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Paul Timothy Disciples

Go and make Disciples!

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From encouragements to stand strong, to strong warnings and even stronger commands – Paul instructs Timothy about the sobering nature of life in Christ.

The world is on a path leading to destruction and they will grow worse afflicting and infecting the church with their deceptions.

Paul reminds Timothy of the personal nature of the grass roots of his faith and that of the believers in Ephesus. He then commissions him to disciple them with the view of those too going out and making more disciples by the message they live and teach.

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Seek God Paul Timothy Ephesians

Seeking not just the Word, but the One Who inspired it!

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Paul knew of the difficulties in Ephesus because the church was structured so that the pastors (elders) and Timothy had hands on exposure to every believer.

Due to Paul & Timothy these believers became solid in doctrine.

Year later the Lord praised them for their doctrinal stability, but warned them of their lack of passion in His letters to the churches in Revelation.

This is always a danger – people either over emphasis scripture or overemphasize encounters wth God – when what makes for long term stability and growth is BOTH!

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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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