Well, let me, invite you guys to turn in your Bibles to First Timothy chapter one. 1 Timothy Chapter one for our time of study in the word this morning. We're doing a verse by verse study through the book of First Timothy and as we continue in our study of this book, we, we come to verse 15 and my goal is to cover verses 15 through 17. Mike Barry did an awesome job last week in preaching through verses 12 to 14.
I had the opportunity to listen to the message. yesterday and was very blessed by how he handled this, this text. Mike told me this week that the real struggle for him in preaching through 12 to 14 was stopping there rather than going all the way through verse 17 because it's all one unit there in the text. And sure enough, as I studied verses 15 to 17, I found it very hard to start in verse 15 and to not go back to verse 12 and do 12 to 15 because it is all one unit.
In fact, because I am not as strong as Mike, I'm going to go back to verse 12 and give in to that temptation and And what we'll do is we'll look at 12 through 17, but we'll try to scoot through 12 to 14, but we're going to touch on those verses just to establish the basic paradigm for the whole of this, this unit of thought. And if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be Saved by Christ Jesus, saved by Christ Jesus. and, and the gist of it is we're going to see Paul's response to the salvation that Christ accomplished in his life. I was reading this week about the Battle of the Somme, a battle during World War II that took place in 1916.
Between the German forces and the Allied troops in northern France, it is known as one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the world. and Is there a problem? Yeah, what did I say? To?...
