September 23

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2677S0923.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1139 Download Link --> <p>II Timothy 1-4 We are in the Church Stream reading from the World English Bible. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Lord, may we never lose our gratitude and awe of those who honored you to the death. We pray also to be inspired and motivated to live for you as the Apostles did.  Amen.</blockquote> <div>This ends up being Paul's final word to Timothy; his endeared apprentice and disciple in ministry.  It was between 66 and 68 A.D.  Nero had ordered that Christians be rounded up and punished for "causing the fire in Rome"...really<img class="CToWUd" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f61f" alt="😟" />?!  The <em>innocent</em> Christians were Emperor Nero's scapegoat and he persecuted them severely - for sport in the coliseum and in many other witchy ways.  Paul was martyred during this purge of 67-68 A.D. He waited in his cell for the visit from a soldier who would lead him to the block where Paul would be executed for his faith. The young church would say goodbye to it's most prominent teacher. The world would say goodbye to the most influential person of all time for he explained Jesus in depth, he brought light to the matter of what salvation means. So much of theology pivots from what the Holy Spirit revealed to Paul. His writings had more affect on history, and faith, and eventually government and the Christendom that is still sweeping into millions of new hearts each week.  Paul's students loved him to the core like they loved their own souls. Timothy would finish the task that Paul clearly laid out in this, his final marching orders to him. Paul could only hope to see Timothy again...but he never would. These are his final words to Timothy; dear as a son.