D. Godly Guarding. 6:20-21 The sound heart of guarding. v.20-21 V.20 d) Shielding truth - I. Defending. Defend and protect your knowledge, gift, love, faith, soundness and etc… II. Disconnection. Avoiding timewasters and everything that does not edify to godliness. V.21 e) Straying from faith - I. Faith straying people. Satan gives in small portions and suddenly one day the person is strayed from Truth, faith and godliness. II. Farewell words of Paul. A. Paul began the epistle with grace 1:2 and surely he also ends it with grace. B. The Christian life begins by grace but it surely also ends by grace. Reference material used in making the Bibleschool manual: Bible Commentaries: Thomas L. Constable’ s - Notes on the first epistle of Timothy. Chuck Missler’ s - Written and audio commentary on the first epistle of Timothy. Jon Courson’ s - Thru-the-Bible audio commentary on the first epistle of Timothy. Chuck Smith’ s - Audio commentary on the first epistle of Timothy. Edward Hindson/Michael Woodrow’ s - King Jame's Bible Commentary on the first epistle of Timothy. Zondervan’ s Niv’ s - Expositor's Bible Commentary of the first epistle of Timothy. J. Vernon McGee’ s - Commentary on the first epistle of Timothy. David Hocking’ s - Commentary on the first epistle of Timothy. H. L. Willmington’ s - Guide to the Bible. Old commentaries were used as well with minor help. Bible Surveys and outlines: Valleys Bible Church’ s - Bible survey on the first epistle of Timothy. J. Hampton Keathley’ s - Survey on the first epistle of Timothy. Nelson’ s - Complete book of Bible maps and charts. H. L. Willmington’ s - The Outline Bible. Harvestime International Institute’ s - Basic Bible survey. Bob Bolender’ s - Survey on the first epistle of Timothy. Gerald Duckett - Bible’ s survey on the first epistle of Timothy. Mark A. Copeland’ s - Executable Outlines. Ray C Stedman’ s - Panorama of the Scriptures. Old Testament types and figures: Kevin T. Connor and Ken Malmin - The Covenants Encyclopaedia/ Dictionaries: International standard Bible Encyclopaedia. Nelson’ s - Illustrated Bible dictionary. Dictionary of Biblical imagery. Greek reference material: Strong’ s - Exhaustive concordance. Thayer’ s - The new Thayer’ s Greek-English lexicon. Englishman’ s - The Englishman’ s Greek concordance and lexicon. Vine’ s - Complete expository dictionary. Bible versions: King James Version 1984 - Is the Bible translation used in this manual. Hendrickson’ s - The interlinear Bible.