 share with you the message God has laid on this little country preacher's heart. Paul said to Timothy now, his son in the gospel, he was nearing his execution date under the hand of Nero. He was at this time a Roman prisoner, friend, and he was a prisoner more than that of the love of Christ. Remember what Paul said when he wrote in Ephesians 4 and 1, hide therefore the prisoner of the Lord. Paul knew that the day of his death was coming.