525 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 44 - Being Shipwrecked Spiritually

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 44 BEING SHIPWRECKED SPIRITUALLY I Timothy 1:17 – 2:2 All right, now we’re going to go right into the Scriptures. So let’s go right in where we left off in our last program, which was I Timothy chapter 1 and verse 17. Then finally he ended up in Rome in prison. During that interval, then—before he was arrested the second time—he wrote I Timothy and Titus. II Timothy, of course, was written during the time he was in prison the second time. So as you read I Timothy—and we’ll go from I Timothy, in a few weeks, over to Titus—both of those letters were during that period of time between the first and the second imprisonment. To those churches he has been addressing his previous letters. Just make a timeline of Paul’s life and epistles and so forth. Now whenever we talk about dates in Scripture, I don’t care whether it’s the Old Testament or the New, chronologers never agree. I’ve never seen two chronologers agree within a short time span whatsoever. Just jump over to II Timothy. II Timothy chapter 4 verse 7 and you can almost sense the heart of the Apostle as he now writes this final letter to his son in the faith, young Timothy. No, let’s go back to verse 6. II Timothy 4:6-7 Look what the Apostle Paul suffered for 25 years as God’s chosen vessel. Then verse 8, but he never despaired. Well anyway, II Timothy was written when he’s back in prison. So we’ll take I Timothy, Titus, and probably Philemon, and then we’ll come back and wind up the Apostle’s ministry with the little letter to II Timothy. All right, back to I Timothy now for the rest of this program—verse 17—where we left off last week. “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” Because, you remember, I’ve always made the point that Paul never refers to Christ as the King of the Church. I can’t show this from Scripture.” the Godhead (Or the Father, Son and Holy Spirit—what we call the Triune God.) for in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead (What’s the next word?) bodily.” Bodily. Come back to Timothy, if you will. Invisible. Nobody had ever seen God at any time in the Triune Godhead. It was invisible. We’re going to look at it again, how that out of that invisible Triune Godhead back in the Old Testament economy, we have God the Son stepping out periodically and appearing in human form. Come back to Colossians chapter 1. Because see, there’s so much confusion about this invisible Godhead and some of the statements concerning God and so forth. Well, it’s really not that difficult if you just recognize what Paul says here in Colossians 1 verse 15. Colossians 1:15 of the invisible God,…” God the Son is the visible manifestation of the invisible God. The Godhead, up until Christ took on flesh, was indeed invisible. Nobody had ever seen the Godhead. God the Father is still invisible. God the Spirit is invisible. But God the Son is that visible manifestation. All right, now coming back to verse 17 of I Timothy chapter 1, this is what Paul is again alluding to. That the God who had been invisible is now personified in God the Son, but His Sovereignty has never been diminished. Reading on in verse 17: “...(Who is the image of the invisible God), the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Buddha never claimed to die for the sins of the world. Muhammad couldn’t die for the sins of the world. It is that God the Son, because He was totally God, was fully capable of taking upon Himself the sin debt, the sin punishment of the whole human race. All right, now verse 18, we’ll move on and make a little headway. Paul is now writing to someone quite a bit younger. Look what he commits to this young man Timothy. I Timothy 1:18a “This charge (or this responsibility) I commit unto thee,…” Now remember, Paul is not in prison. Well, that’s basically what Paul is doing here to Timothy. I Timothy 1:18 “This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies….” Speaking forth the Word of God. By the spoken Word—by men with the gift of speaking the Word. Timothy didn’t leave us any prophetic utterances about the future. All right, so Paul says: I Timothy 1:18 “This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies (The speaking forth of these biblical truths without benefit of having been written.) Warfare. It is a constant warfare. The real world is: Ephesians 6:12 All right, Paul warned us of it. And then he starts in verse 13 with alluding to a Roman soldier. So Paul uses that as analogy. Ephesians 6:13 When a soldier went out to fight for the Roman government, did he take along all of his domestic responsibilities? Never does Paul imply that we are going to have a rose petal pathway. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible