2 Timothy 4:1-5

Transcription : Let’s go to 2 Corinthians 5:21. We have been talking about the radical, total, holistic, pervasive depravity of man and I’ve used an illustration in which man is a rotting cadaver floating at the bottom of a cesspool. A cesspool that he himself created. Rotting in his own, the sphere of his own filth and refuse. And then in the incarnation, Christ coming into the lightness of sinful flesh, waited the cesspool of our reality. If you think that is a harsh example please understand that doesn't even begin to describe what he suffered even in the incarnation. You should not think that suffering began in Gethsemane. That his whole life, was a life of suffering because of this horrid reality in which he entered. Now I want to look at something that I said, that as he waited that pool, took a deep breath and on the cross, he plunged headlong to it, in order to drag us forth. In order to save us. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, the bible says that “He”, that is God, made “Him...