A Gospel Imperative
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3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,
4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
18 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
He Urged Him
He Urged Him
3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,
Biblical preaching
++is connected to timing
41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
21 And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Biblical preaching
is connected to timing
++Gives information
5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
The reason is love.
The reason is love.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Love must come from
++A pure heart
The heart of man is not pure on its own.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
God knows my heart.
God knows my heart.
The Prophet describes it as
++Deceitful
++Desperately sick
++Difficult to understand
1 The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
3 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
Everything belongs to the Lord.
Everything belongs to the Lord.
The Lord owns it
++The World
++Everything in it
The Lord made us
++To be with him
++To abide with him
This is the gift to those with a pure heart
++To stand on the mountain of the Lord
++To dwell with him
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
God Promises us a new heart
God Promises us a new heart
19 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Love must come from
A pure heart
++good conscience
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Love must come from
A pure heart
A good conscience
++A sincere faith
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Biblical preaching
is connected to timing
Gives information
++Provides instructions
3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,
4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
How do we stay focused on the Message?
How do we stay focused on the Message?
There are
++So many choices.
++So many voices.
2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
The Gospel is the message in time
The Gospel is the message in time
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
The Gospel is the answer for the wicked heart.
The Gospel is the answer for the wicked heart.
15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”