1Tim 1:1-5
Stay on the Mark!
Repreached from 5/11/2005 Wed.
I. \\#1:1-2\\ Timothy and His Ministry
A. \\#1-2\\ Both the human author and receiver are mentioned by
name. Paul is the author and Timothy the recipient.
B. \\#Acts 16:1-5\\ Paul Met Timothy
1. Paul met Timothy on his second missionary journey.
2. He was being raised in a Gentile city.
3. His mother was a Jew and his father a Greek.
4. Timothy had an excellent reputation among the local body
of Christ.
5. Timothy had not been circumcised as a child but when he
began to minister with Paul, Paul had him circumcised.
This fit Paul’s philosophy of becoming all things that
he might win some. (Of course Paul would not become .
sinful to win them.)
1Cor 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet
have I made myself servant unto all, that I might
gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
might gain the Jews; to them that are under the
law, as under the law, that I might gain them
that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law,
(being not without law to God, but under the law
to Christ,) that I might gain them that are
without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might
gain the weak: I am made all things to all men,
that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I
might be partaker thereof with you.
C. \\#Acts 17:14, 18:5, 19:22\\ Paul used Timothy to extend his
own ministry.
1. This would mean Paul had great confidence in Timothy.
Timothy was called to preach and Paul used him much like
an assistant.
2. This will make the letters of Timothy PASTORAL EPISTLES,
written to a pastor or preacher.
a. Much of what Paul will write Timothy will deal with
the church and how it should be governed and
operated.
b. While some may think this letter is only important to
the Pastor of a church or a preacher, it is not.
c. God has written everything to everyone so that there
are no secrets and so that we may all hold one
another accountable.
(1) Pastors hold churches accountable but the church
is to hold pastors accountable.
(2) Everyone knows what everyone is supposed to do so
let’s get it done!
3. "Everything rises and falls on leadership."
D. \\#3\\ This letter was being written after Paul had left
Ephesus (Acts 19).
1. Paul had briefly stayed at Ephesus on the last of his
second missionary journey but had gone one to Jerusalem
to keep the feast \\#Acts 18:21\\.
2. As soon as the feast was over, Paul made his way back to
Ephesus and stayed there several years \\#Acts 19:10\\.
3. When he left, he left Timothy to continue the work.
II. \\#1:3-4\\ The Charge
A. \\#1:3\\ Timothy is to charge others so that they teach
NO OTHER DOCTRINE.
1. The other doctrine is NEW or DIFFERENT doctrine.
2. Preachers must be careful of their message. It must meet
Biblical criteria.
3. Just because it is a RELIGIOUS message does not make it a
RIGHT message.
B. What should NOT be preached?
1. \\#3\\ "No OTHER doctrine" - That means NEW or DIFFERENT
doctrine.
2. Many new doctrines are created either by adding
conclusions not given in the Scriptures or by adding
a "twist" to the Scriptures.
a. These additions might make for good conjecture and in
some cases might even provide food for the spiritual
mind, but they can also lead to great error!
b. Catholicism - Many of their false doctrines have
been based on conclusions or strange twists from
the Scripture.
(1) Their exaltation of Mary. (How does that get us
to thinking Mary rose from the dead or should be
prayed to?)
Lu 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said,
Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is
with thee: blessed art thou among women.
(2) Their belief in an infallible pope. (Even if
Peter was given some kind of standing with God,
how would that relate to the one they call a
"pope"?)
Mt 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.
(3) Their belief that the bread and wine of the
Lord’s table becomes the body and blood of
the Lord. (If their belief was true, how do
they get to believing they are the ones who
give it?)
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down
from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he
shall live for ever: and the bread that I will
give is my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world.
3. \\#4\\ We should not preach the FABLES.
a. That is just made up stuff.
b. Mormonism, Islam, JW are just plain made up!
c. Some Baptist preachers are just as guilty.
(1) They use a text and spend 30 minutes preaching
about something that isn’t even in that text.
(2) While a good, godly preacher may spend time
waxing eloquent apart from the Scriptures from
time to time, if that is all that they do, they
are just as much a vain jangler as someone
teaching false doctrine.
d. Those who claim to have the gift of revelation today
are potentially very dangerous.
Deut 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name
of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to
pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deut 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume
to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
the name of other gods, even that prophet shall
die.
4. "endless genealogies"
a. Genealogies are in the Bible.
b. Genealogies are true and important, showing the
bloodline of Jesus.
c. \\#1:4\\ Why should they not be the topic of many
sermons? Because they do not EDIFY the body!
5. \\#1:6\\ What does God think of preachers who do preach
these things?
a. They are VAIN JANGLERS.
b. Vain jangling is a lot of talk which cannot be backed
up with truth—the Word of God.
c. Opinions, conclusions, and conjectures—All preachers
insert them, but when that is what you do MOST of
the time and especially when that is what you build
your doctrines on, you are a vain jangler.
C. What SHOULD be preached?
1. The gospel of Jesus Christ should be preached to the lost.
a. Gospel means GOOD NEWS.
b. The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of
Jesus.
c. Preaching this truth will bring the lost to salvation!
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth; to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek.
1Cor 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but
to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of none
effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness; but unto us which are
saved it is the power of God.
2. \\#2Tim 3:16\\ The truths of the Bible should be preached
to the saved.
a. Notice that it is the Scripture that is inspired, not
our opinions, conclusions, and conjecture.
b. The collection and organization of Bible truth is
called DOCTRINE.
c. Some don’t like DOCTRINE to be preached.
d. They like to like to stick proper adjectives in front
of the word like "Baptist" doctrine, "Methodist"
doctrine and so forth in an attempt to discredit
the doctrine.
e. There are only two kinds of DOCTRINE (or TRUTH), Bible
doctrine and false doctrine.
(1) If it is Bible doctrine, it does not matter WHO
associates with a doctrine.
(2) No group OWNS it. It is just BIBLE doctrine.
(3) And God has commanded that Bible doctrine be
preached and obeyed by believers.
III. \\#1:5\\ The Intent of the Charge
A. This is important because it reveals one of the basic purposes
of the pastor’s office.
B. The end is charity or a loving, serving life.
1. One of God’s purpose for giving us the office of the
pastor is to produce a loving people.
2. Charity does not just mean love.
a. It also denotes action.
b. God wants Christians to be people of loving action.
c. So should we scrape doctrine and just love?
d. NO! Preaching all of the doctrines of the Bible is
what creates the loving Christian that God wants.
C. Notice the things which must be true of the loving Christian.
1. He must have been forged in the fire of a "pure heart."
a. Pure means clean.
b. In the spiritual, it speaks of sinless and holy.
c. Biblical truth is the only forge that can produce
purity.
d. If you compromise Biblical truth to produce the loving
Christian you will have a faulty love and perhaps a
faulty Christian!
2. He must have been forged on the anvil of "a good
conscience."
a. That is, the loving Christian should be comfortable
that what he has and is doing is right.
b. That the loving actions he is showing are good,
honest, and helpful.
c. That the actions he is doing does not violate his
conscious.
(1) A conscience is our moral awareness.
(2) Good is an additional qualifier.
(3) We should not have to turn our good, moral
conscious off to love on people.
d. We know a man’s conscience a lone, is not a
trustworthy tool.
(1) Morals are subject to change.
(2) Consciences are subject to failure.
(3) Good can be relative.
e. But a Christian’s conscience should be under the
control of the Holy Spirit.
(1) A Christian should not feel like he has
compromised doctrine to love someone.
(2) I should not have to overlook someone’s living
arrangements to feel comfortable around them.
(3) There should not be Bible verses that we cannot
bring up or spiritual topics that we cannot
discuss.
(4) When a Christian is uncomfortable with something,
something is wrong.
3. He must have been forged with the hammer of "faith
unfeigned."
a. "Faith" here refers to all our Biblical beliefs.
b. To "feign" our faith means to corrupt it.
c. I should not have to do away with a Bible verse to
love someone.
D. The loving Christian that pastors are to produce are forged
WITH Bible doctrine not in opposition to it.
IV. \\#1:6-10\\ The problem
A. \\#6\\ People had swerved (turned hard) out of the right way!
1. Swerved doesn’t just mean they turned. It means that they
turned hard, suddenly, unexpectedly. Without warning and
with no expectation, some have turned from the right path
to the path of error.
2. By the way, they had to be ON the right path in order to
SWERVE onto the wrong path.
B. The reason Paul had sent Timothy was to stem the tide of false
preaching that was arising in the churches in that day.
1. In that day, the false preaching dealt with the law. (Much
of it does today too but we are going in the opposite
direction.)
2. There were several wrong paths concerning the law in that
day.
a. Some said the law was bad. That was probably non-
Jews.
(1) Paul answered that in \\#Romans 7:7\\ and
\\1Tim 1:8\\.
Ro 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by
the law: for I had not known lust, except the
law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
(2) The law is not bad but good.
(3) It teaches us right from wrong.
b. The law must be used right.
(1) No law is intended for those who are doing right.
(2) A person who is not speeding does not need a law
to force him not to speed. In fact, the law
has no power over a person who is not speeding.
c. \\#1:9-10\\ The law is to tell the wicked that they
are doing wrong and what the judgment is for it!
C. For this to be the case, preaching must be…
1. Biblical.
2. Relevant. (It should single out the evils of the
day.)
D. \\#1:11\\ This is a sacred TRUST given to the preacher.
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