Text: Matthew 26:14-16
In those pieces of silver we see...
- The value of a servant
- The work of a shepherd
- The guilt of sin
- The judgment of sinners
- The hope of salvation
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Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 6:20-21
Three responses to this conclusion of the letter of 1 Timothy
- Treasure the truth
- Beware of distractions
- Rely on grace
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 6:17-20
Avoid the dangers of wealth
- Don't think your money makes you important
- Understand the investment of wealth
Three Conclusions
- In some relative way, consider yourself rich
- In some small way, enjoy God's gifts today
- In some intentional way, invest your resources
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 6:11-16
- Obedience involves discernment
- Flee
- Pursue
- Obedience involves intensity
- Fight
- Take hold
- Obedience involves integrity
- Keep the commandment
- Obedience involves worship
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 6:5-11
How do I remember and believe that the real gain is found in being godly?
Three answers form the text:
- Don't view godliness as a means to get gain. Godliness is the gain.
- Draw a line between needs and wants.
- Unlimited desire leads to unlimited loss.
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 5:17-6:2
One: Honoring Elders
- Compensation
- Honoring the work, not elevating the person
- Accusation
- False accusation is dangerous
- An unrepentant leader should be dealt with in a public, church-wide, and strict manner
- Ordination
Two: Honoring Masters
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 5:1-16
Five concluding applications for our church
- Sharpen your understanding of what true neediness looks like
- Treat each other with the God-designed propriety of family relationships
- Care for your natural family with generous love
- Give special attention to widows
- Embrace the God-pleasing ministry in every stage of life
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 4:6-16
Six strategies for combating false teaching
- Challenge the church to think
- "put these things before the brothers"
- Shun the distraction of the sensational
- "Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths."
- Promote personal, spiritual discipline
- "Rather train yourself for godliness"
- Prioritize God's Word in the life of the church
- "devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching."
- "Do not neglect the gift you have"
- Exemplify a life of gospel transformation
- "Practice these things, immerse yourself in them"
- Persevere in the Word, and by the Word
- "Persist in this"
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 4:1-5
Definition: Apostasy is when someone who claimed to be a Christian, denies the faith.
Five Questions on False Teaching
- What is at stake with false teaching?
- Some will depart from the faith.
- Eternal life is at stake.
- What is the source of false teaching?
- Deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.
- These deceitful teachings come through human teachers.
- What is the strategy of false teaching?
- Deceit.
- What is the content of false teaching?
- Two warning signs
- Promoting self-righteousness
- Undermining God's goodness
- Two warning signs
- What is our response to false teaching?
- Rigorously submit your thoughts to God's.
- Genuinely invite others to exhort you.
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 3:14-16
This short paragraph gives us the theme for the series: stick to the truth.
Three Reasons Why We Should Stick to the Truth
- Stick to the truth because the truth reveals God's will for our behavior -
- Stick to the truth because the truth reveals God's mission for his church
- "The household of God" reminds us that the church is the family of God
- "The church of the living God" reminds us that God dwells among us
- "A pillar and buttress of the truth" reminds us that the church stands for the truth
- Stick to the truth because the truth reveals God's purpose in the gospel
Three Conclusions
- Know and believe what God has said
- Love the family of God and unite around truth
- Marvel at the victory of the gospel
He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
"Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness" ~ 1 Timothy 3:16
Text: 1 Timothy 3:8-13
A biblical church must have a biblical view of deacons
To rightly define a biblical deacon, we must...
- Know the idea of the word: Servant
- Know the development of the role
- Know the title of the office
- Know the qualifications of the man
- Know the rewards of the job
The incarnation is for salvation
Text: Luke 2:21-27
Text: Luke 2:25
The lessons we learn from the story of Christmas
- Lesson 1. The certainty of the promise
- Lesson 2. The piercing of the darkness
- Lesson 3. The revelation of the king
- Lesson 4. The unfolding of the mission
- Lesson 5. The joy of the faithful
- Lesson 6. The instruction of the shadows
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 3:1-7
Introductory comments about this list
- This list is designed to be a starting place
- This list is designed to guard the office of pastor/elder/bishop
- This list is designed for the present
Brief definitions
- Above reproach
- Blameless
- The husband of one wife
- A one woman man
- Sober-minded
- Vigilant
- Cautious
- Self-controlled
- Thinking is governed by truth
- Respectable
- Dignity
- Well mannered
- Hospitable
- Shows love to outsiders
- Welcoming
- Able to teach
- Can they use truth to offer guidance, and can they correct error?
- Not a drunkard
- Not controlled by pleasure or felt need
- Not violent but gentle
- Not volatile
- Peaceful
- Not quarrelsome
- Not belligerent or debating
- Not resentful
- Not a lover of money
- Understands stewardship
- Must be faithful
- Manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive
- Supervision
- Nurture
- Not a recent convert
- Spiritually mature
- Well thought of by outsiders
Conclusion
- These qualities are in some way for every christian to demonstrate
- These qualities represent areas of growth that we continually strive for
- The qualities are windows into the perfections of Christ
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 3
How can we know what the bible says about pastors?
Text: Psalm 50:14 - Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
Five reasons:
- By sacrifice you acknowledge God's worth
- By sacrifice you acknowledge God's authority
- By sacrifice you acknowledge God's goodness
- By sacrifice you acknowledge God's faithfulness
- By sacrifice you acknowledge God's sufficiency
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 2:8-15
To the Men:
- Humble yourself in a spirit of unity
To the Women:
- Present yourselft in a spirit of godliness
- Learn to govern yourself om a spirit of submisson
- Learn to encourage yourself in a spirit of purpose
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-7
The truth is for all categories of people...
- ...as seen in our prayer for all
- ...as seen in God's desire for all
- ...as seen in Christ's ransom for all
- ...as seen in Paul's message for all
The truth is for all kinds of people because we can see how it ends.
Revelation 5:9; 7:9
The Battle For Truth
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 1:18-20
We must fight for the truth.
- The church has always had to fight for the truth.
- Old Testament
- Israel
- Elijah
- All the prophets
- New Testament
- Jesus refuting the Pharisees
- Early church coming up against Judaism and Rome
- Early Centuries
- The Trinity: Council of Nicaea, 325
- God's Sovereignty: Council of Ephesus, 431
- Deity of Christ: Council of Constantinople, Council of Ephesus, Council of Chalcedon
- Middle ages
- The Reformers standing up to the Roman Catholic Church
- Puritans
- Queen Mary against those who held to the reformation
- Missionary Church
- Modern Missionary Movement
- Sunday School Movement in Orphan outreach
- Abolitionist Movement
- Fundamentalism
- Opposing liberalism and modernism
- Princeton Seminary
- Battle for Biblical inerrancy
- Old Testament
- How do I fight for the truth?
- Remember your commission
- Believe God's words
- Imitate God's character
- Oppose false teaching