sunday, 17th May 2026.
Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.
www.Chartridge.UK
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00:00We have an anchor that keeps us tall,
00:05steadfast and sure while the billows roll.
00:10Fastened to the rock which cannot move,
00:15grounded firm and deep in the Saviour's love.
00:21I spoke on Timothy this morning in Quentin.
00:25I want to continue with that this afternoon.
00:28Much of what I said this morning would be relevant.
00:31I haven't made notes of what I spoke on this morning,
00:33so it will just be what the Lord shows now as we speak.
00:37Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter 1.
00:39Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
00:42according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus.
00:46To Timothy, a beloved son, grace, mercy and peace from God the Father
00:51and Christ Jesus our Lord.
00:53I thank God whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forefathers did,
00:57as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,
01:01greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears,
01:05that I may be filled with joy.
01:08When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you,
01:12which dwelt first in your grandmother Lewis and your mother Eunice,
01:16and I am persuaded it is in you also.
01:20Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God,
01:23which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
01:26For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
01:29but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
01:33Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,
01:36nor of me, his prisoner,
01:38but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel
01:41according to the power of God,
01:43who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,
01:46not according to our works,
01:48but according to his own purpose and grace,
01:51which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
01:55but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Saviour,
01:58Jesus Christ,
01:59who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
02:05to which I was appointed a preacher,
02:08an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.
02:10For this reason I also suffer these things.
02:14Nevertheless,
02:15I am not ashamed,
02:16for I know whom I have believed
02:18and am persuaded that he is able to keep what I have committed to him until that day.
02:25Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me
02:28in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
02:32That good thing which was committed to you
02:35keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
02:38This you know that all those in Asia have turned away from me,
02:42among whom are Phygelus and Homogenes.
02:46The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus,
02:49for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
02:53But when he arrived in Rome,
02:54he sought me out very zealously and found me.
02:57The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day,
03:02and you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus.
03:14Paul was an enemy of Christ to the point that he was persecuting the Christians,
03:20taking them off to jail,
03:21men, women, and children,
03:22incarcerating them,
03:24and many of them died because of what he had done.
03:28Paul is the one who wrote these things,
03:31as I have mentioned.
03:32He wrote the book to Timothy,
03:33and if you look through the first chapter that we have read,
03:38I'm going to speak a little bit on most of 2 Timothy,
03:41or a little bits here and there.
03:43There's no indication of any animosity,
03:47or of any trials,
03:49or any tribulations in the life of Paul.
03:52I don't see anything.
03:53There's a hint here and there about a chain,
03:56about somebody departing away from him.
03:58But when you delve into Paul's life,
04:03he is in a dungeon when he wrote this letter.
04:09Reading that, you would never say that he is in a terrible dilemma.
04:16I'm going to read something that I got from Haley's Bible handbook.
04:20In ancient Rome, the streets pulse with life,
04:24but beneath the city's surface,
04:26below the noise and the bustle,
04:28an aging apostle is in prison.
04:31Tradition holds that Paul was confined in the Mamatine prison,
04:35the notorious Telenium,
04:37during his final imprisonment.
04:40While scripture does not name the location,
04:43Mamatine prison is the most plausible setting,
04:45a subterranean chamber described by ancient writers
04:49as pitch dark, foul, and miserable.
04:53Here Paul waits for his last trial under Emperor Nero,
04:57and with it the near certainty of death.
05:00This text, which would become the book of 2 Timothy,
05:03is believed to be Paul's last recorded message.
05:07The letter bears the gravity of a man whose time is short.
05:11In chapter 4 he said,
05:13I am now ready to be offered,
05:15and the time of my departure is at hand.
05:18Chapter 4, verse 6.
05:20Haley's Bible handbook describes the grim historical backdrop.
05:24In AD 64,
05:26a great fire destroyed much of the city of Rome.
05:29Historians have commonly regarded it as a fact
05:32that Nero was the perpetrator of the crime,
05:35and that in order to divert suspicion from himself,
05:38he accused the Christians of burning Rome
05:40and began to persecute them.
05:43The account continues with painful detail.
05:47They were crucified,
05:48or tied in skins of animals
05:51and thrown into the arena
05:52to be badgered to death by dogs,
05:54or thrown to the wild beasts,
05:57or tied to stakes in Nero's gardens,
06:00pitch poured over their bodies,
06:02and their burning bodies used as torches
06:04to light Nero's garden at night.
06:08It was in the aftermath of this savage persecution
06:11that Paul was arrested,
06:13likely swept up as part of Nero's persecution of Christians.
06:18As the leading representative of God's church,
06:21the Gentile world,
06:22he was an ideal target.
06:23The man who once zealously persecuted and killed innocent Christians
06:27was now himself a victim of persecution.
06:31Roman prisons were carved deep underground
06:34with almost no light or ventilation.
06:37Mamatine prison's lower chamber,
06:39if this is indeed where Paul was kept,
06:42was known for neglect,
06:45darkness,
06:46and stench.
06:46As the Roman historian Salus described it centuries later,
06:51iron chains gnawed at his wrists.
06:53The cold, damp chill seeped into his bones,
06:57and this setting helps explain his desire for Timothy
07:00to bring the cloak he left in Troas,
07:02in 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 13.
07:05Food was scarce as well.
07:07Prisoners depended on friends who risked arrest by visiting.
07:11It is little wonder that Paul felt deserted
07:13in verses 10 to 12 of chapter 4,
07:17where it says,
07:18Be diligent to come to me quickly,
07:20for Demas has forsaken me,
07:21having loved this present world,
07:23and has departed for Thessalonica.
07:26Crescens for Galatia,
07:28Titus for Dalmatia,
07:29only Luke is with me.
07:31Get Mark and bring him with you,
07:33for he is useful for me to ministry.
07:35And in verse 15 of chapter 1,
07:38he says that,
07:39This you know,
07:40that all those in Asia have turned away from me,
07:43among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
07:48Paul wrote the letter.
07:50What an encouraging letter this is that he has sent to Timothy.
07:55But consider the situation that he is in,
07:58the circumstances he is in,
08:00and consider his dedication to the Lord Jesus Christ
08:05to enable him to write such a document
08:09in the situation that he was in,
08:12addressing Timothy,
08:14comforting Timothy,
08:15and exhorting Timothy to carry on the work,
08:19warning him,
08:20even warning us,
08:21because from chapter 3 onwards,
08:23he says,
08:24But know this,
08:24that in the last days,
08:25perilous times will come.
08:28What about the perilous times that he was in?
08:31And yet not once did he say,
08:33You know,
08:34I'm really struggling,
08:35I'm really suffering,
08:36I'm really hungry,
08:37I'm really cold.
08:38You know,
08:38the chains,
08:39they're really a problem.
08:40I can't even go to the toilet alone.
08:43I'm chained here all the time.
08:44I can't breathe.
08:45The stench,
08:46the stink,
08:47the darkness,
08:48the damp,
08:49the cold.
08:50There's no complaints that I read of here
08:52that you can say,
08:53Whoa,
08:54there's a problem.
08:55All he did was encourage someone else.
08:59What an example that was to me specifically,
09:02and I hope possibly to you too,
09:04of the state of mind of the man who wrote
09:09most of the New Testament for us.
09:12All the stories,
09:14all the information that we have about the church
09:17and what has to be done
09:19and what Christ and the Lord God is expecting from us
09:22and the things that he heard,
09:24which is not lawful for a man to utter.
09:26All those things that he heard locked up in his body,
09:28that body which has now been incarcerated in this cave
09:32and where he has been chained up
09:33because of his faith.
09:36We complain when we hear about Christians being persecuted.
09:41But what about people who did this,
09:43who actually,
09:44whose writings are in God's word,
09:46confirmed by the Holy Spirit
09:48that this is what will happen
09:50and what needs to happen
09:52and what is going to happen
09:53to the people to whom he wrote.
09:56He writes in chapter 1,
09:58he says,
09:59verse 3,
10:01I thank God whom I serve with a pure conscience
10:03as my forefathers did without ceasing
10:06and I remember you in my prayers night and day,
10:11greatly desiring to see you,
10:13being mindful of your tears
10:14that I might be filled with joy.
10:17The tears, I imagine,
10:18are what Timothy shared
10:21when Paul was arrested in Troas.
10:24Timothy was Paul's apprentice, can I say,
10:29and Paul had taught him
10:31and there was a bond between the two of them
10:33which superseded anything that we can understand.
10:36But in Troas, we are told that in chapter 4,
10:40we are told in verse 13,
10:42bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come
10:45and the books, especially the parchments,
10:48indicating that there was a hasty departure from there.
10:50There's no time to pack his bags,
10:53probably as he was arrested.
10:55And now he's asking Timothy,
10:56if he does come,
10:57please bring the cloak,
10:59obviously because of the temperature that he was in
11:01and how cold he was.
11:03I remember the tears.
11:05I mean, how many times would you remember
11:07the departure between you and somebody else
11:11to the point of,
11:12I'm remembering how you cried
11:14and I'm praying for you
11:16when my very existence
11:20is at risk.
11:23I'm in my last legs.
11:25I'm going to be persecuted
11:27and I'm going to be killed tomorrow
11:33or in the very, very near future.
11:35That would be something, I think, personally,
11:39which would be overpowering me.
11:41I wouldn't have the foresight
11:42or the ability to think beyond myself.
11:46And yet here Paul is writing this letter to Timothy.
11:51In verse 5, he says,
12:08So Paul is now encouraging Timothy
12:11and asking and telling him what he needs to do
12:14and how he needs to conduct himself
12:16and mentioning the gift that he has been given
12:20by way of passing that gift.
12:23We have all been given
12:25the gift of the Holy Spirit,
12:27enabling us to walk and talk
12:29and think of the things of the Lord
12:30and to conduct ourselves
12:31in the way that the Lord has indicated
12:35that he wants us to go.
12:38But that spirit has to be stirred up.
12:40We cannot just let it lie latent
12:42and believe,
12:43oh, you know, I'm filled with the Holy Spirit.
12:45But unless I actively engage
12:48in using the gift that God has given me
12:51of reading and writing and praying
12:54of belief and faith and trust,
12:56even of coming into times of condemnation
12:59through sin or whatever it might be
13:02or chastisement by the Lord,
13:04but recognizing that I am in God.
13:08He's given me of his spirit.
13:12And we need to accept that fact by faith,
13:16understanding that we are not our own.
13:19We have been bought at a price.
13:21And not only have we been bought at a price,
13:23but he has given us this gift
13:24to enable us to speak and to preach
13:27and to teach and to sing and to pray
13:29and to have hope and encouragement
13:32and guidance to exhort
13:33and encourage one another.
13:35It's a living gift that he has given us.
13:37I remember very well,
13:40not long after I had been saved,
13:42I thought I needed to hold a Bible study
13:45with my neighbor.
13:46My neighbor lived about four miles away
13:48in another valley on a farm.
13:51Population was very scarce there
13:53and it was difficult to get fellowship,
13:56but he had decided that he was also born again.
14:00And I invited him over to have Bible study.
14:05I didn't quite know what I was doing
14:07and I found myself in a pool of sweat
14:11in the effort of just finding something to say.
14:14I couldn't speak.
14:16I didn't know how to.
14:17I didn't know what to do.
14:18I'm not a communicable person at the best of times,
14:21but the Lord has given me an opportunity
14:24and he's given me a desire to do something.
14:28There's a gift inside of me
14:30that I didn't know I had
14:32and didn't know that I could exercise.
14:35But if I just sat and do what I wanted to do,
14:38which I just like to sit and read the Bible
14:40or sit and read books,
14:41I wouldn't be here.
14:43But there's a desire to do something further than that,
14:46which is not my natural character.
14:48And so I believe I do have a gift of the Holy Spirit.
14:51We all have gifts in different ways
14:53and in different means.
14:54And sometimes they might mean something to someone else.
14:57Maybe not.
14:58But for me, it is a personal inspiration and guidance.
15:02And that is what Paul was speaking about to Timothy here.
15:06The gift of God, which is in you
15:09through the laying on of his hands.
15:11In verse seven,
15:12for God has not given us a spirit of fear,
15:15but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
15:19And so we need to understand what those qualities are.
15:23God's power is strong in you.
15:25It provides courage under pressure.
15:27But if the power is weak, it needs stirring.
15:30Fear can make you run from the very challenges
15:32you are meant to overcome.
15:34Love cuts through selfish pursuits
15:36and keeps you focused on God
15:38and on others around you.
15:40And a sound mind,
15:41that meaning has one that is self-control,
15:44which brings clarity,
15:46balance when chaos surrounds you.
15:48And together, these qualities form a spiritual shield against fear.
15:56And so everything that we have is working together with God,
16:00giving us the ability to cope with fear,
16:03which is, to me, a fear is a very, very relevant thing in many ways.
16:08We fear what's going to happen.
16:09We fear when we go down and all of a sudden
16:12the traffic seems to lose control.
16:15What's going to happen tomorrow?
16:17What's going to happen at home?
16:18There's always a concern and a consideration.
16:21The greater the concern is,
16:22the more close it becomes to,
16:25oh, I'm scared.
16:26I'm worried.
16:27I'm concerned.
16:28There's something going on that I don't understand.
16:30But if we have that spirit of a sound mind,
16:33we have self-control.
16:35If we have the love,
16:36that will help us.
16:37Because the more love we have,
16:39the more love we have for God,
16:40the more love he has for us.
16:42God is love.
16:43And he who abides in love,
16:45abides in God and God in him.
16:47So 1 John speaks and tells us about.
16:50And so we have this ability to have a sound mind
16:55and to be controlled by the Lord
16:58and under control by the Lord.
17:02Strength is found in grace.
17:03In chapter 2, verse 1,
17:05You, therefore, my son,
17:07be strong in the grace which is in the Lord Jesus.
17:10The things that you've heard from me among many witnesses
17:13commit to faithful men,
17:14and you, therefore, must endure hardship
17:16as a good soldier of Christ.
17:18But that grace that we have been given,
17:21grace is a benefit.
17:22Grace is unmerited favor, I've been told.
17:25Grace is something,
17:26is the patience of the Lord
17:30beyond what we can expect.
17:32If somebody is gracious to me,
17:35he's not imputing to me over tramping,
17:38I can't think of the right word,
17:40the liberty that I have with the person
17:42that I might speak to.
17:43I might say something which is out of turn.
17:45I may say something which is belittling him.
17:48But he would be gracious to me
17:49and ignore what I've done
17:51and just have some gentle, quiet word.
17:54That, to me, is an example of grace.
17:57But grace in the Lord's mind is greater than that
18:00because of his graciousness to us.
18:02And when we need grace,
18:04James tells us that we need to ask
18:06and he will give it to us more than what we need.
18:09He says in the book of James, chapter 2,
18:12do you think that the scripture says in vain,
18:15the spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously,
18:18but he gives more grace.
18:20Therefore, he says, God resists the proud
18:22and gives grace to the humble.
18:24So God is gracious to us.
18:27And that is where he says in chapter 2 and verse 1,
18:31we need the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
18:34The Son of God had that grace
18:36which he imputed to those around him
18:38and to us as well because we are in Christ.
18:41Then he goes on in chapter 2 and he said
18:44that we have to endure hardship
18:47as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
18:52That soldier, a spiritual soldier, stays focused.
18:57A spiritual soldier avoids unnecessary entanglements
19:02because he wants to please the one who enlisted him.
19:05How often do you find people in the church
19:08getting involved in politics?
19:10Politics are in the world.
19:12Politics are in the earth.
19:13Politics have nothing to do with God.
19:16And yet people get involved in that.
19:18And the more you get involved in other directions
19:20which do not directly have to do with the Bible,
19:24with God, with his economy,
19:27you are diverting your attention
19:29from what the word of God says.
19:33Then we are told that we are in a war,
19:35a spiritual war against principalities and against powers.
19:39If that is the case,
19:40then we need to understand that we don't know.
19:44I don't know what these principalities and powers are.
19:48I don't know where they are,
19:49other than in the air around me.
19:51So I need to hang on to what the Lord is doing
19:54through his word to have some sort of comprehension
19:57of who these principalities and powers are.
20:01His mercy in that being a spiritual soldier
20:06is it demands loyalty and discipline.
20:08We didn't recruit ourselves.
20:11He recruited us.
20:12He called us.
20:13In John chapter 6 and verse 44,
20:16he says,
20:17my father has called you.
20:18And so we are part and parcel
20:20of what God is wanting of us to do,
20:23which gives us greater encouragement
20:25and understanding
20:26that we have a particularly special place
20:30in God's economy.
20:31The precise words of John chapter 6 and verse 44
20:35say that no one can come to me
20:38unless the father who sent me draws him
20:40and I will raise him up at the last day.
20:44Has God called us?
20:45I believe he has,
20:46because otherwise we wouldn't be sitting here.
20:48We would be sitting at home watching TV
20:50or playing tennis or doing some other activity.
20:54So no one engaged in warfare
20:56entangles himself with the affairs of this life
20:58that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
21:02In verse 5 of chapter 2,
21:04he said also,
21:05if anyone competes in athletics,
21:07he's not crowned unless he competes
21:10according to the rules.
21:12And so the spiritual athlete competes by the rules
21:16as he strives for mastery in all things,
21:18working to improve every day.
21:20Without God's help,
21:22our natural mind refuses to submit to the law.
21:26In Romans chapter 8 and verse 7,
21:29he addresses that,
21:30the carnal mind is enmity against God,
21:33for it is not subject to the law of God,
21:35nor indeed can be.
21:38So we need to recognize
21:40that we are having been incorporated
21:43and called by the father.
21:45We need to be able to submit ourselves
21:47to the rules that he has set.
21:50We don't like rules, do we?
21:52We don't like bowing down to times and bells
21:57and things beyond our control.
22:00But rules are necessary
22:01because where there are rules,
22:04there is order.
22:05And where there is order,
22:07God is there
22:07because he's not the God of disorder.
22:12He is a God of order.
22:14When Jesus fed the multitude,
22:17he told them to sit down in ranks of 50 orderly
22:21and then he fed them.
22:22He didn't just say,
22:23well, here's the food,
22:24here's the supper,
22:25come and get it.
22:26And there's a mad rush
22:26because they were all hungry.
22:28There was a discipline.
22:29We are called to discipline ourselves
22:32and also not only to discipline ourselves,
22:35but to have discipline in the church.
22:36That's the body of Christ.
22:38That's the representative
22:42of God in the world
22:44is the body of Christ,
22:45the church.
22:45And if the church is disciplined
22:48and conducting itself
22:49in the way that God wants it to do
22:51and everything is done decently
22:53and in order,
22:54it will be a good testimony
22:57to those who are the spectators of it.
23:01And so we need to recognize
23:03that what we sow is what we reap.
23:06And if we continue walking in the Lord
23:08in the manner in which he wants us to walk
23:10in order and submission
23:12and in obedience
23:14that good things are ahead of us.
23:16But if we find that we are rebelling
23:18against what God is wanting us to do,
23:21which I know we are not,
23:22but we need to create
23:24some sort of alternate.
23:26If we are not,
23:27then we can expect rebuke.
23:30What governor or what leader
23:32then would not rebuke the subjects
23:34if they were not doing
23:35what they were supposed to do?
23:37What manager would not rebuke
23:39a workman who's not supposed to be doing
23:41or who's not doing
23:43what he should be doing?
23:46It's just,
23:47that's life.
23:48And so there needs to be order
23:49in the church of the Lord.
23:51The spiritual farmer,
23:52we are told,
23:53in,
23:54as we continue with Timothy,
23:56the spiritual farmer,
23:58the hard-working farmer
23:59must be first
24:00to partake of the crops.
24:02That's also
24:04a matter of patience,
24:07of waiting,
24:08because you don't plant
24:09a crop today
24:10and reap it tomorrow.
24:12You plant a crop today
24:14and in six months' time,
24:15if you're fortunate enough
24:17and you've done the job properly
24:18and you've looked after it
24:19and the weather has
24:20complied with you,
24:21you'll get a crop
24:23and eventually
24:24you will be able to get it.
24:25But it's hard-working.
24:28It's a daily chore
24:29that you're going about it
24:31every day.
24:33Paul here compares
24:35walking with the Lord
24:36as that farmer,
24:38waiting and waiting
24:38and waiting
24:39for that crop
24:41to be able to come
24:43that he might partake of it.
24:44And so he uses the farmer,
24:47he uses the athlete,
24:49and he uses the soldier
24:51as examples
24:52of what we need to be about
24:54and how we need
24:55to conduct ourselves.
24:57Then he continues,
24:59and in 1 Timothy 2
25:01in chapter 2,
25:02going back to that,
25:04he says,
25:04the things you should have
25:05heard from me
25:06among many witnesses,
25:08commit these
25:09to faithful men
25:10who will be able
25:11to teach others also.
25:14Such a common sense
25:16verse that,
25:17and yet we overlook it.
25:18Don't we teach
25:20our children,
25:21our sons and our daughters,
25:23how to conduct themselves,
25:25even to holding
25:26a knife and fork properly?
25:28if we are good parents,
25:30and I know parents
25:31who are not.
25:32But, you know,
25:33I taught my son
25:34how to fish,
25:35I taught him how to work,
25:37I taught him
25:37how to handle tools.
25:40He now has got
25:41his own business,
25:42and he can handle tools,
25:43and I like to think
25:44maybe I have something
25:46in the guidance of that.
25:48There's some ongoing knowledge
25:51that I've managed
25:51to impart to my son
25:54and to my daughters.
25:56Sometimes it goes
25:57the wrong way
25:58because I've heard
25:59that, oh,
26:00you were tough parents
26:01and, you know,
26:02you really,
26:03you didn't do well for us.
26:05But they are doing all right,
26:06and I look at the results
26:07and I think we did all right,
26:08even though they don't,
26:09they don't think so.
26:11But the point is here,
26:13what Paul is telling,
26:14commit what you've heard
26:16to faithful men.
26:19Many times in the church
26:21you find that
26:22there are unfaithful people
26:24who have been given authority,
26:27and the church is breaking.
26:30We need faithful people
26:33in any business,
26:35in any endeavor,
26:38in any undertaking.
26:39You need faithful people,
26:41people that you can rely on,
26:44that when they are needed,
26:45they are there,
26:46that when they are called upon,
26:48you know that they're going
26:49to be there,
26:50that you can expect them
26:51to be there
26:52because they know
26:53that the meeting's there.
26:54Not that,
26:55well,
26:56if they come,
26:56they come,
26:57if they don't come,
26:58they don't come.
26:58How can you rely on somebody
26:59like that who you don't know?
27:02He says,
27:03faithful people.
27:04God wants faithful people.
27:07Without faith,
27:08it is impossible
27:09to please God.
27:11So if you have no faith,
27:14how can we be faithful?
27:17And that's what Paul
27:18is speaking to Timothy
27:20about here.
27:21Committed to faithful men.
27:24We need to judge one another.
27:28Paul speaks about judging
27:30in Corinthians.
27:31He says,
27:32don't bother about judging
27:33those outside.
27:35They judge themselves already.
27:37But we need to ascertain
27:38who we are.
27:39And we need to be able
27:41to exhort
27:42and to encourage
27:42and to uplift.
27:44Not judge,
27:45are you saved
27:45or are you not saved?
27:46But what are you doing
27:48in the Word?
27:48How is it going in the Word?
27:50Are you doing
27:50or understanding
27:51something differently?
27:53Everything that we do
27:54is judging.
27:55How fast am I traveling?
27:56What time am I going to leave?
27:57What time am I going to get there?
27:59Do I have enough fuel
28:00in the car?
28:00All these decisions
28:02that we make,
28:03in a sense,
28:04are judgments
28:05as to how are we going
28:07to get to
28:08the full conclusion
28:10of the matter
28:10that we are about.
28:12We make these decisions
28:13without thinking
28:14day by day by day.
28:16Is it going to be hot today?
28:17What am I going to wear today?
28:19What am I going to do
28:20at work today?
28:21How am I going to be there?
28:21Have I taken my lunch with me?
28:23Do I need more than that
28:24or less than that?
28:25All these little
28:27incidental decisions
28:28that we make
28:29are judgments,
28:30likewise in the body
28:31of Christ as well.
28:32How are you?
28:33How am I?
28:34Am I meeting
28:35what is expected
28:36by the Lord?
28:38And may we be able
28:41to discern
28:41what the Lord's will
28:43is for us
28:44because we one day
28:47are going to be
28:48in the Lord's company.
28:50We are one day
28:51going to be
28:52in His employ.
28:56Physically,
28:57can I say?
28:58Yes,
28:59we are spiritual people.
29:00Our bodies die.
29:01Our spirits will go
29:03to be with the Lord,
29:04but we will be
29:05reunited with our bodies.
29:08And one day,
29:09we will be with the Lord
29:10in physical form,
29:11in a sense,
29:12because when we see Jesus,
29:13we will be like Him,
29:15for we shall see Him
29:16as He is.
29:18And how did the apostles
29:19see Jesus?
29:21They saw the nail prints
29:22in His hands,
29:23they saw the hole in His side,
29:26and they saw Him
29:26eating fish.
29:30They saw Him
29:31as a human being,
29:32though He had raised
29:34from the dead.
29:36Likewise,
29:37we are going to be
29:38also the same sort
29:39of persons
29:40when we are reunited
29:41with our bodies.
29:43And if we are reunited
29:44with our bodies,
29:45we are going to be
29:46with Him
29:47in His government,
29:48I believe,
29:49in the New Jerusalem,
29:50because in Isaiah chapter 9,
29:52He speaks about
29:53the government
29:53that the Lord
29:54is going to be running.
29:56A government needs
29:57members of parliament,
29:58it needs judges,
30:00it needs counsellors,
30:02it needs people to run.
30:04And if you look
30:05at the Old Testament,
30:06you'll find there
30:07in Exodus
30:08how Moses
30:09was sitting all day
30:10judging the people
30:11for all the troubles
30:12and the problems
30:13that they had.
30:14And his father-in-law
30:16came along and said to him,
30:17what are you doing?
30:18And he says,
30:19well, I'm judging the people,
30:20they've all got troubles.
30:21And he said,
30:21well, you know,
30:22you're going to wear yourself out.
30:24Why don't you get
30:25faithful men
30:26and call them
30:28and give them
30:29all the cases
30:31that are relatively easy
30:33that they can judge for you
30:35and the hard ones
30:36let them bring to you?
30:37To me,
30:38the Old Testament
30:39is a prototype
30:42of what will be
30:44once God
30:46has poured His wrath
30:47out upon the world
30:48and finished His job
30:49with the world.
30:50And then
30:51the kingdom of heaven
30:53will come
30:53when Jesus
30:54hands everything
30:55over to God the Father
30:56having brought everything
30:57under His control.
30:59There's a future ahead.
31:01We are part of that future.
31:03And part of that future
31:04is understanding
31:06what the Lord
31:06is saying,
31:07understanding
31:08through the body of Christ
31:09and sharing with one another
31:10what my perception is,
31:12what your perception is,
31:13and how we see things
31:15about what is happening
31:16and how we understand things
31:18in the Word of God.
31:20And so we need to
31:21have faithful men
31:22that we can hand over
31:24and give it to the Lord
31:26and ask that He would then
31:28conduct the lives
31:30that we have
31:30and know that He's going
31:32to do the job
31:33because we have done
31:34what we have to do.
31:36He tells us in 2 Timothy 2
31:38and verse 15,
31:40Be diligent
31:41to present yourself
31:43approved to God,
31:44a worker who does not
31:46need to be ashamed,
31:47rightly dividing
31:48the word of truth.
31:50Don't be neglectful.
31:53Don't be neglectful
31:54in reading the Bible.
31:58Don't be neglectful
31:59in presenting yourselves
32:01as a worker
32:02who does not need
32:03to be ashamed.
32:05If you're spending time
32:07in the Word of God
32:08and you ask the Lord
32:09to help you understand
32:10and you read it
32:12and you pray about it
32:13and no understanding comes,
32:15you've asked.
32:16If understanding comes,
32:19thank the Lord
32:19because He's opening
32:20your heart
32:21and your understanding.
32:22But here,
32:23the exhortation is
32:25be diligent.
32:26Be diligent
32:27to present yourself
32:28as a worker
32:30who does not need
32:31to be ashamed,
32:32rightly dividing
32:33the word of truth.
32:35The Bereans,
32:35you remember the Bereans
32:37in Acts chapter 17,
32:39I think,
32:40when Paul was having
32:41all his troubles
32:42and he went
32:44and he preached
32:44to the Berean church
32:45and the Bereans gathered
32:47and they checked
32:49out the scriptures
32:50because they were
32:50more fair-minded
32:51than all the other Pharisees
32:53and the Sadducees
32:54and they understood
32:56what was happening.
32:57They were more fair-minded.
32:59That is what we need to do
33:00is look at what
33:01the Word of God tells us
33:03and make rightful choices
33:04and understandings of it
33:06and to compare
33:07and consider that
33:08with one another
33:08to be able to say
33:09this is how I see it,
33:10this is how I understand it,
33:12what do you think?
33:13That would raise questions
33:14in the audience's minds
33:16even as I think
33:17I might have raised
33:18with you folk tonight
33:19about what's going to happen
33:21in the future.
33:22Well, let me look at that
33:23and see what my opinion is
33:24because we all have opinions.
33:26We don't know
33:27what's happening tomorrow
33:28so we read the Bible
33:30to try and understand.
33:31I want to know
33:32what's happening tomorrow.
33:33That's my perception
33:34but I don't know
33:36what's happening tomorrow
33:36but that's what I think
33:38and so we need to be able
33:40to use the Word of God
33:42as we do with each other
33:43comparing and considering
33:45and bringing different facets
33:47of the Word of God together
33:48that we would not be negligent,
33:50that we would be able
33:51to understand
33:52what God is wanting of us.
33:55Diligent Bible study
33:56anchors your truth
33:58when false ideas arise.
33:59It gives you confidence
34:01confidence to explain
34:02and act on what you believe.
34:03When you open your Bible daily
34:05with hunger for understanding
34:06you show God
34:07that His instruction
34:08is serious to you
34:10which is a vital point
34:12because if somebody says
34:13I love the Lord,
34:14I love God
34:16which I've heard people say before
34:18and you say
34:19well do you read your Bible?
34:20No, well I don't need to
34:21but I love God.
34:22Do you go to church?
34:23No, well I don't need to
34:23but I love God
34:24and I say rubbish.
34:25You don't love the Lord.
34:27And then there's an argument
34:28because he in his heart
34:30is sure that he does
34:31and I'm saying
34:31the evidence is not there.
34:34There's a guy at work
34:36he loves saying
34:37well I'm a Jew,
34:38I'm a Jew,
34:39I'm a Jew.
34:40Daily I hear the story
34:42I'm a Jew
34:43and when he started this
34:45I said to him
34:46well you might be a Jew
34:47but you've got to be saved.
34:49You have to know the Lord Jesus.
34:50Oh I love Jesus,
34:51I love Jesus.
34:52Carried on with the swearing
34:54and blaspheming
34:55and he is one of the darkest people
34:58I know.
34:59When I say the darkest people
35:01I've never used that expression
35:03ever before
35:04but one day
35:05he cracked a joke
35:07sort of
35:07and I sort of patted him
35:08on the shoulder
35:09you know to say
35:10yeah okay
35:10well okay
35:11and the look that he gave me
35:13he actually sent shivers
35:14down my spine
35:15in fear
35:16because of the depth
35:18of darkness
35:19in his eyes.
35:21I cannot
35:22describe it to you
35:24but it was like
35:25almost like a spiritual attack
35:28and I've always been wary
35:30of this man now
35:31but he still keeps on loving
35:33to tell everybody
35:34how he's a Jew
35:35and how he's into this music
35:36and that music
35:37and you know
35:38all sorts of crazy things
35:39that you don't want to listen
35:41or hear
35:41or understand
35:42but we need to have
35:44that understanding
35:45if somebody says
35:47I love Jesus
35:48well I need to see proof
35:50of your love for Jesus.
35:51Proof of your love for Jesus
35:53is being obedient
35:54to the word of God
35:55even in a little area
35:57even if you just
35:58went to church
35:59and sat in the pew
36:00and did nothing
36:01but you were there
36:01consistent
36:02constant
36:03wanting something
36:05you're hungry
36:06a baby needs food
36:09Peter addresses that
36:11and he says there
36:13that we must desire
36:15the spiritual milk
36:17of the word of God
36:19we need to drink
36:21and eat
36:21of the Lord Jesus Christ
36:22and if you do not
36:24and if you do not want that
36:25if there's no desire of that
36:27then your faith
36:28is null and void
36:29because then it is not
36:31Christ in you
36:31that is another Jesus
36:33and so we need to know
36:35what the word of God is
36:36we need to be able
36:37to stand on our own two feet
36:39when somebody says
36:39I love Jesus
36:40prove it
36:42but then when you say that
36:44make sure that you yourself
36:45are able to have
36:46a report
36:47to be able to come back
36:49to his comment
36:50so Paul told Timothy
36:51in the Old Testament
36:53that the Old Testament
36:55alone could make him wise
36:57unto salvation
36:58chapter 3
37:00and verse 15
37:02that from childhood
37:03you have known
37:04the holy scriptures
37:05which are able to make you
37:07wise for salvation
37:08through faith
37:09which is in Christ Jesus
37:14when Paul wrote this
37:15to Timothy
37:16there was no New Testament
37:19this was a private letter
37:20in a sense to Timothy
37:21they had the Old Testament
37:23and so when he says
37:25in verse 15
37:27the holy scriptures
37:29the holy scriptures
37:30that are spoken of there
37:31is the Old Testament only
37:34I have yet
37:37to develop the capacity
37:38to prove that Jesus
37:40is the Christ
37:42without the New Testament
37:44that's a challenge
37:45that I haven't taken up yet
37:46which I need to do
37:47but that is what
37:49he said
37:49to Timothy
37:51that is the level
37:52of understanding
37:54that Timothy had
37:55and yet he was
37:56a young believer
37:57he was a young man
37:58he was looking to Paul
38:00the apostle
38:01as a father
38:02as a spiritual father
38:04Paul himself
38:06addressed Timothy
38:07as my son
38:09there was a special
38:10relationship
38:11between the two
38:12of love
38:13and that love
38:14now is being tested
38:16to the extreme
38:17and the uttermost
38:18because of where
38:19Paul is
38:20Paul is proving
38:21his love for Timothy
38:23by the letter
38:23that he has written
38:24and not only that
38:26but he is also proving
38:28the extent
38:29of his relationship
38:30with Christ
38:31his understanding
38:32of the word of God
38:33to be able
38:34in the circumstances
38:35and situations
38:36that he is in
38:37to write of something
38:39almost as if
38:41his personal
38:41standard
38:43and living conditions
38:45are inconsequential
38:47like you and I
38:48would be sitting
38:49in the room here
38:50at a table
38:50writing a letter
38:51that is how
38:53I seem to see
38:54Paul writing it
38:55almost being
38:57unaware
38:59of the physical stress
39:01and the physical strain
39:02which is upon him
39:04in that dark dungeon
39:05with no lights
39:07in it
39:07stinking
39:08damp
39:09cold
39:09and yet his
39:11consideration
39:11and his concern
39:12is for you
39:14and for I
39:14when he says
39:15in chapter 3
39:17know this
39:18that in the last days
39:19perilous times
39:21will come
39:21men will be
39:22lovers of themselves
39:23lovers of money
39:25boasters
39:26proud
39:27blasphemers
39:28disobedient to parents
39:30unthankful
39:31unholy
39:32unloving
39:33unforgiving
39:35slanderers
39:36without self-control
39:37brutal
39:38despisers of good
39:40traitors
39:41headstrong
39:42haughty
39:42lovers of pleasure
39:44rather than lovers of God
39:45having a form of godliness
39:47but denying its power
39:48from such people
39:49turn away
39:50is he not describing society
39:52as we have it at the moment
39:542,000 years ago nearly
39:56and he's writing those things
39:59to say that in the last days
40:01perilous times
40:02will come
40:04so we need to hold fast
40:06that that he has given us
40:07and hold on to the wisdom
40:09that he has given us
40:11through the word of God
40:11that we have
40:12we have no
40:13no excuse to say
40:15well I didn't know
40:15because we've been given
40:16the old thing
40:17we mustn't be like those
40:19in Proverbs 19 and 24
40:21and Proverbs 26 and 15
40:23which paints a striking picture
40:25and says the sluggard
40:26buries his hand in the bowl
40:27but doesn't bring it up
40:29to feed himself
40:30we need to feed on the word of God
40:33not just look at it
40:34and leave it
40:35but eat and drink
40:36of the Lord Jesus Christ
40:37as he's given us
40:38instruction in his word
40:39so we need to study
40:41this scripture
40:41we need to hold fast
40:43that that preserves us
40:44when he speaks about
40:46the perilous times
40:47we need to know
40:48that authority
40:50is also going to be
40:51involved in these perilous times
40:53in which we are working
40:55in the final chapter
40:57Paul gave one last charge
40:59preach the word
41:00the instant in season
41:02and out of season
41:03in chapter 4 and verse 2
41:05convince, rebuke, exhort
41:08with all long suffering
41:10and teaching
41:11preach the word
41:13do you know that you can
41:15preach the word
41:15without a word
41:17your conduct
41:19your presentation
41:20your timiousness
41:22your responses
41:25your
41:25your
41:26your
41:26your
41:26your demeanor
41:28everything paints a picture
41:30people read you
41:31I read that man
41:32that I told you about
41:33who said he was a Jew
41:34I read him
41:35and I keep away from him
41:37because
41:38something's there
41:39that I just don't
41:40it's a snake
41:40it's evil
41:41I don't want to touch it
41:42I read him
41:43I'm sure that we all
41:45can read people
41:46you can
41:47you have a certain
41:49understanding
41:50of the personality
41:52of the character
41:53of the person
41:53whether they are pleasant
41:55whether they are
41:56an angry character
41:58whether they
41:59are
42:00puffed up with themselves
42:02you can see them
42:04they can see you
42:06as well
42:06and so preach the word
42:09remembering that
42:10we are presentations
42:11of the word of God
42:13we are physical
42:15images
42:16can I say
42:17in inverted commas
42:19of Jesus
42:20we are supposed
42:22to have Jesus
42:22in our heart
42:23we are supposed
42:24to have his
42:25characteristics
42:26of wisdom
42:27and humbleness
42:28and patience
42:29and comfort
42:31and guidance
42:32and soft answers
42:33and all these
42:34sort of things
42:35which make up
42:36the person
42:37that you think
42:37ought to be
42:38like Jesus
42:40and so we need
42:41to exercise ourselves
42:42to be
42:43somebody that
42:44people would like
42:45to have a conversation
42:46with
42:47they don't have
42:48a conversation
42:48with me too
42:49because I'm always
42:50grumpy
42:50and I seldom
42:51smile
42:53but be that
42:54as it may
42:55what he's saying
42:56here
42:56preach the word
42:57not only in the word
42:58that we have
42:59but in your
43:01relationship
43:02with other people
43:04and conduct
43:05yourself wisely
43:07and in the end
43:09it will come out
43:10that you are
43:10somebody holy
43:12somebody spiritual
43:13somebody who has
43:14something to say
43:15about the Lord God
43:18preach the word
43:19be ready
43:20in season
43:21and out of season
43:21whether you're
43:22comfortable with it
43:23or whether you're
43:24uncomfortable with it
43:25we need to present
43:26ourselves
43:26as children
43:28of God
43:28whether it's suitable
43:30or whether it's
43:30not suitable
43:31and then he says
43:33convince
43:33and rebuke
43:34and exhort
43:35with all
43:36long suffering
43:37and patience
43:38and so it goes
43:40far beyond
43:41just the ministers
43:42but there's an
43:43application for
43:44every single
43:44member of us
43:45that we do
43:46have
43:47some sort
43:48of representation
43:49of the Lord Jesus
43:50in our demeanor
43:51in our ways
43:53we need to
43:54endure
43:54afflictions
43:55we need to
43:57make full proof
43:58of our ministry
43:59watch closely
44:00to stay
44:01spiritually alert
44:02and to be aware
44:03of the prophecy
44:04so we need to
44:06know who
44:07the Lord is
44:08and we need to
44:09know where we
44:10are in the Lord
44:12what is your
44:13dungeon
44:15Paul was in the
44:16dungeon
44:16and he managed
44:17to write this
44:18letter to
44:19Timothy
44:21what is your
44:22dungeon
44:22are you able
44:23in that place
44:24where you are
44:25really struggling
44:26struggling where
44:28there's no light
44:29it's just
44:29an uncomfortable
44:31area
44:32the Lord
44:33will help you
44:34as he helped
44:35Paul to write
44:36that letter
44:36to Timothy
44:38Paul teaches
44:40that thankfulness
44:41transcends trials
44:42because gratitude
44:43keeps hope
44:45alive
44:45he reminds you
44:47that the spirit
44:47must be stirred up
44:48because the
44:49spiritual fire
44:50fades
44:51unless we
44:52fan its
44:53flame
44:53daily
44:54spend time
44:56in the word
44:56of God
44:57pray
44:58and just
44:59commit your
44:59life to the
45:00Lord
45:00before you
45:01get up in
45:01the morning
45:02pray
45:02or after you
45:03get up in
45:03the morning
45:04pray
45:04but before
45:05you do
45:05things
45:05pray
45:06he shows
45:07you spiritual
45:08strength
45:08is found
45:10in God's
45:10grace
45:11he tells
45:12you
45:13this is Paul
45:13tells you
45:14knowledge is
45:15meant to be
45:16shared
45:16he commands
45:18you to
45:18study
45:19until approval
45:20becomes
45:21diligent
45:22study
45:23prosperous
45:24and enabling
45:26to make
45:26us
45:27unashamed
45:28he warns
45:29that holding
45:30fast
45:30preserves
45:31us
45:32he declares
45:33to you
45:33that preaching
45:34watching
45:35and serving
45:36never cease
45:37because every
45:38bit of
45:39righteousness
45:39is a
45:41sermon
45:41that speaks
45:42louder than
45:43words
45:43he testifies
45:45to you
45:45that you
45:46must finish
45:46your race
45:47because
45:47enduring
45:48to the
45:48end
45:49brings
45:49the
45:49crown
45:50so we
45:51need to
45:51finish our
45:52course
45:52with the
45:53same
45:53resolve
45:54that Paul
45:54showed
45:55when he
45:55said
45:56I have
45:57fought
45:57the good
45:57fight
45:58I have
45:58finished
45:59the race
45:59I have
46:00kept
46:00the faith
46:01in 2
46:02Timothy
46:02chapter 4
46:04and verse
46:047
46:05he said
46:06that
46:06after he
46:07had written
46:08this letter
46:08I have
46:10kept
46:10the faith
46:11I have
46:12finished
46:12the race
46:13I have
46:14fought
46:14the fight
46:15what a
46:16testimony
46:16from Paul
46:17to Timothy
46:18he'd done
46:19everything that
46:20he could do
46:21his conscience
46:21was clear
46:22and now
46:23he was
46:23just waiting
46:24to be
46:24released
46:25from the
46:25body
46:25that he
46:26had
46:26he wasn't
46:27fearing
46:27death
46:29I think
46:29if I was
46:30probably
46:31in his
46:31situation
46:32I would
46:32have been
46:32welcoming
46:33it
46:33to get
46:34out of
46:34that place
46:35and to
46:35be released
46:36from that
46:37your Roman
46:38dungeon
46:38may not
46:39have stone
46:40walls
46:40it may be
46:41the daily
46:42grind of
46:42work
46:43the pressure
46:44of trials
46:44or the
46:45loneliness
46:46of standing
46:47for truth
46:47when others
46:48compromise
46:49whatever
46:50your chains
46:51remember
46:52Paul's
46:53words
46:54the word
46:55of God
46:55is not
46:55bound
46:56in 2
46:57Timothy
46:58chapter 2
46:59and verse 9
47:00no circumstance
47:01can silence
47:02you
47:02despite all
47:03the things
47:04you can
47:05still finish
47:06strong
47:06God is
47:08in control
47:08of us
47:09God will
47:09enable us
47:10God will
47:10help us
47:11but we need
47:12to continue
47:13in the word
47:14praying
47:14and waiting
47:15being faithful
47:16and trusting
47:17that the
47:18Lord
47:18will enable
47:19us to see
47:20it through
47:20to the end
47:21Amen
47:22will your
47:23anchor
47:24hold
47:25in the
47:26storms
47:27of life
47:28when the
47:28clouds unfold
47:30their wings
47:32of strife
47:33when the
47:33strong
47:34times lift
47:35and the
47:36cables
47:37strain
47:37will your
47:38anchor
47:39drift
47:40or firm
47:41remain
47:42we have
47:44an anchor
47:45that keeps
47:46the soul
47:48steadfast
47:49and sure
47:50while it
47:51will
47:51fall
47:53fast
47:53into
47:54the
47:54rock
47:55which
47:55cannot
47:56move
47:58ground
47:59in firm
47:59and deep
48:00in the
48:01Saviour's
48:02love
48:03will your
48:05anchor
48:05hold
48:06in the
48:07straits
48:08of fear
48:09when the
48:10breakers
48:11fall
48:11and the
48:12reef
48:13is near
48:14while the
48:15surges
48:15rage
48:16and the
48:17wild
48:18winds
48:18blow
48:19shall
48:19the angry
48:20waves
48:21in your
48:22bark
48:23could
48:23flow
48:24we have
48:26an anchor
48:26that keeps
48:28the soul
48:29steadfast
48:30and sure
48:31while the
48:32billows
48:33roll
48:34fastened
48:35to the rock
48:36which cannot
48:38move
48:39ground
48:40firm
48:41and deep
48:41in the
48:42Saviour's
48:44love
48:44will your
48:46anchor
48:47hold
48:48in the
48:49floods
48:49of death
48:50when the
48:51waters
48:52cold
48:53share your
48:54latest
48:55breath
48:56on the
48:57rising
48:57tide
48:58you can
48:59never
49:00fail
49:01while your
49:02anchor
49:02holds
49:04within
49:05the
49:06veil
49:06we
49:07we
49:08an anchor
49:09that keeps
49:10the soul
49:11steadfast
49:13and sure
49:14while the
49:15billows
49:16roll
49:16fast
49:17into the
49:18rock
49:19which
49:19cannot
49:20move
49:22ground
49:23and deep
49:24in the
49:25Saviour's
49:26love
49:27will your
49:29eyes
49:29behold
49:30through the
49:31morning
49:32light
49:33the city
49:34of gold
49:35and the
49:36harbor
49:37bright
49:38will your
49:39anchor
49:40stay
49:40by the
49:41heavenly
49:42shore
49:43when life
49:44storms
49:45up
49:45past
49:46forever
49:47more
49:49we
49:49have
49:50an anchor
49:51that keeps
49:52the soul
49:54steadfast
49:55and sure
49:56while the
49:57billows
49:58roll
49:59fast
50:00into
50:00the
50:01rock
50:01which
50:02cannot
50:03move
50:04ground
50:05firm
50:06and deep
50:06in the
50:07Saviour's
50:09love
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