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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. 1
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- Timothy is a book that was written by Paul, the Apostle.
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- And basically he writes it to Timothy, his son in the faith, who he left behind to pastor a church.
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- And this really is a book where what you see is Paul basically telling
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- Timothy the blueprints for how to run a church. It's the reason why most churches, when they church plants, new churches, ones that want to start looking at how
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- God wants to organize the church, they go to this book, 1 Timothy, because it's one of the clearest, this and Titus.
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- These are the books that people look at for how to run the church, because that's the purpose of this book.
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- Now, mind you, Paul is writing this while in prison, so he is in prison at the time. He's concerned with Timothy and the things that he's got to deal with.
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- So the very first thing he wants to address is he gives some instruction and warning about dealing with false teachers, because they were in Timothy's time in that church in Ephesus.
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- Well, they continue today in our time. So there needs to be a warning against false teachers.
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- He gives basically instructions on how to conduct themselves in the church, how to keep the true doctrine faithful in the church.
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- He's going to give instructions for things like widows and pastors and deacons and different roles.
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- And he's going to give them instructions because we need to know how God wants us to run the church, because we must remember it's his body, his church, not ours.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
