Train Yourself For Godliness – 1 Timothy: A Church Pleasing to Christ (Recording, Outline, Transcript)

Part of the 1 Book / 1 Hour Series.

1 Timothy Recording (1 Hour, 10 Minutes)

1 Timothy Outline

1 Timothy is written by Paul to Timothy c. AD 65 concerning the Ephesian Church in his care.

~10 Years Before 1 Timothy (c. AD 55)

Acts 18:18-20:38: Ephesian Church established with zeal, willingness, Holy Spirit; limited knowledge (Acts 18-20)

1 Timothy By The Chapter

1. God’s Law is a mirror–not a ladder–unto salvation. 1 Tim. 1:6-17
2. Prioritize prayer; live Godly/self-controlled; share gospel. Men: pray, teach, lead. Women: learn, submit, (encouraged) reproduce. 1 Tim. 2
   All: As bride of Christ–learn, submit, and reproduce our Heavenly Husband – Jesus Christ Himself!
3. Church’s character, God-appointed leaders, and gospel-preaching uphold TRUTH. 1 Tim. 3
4. Live and teach what you’ve received from God-appointed leadership. 1 Tim. 4:6-16
5. Honor qualified widows and elders as you would family (prioritizing biological family). 1 Tim. 5
6. The church = healthy family: honor masters, be content, show generosity, stay the course. 1 Tim. 6

~30 Years After 1 Timothy (c. AD 95)

Rev. 2:1-7: Ephesian Church higher in discernment and knowledge; alarmingly low in love.

The Charge

1 Tim. 4:6-16: “train yourself for godliness…keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching”

• What? Faithfully receive and pass on the gospel life and doctrine. “Progress” (v. 15), not perfection.
• How? By God’s, “strength,” through, “the grace of God,” via, “the Holy Spirit,” including, “prophecy,” and, “the council of elders laid their hands on you,” (1 Tim. 1:12; Titus 2:11; 2 Tim. 1:14; 1 Tim. 4:14).

The Gospel Doctrine

• Essential to True Christianity (1 Tim. 6:20-21)
• God’s Law = Mirror; Not Ladder (1 Tim. 1:8-11, 15)
  • “The law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient…in accordance with the gospel” (1 Tim. 1:8-11)
  • “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” (1 Tim. 1:15)
• Christ = Sacrificial Mediator, Ransom (1 Tim. 2:5-6)
  • “one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Tim. 2:5-6)
• Christ Exalted (1 Tim. 3:16)
• Christ Returning (1 Tim. 6:14)
• Received by Faith (1 Tim. 2:15; 3:16; 4:10; 5:5; 6:17 with John 5:24; Eph. 2:8-9)
• Bearing Fruit (1 Tim. 2:15 with Gal. 5:6, 22-24; James 2:14-16; 1 John 3:14)
• Not Adding Gospel-Contradictory Actions (1 Tim. 4:1-5)
• Gospel Focus, Not “Knowledge” Focus (1 Tim. 6:20-21)

(10 Rules for) The Gospel Life

1. Prayer Prioritized (1 Tim. 2:1-8; 4:5, 13; 5:5)
   • “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people…in every place…night and day” (1 Tim. 2:1-8; 5:5)
   • “made holy by… prayer” (1 Tim. 4:5)
   • 1 Tim. 4:13 – preaching/teaching gift comes through prayer
2. Godly Living (1 Tim. 2:2, 4, 8-3:15; 4:12, 16; 5:11)
   • “lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way,” (1 Tim. 2:2)
     • “…[God] desires all people to be saved,” (1 Tim. 2:4)
   • 1 Tim. 4:12: “set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.”
   • 1 Tim. 4:16: “keep a close watch on yourself…you will save both yourself and your hearers”
   • 1 Tim. 5:11: “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness”
3. Word Taught/Preached (1 Tim. 2:7, 11-12; 3:2; 4:5-6, 11, 13, 16; 5:17-18; 6:2-5, 20-21)
   • 1 Tim. 2:7: Paul a “preacher,” “teacher”
   • 1 Tim. 2:11-12: men/leaders authoritatively teaching
   • 1 Tim. 3:2: “overseer must be…able to teach”
   • 1 Tim. 4:5: “made holy by the word of God”
   • 1 Tim. 4:6: “put…before the brothers”
   • 1 Tim. 4:11: “command and teach these things”
   • 1 Tim. 4:13: “devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching…do not neglect the gift”
   • 1 Tim. 4:16: “keep a close watch…on the teaching…you will save both yourself and your hearers”
   • 1 Tim. 5:17: “elders who rule well…preaching and teaching”
   • 1 Tim. 5:18: Scripture = Old and New Testaments
   • 1 Tim. 6:2: “teach and urge these things”
   • 1 Tim. 6:3-5, 20-21: don’t focus on “new” or obscure things; don’t seek gain for teaching
4. Share Testimony/the Gospel (1 Tim. 2:6; 3:16; 6:12-13)
   • “at the proper time” (1 Tim. 2:6) — alongside prayer (1 Tim. 2:1) and godly witness (1 Tim. 2:2)
   • “proclaimed among the nations” (1 Tim. 3:16)
   • 1 Tim. 6:12-13
5. Families–Biological, then Church–Raised and Cared For (1 Tim. 3:1-13; 5:1-4, 8, 10, 14-15)
6. Men: pray, lead, godly life, learn, preach/teach (1 Tim. 2:8, 12; 3:1-13; 5:17-24; 2 Tim. 2:15)
7. Women: godly life; learn; have/raise/caretake family/church; pray (1 Tim. 2:9, 11, 15; 5:5-16 cf. 4:3)
   • beauty = “modesty and self-control” (1 Tim. 2:9)
   • “let a woman learn…with all submissiveness” (1 Tim. 2:11)
   • “saved through childbearing” (1 Tim. 2:15)
     • childbearing doesn’t prevent salvation (Gen. 3:16 cf. 1 Cor. 3:15)
     • childbearing can help safeguard salvation (1 Tim. 5:14 cf. 4:3)
   • “prayers night and day,” when not in family-raising role (1 Tim. 5:5)
   • not self-indulgent (1 Tim. 5:6)
   • not idle, busybodies, gossips (1 Tim. 5:13)
   • if 60 and no family to care for her, enroll as widow (1 Tim. 5:9)
   • if willing and able: marry, bear and raise children, manage household (5:10, 14)
   • if widows in family: care for them (5:16)
   • ministered to the saints (5:10)
8. God-Appointed Leadership (1 Tim. 3:1-13; 5:17-25) — See more on Elders and Deacons
   • character traits
   • ability to minister/teach
   • not hasty in promoting or demoting
   • In 1 Tim 3, “how one ought to behave in the household of God,” (v. 15) shows emphasis on appointing good leadership, growing character, and Christ at the center.
9. Honor Leaders (1 Tim. 2:1-3, 11-14; 5:1-2, 17; 6:1-2)
   • especially believing ones (1 Tim. 6:1-2)
10. Godly Contentment (1 Tim. 6:5-10, 17-19)
    • not seeking gain from teaching (1 Tim. 6:5)
    • content in food and covering (1 Tim. 6:6-8)
    • condemn desires for riches (1 Tim. 6:9-10)
    • command those who are rich (1 Tim. 6:17-19)

1 Timothy Transcription (Auto-Generated From MS Slack)

0:01: OK, so we’re gonna do a recording here on the book of First Timothy.
0:08: I’m calling this Train Yourself for Godliness.
0:12: First Timothy, a church pleasing to Christ.
0:16: I think what is helpful.
0:19: And I mentioned this in the outline that I know you had there too that I think it’s helpful for us to get a Zoom out view of Timothy.
0:29: And here’s what we have.
0:31: First Timothy is written to, do you remember who maybe you do.
0:35: First Timothy is written to Timothy.
0:37: Sorry, you got you.
0:38: That was a trick.
0:39: I didn’t mean it for a trick.
0:40: It’s written to Timothy about Ephesus.
0:44: And so it’s written about Ephesus and the church of Ephesus, but which we actually have a rare view into the church of Abs because we can see the genesis of the church of Ephesus.
0:58: We see where it totally began in acts starting with acts 18 through 20 is where it goes.
1:05: Acts 18, specifically 18, verse 18 through 20 verse 38 we get the picture where f is a start.
1:11: And if you remember it started with a lot of but not a lot of knowledge which the Lord loves.
1:17: So.
1:18: Yeah.
1:19: Yeah.
1:19: And I love it.
1:20: So if you remember that was where Apollos was at, he was teaching, he was a, a AAA good teacher, but he didn’t know anything other than John’s baptism, but he taught that faithfully.
1:32: So he taught that at s but that’s where Paul came.
1:34: I don’t know if you remember this question.
1:35: He said, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you first believed?
1:39: And I love that question because you know Paul is the one who writes, you do get the Holy Spirit when you believe.
1:44: But now there’s clearly a different Holy Spirit.
1:47: He’s talking about in acts 19.
1:50: He’s talking about the feeling of the Holy Spirit, the empowerment that someone would call the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
1:54: And so, and so do you remember the answer though?
1:57: I thought this was one of the most precious answers that they said John’s baptism is what we did.
2:04: But what is basically, what is it?
2:06: Well, that’s about the baptism part and that’s true.
2:07: But they actually said, we’ve never even heard of the Holy Spirit, right?
2:11: You talk about ignorance.
2:12: They had a lot of ignorance, but God still was using them.
2:15: They so they have the Holy Spirit, they didn’t even know it.
2:17: And so, and so he said, well, what are you back baptized then?
2:20: And that’s where the answer comes that you said he said, well, we know about John’s baptism.
2:24: We followed John’s, we did John’s baptism, which he they knew John came and that’s might have been where they left off.
2:30: John came.
2:31: The messiah’s coming.
2:32: Maybe the maybe John preach the messiahs here.
2:34: So they kind of had an understanding but it was all new.
2:37: So Paul comes and was able to clarify things.
2:40: You also had presa and aquila come and take Apollos aside.
2:43: If you remember that says they took him aside and said, we can explain it to you a little more accurately, the w the way of God.
2:50: And so they helped explain some of his, he again, he, he is starting out and, and they’re like, let’s explain it to you a little more.
2:59: You know, that’s how it happened.
3:00: So acts starts 1819 and 20 you get this picture.
3:04: I’m sorry.
3:04: Ephesus.
3:05: The church of Ephesus starts 1819 and 20.
3:08: We get this picture.
3:09: Lots of zeal, not a lot of knowledge.
3:11: The Lord blessed him.
3:13: Then you zoom all the way to the end of the story.
3:16: In revelation.
3:16: You have one of the most sobering warnings and they, they do the flip flop here.
3:21: He says, you have a lot of knowledge, you’re able to tell false apostles from true ones.
3:26: You’re able to know this, you’re able to know this.
3:28: But I hold one thing against you and if you don’t get this right, your church is gone.
3:33: And that is that you’ve left your first love.
3:36: Well, we actually get a picture of what their first love looked like in acts 18th to 19th and 20th.
3:41: And what that means is they, they left just a dependence, a love of the Lord.
3:46: some, somewhere in the, in the midst of it there, it was in serious jeopardy.
3:50: So in the middle of that time period.
3:52: So that was, you know,, it started around 55 ad is what I’m saying, which would have been about 10 years before first Timothy was written, which was about 65 ad.
4:04: And then the end of the church was about 95 ad when revelation came.
4:09: So 30 years later at the end, 10 years or early at the beginning.
4:12: So we now we get parked first Timothy and I think that’s helpful to see the church has had 10 years now of things to grow.
4:20: It’s like a garden.
4:22: You’re gonna see some weeds that have come up, even some thorns, even some things that are poison.
4:27: But there’s also some good things.
4:29: It’s time to take a little more form to the church.
4:31: And I think that’s, I personally, when I was reading through first Timothy, that was the big challenge for me.
4:35: I’m like, I think there’s something here for us to heed and even, even on a personal note, us in, in Holland and the ministry that we’ve been doing here has been about 10 years and more of a kind of in the form we’ve been doing with trying to do like a broader house church network in a little more formal way.
4:53: , it’s been about 10 years.
4:55: So I’m like, wow, perfect time for us to think about some of these things in first Timothy.
4:59: Yeah.
4:59: Where are we at?
5:01: And here are the warnings.
5:02: And so, so we get that one other thing before we jump into first Timothy is you get Ephesus or you get the Church of Ephesus at the beginning, you get first Timothy and then you get revelation.
5:14: Now some people might say, what about the, the letter of Ephesians?
5:18: Should that?
5:18: I mean, that’s literally written to the Church of Ephesus.
5:21: It’s all about Ephesians.
5:23: The one thing about the, the Ephesian letter, if you look into it a little bit more is there’s really good reason to say that was probably a letter that was kind of given in a route to multiple churches in that area.
5:37: So not strictly ethicist the way first Timothy is going to be in the reason.
5:43: One of the reasons, one of the main reasons for that is there’s nothing really that personal in it.
5:47: There’s nothing like, hey, and this is what’s going on.
5:49: Whereas first Timothy, everything is personal revelation, everything is personal acts, everything is personal.
5:53: It’s a very specific on what they’re going through ethic is, is much more generic in general.
5:59: And in fact, it’s a sister letter to Colossians.
6:02: And if you read them side by side, you can see they’re pretty much saying the same thing.
6:05: E is just a little more expanded version, which Colossians also was probably written maybe a little more as a, in a route kind of a thing.
6:12: And so that’s, there’s a few other reasons I won’t get into.
6:14: But I want to say that because you might say, doesn’t that tell us a lot about the church of s and I don’t think it tells us a whole lot.
6:20: It tells us some of the general things that they were going with, you know, others anyway, but not a whole whole lot.
6:26: So,, oh, last thing, the geo geographically speaking emphasis was, way over on the west side from, it’s in Paul’s missionary journeys, but you would take a boat here.
6:39: And so on the west side from Jerusalem and it’s near, kind of near,, just south of, Crete.
6:46: I don’t know if that name rings a bell.
6:48: That is where Titus was written to.
6:52: So you’ll see they’re in a very tight knit kind of area.
6:55: So you’ll see a lot of similarities of Titus and Timothy because it’s a similar area, similar issues kind of thing.
7:01: So it’s, they’re kind of a little separate from the main, you know, what the main stuff going on, you can tell they’re separate because like, who’s the Holy Spirit with John the Baptist?
7:11: Like, they’re kind of like a little more in the back, the, the Bush if you will compared to Jerusalem.
7:16: And that, you know, which is right there in the main hubbub, you know, so that’s where we enter in to first Timothy.
7:22: So there’s a couple of ways to consider the book and I’m, and I’m gonna kind of go by, a little bit back and forth with both.
7:31: One way is consider it by chapter.
7:34: First, Timothy takes about 15 minutes to go through the entire book.
7:38: All right.
7:39: Six chapters and let me, well, let me just start there.
7:43: Ok?
7:44: And even as we open up, let’s open up in our Bibles too.
7:46: First Timothy.
7:54: you have the beginning, of course, the greeting for Timothy one, Paul is writing in first Timothy, 11, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God, our savior and of Christ Jesus, our hope to Timothy, my true child in the faith.
8:08: So God gives the command to Paul.
8:11: Paul is now giving the command to Timothy and Timothy is going to be told to give the command to appoint elders and have faithful people there.
8:21: So you kind of have AAA progression here.
8:24: And now you have the reason for the letter first verse three or the reason for the, the, the R, I’m sorry, the reason that Timothy was to stay in Ephesus even though this was not where he would maybe normally stayed.
8:36: Verse three, as I urged you, when I was going to Macedonia remain at Ephesus.
8:46: So that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
9:02: So if you catch that there, the reason why he’s supposed to stay is there are problems only in 10 years.
9:11: I mean, what’s the deal?
9:12: No, that happens way before 10 years.
9:15: There are problems.
9:17: That’s the way I look at it.
9:18: And my God redeems those in the sense that every letter, every, every New Testament letter is us.
9:24: Most New Testament letters, if not, pretty much all is centered around problems and how to fix it, which we get to benefit from.
9:32: But you see like the church of Bea, they don’t have any letter, they just listen to the word.
9:36: They, you know, they, they must have got it right.
9:38: They have two verses that said they heard the word, they did it and that was it as simple as that.
9:43: But everyone else, you know.
9:44: So anyway, we get to learn from their problems.
9:46: So they start first.
9:48: Timothy starts.
9:49: Paul says to Timothy, you need to stay there because of the the problems that have been occurring.
9:57: False teachers specifically have come up who are teaching a different doctrine and what he means by doctrine, there is, it’s not just a different teaching, I mean, on, on, on kind of a, you know, somewhat arbitrary or secondary issue.
10:14: He means on the main doctrine, the main gospel, which is the ultimate doctrine.
10:20: in first Corinthians 15, it says the gospel is of first importance in terms of doctrine.
10:28: He says this is the doctrine above all doctrine when we consider are your doctrine, right?
10:35: So when he’s saying they’re teaching a different doctrine, he means there’s things that are touching on the fundamentals of the faith, the fundamentals of the gospel, they’re getting wrong.
10:44: This cannot be, this cannot con continue, this needs to be corrected.
10:51: So, but then he says, his reason, look at verse five, the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
11:01: Certain persons verse six, by swerving from these have wandered away in a vain discussion designed to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions thankfully, we don’t have that anymore.
11:20: So we have the problem right away and you can see he goes back and forth.
11:25: He says the problem is with doctrine.
11:27: But the reason I’m telling this is because of the heart, the love, the, the, the, the, the life, the godly life, you’re living, the doctrine is seeping in and poisoning your life.
11:36: But then the life is getting is seeping in and poisoning your doctrine.
11:41: There’s a cyclical thing with how the poison works.
11:44: So you’ll see his antidote.
11:46: ,, well, well, ok, let me before I get to the anecdote.
11:52: Let’s, let’s hold on there.
11:53: I’m trying to draw out kind of chapter by chapter.
11:56: So the first chapter is first Timothy one and he says there is a problem, false teachers that are leading to false, the the ungodly life.
12:06: Basically, there has been a compromise.
12:08: You have compromised in what the gospel is and you’ve compromised in living a life worthy of that gospel in accordance with that gospel.
12:18: And so before we go any further, I just think that’s a good time to pause and say, what would you insert in there?
12:23: What would we insert in there?
12:25: And I’m, I, I just want you to think about it.
12:27: I, I wanna, because I wanna jump into a God insert.
12:28: So that’s the most important.
12:29: But what would we insert into?
12:33: What is the true gospel?
12:34: How would we declare the true gospel?
12:36: Because Paul is gonna explain it a couple times and how would we live a life that accords with this true gospel?
12:43: What would we insert in there?
12:44: And that’s what this first Timothy is about, which is beautiful.
12:46: This is fundamental.
12:47: This is to me.
12:48: Church 101 is found in first Timothy.
12:51: So he, he starts with the problem.
12:54: Thankfully, he doesn’t leave us with.
12:56: Fir 1st 71 is not the end.
12:58: In fact, even later in the first time, the one he starts to give the great gospel, which we’ll get to in a moment.
13:02: But that’s the problem.
13:03: So first of one starts and it says there’s a problem, false teachers are coming and I’ll, I’ll give away already what the problem was.
13:11: They were, they were teaching,, basically the law accordance with the, the, the, the old covenant, the mosaic covenant.
13:23: If you can live according to that, you can be saved.
13:28: So basically, they saw the law as a ladder unto God.
13:32: And Paul says, and he said, no, no, no, I’ll, I’ll even show it here.
13:38: He says, he says, verse eight.
13:43: Now we know that the law is good.
13:45: If one uses it lawfully understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the, just, this already should get them thinking it’s not for the people who are so good.
13:55: It’s not a latter, but it’s actually laid down for the lawless and the disobedient for the ungodly and the sinners for the unholy and the profane.
14:04: So he, he twisted here or not twisted but he, he, well, he does, he twist, they were twisting and he’s bringing it back, he’s bringing it right.
14:12: Course he says, this is a mirror that tells you you need a savior.
14:18: It’s not a ladder to be saved.
14:20: It’s a mirror to say, you need Jesus the go the true gospel to save you.
14:25: And the true gospel is what?
14:27: Well, he says it right here.
14:31: If you skip down verse 15 chapter one, the saying is trustworthy and deserving a full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save the righteous.
14:44: Just kidding.
14:45: It says to save sinners of whom I am the foremost.
14:50: So if you put that together, he’s laying it out.
14:52: He says the law was written for sinners.
14:55: It’s a mirror to show you Harris, you have a pro you have a sin problem.
15:00: And just like Jesus says, I came for the sinners, not for the healthy and then, but Jesus came, the grace of God came to save sinners and he, and then the last part of whom I am the foremost.
15:14: He doesn’t say I even, he didn’t even say I was the foremost.
15:17: He could say I am the issue of issues.
15:20: I am the chief of sinners.
15:22: I am a problem.
15:24: Thanks be to God, right?
15:26: That’s like Roman seven where he says, I don’t know, I wanna do this.
15:29: I don’t.
15:29: Yeah.
15:29: And then, and then how does he answer that?
15:31: You know, we’re all reading that in the edge of our seats.
15:33: You know, Roman seven, I do this.
15:35: I don’t wanna and he says, thanks be to God through Christ Jesus.
15:38: Who, who, who, who wait, wait, what the answer.
15:41: It was there because he’s saying the gospel declares me delivered, the gospel declares me saved.
15:47: The gospel declares me righteous, even though I’m a mess.
15:51: So that’s where he’s, he’s, he’s correcting course correcting saying the true gospel, they’ve perverted the gospel into saying you need to live a certain way, you need to follow certain commands.
16:00: The true gospel says, no, you can’t follow these commands.
16:04: You are an issue, you have issues, you need a savior.
16:09: And so that’s the true gospel.
16:11: So this is what he starts him with.
16:14: And you can see verse 18, this charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you that by them, you may wage the good warfare holding faith in a good conscience.
16:27: So he’s saying I am charging you with this scene, this gospel, I am charging it with you now to get them to stop giving a false gospel.
16:39: That’s the charge.
16:40: So hopefully, does that make sense?
16:41: That’s, yes, that’s the, that’s, that, that, that’s the starting point.
16:45: 1st, 1st Timothy one, he’s getting us started.
16:49: So next we can say, and we’ll get into this in a, in a moment here.
16:58: That, well, I I’ll, I’ll just, I’ll really whet the appetite.
17:01: Hopefully, first Timothy 12 says first of all, then I’m gonna stop right there.
17:09: Is that how yours says?
17:09: First of all?
17:10: Then first somebody, the 2121, sorry, I said one, maybe I said 1221.
17:16: First of all, I’m actually gonna stop you.
17:20: I wanna just get people excited to just think for a moment.
17:22: Pause, just do a quick pause.
17:26: We see the problem.
17:28: We see the true gospel.
17:29: We see, you know, we see the problem.
17:32: We see that there is, we see the antidote.
17:36: We see the problem is a false gospel leading to ungodliness.
17:40: We see the, the, the true gospel is laid out for us.
17:43: Timothy is charged command that but you gotta say, and you’re gonna, and you already alluded to this or later, it says Timothy was kind of young.
17:54: Don’t let them look down on you if you’re young.
17:55: So he had a, he had a kind of going against them.
17:57: I mean, it wasn’t like he could just show up and oh the why old Timothy?
18:01: He knows what’s up.
18:02: It’s much more.
18:03: He had to prove himself a little bit.
18:05: In fact, in the second letter of Timothy, he says study to show yourself approved.
18:09: So it wasn’t gonna be because he couldn’t get an approval because Paul says you’re good because there’s probably still a fighting like do we trust Paul?
18:16: I don’t know.
18:17: And so he’s saying the best, your best chance of getting approved in this kind of a setting is get yourself grounded in the word so much that they can’t argue what you’re arguing with them.
18:27: They can’t argue because you’re giving scripture upon scripture, upon scripture upon scripture, that was actually his antidote.
18:32: And 2nd, 2nd Timothy, he says get grounded in the word because it’s gonna correct all of you.
18:37: It’s gonna be useful for all exhortation, for all rebuke for all you know that get in that and you’ll be at a place where you actually can contend with these false teachers, right?
18:48: OK.
18:49: So that is part of no doubt part of the antidote.
18:51: But before we even get there for 72 starts with a first of all.
18:56: So before we go anywhere else, this is where I, I always like to say and maybe you already know it’s gonna say.
19:02: But even before you know it, what would you insert there?
19:04: What would anyone insert there?
19:06: What has the church been inserting there?
19:08: I think we have lots of problems because we don’t insert what God inserts into the first of all.
19:13: So what is God saying is the first of all we’re about to get there.
19:16: I’m still trying to lay it out and then I’m gonna want to zoom in right here is the problem is laid out in first Timothy, one bad teaching leading to ungodly life.
19:26: Here’s the true gospel.
19:28: He’s already shown it.
19:29: So here’s how you’re going to course correct.
19:31: So chapter two in chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six are all going to be the course correct.
19:41: And so I’m really leaving you I know I’m really dangling over you, leaving you hanging, I’m with you but I want to Yeah, I wanna show, I wanna skip quickly.
19:49: Then we’ll go right back to it to first Timothy Four.
19:52: I mentioned this earlier.
19:53: I said this to me is at the heart of what he’s about to get to.
19:57: Ok?
19:59: Because he says here’s what I need you to do.
20:02: First Timothy four and we’ll go to just verse 16.
20:08: Keep.
20:09: So are you there?
20:14: Ok.
20:15: Ok.
20:16: First time of the 416, keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching persist in this for by so doing, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
20:32: So I bring that up because if you remember the false people were really getting sloppy on their life and their teaching were a mass.
20:43: He says, I need someone to be faithful.
20:46: Timothy with your life.
20:49: Guard.
20:49: This doctrine, make sure you know it through and through.
20:52: That’s why he’s gonna explain the gospel multiple ways in first Timothy guard this doctrine to also guard your life, live a self control life.
21:03: I think self control comes up, I should have counted.
21:05: But it comes up a lot in first Timothy living God, the word Godliness, living Godliness, Godly.
21:09: This Godly that comes up a lot in first Timothy.
21:15: Well, well, I’m just thinking that with what he’s facing, I’m not sure what he’s facing is remember what he’s facing.
21:23: People that are older.
21:24: People that are first vehicle to a point, they’re mixing and just a disaster with what’s, what’s true.
21:33: And they’re gonna look down on him because they’re more learning.
21:37: They are.
21:40: So, therefore he’s got to control himself and not lose sight of what he’s really doing and not allow them to think about your life and the impact that it’s making and he’s gonna give more specifics.
21:56: We’ll get into that too.
21:57: But I wanted to show that this is, again, they’re loose with the doctrine, loose with the gospel, loose with their life.
22:04: Timothy do not be loose guard these things.
22:08: Ok?
22:08: So that’s at the heart to me, that’s at the heart of the whole charge of first Timothy.
22:12: And so now, hopefully, we can kind of go through maybe chapter by chapter as well as some of the themes that we’ll see throughout.
22:17: Ok.
22:17: So I already started with chapter one.
22:19: So, I mean, we’ve already really been started with chapter by chapter.
22:22: So now we get to chapter two and it excites me, ok?
22:25: Because God gives a plan.
22:26: God gives a way.
22:27: He says first of chapter two, verse one, first of all, then I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all people.
22:38: I love that.
22:39: He doesn’t just say pray more.
22:41: He says, he says in every way he could, he wants this to be a full throttled prayer life.
22:48: He’s, he’s saying I want it to be it should be thankfulness, it should be supplication, it should be prayer.
22:54: Every word almost you can describe prayer.
22:56: Jm is, is stuffed into that verse.
22:59: And he’s saying this needs to be first if you are going to change, if you’re going to course correct.
23:06: That is first.
23:08: He literally says that’s first.
23:09: It’s another way to think about this is incidentally, I was telling you here that this is over here nearby Crete there’s another famous city that’s nearby is Corinth.
23:22: It’s on the other side, just right, right over here, there’s water between, but it’s, it’s, it’s a similar area.
23:28: So you’ll even see some similarities in Corinth and first Timothy too.
23:31: You first Timothy as well.
23:33: So you’ll see in Titus in first Timothy, some similarities.
23:36: Corinth and 1st, 1st Corinthians and first Timothy, some similarities and, and so there’s this again, some things in the water, maybe literally, but probably, yeah, yeah, something’s in the water, maybe even literally.
23:47: He later says, you know, you, you drink a little wine for your stomach’s like there might have been actually some, some things in the water that would literally, but I mean, like more spiritually.
23:56: So, yeah, you got me anyway.
23:58: So in first Corinthians, he says the gospel is of, of first importance doctrinally here.
24:09: He says prayer is first of first importance in your practice.
24:15: So if you think about that for a moment, what the gospel is in comparison to all other doctrines.
24:21: Prayer is in comparison to all other practices.
24:25: It’s a heavy call to prayer to a prayer life.
24:31: I mean, I remember we were, we were studying this together and mark when Jesus just in the middle of ministry, he was waking up early before even others did after a long day of ministry and starting a new day of mistry to pray and he just went out to pray.
24:47: And so you have this picture Jesus himself, the son of God, he’s laying out for us that this is, is if, if anything is not negotiable, in terms of your practice, it’s prayer.
24:59: First of all, so we have a mess in doctrine.
25:02: We have a mess in the way that the life is being lived in the church of says, I need people.
25:07: He, he’s, he’s calling.
25:08: He said, I urge the prayers be made and he’s gonna show the extent of how these prayers are to be made.
25:17: And in fact, I’ll skip down quickly here and we’ll go, come back verse eight, which if you see, it keeps following the argument.
25:24: He says, I desire then after he.
25:28: So if you go back to 1st 22 1, 1st of all, then so the problem is here, you pray and then eight, I desire then again, talking about the subject of prayer that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling So first off, he calls, he says, men get your act, right?
25:49: Get your hands in the air, get holy hands up.
25:52: And I’ve said this before, but I think it’s worth repeating that that lifting holy hands and I think that’s hands open and surrender and worship as opposed to look at what it says without anger or quarreling, that would be clenched hands as a fist.
26:09: You’re, you should not be trying to work this out.
26:12: First of all by punching by fighting, nor should you be working this out?
26:18: First of all, by picking up a hammer and pounding and working your hands can be used for all these things.
26:23: OK?
26:24: And they can in the proper place, they’re good.
26:27: But first of all, your hand should be lifted up and surrender in prayer.
26:31: This is a call for men.
26:33: How, how how they asked, how many places are they called to do this every place?
26:42: So I want prayer to proliferate every place.
26:46: If there’s men, there’s men of God there, that should be a place of prayer.
26:51: Now, I know some would say, well, this might be talking in reference of the like a specific church service for lack of a better word or like almost almost a synagogue structure of church service.
27:03: And I’m like, maybe but I’m like, in what capacity does New Testament ever?
27:10: Confine your Christian life to, to a, a specific hour, two hours, three hours.
27:15: I mean, we knew that sadly, but it’s like I want you to, if you’re doing it there, you’re doing it everywhere.
27:20: So pray, I want you to be people of prayer everywhere.
27:24: So he says that and first time the 28, but then if you hold your place there, but I mean, skip.
27:30: So we’ll go back first Timothy five verse five.
27:34: Now it’s talking about widows.
27:35: I know I’m plopping us right in the middle of something.
27:37: We’ll get to in a, in a bit, but it’s talking about widows and it says she who is verse five, she who is truly a widow left all alone has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
27:56: So first they called all the men.
27:58: You pray everywhere and now it’s women who they’re widows.
28:02: So there’s not, they’re not in a, in a, in a parent caretaking role because he’s gonna talk about it.
28:07: There is a beauty of how God has made women to be beautiful, caretakers way better than us guys can do.
28:12: And, and so with, with widows in your family or with Children in your family, we’re gonna talk about that in a bit.
28:19: But if you’re not having an immediate need, caretaking role, you’re a widow here.
28:23: A true widow who’s older is not to be, you know who’s not getting remarried.
28:29: You have, you have, if you have time guess what you should be doing back to the praying, how often night and day.
28:37: So now we have men lift up holy hands everywhere, widows, night and day.
28:47: So prayer is to proliferate everywhere.
28:49: And every time this is how God sees it.
28:52: Always.
28:52: Yeah, and succinctly he says it elsewhere.
28:55: Pray always.
28:57: This is of first importance to pray.
28:59: Now, now I want us to go back to First Timothy two.
29:03: And I think it is worthwhile to think about what were they praying about.
29:08: Because this, I, I think recently I reread this and I said, wait a second, that’s, that was different than what I thought they were praying about.
29:15: And so let’s look at, look at what they’re praying about.
29:19: Verse two, you are to pray.
29:22: This is the first thing mentioned, four kings and all who are in high positions that we may lead a quiet, peaceful and quiet life godly and dignified in every way.
29:33: So I’m gonna pause there.
29:35: So ultimately, they’re praying for us to live a godly life.
29:40: There’s a little more than that.
29:41: Don’t get me wrong, but they’re ultimately, he’s calling you to pray to live a godly life.
29:46: But recognizing that there is a say in your day to day life by the authorities of the land.
29:51: There’s a say in what you do or what you don’t do by the authorities of the land.
29:55: And he’s saying, I want you to pray that the that, that, that the governing authorities would conduct their affairs in such a way that the church is, is maximal impact is maximal go forward, is, is living in a godly and a dignified way.
30:18: that they’re essentially that there’s a limited church, limited government interference in the church.
30:24: The government says you’re free, you’re free to go, which is as, as I understand it as the original design of the government in America And the church in America was like, when people hear about separation of church and state, that was actually meant that the state was to get their paws out of the church.
30:39: We, we sadly kind of flipped it around.
30:41: I think we’ve lost sight of history.
30:42: And in the original anyway, that’s, I don’t want to go too far on that.
30:45: But right now, I mean, it’s worth it a different time.
30:47: But but, but we’re to pray for for the church to just be able to thrive without encumbrance, to thrive in their, in their community without encumbrance to be fully able to do all the things are called to do without encumbrance in the first place to look at, say, well, I know that governing authorities and that and that could even, I, I can see that extending into church go, you know, governing church leadership is also impacts the way that the church, the, the, the shepherds impact the sheep.
31:20: And so he wants to pray though that your affairs would be pleasing to God, they would back to, you’re gonna see this theme throughout.
31:30: Are, are, are you preaching a true gospel?
31:33: And are you living according to that true gospel?
31:35: So he’s pointing, he’s emphasizing the second part here, pray in such a way that you’re living a maximal life that accords with the gospel.
31:44: But look how it intertwines next with preaching the gospel.
31:47: Look at this verse three, this is good to live a godly, a dignified life, a quiet life, a peaceful life.
31:55: And I think that’s even part of what you’re praying for that.
31:56: You don’t have to be fighting all the time for just to be able to be a Christian.
32:03: You’re just, you’re just able to live a peaceful and quiet life.
32:06: Verse three, this is good and it is pleasing in the sight of God, our savior who now this is key desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
32:17: Now notice that there he is, this is, it seems like it’s all a all an argument he’s given like it’s all following a flow.
32:25: I should say you pray first but pray in such a way that your life can be maximal impact for, for godliness.
32:34: And when it’s that way, when you’re living in such a way, it will bring the world to salvation or it will help save the world.
32:45: Now, that does not say, oh, that means we don’t have to preach.
32:48: Well, look at the next verse, listen, God anticipates all of our little you know, justifying ourselves.
32:55: OK, it says, verse five for there is one God and there is one mediator between God and man, the man of men, the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all.
33:08: So first off, he backs up, he says, I need to make sure you’re still know the true gospel.
33:13: One God, one God, one mediator.
33:19: So we the the ultimate problem, the what the gospel answers.
33:22: You have a holy God and sinful people that are at odds with each other.
33:26: You needed a mediator to bring the peace between the two Jesus is that media.
33:31: He is our savior.
33:32: This is the gospel.
33:33: He saves us.
33:34: He reconciles us as the only one who can man and God are brought together.
33:39: So he’s reminding him of what was said in first Timothy one.
33:42: There is, this is the true gospel.
33:44: And then look at the next verse who gave verse six, who gave himself as a ransom for all who taught us.
33:50: So he’s the one paying, making the payment for what our sins deserve, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
34:00: That last part there I think is a precious thing, the testimony given at the proper time.
34:05: I my under I mean, my, what I’m thinking is what He’s getting at here.
34:10: And I, I, I mean, I wanna say, be humble in all this, I can very, very well be wrong.
34:13: But I think what he’s getting at is just as Jesus came, not at, not at any time, but at the, at the right time to bring salvation.
34:24: And that is the testimony of God.
34:27: We declare Jesus at the right time, a test.
34:32: We give testimony at the proper time.
34:35: Now, if you follow the five verses before that or say whatever the chapter starting in chapter two, he’s already said, pray that you’re living in such a way that you’re dignified Godly peaceful, quiet like you are living in maximally beautiful life.
34:50: That’s accordance with the gospel.
34:53: You’re living this day to day, you’re putting yourself in a position to preach the testimony at the proper time.
35:02: You’re ready, you’re making, you’re living in such a way that they’re gonna say what first Peter says it.
35:05: Well, he says that they would know you even, even wives would win unbelieving husbands without even saying a word.
35:11: Now, of course, I, she, you give testimony.
35:14: We’re not saying I’m the wife probably tried to say a lot of words and the husband didn’t want it.
35:17: So now you gotta live a godly life, live it out.
35:21: But you’re able, you’re coming before people who say I, I there’s a difference.
35:25: The Jesus people are different and in every way.
35:29: And this has always been the case of the church.
35:31: They were the ones who brought in the, the unwanted infants or, you know, in the Roman world.
35:35: They are the ones who brought in the, the sick, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the weak, the, all the, all these people who no one wanted.
35:42: They’re the ones who went to the poor that the church has been for all of our issues and we have plenty.
35:47: The church is all, had, had chances to show, to show off.
35:50: The churches were the ones who came up with hospitals.
35:52: The churches were the ones who came up with.
35:54: You know, a lot of some of the education stuff were, were, were I think the, the, the, as I understand it, even some of the public education, which is, even though it’s gone sour in some ways.
36:03: But I, I think the church has seen the need to help the civilization, the churches, there’s something there that awakens those who are willing to see.
36:11: Now again, we’re not off the hook.
36:13: We give testimony at the proper time.
36:15: And I think that’s probably part of what we pray for too.
36:17: Paul even says that he says, pray in another place.
36:20: He says, pray that I would be bold, that the door would be open, that I would have the words to say that it would be season with grace and, and there would be a proper saying at the proper time.
36:29: So, again, we’re not off the hook.
36:33: But I do think that is in there.
36:35: That makes me think I’m like, let’s not be just hasty force your way in the door and say whatever at any time.
36:41: No, no, no.
36:42: Live live in a non compromised way in, in integrity, praying, starting with prayer, living in, in a non compromised way and, and, and be ready now to declare the true gospel to anyone.
36:59: I mean, first Peter says it, well, he says that you are ready at all occasions to give answer to the hope that is within you, you know, to those.
37:06: And I think he said, you know, those who are asked, I think it says those who ask about the hope that’s within you.
37:10: So you’re living in such a way and you’re ready to share, you are eager to share, you have the feet, you, you, you have the what does it say?
37:17: The, the shoes?
37:18: Yeah, the shoes are the gospel of peace in Ephesians.
37:22: You have, you’re ready.
37:23: You’re always walk everywhere you walk, the shoes are on.
37:26: Hey, where’s the opportunity to share the testimony here?
37:28: Where’s the opportunity to share the testimony here?
37:30: So, and again, it starts with prayer, living a godly life, sharing testimony.
37:33: So hopefully, are you following the close?
37:35: OK.
37:36: Good, good.
37:37: OK.
37:38: So let’s keep on since we got the flow, let’s keep going, right?
37:42: I know the, the time goes by really quick So how much time we have left?
37:45: OK.
37:45: We’re doing all right.
37:46: We got 20 or so minutes left.
37:48: I know it goes quick.
37:51: Then we get to verse eight and it says men, I just, I, I, I want you and he’s gonna get into men.
37:59: There is a leadership structure here and, and how I made you, I’m sorry.
38:03: 28.
38:04: Sorry.
38:04: Yeah.
38:05: But again, the leadership does not start with a hasty.
38:07: You’re gonna do this, you’re gonna clear this.
38:09: It starts with a prayer, get on your knees and have surrendered hands.
38:14: That’s what I’m looking for.
38:16: So if you have leaders who want to start that way more, please men rise up.
38:20: If you have men who wanna lead by having fist and making it this way, that’s not at all what I was talking about verse nine.
38:27: He says, ok, that’s the men’s role, but women likewise, also women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel with modesty and self control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire.
38:40: But with what is proper for women who profess godliness with good works.
38:43: OK.
38:44: So right away it’s talking about women, you’re not off the hook for living a godly life and what I want you to do is, is be, be beautiful.
38:57: There’s something in women, obviously, you know, every man knows like women are beautiful, men are not beautiful.
39:02: Women are beautiful in a way that we’re not,, I just think about this, like my, I, you know, I have, yeah, I have.
39:08: Right.
39:08: Right.
39:08: Right.
39:09: I have, you know, my wife and I have three girls and all, you know, how much they get excited about flowers and then be all beauty beauty.
39:16: There’s just something that I just love that, that about the beauty of, of, of a, of a woman and the, and the, and, and there’s this problem for beauty.
39:23: It is a beautiful thing.
39:24: But let that beauty be an inward beauty.
39:27: It’s not even about because somebody say, oh guys making a new law, you know, don’t put any gold or anything.
39:31: I actually don’t see that.
39:32: I think it’s more of what is your priority because otherwise I think he even says like, what you’re gonna, are they gonna be naked?
39:38: They’re not gonna clothe themselves at all.
39:39: I think it says like, no, you’re, you’re instead of clothing instead of thinking about your outward adornment, have a, have a dignified godly.
39:47: That’s part of what we’re praying for for 72 but have a quite a soul of, again, self control and all these things.
39:53: And you know, we’re gonna get all the way here to this verse 11, let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
40:05: And I love this, this is a, to me, this is an empowering verse that, that people have perverted to the opposite.
40:12: It actually says it starts with saying, let a woman learn notice.
40:14: It doesn’t say, don’t let a woman talk, don’t let a woman teach.
40:18: We’re going to talk about some of the structure.
40:19: But it’s actually first to try to say, give the women an opportunity to learn and how that women should be learners.
40:26: This is a wonderful thing.
40:27: Let let let the Martha rise up and I would say men, we’re part of the bride of Christ.
40:32: We need to be in a quiet, submissive role of learning.
40:35: So this is what it starts with.
40:36: Let a woman learn quietly with also this in verse 12, I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man rather she is to remain quiet for Adam was formed first then Eve and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
40:52: So he’s going back to the original plot, the original creation I should say.
40:56: And instead of Eve asking Adam asking God submitting the way that I mean, it was God first, then Adam and Eve.
41:05: And so there is a certain Adam should be asking God.
41:07: Eve should be asking Adam, this is how God made it.
41:10: She just said, no, I’ll just take this on my own.
41:11: And so she totally goes her own way and God you have to create a role.
41:17: So with that in mind, he’s saying, she’s saying God saying, no, there is a created role.
41:22: This is going to actually make the gospel shine the most if we lean into the created role.
41:27: And it’s not, again, it’s not about putting women down.
41:29: It’s actually about empowering them the most to say, here’s how you’re created.
41:32: And one of the beauties of a woman, why every man is dependent on a woman fundamentally is because they give birth.
41:38: Every man can say I came from a woman.
41:41: The first woman was the only one who came from a man.
41:43: After that, every man comes from a woman.
41:45: It says it in first Corinthians.
41:46: So we all are equal in that way.
41:49: So we have to, we have to, we’re, we’re all leveled.
41:51: We come from women.
41:52: So then it says this verse 15, yet the woman will be saved through child bearing and that well, let me read the rest if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self control.
42:07: So, and, and you know, that’s a confusing passage maybe at first blush, but I actually don’t think it’s too bad to think about.
42:12: I think what it’s calling the whole, the whole argument is saying, look at your created order, you stepped out of it, step back into this.
42:20: And the first part of God’s design was that you were to be fruitful and multiply that could never happen without the woman.
42:25: The woman has to be there and guess what God has arranged it so much that it is not gonna happen without the bride of Christ, that God, that the spiritual fruitfulness and multiply right will not happen.
42:36: But he is the one who puts out His word.
42:37: His life is in us.
42:38: His word is in us that then we are the ones to take it on and go and be multipliers.
42:44: So the woman is, is very fundamental to having Children.
42:49: And one thing though I think it’s saying is Children do not disqualify you from salvation.
42:55: You might say of course.
42:57: But the argument here, look at this, look at what, so the false teachers were teaching.
43:02: First Timothy four, skip there verses one and one through three.
43:11: Remember this?
43:12: Now, the spirit expressly says that in later times, some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods.
43:26: OK?
43:27: Part of their false teaching was forbidding marriage right now.
43:31: We don’t know exactly why.
43:33: I don’t know if that’s a separate group than the chapter one group.
43:35: I tend to think they’re not separate because they’re, it’s, it’s almost like this just keeps happening.
43:39: You know, these are the problem people and they’re causing this problem and they’re causing this problem.
43:43: If that’s the case, then they are Judy ISR who are the Kosher laws would make sense.
43:49: But we would say, well, how would Judaize?
43:51: Why would Judy ISR teach that you can’t get married.
43:54: I, I really don’t know.
43:55: I’m giving just a total speculation, but a speculation is this after eve sinned by getting out of her created role.
44:02: What was the curse on her?
44:04: You’re gonna have pains through child bearing.
44:06: So there, I think this back to first time of the 215, she will be saved through child bearing.
44:13: I think it’s hinting at that.
44:15: It’s playing with that thing.
44:16: And it’s saying even though child bearing is cursed now, it doesn’t disqualify you in any way from God’s purposes.
44:25: So, and, and, and they might have been saying what I what I’m gonna ask, they might have been saying you’re disqualified, child bearing is a sin because look at the curse that on you, you know, women should just, you know, don’t get married, don’t get, you know, that could be, I don’t know, that’s a total theory.
44:37: But, but back to for two, it’s saying you will be saved even though you’re child bearing.
44:42: That same wording is used in first Corinthians where it says a man, it talks about a man who is building on his house with all his bad stuff, but he still has a foundation of Christ.
44:52: He says that man nevertheless will be saved through the fire.
44:56: Same wording.
44:57: Not that the fire itself saves you, but the fire doesn’t burn you, right?
45:01: Even though everything that you’ve done is gone, you burnt up, you yourself, right?
45:08: Will be saved going through the fire.
45:10: So, in the same way, child bearing is not the means of salvation, but it does not disqualify you from salvation.
45:16: That is, and it is a, a read that I think is a, a pretty good read on it.
45:22: There’s another read though too and I actually think both might even go together.
45:25: The other read is not, the child bearing is a means of salvation.
45:30: Again, that’s clearly not, but it is a safeguard that you don’t fall astray from, from salvation.
45:38: If you’re in the place to have Children to, to, to, to to get married and have Children, which we know in First Corinthians it’s a gift if you’re single too.
45:48: So we’re not saying that it’s a, it’s a mandate, but for those who are in a position to do it, what does he say?
45:52: Look at first Timothy five for women in a position to get married.
45:58: Look at verse 14 of for Timothy five.
46:01: So I would have younger widows marry, bear Children, manage your household and give the adversary no occasion for slander for some have already strayed after Satan.
46:13: Notice that there, he’s recognizing if you’re in this category of women, God made you to be married and you have the opportunity to be married, get married and have Children if you can’t.
46:26: Now again, we, there’s all sorts of reasons why you know that if you can’t, that’s a different thing but he’s talking about people who can, that will help safeguard you from all the idleness, the following passions, the following you.
46:42: Absolutely.
46:43: To use the modern vernacular to stop being a Karen, to stop being out there.
46:51: Like, oh, what’s going on here?
46:52: What’s going on here?
46:53: And all of a sudden you’re losing your salvation because you’re getting so caught up in other people’s affairs instead of you gotta die to self daily.
46:58: If you’re, if you’re married, you’re raising kids.
47:00: I mean, this is all part of it and having kids, you know, I just the whole process.
47:04: So anyway, so there’s two ways to look at that first time.
47:07: 21 is child bearing does not disqualify you.
47:12: Another one is, it might help safeguard you to stay true to the gospel.
47:17: If now this is the big part though, for 7215, if you continue in faith and love and holiness with self control and I love this, it is outlining the true gospel.
47:27: Ok?
47:27: If we’ve talked about the true gospel is that God comes and save sinners, he’s the ransom.
47:35: He’s the mediator.
47:36: He’s the in between for all of us.
47:37: He’s the only way how do we, we receive it elsewhere, tells us by repentance and faith.
47:43: Biblical faith always assumes repentance, that biblical repentance always assumes faith.
47:47: So if you just see faith alone, it doesn’t, it assumes repentance.
47:50: Ok.
47:52: So if you continue this is how you receive this gospel.
47:55: If you continue in faith and then that faith should show something.
47:59: It should have fruit.
48:00: Remember the fruit of the spirit, it starts with love and it ends with self control.
48:04: Look at that there, love, holiness and self control.
48:07: So love is the first one.
48:08: Self control is the last holiness is all the ones in between.
48:11: So here we have, if you are a true Christian, you’ll have the fruit of the spirit.
48:15: That’s what saves you and having Children does not disqualify you from salvation.
48:19: In fact, it might help you live into self control.
48:22: It might help you live into these things.
48:23: Be the very fire.
48:25: That, that’s what my wife.
48:27: Yeah, that’s what my wife said.
48:28: She said, she said it’s interesting too.
48:30: The fire comparison of First Corinthians that, that child has that effect too.
48:35: It refines you, it burns away a lot of stuff.
48:37: So, ok, so hopefully, I hope you’re following along.
48:40: I know we’re not going to have the time to go through as ok.
48:43: I hope that, that we’re not gonna have the time to go through as meticulously the rest of first timy.
48:47: But I think this is a really good starting if we get this starting point, good.
48:49: I think we’re in a good place for the rest.
48:51: So the problem again, if I can go first Timothy, one false teachers, false gospel, false a life that is in discord.
48:59: From the gospel.
49:00: First Timothy two is showing the remedy, the remedy begins in prayer.
49:08: And and then, yeah, living Godly, sharing the true gospel as God gives the opportunity and then living into the God ordained roles of a man who is in prayer first.
49:22: But then also he’s sharing the word of God.
49:24: Notice it says a woman is learning quietly.
49:27: What is she learning the the authoritative teaching of, of, of men now.
49:33: And I also want to say this, if you remember in Ephesus where this is written to is a church that was where if you remember, I said this is the beginning.
49:43: Just touched on Apollos, a man teaching authoritatively.
49:48: Priscilla was a woman who came alongside and Aquila came alongside him and taught him a better way.
49:54: This was encouraged, this was wonderful.
49:56: This was at the beginning the genesis of the church of absence.
49:58: So no ways people get so into like a fair say in all of us is like women don’t, no, that’s not what it’s saying.
50:06: women are OK in, in, in they, they might have a word to say, let them speak in Corinthians, them prophesy if they have a word, let them speak out.
50:15: So they have beautiful gifts of revelation of teaching.
50:18: You know, all these things let them be used.
50:20: But when you’re talking about authoritative teaching, which ultimately would fall to I’d say the the elder, the leadership that is n should be, I mean, normative, it would be men and that’s the way of God by God’s.
50:37: And there’s a lot of reasons for that.
50:39: And again, I’m not even going to quibble a ton if you have a AAA woman who is qualified and ready and there’s not a man stepping up then to the shame of the men, go for it.
50:50: Deborah rise up, you know, and judges, it says, you know, like let her rise up and she even said it’s like this is the shame of a man, but I’ll do it.
50:57: So let her rise up.
50:58: But I do think men are being called out here in particular, start praying, start being willing to teach with, with, with conviction and power and authority and let a woman learn, let her be encouraged to learn to really soak in what the word is saying to let her be, be liberated that and caret take where she’s able to caret take one role, obviously caretaking and she’s a wife and can have Children, caret take with your own household.
51:20: This is a Godly design that will increase the, the, the the disciples that they increase the gospel living.
51:27: Later it talks about a woman caretaking.
51:31: First, let’s go to 1st 75.
51:32: I know I’m skipping back and forth, but hopefully you’re following 1st 7516.
51:37: Here’s a different kind of caretaking.
51:39: Verse 16.
51:40: If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them, let the church not be burdened so that it may care for those who are truly widows.
51:50: So now it’s talking about a believing woman who has widows in her family structure, bring them in.
51:59: It doesn’t talk about leaving man with, you know, relatives who are, who are widows.
52:03: Not that the man doesn’t have something to do with this.
52:05: But there’s just a fundamental beauty of God giving the caretaking role to women.
52:09: I’ve seen it over and over.
52:10: I mean, we had a nesting party which was awesome.
52:13: I didn’t never have thought about that.
52:14: And who was invited.
52:15: All the women were invited to come and help out and to say here, Shane, you’re about to have a kid like let’s help out with the house, let’s help this.
52:20: Let’s, this is a beautiful thing of God’s design that I think that the culture is trying to smear it sadly and it could really help empower and embolden the gospel if we live back into this.
52:29: So, so a woman who might not be their kids, but there is a caretaking role there they should do.
52:35: Now if if, if there’s not that as well, we saw earlier fertility 55 be ready to pray at all times night and day, a woman is called to pray a widow, a widow.
52:47: And that’s that capacity to pray as well as I’m not looking at here, but Titus, which I said is kind of like a sister letter to First Timothy.
52:53: Titus says, and women teach the younger women disciple, the younger women how to love their husbands, how to live the into these things, how to, you know, AAA all this.
53:02: So there is a teaching aspect too that they are, are empowered to do in that setting.
53:07: So there’s a lot of things if you look at the full picture of a, of a woman’s role.
53:11: So, ok, back to first Timothy, but in terms of the authoritative like elder or overs oversight, look at for some of the three.
53:19: Now, the saying is trustworthy.
53:24: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
53:29: Therefore, an overseer must be above approach, the husband of one wife.
53:32: And so the whole argument of overseers or elders, they’re interchangeable would be a man, you’re a husband of one wife, right?
53:40: And you, and, and so you have the the elders that talked about here.
53:44: And so again, that’s I wanna see elders established.
53:49: and, and that will help preserve the gospel life to, to help with the church to help give some some order and some, you know, some and but think about an overseer, it’s, it’s the same word as a supervisor.
53:59: They’re not the ones doing all the work, they’re just tending the other people laboring.
54:03: So it’s not like it’s all on them.
54:04: Now, don’t get me wrong.
54:05: Later in first Timothy five, it will talk about an elder verse 17 of chapter five.
54:11: Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and in teaching for the scripture says you shall not Muslim when it tries out the grain.
54:21: So there is a labor of an elder here is laboring and preaching and teaching, but there’s an oversight that others are raised up to do this.
54:28: You know, I’ll see.
54:31: Yeah.
54:31: OK.
54:32: Yeah.
54:32: Unfort I mean we’re, we’re, we’re gotta go steamroll now.
54:35: So here we go.
54:37: So the steamroll part that we’re left with is is this, so now we’re getting 1st 73 talking about elders.
54:43: Here’s how the here’s how elders work, deacons are also there.
54:48: You see in the scriptures, elders seem to come first.
54:50: In fact, you can have a church without elders act, you know, Paul and Timothy came or Paul and was it Barnabas came later and saw the churches and they appointed elders to help, give some oversight as they left.
55:02: So they were there before they were elders, there was a church existing but then the elders came and it gave it some structure and it gave them some guidance.
55:08: Now you come along, you say elders are there, but then deacons help to give it to help with some of the roles like in act six, we see that role with widows care.
55:16: Yeah, the elders of the apostles, in that case, were to dedicate themselves, guess what?
55:22: To prayer, demon finity to a prayer and the teaching of the word Deaning first Timothy five.
55:27: What we just talked about elders should be or for 72 you know, authoritative teaching and preaching that should be happening.
55:35: So they are in charge with that, but the deacons are here to help with the, the financial means.
55:39: And so, so deacons, I think that’s also primarily a male role, but there is a little more wiggle room that it could be women like deaconesses or a subgroup that are there.
55:50: So it’s a little more gray on that, but either way you have the qualified appointed leaders is important.
55:57: You know, Paul doesn’t say and do it this way, do it this way, do it this way he can get a lot of latitude.
56:02: He says just have qualified leaders like Jesus.
56:04: He doesn’t talk a lot about the church should be this or the church should be that.
56:07: He’s, he invests a lot in the apostles, gives him the spirit, gives him the word and says, you’ll figure it out.
56:12: I mean, don’t worry, don’t get me wrong like there’s a principles that he plays into us through the word.
56:18: But he, he gives a lot of latitude and that’s what I see here too in first Timothy three.
56:23: Then he gets to the end of first Timothy three.
56:25: And he talks about great indeed is the mystery of Godliness.
56:28: And again, he’s, he’s, he’s, he’s saying again, note here what the gospel is hinges on.
56:34: Look.
56:34: At first Timothy 316 Jesus.
56:37: He was ma, oh, sorry.
56:38: Yeah, the mystery of Godliness.
56:40: I love this.
56:41: Think about what do you want?
56:42: What does Godliness look like?
56:43: It starts with a, he not an, it, he was manifested.
56:47: Godliness was a person, is a person was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit seen by angels proclaimed among the nations.
56:54: That’s what we have to do believe.
56:56: Then I shouldn’t say that way.
56:57: That’s what we get to do.
56:58: Believe on in the world taken up in glory.
57:01: So he’s saying again, this is what the gospel looks like.
57:04: It starts with a He, he is Godliness, not that you’re Godly not that I’m Godly.
57:07: We’re the sinners who need a savior.
57:09: He is Godly.
57:10: And as he lives in us, we’re gonna live a Godly life.
57:13: And here’s some, some strictures on it, some, some containment, some ways to do that.
57:17: And that’s the rest of first Timothy.
57:19: OK.
57:19: Again, I know I, I gotta go quick here because the time is floor here.
57:23: First Timothy four now gets into OK.
57:27: Here’s the false teachers.
57:28: We already talked about that.
57:29: But I love here what it says in verses four and five because the false teachers are teaching, you can’t eat certain things.
57:35: You can’t, you can’t marry no.
57:37: But for everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected.
57:40: If it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
57:44: Those are the staples again that we need the word of God and prayer.
57:48: So that is the good.
57:49: That’s the antidote to the false.
57:51: The false is like somewhere you lost prayer and you lost the word of God.
57:54: The good is gonna have prayer and the word of God.
57:57: OK, so then first and the four, I’m actually gonna end with first Timothy four.
58:01: the rest of it because I think it’s the heart of first Timothy.
58:03: It’s a good charge for us at the end.
58:05: OK.
58:05: So it’s, it’s basically Paul doubling down and saying, here’s what I want you to do in the midst of this craziness.
58:11: Let’s move on it for 75.
58:13: And it says and, and, and I love this here for 75.
58:16: 1 and two.
58:17: Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men, as brothers, older women, as mothers, younger women, as sisters in all purity.
58:25: And here you have two things going on here for 75 1 is you need to think about the Church of God as a family.
58:34: If there’s older women who, who are widowed, especially, that’s what it go.
58:37: It goes on and he, he, here’s what it looks like to honor older women, honor widows who’ve had husbands eyes, who’s, who’ve had husbands die.
58:46: Here’s what it looks like.
58:47: And you know what it looks like first, it says first in your own family, you should be practicing this second.
58:54: If the family can’t do it, the church should become that family.
58:57: There’s a priority, guess what he says about elders in for 73.
59:00: He says, first, you should be raising your own kids and they should be doing well in your own family.
59:05: Second, if you’re doing that, you’re a good candidate to be doing this with the church family.
59:10: So we see a priority God gives in the in first Timothy, first your family and then to the whole church as a broader family.
59:19: If we get that right, we’re in a good place.
59:21: So the honor the younger or the older women that way, then it gets into verse 17, the older men.
59:28: So again, it kind of follows with our argument here that we’re saying elders appointed elders would be a male role.
59:34: Well, certainly because it says it talks about honoring the older women in the widow role.
59:39: Now honoring the older men, especially elders who rule well, and it, and it talks about how to honor them.
59:47: And for the sake of time, I’m gonna just kind of go steamrolling through first.
59:52: But then it says for 76 there’s another honor you’re yet to give for 76 1.
59:57: Let all who are under a yoke as bond servants, regard their own masters as worthy of all honor.
1:00:03: So that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
1:00:06: So now honor those who you work under even slaves, honoring masters.
1:00:12: And here again, we see that God’s, we get can get so into the social justice and the aspect and we can talk all we want about, you know, how fair or wrong, you know, the slavery was.
1:00:21: And, and, and, and, and God would say clearly, you know, there are some sinful wicked issues with like the way American slavery has, has happened and the way slavery happens in general, but he still uses it and he still worked within it is all I’m gonna say, and he works within it here and he says, honor the, the masters believing masters that you could have a good testimony.
1:00:47: Yeah.
1:00:47: If there’s first Corinthians says it this way, if there’s a recourse to get out of that structure, get out of that structure.
1:00:54: But if you’re in that structure, be fully, fully bloom where you’re planted.
1:00:58: And so you’re in you’re, you’re a slave, you’re in that structure fully bloom where you’re planted.
1:01:03: We can do that.
1:01:03: We can make this work within the church and, and, and God, ultimately, we’re all slaves of his, you know, and So, and so it talks about the honoring those who you work for which for us today that would be like employers.
1:01:17: But then again, that was, there was a slave master a little different but maybe indentured servant and maybe it was a better way to think of it like I, you know, or, or Yeah, OK.
1:01:27: Give us it.
1:01:28: OK.
1:01:28: And then lastly, he, he ends by saying, listen, I want, I want to think about people who have wealth within your family, the family of God.
1:01:40: You can think people who have wealth.
1:01:41: Are they disqualified?
1:01:42: No, they’re actually part of the family of God.
1:01:43: This is a beautiful thing.
1:01:45: But don’t let them make it all about money and he says it’s a s it’s condemned to love money to pursue money for wealth’s sake.
1:01:54: But for those who have money, here’s how you use it.
1:01:57: Here’s how you can bless the family.
1:01:58: God, here’s how you can, you know, it’s all God’s money.
1:02:01: You can’t take it with you.
1:02:02: So be content is his main thing in the 1st 76.
1:02:05: Be content with what you have.
1:02:07: If God puts you in a position of riches, praise the Lord, you can use those for maximal impact.
1:02:12: Here’s how it looks to use it to be generous to be ready to give.
1:02:15: So I look at it as I’m like if God gives an increase, I have a funny, a funny story that I, I, I had some friends and, and we would share some believers and we would share meals or whatever.
1:02:27: And I, and I told him like, hey, I just got this new job.
1:02:30: I got, I got a raise and, and, and, and the, the, and I loved it.
1:02:34: The sister of the Lord.
1:02:36: they were married to a husband and wife and she’s like, praise the Lord.
1:02:38: We can, we can we can eat better meals now.
1:02:41: And I was like, hey, man, we can.
1:02:43: And so I was just thinking about it like, how is this used for the greater body?
1:02:46: If I get an increase, it’s a gift to the body.
1:02:49: So I’m like, OK, Lord, how can we use this?
1:02:50: You know?
1:02:50: And so, anyway, so, so that brings us full circle here.
1:02:55: I’m gonna say 12 last things and then we’re done with the recording part.
1:03:01: Is this, we’ve, we’ve really touched on pretty much everything in different ways here.
1:03:07: But I want to read off here 10 rules.
1:03:09: This is the end of the outline for the gospel life.
1:03:12: So this is our repeat of things.
1:03:14: Prayer should be prioritized.
1:03:17: There should be Godly living, which is, I mean, just a general for godliness, which fundamentally that Jesus is the center of that, the word should be taught and preached.
1:03:27: We should share the test, we should be willing to share testimony in the gospel families first to biological, then the church family should be raised and cared for.
1:03:39: Men, should be praying, leaving living a guy life, learning, preaching and teaching women should live Godly life.
1:03:45: They, they sound similar but they’re just in different aspects.
1:03:48: Godly life learning, having, raising, caretaking the family and church and praying.
1:03:53: Number eight, there’s God a pointed leadership we’ve talked about this, there’s doesn’t say a whole lot of what the leader should be doing.
1:04:00: I mean, it does, they’re overseeing things like the widow care, overseeing things like doctrine and overseeing these kind of things.
1:04:08: But they’re not doing all the work.
1:04:11: And number nine, we should be honoring leaders, whether that’s women with men, like h wives with husbands or leaders in the body of Christ or masters slaves to masters.
1:04:23: There’s different or kings.
1:04:24: We talk about honoring kings, praying for, there’s honoring leaders and then there’s Godly contempt is the end.
1:04:30: So I think it’s as easy as that, right?
1:04:32: The, that’s the, the 10 rules for the gospel life.
1:04:35: And this is what I said.
1:04:35: I want to leave us with first Timothy four at the beginning.
1:04:39: I don’t even remember.
1:04:39: So maybe if we, if, if people, if anyone will remember this, who’s listening to recording?
1:04:42: Are you out here that I said at the, at the heart of all of this I think it’s first Timothy four.
1:04:49: And I would say it starts with six, but I’m actually gonna start with five because I think I, I love that.
1:04:53: It starts with the word of God in prayer.
1:04:54: So we’re gonna say that too.
1:04:55: First of four or five, let me just read this and say one or two things and then we’re done for it.
1:05:02: Every verse four actually says everything created by God.
1:05:06: It verse five.
1:05:07: Now everything it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
1:05:15: If you put these things before the brothers, you will be, this is the Timothy.
1:05:19: Now you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
1:05:26: So we’re called to be trained in the word.
1:05:29: Have nothing to do with irreverent silly myths.
1:05:31: Rather train yourself for Godliness.
1:05:34: Be so be self control.
1:05:35: Don’t get distracted, train yourself for Godliness for a while, verse eight, for a while, bodily training is of some value.
1:05:42: Godliness is of value in every way as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1:05:49: The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance for to this end, we toil and we strive because we have our hopes set on the living God who is the savior of all people, especially of those who believe well, he’s he, he slips in the true gospel.
1:06:07: There, we have our hopes set on the living God.
1:06:09: That’s faith.
1:06:10: Who is the savior of all?
1:06:12: That’s the gospel.
1:06:13: He came to save us, especially of those who believe, but we need to believe, to receive that.
1:06:18: He did come for all but only those who receive it who believe verse 11 command and teach these things.
1:06:26: In fact, I was praying about, I was reading all this like, this is good.
1:06:28: This is good, Lord.
1:06:29: What should I do with this?
1:06:30: And then I prayed and I read this like command and OK, command and teach these things.
1:06:34: That’s why we’re recording this.
1:06:35: That’s why we’re doing this.
1:06:36: Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith in purity.
1:06:47: So let no one despise you don’t let them despise you just like it says, let the women learn.
1:06:52: Let, don’t let the women not learn in the same way.
1:06:56: Don’t be, don’t let anyone despise you.
1:06:58: How are you gonna do that by giving a good example in your teaching in your living back to your gospel is good.
1:07:06: Your teaching of the gospel is good, your life, your life conduct according to the gospel is good.
1:07:12: verse 13 until I come, devote yourself.
1:07:16: That’s a big word.
1:07:16: Devote yourself to the public reading of scripture.
1:07:19: We’re called to do this to, to what we’re doing here.
1:07:21: Reading the scripture to exhortation to teaching.
1:07:28: do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
1:07:35: I’m assuming that gift in included the teaching that the preaching the exhortation, the things that you need to declare command authoritatively teach of the from the word of God.
1:07:44: Doing it again, you’re, you’re approved because you know the word because you’re speaking it faithfully.
1:07:49: So and, and you have the gift of the Holy Spirit along with you.
1:07:51: So they were praying again, prayer and the word are going back and forth, they are prayed, they prophesized, they laid hands and God equipped you now to teach and we should be doing that.
1:08:00: This is two things that we need from the very beginning.
1:08:02: And the word that was made holy by the word of God and prayer, the word of God and prayer, the apostles in act six, that we need to dedicate ourselves to the word of God and the prayer.
1:08:09: If we’re gonna really see this thing go on fire.
1:08:13: OK, verse 15, practice these things immerse yourself in them.
1:08:18: I love that practice is one thing immerse yourself in them.
1:08:21: This shouldn’t be just a little bit here.
1:08:23: This should be a what you live, eat, breathe sleep so that all may see your perfection.
1:08:29: No, may see your progress.
1:08:30: And I think that’s an important thing.
1:08:32: We’re not called to be perfect in all of these things, we’re called to make progress.
1:08:36: And by showing our progress in immersing ourselves in a, in a Godly life and immersing ourselves with Godly doctrine, immersing ourselves with Godly teaching, immersing ourselves with of course, prayer.
1:08:45: First of all, immersing ourselves in all these things.
1:08:48: When we do that, it’s going to show them something, it’s going to change the course of history really the course of the church by doing this by showing our progress.
1:08:56: Verse 16, I’m gonna conclude with keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching, notice both of those persist in this for by so doing you will save who is on the line.
1:09:08: You will save both yourself and your hearers.
1:09:12: I know every day I’m looking at these things in Timothy, I’m understanding.
1:09:15: I’m reading the Bible, I’m making sure I’m getting it right.
1:09:17: And I’m praying and begging God that I’m not being blind and because I know so many can be blinded and so many can be blind and think they see.
1:09:23: I’m praying all the time and saying, Lord, help me, stay true.
1:09:26: Lord, help me stay pure.
1:09:27: I’m doing this because I know not only is my soul at stake, but according to this, even I, I can influence the souls of other my hearers.
1:09:37: So I’m trying to live and live and preach, live and teach live and know the gospel in such a way that is maximal impact for my salvation.
1:09:48: of course, to keep that intact and fully strong and thriving.
1:09:53: But also for the salvation of everyone.
1:09:55: God gives me.
1:09:56: And may it be the church would see this for all of us, for all generations of all time.