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How will it look to live as a pastor in this ever changing world?
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
How will it look to live as a Christian in this ever changing world?
What about my children?
Bob Dylan
Context- Introduction
This morning we are going to try and answer these questions.
Remember, again the context of what we are reading this morning.
Remember, again the context of what we are reading this morning.
Paul is writing to a young man who is serving as a minister for the church in Ephesus.
Timothy is standing in the gap for Paul.
He writes to Timothy, but he wants the whole church to benefit from this letter.
This was the whole purpose.
He wasn’t just writing to Timothy to make Timothy better.
He was writing to hope to further God’s glory by Timothy being a faithful church leader and Ephesus being a faithful church.
Paul’s mission was the mission of Christ.
And the mission of Christ is to build His church.
He wanted the church of Ephesus to be a healthy church, so he invested in the leader of the church of Ephesus.
And what we see Paul do with Timothy, sets the example for every one of us.
He is equipping a young man, a younger person, to accomplish much for the glory of God within the context of the local church.
So a question to consider?
Are we doing that?
Who at this church are you equipping that is younger that you know that if they do only what you have taught them to do, they will accomplish much for the glory of God in the context of the local church?
God has saved these young people (those of them who are saved) and he has given them to us to train.
And whether or not they serve for the rest of their lives in this church, or another, we still have the same job.
We have to teach younger believers how to be Christians in this world.
That doesn’t necessarily mean age either.
Younger Christians could be any age.
And regardless of age, the goal is that they would become mature in Christ.
So what do we teach them?
What are the necessities that people need to know in the faith?
Paul again I believe gives us a paradigm for what to teach those who are young in the faith.
We must teach them what Paul taught Timothy and what Timothy would have in turn taught Ephesus.
And the goal is healthy believers and healthy churches.
Five things we are to teach and encourage to every believer.
This is our job as a church.
This is our job as Sunday School teachers, parents, grandparents, and youth leaders.
We must teach them to:
Identify the False
Feast on What is True
Reject the Worldly
Strive for the Godly
Fix Your Hope on the Living God
Five things that we should live ourselves and teach every believer.
Identify the False
Identify the False
Last week we discussed the reality of false believers and false teachers.
Here Paul picks up what he just got through saying to encourage Timothy.
Hey, if you will point these things out.
if you will be diligent to keep the church pure from both false members and false teachers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus.
The goal again is to be a good servant of our Lord.
But he says in order to do that we have to do what is hard at times and thats being able to identify the false.
Whether that be false believers or false teachers, false doctrine, we need to be able to determine that which is false.
It would be a failure if someone leaves this church after having grown up in this church and not know how to identify false teaching.
If it doesn’t line up with God’s Word, its false.
Regardless of how sincere someone may be.
I heard Pastor Justin Peters this week, referencing false teachers and he said:
“These people may be sincere.
But sincerity is not what matters.
Truth Matters.”
Sincerity does not equal truth.
So....
As your pastor, one of my jobs is to make sure that I am guarding this church from false teaching:
What that means is a few things:
Guarding this pulpit.
That those who preach here
Guarding our time here.
To make sure we are using this time in the best way.
Naming names of those who are false teachers and you will hear me do that often.
Probably the most important, is giving a steady diet of that which is true.
As a parent or grandparent, or Sunday School teacher, I encourage you to listen carefully and to watch what is shaping the people who are under your teaching?
You are also called to:
Guard what is being taught and consumed in your home.
Guard the time.
Name the names of those who are false.
Give a steady diet the truth.
And that last one, is key.
We need to teach every believer to be able to identify the false.
But we also have to teach them to feast on what is true.
Look what he says there at the end of verse 6.
Feast on What is True
Constantly nourished on the words of faith and sound doctrine.
A believer needs to feast on what is true.
Paul is telling Timothy here that he needs to be feeding daily from the Word of God.
This will be a determining factor of whether or not he will be successful in ministry.
But this isn’t just for Timothy.
Every believer should be growing daily in the Word of God.
Jeremiah says there that he ate the Word of God.
He’s not speaking literally.
He is speaking of the fact that he had a steady intake of God’s Word and it was a delight for him.
That he feasted on God’s Word.
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