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! Introduction
Key theme~/verse: How to behave in the church?
3:15
So far Paul has concentrated on the Glorious Gospel, particularly on impact is should have in our lives:
* Glorious Gospel Teaching (1:1-10): Teaching sound doctrine -> love
* Glorious Gospel Living (1:11-20): Living with clear conscience (in light of Gospel) !-> shipwreck
* Now Glorious Gospel Ministry:
* What?
* prayer for government – vertical
* testimony to gentiles – horizontal
* Why? -- God’s desire for all to acknowledge truth of Gospel – salvation
2:1–7 – How to behave in the church?
Fervent prayer + Forthright testimony
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Why we must behave as Paul urges
But before we examine them in detail, we must ask, “Why?”
Why should be behave this way?
Why bother to pray for others?
Why bother to witness to them?
Why “interfere” with what they believe?
Paul brings us back to the Gospel.
If we believe the Gospel, our doctrine will be sound, and our consciences will be clear (ch 1).
But the Gospel is not simply my individual salvation.
God desires “all people to be saved and come to acknowledge the truth”
!! Gospel is a /*universal message*/ of salvation
“for all people” – all people without distinction, not all people without exception (as in all 4x here).
Salvation is not a national thing, just for the Jews, or an individualistic thing, just for me.
!! The Gospel is a /*unique message*/ of salvation
“acknowledge truth ... one God ... one mediator ... ransom for all”.
This shows that the Gospel is not simply one message of salvation among many, but the only message of salvation in the world.
The universal claim of the Gospel is based on the unique claim of the Gospel.
It is for all people, because there is only one God, only one mediator, and only one way of salvation.
It is popular today to think that we can all have our opinions about anything and everything.
You believe in one God, others can believe in many gods, still others in no god, and even others can believe they are god themselves.
Who’s to say anyone is right?
Maybe no one is right.
Maybe everyone is right.
As long as it’s right for you, and you don’t insist on everyone believing what you believe, we can all get on fine.
Problems arise when one group insists they are right and everyone else is wrong.
This often leads to offence, violence, even bloodshed.
The Christian who believes the Gospel, and the sound doctrine that goes hand in hand with the Gospel, cannot subscribe to that view – because it simply isn’t true.
God himself has revealed /The //Truth/.
Jesus said, “I am /The Way, The Truth, and The Life/” (Jn 14:6).
If anyone would be saved, they will have to acknowledge /The Truth/.
That is our experience.
If you’re not a Christian, then that is the point you will have to accept before you can experience God’s salvation.
Salvation is not a matter of what works for you or for me, but what works because that is the way God has designed it.
If you don’t believe this, you don’t believe /*The Truth*/.. Notice what is involved in this truth.
!! /*Christ is Mediator*/ between God and men.
Mediation implies separation, people at variance or in dispute.
When people are together and agreed there is no need for a mediator.
At the heart of the Gospel is bad news that we must face.
We are not on speaking terms with God.
Remember how Adam in the Garden fled and hid.
He didn’t want to speak to God.
God came to speak to him, so it’s clear the problem lay on the human side of the relationship, not the divine.
Adam didn’t want to speak to God because he hadn’t listened to God, but rather to his wife.
Now that’s not always a bad thing in my experience.
A good wife can often tell her husband the truth he’s failed to see.
But Eve’s advice was flawed because she’d not listened to God either; she’d listened to the Serpent, and he as totally opposed to God.
But, of course, this wasn’t simply some minor disagreement that had led Adam to huff with God.
It was sin – the deadly, terminal spiritual disease that Adam caught in the Garden and which has been transmitted to every human being ever since without exception.
Romans 5:12 (NKJV) – Death in Adam, Life in Christ
12 Therefore, just as sthrough one man sin entered the world, and tdeath through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
It is not some genetic abnormality that affects one person in so many thousand.
It affects one person in every one.
It is inescapable, and if left untreated is terminal, but it is far from incurable.
Romans 5:11 (NKJV) \\ 11 And not only /that,/ but we also rrejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Reconciliation is possible, and the peace broker is the Lord Jesus Christ.
If we are to be rescued from this separate state of affairs, we need to the services of a qualified, professional, competent, experienced mediator.
Job 9:32-33 (NKJV) \\ 32 “For /He is/ not a man, as I /am,/
That I may answer Him,
/And that/ we should go to court together.
33 Nor is there any mediator between us,
/Who/ may lay his hand on us both.
Job lived as long before Christ as we live after.
But Job’s prayer has been answered, his heart-felt longing has become a reality – his name is Jesus Christ.
He is fully divine, and fully human.
He can represent both sides fairly, and command the confidence of both parties.
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/*Christ is ransom*/ for all
But notice how 1Tm 2 does not stop at reconciliation.
It goes onto ransom.
Reconciliation is achievable.
Indeed, reconciliation has been achieved, but at a price, a price we dare not pay, even had we the resources.
Romans 5:10 (NKJV) \\ 10 For oif when we were enemies pwe were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved qby His life.
If our death could have effected reconciliation there would be no life to live in its enjoyment.
Deathbed reconciliations can be moving, but there is nothing to share between the reconciled parties.
By dying as a ransom, Christ’s reconciliation of us to God provides the means for us to live in the enjoyment of that reconciliation.
He died that we might live.
If the Gospel brings us face to face with the bad news – reconciliation is needed – it also brings us face to face with the good news – reconciliation has been provided, the ransom has been paid.
If we will but come to acknowledge the truth, it can be ours.
The price God demanded and his holy law required for our sin was death.
Christ’s innocent, vicarious death on our behalf has paid our ransom.
In Rm 5:15-21 Paul shows how truly excellent the good news of the Gospel really is.
Romans 5:15-21 (NKJV) \\ 15 But the free gift /is/ not like the 5offense.
For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded wto many.
16 And the gift /is/ not like /that which came/ through the one who sinned.
For the judgment /which came/ from one /offense resulted/ in condemnation, but the free gift /which came/ from many 6offenses /resulted/ in justification.
17 For if by the one man’s 7offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore, as through 8one man’s offense /judgment/ came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through xone 9Man’s righteous act /the free gift came/ yto all men, resulting in justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by zone Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
20 Moreover athe law entered that the offense might abound.
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