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can quote the passage here in 2 Timothy,

chapter 3. I told you we'd come back to this.

Now, we've already read the first part of 2

Timothy 3. We've already read in 2 Timothy,

chapter 4. Now we want to come to 2 Timothy,

chapter 3, and let's read from verses 14

through 17, and we're going to close with this

passage. We're talking about the defense

against apostasy. We're talking about restoration,

reformation. We're talking about no compromise.

We're talking about fighting and standing for

the truth in our lives and in the church, this

local church, not to allow apostasy to be in it.

The Bible says in Proverbs 23:23, "Buy the

truth, and sell it not." I want you to think about

this. John the Baptist had a restoration

ministry, did he not? You read about that in

Luke 1, verses 16 and 17. He came to restore

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