I TIMOTHY

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Theme: Ministry

Author: Paul

Time: 62-66 AD (in prison)

  • Pastoral Epistles

  • Not written to churches but to private letters. We get to read private letters publicly, we get to see how he thinks.

  • 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus - show you how to think as a leader

Key Words:

Faith 35

Good 23

Charge 11

Godliness 9

Doctrine 9

Key Scripture:

1 Timothy 4:16 ESV

16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

  • Make sure that you and God are doing okay. That the priority of your life is sanctification. He cares about your ministry but you have to save yourself before you save others.

  • Be devout in prayer and then focus on teaching

Structure:

Chapter 1: Charge concerning sound doctrine

  • Sound doctrine is the most important thing in ministry

  • Sound means healthy - giving healthy teaching to the church

Chapter 2: Charge concerning public worship

Chapter 3: Charge concerning church officers

  • Most are character qualifications not gifting

Chapter 4: Charge concerning false teachers

Chapter 5: Charge concerning members of the congregation

Chapter 6: Charge concerning the minister himself

Purpose of the Book:

1. To warn against false teacher

  • You are on guard as the shepherd to guard the sheep

2. To give instruction regarding sound doctrine

  • How to and to teach and to think as proper doctrine and it’s all through TEACHING

3. To set forth the qualification of elders and deacons

4. Encourage Timothy concerning his. Ministry

  • Timothy was the pastor over the church in Ephesus.

Message of the Book:

1. The minister that is given to godliness will be good and faithful

  • If you give your ill to sanctity then you will be trustworthy for his ministry

2. True ministers will teach sound doctrine and be faithful to the charge given to him

  • Sound doctrine is the emphasis… we have to teach the bible but HOW we interpret the bible is sound doctrine

  • Unfortunately people use the bible to teach and twist the bible into the incorrect ways

3. Relationships between older and younger ministries is to be a “father-son” relationship

Paul cared for Timothy not as a person that worked for him… it was a family relationship for Him. A son.

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