1 00:00:00,000 –> 00:00:07,140 You’re listening to a sermon from Pastor Collin Smith of Open The Bible. 2 00:00:07,140 –> 00:00:14,800 To contact us, call us at 1-877-OPEN365 or visit our web site openthebible.org. 3 00:00:14,800 –> 00:00:19,820 Let’s get to the message, here is Pastor Collin. 4 00:00:19,820 –> 00:00:25,920 Well, please open your Bible at the first letter of Timothy. 5 00:00:26,160 –> 00:00:29,520 We’re continuing again our series on the life of Timothy, 6 00:00:29,520 –> 00:00:33,119 The second-last message in this series, today. 7 00:00:33,119 –> 00:00:35,939 The title, as you know, is the Apostle’s Apprentice, 8 00:00:35,939 –> 00:00:38,180 because that really describes Timothy’s role. 9 00:00:38,180 –> 00:00:42,919 He was, over many years, an apprentice to the apostle Paul, 10 00:00:42,919 –> 00:00:48,020 learned so much from him, and contributed so much to the apostle’s ministry. 11 00:00:48,020 –> 00:00:52,400 And our aim in this series, as we’ve followed the life of Timothy, 12 00:00:52,400 –> 00:00:57,459 has been to improve our usefulness to Jesus Christ. 13 00:00:57,459 –> 00:00:58,459 Great question! 14 00:00:58,459 –> 00:01:00,340 How can I be more useful? 15 00:01:00,340 –> 00:01:07,739 How can we be more useful to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? 16 00:01:07,739 –> 00:01:13,000 Now, as we followed the example of Timothy, who became so wonderfully useful, 17 00:01:13,000 –> 00:01:17,699 we’ve seen that he was called into ministry at the age of around twenty. 18 00:01:17,699 –> 00:01:21,400 Early on in life, he joined Paul at the beginning of 19 00:01:21,519 –> 00:01:27,220 his second missionary journey, which would have been around the year A.D. 50. 20 00:01:27,220 –> 00:01:30,580 And I’m going to just take a couple of moments to give you a brief kind of chronology 21 00:01:30,580 –> 00:01:33,660 so you have a sense of where we are in the story. 22 00:01:33,660 –> 00:01:39,820 Dates, of course, are sometimes disputed by scholars and being aware that we have some, 23 00:01:39,820 –> 00:01:42,820 I am following dates given by F. F. Bruce. 24 00:01:42,820 –> 00:01:49,580 And so if you want to dispute the chronology, please take it up with him when you see him 25 00:01:49,580 –> 00:01:52,300 in heaven. 26 00:01:52,300 –> 00:01:55,739 But following Bruce’s dating, we would have something like this. 27 00:01:55,739 –> 00:02:03,480 Around the year 4950, Timothy joins Paul at the beginning of the second missionary journey. 28 00:02:03,480 –> 00:02:05,440 They then go to Philippi. 29 00:02:05,440 –> 00:02:06,440 Thessalonica. 30 00:02:06,440 –> 00:02:11,300 And then Paul parting from Timothy for a time moves on to Athens. 31 00:02:11,300 –> 00:02:14,960 You read about this as we did earlier in Acts 16-17. 32 00:02:15,880 –> 00:02:23,320 Then later that year, the year 50 AD, just 20 or so years after the death and resurrection 33 00:02:23,320 –> 00:02:28,339 of our Lord Jesus, you have Paul writing the letters of Thessalonians and Timothy, you 34 00:02:28,339 –> 00:02:33,240 remember, was sent then on his first assignment to Thessalonica. 35 00:02:33,240 –> 00:02:37,759 The next couple of years, 50-52, you find Paul and Timothy in Corinth. 36 00:02:37,759 –> 00:02:39,399 That’s Acts chapter 18. 37 00:02:39,399 –> 00:02:44,460 The Scriptures tell us that Paul spent a year and a half church planting in Corinth. 38 00:02:44,460 –> 00:02:49,440 Then he moves on to Ephesus around 52-55 AD. 39 00:02:49,440 –> 00:02:51,759 This is Acts 19 and 20. 40 00:02:51,759 –> 00:02:57,820 He was there for 2 years plus a further 3 months, and perhaps some additional time alongside 41 00:02:57,820 –> 00:03:00,460 what is specifically recorded. 42 00:03:00,460 –> 00:03:08,199 You then have the writing of the Corinthian letters coming out of this period-55-56 and 43 00:03:08,199 –> 00:03:10,800 Timothy’s second assignment to Corinth. 44 00:03:10,800 –> 00:03:14,039 Remember the first assignment to Thessalonica goes really well. 45 00:03:14,100 –> 00:03:19,139 The second assignment to Corinth really badly, at least for Timothy. 46 00:03:19,139 –> 00:03:20,779 After that, Paul was imprisoned. 47 00:03:20,779 –> 00:03:25,960 The scriptures tell us for 2 years he was imprisoned in Caesarea, and you can read about 48 00:03:25,960 –> 00:03:29,619 that in Acts 23-26. 49 00:03:29,619 –> 00:03:33,800 And then after that, there’s this long journey in which Paul, and we assume Timothy with 50 00:03:33,800 –> 00:03:35,399 him, traveled to Rome. 51 00:03:35,399 –> 00:03:37,059 It takes them months to get there. 52 00:03:37,059 –> 00:03:39,880 They’re ship-wrecked winter in Malta, and all the rest of it. 53 00:03:39,880 –> 00:03:43,839 And finally, they end up in Rome, and Paul is in prison, and that’s where the book of 54 00:03:43,839 –> 00:03:47,479 Acts ends, chapters 27 and 28. 55 00:03:47,479 –> 00:03:52,160 And it’s then, as we saw last week, that Timothy is sent from Rome while Paul is in prison, 56 00:03:52,160 –> 00:03:58,000 to Philippi on the third major assignment, where Paul commends him so warmly. 57 00:03:58,000 –> 00:04:04,000 I have no one else like him who takes a genuine interest in your welfare. 58 00:04:04,080 –> 00:04:10,800 Now if we roll forward from Paul’s years of imprisonment in Rome, we’re beyond the period 59 00:04:10,800 –> 00:04:16,739 of the book of Acts, and it is difficult to put all of the details together, but most 60 00:04:16,739 –> 00:04:21,200 scholars believe that Paul was released after that imprisonment in Rome and was able to 61 00:04:21,200 –> 00:04:25,200 travel further, though it’s not recorded in the book of Acts. 62 00:04:25,200 –> 00:04:30,799 But certainly it is at this time that Timothy was in Ephesus, and that these letters to 63 00:04:31,059 –> 00:04:35,200 Timothy that we’re focusing on today and next week were written. 64 00:04:35,200 –> 00:04:41,299 And around the year AD 65, the apostle Paul died, almost certainly martyred, and so Timothy 65 00:04:41,299 –> 00:04:43,820 now has to go on without his mentor. 66 00:04:43,820 –> 00:04:50,980 65 if he began in 50, this is now 65, Timothy’s now in his mid-thirties and has been the apostle’s 67 00:04:50,980 –> 00:04:55,940 apprentice for 15 years. 68 00:04:55,940 –> 00:04:57,559 So this is the story that we’ve followed. 69 00:04:57,660 –> 00:05:01,500 Paul has taken responsibility, he’s been through disappointment, he’s grown to become 70 00:05:01,500 –> 00:05:04,140 the most useful member of the apostolic team. 71 00:05:04,140 –> 00:05:08,260 I have no one else like him, Paul says. 72 00:05:08,260 –> 00:05:13,140 But now when we come to these letters to Timothy, Paul is at the end of his life. 73 00:05:13,140 –> 00:05:17,459 Second Timothy was the last letter that Paul wrote, and at the end of that, as we’ll 74 00:05:17,459 –> 00:05:25,320 see next week, he speaks about being ready for his departure and entrance into the presence 75 00:05:25,320 –> 00:05:27,019 of Christ. 76 00:05:27,100 –> 00:05:32,619 So if you open your Bible now at 1 Timothy and chapter 1, you’ll see here that we’re 77 00:05:32,619 –> 00:05:38,579 really at the last stages of this wonderful partnership that TIMOTHY has had with the 78 00:05:38,579 –> 00:05:39,579 apostle. 79 00:05:39,579 –> 00:05:47,019 And Timothy is now in Ephesus and Paul is seeking to make more settled arrangements 80 00:05:47,019 –> 00:05:52,220 for the future of the churches and for their leadership, as he knows that his own time 81 00:05:52,220 –> 00:05:54,399 is now short. 82 00:05:54,480 –> 00:06:05,559 So chapter 1 in verse 3, as I urged you, when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesis. 83 00:06:06,559 –> 00:06:11,079 Now this word urged is interesting, I urged you. 84 00:06:11,079 –> 00:06:16,140 It seems that there was a certain reluctance on Timothy’s part. 85 00:06:16,140 –> 00:06:21,760 Ephesus was like Corinth, it was a tough environment for ministry and it isn’t hard to imagine 86 00:06:21,880 –> 00:06:26,820 Timothy saying, Paul, you know I think I should just keep traveling with you as you’re moving 87 00:06:26,820 –> 00:06:33,820 on through Macedonia and Paul says, no Timothy, what I need from you is I want you to stay 88 00:06:34,079 –> 00:06:36,239 here at Ephesus. 89 00:06:36,239 –> 00:06:38,200 I want you to settle. 90 00:06:38,200 –> 00:06:42,459 I want you to invest the next years of your life in pastoring these people so that the 91 00:06:42,459 –> 00:06:47,239 gospel can advance in this great city. 92 00:06:47,239 –> 00:06:51,679 And Paul says that he urged Timothy to stay. 93 00:06:51,679 –> 00:06:55,880 And Timothy evidently had agreed and Paul had gone on to Macedonia and now clearly, 94 00:06:55,880 –> 00:07:00,600 there’s been some communication from Timothy again and Paul has to repeat his instruction. 95 00:07:00,600 –> 00:07:06,320 As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus. 96 00:07:06,320 –> 00:07:12,600 This is an apostolic, how many times do I have to tell you? 97 00:07:12,600 –> 00:07:14,880 Right? 98 00:07:14,880 –> 00:07:18,799 And here’s the principle. 99 00:07:18,799 –> 00:07:27,859 If you want to be useful to Christ, which is the whole focus of our series, you need 100 00:07:27,859 –> 00:07:32,399 to learn to persevere. 101 00:07:32,399 –> 00:07:36,059 And that’s the issue for Timothy in his mid-30’s. 102 00:07:36,059 –> 00:07:41,980 He’s moved many places with the Apostle Paul, but Paul says, I need you now to settle to 103 00:07:41,980 –> 00:07:48,559 this task and to stick at it in order to bear great fruit. 104 00:07:49,380 –> 00:07:55,160 Now frankly, Ephesus wasn’t an easy assignment for 105 00:07:55,160 –> 00:07:58,739 Timothy, and that becomes obvious if you’ve been following the reading plan. 106 00:07:58,739 –> 00:08:04,040 You will have covered this in 1 Timothy this week, but just to refresh your memory, if 107 00:08:04,040 –> 00:08:08,940 you just look very quickly through this letter, you will see there that in chapter 1 Timothy 108 00:08:08,940 –> 00:08:12,339 is concerned about the issue of defending the truth. 109 00:08:12,339 –> 00:08:16,700 In chapter 2 there’s the whole question of ordering worship. 110 00:08:16,700 –> 00:08:21,540 In chapter 3, there’s the whole question of choosing appropriate leaders. 111 00:08:21,540 –> 00:08:28,059 Chapter 5, the whole question of organizing ministry and the various demands that come 112 00:08:28,059 –> 00:08:32,140 from people who want as it were a slice of the resource pie. 113 00:08:32,140 –> 00:08:37,020 And in chapter 6 the particular challenges of dealing with people whose hearts have been 114 00:08:37,020 –> 00:08:39,000 captivated by money. 115 00:08:39,000 –> 00:08:44,500 On top of that in chapter 4 Timothy has all of his own temptations to deal with, and so 116 00:08:44,599 –> 00:08:49,580 you can understand why we all of that the must have been points where Timothy was saying 117 00:08:49,580 –> 00:08:58,700 Paul I think I’m done here and Paul says no you stay at Ephesus. 118 00:08:58,700 –> 00:09:08,400 So here’s the principle that we’re learning, your usefulness to Christ will in large measure 119 00:09:08,400 –> 00:09:13,140 depend on how you navigate the quitting points of life. 120 00:09:13,140 –> 00:09:17,020 It’s true for all of us. 121 00:09:17,020 –> 00:09:24,200 And quitting points will come in every area of life, they come for every student at college. 122 00:09:24,200 –> 00:09:28,200 You remember that? 123 00:09:28,200 –> 00:09:31,340 They come to every marriage. 124 00:09:31,340 –> 00:09:43,539 They may not even be spoken, but thoughts flip through the mind. 125 00:09:43,539 –> 00:09:45,940 They come in every ministry. 126 00:09:45,940 –> 00:09:50,460 They come in your faith. 127 00:09:50,460 –> 00:09:53,760 And they may come, these quitting points, even in life itself. 128 00:09:53,760 –> 00:09:57,539 Remember Job’s wife who had been in church as it were every Sunday morning? 129 00:09:58,539 –> 00:10:05,260 Why don’t you just curse God and die? 130 00:10:05,260 –> 00:10:12,179 And our lifetime usefulness to Christ really does depend in very significant measure on 131 00:10:12,179 –> 00:10:15,640 how we navigate the quitting points of life. 132 00:10:15,640 –> 00:10:19,619 It’s very interesting to me that Timothy is thirty-five when this letter is written. 133 00:10:19,619 –> 00:10:24,700 See, by the time your thirty-five your life is framed a little bit. 134 00:10:24,799 –> 00:10:29,020 There are some choices that you’ve made that have now put a kind of a box it may seem 135 00:10:29,020 –> 00:10:35,479 around you and there can be a discomfort, a sort of midlife discomfort that comes at 136 00:10:35,479 –> 00:10:39,239 that stage and questions – is this what I am? 137 00:10:39,239 –> 00:10:40,419 Is this what I’m meant to be doing? 138 00:10:40,419 –> 00:10:41,479 Did I make a great mistake? 139 00:10:41,479 –> 00:10:44,979 I mean what in all the world am I doing here? 140 00:10:44,979 –> 00:10:50,440 We all experience these things. 141 00:10:50,559 –> 00:10:58,559 Paul is writing to this younger man with pastoral and practical counsel that really is critical 142 00:10:58,559 –> 00:11:06,299 for any life that is to have significant usefulness in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. 143 00:11:06,299 –> 00:11:11,080 Think about the difference between a lighthouse and a box of fireworks. 144 00:11:11,080 –> 00:11:18,900 A box of fireworks goes off with a big bang and a big blaze and they penetrate the darkness 145 00:11:19,000 –> 00:11:22,320 but fizzle out so quickly. 146 00:11:22,320 –> 00:11:29,320 And you walk through the darkness as you go home at the end of the fireworks show. 147 00:11:30,099 –> 00:11:36,760 The lighthouse is different, it just goes on shining for a very, very long time in the 148 00:11:36,760 –> 00:11:39,119 same place. 149 00:11:39,119 –> 00:11:46,119 Shining the same light, saving many from hazardous rocks that are hidden beneath the water. 150 00:11:47,080 –> 00:11:54,080 Now Christ says, let your light so shine before men, and if there’s any light in you at all 151 00:11:55,239 –> 00:11:59,440 Satan would love it to be like the fireworks. 152 00:11:59,440 –> 00:12:07,260 Love to see it fizzle out so that the darkness closes in again, where you only made a temporary 153 00:12:07,820 –> 00:12:11,280 impression. 154 00:12:11,280 –> 00:12:18,359 But Christ calls us to be like the light house shining faithfully for a long time. 155 00:12:18,359 –> 00:12:23,039 Now that’s the issue that’s before us and you can see after these years of being mentored 156 00:12:23,039 –> 00:12:26,960 by Paul and Paul is now very soon going to go and be with the Lord. 157 00:12:26,960 –> 00:12:28,559 This is the critical issue. 158 00:12:28,559 –> 00:12:37,380 Timothy, my young friend, you need to learn to persevere, and it starts by staying there 159 00:12:37,380 –> 00:12:39,320 in Ephesus. 160 00:12:39,659 –> 00:12:46,940 I want you to turn to 1 Timothy 4 and verse 16 which is going to be our focus verse in 161 00:12:46,940 –> 00:12:50,299 fact both today and next Sunday. 162 00:12:50,299 –> 00:12:53,940 Because as we ask the question, what does it take them to persevere? 163 00:12:53,940 –> 00:12:57,919 What does it take to become like a lighthouse rather than a box of fireworks? 164 00:12:57,919 –> 00:13:02,359 How can you navigate the quitting points of life? 165 00:13:02,359 –> 00:13:06,859 It seems to me that all that Timothy, Paul says to Timothy is summed up wonderfully in 166 00:13:06,859 –> 00:13:07,859 this verse. 167 00:13:07,859 –> 00:13:17,960 In 1 Timothy 4.16 watch your life, and watch your doctrine closely, persevere in them because 168 00:13:17,960 –> 00:13:23,640 if you do, you will save yourself. 169 00:13:23,640 –> 00:13:26,359 And your hearers. 170 00:13:26,359 –> 00:13:32,599 The success in navigating the quitting points of life is not so much in what you do when 171 00:13:32,599 –> 00:13:36,000 you come to the quitting points of life it’s what you do all the rest of the time when 172 00:13:36,080 –> 00:13:39,659 you’re not at the quitting points of life. 173 00:13:39,659 –> 00:13:50,020 Build a pattern of life, Paul is saying, that is designed for perseverance. 174 00:13:50,020 –> 00:13:52,140 And here’s how you do it. 175 00:13:52,140 –> 00:13:58,799 You watch your life and your doctrine closely. 176 00:13:58,799 –> 00:13:59,799 These two things. 177 00:14:00,340 –> 00:14:06,640 Watch what you believe, watch how you behave, persevere in these things, and if you do, 178 00:14:06,640 –> 00:14:12,979 you will save yourself, and you will save your hearers. 179 00:14:12,979 –> 00:14:17,419 Watch your life closely. 180 00:14:17,419 –> 00:14:21,419 1 Timothy 4.16. 181 00:14:21,419 –> 00:14:23,500 Let’s try and take this in for a moment. 182 00:14:23,719 –> 00:14:30,239 God commands you to watch your life closely. 183 00:14:30,239 –> 00:14:35,760 He commands it. 184 00:14:35,760 –> 00:14:45,020 It is your responsibility, it is my responsibility. 185 00:14:45,020 –> 00:14:48,320 And it is something that you can do. 186 00:14:48,320 –> 00:14:53,400 If you are a Christian believer, then God’s Spirit lives within you, and that means that 187 00:14:53,400 –> 00:14:57,539 you have the ability to watch, it means you have the ability to act. 188 00:14:57,539 –> 00:15:06,820 God has put you in a position where you can take responsibility for your life. 189 00:15:06,820 –> 00:15:11,460 Now this of course is the complete opposite of what the world teaches us today, isn’t 190 00:15:11,460 –> 00:15:12,460 it? 191 00:15:12,460 –> 00:15:14,460 It really is the opposite. 192 00:15:14,460 –> 00:15:19,640 Because the culture tells us that you are a victim, tells me that I am a victim of whatever 193 00:15:19,640 –> 00:15:26,020 has happened to me, happened to you, but you don’t find that in the Bible. 194 00:15:26,020 –> 00:15:27,000 You just don’t. 195 00:15:27,000 –> 00:15:29,979 You just don’t. 196 00:15:29,979 –> 00:15:36,140 See, if you are a Christian, you are not helpless. 197 00:15:36,140 –> 00:15:38,780 Is that good news or bad news? 198 00:15:38,780 –> 00:15:40,780 It’s good news, isn’t it? 199 00:15:40,780 –> 00:15:47,140 If you are a Christian, whatever the world says to you, you are not helpless. 200 00:15:47,140 –> 00:15:51,739 You are not powerless over the dynamics of your life. 201 00:15:51,739 –> 00:15:56,799 The Spirit of God lives within you, if you are a Christian believer, and what that means 202 00:15:56,799 –> 00:16:02,260 is that you are in a position where you can take responsibility for your life. 203 00:16:02,260 –> 00:16:06,539 This is the characteristic language of Scripture. 204 00:16:06,539 –> 00:16:10,260 Look at 1 Timothy chapter four and verse seven. 205 00:16:10,260 –> 00:16:14,539 I have nothing to do with the godless myths, old wives tales, and so forth. 206 00:16:14,940 –> 00:16:17,979 Train yourself, chapter four and verse seven, to be godly. 207 00:16:17,979 –> 00:16:20,320 You have the ability to do that. 208 00:16:20,320 –> 00:16:22,340 Train yourself to be godly. 209 00:16:22,340 –> 00:16:28,020 There are things that you can do to pursue a godly life. 210 00:16:28,020 –> 00:16:33,559 Or 2 Timothy and chapter one, just over the page, chapter one and verse seven. 211 00:16:33,559 –> 00:16:37,780 We’ll blend these two letters together, they were written so close in time. 212 00:16:37,780 –> 00:16:43,479 Well, God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 213 00:16:43,539 –> 00:16:48,200 Timothy, the spirit of God’s power lives within you. 214 00:16:48,200 –> 00:16:51,000 There’s no reason for you to be timid. 215 00:16:51,000 –> 00:16:57,219 Timothy, the spirit of God’s love lives within you, there’s no reason for you to grow cold. 216 00:16:57,219 –> 00:17:02,919 Timothy, you have the spirit of self-discipline within you, there is no reason for you to 217 00:17:02,919 –> 00:17:06,280 be capitulating to sin in the manner that some do. 218 00:17:06,280 –> 00:17:13,099 God has put you in a position where you can act and your first responsibility is to watch 219 00:17:13,099 –> 00:17:17,339 your life closely. 220 00:17:17,339 –> 00:17:25,579 Now this theme of a Christian taking responsibility for himself, herself, for our own actions, 221 00:17:25,579 –> 00:17:30,699 for our own words is characteristic of the whole of the New Testament. 222 00:17:30,699 –> 00:17:35,000 Second Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 5. 223 00:17:35,439 –> 00:17:39,339 Examine yourselves, Paul says. 224 00:17:39,339 –> 00:17:41,839 To see whether you are in the faith. 225 00:17:41,839 –> 00:17:44,579 Test yourselves. 226 00:17:44,579 –> 00:17:49,020 This is the same language as watching your life closely, test yourselves. 227 00:17:49,020 –> 00:17:54,219 And then he says, do you not realise that Christ is in you? 228 00:17:54,219 –> 00:17:57,140 And it’s very interesting. 229 00:17:57,140 –> 00:18:03,339 You see, the fact that Christ is in you is the very thing that gives you the ability 230 00:18:03,479 –> 00:18:09,380 to examine yourself and to watch your life closely. 231 00:18:09,380 –> 00:18:16,380 Without Christ, you would not have the perception to examine yourself properly. 232 00:18:16,900 –> 00:18:21,040 But with Christ, you are in a position where you are able to watch your life and indeed 233 00:18:21,040 –> 00:18:22,939 your doctrine closely. 234 00:18:22,939 –> 00:18:28,540 Think of two men, walking along the edge of a cliff. 235 00:18:28,540 –> 00:18:32,699 They are both in terrible danger. 236 00:18:32,699 –> 00:18:37,180 One man is in terrible danger because he is walking along the edge of the cliff and he 237 00:18:37,180 –> 00:18:41,140 is blind. 238 00:18:41,140 –> 00:18:46,619 The other man is in terrible danger because he is walking along the edge of the cliff 239 00:18:46,619 –> 00:18:50,060 and he has his eyes closed. 240 00:18:50,060 –> 00:18:59,900 They are actually in equal danger, but the tragedy of the second man is greater, isn’t 241 00:18:59,900 –> 00:19:02,420 it? 242 00:19:02,420 –> 00:19:09,180 Because he has the capacity to see, and he doesn’t use it. 243 00:19:09,180 –> 00:19:14,739 Now you see what the New Testament is saying to us is look, you have the Spirit of God 244 00:19:14,739 –> 00:19:15,979 living within you. 245 00:19:15,979 –> 00:19:21,140 You have the capacity to see. 246 00:19:21,140 –> 00:19:22,920 So watch your own life. 247 00:19:22,920 –> 00:19:26,619 Examine yourself. 248 00:19:26,619 –> 00:19:30,760 Because if you do not do that as a Christian believer, you are the ultimate tragedy. 249 00:19:30,760 –> 00:19:38,579 You are the man who can see, who walks by the edge of a cliff with your eyes closed. 250 00:19:38,579 –> 00:19:43,880 Watch your life closely. 251 00:19:43,880 –> 00:19:50,859 I want to suggest this morning from the Scriptures 5 areas for self-examination, as we are called 252 00:19:50,859 –> 00:19:57,219 to watch our lives, we are clearly given that responsibility and we are given that ability, 253 00:19:58,060 –> 00:20:02,859 5 areas for self-examination in which you are to watch your life and I am to watch 254 00:20:02,859 –> 00:20:04,180 mine. 255 00:20:04,180 –> 00:20:07,780 When you go to the doctor for the physical, you know the routine that he goes through. 256 00:20:07,780 –> 00:20:13,380 There are certain things that characteristically go wrong in the human body. 257 00:20:13,380 –> 00:20:16,500 So starting at the top, and working his way down to the bottom, he has certain little 258 00:20:16,500 –> 00:20:19,339 tests that he runs through when you go for a physical. 259 00:20:19,339 –> 00:20:21,780 Certain things he is looking for. 260 00:20:22,099 –> 00:20:27,180 Well, let’s apply that same kind of thinking here, because Paul gives us a checklist. 261 00:20:27,180 –> 00:20:30,359 We’re back in 1 Timothy chapter 4. 262 00:20:30,359 –> 00:20:37,400 And if you look just above verse 16, you’ll see the checklist right there, in verse 12. 263 00:20:37,400 –> 00:20:43,339 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young. 264 00:20:43,339 –> 00:20:50,979 But set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love. 265 00:20:51,880 –> 00:20:57,780 In faith, and in purity, until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, 266 00:20:57,780 –> 00:20:58,839 to preaching and teaching. 267 00:20:58,839 –> 00:21:01,839 Don’t neglect the gift that was given you and so forth. 268 00:21:01,839 –> 00:21:03,380 Be diligent in these matters. 269 00:21:03,380 –> 00:21:06,900 Pursue them wholly so that everyone will see your progress. 270 00:21:06,900 –> 00:21:12,699 Watch your life and your doctrine closely. 271 00:21:12,699 –> 00:21:16,479 So being specific then, what this means is verse 12. 272 00:21:16,479 –> 00:21:19,020 Watch your speech. 273 00:21:19,040 –> 00:21:22,359 Watch your speech. 274 00:21:22,380 –> 00:21:26,699 Watch it closely. 275 00:21:26,699 –> 00:21:33,619 What have been the dominant subjects of your conversation in recent days? 276 00:21:33,619 –> 00:21:39,180 What have you been saying to other people, and what have other people been saying to 277 00:21:39,180 –> 00:21:40,180 you? 278 00:21:40,180 –> 00:21:41,180 Watch this. 279 00:21:41,180 –> 00:21:43,560 Watch it very closely. 280 00:21:43,560 –> 00:21:45,300 What we say matters. 281 00:21:45,319 –> 00:21:46,959 I want to give you a number of references. 282 00:21:46,959 –> 00:21:51,719 They’re there on the screen for us to note down and to ponder at greater length later 283 00:21:51,719 –> 00:21:52,719 if we wish. 284 00:21:52,719 –> 00:22:01,680 1 Timothy in chapter 5, in verse 13, speaks about some folks who go from house to house 285 00:22:01,680 –> 00:22:06,640 and not only become idlers, but gossips and busybodies saying things that they ought not 286 00:22:06,640 –> 00:22:07,640 to. 287 00:22:07,640 –> 00:22:08,640 They’re just going around, you see, gossiping. 288 00:22:08,640 –> 00:22:14,520 There’s some folks like that, Paul says. 289 00:22:14,520 –> 00:22:19,040 What we say matters. 290 00:22:19,040 –> 00:22:23,400 Don’t get into that stuff. 291 00:22:23,400 –> 00:22:25,160 What we listen to matters. 292 00:22:25,160 –> 00:22:28,719 Look at 2 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 16. 293 00:22:28,719 –> 00:22:33,699 2 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 16. 294 00:22:33,699 –> 00:22:39,219 Avoid godless chatter because… 295 00:22:39,219 –> 00:22:40,680 Now look at this. 296 00:22:40,719 –> 00:22:50,040 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 297 00:22:50,040 –> 00:22:54,880 Gossipy chatter will ruin your character progressively. 298 00:22:54,880 –> 00:22:57,739 That’s what it says. 299 00:22:57,739 –> 00:22:58,739 Avoid godless chatter… 300 00:22:58,739 –> 00:23:04,160 You gotta get away from godless chatter because if you become a recipient of it, it will ruin 301 00:23:04,160 –> 00:23:05,839 your character. 302 00:23:05,839 –> 00:23:10,239 That’s what Paul says. 303 00:23:10,239 –> 00:23:14,520 So what we say matters, what we hear matters. 304 00:23:14,520 –> 00:23:19,199 It’s interesting that verse 17, he talks about those who are into godless chatter. 305 00:23:19,199 –> 00:23:22,160 He says that, it spreads like gangrene. 306 00:23:22,160 –> 00:23:23,160 So destructive. 307 00:23:23,160 –> 00:23:24,560 So avoid it. 308 00:23:24,560 –> 00:23:26,020 Get away from it. 309 00:23:26,020 –> 00:23:30,660 It will destroy you. 310 00:23:30,660 –> 00:23:33,260 How you present what you say matters. 311 00:23:33,300 –> 00:23:45,400 2 Timothy 2 verses 23 and 24 don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because 312 00:23:45,400 –> 00:23:49,439 you know that they produce quarrels. 313 00:23:49,439 –> 00:23:53,000 And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel. 314 00:23:53,859 –> 00:24:04,680 Instead, he must be kind to everyone, and able to teach, and not resentful.” So 315 00:24:04,680 –> 00:24:12,359 watch what you say, watch what you hear, 316 00:24:12,479 –> 00:24:17,339 distance yourself from godless chatter, because it will be ruinous to your own 317 00:24:17,339 –> 00:24:30,459 character. Avoid foolish talk and stupid arguments. Watch his speech. I have to do 318 00:24:30,459 –> 00:24:39,819 that. So do you. Second, watch your conduct. Now the word that’s used in the 319 00:24:39,819 –> 00:24:45,199 New International Version here is life. Specifically, conduct or behavior is 320 00:24:45,599 –> 00:24:50,560 perhaps more precise. The meaning of the word here is really your habits, your 321 00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:56,979 way of going about things. Your typical way of presenting yourself and dealing 322 00:24:56,979 –> 00:25:01,959 with other people. Watch how you come across would be a good way of 323 00:25:01,959 –> 00:25:08,439 translating this. Now this of course is a great area for us to ask someone who 324 00:25:08,439 –> 00:25:13,359 knows us well and might be able to see what we would miss. But to give you an 325 00:25:13,439 –> 00:25:18,380 example of the sort of things that are covered here by watching our conduct, if 326 00:25:18,380 –> 00:25:22,540 you look at 1 Timothy chapter 5, in the first couple of verses, where Paul 327 00:25:22,540 –> 00:25:26,680 is talking to Timothy as a 35-year-old about the way he comes across in his 328 00:25:26,680 –> 00:25:32,219 communication with others. And he says, don’t rebuke an older man, 329 00:25:32,219 –> 00:25:38,420 but exhort him as if he were your father. See Timothy, for goodness sake, you’re 330 00:25:38,420 –> 00:25:42,920 35 years old. Watch how you speak to older people. Show a bit of respect, 331 00:25:42,920 –> 00:25:49,099 because what he’s saying, treat younger men as brothers and older women as mothers, 332 00:25:49,099 –> 00:25:52,520 and younger women as sisters with absolute purity. These are examples of 333 00:25:52,520 –> 00:25:57,040 conduct. Watch it, watch how you come across. 334 00:25:58,800 –> 00:26:04,199 C.H. Spurgeon has a wonderful quote. I never noticed this before. Have you 335 00:26:04,199 –> 00:26:08,640 noticed the fact that the book that follows the Gospels in the New 336 00:26:08,719 –> 00:26:15,699 Testament is called the Acts of the Apostles? And C.H. Spurgeon had a 337 00:26:15,699 –> 00:26:22,099 comment. I never noticed this before. He says this, it is remarkable that the only 338 00:26:22,099 –> 00:26:30,099 church history we have is the Acts of the Apostles. We have no books of the 339 00:26:30,099 –> 00:26:38,020 Resolutions of the Apostles. When we hold our church meetings we record our 340 00:26:38,020 –> 00:26:46,699 minutes and resolutions, but the Holy Spirit only puts down the Acts. Our Acts 341 00:26:46,699 –> 00:26:56,819 should be such as bear recording, for recorded they will be, as C.H Spurgeon. 342 00:26:56,819 –> 00:27:04,260 Watch your conduct closely. Watch your speech, watch your conduct. 343 00:27:05,040 –> 00:27:13,719 Third, watch your love. As you’re watching your life, which is key to perseverance. 344 00:27:13,719 –> 00:27:21,020 Watch your love. Now let’s take this theme up in 2 Timothy chapter 3 and 345 00:27:21,020 –> 00:27:27,979 verse 1 and, let me read a couple of verses and notice the references here to 346 00:27:28,439 –> 00:27:32,560 There are several. 2nd Timothy chapter 3 in 347 00:27:32,560 –> 00:27:43,459 verse 1. Mark this. There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be 348 00:27:43,459 –> 00:27:51,140 lovers of what? Lovers off together, themselves. Lovers off money. Okay, 349 00:27:51,140 –> 00:27:55,640 boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy. And 350 00:27:55,739 –> 00:28:05,040 look at this. Without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, 351 00:28:05,040 –> 00:28:14,459 not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than 352 00:28:14,459 –> 00:28:19,579 lovers of God. So he’s clearly talking throughout this little passage about 353 00:28:19,680 –> 00:28:25,839 love. And what he’s saying is simply this. A person who loves self, and who loves 354 00:28:25,839 –> 00:28:30,880 money, and who loves pleasure, doesn’t know what love is at all. Doesn’t have 355 00:28:30,880 –> 00:28:35,660 any love, without love, you see. 356 00:28:36,579 –> 00:28:46,439 Paul says to Timothy, set an example in in love. It’s sometimes fascinating putting 357 00:28:46,579 –> 00:28:50,520 things that address to the same people in the New Testament together. Will you 358 00:28:50,520 –> 00:28:53,579 turn over with me. This is the only time we’ll go away from Timothy, so keep a 359 00:28:53,579 –> 00:29:00,880 finger in it or a marker, but turn over to Revelation in chapter two because 360 00:29:00,880 –> 00:29:06,579 some years after the death of the Apostle Paul, John the Apostle is given 361 00:29:06,579 –> 00:29:13,400 the book of Revelation. He’s given the book of Revelation. And at the beginning 362 00:29:13,400 –> 00:29:19,959 of chapter two, this prophetic word from the risen Christ is given to the church 363 00:29:19,959 –> 00:29:30,119 in Ephesus, where guess who was the pastor? Timothy. And what does Christ say 364 00:29:30,119 –> 00:29:36,979 some years later to Pastor Timothy if we can assume that he was still there and 365 00:29:36,979 –> 00:29:42,800 the church that had flourished under his ministry. These are the words of him, this 366 00:29:42,800 –> 00:29:45,959 is Christ who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the 367 00:29:45,959 –> 00:29:50,579 seven golden lampstands, I know your deeds your hard work your 368 00:29:50,579 –> 00:29:54,839 perseverance. You can’t tolerate wicked men, you have tested those who claim to 369 00:29:54,839 –> 00:30:00,319 be Apostles but are not and it found them false. You have persevered! I like 370 00:30:00,319 –> 00:30:04,280 that, Amen. Timothy you did it and you have 371 00:30:04,280 –> 00:30:08,000 endured hardship for my name and you have not grown wary, you have been a 372 00:30:08,079 –> 00:30:17,660 hard worker, you’ve done it. Yet I hold this against you, you have forsaken your 373 00:30:17,660 –> 00:30:20,280 first love 374 00:30:20,339 –> 00:30:25,180 remember the height from which you’ve fallen repent and do the things that you 375 00:30:25,180 –> 00:30:31,920 did it first. Being so consumed in the work you’ve lost your love for me 376 00:30:31,920 –> 00:30:37,939 remember? Remember the sweetness of the fellowship we once had the Lord sent 377 00:30:38,380 –> 00:30:41,979 Listen to this? 378 00:30:42,000 –> 00:30:52,500 Repent, return to that. Draw near to me to recapture it. Watch your love 379 00:30:52,500 –> 00:30:59,280 fourthly watch your faith. 2nd Timothy chapter 1 and verses 5 and 6 380 00:30:59,280 –> 00:31:03,300 back to 2nd Timothy and 1st Timothy again 381 00:31:03,300 –> 00:31:07,339 watch your faith, 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verses 5 and 6 382 00:31:08,219 –> 00:31:12,760 Paul says I’ve been reminded of your sincere faith, that’s his personal faith 383 00:31:12,760 –> 00:31:17,079 was in your grandmother lois your mother yunus I’m now persuaded it lives in you 384 00:31:17,079 –> 00:31:21,819 and for this reason I’m reminding you Timothy to fan into flame the gift of 385 00:31:21,819 –> 00:31:26,300 God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. Timothy you have this 386 00:31:26,300 –> 00:31:33,040 gift of faith use it, use it and use it by exercising the gifts that I have 387 00:31:33,280 –> 00:31:37,839 given to you. Because Timothy, the great danger is you become settled in 388 00:31:37,839 –> 00:31:42,219 ministry is that you become settled into a routine you are no longer stretching 389 00:31:42,219 –> 00:31:47,500 your faith or venturing and stretching the gifts that God has given to you. What 390 00:31:47,500 –> 00:31:54,199 is happening to your faith? Do you see evidence of growing confidence in God as 391 00:31:54,199 –> 00:31:58,199 you’ve been walking with him a longer time now? Or are you actually becoming 392 00:31:58,400 –> 00:32:05,540 more cynical, more pessimistic? What God-honoring kingdom-expanding dream is 393 00:32:05,540 –> 00:32:11,260 stretching your faith right now? Faith is like a muscle. And anyone who’s ever been 394 00:32:11,260 –> 00:32:14,500 in a plaster cast knows that when a muscle is not used for a period of time 395 00:32:14,500 –> 00:32:20,599 and the plaster cast comes off it, it atrophies because it has not been used. 396 00:32:20,599 –> 00:32:25,800 Timothy, God has given you gifts if you don’t use them you’ll lose them. Stretch 397 00:32:25,839 –> 00:32:35,400 that faith for the glory of God. What’s happening to your faith? How is it being 398 00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:46,579 stretched? Are you just drifting? Watch your faith closely. Number five, watch 399 00:32:46,579 –> 00:32:54,459 your purity, watch your purity. And in these letters, Paul calls Timothy as a 400 00:32:54,619 –> 00:32:59,380 thirty-five-year-old to purity in two areas that are with us all of our lives. 401 00:32:59,380 –> 00:33:04,819 The first, of course, is sexual purity. Second, Timothy chapter 2 in verse 22, 402 00:33:04,819 –> 00:33:09,339 flee the evil desires of youth, quite clear what he is referring to there, and 403 00:33:09,339 –> 00:33:13,760 pursue righteousness, faith, love, with those who call on the name of the 404 00:33:13,760 –> 00:33:16,920 Lord out of pure heart. 405 00:33:17,819 –> 00:33:28,300 Watch your life closely, and whenever you see something unhealthy in the area of 406 00:33:28,300 –> 00:33:35,180 sexual attraction, flee it. That’s the principle. Flee it. Get away from. It run 407 00:33:35,180 –> 00:33:42,900 from it. Put a distance between you and any source of sexual temptation, and 408 00:33:43,260 –> 00:33:48,760 watch this one closely. That’s what he says. 409 00:33:49,079 –> 00:33:54,060 May mean you need distance yourself from a relationship, far better to do that 410 00:33:54,060 –> 00:34:00,579 than to fall into sin. It may mean changing your route travelling home. It may 411 00:34:00,579 –> 00:34:06,380 mean passing up going with colleagues at work to a particular bar. It may mean 412 00:34:06,420 –> 00:34:12,820 leaving a small group. Do whatever you need to do to get away from a situation 413 00:34:12,820 –> 00:34:19,659 in which you are likely to fall because a person who engages in sexual sin has 414 00:34:19,659 –> 00:34:26,280 just not been watching their life. The second area is money, this is 1st 415 00:34:26,280 –> 00:34:34,239 Timothy in chapter six reading from verse 9, people who want to get rich fall 416 00:34:34,360 –> 00:34:39,300 into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge 417 00:34:39,300 –> 00:34:42,699 men into ruin and destruction, so if you’ve set your heart on really wanting 418 00:34:42,699 –> 00:34:53,659 to get rich Paul is saying you will fall into a trap for the love of money is a 419 00:34:53,659 –> 00:34:58,399 root of all kinds of evil,and some people eager for money have wandered 420 00:34:58,399 –> 00:35:03,659 from the faith and pierce themselves with many griefs. Now watch your life 421 00:35:03,659 –> 00:35:09,679 closely, especially with regards the power of money. And of course for all of 422 00:35:09,679 –> 00:35:13,840 us who do not have significance of money, we immediately think that this 423 00:35:13,840 –> 00:35:19,379 must be a word to those who do. I was challenged by something written by Mark 424 00:35:19,379 –> 00:35:24,760 Deaver, the amount of money does not have to be large for someone to love it. Even 425 00:35:24,760 –> 00:35:33,139 small amounts of money can work on small hearts. That’s true. How do you watch your 426 00:35:33,280 –> 00:35:37,540 life in regards to purity in relation to money? Well one way is to look at your 427 00:35:37,540 –> 00:35:42,239 giving, that will tell you a great deal about what the love of money is doing in 428 00:35:42,239 –> 00:35:54,379 your own life at this time. So watch your life closely. Speech, conduct, love, faith 429 00:35:54,379 –> 00:36:02,020 and purity, in relation to the areas of sex and in relation to the area of money. 430 00:36:02,060 –> 00:36:08,620 Watch and keep on watching. Paul says persevere in these things. Don’t just 431 00:36:08,620 –> 00:36:14,379 take a glance at them, you’ve got to keep watching them all your life. And build in 432 00:36:14,379 –> 00:36:19,739 periodic reviews so that you have focused attention on these significant 433 00:36:19,739 –> 00:36:24,939 areas, watch them, and keep watching them. Because if you do you will save both 434 00:36:24,939 –> 00:36:31,899 yourself and your hearers. What in all the world does that mean? I mean salvation 435 00:36:31,899 –> 00:36:35,719 is by grace through faith in Christ, no one was ever saved by self-examination, 436 00:36:35,719 –> 00:36:44,379 right. So what does Paul mean? Think of it this way. 437 00:36:44,580 –> 00:36:57,060 What could destroy your life? What could ruin your testimony? What could make you 438 00:36:57,080 –> 00:37:02,699 into a blazing firework rather than a lighthouse? 439 00:37:05,379 –> 00:37:08,679 Foolish talk, 440 00:37:10,580 –> 00:37:23,679 careless conduct, loving the wrong things, lack of faith, impurity in relation to sex 441 00:37:23,679 –> 00:37:33,399 or money. Turn you from a lighthouse into a rocket, but fizzles out. 442 00:37:35,280 –> 00:37:47,600 Second question, what could destroy the church? Foolish talk, 443 00:37:48,120 –> 00:37:51,879 careless conduct, 444 00:37:51,879 –> 00:38:06,360 loving the wrong things, lack of faith, impurity in relation to sex or money. So 445 00:38:06,360 –> 00:38:10,840 Paul saying Timothy personally, watch these things in your life and you’ll 446 00:38:10,840 –> 00:38:17,060 save yourself. And Timothy watch these things in the life of the church and 447 00:38:17,260 –> 00:38:25,919 you’ll save your hearers as well. See the reality is that there is enough sin and 448 00:38:25,919 –> 00:38:30,800 enough foolishness in all of us for any of us to make a complete disaster of our 449 00:38:30,800 –> 00:38:37,520 lives. True. There is enough sin and foolishness in all of us for any of us 450 00:38:37,520 –> 00:38:42,520 to make a complete disaster of our lives. And let’s face it how many Christians 451 00:38:42,699 –> 00:38:47,379 are all that they could be for Jesus Christ. How many churches really are all 452 00:38:47,379 –> 00:38:53,919 that they could be for Jesus Christ and for impact in this world. And Paul speaks 453 00:38:53,919 –> 00:38:58,959 to Timothy after 15 years like a father to a son and he’s saying Timothy I know 454 00:38:58,959 –> 00:39:02,840 that long left here’s what I want to impart to you I want you son to be 455 00:39:02,840 –> 00:39:06,919 everything that you can be for Christ and I want that church that you pastor 456 00:39:06,919 –> 00:39:11,040 there at Ephesus to be everything that that church can be for Jesus Christ. I 457 00:39:11,300 –> 00:39:16,040 don’t want you or them to be like a box of fireworks. I want you to be like a 458 00:39:16,040 –> 00:39:21,580 blazing lighthouse that sustains its light and that rescues many. So here’s 459 00:39:21,580 –> 00:39:29,560 what you have to do you have to watch your light and watch it closely watch 460 00:39:29,560 –> 00:39:35,580 these things and persevere in them you’ll save yourself and you’ll save 461 00:39:35,760 –> 00:39:46,659 your hearers. And then you’ll find something else, you will feel your need 462 00:39:46,659 –> 00:39:51,500 of Christ more than you have ever felt it before, and you will grow in your love 463 00:39:51,500 –> 00:39:59,219 for Christ more than you ever grown in that before. I find that the high 464 00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:06,540 calling of the Christian life drives me to Christ. Look at this stuff, and I think 465 00:40:06,540 –> 00:40:11,780 I fell so far short. I have so far to go. 466 00:40:13,820 –> 00:40:24,159 Holiness is easy for those who’ve never tried it. But once you start watching 467 00:40:24,159 –> 00:40:32,060 your life, you will have a whole new appreciation for Jesus. Doesn’t this 468 00:40:32,060 –> 00:40:39,639 make you thankful that you can come to him today and know that in his one hand 469 00:40:39,639 –> 00:40:49,800 he holds forgiveness for past failures? And in the other, strength for future 470 00:40:50,040 –> 00:41:00,679 endeavors? And that he never gives the one without the other? 471 00:41:00,679 –> 00:41:04,280 So let’s bow before him and ask for his help today, shall we? 472 00:41:04,479 –> 00:41:20,580 Father, we bow before you with humble confession. There is enough foolishness 473 00:41:20,580 –> 00:41:29,840 and sin in me to make a complete disaster of my life. This is our 474 00:41:30,040 –> 00:41:40,600 confession before you. Any of us and all of us could so easily be like the 475 00:41:40,600 –> 00:41:50,679 firework rather than the lighthouse. Yet the great desire of our hearts is that 476 00:41:50,679 –> 00:41:58,419 we should be all that we can be for Jesus Christ. We want that for ourselves. 477 00:41:58,419 –> 00:42:03,459 We want that for our church, and so we make a renewed commitment before you 478 00:42:03,459 –> 00:42:21,679 today, dear Father, to watch our life, our speech, our conduct, our love, our faith, 479 00:42:22,120 –> 00:42:27,360 purity in things sexual and things financial. 480 00:42:33,159 –> 00:42:43,000 So help me God. Thank you, Father, that you are the God who has come to us in Jesus 481 00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:48,340 Christ, and right now we feel the need of the forgiveness that our Savior holds in 482 00:42:48,340 –> 00:42:54,639 the one hand and the strength that he holds in the other. So as we draw near to 483 00:42:54,639 –> 00:43:00,439 him we thank you that he embraces us with both, so that we may move forward 484 00:43:00,439 –> 00:43:07,419 encouraged and strengthened and learn to persevere through the quitting points of 485 00:43:07,419 –> 00:43:14,300 life to the glory of Jesus in whose name we pray. 486 00:43:18,399 –> 00:43:22,100 You’ve been listening to a sermon with Pastor Colin Smith of Open The Bible. 487 00:43:22,100 –> 00:43:28,699 To contact us call us at 1-877-Open-365 or visit our website 488 00:43:28,699 –> 00:43:32,120 openthebible.org 489 00:43:32,120 –> 00:43:34,179 you