 Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you all for joining us. Can I ask Siddharth to lead us in practice before we begin? Siddharth, can you lead us in practice? Yeah, sure. We just want to thank you for this. Yeah, we just want to thank you for this. You have given us a lot. We just want to pray as we all come together to learn about your word and your teaching. I pray that you give us wisdom and knowledge to understand what we are talking about. So thank you for everything. Thank you. Okay, so last week we were looking at Second Committee, but remember the chapter we studied last week in Second Committee? Okay, thank you Prince Chapter 1. Okay, so in Chapter 1 we see that Paul is challenging Timothy not to be ashamed of the gospel or speaking of the Lord. He also tells him not to be ashamed of identifying with genuine ministers of God. Even if they are suffering for the sake of Christ, and Paul specifically says this because many of them or a couple of them, they stopped identifying or they stopped relating with Paul because he was in chains or he's in chains. He's writing Second Committee, he's in prison in Rome and he knows that death is inevitable, that he's going to face death. Okay, and so he says, you know, don't be ashamed of preaching the gospel or sharing the gospel or speaking of the Lord, and also don't be ashamed of identifying with genuine ministers of God. Even if they are suffering or being persecuted or in chains for the sake of the gospel, and then he encourages Timothy to stir up the gift of God in him, and then Paul goes on to make a statement on why he's not ashamed to suffer for the sake of the gospel, and we end it with that. Last class, he mentions two reasons. He says, I know whom I have believed, that means the one I have believed for is saying has given him the promise of life, and the one who has promised him life, eternal life, the Jesus Christ the Savior, and he is the source of all ways, mercy and truth as Paul begins this letter. He writes this in his greetings, and Paul also has mentioned that Jesus Christ is the one who gives immortality. And the second reason is he says, I know that God is able, the one who has promised him this eternal life is able to keep what Paul has committed to him, or God, what Paul has deposited with him. That means God is able to protect, to save God, to keep what we have committed to him until that day. So what have we committed to him? You know, if they've accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, we have placed our life in his hands, and God is more than able to keep it, to protect it, to save God in both us. So we stopped at verse 12, we did not complete this entire chapter, but we continued today. One of you will read 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 13 till the end of the chapter, please. Till verse 18. One of you will read 1 Timothy. So 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 13 to verse 13 to the end of the chapter. There will be the best order for you to have your Bibles open, because we are going to read the 2 Timothy chapter 2 after we finish chapter 1. Like you will read your Bibles, you will have to follow. So one of you will read now 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 13 to the end of the chapter, which is verse 18. 13 to 18, right? Yes. What you heard from me keeps us the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus. God the good deposit that was entrusted to you. God it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. Examples of disloyalty and loyalty. You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me including ... including ... Fighting yes. Okay. And hermoableness. May the Lord show mercy to the household of honest followers, because he often refersed to me and was not ashamed of my chains. On the contrary, where he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day. You know very well in how many days he helped me in the future. Thank you Siddharth. Okay. So verse 13 says hold fast the pattern of sound words which you heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. So here we see that Paul is giving an important instruction to our minister of God, to Timothy. I'm setting him the key to avoid errors or wrong teachings or deception. Deceptive teachings, deceptive people who bring in deceptive teaching is to stay with the pattern of sound words. What is the meaning of this place, the pattern of sound words? Paul is telling Timothy, stay with what you have learned, what was taught to you, what was imparted to you, by his grandmother, by his mother, by Timothy and what he has learned and so forth. Similarly, we are living in a world where there's a lot of false teachers, false teachings that are happening, wrong teachings that are away from God's word, away from the truth. So if we have to avoid these errors and avoid these deceptive things that come into the church or come deep into our minds, then we have to stay with the pattern of sound words. That means stay with what you have been taught, what you have learned and what you are reading and learning from God's words. So God's word is our standard. So we see from 1 Timothy, we recall what we learned in 1 Timothy that Paul is saying that one of the reasons why Paul assigned Timothy to Ephesus, the church at Ephesus in the surrounding areas is to protect the church from all kinds of false teachings. So what he is saying is the minding him, instructing him to stay away from all of these false teachings and false teachers. And secondly, we also read or we learned in 1 Timothy chapter 4 verses 1 and 2 where Paul is talking about seducing spirits that give rise to doctrine's teachings of demons that seek to infiltrate the church through the leaders. He is basically talking about the Jews and they draw people away from the faith. So many wrong teachings or errors in teaching in the church are actually the work of evil spirits. And this is through well-meaning ministers who have been seduced or deceived and sadly they don't know themselves. So we need to keep God, we need to keep our God always up against all of these false teachings and false teachings and how do we do that? It is by staying with the pattern of some words that means staying with what you have taught, being taught what you have heard, what you have learned and what is written in God's word. Paul once again reminds Timothy to stay with the teachings that he has learned and that Paul has given Timothy. And doesn't keep it simple, you know, stay with walking in the faith and not in Christ Jesus. Verse 14, can one of you read verse 14 please? That good things which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit, God was in us. Thank you, friends. We always see that we have to guard what has been committed to us. And this is a repeat of 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 20. There also is telling Timothy to guard. We know what has been committed to him. So we need to guard what is committed to us and we can guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit. We also need the power of the Holy Spirit to guard the word of God that is within us. You know, Satan is a deceiver who can deceive us with a lot of wrong things. So we also need to guard the word that is within us. We need the Holy Spirit's guidance. We need His anointing. The Holy Spirit will guide us. We need to all shoot. We need the anointing to guard the word of God that has been deposited in us. We need the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We need the anointing of God within to guard the word of God that has been deposited in us. So it is the anointing within that will teach us what is right and wrong as we are doing in 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 and 27. So in some of you we need 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 and 27 please. 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 and 27. 26 and 27 ma'am? Yes, 20 and 27. 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 and 27. But you have an anointing from the Holy Spirit and all of you know the truth. 27. Yes. As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things and as the anointing is real not counterfeit thus as it has taught you remain in Him. Thank you. So we see that the anointing you know will teach us everything. We do not need anyone to teach us but the anointing within will teach us. It will teach us what is the truth. And we know it will teach us what is lies. So we need to you know we need the anointing of God in our lives to guard the word that is the possibility and also the anointing within us will teach us what is right and what is wrong. Okay. So we move on to verse 15 and one of you read verse 15 please. This you know that all those in Asia have turned away from me among whom are easy, lust and homogens. Okay. So it appears that the many believers from Asia Minor have abandoned or deserted their friendship or their association with the Apostle Paul because he is imprisoned. They are all afraid that they might also be imprisoned. And Paul mentions two of them quite tedious and homogenous. There are two names that he mentions. Men who seem to have abandoned their friendship with Paul. We do not know any more about these two people other than that. They just abandoned their friendship or their relationship with Paul. And so it's no wonder that Paul is firmly encouraging people not to be ashamed of you know, preaching the gospel or speaking of the Lord and also being associated with Paul and others who are being imprisoned like we saw earlier in this chapter. Okay. And then the closing lines in this chapter was 16, 17 and 18 in one of you read that piece verses 16, 17 and 18. You know clearly it was 16, 17 and 18. Ma'am, can I read? Yeah sure, please. Thank you. 16 to 18, right? Yes. The Lord grand mercy to the household of Ones Fros for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain. But when he arrived in Rome he sought me out very jealously and found me. The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy for the Lord in the day, in that day. And you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus. Thank you. So here Paul is mentioning about a question for Ones Fros. Ones Fros is not mentioned elsewhere but what Paul writes about him is a wonderful affirmation of what we did for Paul. Paul says that he ministered to him when Paul was in Ephesus. Ones Fros also came to Rome. He searched, he looked for Paul and he found out where he was in Rome and Paul says he has opened a refreshed Paul and then Paul also mentions that he is not ashamed of Paul when Paul was being imprisoned for relieving chains. So this is a good example for us to follow, to be like Ones Fros to do something similar to what he has done to fellow believers, just ministry to fellow believers, taking care of their needs, helping them in their time of difficulties or when they're persecuted to stand along with them. When they're going through troubles and difficulties to encourage them to strengthen them, just be with them. So it's wonderful to see this man, Ones Fros, to hear his testimony from Paul and to know how he has taken the pains and gone out of his way to minister to Paul, to care for his needs, cater to his needs and also the way he looked for the mentor, found him and has opened a refreshed Paul and Paul says he's not, he was not ashamed at all of us in chains but refreshed and ministered to him. So I think this is what even God looks for us to do as a community of believers, a church to refresh, strengthen, build each one of us, build each one another in the faith, not just in the faith, but also taking care of each other's needs, just like in the young church. They all sold their property, sold their things, brought and gave their money to the apostles and they shared it with those who did not have. So that is the kind of church that God envisions for us. He wants us to have and as pastors, ministers, that is the kind of care and that is the kind of relationship that we need to have with other fellow believers. It's okay Kiran, it doesn't matter. So Kiran says I was reading when the mic was muted. So that is the end of chapter one and second Timothy. The key takeaway was there are many important things but the second thing in chapter one was it says therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. Lord of me is prisoner, but shared between the suffering for the gospel according to power of God. That means we should not be ashamed to witness for our Lord. But there are many key takeaways that stir up the gifts that have been given to you because there's him, there's Timothy. So there are many other good key takeaways but this one is kind of emphasizing the emphasis in this chapter. Any questions in this chapter? Anything you'd like to share your comments, your thoughts? Okay, if not, we will move on to second Timothy chapter two where there are about 26 verses. So we asked almost six of you all. So each one of you can read four verses each and the last person can read an extra two verses. So can we begin with the second Timothy chapter two where all of us read four verses and the last two people can read about five verses. Yes, let's begin. Let's begin second Timothy chapter two. Then my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus and the thing you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses interested with reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. Join me in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serves, no one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs but rather tries to please his commanding officer. Thank you. Even as you're reading it, after we finish reading I will ask each one of you to just mention one or two things that you can spend the steering of the heart or if it's something that you've missed it to do or some word or some phrase or some words that just left out in the pages that you and the reading spoke to you so you know, I will ask you to share that after we read all of these verses. Someone else can read from five to eight piece. I'll read. Okay. And also if anyone competes in athletics he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. A hard-working former must be first to partake of the crops. Consider what I say and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel. Maybe I had done as well. Okay, sure. For which I suffer trouble as an even to the point of change but the word of God is not changed. Therefore, I endure all things for the sake of the elect that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory. Okay, thank you. This is a faithful saying for if we die with him we shall also live with him. If we endure we shall also resin with him. If we deny him he also will deny us. If we are faithful less he remains faithful. He cannot deny himself. Remind them of those things sharing them before the Lord not to strive about word to no profit to the rain line of the years. Yes. Be diligent to present yourself. Approve to God a worker who does not need to be assumed rightly, divinely the word of truth. Continuing between two verses. Two verses. But some performed and ideal aboundly aboundly aboundly for they will for they will increase to more ungodliness and their masses will served like cancer. A hermeneuse and hermeneuse and peltiers are of this road. So. Thank you. If somebody else can read the next few verses. Who have strayed concerning the truth saying that the resurrection is already passed and they overthrew the faith of some nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands having the Lord knows those what who names the name of the Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also some for honour some for dishonour. Therefore if anyone senses himself from the letter he will be a vessel of for honour sanctified and useful for the masters prepared for every good work. He also youthful lust but pressure righteousness sorry, pursue righteousness faith, love, peace with those who call on the name of the Lord out of pure heart but avoid foolish and ignorant disputes doing that they are generate strife. Thank you Thomas was 24 was 26 the Lord must not quarrel but will gentle to all able to teach patients in humility correctly those who are in the position with God perhaps to grant them their principles so that they may not be trained and that they will come into their senses and escape the snare of the devil having been taken captive for him to do this today. So this is second film chapter 2 I would like each one of you to share one or two things that stood out for you I mean I just left out of these pages at you something that you remember you have learnt before I was hoping to you like to share that now for each one of us we just take the minutes to share we are going to unmute you Thomas and speak this this I highlight that be diligent in the present work so we need to do whatever we are doing we should not be ashamed that seeing a worker does not need to be ashamed so in chapter 1 verse 8 there also is here do not be ashamed for the testimony we also need to that response we should not be ashamed for the gospel Thank you please not to be ashamed of the gospel be diligent or to present ourselves as one of two God and we should not be ashamed but help you develop the word of God we should not speak the word of God see through the words thank you for sharing that ok, someone else we want to share so we are going to quickly let's move on verse 20, 21, 2, 3 and 4 also from the chapter we should to be ready to as a vessel for God's work within us we have to try to maintain ok, thank you Kiran Kiran says that we need to be blessed with honor that we serve God, that we serve him with honor the very mercy of God I am not really blessed Thank you Kiran What about Dave, Karan and Thomas? I would like to share things from I read verses 5 to 7 in this it's a general thing that in the world right, everything has if we are, if we want to become good there was a hard work has begun there so it's not only for the world worldly things, it's also for the ministry how much harder we work in our ministry, that much harder God will give people we can reach people yeah Karan, yes you know people that the workplace hard work people that the workplace in the world they work their own hours really hard, they slow it down but you know in ministry we also need to work hard like a farmer like a soldier and that's where we can we need the benefits of our hard work so then God can bless the work of our families thank you Karan okay, what about Thomas and Dave okay talking about yes, go ahead okay so verses 2, 3 and 4 the part that I read he's talking about what came out to me is like how we are to be like a soldier to Christ someone who have received a commandment from God because God is our our commanding officer like we are not to be tangled in civilian affairs like sometimes we we fear people and we want to please people but actually our command is from God from Jesus and we are to please what we are to obey what he has given us and we have to do what he has asked us to do if you look at so many places in the world there are so many places where we can see soldiers and we can see them guarding a place or when you go to Indiaget in Delhi or some famous places you can see soldiers standing there and they stand there for hours guarding the place despite their being hungry, despite they have to go if they even need to go to college yet they stand there and guard the place because they have received the command from their commanding officer so it is what in our life as well we are to be like a soldier for Christ and to please what he please and to do what our commanding officer Jesus has told us to do thank you great yes we like a soldier we need to hear the word the command of our commanding officer Jesus Christ we will do what he has seen and follow his commands thank you yes comments what should I read the poem saying that we have to look lens ourselves to you God more and more he is talking about the holiness and the purity of the life he says the pursuit of righteousness it is very important when we walk with the Christ we are sanctified that is true but we have to cleanse every day to check our life and to walk with the Christ so when we do that God will use in a powerful way many times we may focus on many things but not our holiness and the righteous life pursuit that God will make everything great that is what the Paul is trying to say for you and he says that flee from all the youthfulness so it is very important these things a personal life and the purity thank you thank you Thomas thank you for sharing that how we live a personal life with the purity and holiness is very important perfect thank you all for sharing so second Timothy chapter 2 now we will just study what it says in this chapter so let's begin now in second Timothy as I said last class when it begins in Timothy it is more a personal letter in first Timothy we see Paul is writing to Timothy about how to take care of a local church but second Timothy is more a personal letter where Paul is exposing more about his own personal life and ministry he is teaching another man of God how to be a servant of God and how to live as the man of God okay so we look at verse 1 in chapter 2 of second Timothy Paul is writing says you therefore my son is strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus so you see how Paul is referring to Timothy Timothy is a son in the faith who Paul has ministered for 17 years and now he is giving him the responsibility to oversee the churches at Ephesus and he says he is strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus which means he empowered by the grace in Christ Jesus in other episodes Paul mentions or asks whoever he is writing to to be strong in other things for example in Ephesians chapter 6 Paul tells the church at Ephesus to be strong in God and in the power of his might so he basically meaning to say that God is a source of power and to use that source of power you know use that in our own life to get strength to be able to face to persevere to endure all things but now in this letter to Timothy Paul is telling Timothy he is strong in the grace we know that God is the source of grace he has restored his grace on you and me the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 that God has lavished us with his grace and he talks about in the same chapter the abundance of his grace God has lavished that grace each one of us but Paul is telling Timothy strong in the grace of God that is given to us in Christ Jesus that means established in that grace what does it mean it means that don't let anyone or don't let anything you know shake you from the fact that God or God is a God of grace and his grace you know has been extended to each one of us the abundance of this riches of this grace has been extended to you and has been extended to you but the devil is very clever and very good and he is the the devil is the the devil is the devil the devil is the devil is very clever and very good at getting us to move out of this grace so one of the the devil they want us to move out of grace is giving more importance to works so we suddenly come into this whole idea that we have to earn things from God and so when we do that you know we have to make God happy we have to please him so when we think like that we get out of grace and we move into works and for example we know in my thing that only if you read 10 chapters a day or give God money or do some works of charity then you know God will be happy with us will be smiling at us will bless us and you see that everybody deceptively you know takes us out from our position of grace and he takes us into you know a place where you know we think that we have to earn God's love earn God's mercy earn God's goodness his favor his blessings but Paul is saying you are the strong in the grace and he established in the grace to do good works but we don't do it to earn but we do that good works because you know of what we have to see we have to see the abundance of this grace and so you know out of a joyful heart out of a blessed heart out of a heart that wants to thank God and bless him we say God I give you everything that you know I want to give back everything that you have given to me and I do this because I am so grateful ok so then we engage in good things for God not pick out of you know trying to earn our status our standing of favor with God but we do it just because we are so grateful we are so thankful our heart with joy because of everything that God has given us and done for us the other area that the devil can get us out of grace is and get us into another area is the failure of guilt and condemnation ok so we can fill us with guilt and condemnation and we move out from the position of grace to a position where we are feeling very content you know the grace of God has lavished on us divine favor God sees us as his beloved sons and daughters but we also know that the devil is the accuser of the brethren he keeps accusing us and when you take on his accusations when you feel so guilty and condemn shameful you know and you think that we are not in a position to serve God we are not in a position to minister to God we are not in a position to even read our Bible and pray or do anything for God we move from that position of grace to this position of the area of guilt and condemnation and so that is why Paul is telling the he is called in the grace ok the grace of God empowers us in the New Testament grace needs a whole lot of things it also means empowering it also means favor so we see that the grace of God empowers us it makes us strong the grace of God gives us favor as well and it also empowers us so we can draw strength from God's grace even as the enemy even as the devil tries to deceive us and move us out from position of grace to a position of works and to the position of guilt and condemnation you know another area that the devil makes us moves us to an area away from grace is when he makes us feeling inadequate that means we come to a point where he is thinking that we cannot do it you know where nobody we don't have the skills we don't have the talents we don't have the creativity we don't speak well enough we are not good enough you know so he moves us into that area of feeling inadequate yes we all feel inadequate sometimes when we are given a task where we feel it's too big too great we think that we really cannot do it but at those times you know when given to the feelings of inadequacy I don't think anything about the task that God is assigning us or giving us or the opportunity that he is blessing us or the purpose he created us for but at that time or at those times we will rely on the grace of God and we need to know at those times that the grace of God would empower me okay or the grace of God would empower you and we need to know that because of this grace we can go forward we can do what God has called us to do what this does to do or he has given us to we can still work on it because his grace is freely available for us and his grace will undergird us, undertake for all of our limitations our weaknesses our shortcomings inadequacies and we can stand firm in the grace of God we don't have to shy away from all the challenges or the greatness of the task but we can still go ahead because we know that his grace will undertake for us okay what the enemy does is it makes us feel so inanimate that we shy away from the task from the call and the assignment that God has for us but you know the grace of God will undertake for us and take for all of our limitations, shortcomings, weaknesses and inadequacies and we can go ahead because we know the grace of God is freely available for us and it has already been freely lavished on us okay so we need to stand firm in the grace of God to stay firm in his limiting you know sometimes we think that our own self will not be able to do it yes we feel inanity at times but the grace of God will enable us okay so just like God's timidity we can also be encouraged this morning that we need to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus okay then any questions any doubts is this whole concept of grace is clear and why he is writing about this here yes yes no okay we move on to verse 2 okay and the things that you have heard being among the poor for me among many with this comment is to faithful men who will be able to teach others also to turn around and to pass on you know what he has been thought to choose that he has been thought what he has learnt to pass it on to the succeeding generations okay and this is something that all of us must do you know the question asked is what are we doing with what God has put in our lives or what are we doing with what we have experienced about God or what we have heard from God and the revelation with the truth that we have received that we have learnt from God what are we doing about it are we passing it on to others are we passing it on to someone else when it's very important because what God has called us to do you know all the experiences the truths we have learnt the revelations you know everything that God has revealed to us is something that we just don't keep it for ourselves but it's something that we need to pass on to others okay so we stop here we come back and you know move on to verses 3 and the rest of the verses we take a break now and we come back after the break okay