Motivated By True Love

Read 1 Timothy 1:1-2

Timothy is:

1/2 Jew, 1/2 Greek

Convert of Paul

Well spoken of by the Saints

Pastor at Ephesus

Read 1 Timothy 1:3-4

Paul instructed Timothy to charge (παραγγέλλω; “to give orders”) to certain people not to teach a different doctrine.

Deceitfully (blatant false doctrine)

Unintentionally (personal pursuits; myths and endless genealogies)

Teaching not founded on the Word can only be speculations at best.

Stewardship - administration; task; management (as in household)

The Word of God = truth (fact)

Read 1 Timothy 1:5-7

The intent behind Paul’s charge to Timothy is love that emanates from:

Pure heart

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Good conscience

Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Read 1 Peter 3:13-22

Sincere faith (“sincere” = “without hypocrisy”)

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Matthew Henry Godly edifying is the end ministers should aim at in all their discourses, that Christians may be improving in godliness and growing up to a greater likeness to the blessed God… it is by faith that we come to God at first (Heb. 11:6), and it must be in the same way, and by the same principle of faith, that we must be edified. Again, Ministers should avoid, as much as may be, what will occasion disputes; and would do well to insist on the great and practical points of religion, about which there can be no disputes; for even disputes about great and necessary truths draw off the mind from the main design of Christianity, and eat out the vitals of religion, which consist in practice and obedience as well as in faith, that we may not hold the truth in unrighteousness, but may keep the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience