2 Timothy | 4:3-5

When you're going to drive a long distance and you know it's gonna be monotonous and there's gonna be a repetitive nature to that, you are going to get tired. So pay attention to when you start getting tired and do the necessary things so that you don't get tired enough that you drift out of your lane and cause an accident. That is exactly what Paul is telling Timothy right now in this part of the passage we're stepping into. It is exactly where he's going. He's going to show us that in our journey of living by faith and especially our journey of exploring God's word that because it has in it the nature of repetition, [00:09:39] (50 seconds)  #GuardAgainstSpiritualFatigue

So for because of what we talked about, the time is coming when people. What people are we talking about here? Well, will notice in the context that he's walking into and the context he's walked out of, he is talking here about people in the church. These are people in the church. They are not the folks out there that don't know Jesus. They're not the folks that aren't in church. He's talking to who? To me. I love that. Yes. He's talking to me and he's talking to us. That's right. And this is very important because the passage we're about to get into, [00:16:45] (34 seconds)  #DontGetBoredOfTruth

But but we are a culture of what? A culture of the new. We don't we we're not a culture that sustains well in a thing that's repetitive and said over and over again. It's a real problem in which we live. I was traveling back from somewhere this, this last couple of weeks. I forget where, but I was doing the final leg back to Orlando. And whenever you fly on a plane from somewhere to Orlando, two things you will know. The plane is gonna be full. Every seat's gonna be taken and it's gonna be taken mostly by kids. [00:22:28] (30 seconds)  #BewareEarTicklers

And that's what it is. Right? Every park is constantly putting out the newest thing, newest ride, the newest reality. Why? Because we are a culture obsessed with whatever the newest thing is and we get bored fast with anything repetitive. And what Paul is saying here is just like on a long drive, the repetitive mundane seeming nature of the drive will make you tired and when you're tired, will start doing things that aren't helpful. In the same way, the call to be in God's word and remember it, repeat it, learn it, go over it, memorize it. At some point just know [00:24:08] (37 seconds)  #NewDoesntEqualTrue

We are. You didn't want to even say it. And then just like a 22 year old that you say, you're gonna get tired driving and what do they say? No, I'm not. And you're like, no, it's a statistical reality. It's not I'm not I'm not having a conversation about an opinion. In a ten hour drive, you're going to get tired. I I don't. Yes. You do. It's the same thing as Christians. You're gonna get bored of this. No. I'm not. Yes. You are. I am. We are going. It's going to happen. And when it begins to happen, [00:24:48] (30 seconds)  #DontChaseNovelty