I want to ask you to turn in your copy of God's word to 1 Timothy chapter 6. Turn in your Bibles, please, to 1 Timothy chapter 6. We are continuing our study in this epistle. And just by way of backdrop, briefly, we know that the apostle Paul is the one writing to Timothy.
Timothy is a young pastor, in this Ephesian church. He is one of the overseers, one of the elders, one of the pastors of this church, and the apostle Paul himself is concerned. About Timothy, the apostle Paul in his concern for Timothy decides to, to write to him because he wants to build this man of God up into the faith. He wants to buttress him in the faith.
He wants him to be strong in the faith, and this is strategic too because the apostle Paul knows that Timothy is a pastor in this church and the apostle Paul knows that so as the pastor goes, there goes the church as well and so he has a, a double concern for Timothy himself and for those over whom Timothy ministers and the apostle Paul wants Timothy to be built up so that he in turn can build up the body of Christ in this particular local church there at Ephesus and so clearly Paul is Concerned about what is going on. he, he's writing to these Ephesian people. He's writing to Timothy in particular so that he would be instructed in terms of how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the pillar and support of the truth. We read that before, in a prior sermon as we worked as we have been working our way through.
First Timothy, there's a number of things that Paul says to Timothy and we're not going to take the time to review all of those things. You can go back and, read through chapters 1 through chapter 6 and verse 9 and you can get a sense of, of the ways in which Paul exhorts and encourages and, and builds Timothy up and instructs him so that he understands his role as a pastor and that he can do his ministry with excellence. In this passage that we're gonna be reading here this morning, Paul is gonna strongly exhort Timothy, and I think that in the process, we will discover some key commitments of the man of God. We will be discovering some key commitments, some things that the man of God ought to be committed to....
