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1 Timothy 1:19
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19 Holding [echo] faith, [pistis] and [kai] a good [agathos] conscience; [suneidesis] which [hos] some [tis] having put away [apotheomai] concerning [peri] faith [pistis] have made shipwreck: [nauageo] KJV-Interlinear
19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith. NASB
Paul warns and encourages Timothy, to keep in the Word, faith and good conscience, which many have rejected.
Faith is a reference to the content of the word of God. Faith is not hoping or wishing, or praying for miracles, or asking others to pray for you.
Faith is the resultant construction of confidence due to ones detailed study (daily study), of the Word of God.
A good conscience is the correct application of knowledge learned.
Paul is addressing believers here, not unbelievers. Since unbelievers do not have a relationship with God, because they have not believed, then they have no viable faith. They have nothing real to believe in, for their life.
Believers on the other hand, can go from hot to cold, and everything in between, with their attitude toward God, Christ, and doctrine.
Most will be high on God, high on Jesus, and cold toward doctrine. After all, Bible doctrine is something that you have to study, and who wants to do that, when it is much easier to be just emotional? And so they sing the songs, chant the chants, quote the verses, and otherwise exercise only their emotional desires. But they haven’t learned anything, and thus have not grown up spiritually.
Faith is based on learned information. Faith steers a straight course in life. Emotions are responses or reactions to situations in life. Life situations change and so do ones emotions. Eventually the course of emotion or emotional revolt, and it is a revolt because it runs counter to Gods mandate to learn and grow up, anyway, emotional revolt eventually ends up in a shipwreck for ones life.
A shipwreck means poor navigation ending up on the rocks of life, stranded from the hub of life.
Bible doctrine is the hub of life. Sound doctrine in the soul is the basis for a full life, not emotion.
Timothy is commanded to guard doctrine, 1 Tim. 6:20, be nourished by it, 1 Tim. 4:6, and keep it, 1 Tim. 4:13; 2 Tim 4:2, and advance to maturity through the study of doctrine, 2 Tim. 2:15.
Being shipwrecked is where most folks fail in life. This is where the spiritual lives of most folks do not work out as they had hoped. This is why most folks, when they fall on hard times, get frustrated and blame God or anyone else who happens by.
They just refuse to study doctrine, daily.
And study does not mean your self-defined home-schooled method of study, but Gods approved method of being taught by means of a consistent and academic approach, word by word, verse by verse, precept by precept, learning, applying, and growing up.
This is the way of a safe and sure and successful and full course through life.
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