The apostle urges four forms of prayer for all groups and classes of unbelievers as the vital foundation of all Gospel witness. Here also is the purpose of prayer for rulers, and the degrees of sympathy and desire that undergirds all intercessory prayer.

What if we give no thought to spiritual matters and turn away from God? What difference will it make to our life? Here are the advantages of rejecting God and the soul, and here also are the disadvantages - all that will be lost.

Paul's directions to Timothy are not only a tremendous challenge to preachers, but they apply to all believers, conveying the seriousness of our mission and the promises of God that sustain us. Here are the measures to keep alive faith and a good conscience.

'And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.'

When Pharisees denounced Christ's disciples for not observing their ceremonial excesses, He gathered all around Him and gave a vital principle of true faith. From this we learn the only valid approach to God, and may enter into new life and a walk with Him.

A sudden burst of praise breaks into Paul's epistle, showing that praise punctuated his life constantly. And such praise! Here he provides our worship agenda for us, virtually defining true worship, and challenging us to bring worthy homage to our King eternal.

'The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.'

'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.'

The supreme, sure statement that says everything that is important about life, its purpose, its chief problem and its highest experience and goal - knowing and walking with God. Nothing in life except this is certain and trustworthy. Here are nine words that transform lives.

What Paul meant in calling himself the chief of sinners, and why the Lord showed such mercy to him. His testimony is set as the first of millions that would give gospel light and guard faithful churches from nominalism (or believing without experiencing true conversion).