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Knowing living doctrine Paul Timothy

Knowing & living sound doctrine

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Knowing & Living Sound Doctrine

Series: Lessons from Paul to Timothy

Paul’s encouragement to Timothy was also to be Timothy’s instruction for the saints in Ephesus.

These are very practical truths but they are also foundational – meaning, without them the entire structure of our faith cannot stand!

According to Paul, our ability to present ourselves before God as approved and bear no shame directly springs out of embodying these truths. First among which inclides being established in, living out and able to share with others SOUND DOCTRINE!

Paul clearly states (as does Jesus Himself) that anything we do, think or converse about which is not in some way connected to sound doctrine – the living or spreading of it is empty talk for which we will be judged.

Blessings!

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Endure Reign Paul Timothy

Those who endure will reign

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Paul gives Timothy a hymnic creed – a sort of foundational doctrinal statement in an easily recalled and recited format.

This was often done in the church in order to solidify and fortify believers in the truth and as a type of confession of belief.

The 4 points of the creed include:
– If you died with Christ you must raise to a new way of living with Him as well.
– If you endure or overcome to the end you will be saved and reign with Him.
– If you deny Him, He WILL deny you
– If you are unfaithful to Him, He remain’s faithful to His Own character. He cannot deny Who He is!

This is a sort of Christianity 101 short course which is affirmed and repeated throughout the New Testament which we spend some time exploring in this message.

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Elect election chosen blinded

Free-willed vessels of Honor Part 3

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In this final segment of this mini-series, we cover who are ‘the chosen’, the foretold, those whose minds are blinded and the process by which that blinding takes place.

References include Jesus, Paul, Isaiah. Elihu and Jude. Though the language can sometimes be confusion, as I’ve said since the first installment of this series – “these statements do not appear in a vacuum”. The scriptures have to be taken as a whole on the subject before a well studied conclusion can be made and I am convinced it comes done on the side of free will!

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I will make My firstborn, greatest of the Kings of earth!

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A Prayer of David and two Psalms of the sons of Korah.

David prays for and expects in the deliverance of God due to their relationship of faithfulness to each other and God’s great mercy.

The sons of Korah write a Psalm about the great value God places on every heart which is completely His and that He knows those who belong to Him from every nation, tribe and tongue.

Finally the sons of Korah approach God in prayer. They extol His love and His faithfulness to His covenants. But then present God with a conundrum which callenges their faith. God promised David to have one of his descendants on the throne but now, in Babylonian exile the one ruling over them is a foreigner. One from the lineage of David never again took the throne and this was a source of uncertainty for Korahites. In the end, though we know Jesus was, is and will be the final and eternal king of God’s Kingdom, Israel and the world they did not. But even in their uncertainty they took their stand, trusting in God’s unwavering charcter even when it seemed all evidence pointed to the contrary.

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Elect election predestination

Free-willed vessels of Honor Part 2

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This is part two in a three part mini-series regarding who the “elect” are and what is the “election” process. This includes other words in scripture such as foreknowledge, preordained, predestined, called and chosen as well as others I am sure.

The purpose of this mini-series is to clarify what the scriptures say about predestination and the free will of the individual regarding grace, salvation and eternal life.

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