The Battle for Truth
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
The God Who Makes Us Worshippers
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 1:17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
An outburst of praise from Paul in one of his many doxological exclamations in his letters.
One: God is beyond us in His divine nature...
Two: However, God is near to us in His saving love...
Three: So that we might worship Him.
The Transformational Power of The Gospel
Series: 1 Timothy
Text: 1 Timothy 1:12-16
Paul's Story
Chapter 1: The unbelief of sinners
Chapter 2: The mercy of God
Chapter 3: The gifts of grace
Chapter 4: The person of Jesus
Chapter 5: The example of change
Chapter 6: The commission of service
Video of the full service will be on our YouTube Channel soon
The Stewardship of the Truth
Series: Stick to the Truth
Text: 1 Timothy 1:1-11
Stick to the truth...
- because God has revealed the truth to us
- because the sensational can crowd out the essential
- because love is not always an easy choice to make
- because our pride craves knowledge
- because legalism comes easy to us
- because of the Gospel of the Glory of God
Proverbs for Parents and the Parented
Proverbs 3:11-12 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him who he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
For the Parents: Don't ignore the folly.
- Give truth
- In love
- Use the rod to demonstrate both
For the Parented: Don't ignore the truth.
- Hear truth
- In wisdom
- Use obedience to demonstrate both
Self-Control and Sexual Purity
- Sexual sin ignores the instruction of wisdom
- Sexual sin believes the lie of temptation's promise
- Sexual sin squanders the joy of God's Design
- Sexual sin fails to look beyond the immediate
- Sexual sin surrenders your honor
Self-Control: Appetite
- God created good things for our pleasure
- As Creator, God defines the boundaries of pleasure
- With self-control we war against the idolatry of pleasure
- Earthly pleasures remind us of the perfect, eternal, undiminished pleasure of being with God in heaven
Sanctification in Self-Control
Listen as we learn what self-control is, what sanctification is, and who is responsible for self-control in sanctification.
We seek to avoid the pitfalls on either extreme, instead we look to the Bible as it lays out our role in the process.
Wisdom Begins with the Fear of the Lord
Proverbs calls us to six actions:
- Knowing God
- Worshipping God
- Trusting God
- Enjoying God
- Loving truth
- Rejecting sin
Wisdom and Wealth
What does it mean to honor the Lord with your wealth?
6 Principles That Guide You To Honor The Lord With Your Wealth
- Don't apologize for wealth. Stuff isn't sinful in and of itself.
- Don't compromise your integrity. Character is more important than wealth.
- Don't focus on lack. See what you have and not what you don't have. You must live in contentment.
- Don't hoard your resources.
- Don't trust in wealth. Ask the question, What are you trusting in?
- Don't undervalue God's wisdom.
The Question of Civil Disobedience
Two Scenarios for Civil Disobedience
- When human government commands something God forbids
- When human government forbids something God commands
7 Guiding Principles Before Civil Disobedience
- Thanksgiving - 1 Thessalonians 5:18
- Forbearance - Romans 12:10
- Obedience - Matthew 22:21; Romans 13:1-7; Titus 3:1-2; 1 Peter 2:13-17
- Stewardship - Acts 16 & 22
- Prayer - 1 Timothy 2:1-3
- Cooperation
- Creativity
Tools for Interpreting Proverbs
5 Tools for Interpreting Proverbs
- Interpret Proverbs by remembering what a proverb is.
- Brief
- Poetic
- Guide to godly living
- Interpret Proverbs as general principles, rather than unconditional promises.
- Interpret Proverbs recognizing that the proverbs generally fall into two literary forms.
- Instructions/commands
- Wisdom sayings
- Interpret Proverbs by understanding parallelism.
- Synonymous parallelism
- Antithetic parallelism
- Emblematic parallelism
- Synthetic parallelism
- Interpret Proverbs with the broader teaching of scripture.
The Wisdom of Solomon is Ours for the Taking
Series: The Wisdom of Solomon
7 ways that we — like Solomon — can be wise.
- Hear the call of wisdom
- Recognize the need for wisdom
- We must persue the source of wisdom
- We must exercise the power of wisdom
- Expect a testimony of wisdom
- Remember the purpose of wisdom
- Believe the fulfillment of wisdom
"God, I Will Rejoice In You No Matter What"
Part 6 of the series Living By Faith When I Don't Like God's Plan