1. Hold The Pattern! Text: II Timothy 1.8-13 “What Pattern?” Such Questions Exhibit One Of The Following:

2. Ignorance Or Impudence! Ignorance Is Bad, But Fixable Ignorance Is Merely The Lack Of Learning… Acts 17.23 God Wants Us To Get Beyond Ignorance… Acts 17.30 And Will Punish Those Who Do Not… Ephesians 4.18

3. Impudence Is Shocking And Destructive! Impudence Defined: Impertinence…Audacity… Insolence…Brazen… Disrespect This Attitude Says “What The Bible ‘Says’ Is Not All That Vital”

4. One Of The “Fruits” Of This Attitude… New “Bibles” Or “Versions” Of The Bible [Per-versions] They Give “Sense For Sense” Rather Than “Word For Word” Interpretation Or Interpolation… Rather Than Translation Best Translations: ((KJV, ASV… NKJV For Alternate Readings))

5. Pattern: 14 Times— 10 Old Testament Verses… 3 New Testament Verses Every One Of Them— Refer To God’s Designed Desire Not Only Does The Lord Desire Certain Things From Us… But He Has Designed Them So We Know How To Please Him

6. The New Testament Has Pattern— I Timothy 1.10,11…4.6…6.3 We Find: Sound Doctrine Gospel Of Glory Words Of The Faith Good Doctrine Sound Words Words Of Christ Doctrine According To Godliness

7. More Of The Pattern… Titus 1.9…2.1 Faithful Word The Teaching The Sound Doctrine These All Refer To The Same Thing Thus, If We Fail In II Timothy 1.13 We Fail In Keeping The Will And Word Of God

8. The Result: II John 9

9. What We Obey When We Become Christians… Acts 6.7 The Faith… II Thessalonians 1.8 The Gospel… Romans 6.17 That “Form…”

10. The Word “Form” Means… “Pattern, Example, Model, Standard” What Moses Had [Exodus 25.9]… We Have  Hebrews 8.5 (Quote from Exodus 25.40)

11. If There Were No Pattern… Dressmaker’s Religion: Suit Yourself! We Would Fail… II Corinthians 5.7 And Could Not Fulfill Verse 9

12. Without The Pattern— No Authority Colossians 3.17 (Points to v.15,16) Worship Would Be A Farce Colossians 2.23 Work Becomes Self-based II Timothy 1.9 Titus 3.5 Ephesians 2.8,9 Thus, There Could Be No Salvation!

13. Without The Pattern— No Unity Ephesians 4.3 Wait! If The Word Of God Is Not Our Pattern… Then: We Only Have Human Opinion There Would Be No Faith…Romans 10.17 Thus We Could Not Hebrews 11.6 Result: Ephesians 2.12… NO HOPE!

14. If There Is No Pattern— There Would Be No Real Knowledge Of God Judges 2.10 Result: Judges 21.25 This Is Why Denominationalism Exists… Why The Church Is Not What She Should Be Let Us Hold The Pattern, And So Please God And Gain Heaven