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2 Timothy 1.13-18

Paul writes what is essentially the last will and testament of his gospel message. If you should know one day when the end of your life is near…time for you will become a most precious thing…you will want to use it wisely. You will want to remind those you love one last time of what’s really important in life. Whatever life lessons you have learned you will want to pass on. Paul had spent a good many years building his life into a young man named Timothy…the closest thing he would ever have to a son.

2 Timothy 1.1-7

In this text, Paul exhorts Timothy to flee, follow and fight. What is he to flee from? What is he to follow after? Whom and how does he fight?

1st Timothy 6:11-21

In this text, Paul explains to Timothy why our work attitude matters to God, but cautions that being consumed with attaining wealth through our work will never satisfy...only godliness provides lasting contentment.

1st Timothy 6:1-10

1 Timothy 4 or 5 who knows

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Many pastors call this section of 1st Timothy the “Ten Commandments of Ministry” because in the space of six verses Paul commands young Timothy to do ten things. It’s interesting that Paul would select as a protégé someone wired so differently from him in temperament. Paul is an older man with a notoriously bold and assertive personality. Timothy had a low-key unassuming more laid-back temperament. Someone working with a Paul-type might have to occasionally exhort them to relax, but Paul, with reference to Timothy, had to exhort him to stand up and be more assertive.

1st Timothy 4:11-16

1 Timothy 3ish

In my over thirty years of being a pastor, I have experienced people leaving this church and Christianity on occasion. Some were people who had been in church all or most of their lives who just decided one day they no longer believed in God...that they had been duped by their parents...by their churches...by me...that their heads had been filled with lies and nonsense. They become Ex-Christians or at the very least Exvangelicals. They start posting on social media or in their blogs anything that in their minds debunks and ridicules Christianity or at least Evangelical Christian values and this type of thing very much appears on the rise...how do we explain what is happening? Today&#039;s text addresses why this happens.

1st Timothy 4:1-5

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In this sermon we transition from the qualifications of elders who lead and teach to the qualifications for deacons/deaconesses who carry out, under the elders&#039; oversight, some of the more basic but essential tasks of the church so that the elders could give their attention to their primary tasks of prayer and teaching. The specific tasks of a deacon/deaconess are not well-defined and perhaps that is because they served in so many different kinds of ways it was hard to define exactly what they did. Their primary ministry seems to be to meet the practical needs of the local congregation…whatever those needs may be. Men who became elders, no doubt, were first deacons who proved themselves trustworthy.

1 Timothy 3.8-13

1 Timothy 3:8

Today we get to the second area that Paul says an elder candidate must be above reproach in…his public life. A church with a leader who has a bad reputation in the community will find its testimony to that community hindered. Paul has said that it is a noble ambition to set your desire on becoming an elder. But should we be wary of those who exhibit a lot of personal ambition in their public lives? The dictionary defines “ambition” as an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power or as a desire to achieve a particular end. The question is…is it Christian to be ambitious? The answer is “yes” and “no”.

1 Timothy 3 1-7 Part II

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1 Timothy 3

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