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Right Use of Riches – 1 Timothy 6:17-21
Not everyone who is rich has a love of money or is egotistic or power hungry. And there are various kinds of riches. As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their
Continue reading...Flee These Things and Pursue These Things – 1 Timothy 6:11-16
Paul is giving us another category, or more terminology, for our spiritual growth, when he instructs Timothy. Fleeing and pursuing. We may say this is another aspect of the paradox of spiritual growth. But
Continue reading...The Love of Money Is the Root of All Kinds of Evil – 1 Timothy 6:3-10
I recently saw an interview with the granddaughter of Walt Disney’s brother, cofounders of Disneyland. She inherited immense wealth, but she had come to see it as destructive to the soul. She
Continue reading...Household Code for Slaves – 1 Timothy 6:1,2
When Paul led the runaway slave, Onesimus, back to his master, Philemon, he urged Philemon to receive Onesimus “no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother”
Continue reading...Elders – 1 Timothy 5:17-25
Churches get weird about pastors/elders, especially when they misbehave. It is because we have fostered a culture of pastors/elders as “priests” rather than normal believers who have a leadership
Continue reading...Household Code – 1 Timothy 5:1-16
It is typical of Paul to include what we have come to call “household codes,” directions for how households, which included slaves, should behave. Peter does the same in his letter, 1 Peter.
Continue reading...Set the Believers an Example – 1 Timothy 4:11-16
We have been talking about the paradox of spiritual growth. A fascinating part of that paradox is the role modeling plays. When you spend a lot of time with someone, you almost imperceptibly become
Continue reading...Train Yourself for Godliness – 1 Timothy 4:6-10
Growth in the Christian life has a paradoxical aspect to it. All spiritual growth, as also our salvation, comes from God. He causes us to grow, even as He draws us to Christ. But just as we have
Continue reading...Some Will Depart From the Faith – 1 Timothy 4:1-5
There are typically two opposite forms false doctrine takes. One licenses various forms of immorality, using religious teaching to allow adherents what they want to do, permitting sin and wantonness.
Continue reading...Great Is the Mystery of Godliness – 1 Timothy 3:14-16
Paul tells us in Ephesians 3:6 that the mystery of the gospel is “that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”
Continue reading...Deacons and Deaconesses – 1 Timothy 3:8-13
In Acts 6, when the Hellenistic widows were not being served equally to the Hebraistic widows, the apostles directed the people to select qualified men whom they could appoint to oversee this ministry.
Continue reading...The Office of Overseer (Pastor, Elder) – 1 Timothy 3:1-7
Paul has sent Timothy to Ephesus to put things in order in that church. So he has instructed Timothy to help these believers live in accord with their confession, understand the role of prayer and the
Continue reading...Men and Women – 1 Timothy 2:8-15
The issue of women in leadership is a complicated one, and a controversial one. For many evangelicals it has become a badge of orthodoxy to deny women leadership of men. And this passage has been the
Continue reading...One Mediator Between God and Men – 1 Timothy 2:1-7
A mediator brings two alienated parties together, reconciled. God and humanity were alienated, but God took the initiative to provide a mediator to bring reconciliation with humanity. Jesus did this
Continue reading...Some Have Made Shipwreck of Their Faith – 1 Timothy 1:8-10
Ravi Zacharias made a shipwreck of the faith, using his reputation and income as a Christian defender of the faith, to engage in repetitive and abusive sexual behavior. In so doing he, in effect, blasphemed
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