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“Focusing on What’s Important” (1 Timothy 1:1-17)
The apostle Paul was a man who was committed to Judaism. He considered himself a Jew of Jews. He was highly trained and he was highly devout.
In fact, before God changed Paul, he viewed his devotion to Judaism as a call to persecute those who belonged to a new religious movement. They were devoted to a man who claimed to be the Son of God, who was crucified, and who had risen from the dead. These people were called Christians.
However, God had great plans for Paul. On his way to bring harm to some of these Christians, Jesus appeared to Paul, and he himself became a Christian. Then, God told him that he would be used as an apostle; one who was sent to take the message of Christianity to others.
Paul became a devout missionary and church planter, planting many churches, and raising up others to lead in these churches. One place where he planted a church was the powerful city of Ephesus. One of those whom Paul trained, and whom Paul left to lead the church in Ephesus, was a young man named Timothy.
The letters of 1 and 2 Timothy are Paul’s correspondence and charge for Timothy to pastor the church in Ephesus well.
These two letters are what we will study over the next several weeks in a series called “Instructions for the Local Church.”
Today’s sermon is entitled “Focusing on What’s Important.”
Let’s go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to speak to us as we study His Word.
(prayer)
Today’s passage is a little bit of introduction from Paul, and then Paul gets right into impactful truth from God’s Holy Spirit.
So, let’s look at the passage and learn what God has to say to us. Look at 1 Timothy 1:1-17:
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope:
2 To Timothy, my true son in the faith.
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach false doctrine 4 or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith. 5 Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith. 6 Some have departed from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion. 7 They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 8 But we know that the law is good, provided one uses it legitimately. 9 We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching 11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which was entrusted to me.
12 I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry—13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 15 This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them. 16 But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life. 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
So, as we reflect upon this page, let’s extr
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The apostle Paul was a man who was committed to Judaism. He considered himself a Jew of Jews. He was highly trained and he was highly devout.
In fact, before God changed Paul, he viewed his devotion to Judaism as a call to persecute those who belonged to a new religious movement. They were devoted to a man who claimed to be the Son of God, who was crucified, and who had risen from the dead. These people were called Christians.
However, God had great plans for Paul. On his way to bring harm to some of these Christians, Jesus appeared to Paul, and he himself became a Christian. Then, God told him that he would be used as an apostle; one who was sent to take the message of Christianity to others.
Paul became a devout missionary and church planter, planting many churches, and raising up others to lead in these churches. One place where he planted a church was the powerful city of Ephesus. One of those whom Paul trained, and whom Paul left to lead the church in Ephesus, was a young man named Timothy.
The letters of 1 and 2 Timothy are Paul’s correspondence and charge for Timothy to pastor the church in Ephesus well.
These two letters are what we will study over the next several weeks in a series called “Instructions for the Local Church.”
Today’s sermon is entitled “Focusing on What’s Important.”
Let’s go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to speak to us as we study His Word.
(prayer)
Today’s passage is a little bit of introduction from Paul, and then Paul gets right into impactful truth from God’s Holy Spirit.
So, let’s look at the passage and learn what God has to say to us. Look at 1 Timothy 1:1-17:
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope:
2 To Timothy, my true son in the faith.
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach false doctrine 4 or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith. 5 Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith. 6 Some have departed from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion. 7 They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 8 But we know that the law is good, provided one uses it legitimately. 9 We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching 11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which was entrusted to me.
12 I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry—13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 15 This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them. 16 But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life. 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
So, as we reflect upon this page, let’s extr