Monday Morning Coffee Welcome

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Hello and welcome to the West Side Church's special Monday Morning Puffy Podcast. On this podcast, our preacher, Mark Roberts, will help you get your week started right with a look back at yesterday's sermon so that we can think of each other and better work the applications into our daily life. Mark, let's look forward into this week's reading so that we can know what to expect and watch for it. And he may have some extra bonus comedy from time to time. So grab a cup of coffee as we start the week together on Monday morning coffee.

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Good morning, good morning. Welcome to the Monday Morning Coffee Podcast for the week of October 18th through the 24th. Today's Monday, the 19th, and I am Mark, and I've got my Bible open. I've got some sermon notes. And if you've been following our adventures, you know that Dean and I are home. So today will be a jet lag day. There'll be lots and lots of coffee. Let's see here if we can get on to bigger and better things, though.

Sermon Notes

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Let's talk about that sermon yesterday. Let's talk about Timothy. Let's grab our Bibles. Let's grab our coffee. Let's grow together. Yesterday in the sermon in the 1040 hour, I talked about faith, hope, and love, and our mental health. But there is another important piece of that that comes out of the Old Testament, and that's Elijah's story. In 1 Kings 18, Elijah experiences one of the greatest victories in the Bible. That's where Elijah stands against the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, and fire falls from heaven, and everybody knows that the Lord is God, and it looks like there will be a complete revolution spiritually speaking in the nation of Israel. Unfortunately, 1 Kings 19 then tells us that everything has not changed. Queen Jezebel threatens to kill Elijah, and Elijah clearly sees that the people's devotion to the Lord is short-lived and is not genuine. So what he does in 1 Kings 19 is he just runs. He runs into the wilderness, and the Bible tells us, verse 5, 1 Kings 19 5, that he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And what's interesting about that is God's response. An angel, 1 Kings 19 5, came and touched him and said to him, Arise and eat. So this is Elijah. He's a prophet of God. He's the man who stands courageously against hundreds of false prophets. And now he's running away. He is running away. And in fact, in 1 Kings 19 4, he says, I'm all done here, Lord. Just kill me now. Just kill me now. I just can't go on. I think that's a pretty good picture of depression and anxiety and worry and so much fear for three years. He knew that King Ahab was seeking his life. There's just been a lot going on in his life, and it's all breaking loose, and Elijah is just exhausted and afraid and isolated, and he wants to die. What does God do about that? Well, there's a lot that happens in 1 Kings 19, but God does not begin with a lecture. He lets Elijah sleep, and then an angel wakes him up and gives him food. Elijah sleeps again, God feeds him again, and the angel says, Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you. Sometimes, sometimes the journey is too great for us. And what we need is to rest, and what we need, verse six, is some food and a jar of water. A nap and a sandwich are not the cure for everything. And I want to emphasize particularly that I'm not trying to minimize mental health issues, particularly clinical depression, but there is a reminder here. We are not just souls rolling around in this disposable container. We are whole people and our body affects us. It affects our mind and it affects our spirit. When we are exhausted and hungry and alone and worn down, things can look a lot worse than they really are. And so later on, God will, in fact, do some things to help Elijah think more clearly. For example, Elijah believes he's totally by himself, and God will say, Nope, that's wrong. There are 7,000 other faithful people. But before God can do any of that, God recognizes the importance of Elijah taking care of his physical body. He needs to sleep, he needs to eat. And so I would say to you, if you're struggling with mental health issues, maybe before you make a major decision, maybe before you decide to run away from God and go sit under a broom tree, maybe if you're exhausted and discouraged and convinced nothing's ever going to get better, slow down. Take care of your body. Let somebody help you, talk with someone, get some rest, get some food, and then and then you may be in a better place to look at what's going on in the light of who you are in the service of the Lord and what God wants you to do. Don't make decisions when you're down, discouraged, depressed, and sitting under a broom tree. God was not finished with Elijah, He's not finished with you. And we need to remember that. And sometimes rest and food is what we need to get going again. I hope that helps you from the sermon yesterday. Let's do some daily Bible reading.

Monday 1 Timothy 6

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This great epistle will end with some admonitions about false teachers, a reminder about money and where it fits in things, and then a final call to Timothy for faithfulness. And maybe I should say there's a little bit here about slaves in verses one and two that really goes with chapter five. And there's a lot of discussion about slavery, of course, and slavery in the Bible today. I do think it's important to note here, one scholar noted that the admonitions here about slavery are not grounded in creation, like, for example, the husband-wife relationship is, and it's not like the parent-child relationship, which is based on the fifth commandment. None of that applies here. This is very much a concession to culture, and I think it's a concession to culture without agreeing with the culture. Then Paul turns his attention to the situation that's going on in Ephesus, and the answer to the problems there of the false teaching that has arisen, and it has arisen from among the brethren, is Timothy needs to do some teaching. And that's what will solve that problem is teaching. Teach and urge these things, and nobody is to teach a different doctrine, verses two and three. And in fact, you get pretty quickly this problem here with somebody abandoning the truth. And when you do that, people just head off into all kinds of wrong directions, verse four, unhealthy controversy, quarreling about words, all kinds of discussion about things that don't really matter, petty quibbles, and that's just going to lead to friction, verse five, and dissension, verse four, every kind of problem. And Paul actually takes what the false teachers are saying: godliness is great gain. And in verse six, he turns it back on them. Yes, godliness is great gain. If you have contentment with it, it's great gain, but godliness is not designed to be a means of gain. That's what those false teachers are doing, isn't it? And so that leads Paul into saying some things about money. And of course, the problem with money is the desire, verse nine, to be rich. And pay attention, verse 10. The love of money is a root of every kind of evil. So sometimes people say money's the root of all evil, and that's not right. It's the love of money. And sometimes we forget that it's a root, it's not the only root, it is a root of all kinds of evil. Then in verse 11, Timothy gets some additional encouragement. And the dominant emphasis here is just to persevere. You just need to keep going, keep at it. That's what Jesus did. He did that in front of Pontius Pilate, 13, 14. You need to keep going, stay with it. And I'm particularly a fan of what Paul says there about taking hold of eternal life. Take hold of eternal life. That's verse 12. I backed up in the text there a little bit. And this is this is the very common idea in the New Testament of now and not yet. We have eternal life now, John 17, 3. Jesus prays about that. But of course, we have not fully realized eternal life and won't until we are with the Lord. But take hold of it. Christianity is not all pie in the sky by and by. It's something that we're doing right now. Some closing admonitions into the rich, verses 17, 18, 19. Please be aware, rich people are not told to sell everything. One can be rich and please God. Abraham certainly was, for example. And then there is this final charge. Underlined in your Bible, verse 20, oh Timothy, guard the deposit. Guard the deposit will be repeated in 2 Timothy, the first chapter. In fact, in my Bible, that's just across the page from 1 Timothy 6. The reading for Monday, 1 Timothy chapter 6.

Tuesday 2 Timothy 1

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It's Tuesday. It is Tuesday. And guess what, West Siders? We do have a Zoom call tonight. Opportunity to be together in Zoom. Haven't been able to do that in a couple of weeks now. See you tonight at 7 on the Zoom call, West Siders. It's 2 Timothy 1 that we'll be talking about because the reading for Tuesday is 2 Timothy chapter 1. This is this is Paul's last epistle. In 2 Timothy, Paul finds himself in a Roman prison. Check chapter 1, verses 16 and 17. Onessaphorus had searched for Paul and in fact had found him. This is this is a difficult text, a difficult epistle, because as I said, it's Paul's last epistle. Because unlike other epistles where Paul will say things like, I expect to see you again, and my earnest expectation is that I'll be released, Paul knows clearly in 2 Timothy that he is not getting out of jail. He instead will be executed for his faith, and we'll see that in chapter 4. So he writes Timothy, this would probably be A.D. 63, 64, somewhere around in there, during Nero's persecution. And he writes Timothy mostly to encourage Timothy and to ask Timothy to come see him. He knows that he will die soon, and so he asked Timothy, Hey, can you come see me? So let's work on the text here. Paul an Apostle, verse 1, by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus. Isn't that good? Life. Life in Christ Jesus. That's about a quality of life, life at its best in Jesus Christ. And then there is a thanksgiving. Verses 3, 4, and 5 are a single sentence here. I wish we knew more about those tears in verse 4. There's a couple of places in Paul's life where that might fit. Can't know that for certain. But I do like verse 5. Lois and Eunice have used them many times in sermons as an illustration of what it means for family to pass on faith and that that's possible and can be done. Really like verse 5 a lot. 6 to 14 then really discusses the idea of persevering with the power of God. There's going to be suffering. And Paul says, I don't want you to be ashamed of any of that. And the gift there in verse 6, flame, f flam, flame, fame, wow, coffee's the answer. Fan the flame. Fan the flame of gift. Still struggling. More coffee's the answer. Fan into flame the gift of God. That gift does not necessarily have to be a miraculous gift. That may just refer to Timothy's work there in Ephesus. And a lot of people have read that, particularly coming verse 7, God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power, love, and self-control, with the idea that somehow Timothy is kind of weak, he's afraid, he's timid. And that does not plumb at all with the other passages in the New Testament about Timothy and where Paul uses Timothy, oftentimes sending him to difficult situations. You can encourage somebody without that meaning that somehow they're down in failing. And I think that's important here. As far as the spirit in verse 7, some people want to capitalize that. It's the Holy Spirit. Some people like that being the human spirit. You'll have to study that and make some discussions and decisions about that for yourself. But then verse 8, don't be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord. That's kind of the center of everything that Paul is writing here. And let me push forward a little bit down to verse 12, where he says, I'm not ashamed. I know whom I believed, and I'm convinced that he's able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. Or that's the ESV, the New American Standard actually says what's been entrusted to God. And there's discussion and all kinds of debate about how to translate that sentence. That's really beyond the podcast here. I think it's talking about the gospel. God is able to keep the gospel message alive, and God is able to continue to bless what Paul and Timothy have done. And that encourages him to say, verse 13, you follow that pattern of sound words. And that is pattern theology right there. Sometimes people get very upset about that. You can't read the New Testament as a blueprint. It's just a series of letters. Hey, I'm aware. I know it's a series of letters, but it's a series of letters that instruct us in what we are to do as Christians and what we are to do as a church. And there is a pattern to that. And we can read those letters and discern that pattern. If we couldn't, then how are we supposed to follow the pattern of the sound words that you heard in me? What Timothy heard constituted the blueprint of the church. We want to recover that by reading the New Testament. And then there are some examples here to conclude the chapter of folks that are doing some good things and some people who are doing some bad things, Philagius and Hermenages. I'm probably not saying his name right, and I don't worry about that a whole lot. I don't expect I'm going to bump into him again anytime, but Onesiphorus is just wonderful. Look at the good things that he's done helping Paul in so many ways. Not much is known about him beyond this, but what we do know is he stands in contrast to those who are deserting Paul. He stands with Paul. That'd be a little risky when someone's in prison and about to be executed. Onessaphoros is a great example of some of the, sometimes we call them little people in the Bible who make a difference. I know, I know personally that I have been encouraged in various situations and times. Someone will send a text, somebody will send a Facebook message, got a message like that recently. Someone had read some stuff that I had written and produced, and it had helped them. Those kinds of things refresh someone and help someone to continue to persevere. We're thankful for the Onesophoruses in our lives. The reading for Tuesday is 2 Timothy chapter 1. See you on Zoom tonight, West Ciders. Everybody else, I'll see you on the podcast tomorrow. The reading again for Tuesday, the first chapter of 2 Timothy.

Wednesday 2 Timothy 2

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It's Wednesday. It is hump day, and we're in 2 Timothy, the second chapter today. The reading for Wednesday, 2 Timothy chapter 2. You then, verse 1, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Timothy here needs to be strengthened, perseverance, endurance. Those are huge issues that are going on in 2 Timothy. And I love that Paul does not say pull yourself up by your bootstraps. He says, strengthen yourself by the grace that's in Christ Jesus. And I think verse 2 takes on added meaning because Paul expects soon that he will depart this life. We need to get more guys online. We need to get more guys online. And it is important to see that Christianity is not a secret religion that you can't tell anybody all about, and it's not an institution that guards the faith. Timothy is to find faithful men, not the faithful institution. And there's always somebody who wants to say that we're not under law. And look at verse 5. You have to compete according to the, yeah, according to the rules. Then Paul mentions verse 8, Jesus Christ risen from the dead, the offspring of David is preached in my gospel. It's an unusual reference here. Risen from the dead probably says something about Jesus' defended divinity and descended from David, perhaps his humanity. But the purpose here is to be mindful of suffering and reward. Suffering and glory. Those things go together. And so Paul says this saying, verse 11, is trustworthy, and that's probably what's going to follow, not what he had just said in verse 10. And the material does seem to be kind of poetic. So maybe, maybe what you're looking at here is an early Christian hymn, and Paul is quoting from a song that they sing in the assemblies on Sundays. The difficult part, of course, is the last bit, verse 13. If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He cannot deny himself. And I think that probably means that even if we prove faithless, God will still be faithful to himself and will merit out the judgment he promised. God is always faithful to his character. So then verses 14 to 19 discuss false teachers. And once again, we're talking about words, not to quarrel, verse 14, about words. And it does seem sometimes that a lot of preaching and teaching wants to reduce Christianity to words, and then we confess about words. And we need to be really careful with that. The lowest common denominator in language study is words, and yet so much preaching and teaching today starts with the Greek says this or the Greek says that, as if our English translations are somehow not adequate, or as if somehow we don't know, we don't know what a shepherd is. Let me define shepherd. We know, we know. Anger here, me, we know what anger is. I think we just need to be very careful, especially at a time when everybody can access New Testament Greek or Old Testament Hebrew just by tapping in an app on their phone. And next thing you know, somebody's saying, what the term here really, what the word here really means, we need to be very careful about that. The people who do the translation, they're not just tapping on an app. They have thousands and thousands of hours of work in original languages. They understand syntax and grammar and emphasis and vocabulary. It's a whole lot more than just words. Let's be careful about that. Okay, rant off here. How about that? I will tell you in verse 14, ruin is the word catastrophe. How about that? That's the word, it's the Greek word from which we get our word catastrophe. Tells you something about how serious Paul thought about that. And having said all kinds of things then about words, try verse 15. In verse 15, the King James Bible said, study to show yourself approved unto God, rightly dividing the truth. And a bunch of us grew up with that. And that's the passage that says you need to study your Bible, and the passage that says you need to rightly divide the Bible. And I heard many a sermon that talked about knowing the difference in the old covenant and the new covenant. That's rightly dividing. And of course, none of that is right. None of that is right. The word for study, not sure why the King James folks decided to go with study there. The word there is do your best. Be eager. Give it your all. Do your best. The ESV has that in a really good way. And rightly handling, not rightly divide, rightly handling, that's an unusual term. It occurs only in the New Testament here and then twice in the book of Proverbs. And it means to cut a straight path. It means to cut a straight path. So probably the idea behind this text is the idea of being accurate and plain in our teaching. Know the Bible, teach it correctly, teach it where people can get a hold of it. Rightly handling, cutting a straight path. Look at verse 18. People have swerved from the truth. You see, you see the emphasis there? And Paul wants to say a lot of things about being healthy. Sound doctrine is healthy doctrine. Verse 18, their talk, verse 17, their talk spreads like gangrene. Finally, then verses 20 to 26 talk about noble work, and you can have gold vessels and you can have silver vessels in a house. Got your trash cans, got bedpans, got everyday dishes. Maybe you grew up like I did in the dining room where small boys were absolutely forbidden to ever go or play. There was a China cabinet, and in that China cabinet were the best dishes, which I don't know why we had best dishes, because we never got them out of the China cabinet. They just sat there on display. Well, that's probably not true. Thanksgiving, maybe special events, you get out the best dishes. And here the apostle talks about being a vessel that's fit to be used for the Lord and a vessel for honorable use. So we need to flee youthful passions, verse 22, get away from that. Run away from spiritual danger, run away to spiritual good, pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace. A powerful chapter that helps us better understand the things that Timothy needs to do to endure and persevere, and that we need to do as well. The reading for Wednesday, 2 Timothy chapter 2. Let's go

Thursday 2 Timothy 3

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Thursday. Let's go Thursday and let's have the last days. Thursday's reading is 2 Timothy chapter 3. It begins in verse 1. 2 Timothy chapter 3, verse 1. Understand this in the last days. Just need to say this. I think probably most people listening to the podcast are very on board with this, but we pick up new people all the time, new Bible students, new Bible readers. Last days is not the period of time right before the return of Jesus. There'll be this crazy tribulation time, and all kinds of horrible things will happen. That's not how that's used in the Bible. It's certainly how that's used today. In the Bible, the last days is the last epoch before Christ returns, which began in Acts chapter 2. You've got the patriarchal dispensation, then you had the time of Moses, the covenant of Moses, Mosaical dispensation. Now we're in the Christian dispensation. That's it. There's nothing after this. So the Christian dispensation is the last days. And that can't be some future epoch, some future time, because in verse 5, Timothy is told to avoid certain people. Notice how rooted that is in his time frame. We get then a bunch of things about false teachers here, and really a devastating triple lovers of self, verse 2, lovers of money, verse 2, verse 4, lovers of pleasure rather than God. Great question to ask yourself here. What do I love? And maybe we should just notice verse 2 says, verse 2 talks about how people, these people will be disobedient to their parents. What do you think about that? Seems like children obeying their parents is something that is way out of vogue today. But Paul says that's a huge issue and lists it with being ungrateful and unholy and all these other terrible kinds of things. Janice and Jambries in verse 8 are the magicians who stood with Pharaoh and tried to oppose Moses. The chapter closes verses 10 to 17 with more instructions and encouragement to observe what Paul has done and endure. That's what this is about. And twice, verse 10, verse 14, Paul says, as for you. And a couple of things stand out here. One of which is you can count on persecution, verse 12. Notice that Paul doesn't try to pretend he's the only one who's ever suffered for Jesus. And then, of course, 16 and 17. Two of the most important passages in all of the Bible. Here we get the origin of Scripture, where it comes from. It is literally God breathed. It's the breath of God. And second, we get the purpose of Scripture. What it's intended for is to teach us, to reprove us, to correct us, to train us in righteousness. And when that is going on, then we are equipped for every good work. Verse 17. Sometimes someone will say, I think the church ought to do thus and so, or I think Christians ought to be doing thus and so. It'd just be a good thing to do. If the Bible doesn't equip us for it, it's not a good work. And make sure you get the context here. I'll quote from one of my favorite scholars, William Mounts. This is precisely what a theological pronouncement on the inspiration of Scripture accomplishes. It teaches us that these opponents who are teaching commandments that come from demons, 1 Timothy 4, 1, these people cannot be right. Paul says scripture comes straight from God, and therefore Timothy should trust it to equip and train him to do his work as an evangelist. The reading for Thursday, 2 Timothy chapter 3.

Friday 2 Timothy 4

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It is Friday. It is Friday. And today we read 2 Timothy chapter 4. The reading for Friday, 2 Timothy chapter 4. Let me have a swig of coffee here. It's coffee that makes most nearly everything better. So I charge you for 2 Timothy 4, 1, I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus. This is very solemn stuff, very serious stuff. Please note the book ends by his appearing, verse 1, and his appearing, verse 8, all who've loved his appearing that holds that unit together. And the idea of be ready in season and out of season, it gets quoted a lot. I wonder how many people know what Paul means by that. He just means be ready when there is an opportunity, when it seems great, and be ready when it doesn't seem great. Just be ready all the time to teach the gospel. Because people will accumulate false teachers, verse three, who are not teaching the gospel. And there's a connection between people's character and behavior and what they teach. Actions lead to lust and passions, Paul says here. And I'm amazed they will accumulate. Like if you stack up enough people to say what you want to hear, that makes it so that's ridiculous. Instead, verse 5, Timothy, do the work of an evangelist. Let me just say a word or two here about doing the work of an evangelist, especially since that's that's kind of my turf. The word for evangelist appears only three times in the New Testament. It occurs in Ephesians 4.11, where there's a list of offices or works in the church. It occurs in Acts 21 and 8. Philip is said to be an evangelist, and then it occurs here where Paul says, do what an evangelist is supposed to do. The difficulty is everybody thinks they know what an evangelist is supposed to do, but there isn't any place in scripture that defines that explicitly and specifically. So all kinds of definitions of evangelist have been adopted and used by various religious groups, including brethren, down through time. The idea, for example, that an evangelist is a traveling preacher. He moves from place to place, kind of the circuit rider. And then the idea that the evangelist is the one that goes where there's no congregation and starts something from scratch. Or a very common idea, the evangelist is kind of the number one personal worker in the church. He should be conducting all the Bible studies and be outdoor knocking and visiting with people who are not Christians and setting up a study trying to teach the lost. Well, none of that, of course, is supported in Scripture. To say something about that last business, all Christians are about teaching the lost. All of us have that obligation, not just one person. In Timothy and Titus, if you want to know what Paul thinks an evangelist is supposed to do, he's always talking about teaching and preaching. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, verse 2, preach the word. And he is talking there about preaching to the assembled congregation, the kind of thing that we see preachers doing today. Now, that doesn't mean that a preacher doesn't ever engage in studies with someone who's a non-Christian. Don't, don't misread this, don't get it twisted. But the idea that somehow the evangelist is the one that's supposed to be doing all of that, and the rest of us, we don't have to do any of that, that is getting it twisted, or that the evangelist shouldn't work with a located congregation. He should, again, there's just no passage that says this is the work of an evangelist. We need to deduce that or derive that from looking at some things in Scripture. And I think if you look at 1st and 2 Timothy and Titus, it's not hard to see that what an evangelist does is preach and teach. By the way, that takes some time to get ready, to prepare so that you can handle accurately the word of truth. And sometimes people forget about that. But trust me, I'm very aware on Sunday morning when you climb into the pulpit, you don't just magically, miraculously get struck with a sermon. You'd better get ready before they sing that song, and everybody sits down and you climb up and they're all looking at you. There you go. Rant about evangelist and the work of an evangelist now off. Verse 6, then we know that Paul is in prison, and now we see that Paul certainly expects that this is the end of his life. And these are poignant passages. Paul has kept the faith, the deposit of sound information, the gospel treasure. And the crown here he's talking about is not a king's crown. It's the victor's crown. I've talked about that in the book of Revelation. It's it's for the winners, for the overcomers, for the conquerors. It's the one in the Olympics that wins, gets the victor's crown, that laurel reef. And so then Paul has some final words, some very personal kinds of things. Demas has deserted him. Verse 10, by the way, the word for love there, he loved this present world, is the word agape. How often have you heard someone say agape is the highest form of love? It's Christian love. Well, not in 2 Timothy 4.10. It's certainly not. I think it's come to mean that. And I know why people say that, but that's not based on what the text says. That's based on what we've done with that Greek word through the years. And Paul says some things then about Luke is the only one that's with him. And all of that is just very sad to think of Paul in a prison situation before Acts 28 has him in house arrest, which seems fairly comfortable. This does not seem comfortable at all. And what he wants is his papers and his cloak. I really appreciate the cloak because I'm cold all the time. And I would be like Paul, bring me my cloak. And I wonder if what he's asking for here is Old Testament books of scripture. I wonder if that's what he needs brought to him. He wants to read and continue to soak in the Bible, at least the Bible that they had at that time. Verse 14 mentions Alexander the metal worker, and we wonder if that's the guy that Paul talked about in 1 Timothy 1, 19 to 20, who's linked with Hymenaeus, or maybe the Jew who tried to end the riot in Ephesus. Lots of discussion and debate about who Alexander is here. And then the final greetings in verses 19 to 22. Paul follows his normal custom. He always addresses Priscilla as Priscilla, which is the more formal name. It's Luke who calls her Priscilla. Maybe he knew them a little better. I'm not sure what they're doing in Ephesus. The first time Paul met them, it was in Corinth, Acts 18. They then went with Paul to Ephesus, later in Acts 18, beginning in verse 18, and the church is meeting there in their home. 1 Corinthians 16 tells us that. But by the time Paul writes Romans, they're in Rome again, Romans 16, 3 and 4. So how'd they get back to Ephesus? What happened there? Don't know. Don't know. And the book closes then. And if if the timelines that we put together for Paul's life are correct, and what Paul is saying here, if it means what we think it means, then this is. This is the last recorded words of the Apostle Paul. The reading then for Friday. 2 Timothy chapter 4. That's the podcast for the week. Certainly do appreciate you listening to it. I appreciate words of encouragement that come my way as people are benefited by it. I'm benefited by it, and I hope it's helping you walk closer with the Lord. I'm Mark Roberts. I want to go to heaven, and I want you to come too. I'm looking forward to seeing you on Monday with a cup of coffee.

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