Stay on the Job

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Stay on the Job

• BE FAITHFUL
• I Timothy 1
• By Warren W. Wiersbe

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• Timothy
• One of Pauls special assistants
• Brought up in a religious home (II Tim. 1)
• Led to Christ by Paul
• my own son in the faith (I Tim. 12)
• Born of mixed parentage Jewish mother Greek
  father
• Devoted to Christ that the local church
  recommended him to Paul (Acts 161-5)
• Reminded that he was chosen for the ministry (I
  Tim. 118, 414)
• Faithful to the Lord (I Cor. 417)
• Deep concern for Gods people (Phil. 220-22)
• Took some tough assignments in the churches Paul
  founded
• Was easily discouraged regardless of spiritual
  gifts and clos association with Paul
• Had physical problems (I Tim. 523)
• Not receiving proper respect form some of the
  church members (I Tim. 412, II Tim 26-8)

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• Ephesus
• Devoted to the worship of Diana, the goddess of
  sexual instincts
• Promoted sexual immortality of all kinds (Acts
  19)
• Pauls work for three years (Acts 1910)
• Satanic obstacles (I Cor. 168-9)
• Letter
• Paul wrote to encourage Timothy, explain how a
  local church should be managed, and enforce his
  own authority as a servant of God
• Teach Sound Doctrine (11-11)
• Paul affirmed his authority as a servant of God
• An apostleship came by commandment from Jesus
  Christ
• Commandment royal commission
• An apostle, one whom God sent with a special
  commission
• Savior, a title used 10 times in Pastoral
  Epistles (I Tim. 11 23 410 II Tim. 110
  Titus 13-4 210, 13 34,6)
• Our hope (I Tim. 11)
• Knowing that Jesus Christ is coming for us
  encourages us to serve Him faithfully

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• Reason to stay on the job false teachers are
  busy trying to capture Christians
• False teachers have no good news for lost sinners
• False teachers seek to lead Christians away
• Charge, a military term meaning to give
  strict orders from a superior officer
• Eight times (command, commandments) in KJV in two
  letters (I Tim. 13,5,18 411 57 613,17 II
  Tim. 41)
• Christian soldiers, not just a pastor, from the
  King
• Orders Do not teach different doctrines from
  those taught by Paul
• 32 references to doctrine, teach, teacher,
  teaches, and teaching
• People were taught the Word of God and the
  meaning of the basic truths of Christianity.
• God committed the truth to Paul (I Tim. 111) who
  committed it to Timothy (I Tim. 620)
• Timothys responsibility to guard the truth (II
  Tim. 114) and pass it along (II Tim. 22)

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• False teaching fables and endless genealogies
  (I Tim. 14)
• False teachers used the Old Testament law and
  especially the genealogies to manufacture
  novelties
• False teachers were raising more questions, not
  answering them
• False teachers were not promoting Gods saving
  plan
• False teachers were leading people away from the
  truth
• Their doctrines caused divisions, hypocrisy, and
  other problems
• Conscience to know with
• Twenty-one times in his letters and six times in
  pastoral letters (I Tim. 15, 19 39 42 II
  Tim. 13 Titus 115)
• The inner judge that accuses us when we do wrong
  and approves when we do right (Rom. 214-15)
• Possible to sin against the conscience so it
  become defiled (Titus 115)
• Repeated sinning hardens the conscience and it
  becomes seared like scar tissues (I Tim. 42)

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• Doctrines
• healthy doctrine (sound doctrine) I Tim. 110)
• the doctrineaccording to godliness (I Tim.
  63)
• sound words (II Tim. 113)
• sound doctrine (II Tim. 43 Titus 19 21)
• faith (Titus 113 22)
• sound speech (Titus 28)
• Vain jangling in NIV, meaningless talk
• In preaching, teaching , and music
• Many songs no doctrine and false doctrine
• Reason for false teaching
• Misuse of the Old Testament law
• False teachers didnt understand the purpose of
  Gods law
• Leading believers out of liberty of grace (Gal.
  51ff)
• Into the bondage of legalism
• Flesh loves religious legalism because rules and
  regulations enable a person to appear holy
  without changing his heart
• Fourteen kinds of people listed by Paul (I Tim.1
  9-11)

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• The lawful use of the law expose, restrain, and
  convict the lawless
• The law only reveals their need for the Savior
• Upon believing he is free from the curse of the
  law
• The righteous demands are met by the indwelling
  Holy Spirit as a believer yields to God (Rom.
  81-4)
• Five commandment (Ex. 20)
• 5 Honor thy Fathers and mothers murderers
  of fathers and mothers
• 6 Thou shalt not kill - murderer of fathers
  and mothersmanslayers
• 7 Thou shalt not commit adultery -
  whoremonger (fornicators)them that defiles
  themselves with mankind (sodomites)
• 8 Thou shalt not steal - menstealers
  (kidnappers)
• 9 Thou shalt not bear false witness
  liarsperjured persons

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• Glorious gospel
• Law and gospel go together
• Law without the gospel is diagnosis without
  remedy
• Gospel without the law is the only good news
• The law is not gospel
• Proclaim the Gospel (112-17)
• What Paul used to be (v. 13a)
• Blasphemer for he denied the deity of Jesus
  Christ
• Persecutor using physical power to destroy the
  church
• Murderous threats (Acts 91)
• Consented to the stoning of Stephen and made
  havoc of the church (Acts 81-4)
• Injurious proud and insolent bully
• Basic causes of his godless behavior ignorance
  and unbelief
• His back ground
• He was well-educated and brilliant (Acts 223
  Gal. 113-14)
• Religious man

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• How Paul was saved (13b-15)
• Mercy and grace
• God in His mercy did not give Paul what he
  deserve
• God in His grace gave Paul what he did not
  deserve (Eph. 28-9)
• Ignorance related to Lev. 515-10 and Num.
  1522-31 he was permitted to bring sacrifice to
  atone for sin
• Also Father, forgive them for they know not what
  they do
• exceedingly abundant grace
• Greek huper- English prefix hype
• Superincrease of faith (II Thess. 13)
• Superbounding power (Eph. 119)
• Superconqueror (Rom. 837)
• Salvation for all who receive Jesus Christ (I
  Tim. 115)
• If Jesus could save Paul who was the chief of
  sinners, He can save anybody
• Least of the apostles (I Cor. 159)
• Least of the saints (Eph. 38)

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• What Paul became (12,16)
• Persecutor into a preacher
• Murderer into a minister and missionary
• Called and commissioned by Christ
• Maintained a good conscience
• Was entrusted the gospel
• Was enabled to minister the gospel
• Became an example (116)
• Proof that the grace of God can change any sinner
• born out of due time (I Cor. 158) beginning
  of the church age
• Defend the Faith (118-20)
• charge (118) an urgent command handed down from
  a superior officer
• Tough to serve God in pagan Ephesus
• Soldiers task is to please him who hath chosen
  him to be a soldier (II Tim 24)
• Army to navy (I Tim. 119)
• Hold fast to faith and a good conscience

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• A good conscience is important to a good warfare
  and a good ministry
• Inner voice which warns us that somebody may be
  looking H.L.Mencken
• Professed Christians who make shipwreck of
  their faith by sinning against their consciences
• Bad doctrine starts with bad conduct and secret
  sin
• Hymenaeus and Alexander rejected their good
  conscience to defend their ungodly lives
• Delivered unto Satan (20) implies an apostolic
  discipline and disassociation from the local
  church
• learn learn by discipline
• Refusal to repent
• The local church should exercise discipline
• The fellowship of the local church gives a
  believer spiritual protection
• The local church is in constant battle against
  the forces of evil
• Satan is the originator of false doctrine (John
  844)
• Defend the faith by exposing the lies and
  opposing the doctrines of demons (I Tim. 41)

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• The Ministry must be balanced
• Preaching the gospel, teaching the truths of the
  Christianity and opposing the false doctrines
• Constant battle
• Timothys job winning the lost to Christ,
  teaching the saved, and defending the faith
• Problem with some local church pastors and
  leaders are involved in too many extracurricular
  activities and not doing the tasks God has called
  them to do
• Spiritual inventory