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I. Know The Goal
A. Love is the Goal
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
goal=τέλος, The “end” “limit” or “termination”
Why do we open the Bible each week?
Why do I take 45 minutes out of your week and talk, talk, talk?
It is ἀγάπη.
That is self-sacrificing goodwill or esteem for God and for each other that expresses itself in action.
We teach so that we will all love.
There is no greater goal.
The Bible is THE practical guide-book of love.
The Bible’s doctrines and instructions are the highest moral handbook on how to show goodwill or esteem toward God, a fellow human, animals, or this planet.
So we teach, so that we will all love to highest degree.
B. The Quality of Love
1. From a Pure Heart
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
the seat of man’s collective energies, the focus of personal life, the seat of the rational as well as the emotional and volitional elements in human life, hence that wherein lies the moral and religious condition of the man
It is our inner sanctum
2. From a Good Conscience
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
conscience is your inner judge of your actions.
J.N.D. Kelly
a man’s inner awareness of the moral quality of his own actions
3. From a Sincere Faith
1 Timothy 1:5 (NASB95)
5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
sincere=genuine, without hypocrisy.
In 1871 the New York Herald sent Henry Stanley to Africa in search of the missionary, David Livingstone, who was long overdue.
After unbelievable hardships, the journalist found the explorer in central Africa, where he spent four months with him.
Stanley went to Africa a conceited and confirmed atheist, but Livingstone’s influence, gentleness, genuineness, goodness, and zeal won Stanley.
Stanley became a Christian, saying, “I was converted by him, although he had not tried to do it.”
II.
Don’t Miss the Goal
A. By Straying from Love
1 Timothy 1:6 (NASB95)
6 For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,
What things?
from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.
B. By Turning Aside from Love
1 Timothy 1:6 (NASB95)
6 For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,
how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?
C. By Misplaced Love
1 Timothy 1:7 (NASB95)
7 wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
θέλω=desire, want, or wish to be teachers of the law.
Who were the teachers of the law?Pharisees, Gamaliel.
These were the respected religious leaders in Israel.
Their love was to be recognized as teachers of the law.
They wanted the respect that was given to the rabbis like Gamaliel.
D. By Deficient Love
1 Timothy 1:7 (NASB95)
7 wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
The cults are experts at throwing around flowery language and biblical terms like grace and atonement but they have no clue what those terms mean.
They speak in word salads that they don’t even understand.
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