Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:1-8

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Today’s podcast is titled: ETERNAL LIFE

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly–John 10:10

BUT What Is Life?

Among all the mysteries which surround us there is none deeper than the mystery of life. We recognize life by a thousand evidences, & yet we don’t know what it is. When we see the surging crowd on the streets under the glaring lights of a great city; when we watch the children in their lighthearted playing come pouring out from the school when it’s over, we whisper to ourselves, What is life? And yet, though it looks at us through countless eyes and speaks to us through so many voices, what that life is which is so manifested remains one of the hidden things of God. We probe for it , and it flees from us. We have our hand on it, and it escapes.

It meets us in the surging of the city and in the quietness of nature’s solitude. And yet this life, familiar as the sunshine and common as the

sand upon the shore–what is it? We don’t know what it is.

If Life Is a Mystery, than HOW Much More of This is True of Life Eternal

Now if that is true of all life, as we encounter it in common days,

So much more we can expect it to be true of what the Scripture calls eternal life. That may be something THAT we can perceive. It may be something that we can enjoy. It may have qualities which flash upon us and tell us that eternal life is there. But if life in any tiniest weed is something unfathomable and untouchable, eternal life must be a secret too.

If a child’s storybook in a foreign tongue is given TO you and you cannot understand a word of it,

it is UNlikely that you will comprehend a poem in that language.

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