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

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