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So<00:19:50.420><c> the</c><00:19:50.579><c> phrase</c><00:19:50.880><c> to</c><00:19:51.099><c> Timothy</c><00:19:51.660><c> carried</c><00:19:52.380><c> the</c><00:19:52.660><c> weight</c><00:19:52.960><c> that</c><00:19:53.400><c> he</c><00:19:53.660><c> was</c><00:19:53.920><c> to</c><00:19:54.160><c> show</c><00:19:54.299><c> himself</c><00:19:54.819><c> as</c><00:19:55.119><c> a</c>

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man<00:19:55.460><c> of</c><00:19:55.700><c> God</c><00:19:56.220><c> with</c><00:19:56.740><c> a</c><00:19:56.980><c> message</c><00:19:57.380><c> to</c><00:19:57.779><c> deliver.</c>

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love,<00:20:25.420><c> patience,</c><00:20:25.900><c> meekness.</c>

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so<00:20:51.819><c> that</c><00:20:52.059><c> it</c><00:20:52.200><c> is</c><00:20:52.859><c> ideally</c><00:20:53.440><c> without</c><00:20:53.980><c> spot</c><00:20:54.339><c> and</c><00:20:54.519><c> unrebukeable,</c>

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oppositions<00:21:09.559><c> of</c><00:21:09.779><c> so</c><00:21:10.039><c>-called</c><00:21:10.220><c> knowledge,</c><00:21:11.220><c> as</c><00:21:11.500><c> we</c><00:21:11.740><c> see</c><00:21:11.880><c> in</c><00:21:12.039><c> verse</c><00:21:12.240><c> 20.</c>

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content<00:21:43.420><c> and</c><00:21:44.039><c> simplified</c><00:21:44.599><c> focus,</c>

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his<00:22:10.819><c> Father's</c><00:22:11.339><c> word</c><00:22:11.559><c> and</c><00:22:11.839><c> will,</c>

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as<00:22:12.859><c> a</c><00:22:13.180><c> spiritual</c><00:22:13.599><c> as</c><00:22:14.079><c> well</c><00:22:14.319><c> as</c><00:22:14.480><c> a</c><00:22:14.619><c> natural</c><00:22:14.960><c> son.</c>