Continue in These Things
A. PAUL INSTRUCTS TIMOTHY – CONTINUING WILL SAVE HIM AND OTHERS.
B. TWO AREAS OF CONCERN.
1. Personal conduct.
2. Teaching.
C. NEED TO EXAMINE WHAT PAUL SAID ABOUT TIMOTHY’S LIFE & WORK.
“TAKE HEED TO THYSELF.” – vs. 16
A. “LET NO MAN DESPISE THY YOUTH.” AS A YOUNG PREACHER( vs. 12 ).
B. CONNECTED WITH HIS GOOD EXAMPLE.
1. Speech( Eph. 4:29; Col. 4:16 ).
2. Manner of life – conduct( Matt. 5:13-16 – J. C. Roady ).
3. Love( John 13:34-35; 1 John 3:16-18 ).
4. Faith( Phil. 4:4-7 ).
5. Purity( 2 Tim. 2:22; Matt. 6:22-24 ).
“TAKE HEED TO … TEACHING.” – vs. 16
A. TIMOTHY WAS TO GIVE HEED TO “READING.”
1. anagnosis, ( Acts 13:15; 2 Cor. 3:14 ). Refers to public reading of the law.
Here it could include public and private.
2. What is read is what makes reading important( Rom. 1:16-17; James 1:21 ).
3. Diligent study necessary for Timothy to do a good job( 2 Tim. 2:15 ).
B. GIVE HEED TO EXHORTATION.
1. “To urge earnestly by advice, warning, etc. (to do what is proper or required)
admonish strongly.” ( Webster ).
2. Involves hard work( 2 Tim. 4:2; Titus 2:14 ).
3. Objective involves diplomacy( 2 Tim. 2:24-26 ).
C. GIVE TO TEACHING OR DOCTRINE è Here the act of teaching.
1. Rather than that which is taught.
2. The primary work – To Teach!
3. Too many are given deacon’s or pastor’s work.
4. He is to give heed to his teaching, might include several things.
a. Must be the Truth( 2 Pet. 2:1; 2 Tim. 2:15 ).
b. Must be well balanced( Acts 20:20, 26-27; 2 Tim. 4:2 ).
c. Must have purpose( vs. 16; James 5:19-20 ).
A. NOT THE GIFT OF PROPHECY – PROPHESIED HE WOULD GET IT.
B. LAYING ON OF HANDS NOT BY APOSTLES BUT ELDERS.
1. Miracles came by laying on of apostles hands( Acts 8:18 ).
2. There are non-miraculous gifts( Eph. 4:11-12 ).
3. These confirmed by laying on of hands, also( Acts 13:3; 6:6 ).
4. Prophecy played this part – led to finding Timothy in Lystra( 1:18 ).