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Speaker 1: How to their faith. Listeners, Welcome to the Bible Explain Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: On this very cold morning, We're in a brand new

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Speaker 1: book of the Bible today, First Timothy, and I am

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Speaker 1: super excited to get into this book. It's one of

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Speaker 1: my favorites. So we'll talk about the history of First

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Speaker 1: Timothy and also get into the meat of why Paul

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Speaker 1: wrote this letter. In today's episode, I am looking out

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Speaker 1: my window right now and I have about five inches

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Speaker 1: it's very sticky snow, so it actually looks really pretty

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Speaker 1: because it covers the branches of every single tree and

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Speaker 1: it just actually looks pretty amazing. But I had to

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Speaker 1: light a fire for the first time this season, and

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, I guess winter is upon us. Let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and read First Timothy one one through eleven. I've

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Speaker 1: got my cup of hot coco here because I needed

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Speaker 1: it today, So grab your cup of coffee or cocoa

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Speaker 1: or tea to share with me. Let's a goad and

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Speaker 1: read First Timothy one one through eleven, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: into what First Timothy is and why Paul wrote this letter.

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Speaker 1: I'll be reading from the web. Paul an Apostle of

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God, our Savior

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Speaker 1: and the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hope to Timothy, my

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Speaker 1: true child, in faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God

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Speaker 1: our Father and Christ, Jesus our Lord. As I urged

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Speaker 1: you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus,

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Speaker 1: that you might command certain men not to teach a

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Speaker 1: different doctrine and not to pay attention to myths and

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Speaker 1: endless genealogies which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which

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Speaker 1: is in faith. But the goal of this command is

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Speaker 1: to love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and

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Speaker 1: sincere faith, from which things. Some having missed the mark,

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Speaker 1: have turned away to vain talking, desiring to be teachers

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Speaker 1: of the law, though they understand neither what they say

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Speaker 1: nor about what they strongly affirm. But we know that

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Speaker 1: the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,

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Speaker 1: as knowing this, that law is not made for a

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Speaker 1: righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the

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Speaker 1: godly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers

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Speaker 1: of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers, for

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Speaker 1: the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars,

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Speaker 1: for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the

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Speaker 1: sound doctrine according to the Good News of the Glory

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Speaker 1: of the Blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

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Speaker 1: The Book of First Timothy was written by Paul specifically

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Speaker 1: to Timothy, who, as you guys remember, was one of

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Speaker 1: Paul's I guess disciples. In a way, he always traveled

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Speaker 1: around with Paul. But now Paul is leaving Timothy in

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Speaker 1: the area of Ephesus and commanding Timothy to stay there,

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Speaker 1: probably because Paul knew that Timothy was both old enough

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Speaker 1: and teach the people there what they really should do. Now,

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Speaker 1: this was one of the last books that Paul ever wrote.

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Speaker 1: This been written right before Paul was arrested for the

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Speaker 1: second time during his fourth missionary journey, and we don't

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Speaker 1: know the location of where Paul was when he wrote this.

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Speaker 1: But a few things about this letter are very different

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Speaker 1: than Paul's other letters to the churches. You'll notice as

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Speaker 1: compared to the other letters, and This has caused some

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Speaker 1: written by Paul, But most theologians believe that this letter

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Speaker 1: a different scribe and allowed that scribe to take more

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Speaker 1: creative freedom, or because Paul himself was speaking more informally

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Speaker 1: to Timothy, being that they were on much closer terms

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Speaker 1: But also some people think that Paul's scribe was actually

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Speaker 1: Paul actually says, the only person that is here with

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Speaker 1: Luke was the one ascribing this letter for Paul, and

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense. But the entire point of this letter,

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Speaker 1: both First and two Timothy, is that Paul entrusts Timothy

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Speaker 1: on a very special mission to Ephesus to make sure

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Speaker 1: there were some serious problems potentially beginning to happen in Ephesus. Now,

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Speaker 1: of the Jewish ideologies. Okay, So whenever we see Paul

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Speaker 1: Paul was dealing with the exact same problems that you

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Speaker 1: seems like the two things Christians always have to counteract

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Speaker 1: reasons why Paul was writing this letter was because Timothy

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Speaker 1: that Paul mentions a good conscience, because Greek people, especially,

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Speaker 1: They come in saying you have to follow these laws

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