Walk away2 Timothy 2: 21

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 21

• Famous last words
• Ovett
• St. Pauls guidance
• Chapter
• Portrait ideal Christian teacher
• Metaphors
• Dedicated farmers, athletes, soldiers
• Accurate workmen
• Vessels
• Servants.

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 25-26

• Conditions Fit for purpose
• Gods agent
• Purpose
• Rescue unbelievers, trapped by devil
• Backstage of all evangelism, spiritual battle
  rages
• Symptoms
• Sinful, need to repent
• In error, need to know truth
• Only God can save by giving them
• Repentance
• Leading to knowledge of truth
• Yet uses human beings who..

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 25-26

• Fulfil conditions
• Avoid quarrelling
• Teach with gentleness
• Purify themselves
• Else
• Dont produce fruit in keeping with repentance
• Luke 38
• Whats going wrong with the fruits of the spirit?

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 20-21

• Metaphor
• Gold/silver special occasions
• Wooden/earthenware menial use in kitchen
• Great house Gods house (church)
• Utensils church teachers
• False or true teachers (Gods agents)
• Used on condition
• Else
• Dont produce fruit in keeping with repentance
• Luke 38
• Whats going wrong with the fruits of the spirit?

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 22

• Purification
• Flee youthful passions
• Not just lust
• Headstrong (calibrated response / be respectful)
• Letter to church council
• Business idea
• This week!
• Recognise sin as danger
• Iron
• Joseph and Potiphars wife
• Dont linger in its presence (thought life).

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 22

• Purification
• Pursue righteousness
• Love
• Peace
• Faith
• Gentleness
• Hospitality
• Good of others
• Stan says doing better, but keep working at it!
• Done both, much better way of living as never
  content the other way.

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 22

• With others earnestly seeking
• Not cut-off (parable of weeds/wheat not
  separated until harvest time)
• But avoid their
• Error
• Sin
• Meals in 2006
• Examples/role models
• Biographies (Muller, Booth, Barnado, Clifford!)
• Jesus
• Friends (e.g David Butterworth).

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Walk away 2 Timothy 2 23-25

• Slave Christian worker today
• Avoid quarrelling
• Stick up for truth
• But dont go in for controversy, inevitable when
• Swap revelation
• For un-Biblical speculation (no authority/court
  of appeal)
• Teach with gentleness
• Teach truth/Correct errors
• But be patient with others foolishness as they
  are trapped
• Stans appeal hypocrisy, but stay cool!