David Journal

Tag: 1 Timothy

  • Chief of sinners

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    Paul readily admits his singular past but the peace of his soul is evident as he had been forgiven for the transfers of his younger self. He doesn’t take those sins lightly but he doesn’t carry an ongoing burden because he knows that he had become a new person since that vision of Christ.

  • Ascending to heaven

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    It seems to me that ascending to heaven is more than merely vertical travel. I wonder how it must look for those who witness it. What do they see to convey the destination of travel?

  • No hidden truth

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    There is nothing about the plan of salvation which was done in the dark. While no man may know the hour of His coming, yet He was openly declared before, during, and after his mortal mission.

  • He came to serve and not to be served

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    While it is appropriate that people should sell to serve the Savior – that is about us and our recognition of our place relative to Him, not about what His purpose and expectation were. The same hold true for our current leaders. They sell not to be served even though we should sell to serve…

  • The mediator of the new covenant

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    The first covenant (as early Jews turned Christian might have called it) didn’t include a mediator because it was simply the humanly impossible conditions of loving perfectly to return to God. The “new” covenant (the one that Heavenly father planned for from the start because He knew that any other path was too narrow for…

  • King of saints

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    Pilate inscribed the cross of Jesus calling Him king of the Jews but truly He is King of the saints because the saints recognize his authority to rule.

  • Scriptural fatherhood

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    Father’s are to teach their children and not provoke them. They are to provide for the needs of their family and are promised that in doing so they will not lose their eternal reward. Those who set their own house in order will be richly rewarded while those who fail at this will inherit the…

  • Timothy

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    Timothy did a hard thing in choosing to be circumcised in order to be more effective as a missionary among Jews even though circumcision isn’t required under the new covenant. He did it not because it was necessary but so that it wouldn’t be a stumbling block for those he was working with. I’ve noticed…

  • 7 November 2013

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    1 Timothy 5 – 6 According to Paul women under the age of 60 who have no children to care for are prone to gossip and cause mischief if they are cared for like older widows. He recommend that single women under 60 without children should marry and take care of children, either by bearing…

  • 6 November 2013

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    1 Timothy 3 – 4 How can Catholics justify celibacy when Paul explicitly says that bishops and deacons should have one wife and rule their own households well? Even more damming is that he also says that there will be deceivers who peach that men shouldn’t marry.