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My Mother taught me TO AP-PRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - “If you're going to kill each other, do it outside -- I just finished cleaning in here!”My mother taught me about RELIGION - “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

My mother taught me about ENVY - “There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!”

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My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM - “Will you just LOOK at the dirt on the back of your neck!”My mother taught me about STAMINA - “You’ll sit there ‘til all that spinach is gone.”My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL - “If you don't straight-en up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!”My mother taught me LOGIC -“Because I said so, that's why.”

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My mother taught me FORE-SIGHT - “Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.”My mother taught me about OSMOSIS - “Shut your mouth and eat your supper!”My mother taught me THE CIR-CLE OF LIFE - “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”

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1st imprisonment• Philemon, Colossians, Ephesians, and Philippians• From Rome through Macedonia, Asia Minor and possibly Spain

But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be granted to you. 11

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Philemon1:22

• 1 Timothy and Titus• Rearrested about AD 65• Abandoned by all but Luke (4:11)• Martyred by Nero approx. AD 68

Beloved ~ agapētos

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Matthew3:17

• And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Genuine faith ~ anupokritos – unhypocritical Dwelt ~ enoikeō – en (in), oikos (house)

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Eunice ~“good victory”

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Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

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1 Timothy4:14

Stir up ~ anazōpureō • Re-, again (ana)• Living being (zōon)• Fire (pur)

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• NIV ~ fan into flameGift ~ charisma – grace gift

Fear ~ deilia – NIV, timidity – better, cowardice

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Sound mind ~ NIV, self discipline• sophronismos – literally “sober midriff”

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• “Sound emotions”

1) The Spirit gives us power to love2) …but perfect love casts out fear…

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3) And sober-mindedness is the result

1 John4:18

“Better to have a little excess than to be dead…

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DonaldGee

…because it’s easier to correct excess than to raise the dead.”

“If you were not strangers here, the hounds of the world would not bark at you.”

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SamuelRutherfor

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“Man cannot be saved by perfect obedience, because he is incapable of rendering it.

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J. VernonMcGee

He cannot be saved by imperfect obedience, because God will not accept it.”

Abolished ~ katargeō

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• kata ~ (according to); argos ~ a (un-) + ergon (work)• I.e. to render powerless