Paul in His Own Words 3 | The Old Soldier

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All right, so Zach and I were
talking and it bled into banter.

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So we'll pick it up and then
we'll just kind of the audio

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will come up and we'll be
talking about some very great

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things, of course.
Like we were like, like so

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immature.
About it.

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We're adults.
Oh man.

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I, I, I walked this fine line
between being super mature and

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very, very immature.
Yeah, but there's like, you

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could ask two different people
and they'd be like, Zach is so

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mature.
I cannot believe, you know, and

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people are like, you don't know,
you know what I mean?

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It's like, it's pretty funny.
The, the, the difference we're

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just, you know, depends, depends
on what's going on.

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But, you know, there you go.
Get me and my brother in a room

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and it can be crazy if we've
been banned from like we put I,

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I used to play a lot of spades
with, with our family, like

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love, love a good game of spades
and me and my brother are like

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banned from being on the same
team Cheat.

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We don't cheat, but the trash
talk is unreal.

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Like people like it's so funny
to us.

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No one else is having fun, but
we're, we're like, we're, we're

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celebrating.
It's great.

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I entered into a Spades
tournament, dude, in college,

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yeah.
And we got beat and something

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just felt really off.
They were.

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Cheating and they were signaling
like when they were out of the

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suit or something like and it's
just like it just felt and then

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they got called out and they
were disqualified, but we were

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eliminated by them it's like.
Yeah, you get a chance.

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Yeah, that's a man, Spades.
What a fun game.

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Yeah.
Do you play any other?

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Games euchre is the worst.
Do you play Euchre?

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Is this is this rolling?
It is rolling.

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OK, I know we didn't start it,
but we this is good.

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Yeah, we'll.
Figure out some way to ease into

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this.
Euchre is undeniably the worst

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game in the world.
I don't I don't play through my

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homemaker.
The euchre is honestly like a

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frontline, like men's, like
father, son, camp out.

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And it's the worst because
Michael.

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Michael is like I got in the
bushes.

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There are two.
You have like all these code

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words and it's like not fun.
It's just, it's too much.

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Have we played Yuker before?
No, no, I'd never played before

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until, until that one night.
Like it was like Wes Dowdy and

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Ricky Williams and you all the
Ohio, Michigan people, you know?

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What I'm saying, you were there.
I was there and I was like

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learning to play.
Oh, I see.

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So that was that was your only
time And that was just making.

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I was just making fun.
No, no, I was just making fun of

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all the, the many like catch
phrases.

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It was like I'm peeking from
under the table.

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I mean like, I mean like all men
stuff.

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Well, there's there's sitting in
the bushes.

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That means.
That means.

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You.
Pass it when you could have

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ordered up because like you have
a good hand for any suit and you

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get 2 points if you yukur
somebody, but you only get one

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point if you get your 3.
So if you're like I can get

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three no matter what the suit
is, then you pass it and hoping

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someone else calls it so that
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That's called sitting in the
bushes.

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Next is also code for like you
know, when you're playing

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euchre, you have the Kitty and
you this is Zach's fault by the

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way, but you the Kitty, the
dealer has four cars and he and

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he lays one up And next is the
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not that suit.
So if it was hearts here, it

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would be diamonds is next.
It's too much, Michael.

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It's too so spade just.
I like spades because it's like

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simple Spades is simple.
I can get behind it.

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I just like.
Hearts.

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Oh, my gosh, My grandfather,
I've never put.

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I grew up.
My grandfather would have like

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pee knuckle nights at his house.
Yeah.

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And like, I would not know
about.

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I mean, I would not play, but
they would be playing pee

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Knuckle while the kids and, you
know, it's like, don't be too

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loud.
We're playing Pee Knuckle or you

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know.
They play single or double pee

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knuckle.
Honestly, as like a six year old

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I was like grandpa what kind of
pee knuckle we did they.

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Did it look like they started
out with 10 cards in her hand or

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20 cards in her hand?
Like was it like, I'm sorry,

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this is an extreme number of
cards in their hand?

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I'm.
So sorry I.

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I wish I.
Wish I would I.

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So here's the deal.
Like when my parents, my mom and

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dad and my dad's brother and his
wife, they would play pinochle

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and I would sit and watch and my
sisters would be so mad because

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they're like, we never got to
watch.

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We were always told to leave the
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But I would be silent and I was
just observing.

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I was just taking it all in.
And then like maybe during when

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the hand was over, I asked my
mom some question be like, OK,

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why did why did y'all play that
10 there or something like that?

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And then I just soaked it up.
I, I love, I just thrilled to

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this game.
It was trying to think.

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So I'm not a huge score.
You know what game I don't like

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playing?
What's that?

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Skip bow?
There's nothing worse than skip

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bow.
It's my parents.

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I I.
Forgot about skip bow.

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Love skip bow.
I couldn't.

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Even tell you how to play I I've
played it before but I have Uno

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on my mind but.
I know not much difference this

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I, I, I it's not so I don't want
euchre, I don't want Uno.

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I like a good in between game.
You know what I'm saying?

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Your spade is great.
I know hearts is great too.

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I like hearts.
I like hearts.

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I like spades.
Shoot the moon.

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I'm always going for like the
hardest thing and it's going to

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when it pays off, it's awesome.
And normally I'm playing with

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people like like as the oldest
in the family, I'd be playing

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with like I can make, I can make
things happen.

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You know what I mean?
Like and that would contribute

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to me and my brother just
relentlessly celebrating until

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my mom made a stop because so.
Who?

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So there's you.
Your brother, your mom, your

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father, your sister.
That's five people.

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So who's not playing these star
games?

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This is, this is what you should
ask.

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You should ask what life was
like when it was me and my

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brother versus Leanne and my
sister with some of these games.

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I think I almost didn't get
married for some of these cause

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'cause it was out of control,
'cause if you know me, I'm like

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I, I have a mild sense of humor.
I think I can every now and then

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say something funny, but
occasionally, but I think

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something is funny, I am going
to beat it with a dead horse.

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I'm.
Just like poke, poke, poke,

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poke.
Poke, poke, poke.

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Yeah, I'm at at some level.
You really practice to know me

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well, but I can be.
Malicious.

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Yeah, I'm, I'm like.
And scary.

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Yeah, it's actually, it's like,
you know, total depravity,

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you'll get in.
I I wouldn't say mean and scary,

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but I could be like a major.
Jerk.

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That was a line off of Rapunzel,
so I I knew you wouldn't catch

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the illusion, but there are
people out there who caught that

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in.
Life, but but I can, could be, I

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can be.
I can go for like, just to be

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utterly annoying In high school,
middle school, I was really good

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at never getting into trouble.
But like instigating and

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stirring the pot.
That was like, my role was like,

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hey, don't you know, elevating
things?

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And then it got out of control.
Like, I'm out of here.

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This.
I did not mean for this to

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happen.
I there was there was a there

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was a time that I I was the hand
that moved mischief and I called

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in to talk to the not the
principal, the Superintendent.

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Oh, the big dog.
Wow.

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I'll tell you about that off
camera.

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Oh, that, that's great.
So, so many good times.

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But yeah, good, good card game
never hurt anyone.

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This is not a card game, but I'm
just going to I'll give you a

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little preview if anyone I
should put this in the GroupMe

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for home groups next week, a
week from today, Jaden's

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birthday and Joshua's birthday.
Every year on their birthday I

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like do a good old fashioned
like 40 yard dash against them.

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I'm going to open up to the home
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Anyone else want to?
Anyone else want to race?

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Get in there.
I I do want to race.

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You should.
I want John.

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I want.
It is so fun and just, you know,

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just to have.
Fun.

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I need to, I need to do some
warmups.

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So I don't like just destroy my
hammy because I've seen those

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where people are like limping
after they so.

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So yeah.
So, you know, get some.

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I'm confident I'll be Jayden and
Joshua.

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I feel good about that.
Yeah, yeah.

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And I, I feel, I feel good about
that too.

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I don't.
I mean, I think you'll probably

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beat me.
We'll see.

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Honestly, everyone's you know,
so surprising on on speed and I

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would say I am not I, I am more
quick than fast.

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I have a quick acceleration.
I top out not as fast as you.

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Would think yeah, yeah, yeah.
So sometimes, like in the longer

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races, I just, I don't, you
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When I was a football coach, I
would, you know, they, they'd

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have practice.
Yeah.

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And I was probably a little bit
more trimmed back then, but they

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would run a couple a lot.
But then I would race them, you

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know, just just take it out of
the tank a little bit.

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And they they didn't like that
because there was always some

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consequence if I beat them.
That's the best.

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That is so good.
Yeah, I love it.

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I would always like race.
This was a long time ago, like

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all the high scorers and, like,
resolve.

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And I was like, they were like,
you know, 15 to 18.

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And I was probably like at that
2526 range.

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So it was like I was at a good
age where I could just like beat

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everybody and stuff.
I'm like, I'm like starting to

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get to that age where I'm like
falling off a little bit.

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You know, I mean not more than a
little bit, but it's like man,

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it just like you think you think
1, you think you can do one

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thing, but the reality, even in
Frisbee out here, I've been

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playing for like 4 or five years
and it's like, man, I'm just

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like starting to fall off
compared to some of these.

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Young bucks, what are you, like
35 right now?

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35 Yeah, it just like, man, I
just think I can do more than I

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can.
It's making me mad, but you

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know.
I did.

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I was jumping the other day and
I was like this is my vertical

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like like this is it?
There was a time when I had like

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a 27 that's.
Impressive.

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That's a good vertical.
Yeah, yeah, I was.

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I had the highest of all the
offensive lineman at Arkansas

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State University.
I was probably the trimmest

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which.
Helped.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but they were like they

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were, they were all surprised
'cause we, they, everyone went

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through like a mini combine.
To try to compare.

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People and we had some people
GoPro from our from the team I

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played on and so we all did did
our 40 yard dashes and our

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verticals.
And you remember what your 40

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was.
Not it was slower than Tom

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Brady's.
It was like 5, two or something

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like that.
You know, five.

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It was in the fives, 5-6.
Maybe.

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I do.
What I What would you want?

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What Tom Brady's was.
I think it was high.

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Fours No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.

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Mine.
Was mine was in the fives.

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I was like.
You gotta beat Tom Brady.

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Oh, yeah, you're actually right.
I was in my mind.

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He's so slow.
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His 40 was 528. 5/2 so I think
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There you go.
So there you go and.

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I and I've never I, I think I
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good a shape I was in there
during that time if someone had

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coached me on how to start off.
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now is like hyper coach.
If you're going to that, like if

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you were doing like the
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hyper coached on it.
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that people game the system
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as you would think.
I did, you know, but they can,

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they can do the test.
Well, man, that's yeah, that's

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pretty cool.
We should we should do a

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combine.
Charles and Bible Church

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combine.
A fellowship group combine.

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You know, see where everyone's
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Give me like 12 months of prep.
Yeah, for real.

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That's great though 'cause I
never like everyone set.

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I think everyone like when
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think you can run a fast 40,
like people in our high school,

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we talked about 40.
We never like actually were.

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It's different to be actually
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like time.
You know what I mean?

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It can be a difference here.
So it's like, I don't think I

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never knew what my 40 was, but
in my mind it was way faster

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than it probably was, like 3.2.
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A4 O anyone can do that, yeah.
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But cool, you know, now I'm just
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Old soldier, just like Paul
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Are you about to write, you
know, letters to people and you

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feel like you're like, being
poured out like oil or

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something?
Pour out like water?

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What is it?
What's the actual phrase he

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uses?
I love it.

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Yeah.
He.

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What's he say?
Yeah, pull it out like a drink

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offering or whatever it is.
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So wine, I guess, yeah.
Pour it out.

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Like pull it out.
When will Paul?

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We're gonna, we're gonna not
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We're gonna talk about Paul.
But we're gonna let Paul speak

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for himself.
Yeah, in his own.

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Words in his own words Part 4
close This closes up the.

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Series closes up the series.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, nice.
I'm looking forward to it, The

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old soldier.
These final words reveal his

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heart as a mentor, disciple,
maker, and a man at peace with

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both his failures and his
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Hope you're excited.
Let's take it to the next level.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
All right, Paul, an old soldier

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and it's so, you know, he uses
war and soldier themes, farmer,

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athlete, you know, there's a lot
of analogies that he uses, but

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you can see, you know, soldier
who's been there done that.

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Seeing a thing or.
Two, yeah, seeing a seeing a

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thing or two and his times
drawing near.

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So really we look at his letters
to Timothy, first and second

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Timothy and his letter to Titus
kind of closing out Paul's

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epistles.
So do you just want to, oh, I

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guess timeline?
Oh, that's good.

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Set the stage like where you
know, where are we at?

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He's probably been released from
prison in Rome.

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Most of are.
We want to do an episode that

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kind of focuses on this, where
Paul ends up and then where

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maybe some of the other apostles
end up.

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Most people think he was
released, went to Spain for a

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little bit, came back, was re
imprisoned and then martyred

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under Nero.
So we think these books are

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somewhere between 63 and 67.
That's great.

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So a little bit before you know
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really leading up, you know,
knocking on the door, we're

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getting getting pretty close
there.

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Yeah, yeah.
All right.

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So maturity in Christ doesn't
mean we have less passion.

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It might mean that we have more
confidence, quieter confidence.

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It might mean that we have our
deeper roots, but we can still

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be effective and be passing that
on.

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So hopefully that's what we see,
you know, in in these.

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So 112 through 17.
You want to hit that for us from

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First Timothy.
Great, Yes, I got it here, Paul

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writes.
I thank Him, He was giving me

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strength, Christ Jesus our Lord,
because he just be faithful,

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appointing me to a service.
Though formerly I was a

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blasphemer, persecutor, an
insolent opponent, but I

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received mercy because I had
acted ignorantly in unbelief,

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and the grace of our Lord
overflowed for me with the faith

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and love that are in Christ
Jesus.

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The saying is trustworthy and
deserving a full acceptance.

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That is, Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom I

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am the foremost, but I receive
mercy for this reason, that in

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me as the foremost, Jesus Christ
might display His perfect

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patience as an example to those
to believe in him for eternal

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life.
To the King of the ages,

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immortable, invisible, the only
God, the honor and glory forever

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and ever.
Amen.

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Paul came a long way.
He did.

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And he knows that which is good.
Yeah, in Galatians he says, hey,

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I'm an apostle.
Not from man, not but from the

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Lord, not even, you know, sent
by man, but from the Lord

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Himself.
First Timothy, he says, I am the

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foremost of all sinners.
Man, Yeah, That's you're like

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Paul.
What are you saying?

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Man says a lot of things, says
he's formerly A blasphemer.

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But even in spite of these
things, God, God gave mercy to

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Paul.
Yep.

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And he can look back and he can
say, hey, this was my ministry

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of service, and I completed it.
That's right.

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That's a good thing to be able
to say.

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And so maybe, you know, you look
at the things that you're doing

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and maybe they're like, yeah,
this is service.

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Or maybe you're like, maybe we
need to prune that.

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That's good and then and kind of
at the we were talking about

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this reminds me of our message
today, Pastor Joel Abraham like

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looking back on the end of his
life, you know, with this long

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like when Paul after he's kind
of in this paragraph of talking

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just got kind of culminates and
praise one of these like, you

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know, classic to the king of
ages, immortal, invisible only

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God and just like he's just
going over and over again in

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praise of God.
Yep, 2 verse seven, he says for

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I was appointed A preacher and
an apostle.

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I'm telling the truth, I'm not
lying as a teacher of the

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Gentiles in faith and truth.
So kind of A1 sentence summary

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of Paul.
What did you do that that was

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his roll and then 4/6 through
16, you want to get that one?

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Man classic.
One of my favorite passages.

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Paul says if you put these
things before the brothers,

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you'll be a good servant of
Christ Jesus being trained in

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the words of the faith of the
good doctrine that you followed.

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Have nothing to do with
irreverent, silly miss.

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Rather, train yourself for
godliness, for a bodily training

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is of some value.
Godliness is a value in every

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way, as it holds promise for the
present life and also for the

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life to come.
The saying is trustworthy and

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deserving a full acceptance, for
to this end we toil and strive,

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because we have our hopes set on
the living God who is the Savior

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of all people, especially of
those who believe, command and

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teach these things.
Let no one despise you for your

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youth, but set the believers an
example and speech and conduct

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in love and faith and purity,
until I come to vote yourself to

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the public reading of Scripture,
to exhortation, to teaching.

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Don't neglect the gift you have,
which was given you by prophecy

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when the council of elders laid
their hands on you.

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Practice these things, immerse
yourself in them so that all may

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see your progress.
Keep a close watch on yourself

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and on the teaching.
Persist in this, for by doing so

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you will save both yourself and
your hearers.

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Very good.
So some of the some of your

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favorite verses about, you know,
discipline, you know, I always

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read these verses and I wonder
what it means.

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Who is the savior of all men,
especially of the believers?

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What does what does that mean
exactly?

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I think I understand it, but I
probably understand it

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differently than an Armenian
might understand it.

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You know, he says, hey, keep
reading Scripture.

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Don't neglect your spiritual
gifts, You know, pay close

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attention to yourself, to your
teaching, persevering, all

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things.
You know, obviously he's talking

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to Timothy, but we can, you
know, extrapolate some of this

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to ourselves.
You know, we should be laboring

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and striving because of the work
that we have.

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And that's what he's done.
Anything else that you see from

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those passages?
No, I think, I think you know

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that the language, man, it says
like train, practice, persist,

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immerse.
I just do these things to be a

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good example or a good servant
of Christ Jesus.

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I love it.
It's great.

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That's what we got in First
Timothy, right?

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Yep.
That's all of them in verse,

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Timothy.
So let's go over.

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We're going to do this in
chronological order, so we won't

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go to second Timothy yet.
We'll go over to Titus, Titus 11

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through three.
I'll get these.

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Paul, a bondservant of God and
an apostle of Jesus Christ, For

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the faith of those chosen of God
and the knowledge of the truth

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which is according to godliness
and the hope of eternal life,

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which God, who cannot lie,
promised long ages ago, but at

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the proper time manifested even
His word in the proclamation

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with which I was entrusted
according to the commandment of

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God our Savior.
I love it kind of kind of

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setting the stage, hitting on
the character of God, God who

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never lies.
We promised had all this kind of

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in mind that that's who is
really commissioning Paul kind

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of getting getting this letter
going.

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Yeah.
Yeah, 312 through 15.

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He gives some practical
instructions and personal

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readings.
You want to hit that force.

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It's kind of.
We get the greeting, we're

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hitting the clothes, we're
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When I send Artemis or take a
kiss to you, do your best to

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come to me at Anicopolis, for
I've decided it's been the

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winner there.
Do your best to speed Zenith,

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the lawyer and a polis on their
way.

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See that they like nothing, and
let our people learn to devote

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themselves to good works so as
to help cases of urgent need and

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not to be unfruitful.
All who are with me.

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Some greetings to you.
Greet those who love us in the

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faith.
Grace be with you all all.

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Right.
So you know, a lot of good meat

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in the in between those
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But that's really the the
autobiographical stuff that we

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have from Titus.
We see, you know, this practical

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maturity on his part.
He's like leaving a legacy of

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leadership.
You know, he's kind of, you can

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kind of seem like passing the
baton to Titus and Timothy and

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meet maybe others around them.
Cause 'cause Paul's like maybe

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in his 60s.
Yeah, yeah, like, just like,

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just like thinking like who, you
know, man, right?

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It's getting there.
I'm trying to think who's in

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their.
My parents are in their 60s.

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So there you go, Chris will be
in his 60s soon.

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It's crazy to think that is
crazy.

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I'll be in my 50s soon, not too
long.

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Yeah, time marches.
Are but that is crazy.

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Yeah, you're getting so old.
I'm just kidding.

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I'm.
Yeah, I was.

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Like, and he's crazy.
Don't you just like, don't you

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in your mind just be like, man,
I'm just leading the, I was

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leading the youth Group A couple
of years ago or you know.

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Something like, I know it's like
it's crazy.

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Simon and Garfunkel have this
song is in this called Bookends.

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And it's starts out, you know,
old souls, old souls.

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And it's like they're going,
they're going to a park bench

449
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,720
and they sit next to a guy
that's in his 70s is the story

450
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,920
of the song.
And he's like how strange it is

451
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,880
to be 70.
And they're kind of reflecting.

452
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,440
You can tell they're reflecting
like we're going to be there one

453
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,920
day, you know, soon, soon.
We don't die short, you know,

454
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,160
and what it's going to be like.
So yeah, man, that's where Paul

455
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,720
is.
That's where Paul is.

456
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,160
Oh, it's crazy.
And so Second Timothy, really, I

457
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,440
like the way this is titled The
Last March.

458
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,880
This is like the last book we
got by Paul.

459
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:05,440
Yeah, All right. 1/3 through 14
think it's my turn.

460
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,400
I think so.
All right.

461
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,840
I always thought that you had
the verse 7.

462
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:09,960
You know what I mean?
So so all.

463
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,400
Right, good.
All right, so let me read this

464
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,120
one.
Three through 14, it says, I

465
00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:19,160
thank God, whom I serve with a
clear conscience, the way my

466
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,480
forefathers did, as I constantly
remember you in my prayers night

467
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,120
and day, longing to see you even
as I recall your tears, so that

468
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:32,200
I may be filled with joy.
For I am mindful of the sincere

469
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,560
faith within you which first
dwelt in your grandmother Lois

470
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,000
and your mother Eunice.
And I am sure that it is in you

471
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,080
as well.
For this reason I remind you to

472
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,080
kindle afresh the gift of God
which is in you through the

473
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,560
laying on of my hands.
For God has not given us a

474
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,920
spirit of timidity, but of power
and love and discipline.

475
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:58,360
Therefore, do not be ashamed of
the testimony of our Lord or of

476
00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:04,200
me his prisoner, but join with
me in suffering for the gospel

477
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,080
according to the power of God,
who has saved us and called us

478
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,080
with a holy calling, not
according to our works, but

479
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,480
according to His own purpose and
grace, which was granted us in

480
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:20,880
Christ Jesus from all eternity,
but now has been revealed by the

481
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,240
appearing of our Savior Christ
Jesus, who abolished death and

482
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,160
brought life and immortality to
light through the Gospel, for

483
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,040
which I was appointed A preacher
and an apostle and a teacher.

484
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,240
For this reason I also suffer
these things, but I'm not

485
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,040
ashamed, for I know whom I have
believed, and I'm convinced He's

486
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,120
able to guard what I have
entrusted to him.

487
00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,120
Until that day, retain the
standard of sound words which

488
00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,840
you have heard from me in the
faith and love which are in

489
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,880
Christ Jesus, guards of the Holy
Spirit, who dwells in us, the

490
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,640
treasure which has been
entrusted to you.

491
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,560
Boom, guard that guard the
deposit kind of going back in

492
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,440
time like this legacy of faith
going back to the grandmother.

493
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,760
And it's it's a good thing to
have this lineage in in your

494
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,000
family.
You know, I think, I think it's

495
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,440
one of the things, at least when
it comes to, you know, I don't,

496
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,240
I don't know how far back the
early news goes, but you know,

497
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,120
people, if you can trace to the
Americas, if you go back far

498
00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,720
enough.
So everyone's Grant great

499
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,320
grandpa great, great was a
preacher somewhere.

500
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,200
Or it's like, you know.
Well, my grandfather is a

501
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,400
preacher on my mom's side and on
my dad's side.

502
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,800
It was crazy.
My great grandfather had two

503
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,560
wives.
Have you heard the story?

504
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,040
No, tell me so she.
Traveled in Michigan and he was

505
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,080
a traveling salesman.
Charles Mott.

506
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,280
Not the Charles Mott of the
apples, the other Charles Mott

507
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,240
in the early 1900s.
No kidding.

508
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,240
Charles Mott around Flint, MI.
He traveled between, I think it

509
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:54,000
was, well, two towns, Prescott
and some someplace else, maybe

510
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,640
Flint.
Had a wife and family in each.

511
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,840
Oh, that's that's like you hear
about these things.

512
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,080
Yeah, he got sick, went to the
hospital.

513
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:07,760
They the the office local call
best wife office local call that

514
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,400
wife.
They show up and meet each.

515
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,360
Other Dang.
I think that had huge

516
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:17,440
ramifications on my grandfather,
my dad's dad, alcohol abuse and

517
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,760
stuff.
And it's like my my my dad's

518
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,560
dad's mom from everything I can
read, like big time believer

519
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,880
wouldn't have any of it left
him.

520
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,320
I don't if you're following this
is Grandma Annie and she

521
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,480
separated.
Of course, that means my

522
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,480
grandfather didn't have his dad
anymore.

523
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,320
So I I think there's like this
little ripple where the my great

524
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,000
grandfather sin like rippled
down and it took, you know, a

525
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,520
generation for like the family
to get back in the church and

526
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,600
stuff.
It was, it was crazy.

527
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,040
That's a good point.
It kind of cut both ways.

528
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,040
Be really positive, very, very
negative.

529
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,520
It's good to kind of set that
culture, that legacy cause yeah,

530
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,360
it can, it can spot, you know,
people that come from, you know,

531
00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:08,880
everyone can make choices on
their own, but it's like, man,

532
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,240
it's tougher if you grow up in a
home that's like, man broken

533
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,080
alcoholism still do well.
And then on the front of it,

534
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,400
it's easier to do well in a good
home.

535
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,320
You can still, you can still
mess up and go the other way.

536
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,400
But man, that is.
Crazy neat little tidbit.

537
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,960
Yeah, I want a tidbit.
Trying to trace, you know, a

538
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,520
whole bunch of different
ancestry, some ancestors in and

539
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:33,000
around Rhode Island and other
parts and multiple wives and

540
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,720
stuff.
And like doing a little more

541
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,880
research.
Mormons in the background of

542
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,520
your family, of my family.
Wow, that's crazy.

543
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,160
Yeah.
Yeah, I can see it.

544
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,400
I've thought that before.
No, I'm just.

545
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,400
Kidding.
All right, So, yeah, But getting

546
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,160
back to Paul like this, like you
said, this heritage not only for

547
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:56,440
for Paul, but for Timothy and
Timothy both from his biological

548
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,160
family and from Paul.
He said, hey, we've both been,

549
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,120
you know, keep running the the
fight and you can tell like

550
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,360
there's seems like there's more
gravity to his writing here.

551
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,480
Like yeah, it.
It picks up second Timothy in

552
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:09,880
particular.
Yeah, and even like in the

553
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,680
greeting he says to Timothy, my
beloved child, it's just like,

554
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,320
you know, you got this kind of
passing down.

555
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:20,080
Chapter 2, verses 8 through 13
reads Remember Christ Jesus, or

556
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,000
Jesus Christ risen from the
dead, the offspring of David as

557
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000
preached in my gospel, for which
I am suffering, bound with

558
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,440
chains as a criminal, but the
word of God is not bound.

559
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,720
Therefore I endure everything
for the sake of the elect, that

560
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,320
they also may obtain the
salvation that is in Christ

561
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,640
Jesus with eternal glory.
The saying is trustworthy.

562
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,640
For if we have died with Him, we
will also live with Him.

563
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,800
If we endure, we will also reign
with Him.

564
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,800
If we deny Him, He will deny us.
If we are faithless, He remains

565
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,400
faithful, for He cannot deny
Himself.

566
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,480
Very good, yeah.
And that this idea of being

567
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,760
faithful, and in the first
passage we read, you know, not

568
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,480
being ashamed.
And you got to know if, you

569
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,320
know, history, this is probably
during the time when Nero's

570
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,760
going crazy crazier.
And he's like, hey, I'm not

571
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,280
going to be ashamed of what I
know is true.

572
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,600
And I'm going to be faithful,
you know, in spite of, you know,

573
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,200
all this stuff that's going.
On so crazy and I think we'll

574
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,200
talk about this in a future
lesson like the the fates of all

575
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,040
the apostles or at least
tradition or what what we think

576
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,240
happened.
Wouldn't it just be insane if

577
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,240
like 4 apostles we're like, I'm
not going to finish strong at

578
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,400
the I'm going to, you know what
I mean?

579
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,800
It's like insane that we don't
have that right?

580
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,360
Not even like one point.
Yeah, that's like.

581
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,640
You know what?
We made-up that whole story

582
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,080
about fishing and seeing Jesus
on the mountain.

583
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,960
'Cause you think like one person
might, even if even if

584
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,360
everything was true, you might
still flip, just still be like,

585
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,200
I don't want to get in trouble,
you know what I mean?

586
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,560
Like even that person would be
like a slimeball a little bit,

587
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,840
but it's like you could see that
happening.

588
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,240
Yeah, we have no record.
And you think?

589
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,480
They would make a big.
Deal.

590
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,520
It's like even that one guy who
just, like, just doesn't want.

591
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,240
Yeah.
So anyway, all right, 310

592
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,040
through 14 some of Jacks
favorite verses.

593
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,840
Now you followed my teaching,
conduct, purpose, faith,

594
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,880
patience, love, perseverance,
persecutions and suffering, such

595
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,920
as happened to me at Antioch, at
Iconium, at Lystra.

596
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,360
What persecutions I endured, and
out of them all the Lord rescued

597
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,000
me.
Indeed, all who desire to live

598
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,000
godly in Christ Jesus will be
persecuted, but evil men and

599
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,640
impostors will proceed from both
bad to worse, deceiving and

600
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,320
being deceived.
You, however, in contrast to

601
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,320
those bad people continuing the
things you have learned and

602
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,840
become convinced of knowing from
what you have learned from them,

603
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,960
and that from childhood you have
known the sacred writings which

604
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,960
are able to give you wisdom that
leads to salvation through

605
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,200
faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
And I got to kind of add these

606
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,240
on.
All scripture is inspired by God

607
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,440
and profitable for teaching, for
proof, for correction, for

608
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,760
training and righteousness, so
that the man of God may be

609
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,840
adequate, equipped for every
good work, No.

610
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,520
You can't you can't.
You couldn't stop there.

611
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,560
You couldn't stop there.
How to keep going again, kind of

612
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,440
exclusion about keep learning
this stuff in childhood, you

613
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,840
know, like this is this is this
is important foundational things

614
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,880
continue.
In this, yeah, basically stay

615
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,760
steady.
You know, you saw what God

616
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,040
delivered me through at all
these places and you know it was

617
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,760
my will to to to live and to
keep ministering.

618
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,680
And so the same way, even though
you might face persecution, stay

619
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,520
faithful.
Stay faithful.

620
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,360
Man closing out the letter,
chapter 4, verses 6 through 18.

621
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,240
For I'm already being poured out
as a drink offering, and the

622
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,000
time of my departure has come.
I fought the good fight, I

623
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,040
finished the race.
I have kept the faith.

624
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,880
Henceforth there's laid up for
me the crown of righteousness,

625
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,560
which the Lord, the righteous
judge, will war to me on that

626
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,160
day, and not only to me, but
also to all who have loved his

627
00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,960
appearing.
Then we've got some personal

628
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,360
instructions here.
Do your best to come to me soon.

629
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,560
For Demas in love with this
present world, has deserted me

630
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,720
and gone to Thessalonica.
Christians has gone to Galatia,

631
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,080
Titus to Dalmatia.
Luke alone is with me.

632
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,160
Get Mark and bring him with you,
for he is very useful to me for

633
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,400
ministry.
Ticket kiss I have sent to

634
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,400
Ephesus.
When you come, bring the cloak

635
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,760
that I left with Carpas at
Troas, also the books, and above

636
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,560
all the parchments.
Alexander, the coppersmith did

637
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,520
me great harm.
The Lord will repay him

638
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,960
according to his deeds.
Beware of Him yourself, for he

639
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,800
strongly opposed our message.
At my first offense no one came

640
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,320
to stand by me, but all deserted
me.

641
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:34,760
May it not be charged against
them.

642
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,880
But the Lord stood by me and
strengthened me so that through

643
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,760
me the message might be fully
proclaimed and all the Gentiles

644
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,840
might hear it.
So as rescued from the lion's

645
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,640
mouth, the Lord will rescue me
from every evil deed and bring

646
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,520
me safely into His heavenly
Kingdom.

647
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,400
To Him be the glory forever and
ever.

648
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,560
Amen.
In one sense looks pretty bleak.

649
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,080
I mean, it's like, I mean, you
know, the end is near and even.

650
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,440
It's like, I hate reading this
part.

651
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,320
Like all have deserted me.
It's like, oh, that's tough, you

652
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,600
know?
He calls out Demas, but he

653
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,240
doesn't.
You know, he's like he left,

654
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,720
loved the present world, left
with a Thessalonica.

655
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,400
Cressans has gone to Glacia,
Titus to Dalmatia.

656
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,520
Doesn't really have that same
condemnation to Cressans.

657
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,720
However.
He's Cressans and Titus, you

658
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,160
know.
Yeah.

659
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,080
But you, you, you can you can
sense his loneliness, right?

660
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,440
And he would have had a defense
which would have been called

661
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,720
apologia for the But that he is.
Apologia.

662
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,680
Not apologia.
Have you heard of apologia like

663
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,440
this?
Like Jeff Der?

664
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:37,840
Like this?
Yeah, I'm like, come on.

665
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,040
At least get it right.
Apologia.

666
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:40,960
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

667
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,560
But yeah, so bleak.
But you see him being faithful

668
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,440
threw it to the end.
And you know, if we ever were to

669
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,400
face persecution like this, I'd
like to say, hey, I'd like to

670
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,240
think that, you know, you know,
you would remain faithful, that

671
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,880
I would remain faithful in in
light of tough, tough times.

672
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:03,560
So wow.
And he hasn't lost all hope.

673
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,760
Bring my cloak, the parchments,
the books.

674
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:06,720
That's right, that's right.
That's.

675
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,880
Right.
He's looking forward to a future

676
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:09,880
and we don't, you know, we
don't.

677
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,800
We're not told explicitly how
long he lives after writing his

678
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,520
letter, but it could have been
days.

679
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:16,920
That's right.
Yeah, We just don't know.

680
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,600
I want to.
I want to know more about this

681
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,200
cloak.
He's like, Carpus has my cloak.

682
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,480
Carpus, don't you forget.
I think he's probably old and

683
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,160
cold, you know what I'm saying?
That's what happens.

684
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,920
You get old and cold.
Yeah, old and cold.

685
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,040
So that's probably me.
I'm I've gotten colder as I've

686
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,160
gotten older.
All right.

687
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,600
Application for older believers.
Don't estimate the power of your

688
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,320
example.
You know he's living an example

689
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,840
for Titus, For Timothy Young
believers, you can look up to

690
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,360
role models.
Just because they have Gray hair

691
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,560
and they walk a little wobbly
doesn't mean that you can't

692
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,640
learn something from them.
Pastors and teachers, your

693
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,920
greatest sermon may be the way
you finish on your way out.

694
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,240
That's how that's a really good
point because though some, you

695
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,320
know, there's some demises out
there, people don't finish.

696
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,200
Well, and then for everyone, God
measures success not by how

697
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,719
spectacularly you start
necessarily, but how steadfastly

698
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,800
you end.
So that's, that's a good, you

699
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,960
know, challenge to, you know,
walk the walk and keep the

700
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,159
faith.
It's great, Paul, in his own

701
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,280
words.
We went through 4 episodes and

702
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,840
then and then kind of the next
one on this series is, is that

703
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,000
the one I alluded to?
Kind of.

704
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,159
Yeah, we could do that on
Tuesday or Thursday.

705
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,280
We thought that Joel was going
to start a new.

706
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,600
I saw the notes last night when
Chloe was doing the bulletins.

707
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,679
I was like Abraham again.
Abraham What if he just keeps it

708
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,400
going again?
Like just sneaks it in.

709
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:40,840
There I was like, hey, we're
going to do.

710
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,880
We got one more final sermon on
Abraham.

711
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,000
That was good.
We looked at Really Abraham

712
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,480
through the lens of.
Did you get the insight of what

713
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,600
we're going through next?
I don't, I don't know either.

714
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,440
It's under wraps.
So yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm sure if

715
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,480
we asked him, he would tell us.
But.

716
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,600
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're acting like it's this big

717
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,000
secret, but I just haven't heard
yet.

718
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,520
Everyone's like, go sneak in and
see what his notes are on his

719
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:01,000
desk.
Oh.

720
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,400
Man, it's great.
Well, I'm glad we did this

721
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,600
series.
Any parting final words,

722
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,840
Michael?
No, I think that that's good.

723
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,200
We've done quite a few episodes
on the Person of Paul on

724
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,760
Tuesday, so.
When you if you if you add in

725
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,120
Romans, if you add in a.
Lot on Paul.

726
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,400
Yeah.
I mean, why?

727
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,400
Why go to seminary?
Just listen to Take Two

728
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,280
Theology.
Take notes.

729
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,840
You can send us your essays,
we'll grade them.

730
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,480
Yeah, it's great.
We will.

731
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,400
It's great.
You'll take two at Universe Take

732
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,200
two seminars.
Yeah.

733
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,880
Boom.
Well, thanks for hanging in

734
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,840
there.
That is our take.

735
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,640
Thanks for listening to Take
Two.

736
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,000
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737
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