Tag: Christ
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I have finished my course – the Apostle Paul
The Apostle now closes his final letter to Timothy noting that his course redirected by Christ on a road to Damascus so many years before — his marathon race of missions into all the world — indeed even the end of the Apostle’s mortal life is at hand. δρόμος – I am spent in the…
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2 Timothy 3 Standing Strong against Apostasy
Apostasy to fall away – The abandonment of one’s religion. The word apostasy is rarely found in the Eng. Bible.. But the reality expressed by the word is found frequently. Israel’s history was one of continual apostasy as the people deliberately turned away form the God who had redeemed them out of Egypt, and followed…
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2 Timothy 2 – Strong Teachers Charge them before God
More than thirty years earlier the Apostle Peter preaching on Pentecost had charged all Israel to accept JESUS as both God and Christ: “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses… And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”…
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