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1 Timothy – Passing the Torch
19. Moralism or Gospalism?

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1st Timothy 6:11 Are you a ‘Legalist Moraliser’ or a ‘Gospel based liver’? Just one verse to look at from Paul to Timothy today which leads to so many others in the Bible. This verse could easily, like so many others, be used to justify moralistic preaching and living. Looking down our noses at ‘bad’ people because we are ‘good’ people. WRONG! Christians live differently because of JESUS and his Gospel of grace. Always have and always will. Anything else is Moralism which is wrong. This way of living is about regeneration of a filthy rotten human heart by the gospel of grace through repentance and faith in Jesus for our sins by the power of the Holy Spirit to the Glory of God the Father. Today we see how right back to Genesis with Abraham, Paul and Timothy 2000 years ago, 260 years ago in England and even today how the Gospel of Jesus is the only way to change a single human heart and even a nation.

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1 Timothy – Passing the Torch
18. Rags to Riches – or not?

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1st Timothy 6:6-10 Born naked with nothing and you die the same way. But you may make a little, or a lot, of money in your lifetime but how do you, or did you, do it? Verse 10 is one of the most miss quoted verses of scripture going. But money in and of itself is not evil or sinful. How you got it and what you do with it may well be… or it may not be. Find out what true contentment is (and it isn’t a God shaped hole either), what you can learn from the Egyptians and crematoriums and what it all has to do with Jesus. Because at the end of the day it is all about Jesus and always will be, especially as Jesus owns all the money and everything.

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1 Timothy – Passing the Torch
17. Preaching Jesus Good – Preaching Prosperity Bad!

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1st Timothy 6:3-5 Paul urges Timothy to teach and preach about Jesus. To always preach Jesus and nothing but Jesus. Not to get caught up in empty waffle and arguments (there are lots of them ‘so who made God then?… Blah , Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah’). Everyone preaches and we are surrounded by preaching 24/7 on the TV, radio, internet, magazines, newspapers and Timothy and we are to preach good and healthy stuff about Jesus. And then there are the false teachers who teach wrongly that you can make money out of being a Christian. Sadly it wasn’t just in Paul’s day as all you have to do is turn on to a Christian TV station or go into a Christian book store and it is filled with Charlatans galore who as Paul puts it are ‘depraved in mind and deprived of truth’… Because they don’t preach the true gospel of Jesus.

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