Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

When Paul wrote to Timothy, he revealed an amazing and important spiritual concept that we must expound upon, as it can be a true weapon of war that the enemy does not want us to understand. Paul said: This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare. —1 T IMOTHY 1:18 Timothy was a young minister who had accompanied Paul during his second missionary journey to Lystra (Acts 16:2). Paul circumcised Timothy to avoid a conflict with Jewish believers, as Timothy’s father was a Greek (v. 3). This young minister was well loved in the early church, including in the area of Iconium (v. 2). He was blessed with strong faith that was handed down from his grandmother, Lois, and his mother, Eunice (2 Tim. 1:5). Paul addressed Timothy as “faithful . . . in the Lord” (1 Cor. 4:17), and because Timothy mentored under Paul, Paul called him “[my] son” (1 Tim. 1:18). Paul had spent three years at Ephesus working in a very wicked city, yet this church had become a strong church among the early churches and is listed as one of the churches Christ addressed in Revelation (Rev. 2:1–7). Paul had commissioned Timothy as the lead pastor of Ephesus, and in his letter to Timothy, he gave him important instructions. The situation was this. Timothy was a young man, and there were many elders in Ephesus who for some reason were not