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Sorry Folks!

We Are On A Battleship, Not A Cruiseship!

Who: Timothy was Paul’s protege’ who came into contact with Paul around 63-65AD.

When Paul was on his second missionary trip to Lystra.

(Which is now modern day Klistra, Turkey) Timothy received his name, which means “one who honors God,” from his mother (Eunice) and grandmother (Lois), devout Jews who became believers in the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Tim.

1:5).

They taught Timothy the OT Scriptures from his childhood (2 Tim.

3:15).

His father was a Greek (Acts 16:1), who may have died before Timothy met Paul.

Timothy was from Lystra (Acts 16:1–3), a city in the Roman province of Galatia (part of modern Turkey).

Although Timothy was very young (probably in his late teens or early twenties, since about fifteen years later Paul referred to him as a young man, 4:12), he had a reputation for godliness (Acts 16:2).

Timothy was to be Paul’s disciple, friend, and co-laborer for the rest of the apostle’s life, ministering with him in Berea (Acts 17:14), Athens (Acts 17:15), Corinth (Acts 18:5; 2 Cor.

1:19), and accompanying him on his trip to Jerusalem (Acts 20:4).

He was with Paul in his first Roman imprisonment and went to Philippi (2:19–23) after Paul’s release.

In addition, Paul frequently mentions Timothy in his epistles (Rom.

16:21; 2 Cor.

1:1; Phil.

1:1; Col. 1:1; 1 Thess.

1:1; 2 Thess.

1:1; Philem.

(1).

Paul often sent Timothy to churches as his representative (1 Cor.

4:17; 16:10; Phil.

2:19; 1 Thess.

3:2), and 1 Timothy finds him on another assignment, serving as pastor of the church at Ephesus (1:3).

According to Heb. 13:23, Timothy was imprisoned somewhere and released.

What/Why: This is a letter that Paul sends to Timothy for all believers in the Ephesian churches.

Where Paul leaves Timothy to Pastor (Bring Oversight) to oversee the churches.

The purpose of the letter is to restructure what has become unstructured.

False Doctrine.

disorder in worship.

Getting qualified leaders.

Dealing with materialism and a few other unGodly issues.

Did you know The earliest organization of the Church in Jerusalem was, according to most scholars, similar to that of Jewish synagogues, but it had a council or college of ordained presbyters (πρεσβύτεροι, 'elders').

In Acts 11:30[3] and Acts 15:22, a collegiate system of government in Jerusalem is chaired by James the Just, according to tradition the first bishop of the city.

In Acts 14:23, the Apostle Paul ordains presbyters in churches in Anatolia.

The word presbyter was not yet distinguished from overseer (ἐπίσκοπος, episkopos, later used exclusively to mean bishop), as in Acts 20:17,[7] Titus 1:5–7 and 1 Peter 5:1.The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement, for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices—presbyters (seen by many as an interchangeable term with episkopos or overseer) and deacon.

In the First epistle to Timothy and Epistle to Titus in the New Testament a more clearly defined episcopate can be seen.

Both letters state that Paul had left Timothy in Ephesus and Titus in Crete to oversee the local church.

Paul commands Titus to ordain presbyters/bishops and to exercise general oversight.

Early sources are unclear but various groups of Christian communities may have had the bishop surrounded by a group or college functioning as leaders of the local churches.

Eventually the head or "monarchic" bishop came to rule more clearly, and all local churches would eventually follow the example of the other churches and structure themselves after the model of the others with the one bishop in clearer charge, though the role of the body of presbyters remained important.

Eventually, as Christendom grew, bishops no longer directly served individual congregations.

Instead, the metropolitan bishop (the bishop in a large city) appointed priests to minister each congregation, acting as the bishop's delegate.

Where: Paul went on to Macedonia, from where he wrote Timothy this letter to help him carry out his task in the church (cf.

3:14, 15).

How: Does this apply to us? Simply gives us directions on what, why and how we as the church should live and look like.

After all the church represents, God’s house.

We have one assignment as the church - To look like Christ to a world that is dying in sin.

1.

Who gives us hope?

Jesus gives us hope.

Hope is expectation .

a firm persuasion.

What are you persuade on?

That I will spend eternity with God my father.

What else are you persuaded on?

Hebrews 11:1

2. Paul is being sincere when he says this about Timothy being a true son.

Why didn’t he just call him a son?

Explain how some call Pastor Dad but they are really Bastards.

Grace - Favor The goodwill of God.

Gratitude with joy!

Mercy - Compassion Leniency shown towards an offender by a person or agency of authority.

Peace - Harmony Harmonious relations and freedom from disputes; especially during the absence of war.

3. How do we stop those whose teaching is contrary to the truth?

We get in our Word - the Bible and study it.

We pray and ask God to reveal to us the things we cannot see.

How do we do that?

Get a good Study Bible Pick a translation you can understand.

The more you spend time in it.

The more you will begin to see the treasures you couldn’t see before.

Get a good Bible Commentary Pick one that will work with your Bible of choice.

Look at it from another perspective as God makes it clearer to you.

Get a good Bible Reference Book Pick one that will have a Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Concordance.

Learn how to investigate the Word of God.

(Inductive Bible Study)

4. Our goal is to learn to live a life of meaning to God! Everything else is pointless.

What is a life of meaning to God?

One in which everything you do revolves around God.

Keep God the center point make Him the main thing.

Everything else, will line up.

5. Filled with love, where does this kinda love come from?

From God.

What kinda love is it?

Pure - Clean; freedom from guilt or responsibility.

Ritually pure!

Heart - Clear minded, knowing right from wrong and dealing with the inner self.

Clear Conscience - Moral sensitivity.

We live a world where peoples Moral Compass is gone or out of wack!

We say right is wrong and we say wrong is right!

Genuine Faith - Sincere, without hypocrisy.

6.

They have turned away from these things.

What things?

The things of God.

To busy getting there truth from other gods.

Social Media, CNN, FOX, TV Personalities, Athletes etc… all fighting for your eyes and ears.

This is referring to what you put into your heart, mind and soul.

If you are filled with greed, lust and all these things that are laid before you then you will begin to say it’s good but you are only deceiving yourself.

God is not mocked.

Galatians 1:6.

7.

They want to be known as teachers of the law of Mose.

Who wants to be known?

False teachers!

8. Why is the law good when used correctly?