Our passage today begins and ends with Paul's plea for Timothy to come soon – hopefully before winter.
Paul has been talking to Timothy about the struggles that Timothy will face as a pastor – and one of those struggles is that people will leave you: sometimes for good reasons – and sometimes for bad reasons.
Paul will give several good reasons, but he starts with a bad reason.
"Demas has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica...."
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