Reaching the Goal of Christ
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I. Know The Goal
I. Know The Goal
A. Love is the Goal
A. Love is the Goal
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
goal=τέλος, The “end” “limit” or “termination”
Why do we open the Bible each week? Why do I take 45 minutes out of your week and talk, talk, talk?
It is ἀγάπη. That is self-sacrificing goodwill or esteem for God and for each other that expresses itself in action.
We teach so that we will all love. There is no greater goal.
2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
The Bible is THE practical guide-book of love. The Bible’s doctrines and instructions are the highest moral handbook on how to show goodwill or esteem toward God, a fellow human, animals, or this planet.
So we teach, so that we will all love to highest degree.
4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:
6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
B. The Quality of Love
B. The Quality of Love
1. From a Pure Heart
1. From a Pure Heart
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
the seat of man’s collective energies, the focus of personal life, the seat of the rational as well as the emotional and volitional elements in human life, hence that wherein lies the moral and religious condition of the man
It is our inner sanctum
2. From a Good Conscience
2. From a Good Conscience
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
conscience is your inner judge of your actions.
J.N.D. Kelly
The Pastoral Epistles 2. A Warning against False Teachers (1:3–11)
a man’s inner awareness of the moral quality of his own actions
15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
3. From a Sincere Faith
3. From a Sincere Faith
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
sincere=genuine, without hypocrisy.
14 “Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
1000 Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching Conversion
In 1871 the New York Herald sent Henry Stanley to Africa in search of the missionary, David Livingstone, who was long overdue. After unbelievable hardships, the journalist found the explorer in central Africa, where he spent four months with him. Stanley went to Africa a conceited and confirmed atheist, but Livingstone’s influence, gentleness, genuineness, goodness, and zeal won Stanley. Stanley became a Christian, saying, “I was converted by him, although he had not tried to do it.”
II. Don’t Miss the Goal
II. Don’t Miss the Goal
A. By Straying from Love
A. By Straying from Love
1 Timothy 1:6 (NASB95)
6 For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,
What things? from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.
18 men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.
B. By Turning Aside from Love
B. By Turning Aside from Love
1 Timothy 1:6 (NASB95)
6 For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,
how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?
C. By Misplaced Love
C. By Misplaced Love
1 Timothy 1:7 (NASB95)
7 wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
θέλω=desire, want, or wish to be teachers of the law.
Who were the teachers of the law?Pharisees, Gamaliel. These were the respected religious leaders in Israel.
Their love was to be recognized as teachers of the law. They wanted the respect that was given to the rabbis like Gamaliel.
D. By Deficient Love
D. By Deficient Love
1 Timothy 1:7 (NASB95)
7 wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
The cults are experts at throwing around flowery language and biblical terms like grace and atonement but they have no clue what those terms mean. They speak in word salads that they don’t even understand.
39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
41 “I do not receive glory from men;
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
47 “But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”