 Welcome back to class. We'll continue with verse Timothy chapter 6. So we're looking at the last two verses, the last section, where he's telling Timothy to God what has been entrusted to him. Okay, verses 20 and 21. So can somebody read verses 20 and 21 please. Verse Timothy chapter 6 verses 20 and 21. Can somebody read that? Yeah, thank you Kannan. O Timothy God that was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and ideal babbling, babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge by professing it somehow straight concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. Thank you Kannan. So here Paul is ending this letter telling Timothy to God what has been entrusted to him. So he's admonishing Timothy to God, which means to keep, to preserve, to watch over what has been given to him, the truth of the gospel that has been given to him, the ministry that has been entrusted to him. Now we know that Timothy was with Paul for 18 years and in this 18 years Paul has taught him, Paul has trained him well. And so he's telling Timothy to God all that has been committed to his care. Okay. And then he's also telling him to avoid getting into things that falsely called knowledge. You know, people who have got into this false teachings, they think that it is the right knowledge, the true knowledge. But he says it will only end up drawing people away from the faith. And so he's saying don't focus on intellectual arguments because they have no fruits, they bear no fruit. They only end up from, you know, taking people away from the truth and away from God. And so he's telling Timothy, you know, you guard the fruit of the spirit that has been given to you. Guard the gifts of the spirit, guard the anointing that he has been entrusted or been given to you. And we see that Paul, you know, when he later writes second Timothy from Rome, we see that he's directly and specifically will write to Timothy instructing him how to live as a man of God. Okay. So that is the end of chapter six, and the end of first Timothy. And the key takeaway from this chapter six is verse six, where it says, now godliness with contentment is gate, great gain. Okay. So it's important for us as believers to live godly lives, to live content lives. Because if we live lives with a content, then we are not running to make more money. We are not looking for privileges. We're not looking for honor. We're not looking for more position when we want more position, we're trying to pull others down. We sorry, we fight for positions. We can do anything, even compromise things to get into places of leadership. And even when we want you know, big house, big car, whatever we can do things, even as ministers of God, to compromise things just to gain more money and to be more rich. So he says, you know, be godly and be content. And I think that is a key takeaway for us as well. We need to learn to be godly and to be content. Okay, that is the end of first Timothy. Anyone has any questions, any doubts? No. Any questions you have? Before we move to second Timothy, I would like each one of you to at least share, you know, what was your key takeaway for in first Timothy? Okay, what did you, if you learned anything new, if something is impressed upon your heart, what is something are your key takeaways, it can be more than one, or it can just be one. So we'll do that, just so you can keep thinking about that. Because I want each one of you to answer. Before that, we'll just decide when we can have our tests for on first Timothy. Okay, we're going to have four tests, one for first Timothy, one for second Timothy, then Titus and Philemon. So when do you want to have your tests for first Timothy? Any suggestions? No suggestions? Okay, then can I suggest 16th February? Is that okay? Or is that too early? Do you want 16th or 23rd? Are all of you in the class? Can you please type in the chat section, whether you want 16th or the 23rd, or you can unmute your mics and say whether you want 16th or 23rd please. 16th, Thomas says 16th, okay, all are going with Thomas. Both are good. Thank you, Kannan. Anyone else? Okay, both are good. Okay, then we'll go with 16th because most of you are okay with 16th. Okay, so we'll have 16th. Yeah. Okay, so now can each one of you just take a couple of minutes to share what was your key takeaway in first Timothy? Thomas, would you like to start? Okay ma'am, things are there, especially for the people those who are serving in the dump. They should have the good testimony. That's very, very important. A person can stand and preach the whole scripture, but if he doesn't show in action in his life, people won't follow and people won't take any message from him and that would be a bad example, but conduct more than our words. So he says that if a servant of God should have the good testimony, so that part is really touched my heart and many things are there talking about the money, especially in the ministry. Three things according to me is very important, one is name and fame, money and director. So money is very, very important. Many men and God has fallen into the trap of money because of their ministry, their vision, their mission, everything lost, they lost the connection with the God itself. That's why Jesus said he served two masters. So that's, we have to be very careful where we are, how we're handling the money. That's very important. At the same time, we're talking about the masters where we are in ministry or in the secular job. We have to be in a godly manner. We have to obey the masters. We have to honor the people who are above us. So these are the main things what I've taken from this chapter. Thank you, Thomas. Okay, we can go the next person. Dev. Yes, sure. Kiran, go ahead. The Lord, being an example that touched my heart at first, being an example of the living godliness and all. If we do our part and we walk by faith in all and humanity and 36 and 11 was 11 to last part 21, the all is touch me so much and 11 was he saying, but you oh man of God free these things, pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, peace and gentleness and fight the good fight of faith and whole internal life to which you wear the gold. That part is very nice and all and touch me very being an example. We have to, I have to walk being an example other than after my younger brother and sister, they can see me and all and they can glorify to God like that. I have to walk and I have to more taking righteousness, holiness and all things from God and walk by faith in all. Thank you. Thank you, Kiran. So anyone likes to share about what was your takeaways from chapters one to chapter six? Yeah, like Kiran said, you know, set an example. Paul says even in chapter, writes in chapter four, says set an example in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. So we need to set an example in all of those areas. Yeah, Erin, you can go next. Yes. Yeah, one thing that really took me away from chapter six is like, like you mentioned from verse chapter, chapter six, verse one to two is our life. Our life is like open book. I mean, open Bible to the unbeliever. It's not, it's, this line really took me away because it's not only for the unbeliever, but even to the believer because I heard some of friends, they told me that they didn't want, they don't want to go to church or they don't want to attend the church because most of, most of the leaders in the church in this generation, they used to preach about love, faith, but they don't egg. Right after the church service, they used to, they don't egg the way they preach. So this line really took me away. And the second thing is like as a servant of God, we need to have a right attitude in our heart. And third is that as a servant of God, as a leader, we need to have a good character and we have to be humble while we are serving. Thank you. Good. Thank you so much, Adam, for sharing. Kannon has written how to deal with false teachers in the church, the responsibility and qualifications of church leaders. Still, there are many things, but I like these things from First Timothy. Okay. Thank you, Kannon. What about Dave and Prince? Dave, you like to share Prince? Okay. Godliness. Prince says Godliness doesn't mean for gain, for making money. And from chapter one, love must flow out from a pure heart. Okay. Thank you. So we left with Dave. Are you there, Dave? Okay. We'll move on to Second Timothy chapter one. Okay. Before we look at chapter one, we will look at the introduction to Second Timothy. So far, Paul has completed almost 24 years of ministry. He has traveled to 15 major cities. And for 18 years, we see that Timothy was with Paul. And just after his first Roman imprisonment, he travels to Crete. He leaves Titus there, travels to Ephesus. He leaves Timothy there because of the need of those churches and because they require godly leaders, somebody to oversee things, to take in charge, to set things in place in order. And then we see that Paul leaves Ephesus, and then he travels to a few more cities, and then he goes to Rome. And then in Rome, he is imprisoned for the second time. This is around AD 67 to 68. And he knows that his second imprisonment, you know, he knows that death is surely, it's going to end in death. And death is like looming large over him. And then he writes, so he writes the second letter to Timothy, which are his final words of instructions to his son in the faith. Okay. We also see him writing, requesting Timothy to come soon, but it really does not happen because he's martyred shortly after he writes this episode in AD 68. And tradition, you know, reports to us mentions that he was beheaded. Since he was a Roman citizen, it's like unlikely he could have been put to death in any other manner. Okay. So we just completed looking at chapter first Timothy, chapters one to chapter six. We see there Paul's giving instructions to Timothy and how to lead the local church of believers at Ephesus. Now, second Timothy is more personal, where Paul is sharing more specific instructions to Timothy on how to live a life as a minister of God. Okay. So we look at second Timothy, chapter one. Okay. Can somebody read versus one and two, please? Second Timothy, chapter one, versus one and two. We don't know. Sorry. Can you just open your Bibles and read, please? Can I read? Yeah, sure. Okay. Paul and Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus, Timothy, a beloved son, grace, mercy and peace from God, the Father and the Christ Jesus our Lord. Thank you. So here Paul is again acknowledging that he's an apostle of Jesus Christ, and he's not an apostle because he has called himself an apostle or he feels he's an apostle or he's doing the work of an apostle. And so he's given himself this designation. No, he's saying that he's an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God. Okay. So it's God who determines who will be an apostle, who will be a prophet, who will be a priest. It's God who determines that. Okay. And he says that he is an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus. Now this statement, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus, is a very unique statement that he's mentioned here, compared to the other greetings in other Paul's letters. But he mentions this phrase according to the promise of life here. And it is so appropriate because Paul was imprisoned again. And he knows that he's going to face that very, very soon, because he's mentioning about this later on in his epistle. But yet here he mentions this profound truth that we have as a promise that Paul also has as a promise. And here the promise of life, the word life here in the Greek is the word zoe. Now zoe is the eternal life. It means it's the God kind of life. And so he's saying that, you know, he has the promise of life. That means he has the promise of eternal life. Yes, he's going to die very soon. He will be killed, but he has this assurance or this hope of this eternal life that he's going to receive, that he's going to live with his maker, his creator, his savior, that is Jesus Christ. So this phrase, according to the promise of life, is very unique here, and not mentioned in other greetings in Paul's other letters. And then he says grace, mercy, and peace. And he says grace, mercy, and peace comes to us from. Who does it come to us from? Who gives us grace, mercy, and peace from Jesus Christ? Yes, Jesus Christ, God, he is the source, he is the giver of, and the one who blesses us with grace, mercy, and peace. And we see that his grace, mercy, and peace is unlimited, okay, and abounding. And hence we also can pray every day that God blesses me with your abounding, unlimited grace, mercy, and peace. We can also pray this for others. We can pray the same when we pray for others as well, okay. Now we'll move on to verse three. Can somebody read verse three, please? Yes ma'am. Timoti, I thank God for you. The God I serve with a clear conscience just as my ancestors did night and day. I constantly remember you in my prayers. Okay, thank you. Here Paul is saying, I serve God with a pure conscience. Now if you were reminded that, you know, earlier in his letter in 1st Timothy, Paul emphasizes again and again these words pure and good conscience. He mentions this at least three times. Now he's saying the same thing here in relationship to how he has been serving God, okay. And it's a good lesson for all of us who desire to serve God that when we serve God, we need to serve God with a clear, good, and a pure conscience, okay. Only when we serve God with a clear conscience, a pure and a right conscience, then we can live right before God and man. And Paul says that he has served God with a pure conscience as his forefathers did. That is, you know, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all those in the lineage, you know, all of them Paul says have walked righteously before God and man, and they have walked in the revelation that, you know, they had, or they received at that time, and they did what was right in the sight of God according to the revelation they received, or they heard, or they learned at that time. Now in this age, in this time, you know, we have greater revelations. We have received more revelations than how much more should we live our lives, right, honoring, and pleasing and worthy in the sight of God, okay. And Paul's mentioning his affection for Timothy, and his affection for Timothy is so great that he's saying that he continuously remembers to pray for Timothy, okay. So also we learn a lesson here that, you know, we need to continuously pray for people, pray for people in need, pray for people we know, and we need to pray for them continuously, pray, pray for those who have not received salvation, pray continuously till they are saved. We'll move on to verses four and five. Can somebody read verses four and five, please? Okay, I'll read them. Greatly desiring to see you, be mindful of your ears, that I may, you feel the joy, and I call to remembrance of genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother, Louise, and your mother, Eunice, and I am persuaded is Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. Thank you, Thomas. So here, you know, Paul is mentioning his desire, he greatly desires to see Timothy, so he writes about it, but sadly, and he's not able to meet him because shortly after he writes this letter, he's martyred, and he's saying he's mindful of your tears, that means he, Paul remembers the tears that Timothy shed in their last parting when he leaves Timothy at Ephesus, and he, he then goes on to talk about the genuine faith that was passed on through the generations to Timothy, first from his grandmother, Louise, and his mother, Eunice, and Paul says, I'm sure the faith is in you as well. So we see how the faith was passed on from his grandmother to his mother, from his mother to Timothy, and that is what God desires. He desires the faith of one generation to be passed on to the succeeding generations, to the next generations. God desires the spiritual truths, the anointing to be passed on from one generation to the next generation, but we know that this does not happen automatically. We have, each generation has to work to ensure that this happens. First of all, we need to be very careful to model our lives before our children and our grandchildren, model lives before the youth and the children in our church, because that is what genuine faith looks like in everyday life. That's when they will know what genuine faith looks like in everyday life, okay? We know that children and youth don't like to be preached at, told what to do, told what not to do. All they are learning is by just watching us. So through our very lives, you know, we need to model to them our faith, our walk with Christ, our relationship with God, and the genuine faith of what it means in everyday life. Children will and grandchildren will see it when they look at us the way we live, the way we work, the way we walk, the way we talk, okay? There's a classroom saying, sorry, there's a saying that in the classroom, things are taught. At home, more things are taught than taught, okay? I'll repeat that again. In the classroom, things are taught. Children are taught things in the classroom, okay? But at home, more things are taught than taught. That means children catch more things by just observing their parents, their grandparents than they are being taught. So so important for us to model a Godly lifestyle because children are catching what we are saying, we're doing our behaviour, our attitude, and they're learning from us. What's the six and seven? Can somebody read that please? Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the lying of my hands, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of the sound mind. Thank you Kiran. So here Paul is reminding Timothy to stir up the gift of God. Timothy was a very gifted person. He had a great number of good values that were beneficial for the kingdom of God, to be a leader, to be a servant of God, to be a minister of God. But Paul has noticed that even though he is very well gifted, he has all the characteristics, attributes, nature of being a good leader, strong spiritual leader. But he's seen a timid streak in Timothy, Timothy is very timid. So for this reason, we see that Paul is often encouraging Timothy to be strong and to be bold. We also see, we also gather information or it also appears that Timothy might have been reluctant to exercise his spiritual gifts. Perhaps he feels intimidated because there are people who are older to him who are leaders. And suddenly he's a young person here put in this church and he has to tell the leaders what is right, what is wrong, tell them what to do, what not to do, and all of those things. So he's feeling a little intimidated and maybe not feeling too bold to carry on his responsibilities. So we see in first and second Timothy, 25 different places, we see Paul encouraging Timothy to be bold, not to shy away from confrontation, to stand up where he needs to stand up to be strong because of who Timothy was and the responsibilities he has to bear. And we see that he keeps on repeating this or mentioning this again and again because he knew that Timothy had to hear this, he needed to be constantly encouraged. So here in 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 12, he's encouraging Timothy, sorry in 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 12 Paul encourages Timothy not to let his youth hold him back, you know, from fulfilling his responsibilities, but he encourages him, exhausts him to exercise his gifts. In 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 14 Paul says, don't neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy and laying on of hands by the elders. And again here Paul is going on to tell Timothy, you know, stir up the gift of faith, okay, reminds him to stir up the gift of God which is in him to the laying on of hands. Now what is the meaning of stir up? What's the meaning of stir up? What's the meaning of stir up? It means to kindle a flame to fire up, you know, to keep it alive. It has to be more zealous to, you know, be more passionate to stir up the fire that is there to keep burning strong. You know, when you make fire, you keep on, you know, adding more sticks or more wood, or you keep blowing air so that it becomes more, the fire gets more stronger, okay, you stir up the fire. So it means to kindle a flame to fire up, yes, to keep burning, okay, and to be strong, okay. So how do we stir up the gifts that God has given us? Okay, how do we stir up the gift of God that is in us? Come on, that's quite simple. How do you stir up the gift that is in you? Sorry Thomas? By exercising the gift. What did you say? Say that again? Exercising the gift. Okay, thank you. Exercise the gifts that has been given to you. Don't let it just be dormant. Just don't receive and keep it, but exercise it, use it. Yes, Karnan says through prayer and practice, yes, praying, practicing, you know, stepping out, using the gifts that God has given you. Karnan says by praying, words, speaking the words of faith, words of scripture, by putting into practice, yes, kingdom words. Yes, it's basically, you know, through worship, personal worship time with God, corporate worship, praying. It's also through reading God's word and also, you know, like most of you said, exercising the gifts. The more you use the gifts, the more stronger it becomes in your life, okay. So that is how we stir up the gifts. And so Paul is telling Timothy, stir up the gifts which is in you through the laying on of hands, laying on of my hands. Okay, so the spiritual gifts we see that can be imparted to us. It can be initiated in us or get started in us, you know, when one believer lays his hand on the other believer or we know the spiritual gifts can also be imparted or activated, you know, by one believer into another believer. Okay, the reason we can stir up and step out or the gifts that God has given us is because the Holy Spirit, you know, is the one who fills us, the Holy Spirit who gives us the gifts is the same Holy Spirit who empowers us. Okay, he's, he's dunamis, you know, a dynamite, the word dynamite comes from the word dunamis. Dunamis is powerful. Okay, so the Holy Spirit has power, he gives us the power. The Holy Spirit fills us with power, with love and a sound mind that is talking about sound mind here is meaning self-control, discipline, and self-governing ability. Okay, so that is what he mentions here, you know, for God has not given us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. So, you know, often we don't use our gifts or we don't exercise our gifts because of fear, we're afraid what if we say things are wrong, if we, it doesn't happen the way we have said it, people will laugh at us, people would mock us. Okay, but don't let fear hold you back, don't be afraid, don't let the fear of failing hold you back, don't let the fear of being wrong hold you back from exercising your gifts, don't be afraid, just have this assurance that these gifts of the spirit are, you know, given to you by the Holy Spirit and he fills each one of us like, you know, it says, it fills us with power, that this is dunamis, that this is like a power as powerful as a dynamite that can destroy a building, entire city. Okay, he fills us with his love, that is agape love, talking about God's kind of love and a sound mind. Sound mind is a mind that is self-controlled, disciplined and has self-governing ability. So, it's interesting that Paul mentions these three, power, love, and self-control in the context of using the gifts of God. So, we know that the gifts of God, when we use it, we exercise it with the power of, we exercise in the power of God, we exercise it with the love of God and we exercise it in the self-controlled manner. Okay, so when you exercise the gifts of the spirit, when you flow in the gifts of wisdom or knowledge or prophecy or, you know, interpreting of tongues, whatever it is, you know, you need to understand or know that you're exercising this in the power of God, with the love of God, and in a self-controlled manner. Okay, sometimes we see people who exercise the gifts, they are totally out of control. No, the Holy Spirit is somebody who helps us gain control, maintain control, and do things in a lot of, in a self-controlled manner. Okay, so don't fear, don't pull back your gifts, but stir up your gifts, use it, the more you use it, the more you will flow in it, the more you're using it, you're exercising your faith, and believe that the Holy Spirit is going to work in and through his power with his love and help you to exercise it in a self-controlled way. Let's move on to verse eight. Can somebody read verse eight, please? Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me. He is prisoner, but share with me in the suffering for the gospel according to the power of God. Thank you, Kiran. So Paul is saying, therefore, Timothy, you know, he has just told him about the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind, and he says, you know, use exercise your gift with courage, because that is the birthright of every believer in Christ Jesus. Now he is telling Timothy how to let what God has given him to guide his thinking. Okay, in the view of the spirit that God has given us, you know, let us not be ashamed about speaking about Jesus or about our Lord and Savior. So he says, don't be ashamed about preaching and teaching the right doctrine, the truth, the wholesome truth. Don't be ashamed of the gospel. Don't be also ashamed of identifying with genuine ministers of God, even if they're suffering for the sake of the gospel, even if they're suffering for Christ's sake, but share in the sufferings of the gospel. And basically, Paul is writing this because it was the end of this letter. He's mentioning a few people who, you know, deserted him or disowned him because he was in chains, because he was in imprisonment, and he because he was imprisoned and also because he's going to die soon. So they broke contacts with him. They disowned him. So Paul is telling him, don't, you know, be ashamed of identifying with genuine ministers of God who are suffering, being persecuted or being imprisoned because of the sake of Christ because of preaching the gospel. And he's telling him to share in the sufferings of the gospel because God's power, that is his dunamis power, his miraculous working power, not only enables us to, you know, flow in mighty science, miracles and wonders, but his power, his dunamis power also enables us to take part in the sufferings for the gospel. And Paul is saying, according to the power of God, so Paul actually suffered according to the power of God, which means that the power of God is always there. Okay, it's always available, but it's his power does not remove the difficulties that we will face. Sometimes God's power is always also available to see us through the difficult and the challenging and distressing situations that we face. So when, you know, when we are believers flowing mightily in the gifts of the Spirit, you know, we think that the power of God is made available only for us to do mighty science, miracles and wonders into preachers word. No, but his power is also available for us, you know, to see us through the difficult times and to remove the difficult situations that we are facing. So this is another important dimension of the working of God's miraculous power, that his miraculous working power has the ability to help us endure sufferings, that is persecutions, hardships, oppositions for the sake of the gospel. Okay, so verse nine, can somebody read verse nine please? Verse nine? Who has saved us and called us with the holy calling into our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was in Christ Jesus before time began. Thank you, Thomas. So here, this is a very powerful and a fully, you know, loaded verse so much in just in this one verse. It says here that if we are saved, then we are automatically called. That means when we are saved, we are also called and we are called. And this calling is a holy calling. It's a call to holiness. It's a call to living a morally pure upright life in Christ Jesus. Okay, so Paul is saying here that God has called us to his own purpose and his grace. He's not called us according to our works, our achievements, our successes. So our calling is not based upon how good we are, the good works we have done, or our accomplishments or success. So if you have a PhD, that does not mean you, God will call you to be an apostle or a prophet. And if you just have a basic degree, then he will call you to just be somebody who's an evangelist or a pastor. No, our calling is not or the purpose that God has for us. And this calling is not dependent on the good works that we do. It's not dependent on our achievements, our success, but it's all purely his grace. Okay, he's called us to his own purpose and grace. So we all have a calling, we have a purpose, and all this is according to the grace of God. Okay, so God calls us to his purpose, and he gives us the grace to walk in the call and the purpose that he has envisioned for us, that he has purpose for us, that he has called us to. So we see that there is something that God has planned even before time began. Okay, because it mentions here that, you know, he called us, he's given us in Christ Jesus even before time began. Okay, so it refers to God's full knowledge of things. God has predestined, preplanned everything, even before the creation of the world, even before you and I were born, he has a plan and a purpose for us. We can read about this in Romans chapter 8 verse 29 as well. So this is a very wonderful thing that God, when we are saved, we are automatically called and he gives us the grace to fulfill his calling. Okay, that means, ma'am, we are chosen before we are born. Yes, we are chosen before we are born, but we need to understand this that, you know, predestination, one of the, you know, theological aspects of predestination, it does not mean that God is be partial in choosing some for eternal life and choosing some for eternal death. No, because that's not what we read. We read in scripture that it's God's good, perfect will that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Okay, so when we say that God chose us even before the creation of the world, it's basically that we, he knows that we are going to make a choice of, you know, receiving him as our Lord and Savior. Okay, so he knows beforehand and that's why he has purposed this for us. So God is sovereign. We need to understand and choosing based on his nature of being sovereign. God is sovereign. He purposes things. He has his own plan, purpose will that he wants to bring about in his street, in our lives, but also the other part of his sovereignty is that he has given us the free will, the free moral will to choose. Okay, so we can choose. And if we choose, we go according to his plan and purpose. If we don't choose, we go according to our own plan and purpose and we bear the consequences of it. So that God know that Adam and Eve are going to eat from the tree that he asked them not to eat from. And then, you know, everything that he created perfect is going to be imperfect and sin is going to come into the world. Yes, he knew that. And he also has a plan for it. Okay, so in his sovereignty, it does not mean that because God has given us the free will to choose, it does not mean that it's going to make God insecure or, you know, God is going to intimidate him, you know, in his position. Oh, now what should I do? You know, Adam and Eve made the wrong choice. No, God already knows that they're going to choose. He already has a plan to fulfill his purpose. And he will bring about his plan and purpose irrespective of the wrong choices that we make. Okay, so that is the whole aspect about choosing and choice. So when we say God, God predestined, it's not that he's showing favoritism or partiality. No, his other nature is he's not a God who's partial or shows favoritism. But he knows the choices that we are going to make beforehand. Okay, so we'll move on to West. Did I answer your question, Kiran? You said, okay. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Okay, verse 10. Can somebody read verse 10, please. But now it has been revealed to us through the coming of our Savior, Christ Jesus. He has entered the power of death and through the gospel has revealed immortal life. Thank you. So Paul knows that he's going to die, but he says that Jesus is his Savior and he says that he has life and immortality through the gospel, through him being saved because of what Jesus has done. So the Lord Jesus is our Savior and Jesus came to reveal the purpose and the grace of God and Jesus we also see fulfilled the eternal plan of salvation that God had in mind even before the creation of the world or the foundation of the world. So Jesus truly shows us what God is or who God is and what his plans are all about. Okay. And we see that Jesus Christ completely and definitely abolished a cause death to cease and he has instead given us the life. The life here is the zoe life that is the immortal life, the eternal life that is unending existence, a life that is uncorrupted or does not have any corruption and we can receive this zoe life, this God kind of life, this fullness of life when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. So Jesus came to completely abolish or cause to cease death and instead he has given us the zoe life, the God kind of life, the fullness of life. Okay. So we know that death has been defeated on the cross and now we have the zoe life. We read this in 1 John chapter 5 verse 11 and 12 and this life and the life of immortality, you know we would we're already experiencing here the fullness of the God kind of life here now as we live because we've accepted Jesus Christ but we will experience it in its fullness in this entirety in the future, you know which is our future inheritance at the resurrection which is mentioned in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 and 18 you can read that later on and 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 51 and 58 where it says the Lord Himself will come, the dead in Christ will arise and mortal will put on immortality that means our bodies are mortal now, you know it will put on immortality that means immortality means life, unending eternal life and that is the hope we have in the gospel. Okay. So this is the hope that Paul is having in his situation now. He knows he's going to die any moment you know but he's saying that it's not going to end here. He has his hope, his assurance that he's soon going to see his maker and creator and he's going to receive this eternal life, this life immortal. Okay. We'll move on to verse 11. Can somebody read verse 11 please? Verse 11 Paul writes to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles so he's saying you know this life which I received, the salvation which I received and Jesus Christ this is what I preach and I'm appointed by God Himself to be a preacher and apostle and a teacher to the Gentiles so he's stating his call, the purpose that God has on his life, his call and his purpose is to you know to minister to the Gentiles. Verse 12, can somebody read verse 12? For this reason I also suffer these things, nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that he is able to keep what I have committed to him until that day. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that you know as Christians you know our believers are called, the calling of God for our life is not exempt from or is not without suffering hardships, oppositions and persecutions. We see that Paul is imprisoned, he is imprisoned not because of something wrong that he has done but he is imprisoned because he is or he's in chains because of the gospel and he says he's not ashamed of the gospel. So in earlier in you know in this chapter Paul encourages Timothy not to be ashamed and now Paul is making his own statement on why he is not ashamed to suffer for the sake of the gospel. He says you know because not only because he is supernaturally empowered by the Holy Spirit but he also gives two reasons. The first reason is he says I know whom I have believed and the second reason he says is I know he's able to keep what I have committed to him. Okay so why is Paul saying he's not ashamed of the gospel? The first the main reason is of course he's you know he's empowered supernaturally by the Holy Spirit but he also gives two additional reasons. The first one he says is I know whom I have believed it means you know he knows that the one who he has believed has given him this promise of eternal life, Zoë life, the God kind of life and the one who has promised this life is Jesus Christ the Savior who is the source of grace, mercy and truth which he mentions in verse one okay and he says he has given us immortality. The second thing the assurance he has or the reason that he has why he's not ashamed of the gospel he says I know he's able to keep what I have committed to him that means he's able to guard God is able to guard what I have deposited with him okay that means God is able to protect, save God and keep what Paul has committed to him until that day so he's saying I have placed my life in his hands and he's quite assured and quite confident and very confident that God is able to keep what he has entrusted to him okay the second part of this verse could be seen in both ways and both ways are true in their sense we can see this way he's able to guard what has been committed by me to him or God is also able to guard what has been committed to me by him okay so both of these ways or rendering these this verse in both these ways are true that God is able to guard what has been committed by me to him so whatever we have entrusted to God our very lives our salvation our hope our confidence in him he's able to guard that and also God is able to guard what has been committed to us by him okay so whatever he's given us anointing the gifts of the spirit or the fruit of the spirit the calling the purpose he's able to guard that he's able to protect that keep it for us and help us and guide us even as we journey through life okay so you know you have given your life you've entrusted your life your calling your ministry your present your eternity into the right hands so it's important who you believe okay if you believe Jesus then you have entrusted your life your present your eternity into the right hands if you don't believe in Jesus you know those who don't believe don't have this assurance and they have not placed their life the eternity their future in the right hands okay sorry I took five minutes extra time I will stop here anyone has any questions any doubts no if not we'll end class okay thank you all for joining have a good day and I'll see you soon for our next class okay bye everyone thank you ma'am thank you