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Preach the Word
Image © 2011, Timothy Lee; used with permission. 2 Timothy 4:2-3 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine… Donʼt preach to me” in modern day terms usually means “donʼt dogmatically tell me what I can or cannot do; donʼt correct me or command me to do something in line with a certain system of truth.” Yet, the Bible tells us that the word “preach” means “to cry publicly, a herald of divine truth.” We are to herald and cry out the truth. Timothy was exhorted to publicly…