A Solemn Call to Spiritual Duty

1 Timothy 6:13-16

     Let's open our Bibles this morning to 1 Timothy chapter 6.  If I were to entitle the portion of Scripture we're looking at, 1 Timothy 6:13 through 16, I would call it "A solemn call to spiritual duty...a solemn call to spiritual duty."  It comes at the conclusion of this epistle which in general is a call to Timothy to discharge his ministry.  He has been given a commission by God.  That commission has been made very clear to him not only from the desire of his heart but from the Word of God prophetically out of heaven, from the laying on of the hands of the Apostle and the other elders, very clear to him because Paul has mandated certain things that he is to do.  The whole epistle of 1 Timothy lays out Timothy's responsibility to fulfill his commission to set things right in the church at Ephesus. 

     He was called by God.  He was gifted by God.  He was sent by the church.  He was ordained by the Apostles and elders.  And he is t