Photo credit: Gantas Vaičiulėnas via Unsplash Jeremiah 10:23–24 23   LORD, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. 24   Discipline me, LORD, but only in due Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Today: 1 Timothy 6

Acts 20:25-32, 36-38 (NIV) CONTEXT: Paul is bidding farewell to the elders of the church in Ephesus, when such persons are elected who are faithful and are chosen according to the rule that Paul gave to Timothy We know from Paul's letters to Timothy, who pastored the church in Ephesus, and from the letters that Jesus wrote to the seven churches, including Ephesus, in Revelation 2-3, that Paul's prediction of the Today: 1 Peter 2

Acts 8:9–24 (NIV) 9   Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed 21  You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. 22  Repent   For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.” 24  Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Today: 1 Timothy 1

God's Word brings deliverance and strength. au.pinterest.com/sangthomas/ Isaiah 45:22–25 (NIV) CONTEXT would be in exile, assuring them of the salvation that would come from their faithful covenant God. 22 Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Most of you will instantly recognize those words from Paul's famous ode to Christ in Philippians 2; now Today: 2 Timothy 3

to His expectations; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 1 Timothy 1

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 (NIV) 24  Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25  But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26  When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also 28  “ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. Today: 2 Timothy 1

20  You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.” 21  ( who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.) 22 So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. 24  Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity He'd been separated from his companions, Silas and Timothy, and in today's passage, we find him waiting

A song. 1   May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us—  2   so that your ways Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity outline we see so often in ancient Hebrew poetry in which the principle point comes in the middle]: v1–2 Today: 1 Timothy 3

John 15:26–16:15 (NIV) 26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. 16 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2  and the Son, but remember that every word you read in the Bible was breathed out by the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16), which guides you into the truth.

A psalm of David. 1   Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. 2   Truly he is my Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Summary Today's Summary is a slightly modified repost from December 15, 2023 As we've seen several times Today: 2 Timothy 2