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Please turn with me in your Bibles 
to 1 Timothy chapter 4, 1 Timothy chapter 4. Our focus this morning 
will be on verses 12 to 16, a fitting passage in an ordination ceremony 
for a new elder to Christ's church. The conduct of a faithful minister, 
1 Timothy 4, 12 to 16, but I'll begin reading in verse 1 just 
to set the passage into its context. Now the Spirit expressly says 
that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving 
heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking 
lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a 
hot iron,