Here is last Thursday night's sermon video. Here the author of the letter holds Paul up as an example, a model, the template if you will, of just how abhorrent a person can be towards God and yet God can and will turn their heart. And not only will He turn their heart, but He'll put them to work for the Kingdom.
Bottom-line, no matter how awful you think you are, how ineffectual you feel you are, how less than perfect you perceive yourself... God has a spot for you on His team. Answer the call and join the King!
Be a blessing to someone today!
In His Grace,
Roy
1 Timothy 1:12-17 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Gratitude for Mercy
12 I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. 16 But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. 17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.[a] Amen.
Footnotes:
1 Timothy 1:17 Gk to the ages of the ages
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