But at the same time heavenly truth, so far from being inconsistent, never shines so much as when it is seen in the smallest details of walk in the home, in the family, in the ordinary occupation, in the bearing and tone of a man in his life day by day. Now Paul is warning against endless genealogies, questions that only create confusion or disputes. As he also desires that none should despise his youth, so he urges that he should be a model of the believers, in word, conversation, love, faith, and purity. Years afterwards the Regent Morton uttered his famous epitaph by Knox's graveside: "In respect that he bore God's message, to whom he must make account for the same, he (albeit he was weak and an unworthy creature, and a fearful man) feared not the faces of men." Bible > Commentaries > 1 Timothy 5:10 eBibles Audio 1 Timothy 5:10 And so Paul says, God chose me to show how longsuffering and merciful He is in order that anybody else after me might be encouraged.Hey, God is willing to reach to the lowest. So Paul talks about his own ministry, his call into the ministry. 1 Timothy 1 Commentary | Precept Austin The leading attitude in each pair precedes the resulting action. Suppose a man was seriously ill and had to go through a dangerous operation, it would be the greatest encouragement to him if he met and talked with someone who had undergone the same operation and had emerged completely cured. Nowhere in the New Testament is there any support for that. 1. And it is impossible for an honest man of intelligence to find a scriptural answer, so as to sanction those who pretend to ordain, or those who claim to be duly ordained, in Christendom. We can see the prophets acting in exactly the same way in Acts 13:1-3. But what if they were charged with wrong? But at this very time it was the title which the Greeks gave to Aesculapius, the god of healing. And he said, Oh yeah, but you've put a hedge around that guy. As I said, I have not seen a vision or had a dream that I felt was spiritually significant. Amen ( 1 Timothy 1:17 ). Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. There is a difference between grace and mercy; mercy is not getting what's coming to us. (16) All vices are contrary to sound doctrine. No exception; we were all sinners. Paul concluded his list (1 Timothy 1:10-11) with a general category of anything contrary to not only the Law of Moses but the larger gospel that Paul preached. Sin. And so then, as remarked already, far from leaving the smallest reason for any perversely to confound this with the law, the apostle instantly turns to that perverting of the law, which is so natural to the heart of man. When Paul was in Caesarea on his way back to Jerusalem, staying at the house of Philip; Agabus, a certain prophet in the church of Jerusalem came down and took Paul's girdle and tied himself up with it. Here is a vivid picture of the atmosphere in which the ancient Church grew up. When he is planning to send him to Philippi, he writes: "I have no one like him. As a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel" ( Php_2:20 ; Php_2:22 ). Paul does this every once in a while, he just gets so excited he has just to throw in a little bit of praise-kind-of-a-thing, you know. The instruction which I gave you is designed to produce love which issues from a pure heart, a good conscience and an undissembling faith. The glorious Gospel: Jesus came into the world to save sinners. But now "God was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit." These things are of no importance, therefore a man can use his body in the most licentious way and it makes no difference. They don't need to be taught the law. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine ( 1 Timothy 1:3 ). But it is differently used in the New Testament, being applied to those who were sent expressly from . God makes his offer and he needs his messengers. He heaps up a very climax of words to show what he did to Christ and the Church. There is a progression in these three couplets from more general to more specific lawlessness. Wallis noted that Pauls catalogue of sins here "is not the same as lists given elsewhere"; Wilbur B. Wallis, op. II. I've done so many awful things, you know, and I see Jesus as a Judge and as One condemning me; but not so. ", By "sound doctrine" we shall find that he brings in the nicest care for the least relations of this life, as flowing from the grace and truth of God. Here are distinguished five characteristics of the dangerous heretic. But here he declares he is an apostle by the commandment of God.The word apostle is one who has been sent out; idea of an emissary or an ambassador. At the same time he calls on him to charge them that are rich neither to be high-minded nor rely on aught so uncertain. a. 9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurersand for whatever else is contrary to t. If that was ineffective, he was banished from the synagogue for a period of thirty days. 1:18-20 I entrust this charge to you, Timothy lad, because it is the natural consequence of the messages which came to the prophets from God, and which marked you out as the very man for this work, so that, in obedience to these messages, you may wage a fine campaign, maintaining your faith and a good conscience all the time; and there are some who, in matters of the faith, have repelled the guidance of conscience, and have come to shipwreck. (i) Men found in Christ the hope of moral victory and of self-conquest. 1 Timothy 1 - Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Bible Commentaries Thus the well-known sign of blessing in the outward act of laying on hands was to be done circumspectly. There should be only one controlling factor in the lives of every one of us. For whoremongers,. Fornicators and adulterers, who were transgressors of the seventh command, Exodus 20:14 these God will judge, and such shall have their portion in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone: for them that defile themselves with mankind; who are guilty of sodomy; such, according to the law, were to die, Leviticus 18:22 the wrath of God was revealed from heaven in a very visible and remarkable manner against this abomination, by raining fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the cities of the plain, who defiled themselves in this way: for men stealers; who decoyed servants or free men, and stole them away, and sold them for slaves; see the laws against this practice, and the punishment such were liable to, in Exodus 21:16. And this is a practice of the early church, and it is something that is valid today.Years ago when I came to a very discouraging point in my ministry, having been in the ministry for almost seventeen years, not really seeing any effective results, discouraged really to the point of leaving the ministry because of the ineffectiveness of my ministry; we were in prayer together and a group of friends waiting upon the Lord. It is opposed to works. There are two further interesting things in this passage. For before I was a blasphemer ( 1 Timothy 1:13 ). It was riddled with unnatural vice. I don't deserve all of the goodness of God. Then he explains what the nature of this charge was. Then as He wrote on the ground, and I am certain, though the Bible doesn't say it, He began to write on the ground with His finger there on the dirt, I believe He began to write and enumerate the sins that these people were guilty of. That gospel encompassed the Old Testament. Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20; the ninth commandment). Now unto the King eternal ( 1 Timothy 1:17 ), Now Paul when he's thinking about this he's just carried off into ecstasy and so he has to throw in this little benediction. ( 1 Timothy 1:2) The identity of the recipient, Timothy. He shows the glory and grace of the gospel. Here they were gathered together praying, no doubt talking about the need of getting the Gospel into the world that had not heard, and the Spirit said, "Separate to me Paul and Barnabas for the ministry wherein I've called them." Paul charges Timothy to deal with the false teachers (vv. Possibly both meanings are involved here. Second, the highest Jewish thought insisted that no sacrifice could atone for any sin unless there was contrition in the heart of the man who brought it. I've been beaten. At the same time, while this pertains more particularly to the first epistle, there is a striking expression which meets us on the very threshold, and belongs not merely to these two epistles, but also to that addressed to Titus. He was appointed to service. The picture of life as a campaign is one which has always fascinated men's thoughts. Now chesedh is the word which is often in the Old Testament translated loving-kindness; and when Paul prayed for mercy on Timothy, he is saying, to put it very simply, "Timothy, may God be good to you." They may perhaps weave the love of Christ (we will suppose) into some high-flown speculations; but they set aside that which connects itself every day with moral propriety. (a) He is to take faith. None become slaves voluntarily, and consequently the whole process of making slaves partakes of the nature of theft of the worst kind. Our goodness should come, not from fear of the law, not even from fear of judgment, but from fear of disappointing the love of Christ and of grieving the fatherly heart of God. Them that defile themselves with mankind . But even in the ancient world voices were raised against slavery. Let them be rich in good works, liberal in distributing, ready to communicate, laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life. 1 Timothy 6:10 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org The answer to these people is that everything which God has created is good and is to be received with thanksgiving ( 1 Timothy 4:4). healthy (sounds like Dr. Luke influence on Paul here.) It does not mean only something which is good and strong; it means something which is also winsome and lovely. (namely, to be free from fresh ties, so as to care only for the Lord), defends resolutely the sanctity of marriage, and resents the blow struck at the creatures of God. God, as a Saviour God, is certainly in contrast with His dealings under law, or in government. The Greek, for instance, shudderingly declared that the Egyptian custom where brother could marry sister and the Persian custom where son could marry mother, were anosia, unholy. For perjured persons . When Tacitus, the Roman historian, came to write the history of that very age in which the Christian Church came into being, he began by saying, "I am entering upon the history of a period rich in disaster, gloomy with wars, rent with seditions; nay, savage in its very hours of peace. "The absence of . It includes not only outright lies but also sly deceptions and half-truths. assembly. 1:8-11 We know that the law is good, if a man uses it legitimately, in the awareness that the law was not instituted to deal with good men, but with the lawless and the undisciplined, the irreverent and the sinners, the impious and the polluted, those who have sunk so low that they strike their fathers and their mothers, murderers, fornicators, homosexuals, slave-dealers and kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and all those who are guilty of anything which is the reverse of sound teaching, that teaching which is in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, that gospel which has been entrusted to me. It will save us from expressing our views in such a way that we hurt other people. Prayer, intercession, even for the highest, let them be kings or in eminence; they need it most. Good man. Paul circumcised him. But again, Paul did have a lot of indictments against him, as far as Jesus Christ was concerned. In so doing he reminded Timothy of his own responsibility as a communicator of Gods truth. It's worthy of all acceptation ( 1 Timothy 1:15 ). (iv) That good news comes through men. But when the Word of God is applied in a right manner, there must be a contest; there was a war against every vice; and the Word of God must condemn them in such a manner that the hearts of men shall be touched and pierced shall be humbled and laid low with sincere repentance to groan before God; and, if there be nothing else, that they shall at least be convinced, that they shall have remorse within themselves, that they may so be an example to all that are not altogether incorrigible. Paul thought of himself as a man holding the king's commission. There are three possibilities. 1 Timothy 5:10 Commentaries: having a reputation for good works; and if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has assisted those in distress, and if she has devoted herself to every good work. (ii) He thanked him because he trusted him. He is told to shun "godless chatter," for they can produce only ungodliness ( 2 Timothy 2:16). That's what it's all about. l. 8. c. 3. l Misna Sanhedria, c. 10. sect. Let us learn hence, 1. Thus, no matter what you may hold or appear to delight in, abandoning jealousy over your ways, giving up self-judgment in the great or small matters which each day brings before us, is fatal. In the next chapter (1 Timothy 2:1-15) the apostle carries on his care as to what was becoming. It is not, of course, that any Christian deliberately intends such folly; but this is really what the error implies. And if it weren't for the law and those who are enforcing the law, we would be living in an intolerable condition because there are those out there who need that kind of a bridle. True, he could never forget that he was a forgiven sinner; but neither could he ever forget that he was a sinner. Liars and perjurers -- clearly pertain to the ninth commandment Exodus 20:16. In short, all that physicians can apply to the human body, for healing its diseases, is not a tenth part of what the Word of God accomplishes for the health of our souls On that account Paul speaks here of sound doctrine. His reward was to serve and, if need be, to die for his king. In the Revised Standard Version it runs: "The grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus." The apostle then gives personal counsel to Timothy, of a very salutary character. (iii) His thinking comes from a pure heart. (2.) 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. It was his Bethany, Here and now was the opening of that long pent-up heart. There is in Christ that which lifts entirely out of nature, and puts one before God according to all that is in his heart his counsels of glory for us in Christ. Rom. Verse 10. Thus he vindicates God in what He has given, as well as afterwards in what He has made, and nowhere so much as in this epistle do we find this. They first cast aside a good conscience, and then the faith itself comes to nothing. He is the connecting link. He's saying to you, Come unto me, I will give you peace. It is possible to take a quite wrong idea of the Atonement. In fact, I thought that it would be very interesting if Paul the apostle were to have a resume written of him and sent to some of the churches that are seeking new pastors. This is the word Greek uses for the injunctions which some inviolable law lays on a man; for the royal command which comes to a man from the king; and above all for the instructions which come to a man either directly or by some oracle from God. 1. Such a heresy does not spoil a man's character; it may in fact enhance his character, because he has really thought out his faith and is not living on a second-hand orthodoxy. Not to marry through devotedness to God's work may be right and most blessed; but here it was a pretension to superior sanctity. "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge, which some professing have erred concerning the faith. They are like soldiers who mutinously disobey the word of command. THE CLEANSING WORD ( 1 Timothy 1:8-11 continued). The Gnostic held that there was no such thing as the resurrection of the body ( 2 Timothy 2:18). It was used of corn that has been winnowed and cleansed of all chaff. (Timothy Charged to Oppose False Teachers. There are the undisciplined (anupotaktoi, G506) . (ii) Men found in Christ the hope of victory over circumstances. how one could easily recount one name after another, if it would become any so to do! As a principle and practice, Christian people were urged not to marry at all. In such a case a man might well be said to be handed over to Satan. It demands from a man not only the keeping of certain ritual laws, but the living of a good life. Gods law, whether of the Old Testament or the New Testament, is primarily concerned with human behavior. It is not that he was the chief of sinners; he still is. And one by one they began to leave from the oldest to the youngest until there was nobody left. There are some people who ask questions only because they want an argument; they don't want to know the truth. The Christian thinker is moved only by love of truth and love for men. See the NKJV for modern terminology for these sins. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being quite deceived was in transgression." Thus the apostle brings the reader into close juxtaposition with the mystery of godliness, or, as it is emphatically called, the mystery of piety. *The true reading, represented by (Cod. They dealt in fables like the Jewish myths ( Titus 1:14). It's only a terror to the evil person ( Romans 13:3 ). nomimos, a play on words). According to synagogue practice, if a man was an evil-doer he was first publicly rebuked. III. Even though it was a function about outward things, still they were to be first proved. His general exhortation is pursued, but still in view of the due and decent outward order, of that which met the eye even of an unconverted person. The Christian lives in a world where all things are pure; the Gnostic lived in a world where all things were defiled ( Titus 1:15). And what then becomes us in respect of them? That is to say, there is a combination of God's revelation in Christ, in most essential and even lofty features, with the plainest and simplest truth of God as to creation. I mean, Timothy was just joined with Paul in heart and in spirit, in calling, in vision.And so now Paul is writing to him and he addresses him as his son in the faith. How often does over-frankness drop words which rankle in the memory of an elder, easily floated over when love flows freely, but when it ebbs, an occasion of shipwreck! Our lives were wasted, useless, lost. Sometimes he would tell the story of escape from occupied Europe, of parachute descents from the air, of rescue from the sea, and at the end of this amazing odyssey, he would always say, with a look of wonder in his eyes: "And now I am God's man." The acts done should always be an expression of the truth. It indicates a kind of arrogant sadism; it describes the man who is out to inflict pain for the sheer joy of inflicting it. "That you by them might war a good warfare." Instead of inventing fanciful stories based on Old Testament genealogies, they should concentrate on the kind of teaching that produces a sincere faith, a clear conscience and a pure heart (1:1-5).Because these so-called teachers do not aim at building people up in faith and love, they are really false teachers. So God's looking for someone who's available, someone who'd be faithful.Years ago when we started Calvary Chapel, just eighteen and a-half years ago, from the very beginning it seems that God began to bless this group of people that had gathered together. 40.]. The phrase may mean that these two troublers of the Church were abandoned to the world. To Paul the great demonstration of the grace of God was the reception of the Gentiles into the Church and his apostleship to them. It describes the person who has no moral standards left. [Note: Ibid., p. The Gentiles should glorify God for that mercy which has rescued them from sin and hopelessness ( Romans 15:9). We have in harmony with this none of the special privileges of the family of God. He speaks of God, our Saviour. So when he became a converted man and a preacher of the gospel, he wrote a text in great letters, and fastened it above the mantlepiece of his study where he could not fail to see it: "Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt and the Lord thy God redeemed thee." Paul would never have said, "See what I have done," but always, "See what Jesus Christ has enabled me to do." Sometimes people speak of it in a way which indicates that something Jesus did pacified the anger of God. Pagan and Christian alike regarded true goodness as something which had its source in a man's heart; as something which was not dependent on the rewards and punishments of the law. 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. "God* was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit, was seen of angels, was preached among Gentiles, was believed on in [the] world, was received up in glory." (i) First, he calls himself an apostle of Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 1:10 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to everlasting life ( 1 Timothy 1:16 ). It was as if, when he was busy throwing away his life, Jesus Christ had suddenly brought him to his senses. Finally, care, must be taken to avoid any compromise of the name of the Lord. No man is good enough, or strong enough, or pure enough, or wise enough to be the servant of Christ. immortal, invisible, to the only wise God, be glory and honour for ever and ever. The place of the law is to deal with evil-doers. And so they fasted and prayed, laid hands on them, and the Spirit sent them forth" ( Acts 13:2-3 ). But this precisely is what is wrong. 3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer . 1 Timothy 4:1-10 NIV - The Spirit clearly says that in later - Bible And if you heard him, as he would blaspheme the Christians and just, you know, he was just so filled with venom and all against Christianity and those that were calling on the name of Jesus. So "Grace, mercy, and peace". "Golden was that first age, which with no one to compel, without a law, of its own will, kept faith and did the right. That is, he decides things with that marvellous power which God gave him beyond any of the other apostles of tracking the stream to its source, both in man and to God; and this ruling of the case he deduces from the unquestionable facts of the beginning of divine history as to the man and woman. (ii) It may be that Paul was saying to Timothy: "Be true to your name." Paul penned these opening words to remind Timothy to correct teachers in the Ephesian church who were majoring on minor matters in their Bible teaching. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be save. (ii) The memory of his sin was the surest way to keep his gratitude aflame. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Enduring Word Bible Commentary 1 Timothy Chapter 2 The end of the charge or commandment "is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned." It was their heretical beliefs that the Pastorals were written to combat. They expected the Messiah, the Redeemer to come, the One that would make good the promises of God. Lord, what a trust is committed to us! One found his spoils in a priesthood or a consulate; another in a provincial governorship, another behind the throne. Paul's advice was that he should be delivered to Satan "for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus" ( 1 Corinthians 5:5). It is not the law, nor any supposed adaptation of it, to direct the path of those who receive the gospel. 1. Again, "younger men as brethren; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity." As there is no creature of God that has not its value, so certainly the law of God has its right field of application, and its own proper use. And He used that to encourage a lot of the pastors at that time.So Paul the apostle said that the Lord enabled me. The moment a man disobeys the voice of conscience, his conduct becomes debased and his thinking twisted. When he is sending him to that sadly divided Church at Corinth, he writes: "I have sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord" ( 1 Corinthians 4:17). How happy ought we to be that God gives us perfect liberty! An interesting point. Marcus Antonius is said to have paid 2,000 British pounds for two well-matched youths who were wrongly represented to be twins. A measure of that criminality also adheres to all who own slaves, and who thus maintain the system - for it is a system known to have been originated by theft. In an ideal state, when the Kingdom comes, there will be no necessity for any law other than the love of God within a man's heart; but as things are, the case is very different. "I will therefore that the men" that is, not women "that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing." I've been thrown in prison several times. The false teachers, by using their imagination to interpret the law, try to establish a set of regulations by which Christians should live. Twice in the opening words of this letter he lays down the greatness of his privilege. The apostle was drawing toward the close of his career, and (although all be inspired, and he was a rare jewel even among the apostles) there is, I am persuaded, an evidence of a tone more suitable to the growing trials and necessities of the saints of God; a tenderness towards those that were faithful and tried, that is far more manifest here than in the earlier epistles. Hymenaeus is mentioned again in 2 Timothy 2:17; and Alexander may well be the Alexander who is referred to in 2 Timothy 4:14. What was this scheme? One might be endowed with a good gift and yet not have a well-regulated house. The end of the commandment is charity, or love, Romans 13:8. (iii) Men found in Christ the hope of victory over death. Verse 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 Timothy 1:10 ESV the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,