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1 Timothy 4:11
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11 These things [tauta] command [paraggello] and [kai] teach. [didasko] KJV-Interlinear
11 Prescribe and teach these things. NASB
‘These things,’ is a reference to the doctrines and Biblical principles that Paul has been giving to Timothy, in the previous verses. Namely to study and teach sound doctrine, and live by it. That is a principle that applies to you and to me, and to all Christians everywhere.
Command or prescribe, ‘paraggello,’ means to present truth with command with confidence, with certainty, to order, to mandate, to call into obedience.
Study so that you know, and teach what is true and correct.
The Bible is filled with words like, behold, or hear, or he who has an ear, or listen. And these words are designed to gain the attention of people so that they will listen and hear the truth of life, and then use it.
Unfortunately the teaching in our day is preaching rather than teaching. It is intriguing, or entertaining, or popular, or interesting. It is designed to gain the short term attention of people through emotion, rather than inculcating within them, a foundation of sound doctrine.
Far too often people are enticed with music or cult notions, or hidden codes that do not exist within the Bible, but are external from it, and are used to explain something in the Bible.
However, the Bible contains within itself, all that is necessary to understand what it has to say. Even the prophecies of tomorrow are explainable through the content of the Bible without the use of external sources. If external sources were required, then they would have been referenced within the Bible, and would have been available throughout history. But most external secret codes and such are nothing more than modern era or contemporary inventions intended for marketing purposes, having nothing to do with truth.
In other areas, the Bible is set aside for more emotional activities, to gain attention and retain memberships. Unfortunately modern society has a shorter attention span, than in former times.
Teaching or instruction must be commanding (lecture), convicting (truth), powerful (repercussions), and transforming (change for the better). All of the things that most students resist and thus bring failure in their studies.
The notion of having open discussions, of hearing or listening to new ideas, of accepting the views of others, of considering that there is more than one truth or more than one view, is a subtle attempt at watering down and compromising what the Bible has to teach.
Command means to order, to mandate, to call into obedience. And that is what Bible doctrine does.
Teach means to instruct repetitively, step by step, bit by bit, little by little, until the whole of the subject is thoroughly understood. This is accomplished by a strong commitment to the authority of the scriptures, not by looking to outside sources, but by proper interpretation of the scriptures by means of exegetical study and categorical assembly, and historical setting, in order to gain the correct meaning of what is being said.
In 1776, brave and wise men wrote the greatest document in all of human history, the Constitution of these United States. It set out limitations on government in order to insure the rights and freedoms of the individual.
From that early time, this nation has prospered to beyond boundaries never known by any nation ever before in history. Just as our constitution sets out to guard the individual, so too the Bible is the source document to assure freedom and prosperity for the individual for all of eternity.
However, truth is always under attack, and in an attempt to destroy both, the constitution has been under attack these many decades by a liberalism called progressivism, and the Bible has been under attack by a liberalism called compromise.
Both of which attempt to remove very subtly, the rights and freedoms of the individual, replacing them with an all knowing and all powerful elite group of people, who believe that they can make our decisions for us, and believing that they can make better decisions than we can on our own.
In order to gain centralized power, one must first destroy the faith of the masses through watered down principles, and destroy free choice through regulatory controls. And to do that the fundamental framework of documents like our constitution or the scriptures, must be discredited, set aside, and rendered powerless.
Those who teach openness or promote faith by means of emotion or social activities, contribute to the weakness of a society.
And you may very well see and begin to understand just why society is failing to understand the basic principles of life, and it is because too many do not knuckle down to a daily study of the scriptures, and slug it out through a word by word, line by line learning process.
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