A Pure Heart, a Good Conscience, a Sincere Faith

May 20, 2018 · 1 Timothy

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Series · 1 Timothy · Week 13 of 24

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1 Timothy 1 mentioned in relation to a trustworthy saying about Christ Jesus coming to save sinners

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking;
7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
12 And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
19 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

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1 Timothy 1

referenced in relation to Paul calling out certain persons as false teachers in Ephesus

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking;

7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

12 And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

19 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

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1 Timothy 3:14-15

quoted about Paul writing so Timothy may know how one ought to behave in the household of God

14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;

15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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Matthew 16:18

Jesus said I will build my church

18 I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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6:16 Speaker 1Discovery class probably maybe even still be going down there right now in my office on the third Sunday of the month. That's discovery class. Oh, yeah. Wanted. Our tables and our

9:04 Speaker 3So I wanna hear just ended up, and it's a major part of the fabric of this church, so I wanted to give you all an update on on what we did this year and what it's all about. I wanna his mission is reaching boys and girls with the gospel of Christ and training them to serve him. And these kids announcement from four years old to fifth grade are the next generation of the church. So we take it pretty seriously, discipling them and teaching them the the scriptures and and what God says about how to live, and we do it through games and scripture memory and a large group teaching time. And and we have a lot of fun doing it, and we have a lot of really wonderful volunteers that help many of you who are in this room.

9:42 So there are an army of volunteers and stuff poised all around the sanctuary right now. And as soon as Ray's done with his sermon today, we're gonna tear this room apart and set up. You wanna grant me, there's gonna be a 30 foot long track running down the middle here. All the kids spent the last six weeks making cars, and we're gonna have timers and slow motion video and music, and and it's gonna be a blast. And then we're gonna celebrate also with some awards, lots of awards for the kids that worked really hard this year.

10:12 So by the numbers, this year, we had 32 club nights over the course of forty weeks that represented 56 of these kids' time or lives. We've reached 74 total kids from six different churches. So it's not just the first b ministry, it's a valley wide ministry. 34 volunteers helped us out and did a lot of work this year. We really love all the work they do and love their heart for kids and appreciate what they do.

10:40 And all told, over 2,500 verses were memorized by the kids. We pray that those verses are going from their heart head to their heart. But those scriptures are in their in their heads, and we we we trust that God will use them in their But on that note, we are also building our team for next year's Iwana starting now. So if you have gifts of technology and marketing and promotion, we can use a tech person in Iwana. If you have a a patient mentoring and encouraging spirit, we could use you to help listen to verses for kids.

11:13 If you think you're a a teacher and you wanna help teach and and share what the Bible says, we need teachers for all the age groups. So

13:29 Speaker 1So this is a chilling experience. I'm gonna invite first Georgia. If y'all don't know Georgia and Sam, they're twins, and she was born two minutes before. And I'm gonna invite her in first. She was they have both accepted Christ, and they have been tracking together.

13:49 I won't keep you here very long about that. But then in between. So they're going from fifth into sixth grade. So that is going from Oana and then to the possibility of going to wildlife and then young life. Someone like, Ally, if you'll come forward and talk about wildlife and young life, here's your mic, and I will go change clothes.

15:42 Speaker 2Good morning. Good morning. So it I'm just curious. Does anybody have a young life background or been to young life when you were younger? That's awesome.

15:54 Yeah. So it's always fun to see different connections with Young Life, and life's a worldwide organization. So I'll just tell you a little bit about Young Life if you're not familiar with it. Because I'm sure you remember what it's like to be a teenager. It's pretty tough.

16:11 There's academic pressure, trying to navigate the social scene with your family and your friends, and then still trying to figure out who you are and what you believe, it's not easy. And you need people around you to help you figure that out. So Young Life focuses on fun, friendship, adventure, and a sense of significance. So Young Life goes to where our teenagers are and in hopes we can form friendships with them, no strings attached. And in doing so, we hope we have the privilege of telling them about a god who loves them like crazy.

16:55 And I'm sure you are aware of this, the reality of Jackson is a majority of our teenage friends don't go to church. They don't have a faith background. They don't have someone asking them questions about faith. And so Young Life pursues those kids that don't go to church. And our hope is that we form friendships with them, introduce them to who Jesus is, and then invite them to church, invite them to join a congregation in a church body for their life.

17:29 So part of that experience is what we call Young Life Camp, and that's just a summer trip we take with middle school kids and high school kids. This year, we're going to Oregon for middle school and Colorado for high school. And if you can imagine a five star all inclusive resort, that is the experience of Young Life Camp. It's incredible. And they get to hear the story of the gospel all the way through.

17:57 And many of them, for the very first time, they've heard it and get to process it through it with their friends. So in doing that, we are hosting a fourth of July themed color run. It's a five k. It's on June 30. It's Saturday before fourth of July, kinda get everyone pumped up, patriotic theme.

18:23 And it's just a way for kids to raise money for this trip. So there's two things you could do. You can run-in it or walk in it on June 30. Or if you're unable to, you can go to the website. You can just donate.

18:41 And the kit and all the money that we raise from this particular event will go to kids that are gonna be going on our summer trips. So just a side note too, Firstbeat is a huge supporter of Young Wife and really believes in reaching out to teenagers who don't have a faith and just wanted to thank you from the bottom of our heart. Thank you for caring about teenagers, and our community really means a lot. So thanks.

35:55 Speaker 1And a sincere faith. But today, sincere faith is gonna be important because he mentioned some insincerity today. So a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith. He also goes on in the first chapter to say, now this saying is trustworthy and deserved a full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He came to save sinners.

36:17 Salvation is important and it's forefront in this book. And Presires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, and truth is very important in Timothy. He has already mentioned in the first chapter that there are certain persons, certain persons, certain persons, he calls them that three times, and then he says they're false teachers. And so there's some sort of heresy that is happening in Ephesus where Paul has left Timothy. And in the midst of that, Timothy is trying to set up a church that glorifies God and lifts up the truth.

39:15 Says, I hope to come to you soon, but I'm writing these things to you so that if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God. It's important. The household of God is really important, which is the church of the living God. And Jesus said, I will build my church. Of and then having a complete reversal and seeing all of the scripture through the proper lens and seeing that it's all about Jesus, he goes into this very high Christ centered, Christ centered him.

41:48 To several years later. But Paul says to them, be careful attention to yourselves. First of all, stop your show. Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all of the flock would working in complete submission to the spirit of God. He was seen by angels.

45:10 Was excuse me. Brother church. Seen by angels, he was a plumb line, and it's about our whether we're moral morally lax, let's say, or absolutely perfectionist and pure. Okay? There is a plumb line, and society at times tends towards moral laxity.

46:30 And then sometimes it swings towards absolute you know, more perfectionistic holiness maybe would be a good term for it. But that a lot of times in times of tremendous moral laxity are the times where some heretical cult person, somebody will come in and pronounce and say, oh, this is terrible. This is terrible. And the reason is because you've got it all wrong about God. This is where you need to be, and then swing back towards perfectionism.

47:16 And I know I have slide on it, but I'm gonna just go ahead and demonstrate. So let's say we got one circle. It's right here. And this circle is the physical realm. We can things we can see, taste, smell, hear, feel, touch.

47:26 Alright? These are things that we can explain by science and know about Now these things overlap right here. Do you get that? I had a professor in the college that called that the neglected middle. We do pray.

47:54 Why do you pray? The benefits of knowing God, spiritually. By devoting himself to the deceitful spirits and the teaching of demons through the insincerity of life. Now this is a hard one for me to get up here and preach because I very much the first century, in this case, the people who were insincere liars whose consciences are seared, they forbid marriage. They just forbid.

55:45 They said, we don't marry. Now it might have been that they forbid marriage

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