The Aim of Our Instruction
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Warning Against False Teachers
3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. 5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Timothy 1:3-5 ESV
Romans 5:12 ESV - 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
1. The Aim of Our Instruction is to Promote Truth
1 Timothy 1:3-4 ESV - 3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
1 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV - 6 Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
Jude 1:4 ESV - 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 23:23 ESV - 23 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
John 14:6 ESV - 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
Acts 4:12 ESV - 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 8:24 ESV - 24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
2. The Aim of Our Instruction is to Produce Love
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV - 5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Timothy 1:5 NASB - 5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
John 13:35 ESV - 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
A. What is a good heart?
Psalm 51:10 ESV - Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 24:3 ESV - Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.