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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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Saturday, December 12, 2009
1 Timothy 1:18
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1 Timothy 1:18
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18 This [taute] charge [paraggelia] I commit [paratithemi] unto thee, [soi] son [teknon] Timothy, [Timotheos] according to [kata] the prophecies [propheteia] which went before [proago] on [epi] thee, [se] that [hina] thou [strateuomai] by [en] them [autos] mightest war [strateuomai] a good [kalos] warfare; [strateia] KJV-Interlinear
18 This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may fight the good fight, NASB
Paul gave Timothy a charge, ‘paraggelia,’ a command, a military order, which was not an optional request, but a mandate for Timothy to pursue his ministry, or to pursue the duties of his spiritual life.
There are many such examples of people being commanded to pursue their God given duties, Moses (Ex 4:10-16), Isaiah (Isa 6:8-11), Jeremiah (Jer 20:9), Ezekiel (Ezek 2:7-8), and Jonah (Jonah 1:1-2).
And even though you might not be functioning as a minister on this earth, you also have responsibilities as a student of the Word of God, to pursue your studies, and resultant duties as God prescribes (not as you see fit), specifically for your life.
Entrust, ‘paratithemi,’ means to guard as you would an extremely valuable treasure placed in your care. And that treasure is Bible doctrine. But entrust means to handle and use responsibly. And in the case of learning Bible doctrine, that means to guard it with objectivity, and not with haphazard opinions or views of a popular nature.
Far too many people lack the academic foundation for understanding Bible doctrine. They go, on whatever is popular, or whatever makes sense to them at some given moment, and they become automatic critics. They take verses at random, and utilize them for emotional reinforcement. People will even build their own views in a random and haphazard way, and that is an irresponsible approach to ones spiritual life. It opens the door up for total spiritual dysfunction and mis-direction. And if you entrench yourself with wrong ideas, then your spiritual life is placed in jeopardy.
Bible doctrine is the single most important possession that you can have. Great care should be exercised when approaching Gods Word. And great care should be utilized when studying Gods Word.
Prophecies here refers to the teaching of scripture, and has nothing to do with predictions of future events.
To fight the good fight, means to dedicate yourself to your daily studies. To be consistent, and responsible, and proactive in the pursuit of your daily studies. To stick with your studies because you have an internal desire and motivation to want to learn, and to grow up in your spiritual life.
And so this is the charge that Paul gave to Timothy. And through Timothy, the same charge is given to you and to every believer.
In our Revelation study, we will be reviewing the various attitudes that people have with regard to their spiritual lives. Most rank their spiritual effort with a very low, if at all, priority. Yet they demonstrate the usual rah-rah’s or sounds of excitement, but their actions never follow their expressions.
We all have a mandate to grow up in our spiritual life. Why? Because therein is our greatest life beyond imagination. However, your spiritual motivation has to exist, and your actions must follow Gods mandates and methods for learning and growing, not your own system for learning.
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1 Timothy 1:18
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18 This [taute] charge [paraggelia] I commit [paratithemi] unto thee, [soi] son [teknon] Timothy, [Timotheos] according to [kata] the prophecies [propheteia] which went before [proago] on [epi] thee, [se] that [hina] thou [strateuomai] by [en] them [autos] mightest war [strateuomai] a good [kalos] warfare; [strateia] KJV-Interlinear
18 This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may fight the good fight, NASB
Paul gave Timothy a charge, ‘paraggelia,’ a command, a military order, which was not an optional request, but a mandate for Timothy to pursue his ministry, or to pursue the duties of his spiritual life.
There are many such examples of people being commanded to pursue their God given duties, Moses (Ex 4:10-16), Isaiah (Isa 6:8-11), Jeremiah (Jer 20:9), Ezekiel (Ezek 2:7-8), and Jonah (Jonah 1:1-2).
And even though you might not be functioning as a minister on this earth, you also have responsibilities as a student of the Word of God, to pursue your studies, and resultant duties as God prescribes (not as you see fit), specifically for your life.
Entrust, ‘paratithemi,’ means to guard as you would an extremely valuable treasure placed in your care. And that treasure is Bible doctrine. But entrust means to handle and use responsibly. And in the case of learning Bible doctrine, that means to guard it with objectivity, and not with haphazard opinions or views of a popular nature.
Far too many people lack the academic foundation for understanding Bible doctrine. They go, on whatever is popular, or whatever makes sense to them at some given moment, and they become automatic critics. They take verses at random, and utilize them for emotional reinforcement. People will even build their own views in a random and haphazard way, and that is an irresponsible approach to ones spiritual life. It opens the door up for total spiritual dysfunction and mis-direction. And if you entrench yourself with wrong ideas, then your spiritual life is placed in jeopardy.
Bible doctrine is the single most important possession that you can have. Great care should be exercised when approaching Gods Word. And great care should be utilized when studying Gods Word.
Prophecies here refers to the teaching of scripture, and has nothing to do with predictions of future events.
To fight the good fight, means to dedicate yourself to your daily studies. To be consistent, and responsible, and proactive in the pursuit of your daily studies. To stick with your studies because you have an internal desire and motivation to want to learn, and to grow up in your spiritual life.
And so this is the charge that Paul gave to Timothy. And through Timothy, the same charge is given to you and to every believer.
In our Revelation study, we will be reviewing the various attitudes that people have with regard to their spiritual lives. Most rank their spiritual effort with a very low, if at all, priority. Yet they demonstrate the usual rah-rah’s or sounds of excitement, but their actions never follow their expressions.
We all have a mandate to grow up in our spiritual life. Why? Because therein is our greatest life beyond imagination. However, your spiritual motivation has to exist, and your actions must follow Gods mandates and methods for learning and growing, not your own system for learning.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
1 Timothy 1:17
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1 Timothy 1:17
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17 Now [de] unto the King [basileus] eternal, [aion] immortal, [aphthartos] invisible, [aoratos] the only [monos] wise [sophos] God, [theos] be honour [time] and [kai] glory [doxa] for [eis] ever [aion] and ever. [aion] Amen. [amen] KJV-Interlinear
17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. NASB
Paul ends this passage with a praise description of Jesus Christ.
King – the foundation of absolute power and sovereignty.
Eternal – a period of time, an era, which has no beginning and no end.
Immortal – no limitations, no decay or decline, no corruptibility, a state of continuance in stability.
Invisible – incapable of being seen by human means, in the spiritual sense, undetectable by human methods.
Only wise God – only means single, one and only, excludes everyone and everything else. There is no other.
Wise means knowledge, understanding, omniscient, all knowing.
God is the highest possible being. There is no other, higher, smarter, better, etc. than God.
Honor – respect, distinguished, reputable. Perfect reputation.
Glory – magnificence, perfection, splendor, brilliance.
And so this is the description of Jesus Christ, of whom many religions reject, diminish, or ignore, who Himself is the only God, the only wise God, who is eternal and perfect, all powerful and sovereign of the universe and more.
And now to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you without blemish, before the presence of His glory, with exceeding joy. To the only wise God, even Jesus Christ our Lord. To whom be glory and majesty, dominion and power, before time, now and forever. Amen. Believe it, because it is so.
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1 Timothy 1:17
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17 Now [de] unto the King [basileus] eternal, [aion] immortal, [aphthartos] invisible, [aoratos] the only [monos] wise [sophos] God, [theos] be honour [time] and [kai] glory [doxa] for [eis] ever [aion] and ever. [aion] Amen. [amen] KJV-Interlinear
17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. NASB
Paul ends this passage with a praise description of Jesus Christ.
King – the foundation of absolute power and sovereignty.
Eternal – a period of time, an era, which has no beginning and no end.
Immortal – no limitations, no decay or decline, no corruptibility, a state of continuance in stability.
Invisible – incapable of being seen by human means, in the spiritual sense, undetectable by human methods.
Only wise God – only means single, one and only, excludes everyone and everything else. There is no other.
Wise means knowledge, understanding, omniscient, all knowing.
God is the highest possible being. There is no other, higher, smarter, better, etc. than God.
Honor – respect, distinguished, reputable. Perfect reputation.
Glory – magnificence, perfection, splendor, brilliance.
And so this is the description of Jesus Christ, of whom many religions reject, diminish, or ignore, who Himself is the only God, the only wise God, who is eternal and perfect, all powerful and sovereign of the universe and more.
And now to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you without blemish, before the presence of His glory, with exceeding joy. To the only wise God, even Jesus Christ our Lord. To whom be glory and majesty, dominion and power, before time, now and forever. Amen. Believe it, because it is so.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
1 Timothy 1:16
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1 Timothy 1:16
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16 Howbeit [alla] for this [touto] cause [dia] I obtained mercy, [eleeo] that [hina] in [en] me [emoi] first [protos] Jesus [Iesous] Christ [Christos] might shew forth [endeiknumi] all [pas] longsuffering, [makrothumia] for [pros] a pattern [hupotuposis] to them which should hereafter [mello] believe [pisteuo] on [epi] him [autos] to [eis] life [zoe] everlasting. [aionios] KJV-Interlinear
16 And yet for this reason I found mercy, in order that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience, as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life. NASB
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. By definition, sinners are failures in life, lost to all of eternity and have no way out. All of humanity, consists of sinners. Jesus is the only exception. You are not an exception.
Therefore, no one can earn, or work for their salvation, because He did not come into the world to save those who are capable of saving themselves. No one is capable. That dismisses all forms of works, or elitism, or superiority concepts as possible mechanisms for salvation. That dismisses all forms of religion, philosophy, cults, beliefs, etc., that are based on works or human effort or human attributes. That leaves Christianity as the only viable relationship with God, through Christ.
All abilities, all talents, all social status, all achievements, that anyone may possess or occupy in life, is God given, and not human earned. God formed the clay vessels, not the vessels themselves. You cannot impress God by being you, because He made you. You did not make yourself. There is no such thing as the self made individual.
And so, God came into this world to save sinners, and in doing so, He hands out His grace as a gift to all that will accept it.
Paul has used himself as the example of a total failure in life, and if God can save Paul, who was a lying, cheating, self-righteous, murdering misfit, then God is able to save anyone. That includes you.
There is no one who is beyond salvation, unless they are already dead, and not too many of them are likely to be reading this study, now. That’s my humor for the day.
So if you are not dead, then you must be alive, and if you are alive, then God is able to save you. And you receive your salvation by believing in Jesus Christ. You simply state in your own heart, in your own thoughts, ‘Father, I believe in Jesus Christ.’
Father, is God the Father, and it is to Him that all prayers are addressed. Expressions of faith are in effect prayers, and they are always answered with approval and acceptance. That is Gods promise. The expression of faith to receive salvation, takes but a moment of time, and it doesn’t even hurt.
‘Makrothumia,’ means patience, patience with humanity. And God has all of the patience in the world and more. He has looked down through the tunnel of time and knows how long you are going to reject Him. But He will wait until you come to your senses, or until you have committed yourself to eternal doom. In either case, you cannot blame God for your procrastination.
But the longer you hold out, the greater the risk of your losing everything, forever. And ones eternal destiny is something that no one should gamble with, because there is nothing to be gained by rejecting Christ, and everything to lose.
Paul is the pattern of a loser. The pattern (sin in all categories) is in view here, not the deeds or their quantity. There is no one who can claim themselves as being a worse sinner.
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1 Timothy 1:16
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16 Howbeit [alla] for this [touto] cause [dia] I obtained mercy, [eleeo] that [hina] in [en] me [emoi] first [protos] Jesus [Iesous] Christ [Christos] might shew forth [endeiknumi] all [pas] longsuffering, [makrothumia] for [pros] a pattern [hupotuposis] to them which should hereafter [mello] believe [pisteuo] on [epi] him [autos] to [eis] life [zoe] everlasting. [aionios] KJV-Interlinear
16 And yet for this reason I found mercy, in order that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience, as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life. NASB
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. By definition, sinners are failures in life, lost to all of eternity and have no way out. All of humanity, consists of sinners. Jesus is the only exception. You are not an exception.
Therefore, no one can earn, or work for their salvation, because He did not come into the world to save those who are capable of saving themselves. No one is capable. That dismisses all forms of works, or elitism, or superiority concepts as possible mechanisms for salvation. That dismisses all forms of religion, philosophy, cults, beliefs, etc., that are based on works or human effort or human attributes. That leaves Christianity as the only viable relationship with God, through Christ.
All abilities, all talents, all social status, all achievements, that anyone may possess or occupy in life, is God given, and not human earned. God formed the clay vessels, not the vessels themselves. You cannot impress God by being you, because He made you. You did not make yourself. There is no such thing as the self made individual.
And so, God came into this world to save sinners, and in doing so, He hands out His grace as a gift to all that will accept it.
Paul has used himself as the example of a total failure in life, and if God can save Paul, who was a lying, cheating, self-righteous, murdering misfit, then God is able to save anyone. That includes you.
There is no one who is beyond salvation, unless they are already dead, and not too many of them are likely to be reading this study, now. That’s my humor for the day.
So if you are not dead, then you must be alive, and if you are alive, then God is able to save you. And you receive your salvation by believing in Jesus Christ. You simply state in your own heart, in your own thoughts, ‘Father, I believe in Jesus Christ.’
Father, is God the Father, and it is to Him that all prayers are addressed. Expressions of faith are in effect prayers, and they are always answered with approval and acceptance. That is Gods promise. The expression of faith to receive salvation, takes but a moment of time, and it doesn’t even hurt.
‘Makrothumia,’ means patience, patience with humanity. And God has all of the patience in the world and more. He has looked down through the tunnel of time and knows how long you are going to reject Him. But He will wait until you come to your senses, or until you have committed yourself to eternal doom. In either case, you cannot blame God for your procrastination.
But the longer you hold out, the greater the risk of your losing everything, forever. And ones eternal destiny is something that no one should gamble with, because there is nothing to be gained by rejecting Christ, and everything to lose.
Paul is the pattern of a loser. The pattern (sin in all categories) is in view here, not the deeds or their quantity. There is no one who can claim themselves as being a worse sinner.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
1 Timothy 1:15
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1 Timothy 1:15
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15 This is a faithful [pistos] saying, [logos] and [kai] worthy [axios] of all [pas] acceptation, [apodoche] that [hoti] Christ [Christos] Jesus [Iesous] came [erchomai] into [eis] the world [kosmos] to save [sozo] sinners; [hamartolos] of whom [hos] I [ego] am [eimi] chief. [protos] KJV-Interlinear
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. NASB
At the time of this letter written to Timothy by Paul, very few letters had been written. And there were no cataloging of the letters written thus far, into some sort of formal book had been made either.
The only spreading of the gospel, the only spreading of doctrinal information, was by word of mouth, since the letters previously written by Paul were very few in number.
However, here Paul tells us by the phrase, ‘It is a faithful saying,’ which means that ‘It is well known by everyone.’
These things that we have been studying, and the content of this verse, were common knowledge throughout the region and beyond.
Why did Christ come into the world? And this is a reference to His first advent. He came into the world to save sinners.
He did not come into the world, the first time, to establish His kingdom.
And to save sinners, Christ became a sacrifice in our place, in order to pay the price of sin. Why? Because we couldn’t pay that price and survive. Once death had consumed us, we would be lost forever, and unable to return to life.
However, Christ came into the world, which means that he already existed, He as God, was not born, not created, did not come into existence for the very first time, but came into the world (the sphere of humanity) through the person of Jesus, John 1:9; 3:19; 6:14; 11:27; 12:46; 16:28; 18:37.
So Christ who is God, became a man, the unique person in all of the universe, both God and man together in one person. That is why in Deu. 6:4, it is said, ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is unique.’
Lord, is the personal reference for the Son, the second person of the Trinity. The Lord is one, means unique. The Israelis from their very beginning, knew and understood the uniqueness of the Messiah, and why he was coming into the world.
Somewhere along the way, in the last few centuries prior to His birth, as Judaism became the dominate religion, this principle got lost, and the Pharisees and scribes and such, decided that the Lords coming was to establish His Kingdom. They did not see any reason for any necessity of their being saved.
But there were to be two advents of Christ. The first was to save, and then the second was to establish His Kingdom. The first has been accomplished, the Second remains future.
There are several verses speaking to the purpose of His first advent (to save sinners, to provide salvation), Matt 1:21, Matt 9:13, Luke 19:10, Jn. 3:17.
Paul describes himself as one of the worst of the worst of sinners, and if God is able to save him, then God is able to save anyone. There is no one on this earth, no one in history, for whom God could not save. And if you look back in history, then you certainly can find many examples of people who were far worse than you. And God is able to provide the mechanism of salvation for everyone, and He did.
The only deciding factor is, will each individual believe in Christ? And for that, God will not force anyone to believe in Himself, but allows everyone to make up their own mind regarding Him.
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1 Timothy 1:15
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15 This is a faithful [pistos] saying, [logos] and [kai] worthy [axios] of all [pas] acceptation, [apodoche] that [hoti] Christ [Christos] Jesus [Iesous] came [erchomai] into [eis] the world [kosmos] to save [sozo] sinners; [hamartolos] of whom [hos] I [ego] am [eimi] chief. [protos] KJV-Interlinear
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. NASB
At the time of this letter written to Timothy by Paul, very few letters had been written. And there were no cataloging of the letters written thus far, into some sort of formal book had been made either.
The only spreading of the gospel, the only spreading of doctrinal information, was by word of mouth, since the letters previously written by Paul were very few in number.
However, here Paul tells us by the phrase, ‘It is a faithful saying,’ which means that ‘It is well known by everyone.’
These things that we have been studying, and the content of this verse, were common knowledge throughout the region and beyond.
Why did Christ come into the world? And this is a reference to His first advent. He came into the world to save sinners.
He did not come into the world, the first time, to establish His kingdom.
And to save sinners, Christ became a sacrifice in our place, in order to pay the price of sin. Why? Because we couldn’t pay that price and survive. Once death had consumed us, we would be lost forever, and unable to return to life.
However, Christ came into the world, which means that he already existed, He as God, was not born, not created, did not come into existence for the very first time, but came into the world (the sphere of humanity) through the person of Jesus, John 1:9; 3:19; 6:14; 11:27; 12:46; 16:28; 18:37.
So Christ who is God, became a man, the unique person in all of the universe, both God and man together in one person. That is why in Deu. 6:4, it is said, ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is unique.’
Lord, is the personal reference for the Son, the second person of the Trinity. The Lord is one, means unique. The Israelis from their very beginning, knew and understood the uniqueness of the Messiah, and why he was coming into the world.
Somewhere along the way, in the last few centuries prior to His birth, as Judaism became the dominate religion, this principle got lost, and the Pharisees and scribes and such, decided that the Lords coming was to establish His Kingdom. They did not see any reason for any necessity of their being saved.
But there were to be two advents of Christ. The first was to save, and then the second was to establish His Kingdom. The first has been accomplished, the Second remains future.
There are several verses speaking to the purpose of His first advent (to save sinners, to provide salvation), Matt 1:21, Matt 9:13, Luke 19:10, Jn. 3:17.
Paul describes himself as one of the worst of the worst of sinners, and if God is able to save him, then God is able to save anyone. There is no one on this earth, no one in history, for whom God could not save. And if you look back in history, then you certainly can find many examples of people who were far worse than you. And God is able to provide the mechanism of salvation for everyone, and He did.
The only deciding factor is, will each individual believe in Christ? And for that, God will not force anyone to believe in Himself, but allows everyone to make up their own mind regarding Him.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
1 Timothy 14
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1 Timothy 1:14
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14 And [de] the grace [charis] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] was exceeding abundant [huperpleonazo] with [meta] faith [pistis] and [kai] love [agape] which [ho] is in [en] Christ [Christos] Jesus. [Iesous] KJV-Interlinear
14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. NASB
Faith, grace, and love are frequently mentioned and linked together in the Bible, Rom 5:20, 2 Cor 9:8, Eph 1:15; Eph 2:8, 3:17; Col 1:4; 1 Thess 1:3; 3:6; 5:8; 2 Thess 1:3; Philem 5, Col 1:23, 1 John 3:14.
Despite the prevalence of sin in the world, whether promoted by individuals in ignorance, or intentionally by people or organizations who routinely promote false concepts, Gods grace is more than a match for them all collectively.
Paul describes abundance here as ‘more than.’ And ‘more than’ means, far beyond that which is required or necessary.
Similar wording is used in James for ‘greater’ grace, which likewise indicates blessings that far exceed the normal levels of blessing, and are used in relation to mature believers.
God does not have to allocate His grace to the world. God does not have to limit the grace that may be available to any given individual. There is more than enough to go around. There is never a shortage of grace.
Everyone can be a winner and receive the maximum blessing available, if everyone makes the effort.
In this world when there is a competition, and there is almost a competition for nearly everything that goes on, but only one person can win the winners prize. Only a few can win the highest honors, and the rest go without. Even those who try really hard, gain nothing, if they do not win.
But in Gods plan, anyone who obeys His commands, can be a winner of the maximum blessings that will be available both now and especially in eternity. But the key here is obedience.
Paul uses faith and love here in conjunction with grace.
Grace is Gods policy for His divine plan. And grace is tied to truth.
Love is ‘agape,’ which refers to the content of the scriptures. Faith is ones conviction, ones belief, but not based on hope or wishes, but on facts, knowledge, wisdom, confidence.
Faith is developed and constructed from doctrine, learned doctrine. And learned doctrine comes from – learning.
Learning comes from a daily study of the scriptures, and daily study requires a self-disciplined commitment and desire, a genuine desire, to fulfill ones own life to the fullest.
Again, hoping and wishing, and even convincing yourself through emotional mechanisms, won’t accomplish the learning required to secure spiritual growth.
Gods grace comes to you, through only one source, Jesus Christ. This rules out all other religions, philosophies, and so forth. It even rules out the self defined spirituality that people come up with from time to time. Because if you are not engaged in a daily study of the Bible, a study which is taught to you, then whatever you are doing, amounts to doing nothing.
Study of the word of God requires and demands a consistent and systematic and objective approach. And while folks want to think of themselves as self taught, they are not. They are only fooling themselves.
Lack of a legitimate study, makes you the potential victim of those who promote false views.
Only a legitimate daily study, will provide you with the defenses necessary to avoid the charlatans of the world. And more than that, it opens up the huge treasure of Gods grace for your life.
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1 Timothy 1:14
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14 And [de] the grace [charis] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] was exceeding abundant [huperpleonazo] with [meta] faith [pistis] and [kai] love [agape] which [ho] is in [en] Christ [Christos] Jesus. [Iesous] KJV-Interlinear
14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. NASB
Faith, grace, and love are frequently mentioned and linked together in the Bible, Rom 5:20, 2 Cor 9:8, Eph 1:15; Eph 2:8, 3:17; Col 1:4; 1 Thess 1:3; 3:6; 5:8; 2 Thess 1:3; Philem 5, Col 1:23, 1 John 3:14.
Despite the prevalence of sin in the world, whether promoted by individuals in ignorance, or intentionally by people or organizations who routinely promote false concepts, Gods grace is more than a match for them all collectively.
Paul describes abundance here as ‘more than.’ And ‘more than’ means, far beyond that which is required or necessary.
Similar wording is used in James for ‘greater’ grace, which likewise indicates blessings that far exceed the normal levels of blessing, and are used in relation to mature believers.
God does not have to allocate His grace to the world. God does not have to limit the grace that may be available to any given individual. There is more than enough to go around. There is never a shortage of grace.
Everyone can be a winner and receive the maximum blessing available, if everyone makes the effort.
In this world when there is a competition, and there is almost a competition for nearly everything that goes on, but only one person can win the winners prize. Only a few can win the highest honors, and the rest go without. Even those who try really hard, gain nothing, if they do not win.
But in Gods plan, anyone who obeys His commands, can be a winner of the maximum blessings that will be available both now and especially in eternity. But the key here is obedience.
Paul uses faith and love here in conjunction with grace.
Grace is Gods policy for His divine plan. And grace is tied to truth.
Love is ‘agape,’ which refers to the content of the scriptures. Faith is ones conviction, ones belief, but not based on hope or wishes, but on facts, knowledge, wisdom, confidence.
Faith is developed and constructed from doctrine, learned doctrine. And learned doctrine comes from – learning.
Learning comes from a daily study of the scriptures, and daily study requires a self-disciplined commitment and desire, a genuine desire, to fulfill ones own life to the fullest.
Again, hoping and wishing, and even convincing yourself through emotional mechanisms, won’t accomplish the learning required to secure spiritual growth.
Gods grace comes to you, through only one source, Jesus Christ. This rules out all other religions, philosophies, and so forth. It even rules out the self defined spirituality that people come up with from time to time. Because if you are not engaged in a daily study of the Bible, a study which is taught to you, then whatever you are doing, amounts to doing nothing.
Study of the word of God requires and demands a consistent and systematic and objective approach. And while folks want to think of themselves as self taught, they are not. They are only fooling themselves.
Lack of a legitimate study, makes you the potential victim of those who promote false views.
Only a legitimate daily study, will provide you with the defenses necessary to avoid the charlatans of the world. And more than that, it opens up the huge treasure of Gods grace for your life.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
1 Timothy 1:13
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1 Timothy 1:13
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13 Who [ho] was [on] before [proteron] a blasphemer, [blasphemos] and [kai] a persecutor, [dioktes] and [kai] injurious: [hubristes] but [alla] I obtained mercy, [eleeo] because [hoti] I did [poieo] it ignorantly [agnoeo] in [en] unbelief. [apistia] KJV-Interlinear
13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. And yet I was shown mercy, because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; NASB
Your sins are not the issue in life, grace is.
Rom. 5:20
20 And the Law came in that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, NASB
The Law came into the world to demonstrate mans inability to live a perfect life. Once sin was recognized and defined, then its increase, is not the rise in the number of sins committed, but the accurate recognition of the sins that were already being committed. If you do not think you are a sinner, then you do not count your sins. Thus your count is zero. But once you recognize the definition of sin, then your count jumps off the chart. Thus the awareness or increase in the accurate count of what is already there.
But no matter what the sin count, and there are a lot of sins when you add the sins of all of humanity, for all of human history, grace is by far greater than any number of sins. Grace is by far greater than any category of sin.
Paul violated all ten of the Ten Commandments, even though he thought he was abiding by them all.
And for that matter, all people, that includes you, have violated all ten of the commandments. The first five dealing with God and the second five dealing with man. And all you have to do is go no further than your own thoughts. Then of course there are your actions and so forth, but once the thought has been entertained, then the sin line has been crossed.
The sin count is irrelevant. Whether you have murdered millions, or hated a single time, murder is murder and sin is a sin. There is no such thing as a good sin or a bad sin. Any sin, whether a little white lie or something more atrocious, is sufficient basis for permanent separation from God. Adam took only a single bite of the forbidden fruit.
And when we are born, at that moment, we are born spiritually dead. In Adam all have sinned. Our sin nature was handed down through birth, since the time of Adam. So we start out life with a strike out. We are born spiritually dead.
Then comes grace and grace is greater than sin or death, but a person has to believe in Christ and in so doing, accept Him as Lord and Savior and that includes the entire plan of God, and so forth. Believing is Christ is a single and simple thought, but it embraces a huge array of doctrinal principles that apply to salvation. And grace is one of them.
Pauls sins are well documented, Acts 26:10, 11, Acts 9:4-5; 22:7-8; 26:14-15, Acts 8:1, 3 and 9:1..
As a blasphemer, persecutor, and violent aggressor, Paul rejected truth in his pursuit of noble deeds, he rejected the rights of individuals in the name of his own personal beliefs, and he carried out his agenda even to the point of executing people in the name of good. All of this was the activity of evil, and nothing less. But he thought he was doing the right thing.
Lack of truth prevented him from knowing his error. But that did not prevent him from being held responsible for his own thoughts and actions. Guilty is guilty whether you know it or not.
Where grace is the policy of God, mercy is the action of grace. Mercy is the action of forgiveness that cancels out all of the flaws, blemishes, taints, sins etc., in ones life.
Grace is the policy made possible by means of the work of Christ on the Cross, wherein He took all of the sins of the world onto Himself and paid their price (death) in full. Thereby, paving the way for God to apply mercy to each one of us. Mercy is the removal of all of the misery that accompanies sin.
Grace removed the guilt of sin, and mercy removes the repercussion of misery that accompanies sin, through Gods compassion.
And why was this applied to Paul, who was the worst type of sinner?
Because Paul sinned in ignorance, and then repented. His repentance is his expression of faith for salvation, and confession after salvation, during the rest of his life. He was obedient in this respect, because this is Gods mandate and Paul did that which was expected of him.
And this applies to you as well. Salvation requires faith, and that takes only one single moment of thought in your life. And then confession is required of you on a daily basis, in order for you to maintain your fellowship status, and thus be able to grow up in your spiritual life.
Both faith one time, and confession many times (on a regular basis during the rest of your life), are mandated by God in order for you to receive the actions of grace – mercy.
But Paul did these things (sin) in ignorance. But once known (gospel or doctrine), then he is held accountable for his acceptance of Gods mandate or for his rejection. And this applies to us all as well.
Ignorance means simply, not knowing of something, before you actually come to know it. Ignorance goes away when you know something and then make a conscious decision to ignore or reject it.
Paul did not know of salvation by faith until that fateful day when Christ met him on the road and confronted him. Paul believed and therefore was saved. He could have rejected Christ and of course we would have never heard of Paul.
The Pharisees, for example, knew what they were doing, Jesus stood right in front of them and told them so, but they rejected Jesus as the Messiah. Those who continued to reject Jesus, were not saved, but those who finally believed in Jesus, received salvation.
And this is one application of grace and mercy because of ignorance.
There is also an application of grace and mercy with regard to ones spiritual growth when you have believed, but then turn away from doctrine during your life. Your salvation remains in tack of course, but your growth and blessings are reduced or removed, Heb. 6:4-6, when you knowingly ignore your responsibilities.
Ignorance of the spiritual life does not remove the mercies and blessings that accompany your spiritual life, but once you become aware of your spiritual responsibilities, and know that you are required to study and grow, etc, then your ignorance no longer applies, because you know, but you consciously ignore your responsibilities.
Do not think that your ignorance is better, because when God keeps you in this world, and brings you to the knowledge of doctrine, then He has a greater purpose for you, so you are far better off knowing what is expected of you, and then following through with it.
Knowing ones responsibilities, and ignoring them and continuing in willful sin (namely rejection of truth or rejection of ones responsibilities), then that can result in permanent judgment against you, Heb. 10:26-27. And for unbelievers that means the Lake of Fire, and for indifferent believers, that can mean none of the additional blessings, or no participation in blessings, that are available to mature or growing believers. And these permanent restrictions will last forever. Unless of course you change your ways and get with the study program, etc.
And there are two more principles related to ignorance. One for or unintentional sins, Num 15:22-29, and one for intentional sins, where the guilt shall be held against the person, Num. 15:30-31.
These two broad principles cover all peoples born into this world. Many will not live for a very long time, such as babies, or young children. Or many will not ever possess the mental cognizance to understand anything. For these and other similar examples, the principles of grace and mercy for ignorance, apply. They will be saved automatically, with no appropriate blessings lost, as God applies fairness in these cases.
So, you may be a habitual liar, you may be sitting on death row, you may have been married and divorced a thousand times, you may be a gossip, a prostitute, a thief, a self-righteous person, you may be a nag and a rag, you, whatever you are or have been or will be, is not the issue in life.
Gods grace is the issue, not you. And following that, your willingness and commitment to change yourself, by obeying Gods mandates, not by setting up your own standards of conduct.
If you are an unbeliever, then all you need do is believe in Christ, ‘Father, I believe in Jesus Christ.’ And that ends and concludes the salvation issue in your life. Now you are a believer and the issues of believers now apply.
If you are a believer, then what you think of doctrine, is the issue, the daily issue in your life. For your attitude toward doctrine will determine your spiritual growth, or lack of it. And that (your spiritual growth) will determine your blessings, or lack of them, for both now and in eternity.
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1 Timothy 1:13
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13 Who [ho] was [on] before [proteron] a blasphemer, [blasphemos] and [kai] a persecutor, [dioktes] and [kai] injurious: [hubristes] but [alla] I obtained mercy, [eleeo] because [hoti] I did [poieo] it ignorantly [agnoeo] in [en] unbelief. [apistia] KJV-Interlinear
13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. And yet I was shown mercy, because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; NASB
Your sins are not the issue in life, grace is.
Rom. 5:20
20 And the Law came in that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, NASB
The Law came into the world to demonstrate mans inability to live a perfect life. Once sin was recognized and defined, then its increase, is not the rise in the number of sins committed, but the accurate recognition of the sins that were already being committed. If you do not think you are a sinner, then you do not count your sins. Thus your count is zero. But once you recognize the definition of sin, then your count jumps off the chart. Thus the awareness or increase in the accurate count of what is already there.
But no matter what the sin count, and there are a lot of sins when you add the sins of all of humanity, for all of human history, grace is by far greater than any number of sins. Grace is by far greater than any category of sin.
Paul violated all ten of the Ten Commandments, even though he thought he was abiding by them all.
And for that matter, all people, that includes you, have violated all ten of the commandments. The first five dealing with God and the second five dealing with man. And all you have to do is go no further than your own thoughts. Then of course there are your actions and so forth, but once the thought has been entertained, then the sin line has been crossed.
The sin count is irrelevant. Whether you have murdered millions, or hated a single time, murder is murder and sin is a sin. There is no such thing as a good sin or a bad sin. Any sin, whether a little white lie or something more atrocious, is sufficient basis for permanent separation from God. Adam took only a single bite of the forbidden fruit.
And when we are born, at that moment, we are born spiritually dead. In Adam all have sinned. Our sin nature was handed down through birth, since the time of Adam. So we start out life with a strike out. We are born spiritually dead.
Then comes grace and grace is greater than sin or death, but a person has to believe in Christ and in so doing, accept Him as Lord and Savior and that includes the entire plan of God, and so forth. Believing is Christ is a single and simple thought, but it embraces a huge array of doctrinal principles that apply to salvation. And grace is one of them.
Pauls sins are well documented, Acts 26:10, 11, Acts 9:4-5; 22:7-8; 26:14-15, Acts 8:1, 3 and 9:1..
As a blasphemer, persecutor, and violent aggressor, Paul rejected truth in his pursuit of noble deeds, he rejected the rights of individuals in the name of his own personal beliefs, and he carried out his agenda even to the point of executing people in the name of good. All of this was the activity of evil, and nothing less. But he thought he was doing the right thing.
Lack of truth prevented him from knowing his error. But that did not prevent him from being held responsible for his own thoughts and actions. Guilty is guilty whether you know it or not.
Where grace is the policy of God, mercy is the action of grace. Mercy is the action of forgiveness that cancels out all of the flaws, blemishes, taints, sins etc., in ones life.
Grace is the policy made possible by means of the work of Christ on the Cross, wherein He took all of the sins of the world onto Himself and paid their price (death) in full. Thereby, paving the way for God to apply mercy to each one of us. Mercy is the removal of all of the misery that accompanies sin.
Grace removed the guilt of sin, and mercy removes the repercussion of misery that accompanies sin, through Gods compassion.
And why was this applied to Paul, who was the worst type of sinner?
Because Paul sinned in ignorance, and then repented. His repentance is his expression of faith for salvation, and confession after salvation, during the rest of his life. He was obedient in this respect, because this is Gods mandate and Paul did that which was expected of him.
And this applies to you as well. Salvation requires faith, and that takes only one single moment of thought in your life. And then confession is required of you on a daily basis, in order for you to maintain your fellowship status, and thus be able to grow up in your spiritual life.
Both faith one time, and confession many times (on a regular basis during the rest of your life), are mandated by God in order for you to receive the actions of grace – mercy.
But Paul did these things (sin) in ignorance. But once known (gospel or doctrine), then he is held accountable for his acceptance of Gods mandate or for his rejection. And this applies to us all as well.
Ignorance means simply, not knowing of something, before you actually come to know it. Ignorance goes away when you know something and then make a conscious decision to ignore or reject it.
Paul did not know of salvation by faith until that fateful day when Christ met him on the road and confronted him. Paul believed and therefore was saved. He could have rejected Christ and of course we would have never heard of Paul.
The Pharisees, for example, knew what they were doing, Jesus stood right in front of them and told them so, but they rejected Jesus as the Messiah. Those who continued to reject Jesus, were not saved, but those who finally believed in Jesus, received salvation.
And this is one application of grace and mercy because of ignorance.
There is also an application of grace and mercy with regard to ones spiritual growth when you have believed, but then turn away from doctrine during your life. Your salvation remains in tack of course, but your growth and blessings are reduced or removed, Heb. 6:4-6, when you knowingly ignore your responsibilities.
Ignorance of the spiritual life does not remove the mercies and blessings that accompany your spiritual life, but once you become aware of your spiritual responsibilities, and know that you are required to study and grow, etc, then your ignorance no longer applies, because you know, but you consciously ignore your responsibilities.
Do not think that your ignorance is better, because when God keeps you in this world, and brings you to the knowledge of doctrine, then He has a greater purpose for you, so you are far better off knowing what is expected of you, and then following through with it.
Knowing ones responsibilities, and ignoring them and continuing in willful sin (namely rejection of truth or rejection of ones responsibilities), then that can result in permanent judgment against you, Heb. 10:26-27. And for unbelievers that means the Lake of Fire, and for indifferent believers, that can mean none of the additional blessings, or no participation in blessings, that are available to mature or growing believers. And these permanent restrictions will last forever. Unless of course you change your ways and get with the study program, etc.
And there are two more principles related to ignorance. One for or unintentional sins, Num 15:22-29, and one for intentional sins, where the guilt shall be held against the person, Num. 15:30-31.
These two broad principles cover all peoples born into this world. Many will not live for a very long time, such as babies, or young children. Or many will not ever possess the mental cognizance to understand anything. For these and other similar examples, the principles of grace and mercy for ignorance, apply. They will be saved automatically, with no appropriate blessings lost, as God applies fairness in these cases.
So, you may be a habitual liar, you may be sitting on death row, you may have been married and divorced a thousand times, you may be a gossip, a prostitute, a thief, a self-righteous person, you may be a nag and a rag, you, whatever you are or have been or will be, is not the issue in life.
Gods grace is the issue, not you. And following that, your willingness and commitment to change yourself, by obeying Gods mandates, not by setting up your own standards of conduct.
If you are an unbeliever, then all you need do is believe in Christ, ‘Father, I believe in Jesus Christ.’ And that ends and concludes the salvation issue in your life. Now you are a believer and the issues of believers now apply.
If you are a believer, then what you think of doctrine, is the issue, the daily issue in your life. For your attitude toward doctrine will determine your spiritual growth, or lack of it. And that (your spiritual growth) will determine your blessings, or lack of them, for both now and in eternity.
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
1 Timothy 1:12
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1 Timothy 1:12
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12 And [kai] I thank [echo] [charis] Christ [Christos] Jesus [Iesous] our [hemon] Lord, [kurios] who [ho] hath enabled [endunamoo] me, [me] for [hoti] that he counted [hegeomai] me [me] faithful, [pistos] putting me [tithemi] into [eis] the ministry; [diakonia] KJV-Interlinear
12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service; NASB
Strength comes from truth. Faith comes from truth. Both strength and faith are not products of wishes or empty prayer or from the efforts of others, but are developed through the systematic daily study of the Word of God.
When you were born, what did you know? Nothing! You as an infant, had to be taught. As a toddler, as a teenager, even as a young adult, all that you know was from the teaching of others. There is nothing in your foundation of life that originated from yourself alone.
It is the same with your spiritual life, but somehow people get the idea that all they need do is read the Bible and the understanding automatically comes to them. Not so.
Remember one very important principle in life, this world, this life is not about you, but about the conflict between God and evil. And in that way, evil will do anything it can to derail your spiritual life, even to the point of confusing you through numerous translations of the Bible. Satan has no respect for God, for people, or the scriptures. And if he can skew things even just a little, he will, in order to bring confusion into your mind.
Therefore, your initial education in faith must come through a qualified instructor. And through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, you will easily be able to distinguish the truth from the false. But only if you approach your studies objectively. Preconceived ideas and bias, even stubborn opinions can disrupt your entire spiritual life.
Paul was biased to the maximum initially in his life, but God trained him through the scriptures, and through the apostles, and brought him to the point that he became the leading authority in doctrine, in his generation.
Paul was self-righteous and a murderer, but grace turned his life around.
You presumably are not as hard core as Paul was initially in his life. How much easier would it be to turn your life around? Only your stubbornness, only your arrogance, only your indifference will prevent you from fulfilling this verse in your life.
Paul was strengthened through doctrine. Pauls faith grew through doctrine. Paul became useful to God, not because of his personality, not because of his do-gooder approach to life, not because of his opinion of himself, but because of the doctrine that was resident in his soul, and for no other reason.
Paul was taught, and Paul studied constantly, and in that regard, Paul was obedient to God. And because Paul was prepared, repeat because Paul was prepared (in Gods eyes, not in his own eyes), then he became useful for service in Gods plan, not Pauls.
Unfortunately the Christian world is filled with indifference, or opinion, and not enough students of the Word. Does God have to lean down and tell you to go to class every day? Does God have to push you, as a parent constantly reminds their children of their responsibilities?
As adults, each person is obligated to see for themselves, what they must be doing each and everyday of their life. And Bible study is the single priority that all should accept and make a part of their daily routine.
But how many ignore this? How many find excuses of not having the time? How many have other ‘more important’ things to do? How many just don’t get around to it?
And what in this life is more important that your preparation of the next life?
Paul had the drive, the desire, the hunger to be the most that he could be. Do you? And if not, why not?
Jesus Christ created this universe. Jesus Christ controls history. Jesus Christ is the all powerful, sovereign master over all that is.
How important would it be to you, for Him to think of you as worthy for His service, worthy for participation in His plan?
How much effort is it really, for you, without anyone looking over your shoulder, without anyone reminding you every day, to open up your Bible every day, to engage in a daily study every day, to keep a notebook of your own, so that you can learn and grow and become in Gods eyes (not in your eyes), a worthy person for participation in His plan for all of humanity?
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1 Timothy 1:12
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12 And [kai] I thank [echo] [charis] Christ [Christos] Jesus [Iesous] our [hemon] Lord, [kurios] who [ho] hath enabled [endunamoo] me, [me] for [hoti] that he counted [hegeomai] me [me] faithful, [pistos] putting me [tithemi] into [eis] the ministry; [diakonia] KJV-Interlinear
12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service; NASB
Strength comes from truth. Faith comes from truth. Both strength and faith are not products of wishes or empty prayer or from the efforts of others, but are developed through the systematic daily study of the Word of God.
When you were born, what did you know? Nothing! You as an infant, had to be taught. As a toddler, as a teenager, even as a young adult, all that you know was from the teaching of others. There is nothing in your foundation of life that originated from yourself alone.
It is the same with your spiritual life, but somehow people get the idea that all they need do is read the Bible and the understanding automatically comes to them. Not so.
Remember one very important principle in life, this world, this life is not about you, but about the conflict between God and evil. And in that way, evil will do anything it can to derail your spiritual life, even to the point of confusing you through numerous translations of the Bible. Satan has no respect for God, for people, or the scriptures. And if he can skew things even just a little, he will, in order to bring confusion into your mind.
Therefore, your initial education in faith must come through a qualified instructor. And through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, you will easily be able to distinguish the truth from the false. But only if you approach your studies objectively. Preconceived ideas and bias, even stubborn opinions can disrupt your entire spiritual life.
Paul was biased to the maximum initially in his life, but God trained him through the scriptures, and through the apostles, and brought him to the point that he became the leading authority in doctrine, in his generation.
Paul was self-righteous and a murderer, but grace turned his life around.
You presumably are not as hard core as Paul was initially in his life. How much easier would it be to turn your life around? Only your stubbornness, only your arrogance, only your indifference will prevent you from fulfilling this verse in your life.
Paul was strengthened through doctrine. Pauls faith grew through doctrine. Paul became useful to God, not because of his personality, not because of his do-gooder approach to life, not because of his opinion of himself, but because of the doctrine that was resident in his soul, and for no other reason.
Paul was taught, and Paul studied constantly, and in that regard, Paul was obedient to God. And because Paul was prepared, repeat because Paul was prepared (in Gods eyes, not in his own eyes), then he became useful for service in Gods plan, not Pauls.
Unfortunately the Christian world is filled with indifference, or opinion, and not enough students of the Word. Does God have to lean down and tell you to go to class every day? Does God have to push you, as a parent constantly reminds their children of their responsibilities?
As adults, each person is obligated to see for themselves, what they must be doing each and everyday of their life. And Bible study is the single priority that all should accept and make a part of their daily routine.
But how many ignore this? How many find excuses of not having the time? How many have other ‘more important’ things to do? How many just don’t get around to it?
And what in this life is more important that your preparation of the next life?
Paul had the drive, the desire, the hunger to be the most that he could be. Do you? And if not, why not?
Jesus Christ created this universe. Jesus Christ controls history. Jesus Christ is the all powerful, sovereign master over all that is.
How important would it be to you, for Him to think of you as worthy for His service, worthy for participation in His plan?
How much effort is it really, for you, without anyone looking over your shoulder, without anyone reminding you every day, to open up your Bible every day, to engage in a daily study every day, to keep a notebook of your own, so that you can learn and grow and become in Gods eyes (not in your eyes), a worthy person for participation in His plan for all of humanity?
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
1 Timothy 1:11
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1 Timothy 1:11
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11 According [kata] to the glorious [doxa] gospel [euaggelion] of the blessed [makarios] God, [theos] which [hos] was committed to [pisteuo] my [ego] trust. [pisteuo] KJV-Interlinear
11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. NASB
All that we have just studied in these past few verses, regarding phony prophets, phony instructors, phony self appointed experts on life, are revealed as frauds, by the only source of truth, which is the Bible. All other beliefs and philosophies are filled with flaws and inconsistencies.
Their purpose is a fraud, their intent is a fraud, their message is a fraud, and their promise of a result is a fraud.
All teaching which runs counter to that of the Bible (legitimate teaching contained within the Bible), is a fraud.
Even those who use the Bible as their source document, fail when they try to infuse their man-made rules into the daily actions of people, or when they try to warn of failure in your life because of something that you do, or do not do.
When works are added to the message, then the message fails. Because God does not look to your efforts, but to your thoughts.
What you think is what you are.
All people fail in life. No one will ever be perfect of their own accord.
No one can earn, nor will anyone ever deserve a place at Gods side. Only through grace, Gods grace, will we ever be able to attain more than this world offers. And through God, we can attain far more than this world has to offer.
Sin is mans failure. The Law represents mans inability to recover from that failure, on his own. The Law represents mans good deeds effort, which reinforces mans inability to match the high criteria that the Law demands for perfection.
But more than all of this, the Law came from God, and paints a picture of the perfection of Bible doctrine, which all of humanity has divorced and betrayed by way of sin, choosing the prostitute himself with the enticing views of the world.
And therein is the real result of mans indifference, fueled by mans arrogance and foolish notions, that cause man to presume that he knows more than he really does. Especially when there are far too many obvious knowledge voids in mans attributes. Do you know your own genetic code? Do you know the structure of the universe? Do you know the moment by moment weather for all of next month, or anytime for that matter? Can you cure disease?
It is easy to find questions that you do not have answers to, so why would anyone presume to know the facts of the afterlife?
For real answers we are forced to turn to truth, and there is only one source of truth, and that is the Bible. And to know that for sure, you can rule out all other religions, beliefs, and such, by discovering just a single objective flaw within them. And by objective we do not mean a debater’s convenient argument with cute twisted rhetoric, or by ones personal bias. That is the tool used by those who reject Christianity. They make up their own list of Christian flaws, which when examined correctly, fail to hold up.
And to know the truth, you have to be taught, you have to study, and you have to stick with it, every day of your life.
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1 Timothy 1:11
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11 According [kata] to the glorious [doxa] gospel [euaggelion] of the blessed [makarios] God, [theos] which [hos] was committed to [pisteuo] my [ego] trust. [pisteuo] KJV-Interlinear
11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. NASB
All that we have just studied in these past few verses, regarding phony prophets, phony instructors, phony self appointed experts on life, are revealed as frauds, by the only source of truth, which is the Bible. All other beliefs and philosophies are filled with flaws and inconsistencies.
Their purpose is a fraud, their intent is a fraud, their message is a fraud, and their promise of a result is a fraud.
All teaching which runs counter to that of the Bible (legitimate teaching contained within the Bible), is a fraud.
Even those who use the Bible as their source document, fail when they try to infuse their man-made rules into the daily actions of people, or when they try to warn of failure in your life because of something that you do, or do not do.
When works are added to the message, then the message fails. Because God does not look to your efforts, but to your thoughts.
What you think is what you are.
All people fail in life. No one will ever be perfect of their own accord.
No one can earn, nor will anyone ever deserve a place at Gods side. Only through grace, Gods grace, will we ever be able to attain more than this world offers. And through God, we can attain far more than this world has to offer.
Sin is mans failure. The Law represents mans inability to recover from that failure, on his own. The Law represents mans good deeds effort, which reinforces mans inability to match the high criteria that the Law demands for perfection.
But more than all of this, the Law came from God, and paints a picture of the perfection of Bible doctrine, which all of humanity has divorced and betrayed by way of sin, choosing the prostitute himself with the enticing views of the world.
And therein is the real result of mans indifference, fueled by mans arrogance and foolish notions, that cause man to presume that he knows more than he really does. Especially when there are far too many obvious knowledge voids in mans attributes. Do you know your own genetic code? Do you know the structure of the universe? Do you know the moment by moment weather for all of next month, or anytime for that matter? Can you cure disease?
It is easy to find questions that you do not have answers to, so why would anyone presume to know the facts of the afterlife?
For real answers we are forced to turn to truth, and there is only one source of truth, and that is the Bible. And to know that for sure, you can rule out all other religions, beliefs, and such, by discovering just a single objective flaw within them. And by objective we do not mean a debater’s convenient argument with cute twisted rhetoric, or by ones personal bias. That is the tool used by those who reject Christianity. They make up their own list of Christian flaws, which when examined correctly, fail to hold up.
And to know the truth, you have to be taught, you have to study, and you have to stick with it, every day of your life.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
1 Timothy 1:9-10
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1 Timothy 1:9-10
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9 Knowing [eido] this, [touto] that [hoti] the law [nomos] is [keimai] not [ou] made [keimai] for a righteous man, [dikaios] but [de] for the lawless [anomos] and [kai] disobedient, [anupotaktos] for the ungodly [asebes] and [kai] for sinners, [hamartolos] for unholy [anosios] and [kai] profane, [bebelos] for murderers of fathers [patraloas] and [kai] murderers of mothers, [metraloas] for manslayers, [androphonos]
10 For whoremongers, [pornos] for them that defile themselves with mankind, [arsenokoites] for menstealers, [andrapodistes] for liars, [pseustes] for perjured persons, [epiorkos] and [kai] if there be any [ei tis] other thing [heteros] that is contrary [antikeimai] to sound [hugiaino] doctrine; [didaskalia] KJV-Interlinear
9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers
10 and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, NASB
If anyone could live a perfect life, then for whom would the Law have been created?
The law here is a reference to the Ten Commandments in part. Paul will list several transgressions which in part refers to the sins of man against God, and man against man.
God created the perfect standard. All rules of law, all rules differentiating right from wrong, came originally from God.
Man is incapable of creating his own standards. Look at the legislation of human governments throughout history. Even in our present day, legislation of laws ranges to the absurd. While one party or another constantly tries to create laws or legislation that is favorable to them. The counter part of that is that the same laws are unfavorable to others.
Mans efforts are filled with power lusts, unfairness, bias, favoritism, and so forth.
So, God created the Law from truth. And from truth, came mans indictment for mans failure to live up to the demands of the Law. Therefore, if the Law was made for sinners, and if humanity is nothing but sinners, then there is no one who can rise above the Law.
Paul begins with mans rebellion against God.
The lawless, ‘anomos,’ stands for those who have no interest in or no commitment to the laws or standards of society. This leads to rebellion. Ungodly, ‘asebes,’ refers to people who have no regard for anything sacred.
Of these first two categories, they are sinners. They have no regard for rules or law, because they have no regard for God or anything thing that carries the connotation of perfection that exists outside of the sphere of man. They reject truth.
The second pair of related flaws is unholy and profane. Unholy means to be indifferent toward God or anything that is holy. That leads to profanity, or the mental and verbal or even overt trampling of anything of a spiritual nature. And that means Christian nature, not false religions that claim spirituality. For false religions are an example of profanity against what is truth. And as for atheists, then it refers to their rejection of all manner of beliefs.
Lawlessness results in rebellion against truth, and that produces ungodliness, sinners, indifference, and blasphemy against truth, or anything related to truth.
The Law was made for such people. By rejecting truth, they see no need for their own salvation, or they figure that they can define their own destiny, without God.
The rest of Paul’s list in these two verses, comes from the second half of the Ten Commandments.
To kill ones father and mother is a reference to the dishonoring of ones parents, the fifth commandment.
Manslayers is a reference murderers, the sixth commandment.
Immoral men is a reference to violations of the legitimate marriage bed, the seventh commandment.
Kidnappers is a reference to theft, the eighth commandment.
Liars and perjurers is a reference to the ninth commandment.
And then Paul ends his list with a catch all, ‘whatever else,’ just to cover all of the bases with regard to sin and evil in humanity.
And all of these things are violations of ‘sound’ doctrine. Sound, ‘hugiaino,’ refers to hygiene, and is a reference to that which is clean, pure, healthy and wholesome.
And the wholesome instruction in life comes only from Bible doctrine.
Those who reject it are unclean, filthy, dirty, unwholesome. And unless you wash yourself, you cannot get clean. Doctrine is the only water that cleanses the filth of sin and evil, away from ones life. And this is only possible because Christ did the work that paved the way for cleaning up humanity.
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1 Timothy 1:9-10
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9 Knowing [eido] this, [touto] that [hoti] the law [nomos] is [keimai] not [ou] made [keimai] for a righteous man, [dikaios] but [de] for the lawless [anomos] and [kai] disobedient, [anupotaktos] for the ungodly [asebes] and [kai] for sinners, [hamartolos] for unholy [anosios] and [kai] profane, [bebelos] for murderers of fathers [patraloas] and [kai] murderers of mothers, [metraloas] for manslayers, [androphonos]
10 For whoremongers, [pornos] for them that defile themselves with mankind, [arsenokoites] for menstealers, [andrapodistes] for liars, [pseustes] for perjured persons, [epiorkos] and [kai] if there be any [ei tis] other thing [heteros] that is contrary [antikeimai] to sound [hugiaino] doctrine; [didaskalia] KJV-Interlinear
9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers
10 and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, NASB
If anyone could live a perfect life, then for whom would the Law have been created?
The law here is a reference to the Ten Commandments in part. Paul will list several transgressions which in part refers to the sins of man against God, and man against man.
God created the perfect standard. All rules of law, all rules differentiating right from wrong, came originally from God.
Man is incapable of creating his own standards. Look at the legislation of human governments throughout history. Even in our present day, legislation of laws ranges to the absurd. While one party or another constantly tries to create laws or legislation that is favorable to them. The counter part of that is that the same laws are unfavorable to others.
Mans efforts are filled with power lusts, unfairness, bias, favoritism, and so forth.
So, God created the Law from truth. And from truth, came mans indictment for mans failure to live up to the demands of the Law. Therefore, if the Law was made for sinners, and if humanity is nothing but sinners, then there is no one who can rise above the Law.
Paul begins with mans rebellion against God.
The lawless, ‘anomos,’ stands for those who have no interest in or no commitment to the laws or standards of society. This leads to rebellion. Ungodly, ‘asebes,’ refers to people who have no regard for anything sacred.
Of these first two categories, they are sinners. They have no regard for rules or law, because they have no regard for God or anything thing that carries the connotation of perfection that exists outside of the sphere of man. They reject truth.
The second pair of related flaws is unholy and profane. Unholy means to be indifferent toward God or anything that is holy. That leads to profanity, or the mental and verbal or even overt trampling of anything of a spiritual nature. And that means Christian nature, not false religions that claim spirituality. For false religions are an example of profanity against what is truth. And as for atheists, then it refers to their rejection of all manner of beliefs.
Lawlessness results in rebellion against truth, and that produces ungodliness, sinners, indifference, and blasphemy against truth, or anything related to truth.
The Law was made for such people. By rejecting truth, they see no need for their own salvation, or they figure that they can define their own destiny, without God.
The rest of Paul’s list in these two verses, comes from the second half of the Ten Commandments.
To kill ones father and mother is a reference to the dishonoring of ones parents, the fifth commandment.
Manslayers is a reference murderers, the sixth commandment.
Immoral men is a reference to violations of the legitimate marriage bed, the seventh commandment.
Kidnappers is a reference to theft, the eighth commandment.
Liars and perjurers is a reference to the ninth commandment.
And then Paul ends his list with a catch all, ‘whatever else,’ just to cover all of the bases with regard to sin and evil in humanity.
And all of these things are violations of ‘sound’ doctrine. Sound, ‘hugiaino,’ refers to hygiene, and is a reference to that which is clean, pure, healthy and wholesome.
And the wholesome instruction in life comes only from Bible doctrine.
Those who reject it are unclean, filthy, dirty, unwholesome. And unless you wash yourself, you cannot get clean. Doctrine is the only water that cleanses the filth of sin and evil, away from ones life. And this is only possible because Christ did the work that paved the way for cleaning up humanity.
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