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never needed them more than today, He needs Timothys who will Yield their wills, devote their lives, and pay the price for definite service. There ls a call today such as the church has never known for men and women who can be entrusted with the responsibility or representing Jesus Christ and His gospel in our own, as well as in other lands. The church needs young men and young women who have a faith such as Timothy had and who will be willlng to go when the Lord calls and where the Lord calls, and do what the Lord demands should be done. Our country is famishing for the Word of Life. Men are dying and no one cares for their souls. Far more thought is given to the work of pro– viding pastimes, amusements, socials, entertainments, body-building, etc., etc., than to the saving of souls. Yes, there is so much time given to these things that no time is left for the higher and holier needs of men. We ne,fld a revival of love like Paul's, and of devotion like Timothy's. (3) PAUL'S COMPANIONSHIP WITH TIMOTHY, 2 Tim. 1:1-6; 3: 14, 15 "Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy" v. 4. Here we have a view of the heart of this soldier, Paul. How tenderly sym– pathetic he is, "My dearly beloved son." What love he had for Timothy and hOW he longed for companionship with him! His soul was glad for the unfeigned faith of this son in the Gospel. Timothy had a good start. His grandmother and his mother were wo– men of faith. He had a good home, good teaching, good examples. HoW fortunate he was and how much is due to these favors. Back of Timothy and these messages to him which are so greatly valued by the church, are the home and the mother, and Paul and hil
God hath cho!'en the 'veak things of the ·world to confound the things ·which are mif~~y;base things of the '\VOrJd, and things '\Vhich are despised, hath God choHen, yen, nnd things ·which are not, to bring to nought things that are; That no flesh shoul(l glory in his pres.. ence." (2) PAUL'S COMMENDATION OF TIMOTHY, Phil 2:19-22 "For I have no man like-minded who will naturally care for your state." The church at Philippi was the first church established by Paul in Europe, and dear)y beloved by him. Read the epistle through and see how the heart of Paul thrills and pulses with the thought of Christ in the believer. Timothy was with Paul when the Church at Philipp! was organized. He was with Paul when he commended the letter, but had been sent to Macedonia to visit the churches there, and now Paul gives this commendation of Tim– othy whom the church knew, but whom Paul wanted them to love and honor. In his first letter to Timothy Paul expresses the deepest regard for him: "Unto Timothy, my son in the faith." In the second letter he writes "To Tim– othy, my dearly beloved son." Note how Paul's hope ls rooted in the Lord. He has no wish, no desire, no purpose that ls not associated with the Lord's glory, and in writing to the Ephesians he says (Eph. 1: 13, 14) "In ,-,,·bom ye nlHo trusted, after that ye heard the '\vord of truth, the gosuel of your snlvntion In '\vbon1 also n-fter that ye believed, ye ·were senle() '\Vith that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the e-nrnest of our Inheritance until the redeinptlon of the purchased tJOHHCSHfon, unto the urnise of his glory." Paul bore Timothy upon his heart in prayer (Phil. 1: 3-5). The history of the church has been a history of severe testings and trials. Paul had many enemies among them some politicians in the church who made the work hard for him, but in Timothy he had a be– loved son and helper. God has always needed men- strong, stalwart, reliable, devoted men, and He
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