 Okay so we're looking at Paul and Timothy and the kind of You know the spiritual Fathering the spiritual mentoring that happened So just looking at some of the things that Paul wrote to Timothy and from that we understand in all these episodes we understand how it was In what way he He ministered in what way he he brought up he built up Timothy we see that you know right from the place of You know can accept a 16 when we read that okay, Paul goes to Lister Derby he finds Timothy and from that place on He reaches a Timothy grows spiritually Matures to come to a place of leadership Like Paul can actually trust him To go where he himself Cannot go or you know, you can really trust Timothy to go on his behalf To to minister at that level, you know where he says here is Timothy my fellow minister Right, so to start even to that extent right Timothy has grown under What under the you know ministry under the teaching under the mentorship of Paul? So we see that it's it's a good method For us to follow. It's a good. It's a good thing to put in place in our own lives lives if we are raising up Leaders right Okay, so let me just share the notes and Okay, so we saw the last thing that we saw was that Paul was you know encouraging Exorting and even you know bringing across correction Timothy he pointed out certain things that Timothy needed to change about his own life right and he also He tells Timothy okay, you need to this is how you need to you know, you need to honor the people Like in I think we see that in second Timothy was five Honor widows who are really widows then in verse one he says do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him Older women as mothers younger women as sisters with all purity. So he's just setting the standards, you know in this communication with Timothy, okay, so So we see that correction, you know in particular if we do not correct those whom we are spiritually growing from Immaturity to maturity Then it is it'll be a problem All right, because Not only is it going to affect them, you know, just because we felt Hesitant to correct thinking, you know, what will that person say or how will that, you know How will this affect our relationship, you know, when we did not correct when we do not correct? It becomes a bigger problem It becomes it keeps growing and it becomes a bigger problem, right? So we need to understand that and God will give the wisdom the Lord will give the wisdom to correct in the right manner to correct in a manner that's You know, just like How the Lord would you know bring in correction? He would chastise in the sense, you know The one there's there is a loving correction to those Who are his who we consider to be sons and daughters, you know Otherwise the Bible says, you know, then you are illegitimate, right? If I don't correct if I if I don't bring in correction, then how can you know without that? How can you be called sons and daughters? So definitely God would correct us God God does correct us, but it is it's not to break us Right. It is not to destroy us the correction that he brings. It's redemptive in nature that it is always for us to For for us to be brought back to that place where we had fallen, you know, if that is the case It's always an act which restores us It's always an act which strengthens us and Enables us to go far beyond from beyond the mistake Right go beyond the mistake and that's the grace of God So we see that, you know as God corrects us. We also need to correct now some of us temperamentally like personality wise We are not that kind of people who would bring in correction, you know, even if we notice something is wrong We'll just say, okay, I don't want to do that or let me just keep quiet It's okay. It's not my business. Let me just keep quiet. Well, it is, you know, if God is interested someone For you to minister to then it is your business To bring in the correction as well to speak the truth in love like as scripture mandates That we would speak the truth in love that is instruction in scripture, right? And we would do it in an honorable manner Okay. Okay. Then the next thing that we see is that there was also, you know, communication of genuine costs in the sense Paul did not tell Timothy. Hey, Timothy, you join come with me on this ministry trip. It'll be fantastic It'll be great. It'll be all, you know, comfortable You know, we'll get to see some nice places and excuse me You know, he didn't say, okay, we'll get to see all these nice places. We'll get to see or travel to these places and it'll all be fun No, he actually, you know, communicated to him. He told him that You know, come you need to share in my suffering Like there are things that difficult Things are too extremely hard So he did not hold back from sharing from being real From being very real. This is how it is right If you look at second Timothy chapter one and verse eight, right chapter one verse eight Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner But share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God Let's share with me what in the sufferings Right according Uh, so in the sufferings for the gospel According to the power of God Well, the power of God is at work in us. The resurrection power is at work in us and that is and it is he who empowers us to go and do the work to carry out the work of the Ministry of the gospel sharing the gospel But there is suffering involved in it, but you share with me in the sufferings You know as much as you are, you know, you are traveling and you're doing this share with me in this also right According to the will of God, okay, so that is something that we see second Timothy chapter one was it chapter two also was a three to five um He talks about how you know, it's telling Timothy Timothy. You must endure All right, you must endure what hardship So he's saying Timothy, I know that you you are in ministry, but you must have this capacity to go through suffering And you must endure it Right, you must endure you must go through it. Uh, there's no other way out So he's he's being very frank very real He's not saying, you know, this is this is not it won't happen to you Uh, you you have to go through it. He says you have to endure it Right, uh, you have to You know, you have to persevere. So he says, uh, um, if you look at that verse They you therefore must endure hardship As a good soldier of Jesus Christ, you know, just like how an army our soldier would go through hardships You must endure hardships Verse four no one engaged in warfare entangles himself With the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier And also if anyone competes in athletics, he's not crowned unless he competes according to the rules um And so and so and then you know, even in chapter, I'm sorry, verse six He says the hardworking farmer is talking about a different thing must be first to partake of the crops, but um He's saying you know, you see that quality of you know being hardworking the quality of uh, you know being trained being disciplined Just like an athlete who would compete to be trained and then also as an as a soldier in an army right to be, um to be Do not to entangle with get entangled with the with the things of daily life, but To to keep that in mind That you are a soldier that you are in the army of God and you need to be alert and you need to be you need to be prepared all the time right so he's talking about hardship and And he's saying, you know, that is something that you cannot avoid. So he's communicating Uh or sharing with him The genuine is being very real with him The genuine things It's this is real. This is a part of ministry. This is part of life And he's not holding back. Okay His communication with timothy was with regard What does that mean? That means that with respect and honor Okay, uh, he calls him Uh You know, like he called him my beloved son He also calls him you o man of God First timothy six was 11, but you o man of God right so he um Uh He says, you know, but you o man of God flee these things and pursue Righteousness godliness faith love patience gentleness fight the good fight of faith. So he's talking about How others, you know, those who who are desiring to be rich Um and how for them the love of money became a root of all kinds of evil And they strayed from their faith and they agreed for money and And as a as a result of which, you know, they are they have pierced themselves in the sense they Opened their lives for all kinds of sorrows and you know, their lives Life is a mess So he's saying, you know, he's wanting to do anything but you o man of God So that word that phrase man of God, so he's recognizing him as a minister of God He's recognizing him as a man of God So we see that there is so much of respect is not like Okay, I know timothy I know since he was a small boy It is I it was me who actually brought him up I only brought him up. I only picked him up and and you know, uh gave him a place To come with me on my travels. So I'll call him whatever I want You know, no, he's saying you timothy. Oh man of God So he's recognizing the call of God on his life He's recognizing that timothy is now mature. He's grown up and And and so even in in his communication in many addresses Um timothy, he says you oh man of God Right in second Corinthians one and verse one Paul An apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and timothy our brother Right phylum in one verse one Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ and timothy our brother right So a man of God he calls him his brother and he had at most you know respect and um An honor for timothy even though Well, timothy was was believe I was just doing his thing He found him. He took him he trained him and ministered alongside and now timothy is is a minister by himself taking care of the ministry in Ephesus and And Paul is addressing him for who he is a man of God Right, so we see that Okay, just because we are mentoring someone just because we are You know, we are being a spiritual father or a mother to someone someone we just cannot Continue to you know, treat them With that familiarity in the sense, okay, I'll always call that person by the nickname, you know You know the thing is I mean it's it's not the name that you they call the person but but really the You know, what is it? What is your motive? Right, are you recognizing the fact that that person has grown and is You know giving the respect and honor for that person for who He or she has become in christ right Or do you want to just put that person down and and you want to tell everyone And how big you are and how good you are In relation to that other because this this you know, this letter was written. I mean For the church and it was read by even though it was too for Timothy and I'm sure it was read by others, right Others as well In and the church because there's so many so much of instruction and revelation and truth here So others would be benefited. So well, these letters copies of it would go around to the surrounding area. So So everyone would read about it Right. So so paul wasn't like saying, okay. Timothy is a small boy. You know, he's known to me No Timothy, oh man of god, okay Right, and then we see that if you also delegated Timothy and commissioned him Okay, in first Timothy chapter one verse three you see and Um Is it one three? Yeah I thank god who my serve with Sorry, I'm reading chapter two Okay So he says as I urged you when I went to Macedonia remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other Doctored. So there came a time. Yes, Timothy was traveling alongside paul He was ministering alongside paul wherever paul went Timothy went Wherever paul ministered Timothy also ministered Timothy also learned many things but here You know here comes a time when Paul saw Certain a level of maturity a level of understanding Timothy has grown So he decides to delegate that responsibility of ministry in that area to Timothy Okay, so he kind of Gave that responsibility to Timothy and he he left Uh, Timothy over there and he said, okay, he this will you know, he Timothy will take care of this responsibility from now on Right. So, um, so we also need to be able to come to that place of trusting and delegating Okay So So there will come a time when the people whom we are Uh mentoring the people whom we are, you know Teaching uh being an example to they come to a place of maturity like they come to a place of Place of being able to handle responsibilities, right? Um, so at that time It is it is important that we that we Give to delegate or deputize Right. Deputize meaning, you know on behalf of us Maybe initially it can be You know that they would they can be Deputies or you know, they They administering on your behalf, you know, it can be a short term assignment, you know where you need to go Uh, and you send them instead of You know, uh, you being there in your place. Are you deputizing them? right Then It can be a long-term thing where you're saying, okay, I'm I'm delegating this person. I'm giving this this big responsibility and it's also It's also not for one day or two days, but it's it could be for life right, um, so that responsibility that Area of ministry, you know, just handing over to Timothy Paul hands over to Timothy. So there's deputization and also delegating delegation so Of course, we know that we can't do it for a novice like Paul writes, right? He says um You know in the same first Timothy chapter three He says, uh, where he is giving instructions qualifications for overseers In churches and so on. So he's saying, you know, it's the person should not be a novice novice means not not a you know, uh, relatively a new believer or someone who's inexperienced right, uh, chapter three and verse six. He says not a novice someone who is Um inexperience or it's a new Does not have enough Knowledge maybe does not have enough experience. So what will happen? You know He says not a novice less being puffed up with pride He fall into the same condemnation as the devil. So he's saying, you know, we don't want to appoint novices So it is certainly so Paul has thought through this And and so also, you know, we must do that. We must think through Okay, is there's that person have enough experience enough learning in his understanding You know, is he able to make sound judgment? right, um that has this character grown and they will always be areas where They they need to grow into They they will always be areas where it's it's not fully mature. They're not strong enough in certain areas but they will be And in due course of time and and sometimes when they start handling things on their own And that's the time when they become strong in those areas Because uh, they may be till now. They always dependent on someone else. Maybe they were dependent on you to make those decisions but now They need to make those decisions right and so some of those areas which They they need to grow into that we who felt that okay. They've not grown into yet. They will start growing Right, so delegate deputize. Okay positive recommendation So we see that paul doing this is Is recommending timothy is speaking highly of timothy Complimenting timothy to others to other church leaders to other churches We see that there is positive recommendation So We see that Paul does that. Okay, so one corinthian 16 and verse 10 we see this typically where he says And if timothy comes see that he may be with you without fear For he does the work of the lord as I also do now the corinthian church, you know Um, all kinds of believers there The typical problem was that they were Uh, one one of the problems was that there was a lot of conflict, you know People pulling in different directions saying i'm of paul. I'm of apollos and so that and all that so But here, you know, he's saying if timothy comes see that He may be with you without fear Yeah, that's another area that he's addressing about timothy for he does the work of the lord as I also do um, and uh Same way in philippines too also He he writes about timothy when he's telling them, um, the The church in philippi about timothy at philippines too and Verse 19 i trust in the lord jesus to send timothy to you shortly that i also may be encouraged when i know your state That is so he's sending timothy to find out about the church Um for I have no one like minded who will sincerely care for your state For all seek their own not the things which are of christ jesus, but you know His proven character that as a son with his father He served with me in the gospel Therefore, I hope to send him at once As soon as I see how it goes with me, but I trust in the lord that I myself Shall also come shortly so you know certain things that we see says I trust in the lord jesus to send timothy to you shortly So i'm sending some timothy to you that I may be encouraged when I hear news of you But look at verse 20 says I have no one like minded Now i'm sending him in full faith trusting his judgment trusting what he will you know bring to you Right. I have no one like minded who will sincerely care for your state And who will care for you who will minister to you? Uh, uh, I have no one like minded says at that point. There's no one like minded who will Um, who will sincerely care? Uh for all seek their own they're all selfish. They're all you know seeking their own needs, etc And uh, not mindful of the things of the lord jesus, but you know his proven character You know his proven character this character has been proven which means that Tested and proved right over a period of time. So you know his proven character that as a son with his father He served with me in the gospel Then again, you know, we see the father son kind of a relationship as a son with the father He served with me in the gospel. So So he he gives a positive Recommendation about timothy To the church in filipine Right. He's to the believers to the leaders there and saying i'm sending him to you To the corinthian church same thing. I'm sending timothy He ministers Just like I do he serves the lord just as I do so you see that you Take care of him, right? okay, then Uh, we see that you know at at some point As the ones who whom we are Being a spiritual father to a spiritual mother to at some point. We see that they become co-workers right so roman 16 21 timothy my fellow worker Okay, in one, two, three um, he says uh Verse two says and timothy my brother and minister of god and fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ Okay, so three things he says to describe timothy to introduce timothy Right to the church in tesla nica. So you're saying our brother fellow means he's a fellow believer a minister of god And our fellow laborer. He's our team. He's part of our team He's a team member is a fellow laborer in the gospel of christ So I'm you know, I we sent him to you to establish you to comfort you Etc. Right. So he's a co equal in ministry. So no more You know, of course, he's always, you know, somebody who we can encourage the spiritual sons and daughters Someone whom they can look up to we will always be someone whom they can look up to But we begin to consider them as co equals That co laborers in the lord Right. So they come to that place of maturity. Okay. So that brings us to the end of That brings us to the end of this course, of course, the notes we have some references wherever we have And if you want to do some extra study, you can you can do that as well, you know, this typically about cell group ministry So we see that You know, we say that okay now that all this information is there, you know, it just needs to translate into action If we the the more we put into practice, you know, maybe you lead a cell group You see the leader You know, a small group ministry then learning is even and There's an opportunity to gives you an opportunity to put into practice all these things that you have learned and you realize that the learning is Faster and we can to understand a lot of things even as you face problems, you know, there will be Definitely challenges and then even as you fade in as you whatever you've learned you Try to address the challenges with what we've learned Then we realize that Okay, the learning is faster. Okay, so we've looked at Cell group ministry, we've gone through quite a bit of material So I just want to encourage us to go through it You know go through it use it use the material as a ready-reconna You know as As something that you can refer to every now and then About the kinds of cell group about the vision of the cell group about You know, so it has you know, like just reminding us the has as those three sections one is about the The cell group ministry itself the vision the understanding the the model of ministry the You know the The specifics of it, you know, what you can do etc And then the second section talking about the leader developing, you know, how how you can be And the third thing is how we can raise up other leaders. So it's it's a very useful Material that you can go back to over and over again and try it out, right? Okay, so we'll stop here If there are any questions you can ask There's anything at all otherwise No, we I think we'll stop here Any questions any doubts Based on what we looked at It can be about discipleship. It can be about the model of cell group ministry Can be about raising being you know, leaders ourselves Um, and also about raising other leaders. Okay, Eren says no Okay, okay, so we'll stop here right and then Okay, Galatians. I think the mid Test is there paper is there for the online students. I'm talking about Pretty soon. We'll have the other question papers also And also about this course we will have, you know, like we've already announced there will be two quizzes and And then both will be evaluated right Okay Okay, then so we'll stop here. Thank you God bless. We'll see you again. Bye. Bye