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In this message, Eddie and René Taubensee talk about the importance of pursuing a biblical community made up of people who are those before you, those beside you and those you bring with you.

If “the aim of our charge is love” (1 Timothy 1:5), then what does love as followers of Jesus look like? Who are we to love and how are we to love them? What about people who have hurt us? Paul shows us that loving others is to go as far and wide as the love of God, which is for all people. God invites us to lovingly pray for our enemies, for rulers, and for all people, not only to work in their lives, but also in us, that God may shape our hearts to reflect his own.

Paul brings further clarity and correction to the false teachers in Ephesus, who had wrongly taught the purpose of the law and our relationship with it. Paul reveals that rather than make us perfect, the law reveals our imperfection, and reveals God as the only righteous one. It is only through Jesus that the law empowers us for healthy, right living rather than bondage. Paul uses his own life as an example of how Jesus is able to save even the “chief of sinners,” while the law would always be unable to do so. In 1st Timothy 1:17, Paul pauses in his letter to Timothy, and exalts God in poetic praise. In this we are reminded that the glorious realities of the gospel are not information that we move coldly past. Rather, the gospel is eternal power (Rom. 1:16) that calls for daily remembrance, which fuels worship, no matter our circumstance.

In this message, Aubry Stitt brings her passion and experience in discipleship into a teaching on the importance of making disciples of Jesus as we are continually being made into a disciple of Jesus.

As Paul begins to instruct Timothy to faithfully deal with the issues caused by the false teachers in the church at Ephesus, we are reminded of our need for faithfulness to truth and sound doctrine, while recognizing that this truth must be rooted in love of God and love of neighbor.

Before Paul begins to unpack the intricacies of how Timothy is to faithfully deal with the issues caused by the false teachers in the church at Ephesus he reminds his dear friend and child in the faith of the foundational goal for which the church was established by God. The people of God were created and gathered to love God and love people. And this love Paul focuses in on is the love Jesus demonstrated: self-sacrificially giving ourselves for the good of the other.

We are so excited to begin our journey through the book of 1st Timothy. This is an extremely significant book for our unique time in history but before we get too far, we must understand how this letter fits into the grand story of Scripture. Without context, we are far less likely to grasp the wonders of what God has actually revealed to us in His Word. Join us in the adventure of discovering the context and purpose of this beautiful letter.

Revive Us

For this final message in our Revive Us series, we take time to draw near to the feet of Jesus through a few spiritual rhythms meant to focus our minds and hearts on Jesus.

Revive Us