Sunday January 11, 2-26
“To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace
from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord”
1 Timothy 1:2
Today, we start a new series of messages from Paul’s first letter to Timothy. Why 1 Timothy you ask? Here are several reasons:
- Because it is God’s Word and “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction and training in righteousness.”
- Because truth matters. One of Paul’s concerns in 1 Timothy is with false teachers who are mudding the waters of Christ’s church by mixing error in with the truths Christians must believe. In this letter we will learn how to identify such error and counter it with biblical truth.
- Because gospel truth believed leads to godly living by believers. Truth matters, not only because we must have a right faith in order to know and walk with God, but also because the truth believed is what produces godly living. 1 Timothy contains a wealth of practical teaching about the life we must lead, the relationships we must cultivate, the holiness we must pursue, the grace we must treasure, and the boldness with which we must live out our faith in this dark and broken world. Here we will see, again and again, how treasuring the truth brings the joy of a new and holy life.
- Because the church matters. Paul calls the church “the pillar and buttress of the truth” in 1 Tim 3:15. By that he means it is the church that upholds and demonstrates God’s truth in the world. For that to happen, the church must have solid, biblical leaders. 1 Timothy 3 shows us what those leaders must be like, and how they must lead in faithfulness to Christ.
I’m really looking forward to sharing this study with you.
Pastor Scott Lee
