Jason Helopoulos

2 Timothy, he says, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

And Paul calls it the pattern of the sound words that you've heard from me.

He says this faith that you receive from your mother and grandmother, Eunice and Lois.

You're to fight for this, keep this, safeguard this, guard this.

Or in Jude's words, content for this.

In 1 Timothy 1, Paul tells Timothy that he has been entrusted with this ministry of the gospel in Ephesus.

This ministry where Paul tells Timothy he is to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine.

We've been entrusted with this.

It is in our generation because the generations before us kept it.

They contended for it.

You know that some, many, lost their lives for it.

And now it's our generation's responsibility to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

It can't be shared if it's not safeguarded.

That's his concern.

I was a little boy, elementary age.

My grandfather said, Jason, I want to share a secret with you.

And I was very excited.

He took me up to his bedroom and he took me to his closet.

And he said, let's kneel.

Okay, so we knelt in front of his closet.