Disconnection: The Fear of Being Alone | 2 Timothy 4:9-21

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There’s no feeling as empty as the prospect of being forever alone. God knew it from the very beginning, and He gave Adam a companion. Dr. David Jeremiah shares the comforting truth that God still offers companionship.

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I will praise You with my whole heart; before the gods I will sing praises to You.
Psalm 138:1

We see it frequently these days—athletes, celebrities, and others thanking God publicly for His help in their achievement. That might be a modern-day equivalent of the sentiment expressed by the psalmist: “Before the gods I will sing praises to You.” It’s a statement of boldness at the very least: a willingness to thank God publicly in the presence of kings and the gods they represent or in the presence of a public that has no allegiance to God.

Paul is considered as I’ve mentioned by most scholars to be the greatest man who have walked on this earth apart from Christ, but here he is disconnected and alone and begging his friends to come to him and to come quickly.
Paul encouraged Timothy to bring Mark with him, the same mark who had also once deserted Paul, but had now been restored.
Paul missed him and wanted to see him again.
Most of all, Paul wanted to be with Timothy, and he urges him to come quickly.
And he says, get here before winter because Paul knew that he would not survive the winter, and that once winter came, Timothy would not be able to get through to him.
I bring this up only because I’ve run into more people in my life as a than you can imagine who say pious things like this.
Oh, pastor, I don’t need anybody. I just have god.
That’s not true. You do need people.
God does his best work through people, and god has designed men and
women. That we have fellowship with one another, and he requires us to be in relationships with others so that we can grow and so that we can be prepared to face the challenges of life.
It is true that we need moments of solitude but god has not created us to live life by ourselves.
It is not good that man should be alone.
Actress Anne Hathaway confessed that loneliness is my least favorite thing about life.
The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
And Josh Wheaton, who’s the director of the avengers, says that loneliness is about the scariest thing in the whole world.
This connectedness is the only way to describe a world where most people live in impersonal cities or suburbs where the internet replaces face to face conversation.
Where the average job lasts only two years where people go from marriage to marriage and from state to state.
And it’s true that more people are living alone today. This really kind of surprised me.
In nineteen fifty, less than ten percent of the American households were just one person.
But by two thousand and ten, twenty seven percent of the households in America had just one person.
Several months ago, the Los Angeles Times reported on a new and growing fear and phobia that is part of our disconnectedness.
This fear is called Nomophobia. Have you heard of it?
It’s the fear of being without your phone. I’m not kidding.
I didn’t make this up. This is true.
There is a fear that people have of not having their phone.
You see, the problem that we have in our culture today is that technology promises the comfort of connection without the demands of intimacy.
And it never keeps its promise.
As we read our Bibles, we discover that this connection is the first thing in the Bible that god said, this is not good.
Isn’t that interesting? In Genesis two eighteen, the lord god said, it is not good that man should be alone.
I will make a helper comparable to him.
The first man who ever lived on planet earth suffered the pain of being alone, And the Bible tells us the stories of many others along the way, I think of Noah, who preached for one hundred and twenty years, and not one person was converted to the gospel.
He and his family alone were saved through the flood.
I think of Hagar, who got into domestic difficulty and ended up in the desert.
And if you ever read that story, that’s the loneliest story you could ever read. She’s all by herself.
I think of Abraham trudging up the mountain with Isaac knowing that god has called him to sacrifice his own son, and he doesn’t understand it, can you imagine the loneliness in his heart?
David also experienced a great deal of disconnectedness, but he not only experienced it. He expressed it.
And if you read through the Psalms, don’t be surprised to discover David, just kind of blurting out his loneliness on occasion.
Here are two ex expressions. Psalm one hundred and two, six, and seven, David writes.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the desert.
I lie awake, and I am like a sparrow alone on the house top.
And in what I believe is the loneliest verse of the Bible, Psalm one hundred and forty two in verse four, David says, look on my right hand, and see for there is no one who acknowledges me, refuge has failed me.
No one cares for my soul.
The Bible doesn’t try to ignore the problem of being alone.
If god recognized it right out of the beginning of the book of Genesis, and we see it illustrated throughout the old testament, we should not be surprised to discover it both in the new testament and then also in our own lives.
If I had to choose the person who illustrates what it means to be disconnected more than anyone else in the will, it would be the Apostle Paul.
That might surprise you because as you read Paul’s letters, and as you learn about him in the Bible, you discovered that Paul was a real people person.
I’m always amazed that Paul carried on such a vigorous life and such an incredible schedule, and yet he knew so many people by name.
In the book of Roman, for instance, he mentions thirty five different people by their names, having known them and known something about them.
Here in the fourth chapter, he mentions seventeen people by name.
And if you go back to the first chapter, he adds another two.
So Here in this little four chapter, uh, letter, he mentions nineteen people by name.
And so we know that Paul is not just a recluse.
He’s not just somebody who doesn’t like people, and therefore he experiences loneliness. No.
He was a very relational person.
But when we meet him in the fourth chapter, we meet a lonely man.
And we begin by understanding something of the disconnection of isolation.
Paul has been charged with sedition.
He’s come before Caesar, and he’s been sentenced to prison.
It was not his first time to be in prison.
As you know, Paul had a rep notation of going into a city and preaching in the synagogue.
And either if you wanted to find Paul, he would either be in the synagogue or in prison.
He was in one of two places. Because he always was in trouble.
But he’s in prison now, and here are his words from the fourth chapter of Second Timothy describing the fact to Timothy that he knows his time is limited, that he is just about at the of his journey.
He writes in verse six, the time of my departure is at hand. He’s not talking about leaving Rome.
He’s talking about the fact that he’s near his death.
He goes on to describe it as being an offering that’s being poured out on a sacrifice.
Paul knows he only has a few days left before the sentence is carried out. It was indeed carried out.
As he wrote second Timothy, Paul knew that he was about to die, and as he waited for his execution, he was disconnected and alone.
He was, as we learn, uh, from history, incarcerated in the Maimer Team Prison in Rome.
When we were in Rome, uh, some years ago, Don and I visited the place where this prison is.
And a prison is a difficult way to describe it.
It’s more like a manhole cover, and you re remove the cover and down in this big long hole is this prison where Paul spent his last days.
The prison, uh, was entered by putting ropes underneath the prisoner’s arms and letting him down into the hole.
And when his feet touched the bottom, they pulled the ropes back up.
We know that Paul was stripped naked before this and left then ultimately with only his tunic.
There was very little food available. The prison itself was a foul place.
Uh, sanitation was unknown. He he had a little straw a bed that was made there for him.
I don’t want to tell you all
of the gross things about that prison. One thing I will tell you is that it was true.
That oftentimes prisoners were eaten by rats while they were there.
That’s where he was in the Ma’amertine prison. And he was isolated and alone.
This man who loved people, who knew so many of them by name, spending his last days all alone.
And he illustrates the disconnection that we have in our culture today. We live in a lonely world.
Did you know that? Perhaps at the top of the list of disconnection is what we go through when divorce happens.
Divorce maybe is at the top of the list.
Nothing so isolates a person, like going through the breakup of a marriage.
Women have told me of the total break that happens when her and leaves, and with him all of his friends and family and support system that she had given herself to in their marriage, and it’s
gone. One woman told
me that she had never felt so alone in her whole life as she did during the days that followed the ending of her marriage.
And military families know about isolation.
They often are for weeks without any record at all about what’s happened to them.
Sometimes they’re not allowed communicate for a period of time.
When they come back, why it’s like Christmas in July?
There is in physics what is called the second law of thermodynamics.
Do you know about this law? It’s called the law of entropy.
It states that things that are isolated move toward deterioration, and the entropy operates in the spiritual realm, as well as the physical Christians who are isolated from other Christians move toward deterioration as well.
It is not good that man should be alone. Here’s Paul isolated in this prison.
But if you read the record here in the fourth chapter, you will discover even more.
For he’s not just experiencing the disconnection of isolation, but he’s also experiencing a different kind of aloneness a different kind of being disconnected, which I have preferred to call the disconnection of infidelity.
If you read through the last verses of Second Timothy four, it’s like reading a litany of desertion and departure.
Of the seventeen friends that Paul mentions, six are simply mentioned as being in another place.
Look down at your Bibles, and you will notice that Crescent’s is in Galatia.
Titus is in Dalmatia, Tikicus is in ephesus, carpus is in troaz.
Arastus is in corinth and trophimus is in my leaders.
Why did I read all of those names and where they are? Simply to say that they’re not with Paul.
These are his friends, calls them by name.
They have been with him for a period of time, but they’re not with him now.
Of the seventeen friends, six of them are just somewhere else, without explanation.
Actually, two of Paul’s Asian friends had defected earlier according to chapter one.
In chapter one of second Timothy, we read this, you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Figellus and hermogenes.
And when you come to the tenth verse of the fourth chapter of second Timothy, you are introduced to a man by the name of Demus.
For Demus has forsaken me, said, Paul, having loved this present world and has departed for thessalonica.
Now we are often tempted to demonize Demus, but he did not necessarily depart from his faith.
He departed from Paul. And apparently, when Paul was put into prison, Demus, who had been one of his close associates, didn’t want any part of this kind of intensity in his Christian experience.
He wanted a more convenient and comfortable and less threatening kind of Christianity And so he left Paul, and he went to a safer place in thessalonica, but his departure was very painful for the apostle.
Apparently, Paul had discipled Demus, perhaps spent hours building into his life, thought he was a trusted friend and disciple who would stay with him through thick and thin, but when the pressure was on, Demus went for the high country.
And Paul said he forsook him, and Demus wasn’t the only one For if you look at the sixteenth verse of the fourth chapter, you continue to build the case for Paul’s loneliness.
He said at my first defense, no one stood with me.
But all forsook me may it not be charged against them.
We experience sometimes the disconnection of isolation Some of you know what Paul was going through, somebody you trusted, somebody you believed in, somebody you cared about, somebody in whose life you have spent hours, building walks away and leaves you with no explanation.
Isn’t it true that sometimes the people we feel like we’re closest to can end up hurting us the worst.
And then Paul said there was one more thing that added to his absolute total disconnectedness in prison.
And that’s what I’ve called the disconnection of interference.
Notice verses fourteen and fifteen, where we meet this guy named Alexander.
Paul says Alexander, the Copper Smith did me much harm. May the lord repay him according to his works.
Beaware of him for he has greatly resisted our words. Now, we don’t know much about Alexander.
We’re not even really sure which Alexander this is. There are a number of them in the Bible.
We do know he’s a Copper Smith, but the Bible says he did much harm to Paul.
Actually, the sentence reads like this. He informed many evil things against me.
And most scholars believe that what happened with Alexander was he turned to be a Judith against Paul, just like Judith, had to betray the lord Jesus.
Alexander gave Paul away to the authorities and made it necessary for them to come and get Paul and that’s why he was rearrested for the second time and put in prison.
But Paul seems to be more concerned, not about what Alexander did, But by what he was saying, apparently Alexander was not believing the truth and accepting the words of the gospel and Paul describes him as being a very dangerous man who has interfered with the gospel, and he says to Timothy, don’t get involved with him.
He’s not somebody you wanna hang out with.
Look back over this, and you will see that here is a disappointed man.
This is not the way you want Paul’s life to end.
This man who has given us the new testament in many respects so much of it, this man who was the great missionary evangelist who established churches all over Asia minor This man who many think was the greatest man who walked on this earth apart from the earthly walk of Jesus Christ is ending his life in a foul dungeon, bereft of friends, and being treated as an enemy, by Alexander.
Disointment with others is part of the loneliness we face.
In our culture, and it goes with leadership whether you know it or not. It’s hard sometimes,
but it’s part of the calling. Somebody said, you cannot worry about what others do.
You can only stay focused on not deserting the lord and yourself.
I remember reading this comment by AB Simpson who said, often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he is gone, and then they build a monument for him with the same stones they threw at him during his life.
Amen. It can happen. So how do we help ourselves?
When we find ourselves in a similar situation?
Obviously, not with the same outward circumstances, but with the same inward disconnectiveness in our life.
What clues can we figure out from this passage?
And I’m pretty excited about this because it’s interesting to me that this book we call our Bible is one of the most practical books you will ever read.
And if you just read it carefully, you will find things there that just amaze you Now in this passage of scripture, we have painted the picture of where Paul is.
Now let’s notice what he did about his situation.
And in doing this, we discover four or five things about being disconnected that we can transfer into our own lives.
In verses nine, eleven, and twenty one, we learn that Paul is putting out an alert.
He is saying, we need companionship when we’re alone. Listen to his words.
Be diligent to come to me, Timothy, come quickly, get Mark and bring him with you verse twenty one, do your utmost to get here before winter?
Paul is considered as I’ve mentioned by most scholars to be the greatest man who have on this earth apart from Christ, but here he is disconnected and alone and begging his friends to come to him and to come quickly.
Paul encouraged Timothy to bring Mark with him, the same mark who had also once deserted Paul, but had now been restored.
Paul missed him and wanted to see him again.
Most of all, Paul wanted to be with Timothy, and he urges him to come quickly.
And he says, get here before winter.
Because Paul knew that he would not survive the winter and that once winter came, Timothy would not be able to get through to him.
I bring this up only because I’ve run into more people in my life as a pastor than you can imagine who say pious things like this, o pastor, I don’t need anybody.
I just have a god. That’s not true. You do need people.
God does his best work through people, and god has designed men and women.
That we have fellowship with one another, and he requires us to be in relationships with others so that we can grow and so that we can be prepared to face the challenges of life.
It is true that we need moments of solitude, but god has not created us to live life by ourselves.
It is not good that man should be alone.
And Paul recognizes this, and he cries out for his companions He’s unwilling to spend these last days all by himself with just Luke as his companion.
And he says, Timothy, I want you to get here as quickly as you can.
Bring Mark with you and try to get here before winter.
The Bible is filled with reminders of the truth. That people need people.
And here in our church, we are discovering that one of the greatest pathways to spiritual growth is through small groups The reason why we are so given to this wonderful, wonderful methodology is that it brings people together in small groups where they can be an encouragement to one another and help one another through the vicissitudes of life.
It is a hard thing, this life that we live, and it was not meant to be done alone.
If you’re here today, and you’re one of those twenty seven percent who has a one person household, I’m not picking on you.
I’m saying, be a friend, and you will find a friend.
Get in a small group find a way to connect with others, and you will find that your mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical health will take a step upward toward where it ought to be.
So Paul reaches out first of all, and he asks for companionship.
And then notice, verse thirteen, he says, I need you to bring the cloak that I left with Corpus at troas when you come.
Not only do we need companionship? We need compassion.
Isn’t it true that when we are ministering to those who are alone, it’s not just about being with them, It’s about noticing what their needs are and trying to meet them.
And here’s Paul. Listen to me. Here’s where he is.
He’s in this prison, this cold prison with just his undergarments on and winter is coming, and he knows he cannot survive this winter if he doesn’t have some warm clothing.
So he asks for his cloak.
Uh, we don’t use that word in our culture today, but it is the word that we would use to describe our overcoat Paul was in Rome, and it was gonna get cold.
And this cloak was like, uh, like a feed sack, made out of very heavy material with hole cut in the top, and you just kind of put it down over your body, and it was the way people kept warm in the winter.
It’s interesting that if you read history, fifteenth centuries after Paul’s experience in Rome, William Tindle, the great Bible translator, had a similar experience in Belgium while he was in prison.
And I found this letter written in fifteen thirty five.
He wrote this letter to the governor of the castle where he was in prison.
Listen to these words and see if they don’t sound familiar.
He says, uh, Tindall wrote, I entreat your lordship that I must remain here for the winner.
You would beg the commissary to be so kind as to send me from the things of mine, which he has, a warmer cap.
I feel painfully cold in my head. Also a warmer cloak For the cloak I have is very thin.
Also, he has a woolen shirt of mine if he will send it.
Isn’t it interesting that in the Bible, even these little simple practical things jump out at us when we read them.
In his book, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, says that our first duty as a Christian is to listen to one another but our second duty is that of active helpfulness, and that is that we are to learn what others need, and we’re to literally and simply assist them in trifling external things.
Whenever we’re in a world that is filled with loneliness, all we have to do is look around and we see every illustration of it you can imagine.
Somebody you know today is alone. And they need some help.
Maybe you need to take a pie to them or some cookies or take them to dinner or whatever, but it’s not just being with somebody.
It’s being with somebody caring about that person when you’re with them.
Thirdly, in the same context, we read that we need courage Notice verse thirteen, Paul says to Timothy, when you come, bring the books, especially the parchments, which were animal skin, precious vellum codices.
And the difference between the two was probably that the books were made of papyrus, And these roles could have included any number of things, like Paul’s Roman citizenship papers or correspondence.
Some people think it was just extra writing space for Paul to continue is writing because you do know he wrote epistles from prison.
That’s why we have the prison epistles.
And the parchments were probably Paul’s copies of the Old Testament scriptures, and maybe some of the writings of Jesus.
When Paul was isolated, he said, would you please bring me my books?
If you are a book lover like I am, you get this.
If I’m gonna have to be alone, at least give me my books, and especially the book, the Bible.
Something happens when you are consigned to loneliness, whether it’s in the hospital or for some other reason, and, uh, you are able to have an opportunity of protracted study and meditation.
I say this to people and they look at me like, they don’t know what I’m talking about.
And, uh, so let me ask this question, have you ever gotten lost in the Bible?
I know some of you get lost regularly in bible when I
tell you to turn to
a place, but I’m not talking about that lostness.
I’m talking about getting lost in the scripture where you just get into the word of god.
And before you know it, time has elapsed and
you aren’t even aware of it. When I was, uh, going through, uh, my bout with cancer, years ago.
Uh, some of
you know, I was preaching during most of the time I was in treatment.
And if you ever have had that disease or been around somebody that does, it’s kind of like background noise in your head.
You can try to think about other things, but it’s pretty hard to keep from thinking about that.
And sometimes I would get to my desk and I knew I had to get a message ready for church, and all
I could think about was, did my skin go alright, is something gonna be okay and what, you know, And I would just have to get in my chair and say, by the grace of god, I’m gonna get over this hump.
Some days, I had to just take my pen and start writing out the scripture to prime the pump.
But I want to tell you something, friends, when you get over the hurdle and you get engaged, You can lose yourself in the study of the word of god.
It’s like an island of joy in the midst of the challenges.
I can see Paul in the few hours of light that he had from the opening in his cell pouring over the words of Jesus and the scriptures of the Old Testament, and in the midst of his dire circumstances, finding joy in the truth of god.
And by the way, when you do that, if you do it seriously, you’ll start bumping into scriptures that you have forgotten about.
For instance, how’s this one? Psalm twenty seven ten?
When my father and my mother have forsaken me, then the lord will take care of me.
Uh, or Hebrews thirteen, five, and six, which is a quotation from the old testament, which Paul no doubt had, For he himself has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you so that we may boldly say the lord is my helper.
I will not fear what man
can do to me. When we are disconnected, we need companionship.
And we need compassion.
And we need courage from the word of god, but here is the Here’s the pinnacle of what we need.
We need Christ. And notice what Paul says in verses seventeen and eighteen, but the lord stood with me and strengthened me so that the message might be preached through me and that all the gentiles might hear and the lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom to him be glory forever and ever.
Paul said, yes, I’ve been deserted by all my friends. Demus has forsaken me, Alexander’s against me.
All these other people have left me.
I’m here alone with Luke, but I want to tell you something I’m not alone when I stood before Caesar, and everyone had gotten out of the territory.
The lord Jesus Christ was with me.
Some people believe Jesus actually showed up personally and was standing there in the courtroom with Paul.
But whether he was or not, he was there, and he will be there for us when we cry out to him in our moments of loneliness.
Jesus himself experienced this very thing.
When he realized that his disciples had run out on him, We read his words in John sixteen thirty two.
He says, and yet I am not alone because the father is with me.
Here’s what I want you to know, men and women today.
However, alone you may feel, you are never alone if you’re a Christian. Almighty god is with you.
His spirit indwells you and his son, the lord Jesus Christ is with you every moment.
You say, well, I I’m not aware of it. You know how you can become aware of it?
When you study the word of god, and you begin to hear the word of god, you become aware of the presence of god in your life.
That’s how it works. As I have meditated on the challenges of being disconnected, one day, I was sitting in my study and it suddenly dawned on me, This connection is this is the title of life.
All of life is about disconnection. Did you know that?
For instance, we start life out in the safe cozy womb of our mother.
And then one day, we are disconnected and thrust out into the world.
And then we’re at home for a few years with the attention of our parents and the absolutely wonderful uninterrupted love of our mother And then, um, somewhere in those early years, we began the long process of disconnection First, it’s preschool for a few hours each week.
And then it’s kindergarten for a half a day and then the day that is dreaded by all mothers, the day when their little one becomes a full time first grade student and is now spending more meaningful time with someone else than with them.
And then the middle school and high school days arrive.
And it’s not just the school hours that disconnect us from our children.
It’s all of the social and physical activities that separate us.
And some weeks, I remember it seems like we hardly saw our children.
But for me,
the hardest disconnection of all was when my children left to go school on the other side of the world, it seemed like to me.
They all went to school on the East Coast.
I remember the day that Daniel and David Beeser got in a truck at three o’clock in the morning and rolled out of my driveway to go to Liberty University.
And while
it after they were gone, I ended up spending most of
the night in tears. I could not believe this had happened to me.
I mean, you spent all this time caring for these kids, and just when they figure it out, they leave.
And they go away.
If it’s alright with you, I won’t talk about that anymore because it’s, uh, it’s very painful to remember that.
And then comes marriage. And our children actually follow the biblical mandate. You know what it is?
Leave, father, and mother. That’s what it says in the Bible. So unfair.
It’s never quite the same after that, is it?
Someone more important takes over in our child’s life, and that is as it should be, but it sure qualifies as a disconnection.
So, you know, it’s hard on us as parents, but it’s a great thing.
Isn’t it? Marriage is the best thing of all, but it is different when our kids get married, and I’m so blessed to have all my children here close at hand and get to see almost all of them, uh, every week.
So we we have this wonderful fellowship they’re our best friends now, and that’s the way it usually is.
After marriage, you know, things go along for a while, and then somewhere down the end of the road, there is what we know as the separation of death.
That’s always so hard. I remember my mom and dad uh, telling me that they were gonna move out of the house that we had grown up in.
And I was very upset with them for that because it was a favorite place for me to come home to And one day I just really pressed my father, and I said, Dan, I don’t get it.
Why are you moving out? He said, well, David, we’ve had so many wonderful memories in this place.
And we know that one of these days, one of us is going to move out, so we decided to move out together, and they moved out together into a place that wasn’t filled with so much memory.
I still haven’t forgiven them for it, but they did it too.
And then, of course, there’s one other final separation I need to tell you about.
I just want to tell you about this because this is one you do not want to experience.
The Bible says that if we go through all of life, and we do not receive Jesus Christ during our lifetime, that after death, we will be totally, and forever, and irretrievably separated from god.
Who would ever want to spend eternity separated from god?
But the Bible says, if we don’t accept god’s plan through Jesus Christ, we will spend eternity apart from god.
That is a separation I would not want to experience, and I do not want you to experience it either.
Do you remember the comment we made at the beginning that the first thing god was not, uh, pleased with was that man was alone.
He said it is not good that man shall be alone.
And Adam and Eve had to be alone, even after they were together because of their sin, uh, they were together as husband and wife, and then they sinned, and they were cut off from god, and they were separated because of their sin.
And the disconnection of the Garden of Eden ultimately led to another more profound disconnection that took place when Jesus died on the cross and we hear him on the cross crying out.
My god, my god. Why have you forsaken me?
The purpose of the forsakenness of Jesus was so that you and I would not have to stay disconnected from god.
Because we are sinners, and we are, and we have nothing to offer to god in ourselves.
We are sentenced to death. The Bible says the wages of sin is death. That’s disconnection.
But god came here and sent his son Jesus to the cross, and when Jesus went to the cross, he suffered our disconnection for us so that we could be connected with god forever.
And because he died on the cross and paid the penalty for all of our sin, yours and mine, the sin of everyone in the world, and because he was the infinite son of god, his death was an infinite death equal to the death for everyone, Now he comes to us and says, you are disconnected from the father, but I have come to build a bridge between you and the father, and that bridge is the cross of Jesus Christ.
And if you will walk over that bridge by faith and put trust in my son, Jesus Christ, you will never, ever, ever have to be disconnected again.
Isn’t that true? If you have never connected with god, through Jesus Christ.
This is a moment to do that. You don’t want to be disconnected from god.
You may experience some difficult disconnections in this world, but the most important thing is that you’re connected to god.
And he has offered you his plan. His plan is simple.
Put your trust in my son, Jesus, who died for your sin, and you can be forever connected to the father.
Will you do that today?
Is there any reason why you want to go on being a solitary figure in a world that was meant to be joined together.
If you will put your trust in him today, you can know him in a personal way.
You can do that today, right where you are. You don’t have to wait. You can do it today.
I encourage you. Get connected to god today.
There’s no feeling as empty as being alone.
God knew it, and gave Adam a companion, and he still offers companionship for those who have faith in him through his son Jesus Christ.
God offers us himself. He is our assurance that no matter how lonely and disconnected we may feel, we’re never really alone.
For he is with us.
Have you entered into that most intimate of relationships connecting with your creator by receiving Jesus Christ as your savior Well, if not, please let me urge you to do it today.
I’ll send you a couple of free resources that will help you grow in that relationship.
One is a booklet called your greatest turning point, and the other is our monthly emotional magazine, turning points, we’ll send them both to you at no charge if you take a moment to contact us today at turning point.
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If you know who God is and you understand how important he is.
And if god has approved you, you don’t need anybody else’s approval.
If god is for us, who can be guess us.
Thank you for being with us today.
Join doctor Jeremiah next time for his message disapproval, the fear of rejection.
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