How to Disciple in the 21st Century

Bulletin Insert 07/14/24

1. Sit under Sound Doctrine (v.1)

a. Follows an opposite description

i. Titus 1:15-16

ii. Romans 1:21, 24, 28

b. Sound Doctrine is Divine

i. 1 Timothy 6:3

c. Sound Doctrine is to be followed

i. 2 Timothy 1:13

d. That which is contrary to Sound Doctrine

i. 1 Timothy 1:10

2. Encourage and Practice Self-Control (vv.2, 5-6)

a. Is a right state of mind

i. Mark 5:15

b. A means of humility

i. Romans 12:3

c. A fruit of the Spirit

i. Galatians 5:23

d. An urgent plea for self-control

i. Like that of the leper

1. Mark 1:40

ii. From the apostle Peter

1. 1 Peter 4:7

e. Why suffer from lacking self-control?

i. Proverbs 21:17, 25:16

f. Self-control and eternity

i. 1 Peter 4:3-5

3. The Older are to teach the Younger (vv.2-4, 6)

a. Women are to live reverently or priestly

i. Numbers 3:5-13

b. Free from slander

i. 1 Timothy 3:11

c. Lives a pure life

i. 1 John 3:3

d. The Word of God would not be slandered

i. As Jesus was

1. Matthew 27:39

4. Not in Theory alone, but in Practice (vv.7-8)

a. Significance and value to this seen earlier in Timothy

i. 1 Timothy 4:12

b. An embracing of righteousness in discipleship

i. Philippians 1:8-11

ii. Colossians 1:9-10

iii. 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13

iv. 2 Thessalonians 1:3