Well, grab your Bibles and go to 1 Timothy, the first of three of what the theologians and scholars through the ages have called the pastoral epistles or the pastoral letters. These are letters the Apostle Paul wrote to different men who were his understudies in ministry, men he was discipling to take over the churches, and that comprises 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus, and we’ll, of...

Grab your Bibles and go to 1 Timothy as we continue in our exposition of this what’s called a pastoral epistle. Epistle means letter. It’s a letter from the aged Paul to his younger disciple Timothy, not as young as he used to be. They spent about 20 years together, almost 20 years, and toward the latter part of that, Paul is imprisoned much of the time and...

Grab your Bibles and to to 1 Timothy and we’ll pick up where we left off in the earlier service today. The Apostle Paul is writing this epistle to the young Timothy, his young understudy minister. He’s left him behind in Ephesus to oversee the church and to straighten out some things in the church there at Ephesus, and as I’ve said before, it seems that the Apostle...

Message 2 in our exposition of this New Testament book and I call it “The Minister’s Mission.” The minister’s mission. We begin in 1 Timothy 1:3 and I will read down through verse 7. 3 As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, 4 nor to pay attention to myths and...

Take your Bibles and we’re back to 1 Timothy 1 as we continue our exposition through this New Testament book. It’s called a pastoral epistle. It’s the Apostle Paul writing to his young disciple Timothy, as he’s left Timothy in charge of the church in Ephesus, and in case he doesn’t get to him to address some things directly, he’s telling Timothy, “Now here’s the way you’re to...