Page 81 - Standing Alone

verse 6, “For I am now ready to be offered,

and the time of my departure is at

hand.” Paul did this, by the way, for Christ's

sake and he did it for you and me so that

the gospel would go out to all. He said in

verse 7, “I have fought a good fight…” Do

you agree this morning that we're in a fight?

Do you agree with that? It's a fight. And,

by the way, the fight never ends. It never

ends. It's like being in a canoe or a boat

with a paddle in a river going downstream.

You've got to constantly keep paddling.

What happens if you quit paddling? You

start drifting. You can start paddling again,

but you're still not where you used to be,

and you can quit paddling for so long that

you drift off somewhere that you may never

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