ORIGINAL ORDERS
In both of Paul’s letters to his ‘son’, Timothy, there is a great stress laid upon the value of the gospel that had been entrusted to faithful men (1 Tim. 6:20; II Tim. 1:13-14). Because of the gospel’s great value (Romans 1:16), this trust has to be guarded very carefully. As people, we tend to care for things according to how much value those things possess in our eyes. My father was a fine college athlete. One of the ‘treasures’ of his college football career was his jersey that he was allowed to keep. Good ol’ number 32. My older brother and I loved to wear that jersey while we played sandlot games down at the corner field. We loved wearing it because of its uniqueness. None of the other kids got to wear their father’s college football jersey. We wore it every chance we had. Obviously . . . it was way too big for us . . . being young…
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