Caption transcript for In The Footsteps of The Rabbi From Tarsus: “Final Steps and Farewell Letters to Titus and Timothy” (12/12)

• 00:02 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:59 AND AGAIN, A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:02 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:05 SHALOM AND WELCOME, I'M SORRY TO SAY
• 01:07 IT IS THE LAST PROGRAM IN THIS SERIES.
• 01:09 I'VE REALLY HAD A GOOD TIME WITH THIS PROGRAM.
• 01:10 IT'S A 12 PART SERIES,
• 01:11 THE EQUIVALENT IN TIME OF 3 FULL LENGTH MOTION PICTURES.
• 01:16 BUT SO MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT PAUL.
• 01:18 WE WENT EVERYWHERE.
• 01:20 EPHESUS, TURKEY, ROME, WE WENT GREECE, WE WENT EVERYWHERE.
• 01:25 WE WALKED IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL.
• 01:27 THAT'S RIGHT, WE'RE NOT 20TH CENTURY FOX,
• 01:30 BUT WE WENT BACK 2O CENTURIES.
• 01:32 AND THEREIN WE EXAMINE PAUL.
• 01:35 AND HUMBLING.
• 01:36 IT WAS HUMBLING FOR ME TO THINK
• 01:38 THE HARDSHIPS THAT PAUL WENT THROUGH, IT WAS HUMBLING.
• 01:41 IT REALLY HELPED MY BELIEFS AND MY...
• 01:45 IT JUST HELPED ME BE A STRONGER CHRISTIAN.
• 01:47 IT REMINDS US THAT IT'S NOT AN EASY JOURNEY.
• 01:49 NO, IT'S NOT.
• 01:50 SOME PREACHERS GET IN TROUBLE
• 01:52 AND THEY'RE PRONE TO DO IT PARTICULARLY ON TV WANTING TO ACCENTUATE HOW EASY...
• 01:56 BUT THAT'S JUST NOT THE WAY LIFE IS.
• 01:58 IT WASN'T THE LIFE OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 01:59 ABSOLUTELY NOT.
• 02:01 LET'S GO TO JEFF NOW ON LOCATION, IN ROME, TEACHING.
• 02:06 [ROOSTER CROWING]
• 02:09 I'M HEARING ROOSTERS CROWING AROUND ME, BIRDS CHIRPING.
• 02:13 THOSE AREN'T SOUND EFFECTS
• 02:16 JUST PUT IN THERE FOR EFFECT IT'S THE REAL STUFF.
• 02:19 WALKING ON A ROAD HERE THIS IS THE REAL STUFF TOO.
• 02:23 THIS IS ROAD THAT WAS LAID BY THE ROMANS HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.
• 02:29 LET ME JUST SAY THAT PAUL WOULD'VE TRAVERSED THESE ROADS.
• 02:32 AND AS WE WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS, IT'S WORTH CONSIDERING
• 02:37 THAT ONE OF THE REASONS WHY HE WAS ABLE TO GET AROUND
• 02:39 WAS BECAUSE THE ROMANS HAD DEVELOPED INTERSTATE HIGHWAY TO MAKE THEIR WAY ABOUT.
• 02:45 THE ROMANS GAVE US ROADS, THE ROMANS GAVE US COMMON LANGUAGE,
• 02:50 THE ROMANS GAVE US SENSE OF CITIZENSHIP WHERE PEOPLE COULD MOVE ABOUT UNOBSTRUCTED
• 02:54 PROVIDED THEY HAD THE RIGHT AFFILIATION.
• 02:58 PAUL WAS A ROMAN CITIZEN, HE COULD MOVE AND HE WAS A MAN ON THE MOVE.
• 03:01 IN FACT WE'RE CONSIDERING PAUL RIGHT NOW AS HE'S FINISHING UP HIS MOVEMENTS.
• 03:07 AND THIS PARTICULAR SEGMENT BELONGS TO A SERIES
• 03:10 THAT'S BEEN CONSIDERING THE PARCHMENTS AND THE MOVEMENTS,
• 03:15 WHAT THE MAN SAID AND WHERE HE WENT,
• 03:19 AND WHERE HE'S GOING AS HE WRITES RIGHT NOW.
• 03:21 PAUL SAYS AT THE END OF TITUS THAT HE'S MAKING HIS WAY TO NICOPOLIS.
• 03:26 HE ISN'T QUITE THERE YET APPARENTLY, BUT HE'S ON ROUTE.
• 03:29 AND HE WRITES TO AN ASSOCIATE, SOMEONE HE WAS MENTORING NAMED TITUS.
• 03:34 PAUL SAYS LISTEN, RELATIVE TO THIS WORK ON CRETE I WANT YOU TO ESTABLISH ELDERS
• 03:40 AND GET THINGS FIXED THERE.
• 03:42 NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY RECORD IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
• 03:48 OF PAUL ACTUALLY MINISTERING ON CRETE, HE GOES THERE IN PASSING,
• 03:52 BUT HE'S NOT THERE LONG ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH ANY CHURCHES.
• 03:55 SO OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN THE TITUS DOCUMENT,
• 03:59 WE'RE LOOKING AT LITERATURE THAT BELONGS LATER.
• 04:02 APPARENTLY IN ACTS PAUL MAKES HIS WAY.
• 04:05 HE'S ESCORTED REALLY BY A CENTURION TO ROME.
• 04:08 HE'S BEEN ARRESTED IN JERUSALEM, HE'S BEEN WAYLAID IN CAESAREA AND FINALLY AFTER YEARS,
• 04:13 HE'S GOING TO MAKE HIS WAY TO ROME AT HIS OWN BIDDING WANTING TO APPEAL TO CAESAR.
• 04:18 WELL HE GOES THERE AND HE SPENDS SOME TIME ARRESTED THERE,
• 04:21 BUT ARGUABLY HE GET'S OUT, ONLY TO LATER OWN BE MOVING ABOUT
• 04:26 STILL IN CONTINUING ON HIS JOURNEYS AND FINALLY GETTING ARRESTED
• 04:29 AND HE'S NOT EXECRATED FROM HIS PROBLEMS THERE, FINALLY HE'S EXECUTED.
• 04:33 WELL HERE PAUL IS ON HIS WAY TO NICOPOLIS AND HE WRITES TITUS.
• 04:38 AND IT'S WORTH CONSIDERING WHAT HE HAS TO SAY TO TITUS,
• 04:41 CAUSE IT GIVES US A WINDOW INTO THE OLDER PAUL.
• 04:45 THE YOUNGER PAUL WAS YOUNGER.
• 04:49 I MEAN WE CATCH THE MAN IN MID LIFE AND BEYOND TO BE SURE,
• 04:52 BUT EARLIER ON IN HIS APOSTOLIC CARRIER HE'S FIESTY, THE END OF THE WORLD,
• 04:59 BLAZING NEW TRAILS, STIRRING IT UP AS HE GOES,
• 05:02 BUT AS PAUL AGES, AS HE'S FINISHING UP HIS MINISTRY.
• 05:06 IN ADDITION TO LOOKING TO BREAK NEW GROUND,
• 05:09 WHAT HE'S TRYING TO DO IS SOLIDIFY SOME OF THE GAINS THAT HE'S ALREADY ESTABLISHED.
• 05:13 CHURCHES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED ROUND ABOUT AND IT'S A QUESTION OF BRINGING SOME ORDER
• 05:17 AND STABILITY TO THESE EXISTING CONGREGATIONS.
• 05:20 AND THIS SEEMS TO BE THE ORDER OF THE DAY PARTICULARLY AS HE WRITES TITUS
• 05:24 AND HE'S SO VERY MUCH CONCERNED WITH THINGS BEING STEADY AND RIGHT.
• 05:30 AND WE'LL LOOK AT TITUS IN A MOMENT.
• 05:32 WE'LL SEE THAT PAUL IS GOING TO DEAL WITH LEADERSHIP
• 05:35 AND HERE AGAIN THE RABBI FROM TARSUS WILL BE DRAWING UPON JEWISH INSIGHTS
• 05:40 TO BRING STABILITY TO THESE COMMUNITIES.
• 05:42 PAUL'S VERY MUCH CONCERNED WITH SOCIAL ORDER.
• 05:44 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST,
• 05:49 HOW WE'RE TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER PROPERLY,
• 05:52 HOW WE ARE TO INTERACT WITH GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES.
• 05:54 AND LET ME JUST SAY IN THAT REGARD,
• 05:57 PAUL A CITIZEN OF ROME WAS PARTICULARLY MINDED TO ENCOURAGE THE CHURCH
• 06:02 TO BE COMPLIANT WITH THE AUTHORITIES IN ROME.
• 06:06 HIS MESSAGE WASN'T THIS FIERY, THE WORLD'S GONNA BE COLLAPSING, THE SKY'S FALLING,
• 06:10 AND LET'S THROUGH OFF THE ROMANS AND LET'S BRING IN THE KINGDOM.
• 06:16 HE BROUGHT IN THE KINGDOM ALRIGHT, HE ESTABLISHES COMMUNITIES OF LOVE AND FAITH.
• 06:19 AND IN THOSE KINGDOMS HE ADVOCATED FOR COMPLIANCE TO THE AUTHORITIES.
• 06:24 IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE HOW PAUL REGULATES CHURCH;
• 06:27 HOW HE WANTS THINGS SET UP.
• 06:28 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT TITUS, WE'RE GONNA SEE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AND MORE.
• 06:40 AS I WALK ALONG THIS ANCIENT ROMAN ROAD, I COME HERE BY MY RIGHT HAND TO A MEMORIAL
• 06:49 TO A FAMOUS ROMAN CITIZEN OF THE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
• 06:56 IN MY LEFT HAND I HAVE A MEMORIAL TO ANOTHER FAMOUS ROMAN CITIZEN
• 07:02 FROM THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
• 07:05 AND THAT CITIZEN IS PAUL.
• 07:08 BEFORE PAUL WENT THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH, HE WROTE A FEW LATE LETTERS.
• 07:13 ONE OF WHICH WAS THE DOCUMENT TO TITUS THAT I WANNA CONSIDER WITH YOU.
• 07:18 IF YOU'LL OPEN UP PLEASE TO CHAPTER 1, VERSE 5 HE SAYS:
• 07:30 HE'S LOOKING FOR LEADERS.
• 07:31 HE SAYS IN VERSE 6:
• 07:35 DOESN'T MEAN PERFECT
• 07:37 AS MUCH AS IT UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF SOMEONE WITH STERLING RESOLUTION.
• 07:41 SOMEONE WHO CAN MANAGE HIS HOUSEHOLD WELL, PAUL SAYS,
• 07:44 DOESN'T SEEM UNREASONABLE THAT IF A PERSON CAN'T MANAGE HIMSELF WELL OR HIS HOUSEHOLD WELL,
• 07:50 IT RAISES QUESTIONS TO THE EXTENT
• 07:52 TO WHICH HE CAN BE OF SERVICE TO OFFICIATING IN THE CHURCH OF GOD.
• 07:56 PAUL GOES ON THEN TO UNDERSCORE THE IMPORTANCE OF HIM HAVING A GOOD FAMILY.
• 08:02 HERE HE TURNS TO THE LADY TO THE HOUSE.
• 08:04 HERE HE SAYS THAT WOMEN DO WELL, IF THEY'RE SOBER AND REVERENT
• 08:09 AND CHASED AND THEY POSSESS WITH THESE VARIOUS GOOD SKILLS.
• 08:13 HE SAYS IN VERSE 3:
• 08:40 AS NOTED WE SEE THAT THE RABBI FROM TARSUS IS INTERESTED IN ESTABLISHING GOOD LIVING.
• 08:45 FOR AS MUCH AS THE CHURCH IS GIVEN TO GIVING INSTRUCTIONS
• 08:48 ABOUT GETTING INTO THE NEXT LIFE,
• 08:49 IT SEEMS THAT PAUL WAS GIVEN TO GIVING INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO LIVE THIS ONE.
• 08:55 I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT AS WE WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS,
• 09:00 WE UNDERSTAND THAT HERE'S SOMEONE WHO'S A RABBI WHO'S GIVING INSTRUCTION
• 09:05 FOR THE LIVING OF LIFE AND HE WANTS TO ESTABLISH COMMUNITIES
• 09:08 WHERE PEOPLE CAN BE RAISED UP TO MATURITY.
• 09:12 AND THAT IS WITH THE OLDER MEN, THE YOUNGER MEN.
• 09:15 THE OLDER MEN SERVE THE YOUNGER MEN, THE OLDER WOMEN SERVE THE YOUNGER WOMEN, ETC...
• 09:20 HE GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 11 THAT:
• 09:37 AGAIN LET ME UNDERSCORE THAT THE RABBI FROM TARSUS WAS VERY WORLDLY IN THE SENSE,
• 09:43 HE WAS CONCERNED WITH PEOPLE LIVING RIGHT IN THIS AGE,
• 09:48 NOT JUST EXPLAINING THE RIGHT OF PASSAGE TO THE WORLD TO COME.
• 09:53 AND AS A RABBI, HE WAS PRACTICAL
• 09:55 CAUSE HE WAS INTERESTED IN HIS CONSTITUENTS HAVING GOOD SUCCESS IN LIFE.
• 10:00 WE WOULD DO WELL TO REMEMBER THAT GOD CARES ABOUT OUR LIFE.
• 10:04 HE CAME TO GIVE US AN ABUNDANT LIFE AND A GOOD LIFE.
• 10:08 AND WE SEE IN THE TITUS DOCUMENT THE RABBI FROM TARUS
• 10:11 IS UNDERSCORING HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS.
• 10:13 AND SO AS A RABBI DOES HE GIVES INSTRUCTIONS THAT WE ALL DO WELL TO PAY ATTENTION TOO.
• 10:28 WE ARE FILMING ON THE APPIAN WAY.
• 10:31 JEFF IS TEACHING ON THE APPIAN WAY
• 10:32 AND WE'RE GETTING READY TO INTERVIEW DR. CRISTIANO PELLEGRINI.
• 10:36 A WONDERFUL ITALIAN GUIDE.
• 10:39 IN FACT JEFF EVERYWHERE WE WENT;
• 10:41 IN GREECE, IN ITALY, EVERYWHERE WE WENT WE HAD GREAT GUIDES.
• 10:45 WE WERE SO BLESSED.
• 10:47 YEAH, AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING SELF SERVING AND SAYING IT,
• 10:50 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOVE TO DO IS
• 10:52 GET EXPERTS THAT YOU CAN HEAR FROM
• 10:54 AND IT DOESN'T JUST HAVE TO BE ME OR SANDRA
• 10:57 THAT WE WANNA SERVE UP GOOD INFORMATION,
• 10:59 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED,
• 11:01 NOT JUST PERSONALITIES AND THIS PROFESSOR IS 2ND TO NONE.
• 11:04 BUT HE WAS A GUIDE.
• 11:06 HE HAS A DOCTORATE, BUT WHAT HE DOES IS HE GUIDES GROUPS AND GUIDES INDIVIDUALS AROUND.
• 11:11 AND WE WERE REALLY AND TRULY BLESSED TO HAVE DR. CRISTIANO PELLEGRINI.
• 11:19 I'M WITH CRISTIANO AND WE'RE STANDING HERE AT THE APPIAN WAY,
• 11:22 THE FAMOUS APPIAN WAY.
• 11:23 EVERY BOOK, EVERY TRAVEL LOG I READ TALKS ABOUT THE APPIAN WAY.
• 11:27 PAUL WOULD HAVE WALKED HERE IN ON THE APPIAN WAY. INDEED.
• 11:31 YEAH, IT IS INTERESTING
• 11:33 TO FIND OUT HOW THE FINDS AND THE DOCUMENTS
• 11:36 PROVED THAT PAUL WHEN HE CAME TO ROME IN 61 A.D
• 11:41 HE MET THE 1ST CHRISTIANS WHO SALUTE HIM.
• 11:43 SALUTED HIM, I MEAN HE'S... AND THEN HE WANTED TO GREET..
• 11:46 TO GIVE A BETTER GREETING TO HIM AND BRING HIM INTO TOWN.
• 11:49 AND IF YOU CONSIDER THAT
• 11:52 THIS FANTASTIC MAUSOLEUM HERE ON THE BACK:
• 11:56 BACK TO THE 1ST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST.
• 12:00 SO HE WOULD'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS MAUSOLEUM INTACT,
• 12:02 NOT AS RUIN... JUST AS LIKE WE'RE LOOKING AT IT NOW,
• 12:04 HE WOULD'VE SEEN THE SAME THING. YES, IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME.
• 12:06 PLUS COBBLESTONES AND A PAGAN MAUSOLEUMS.
• 12:08 SO THIS AREA THE APPIAN WAY IS SO MUCH IMPORTANT.
• 12:12 WHY?
• 12:13 BECAUSE OF, NOT ONLY FOR THE PAGAN MAUSOLEUMS,
• 12:15 BUT ALSO WHAT LATER BECAME THE CHRISTIAN AREA, THE MAIN CHRISTIAN AREA,
• 12:19 NOT THE...
• 12:20 THE ONLY ONE EXISTED.
• 12:22 WELL THE CHRISTIANS WERE BURIED IN THIS AREA, THE APPIAN WAY.
• 12:24 AND WHY IS THIS?
• 12:26 BECAUSE THIS WAS THE SO CALLED THE IN LATIN, THE ORIGIN,
• 12:29 THE VIARUM, SO THE QUEEN OF THE ROMAN WORLDS.
• 12:32 QUEEN OF THE ROMAN... ALL THE... ABSOLUTELY
• 12:34 THE SAYING IS ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, LEAD TO ROME, YEAH
• 12:36 BUT THIS WAS THE MAIN ROAD GOING INTO ROME.
• 12:39 PAUL WOULD'VE COME FROM THE PORT ABSOLUTELY
• 12:40 AND WOULD'VE WALKED THIS WAY, HOW FAR FROM THE PORT TO ROME?
• 12:43 WELL, THE BRINDISI WHERE THE APPIAN WAY ENDS UP
• 12:48 IS EXACTLY MADE ON PURPOSE 365 ROMAN MILES.
• 12:52 AND THE ROMANS HAD MILE MARKERS FOR EVERY SINGLE MILE.
• 12:56 EVERY SINGLE MILE.
• 12:58 THEN EVERY 5 STATIONS, SO EVERY 5 MILES THEY HAD A STATION AND THEN EVERY 15 ONE,
• 13:02 EVERY 15 MILES THEY HAD A MANSION THAT'S OF COURSE WHERE THEY WERE EXCHANGING THE HORSES.
• 13:07 AND THEN LIKE PATIENTS THEY CAN EXCHANGE
• 13:10 AND THEY TAKE A REST,
• 13:12 SO MOST OF THE POST SERVICE WAS GUARANTEED AND WAS VERY EFFICIENT.
• 13:16 WHAT PAUL DIDN'T HE KNOW AT THE TIME?
• 13:19 THEN THE ROADS OF ST. PAUL AS WELL ON THE APPIAN WAY DO YOU KNOW,
• 13:25 WERE THE EXECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, RIGHT
• 13:27 THAT IS NOT TRUE THAT SO MANY CHRISTIANS WERE KILLED IN A CAULOSEUM, THEY WERE KILLED...
• 13:31 WELL AND EVERYTHING I'VE READ SAYS THAT NERO WOULD HAVE PUT TAR ON THE CHRISTIANS YEP!
• 13:37 AND PUT THEM ON THE APPIAN WAY AND LIT THEM JUST FOR HIS AMUSEMENT,
• 13:41 JUST FOR LIGHTS. YES.
• 13:43 AND WE KNOW ABOUT THE CHRONICLES OF THE TIME,
• 13:46 SO MANY WITNESS
• 13:47 WITNESSES CAME HERE TO PROVE HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE NOT ONLY CRUCIFIED,
• 13:51 BUT ALSO IMPALED FOR KILOMETERS, IMPALED JUST...
• 13:54 TODAY FOR KILOMETERS, IMPALED
• 13:56 DURING THE TIME OF PERSECUTION.
• 13:58 EXPENDABLE, THE CHRISTIANS WERE EXPENDABLE. EXPENDABLE EXACTLY.
• 14:00 THEY WERE JUST NOTHING.
• 14:02 AND OF COURSE HERE ON THE APPIAN WAY AND NOT IN THE MINOR STREET, IN THE MAIN ONE OF COURSE,
• 14:05 THERE HAD TO BE AN EXAMPLE FOR THOSE WHO WERE
• 14:07 TESTING THEIR FAITH, RIGHT
• 14:09 CAUSE IT PROBABLY WAS DENY OR NOT DENY THE EMPEROR'S AUTHORITY.
• 14:12 AND THIS IS THE MAIN ROAD.
• 14:16 BUT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE BELIEVERS. YEAH
• 14:18 OUR FAITH IS TESTED EVERY SINGLE DAY. EVERY SINGLE DAY. EVERY SINGLE MOMENT
• 14:21 CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A BELIEVER IN THESE TIMES
• 14:25 AND BEING MARTYRED THAT WAY?
• 14:27 A PAGAN CITY, YES.
• 14:29 THEY NEEDED THE MESSAGE OF MESSIAH.
• 14:30 THEY NEEDED THE MESSAGE.
• 14:39 ROME WAS A CITY THAT NEEDED TO HEAR THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION.
• 14:44 JUST AS WE ALL DO AS UNBELIEVERS WE NEEDED TO HEAR THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION.
• 14:48 WE'RE GONNA GO BACK TO LOCATION WITH JEFF TEACHING ABOUT 2ND TIMOTHY.
• 14:52 ANOTHER LETTER WRITTEN BY PAUL TO TIMOTHY TO ENCOURAGE HIM,
• 14:56 TO HELP HIM, TO BUILD HIM UP TO BE THE MAN OF GOD, THAT GOD WANTED HIM TO BE.
• 15:01 HERE'S JEFF.
• 15:04 IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE LONG ARM OF THE PEN REACHES BEYOND THE GRAVE.
• 15:11 AND THE REASON WHY THAT IS BECAUSE IF SOMEONE COMMENDS THEIR THOUGHTS TO WRITING,
• 15:16 THAT EVEN WHEN THAT PERSON DIES THEIR PERSONA LIVES ON IN THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 15:24 THE REASON WHY I MENTIONED THAT IS THAT HERE THE RABBI FROM TARSUS
• 15:28 IS PUTTING PEN TO PAPER TO WRITE AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF HIS OWN GRAVE.
• 15:35 FROM A PRISON.
• 15:37 NOW HE'S BEEN IMPRISONED ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION
• 15:40 AND TYPICALLY HE GIVES VOICE TO AN EXPECTATION OF A RELEASE, BUT HERE HE HAS NO SUCH EXPECTATION,
• 15:46 BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT THE TIME OF HIS END HAS COME.
• 15:52 RESIST IT THOUGH WE MAY I UNDERSTAND THAT
• 15:55 AT SOMETIMES WE KNOW WHEN THIS REALLY IS THE SEASON WHEN IT'S TIME TO GIVE UP THE GHOST.
• 16:01 WELL WHEN PAUL WRITES THIS LETTER TO 2ND TIMOTHY
• 16:05 THIS IS WHERE HE IS AT IN LIFE AGAIN AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF LIFE.
• 16:11 AND WHAT DOES HE SAY?
• 16:12 HE INFORMS AS MUCH IN CHAPTER 4, VERSE 6, HE SAYS:
• 16:33 THE IMAGERY IS STRIKING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS
• 16:37 AND AS I FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS OUT HERE IN THE GRECO ROMAN WORLD.
• 16:45 I'M REMINDED OF HOW HIS IMAGERY RESONATES WITH GRECO ROMAN THEMES.
• 16:52 WHEN PAUL SPEAKS OF FIGHTING THE FIGHT,
• 16:54 REMEMBER PREVIOUSLY HE HAD SPOKE OF HIM NOT BOXING AIMLESSLY AT THE WIND.
• 17:00 PREVIOUSLY HE WROTE:
• 17:07 AGAIN HE USES THAT IMAGERY OF THE OLYMPICS.
• 17:11 BEYOND THAT HERE HE SPEAKS OF RUNNING THE RACE.
• 17:16 AGAIN GOING BACK TO A FAVORITE SPORT OF THE GREEKS AND THEN THE ROMANS.
• 17:20 IT'S WHERE WE GET THE TERM TO RUN A MARATHON FROM AN ANCIENT GREEK RACE.
• 17:26 AND HERE PAUL HAS GONE THE DISTANCE AND HE FINISHES WELL.
• 17:32 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE LEARNED WHEN IT COMES TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS THAT
• 17:35 A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO BEGIN THE RACE, DON'T FINISH IT.
• 17:39 BUT HERE PAUL HAS A STEADY AND STRONG FINISH AS HE CROSSES THE LINE.
• 17:45 BUT BEFORE HE CROSSES, FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS HE BELONGS TO HUMANKIND
• 17:51 AND THEN HE FADES AWAY AND BELONGS TO HISTORY,
• 17:55 BUT BEFORE HE GOES HE WRITES TO SOMEONE HE KNOWS AND HE SHARES WITH HIM SOME THINGS
• 17:59 THAT HE THINKS TO BE VERY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
• 18:16 HIS BACK WAS AGAINST THE WALL, BUT HE WAS STILL MOVING FORWARD.
• 18:20 WE READ IN 2ND TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2 THAT AS HE'S RIGHT UP AGAINST HIS OWN DEMISE,
• 18:28 HE TELLS TIMOTHY HOW TO GET THE RISE, HOW TO MOVE FORWARD.
• 18:32 AND LET'S LOOK PLEASE IN CHAPTER 2, SEE IF WE CAN GET TO THE ESSENCE OF WHAT HE'S ALL ABOUT.
• 18:37 HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 TO TIMOTHY:
• 18:45 TIMOTHY DIDN'T HAVE A FATHER, OBVIOUSLY BIOLOGICALLY HE DID,
• 18:48 BUT HE FADED AWAY SHORTLY THERE AFTER AND PAUL TOOK THE YOUNG FELLOW UNDER HIS WING.
• 18:53 AND NOW WITH PAUL'S ABOUT TO GO TIMOTHY WOULD BE PARTICULARLY DISCONCERTED,
• 18:58 BUT HE ENCOURAGED HIM TO BE STRONG DIFFICULTIES ASIDE.
• 19:01 AND THEN HE GIVES A FEW ANALOGIES THAT I THINK ARE WORTHY OF COMMENDING.
• 19:06 IT'S WHAT PAUL TOLD TIMOTHY AT THE END OF HIS DAYS IN PRISON AND WE DO WELL TO HEAR HIM.
• 19:11 HE SAYS IN VERSE 4 THAT:
• 19:21 ARGUABLY HE'S PLAYING AGAINST THE MYTHIC PERSONA
• 19:26 THAT THE ROMAN INFANTRY MEN COMMENDED IN ANCIENT GRECO ROMAN CULTURE.
• 19:33 THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS BOTH PRIDED THEMSELVES WITH THEIR WARRIOR CLASS
• 19:39 AND IN PAUL'S DAY THE ROMAN LEGIONNAIRE COMMANDED RESPECT ALL OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 19:47 THEY CALLED IT MARE NOSTRUM IN LATIN, WHICH MEANS OUR SEA, BECAUSE THEY CONQUERED IT.
• 19:52 AND THE ROMAN INFANTRY MEN KNEW ABOUT DISCIPLINE, FOCUS, NOT BREAKING RANK, NOT FEARING,
• 20:00 BUT ENDEAVORING TO BE CALM, AND WORK TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER SOLDERS
• 20:03 AND ABOVE ALL FOLLOW ORDERS AND NEVER EVER RETREAT.
• 20:11 AS PAUL FINISHES HIS DAYS HE WRITES TIMOTHY TO NOT WINCE BACK IN THE FACE OF DIVERSITY.
• 20:19 AND HE REMINDS HIM OF SOLDIERING.
• 20:21 HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT NO ONE WHO COMPETES IN ATHLETICS WINS
• 20:27 UNLESS THEY COMPETE ACCORDING TO THE RULES.
• 20:31 AND HERE AGAIN THERE'S A STORY THAT IS PLAYED OUT
• 20:34 AGAINST THE BACK DROP OF GRECO ROMAN CULTURE, WHERE INDIVIDUALS PRIZED ATHLETIC COMPETITION.
• 20:42 WHEN COMPETING IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH JUST TO FIGHT,
• 20:46 ONE MUST NEEDS PLAY IT OUT ACCORDING TO THE RULES.
• 20:51 PAUL DOESN'T WANT TIMOTHY TO SHORT CHANGE HIMSELF OR HIS HEARERS,
• 20:56 DISAPPOINT PAUL OR DISAPPOINT HIS SAVIOR.
• 20:59 PLAY BY THE RULES TIMOTHY.
• 21:01 THIRDLY, HE GOES ON TO GIVE AN ANALOGY,
• 21:05 HE SAYS IT'S THE HARD WORKING FARMER WHO OUGHT TO GET THE 1ST SHARE OF THE CROP.
• 21:12 PAUL WANTS TIMOTHY TO WORK HARD, TO KEEP HIS FOCUS,
• 21:16 TO NOT LET HIS VERVE AND VITALITY TO DIMINISH AGAINST LIFE'S TROUBLES.
• 21:22 AND AS PAUL'S LIFE IS RIGHT UP AGAINST THE EDGE HE REMINDS HIM IN KIND.
• 21:27 I THINK IT'S FASCINATING TOO THAT PAUL SAYS,
• 21:31 LISTEN IT'S THE HARD WORKING FARMER WHO GET'S PAID WELL.
• 21:34 YOU KNOW PAUL HIMSELF, THIS RABBI FROM TARSUS DIDN'T STAY IN TARSUS.
• 21:39 HE CAUGHT A VISION WHEN HE CAUGHT ONTO YESHUA,
• 21:44 WITH THE NET RESULT THAT HE TURNED AROUND AND WENT BEYOND TARSUS
• 21:47 TO POINTS NORTH AND WEST AND HE KEPT PUSHING AND PUSHING AND PUSHING THE BORDERS.
• 21:54 AND NOW IT'S TIME TO GO, BUT BEFORE HE GOES HE SAYS TO TIMOTHY
• 22:00 AND TO THE WORLD BY ASSOCIATION, I WANT YOU TO KNOW WHAT HE WANTED TIMOTHY TO KNOW,
• 22:06 HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW AND ME TO KNOW THAT IS TO WORK HARD,
• 22:09 TO BE TOUGH, TO KEEP THE FAITH, TO NOT GIVE IN.
• 22:13 THIS IS THE LIFE AND THE MESSAGE OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 22:25 MUSIC
• 23:26 10 TO 20 THOUSAND PEOPLE COME TO ROME PER DAY.
• 23:30 THERE'S ROOM FOR YOU HERE, ISN'T THERE SANDRA?
• 23:33 THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO SEE.
• 23:35 IT'S ANOTHER PLACE WHERE WE CAN SEE OUR BIBLE COME ALIVE.
• 23:38 THAT'S RIGHT, CAUSE WHEN PAUL WAS ALIVE, HE CAME HERE.
• 23:41 WE VISIT HERE, GREECE
• 23:44 AND THE HOLY LAND ITSELF, ISRAEL PROPER.
• 23:46 YOU NEED TO BE WITH US.
• 23:48 WE'D LOVE TO SHOW YOU GREECE, ISRAEL, AND ROME.
• 23:50 JOIN US FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 23:55 PAUL TALKS TO TIMOTHY AND TELLS HIM THAT HE ENDURES ALL THINGS
• 23:59 FOR THE CHRIST AND THE SALVATION THAT CHRIST GIVES US.
• 24:02 I WANT YOU TO TURN TO 2ND CORINTHIANS 11.
• 24:05 AND I WANNA LOOK AT VERSES, A COUPLE OF VERSES 24 THROUGH AROUND 29.
• 24:09 IT LISTS THE HARDSHIPS THAT PAUL WENT THROUGH.
• 24:12 WE ALL HAVE HARDSHIPS IN OUR LIVES.
• 24:14 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IT IS.
• 24:16 PAUL'S MESSAGE IS STAY THE COURSE, ENDURE, CHRIST IS THE ANSWER.
• 24:21 HE TALKS ABOUT THAT HE WAS:
• 24:49 HE SUFFERED EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IN TODAY.
• 24:52 NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, JEFF.
• 24:53 NOTHING
• 24:54 NOW DURING THE BREAK WE WRESTLED WITH THAT A LITTLE.
• 24:57 THERE'S SOMETHING HERE THAT REALLY RESONATES WITH YOU.
• 24:59 IT DOES, IT'S BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT PAUL TELLS US
• 25:04 TO STAND STRONG.
• 25:05 CHRIST IS THE ANSWER.
• 25:07 SO WHEN YOU CONSIDER AS WE REFLECT UPON THIS WHOLE SERIES,
• 25:11 WHAT'S STRIKING TO YOU
• 25:12 IS THE KIND OF INTRANSIGENCE, THE BOLDNESS, THAT NOT GIVING UP THE ENTERPRISE,
• 25:18 THE WAY HE STUCK WITH IT ALL. RIGHT.
• 25:19 WELL AND I THINK ABOUT IT.
• 25:21 I THINK ABOUT THE TRAVELING THAT YOU AND I DO.
• 25:23 I GET SO TIRED OF THE TRAVELING.
• 25:24 THE GETTING ON A DIFFERENT PLANE
• 25:26 AND GETTING OFF A DIFFERENT PLANE.
• 25:27 PAUL IS BEATEN, HE IS STONED, HE IS SHIPWRECKED.
• 25:30 HIS PROBLEMS ARE...
• 25:32 MINE ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT PAUL WENT THROUGH
• 25:35 AND HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO ENDURE THROUGH THE END.
• 25:37 THAT'S ENCOURAGING TO ME AND VERY HUMBLING TO ME.
• 25:41 YES AND I CAN SEE WHY.
• 25:43 WELL WHEN WE GET INTO THE SCRIPTURES WE ALL WALK AWAY WITH SOMETHING.
• 25:47 HOPEFULLY SOMETHING TO MAKE US BETTER.
• 25:49 SOMETHING A LITTLE STRONGER.
• 25:51 I WANNA THANK YOU FOR GOING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US.
• 25:54 WE BEGAN BY LOOKING AT PAUL'S MOVEMENTS
• 25:57 AS WE WALKED WITH HIM AROUND THE GRECO ROMAN WORLD IN THE 1ST CENTURY.
• 26:02 HAVING DONE THAT THEN WE LOOKED AT PAUL'S TEACHINGS, BY ENTERING INTO HIS WORLD AND HIS WORD.
• 26:10 AND WE WANTED TO EXPERIENCE A LITTLE OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY AND WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE MENT BY IT.
• 26:15 WE WANTED TO LOOK AT THE RABBI FROM TARSUS FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
• 26:19 THINKING THAT WAS HIS PERSPECTIVE.
• 26:21 A MESSIANIC JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 26:23 A JEWISH RABBI WHO WAS TURNED ON TO THE TRUTH OF JESUS.
• 26:26 I WANNA THANK YOU FOR TURNING US ON AND I HOPE YOU'VE COME TO KNOW YESHUA,
• 26:31 JESUS A LITTLE BETTER AS A RESULT OF YOUR SO DOING.
• 26:34 AMEN.
• 26:35 GOD BLESS YOU.
• 26:36 GOD BLESS AMERICA.
• 26:37 GOD BLESS ISRAEL.
• 26:38 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.