522 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 44 - Paul - First In the Body of Christ - Part2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 44 Paul - First In the Body of Christ - Part 2 I Timothy 1:1-16 Again, we’re going to be getting right back to I Timothy chapter 1 and verse 2. We realize that the prayers of God’s people are with us. Okay, let’s get right back. All right I Timothy chapter 1 verse 2. This letter is written to Timothy. I Timothy 1:2 “Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: (as I brought out in the last program) Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.” Timothy is part Jewish. Verse 3 is where I got the remarks from our last program that I thought Paul was probably up in northern Greece at the time that he writes this letter to Timothy. I Timothy 1:3 That is to lead people from God’s salvation. Because, you see, God is absolute. You do not treat God like a Santa Claus. God is Sovereign. I’ve used the word often throughout the programs – exclusivist! God is absolute. All right, so here again he said to teach no other Gospel other than what Paul had taught Timothy himself in I Corinthians 15:1-4. I Timothy 1:4 Get into the truth of Paul’s Gospel. I Timothy 1:5 That is Romans chapter 13 starting in verse 8. This is this whole concept of love as Paul is admonishing Timothy to concern himself with. All right, Romans 13 verse 8: Romans 13:8 How do we fulfill the law? With love. The love of God! Love is the fulfilling, then, of the Law. If you have got the agape love, God’s love, which comes only by virtue of our salvation experience, can you steal from your neighbor? No! Can you commit adultery if you really love your spouse? Can you be envious if you’re a loving type of person? We don’t have to be afraid of the wrath of God striking us if we break one of the commandments. But the whole concept here, Paul says, is that if we have the agape love. We have that love that only God can instill. Then look at verse 9. The Ten Commandments are so all-inclusive of human behavior, that if, and that’s a big if—because man is unable to do it. The human race would need nothing more than God’s perfect law. Love is what? Remember that? And this is the love that Paul is talking about. Romans 13:10 “Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love (the agape love) is the fulfilling of the law.” All right, now if you’ll come on over to Titus chapter 2 for a minute, you can see how Paul enlarges on this whole idea of living, not under the Law, but under Grace. The Grace of God is quite the opposite. All right, Titus chapter 2 and drop down to verse 11. Titus 2:11-12 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. No, we’re under Grace. We’re free. As a believer in Grace we have total (What?) freedom! We’ve been set free. Romans chapter 6 and let’s just drop in at verse 11. Romans 6:11 “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:12 God isn’t going to force you. You’re now set free. And this is the liberty that Paul is constantly talking about.) Romans 6:13 Now come back to I Timothy 1 verse 5. I Timothy 1:5 Now then verse 6. I Timothy 1:6 “…having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;” And now verse 7: I Timothy 1:7 “Desiring to be teachers of the (What) law;…” Now, do you see what Paul is warning Timothy about? Legalism. Joining the church. That is legalism. I Timothy 1:7 Now hopefully, 99.99% of the time everything that I teach is based on Scripture. Galatians chapter 4 and these little congregations were primarily Gentiles saved by Paul’s preaching of the Gospel of Grace. So Paul hurriedly writes this little letter to the Galatian churches to warn them and to admonish them not to be brought back under the Law. “My little children,…” Galatians 4:19-21 21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?” Surely God will accept me.” And this is what Paul is dealing with. Don’t you know what the Law demands if you’re going to be under the Law? If you’re going to keep the Law to get into God’s Heaven, then you’ve got to keep it every jot and title—which no man can do! You can’t keep the Law good enough to satisfy a Holy God. That’s why Christ had to die to fulfill the Law. Galatians 4:22-23 God had told Abraham that he would have this son of promise. Now remember, Paul is writing this in about A.D. 60. Under the Law – Temple worship, sacrifices, the whole nine yards. Now, for sake of time, we come down to verse 26. And, again, I want to have you read verse 30, but first verse 26. “But Jerusalem which is above is free, (That’s us, the heavenly people.) We’re under Grace and not under Law. Now come down to the verse that says it all – verse 30. We’re not under Law. We’re under the Grace of God. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible