I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
But I need to memorize that passage: all the way from “Preach the Word” to “fulfill your ministry.” That middle paragraph is not my responsibility even though I would like it to be so. Some real stump thumping preaching there.
No, I am to preach the Word and be faithful to my ministry.
Reading.
Morning Psalm 44, Noon Psalm 119:41-48, Evening Psalm 137