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Read 1 Timothy 6 yesterday, noted seven “orders” from verse 11 to the end. Praying/thinking about developing a series of messages on the text; but here are the orders I picked out:
1. Flee these things (“these things” are described in the previous paragraphs of text)
2. Pursue righteousness
3. Fight the good fight of the faith (which presupposes some fight the wrong fight(s)
4. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called
5. Keep the commandment unstained
6. Guard the deposit entrusted to you.
7. Grace be with you. (so reads the last verse; I feel it takes conscious effort to focus on His grace; and all six of the previous marching orders need to be laced and strengthened with grace.