That Basic Personal Commitment

“…and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses”   I Timothy 6:12b It is many centuries ago now that the young man, whose mother was a Jewess and whose father was a Greek, made a good profession of faith in Jesus Christ. Paul and Silas were possibly present too when this promising young man stood forth in the church at Derbe or Lystra to confess his faith in this Jesus of Nazareth, and in the gospel of sovereign grace. It was necessary for the sake of the Jewish members in the...