Ministry and as a former blasphemer and prosecutor and then he says something that all of those who know the Lord Jesus can say he says but I obtained mercy Paul says he was saved by the grace of God and it was the mercy of God that put him in the ministry if you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior today you could say that as well whenever Dr McGee shared his testimony just like Paul he marveled that God used him in people's lives it's amazing isn't it God wants to use us despite our own shortcomings you know one of our listeners told us how he came to know Jesus and it speaks of how God uses someone just like us he writes from Savannah Georgia every noon hour one of my coworkers sat in his car eating his lunch I asked him why he ate in his car we have a nice cafeteria and he said it was so he could listen to your radio program on another day he invited me to join him he couldn't have known it but God had been working in my life making me realize that I needed him in the worst way after 3 times listening I bowed my head and asked Jesus for eternal life I repented of my sins and now have a new life in Christ praise God We now have a holy worship service in my brother's car every noon we invite others to join us in our own Bible bus and in time we hope they will thank you through the Bible for telling me about Jesus well praise God for that story of grace and for men and women like that coworker who share the gospel in the most inviting ways as we travel through the entire Word of God in 5 years who could you invite to travel with you ask God to bring someone to mind now another listener This is Mary from Glen our Maryland shared each night when I drive home from work my thoughts and concerns are usually related to my work responsibilities but when I listen to the 6 pm broadcast I can reflect back on the day and realize how unimportant my concerns were the words of dear j. Vernon McGee are a wonderful reminder to me that the Lord Jesus Christ is always with me and will guide me throughout the day I just. Keep my mind on him and things above now let's focus our hearts and minds on what God has for us today in his word Heavenly Father thank You for Your Love your mercy and grace and how they're the most important part of who we are use us to show others what we found in you and help us to listen to and receive your truth today in Jesus name Amen Here's through the Bible with Dr j. Vernon McGee our friends will come back and we are going to see 1st Timothy and we come to the 1st chapter of this very wonderful of Castle and last time I put down and then abduction and my thought in the entered option was that although we are going to deal here with that which is really the nitty gritty of the local church that has to do with sweeping the place out gather not the song books and a meeting of the deacons and all that sort of thing but the important thing is that the characters are all these men in the caliber these may well be that which will determine whether that church is really a Church of the largest prime it's now that's important for us to say and with that in mind let me just give a brief outline that we have in our note so that's a pestle and we have in Chapter one The Bite of the church. And then in Chapter 2 we'll have public prayer and woman's place in the churches and my friend that all to stir up a little interest and by the way if you have any friends in women's lib have them lesson but a reminder this week or the next few times and I think maybe that we can hope we can get their man kissed now in chapter 3 we have officers in the church is chapter 4 a pos the say in the churches and chapters 5 and 6 do you think it is the officers of the churches now this is the thing that we have before us and we come back now to chapter one and here we have the place of the church and actually I probably ought to call that the wife of the church it now in the 1st 2 verses here we have they enter duction and that's an adoption is rather remarkable it's remarkable because it's different than anything that you've done in other polls the best selves. I'm of the opinion that many of us by the time we got from Romans through 2nd Thessalonians we came to the conclusion that all used the same manner duction but that's not true these pastoral pestles are a little different and this doc of Benson says the salutation as a whole has no parallel and Paul that is you won't find this and any of the other a pestle said actually is different now we want to see in which way it is different he calls himself now Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ who is our hope under Tema my own son in the faith grace mercy and peace from God Father and Jesus Christ Our alone and that's a remarkable 2 viruses the Scripture very remarkable and Paul care again even with Timothy our search his apostleship and somebody says Well he's certainly done that before when he had and we find for instance and Galatians that he says that he is an apostle by they will of God. Now I hope you notice that this is a little different here it's by the commandment of God and somebody says What is the difference between commandment and will of God Well Paul and I was riding the young preacher he says Brian and that's personal I think it's much more personal though it has to do with a local church but it's very personal because it's written to this young minister you this young missionary shall we say of the large Isa's and actually the well of God and the commandment of God are synonymous and yet they're not the same and let me put it like their ads all of commandments that you find in the Bible reveal the will of God. And there not just confined to the 10 Commandments by the way they reach out much farther than the 10 commandments we are told that it's the will of God for us pray you remember we had that back and 1st class alone and you will recall that we are to pray without ceasing and in every thing give thanks for this is the will of Christ Jesus concerning you self that there are many things that are the will of God and they will of God is expressed in a man but I do not think that you have all of the will of God even in the sum total of the Commandments that we have in the Scripture we have a now reveal that my honest not play by the commandments of God And I'd like to reiterate that emphasize that because there are so manage to die the law they say is essential to our salvation now when we get down to verse 7 I'm going into this a great deal of detail we won't get there to day I'm sure he says that we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully Well how do you use the commandment it's good well that's true and the law which also has been Romans is holy and the commandment holy and just then good but it's the very fact that the law is good and it's absolutely good and then man doing absolutely goodness from my end in whom there is no good sign because Paul says I know that in these are do well it's not a good thing and it's because the law is good that the center cannot obey it that's the whole saying about it it reveals the will of God and the commandment of God reveals the will of God So. So that in order that the Senate might be saying it was necessary to find a way apart from of Bt and some of perfect law and the lowering of the gospel is that God found a way that he might be just and the just the fire of him that believing in Jesus and we are told today that we have through this man and has a large ease this is preached on to you the forgiveness of sins and by him all that believe are just the 5 from all things from which he could not be just implied by the Law of Moses why because it was a ministration of day and the law condemned us the law wasn't given to save us the Law was given to reveal that we are dealing with a holy God and that you and I are not holy that are for God had to find a way to save us and that way is the way of the Cross that way is the way of the largest I am the way he says the truth and the life they law is not the way to God Christ is the white of God and that is the important thing now when Paul is saying to this young preacher something here he says not the broad statement he gave the go lation I am an apostle but the will of God which was of course true but Paul is saying now that I shun preacher Timothy I am an apostle by the commandment of God He made me an apostle it's not just because I'm in the will of God The day that I'm an apostle but that was a time when he come then did me but be an apostle now I think Paul was rather reluctant to become an apostle I'm sure that Paul would offer to the law of excuses as Moses did he could well say well look lower I was with the other 11 apostles and. Well with you for 3 years and I never knew you in the days of your play I know you today is that glorified Cripes I'm not worthy to be an apostle and he says that also and the large Jesus says I command you and that's the reason that this man but walk into a Senate God and go before gainsaying audience and Athens and a group of rotten corrupt senators sent current and stand before them and declare the gospel you know why he was a soldier under orders he was an apostle black commandment not by a commission but by a commandment nobody laid their hands on him and made him an apostle a large Jesus and that gave him an authority Now you remember when we look to Jeremiah that we saw that same kind of father I take this man Jeremiah a shrinking black a shrinking violet retiring all the time a man with a broken heart and yet he could step out and give these strong strong statements from God why he's under orders he's a soldier under our days now Paul is making that player to Timothy and I think any man that is going to speak for God Today needs to speak without authority Arriaga keep why I think that when a man gets up and says I think they're sent if you believe in a fashion I expect that maybe you'd be saved if you would believe in a way on Jesus Well when you begin to talk like that then you haven't anything to say for God at all now Paul is this kind of an apostle Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ about the commandment of God our savior now is God our Savior He certainly is God so loved the world He gave His only but gotten Sunny's the Savior and the laws. Jesus Christ who is our hope now God provided the sacrifice and the large easiest prize is the one that acts acutely Did he is the one that came to that sir and then you have this strange like money here he is our hope and that is a strange expression because that's not used very many times tell the truth you are only going to find that use one other time and that will be in cautions cries then you the hope will gloat and the largest died to save you he lives to keep you safe and he's going to come someday and take care in order to calm some light that salvation my friend and why you look at him if you're going to look backwards These are white and when we look around us as a loved one we look ahead of hope my friend and it's hope actually all the way and it's anchored in the Person of the largest prize you see that's just a little different inner duction now he says under Kim and my own son in the play. Now notice that he is called Tema face and he's called to Mo thius and somebody is going to say well what difference does that my well actually it doesn't make too much difference only the most hideous is made up of 2 words and it means that which is dear to God and I think we need to see that that this man was dear to God it was dear to the Apostle Paul and he was dear to the local churches of that day what a wonderful picture that we have here let me say a word concerning him now we have Timothy interviews the last and we had something to say about him but for when we were in the book of Acts also when we were looking at for instance the pursuit of the of patients then they passed on to the full at the end now his father was a Greek will see that when we get a little farther along and his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice were Christians before him he lived in Leicester and that was where Paul was stoned and I think right from the dead by the way and I'm not sure about what that's had a lot to do with the conversion of young Timothy I problems like any other young man rather skeptical but I'm sure that convinced and then he became and I woud follow Paul after his conversion and he was a man that had a good reputation by the way we're told and at 16 beginning at verse 2 well reported up by the browser in that war at let's turn our Coney and him would call have to go forth with him and took uncircumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters for they all knew that his father was a Greek and as they went through the said is they delivered them that decrees far to keep that were ordained of the Apostles and elders which. Or at Jerusalem and so were the churches a stablished in the faith an increase in number daily and then as he followed day of Passover Paul he became one that all had utmost confidence sand and Paul had in the churches many that proved false and Reverend that this saved him that's always the tragedy I think of every pastor is the fact that you do have wonderful people wonderful friends in the church I tell you one of the lowers of my ministry today is that right here in Pasadena I began serving you're 19 already and I've been here a long time and there are people that I meet all just every where we came to the lord way that aconitine 404142 they are following in the Lord steps and their loyal wife of France as one of the reasons we keep by headquarters here we've got a world of wonderful plans you say in a safe area people you can trust and Paul had those that he couldn't trust but Timothy he could and for Libyan's the 2nd chapter verse 19 listen to what he says that I trust in the Lord Jesus ascend promote us shortly under you that also might be a good one I know your state where I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your state we're all sitting there own not Lange's what your Jesus Christ but you know the proof of him that as a son with the father he have served with me in the Gospel in that war I hope to send presently so soon as I shall see how it will go with me and I trust in the Lord that I'll so myself shall come shortly now we find here that Timothy when you say he is one very close Paul. And Paul here mentions that under Timothy my own son in the faith and that could be translated my truth son in the paper my genuine son in the faith Pollard led him to the lower now he says grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and somebody says well that's just like the entered auctions we've had before no it s. And I beg to differ with you and the difference is this yes we've had grace before and we've had peace mentioned before and we've spoken to but friends we've got another word here that's mercy Well what is the mercy of God Well actually mercy is a word that was used back in the Old Testament and it actually it was a welcome to the word grace because it was the mercy seat that there and. It was the sacrifice that made the throne of God which is holy and righteous and just makes it a mercy seat and when you and I come to God we don't want justice what we want is mercy and we need mercy from God now Mercy is what God has provided for all of his creatures God's got all of mercy that you need you can call upon it but it's just like money in the bank my friend will do you no good lets you ride a chair and you write a check a plate and plate May when I write a check I write it but fight a lot of times because it's not always there but where frankly that's what mercy it is God is rich in mercy we're dull we've seen that one before he has plenty of but one God saves you he saves you by His grace now God is merciful God is merciful to all the senators that in the world today that blast fame him and repudiate him and turn it back on Him God is merciful to them he sends rain on them just not yet he doesn't play favorites and even with those his own centers today get rich they prosper they seem to do better than what I am but as merciful don't but you see you'll have to come by thang. And write the check the facts you'll have to come by fiat and then got all save you by His grace now you see these 3 words love and mercy and grace are a little trend love is that in God which existed before he would care to exercise mercy or grace God was alone at this night church is that to me now Mercy is that in God which provided for the need of central man and grace is that also in him which act freely to save because all the demands of all iness been satisfied so that God because he's merciful you can come Toyman biased Grace you say you don't have to bring anything back you bring nothing because anything you bring is there right now I have read several letters from people who criticized maybe we're talking about do gooders now my friend a do gooder is the one that thinks he does not need the mercy of God He feels that his own good works will say that I had a man years ago right up here and out of the unit here in Pasadena he said to me and it was on his deathbed he said to me says preacher you don't need to talk to me about that I need Christ as their Savior and I need to Mercy and the grace of God I don't need it I'm willing to stand before him just like I am you see and you know why don't you tell me what all he did he'd been chairman a president I think of the community chest and he had headed up and he was head of an orphan home at one time a chairman of the board all he was a do gooder and he's going to stand before God on it my friend let me say I do believe salvation will do you any good when you really need it the salvation that gone provides for you will enable you to go do good cond of good that is acceptable to God because the even the righteousness of man is filthy rags on his side Francis is a marvelous entered option that we have here will pick right up our next uncle that May God bless you my beloved. We appreciate that reminder of God's love mercy and grace Dr McGee said because God is merciful you can come to him and by His grace he'll save you if you'd like to know more about the grace and mercy of God Well we'd love to tell you more just go to t t v dot org and click on the banner How can I know God There you'll find several resources by Dr McGee about how you can meet God and what his offer of salvation is all about you can also call us and request that we send you a couple of these resources our number is 1865 bible that's 180-652-4253 now this weekend I Vy to join me for more of Dr McGee's great teaching on a Sunday sermon he dives into the controversial topic of women's place in the local church you can listen online at www dot org or check our listings of local stations that carry the program and while you're visiting us at t.v. 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