527 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 3 Book 44 - I Timothy 1:17 - 2:2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 44 I Timothy 1:17 – 2:2 We were in I Timothy chapter 1. I Timothy 1:19 “Holding faith, (You remember in our last program, we reviewed all the, or not all, but some of the men who were destitute of faith. So now he tells Timothy--) Holding faith, (taking God at His Word) and a good conscience; (Which all works, of course, hand-in-glove.) which some (And we looked at some of those in our last program.) having put away concerning faith (In other words, they rejected what God said.) have made shipwreck:” Even the Nation of Israel more than once—and we covered one of them in our last program—at Kadesh-barnea, when God said they could go in and take the Promised Land. Let’s go back and look at the Nation of Israel at a later time—Christ’s first advent. Acts chapter 2 verse 22. And remember that when Christ came, He came to the Nation of Israel to fulfill all the Old Testament covenants and promises. Unbelief. No faith! Well, why not, if God is in it? The Nation was steeped in unbelief. “Ye men of Israel, (He’s not talking to the Gentiles, yet. “…Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,…” Miracles and wonders and signs. “…a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 23. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, (Now look what Israel did with their promised Messiah because of unbelief. All right, let’s go on to chapter 3 and verse 12, where Peter and John have now just healed the lame man, much the same way that Jesus did just a few months previously. No faith. They couldn’t believe that God was doing this. 13. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; (Whom he called Jesus of Nazareth in chapter 2.) whom ye delivered up, and (What’s the next word?) denied…” Why? Unbelief! All right, reading on. 14. But ye (the Nation) denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; (Now look at verse 15. Unbelief! I Corinthians chapter 2 dropping down to verse 7, where Paul is now writing to the Gentile congregation at Corinth. I Corinthians 2:7 “But (Paul says) we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:” In other words, the Apostle Paul wasn’t an accident. All right, now verse 8. Unbelief. We are a nation steeped in unbelief. Only now come over to chapter 7 and we’ll start at verse 1. Where Stephen is full, it says in verse 8 of chapter 6, full of faith and power. Now remember the word faith—he had already taken God at His Word. Now look at verse 2.) 2. And Stephen said, Men, brethren, and fathers,…” Israel. Israel, the Covenant People, the favored Nation. “Men, brethren, and fathers, listen, The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, (Now Abraham is not the father of the Gentiles. He’s the father of the Jewish people.)All right, Romans chapter 4 verse 1. “What shall we say then that Abraham our father, (That is the father of the Nation of Israel.) 2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.” I read that article. It is faith plus nothing! All right, that’s exactly where we’re coming from in Romans chapter 4. Read on in verse 3. Abraham believed God,…” Abraham spoke in tongues. Abraham joined a local assembly. Abraham believed God plus NOTHING for his salvation. Romans 4:3 Abraham believed God, and it (his believing) was counted unto him for (What?) righteousness.” Without anything else except that he believed God. Romans 4:4 God! Never! Acts chapter 7 verse 51, Stephen is coming down to the end of his message, all directed to the Nation of Israel. “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. Unbelief. Unbelief. Come back to Hebrews again, if you will, chapter 3. Hebrews 3:8-10 No Faith! They can’t take God at His Word. Verse 12: Hebrews 3:12 unbelief, in departing from the living God.” See, that’s what it does to people when they have no faith. All right, for sake of time come all the way over to the last part of the chapter, verses 18 and 19, still in chapter 3. Hebrews 3:18 Okay, now I’ve got two minutes to finish up the last part of I Timothy chapter 1 verse 20. All right, back to I Timothy chapter 1 verse 20, of those who had been made shipwrecked Paul says: I Timothy 1:20 All right, now let’s turn a couple of pages to II Timothy chapter 2 verses 17 and 18. II Timothy 2:16-18 (Don’t forget Esau) 17. Now here was their lack of faith.) How did they destroy some of their fellow church members’ faith? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible