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Intro
Timothy
What makes Timothy such an excellent help to those around him?
His priorities.
Namely, Christ as his top priority.
Note something about Timothy: what makes him the best possible help to the Ephesian church ISNT that the Ephesian church is the most important thing in the world to him.
What makes him the best possible help to the Ephesian Church is that Christ is the most important thing in the world to him.
Timothy’s proven worth isn’t in his love letters to the church or his flowery language, but in the fact that he has been faithfully serving with Paul in the gospel.
Epaphroditus
Notice that Epaphroditus is also held up as one of the best that Paul could send to the church.
He “longs for them” and he needs them to know that he is ok.
Loving God and loving people are inseparable, but our love for people has to flow out of our love for God and not the other way around.
If our love for God flows out of our love for people, we are going to have a subjective and broken way of loving people, and we will likely not love God very much at all/in a messed up way.
If our love for people flows out of love for God, our love for others will be unbiased, unchanging, completely selfless and eternal.
Why is that?
because God’s love for people is so much greater than our own love for people, and that is proven through the person Jesus Christ.
Jesus
People don’t love people like this- we don’t have this type of love for anoe another naturally.
Christ has a perfect love for you and for the people sitting around you.
And in his love for his church, he also brings us together and helps us to love one another.
This is why our love for people has to come out of our love for God and God’s love for us.
We can only truly love each other properly when we commit ourselves to Christ first.
But, if we are truly committed to Christ, we will also be committed to loving and serving the church the way that Jesus does.
The Call
Commit yourself to Christ, and let genuine love for others flow out of that commitment.
Commit yourself to Christ
reading the word
praying
submitting yourself to his authority- willing to change
Commit yourself to the church
serving one another
encouraging one another
holding one another accountable.
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