2 Timothy 4:1-5

Transcription : Ok we are talking about wisdom again, you know why, I really, I’m still looking for it. You are. Wisdom as we said each week is so much more than just being good and moral and ethical. Wisdom is choosing always the right person to work with, choosing the right person to date or marry, choosing the right job, choosing the right project, never being surprised by how people respond because you understand people, never being surprised by how you respond because you understand yourself. Wise. How do we get wise? Now, do we do it through learning? Great education? Do we have to find a guru? Do we have to find, do we have to become a worldly wise and world traveled and sophisticated? No, not according to the book of proverbs and a perfect illustration for that by the way in modern literature is Ms. Marble, Agatha Christie’s fictional sleuth, hero of many of her mysteries or who done it’s, Ms. Marble and she’s frumpy, elderly, little old lady who sits in the, sits arou...

Transcription : Let’s just meditate on one verse in this passage, verse 46, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my god why hast thou forsaken me?” Bracket that and let’s just look into that and I want you to see what you can learn from, let’s notice the cry, the word “why”, the word “my”, and the question taken as the whole, because the cry points to the fact of Jesus death and the “why” points to the reason for his death and the word “my” actually points to the accomplishments of His death and the question taken as a whole shows us something about why He did it, it is within Himself, His motive. First, just notice, “about the ninth hour” which is three P.M., “Jesus cried out a loud voice”. It’s a word that could mean, it could be translated “scream” or even “shriek”. I think actually the translators just couldn’t go quiet all the way. Any first time reader reading this would immediately feel...