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Good morning, family.

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Here we start.

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Reckon the men.

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That's what we're doing.

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We're just warning you up front, gentlemen.

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It's on you.

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Today is talking about biblical manhood.

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We are, as you know, we're going through this year about what it means to be a biblical

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man and a biblical woman, and really excited about this opportunity.

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So we are not going to get through the whole chapter I was planning to, but it's just not

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going to happen.

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As you know, if I don't finish over there, I'm not going to finish over here.

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So either way, you're in for a good reckoning.

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Women that doesn't mean that you're going to be out of the limelight.

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Yours is in chapter two.

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But either way, there's things in the sermon that every believer should take.

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That being said, I hope you're ready for a ride.

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So God's been wrecking me too.

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So Father, I want to thank you so much for your word.

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Thank you that it is living inactive.

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Lord, that you have called us as men to rightly divide it.

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Lord, as men, as ministers who stand behind the pulpits, I pray that we would rightly

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divide it, that we would teach and preach the full counsel of your word, that you would

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be honored and glorified, and that, Lord, that you would be high and lifted up.

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Help us as men to understand the importance of what it means to be men of God, and that

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we would take this responsibility, this call of the most serious, and that this responsibility

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and call has been placed upon us to lead.

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So to you, be honor and glory the example of how to love your bride, how to care for

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your children, and how to lead and walk as not only as a servant, but as an example and

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a model for others to follow.

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To you be honor and glory in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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So let's read.

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First Timothy chapter one, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior

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and of Christ Jesus our hope.

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To Timothy, my true child in the faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and

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Christ Jesus our Lord.

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As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain

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persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless

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genealogies which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.

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The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and

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a sincere faith.

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Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring

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to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they are saying or the things

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about which they make confident assertions.

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Now we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully.

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Understanding this, the law is not laid down for the just, but for the lawless and disobedient,

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for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for the disobedient, for those

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who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, for sexually immoral, men who practice

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homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine

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in accordance with the gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

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I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful,

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appointing me to his service.

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Though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent, but I received mercy

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because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me

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with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

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The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into

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the world to save sinners, to whom I am the foremost.

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But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might

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display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal

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life.

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To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and

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ever.

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Amen.

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This charge I entrusted to you, Timothy my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously

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made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, upholding the faith and

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a good conscience.

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By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, among whom are Hymenus and

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Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

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There's a lot of stuff in here, so we will get through the first half.

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Okay?

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Here's principle number one.

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Men of God are fully committed to sound doctrine and the stewardship of the gospel and are

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careful to teach and proclaim the truth of God's word.

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Men of God are fully committed to sound doctrine, to the stewardship of the gospel and to carefully

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teach and proclaim the truth of God's word.

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This is especially for pastors.

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Timothy was roughly between 18, 19, some would say maybe 17 or 16, but probably no older

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If you want to know when this letter was written, easy, you just go to Acts chapter 17 to 20

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and it was during Paul's missionary journeys to Greece and to Macedonia and to Ephesus.

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It's there that he meets with Timothy, a young man who has been called to the ministry who

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they have taught, who he has taught personally, sound doctrine.

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Can you imagine a young man younger than Owen preaching and teaching and shepherding an

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entire church in the city of Ephesus?

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It is quite remarkable.

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That being said, because he was taught sound doctrine and he was laid on his hands and

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he was given the responsibility to preach and teach the word of God, the gospel, he

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had all that he needed, the Holy Spirit, the God in him, and all the work that was given

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to him to do.

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Now, what's interesting is as we go and you continue to read these letters, Paul does

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not lay off Timothy too much.

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He reminds him over and over again what a man of God looks like.

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He would need that.

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So that being said, this is what it says, do your best to present yourself to God as

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one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

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Second Timothy 2.15, do we as men of God, each and every man in this room, handle the

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word of God properly?

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Or do we just speak whatever we want in order to tickle the ears of our wives or our children

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because we want them to know it's okay, you're amazing?

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No, we want to teach them good sound truth, which interesting, Paul then clarifies even

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later in this chapter of which he is the worst.

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Do we really deal with the issue of the sinfulness of our being that our wonderful little ones

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are innocent though not innocent, declared guilty because of our nature?

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No, God reminds us of his holiness and that's what you're going to see here.

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In 1 Timothy 1, 3 through 7 he says this to Timothy, I urge you, I beseech you, I am commanding

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you.

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When I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge, command certain persons

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not to teach any different doctrine.

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So I know when I preach or I teach or when men of God preach and teach it's difficult

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sometimes because we have a tendency to come off very not nice, but we don't have an option

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sometimes, many times actually, that when certain men or women who claim to be pastors

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of God teach something that's contrary to the word.

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This is Paul's command to Timothy.

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You do not allow these men to teach.

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You charge them not to teach any different doctrine.

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That's the standard.

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Theology matters, doctrine matters, truth matters.

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What's interesting about this, certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, it means

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to deviate from the truth.

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Just a little turn away from the truth of the word of God is a complete deviation.

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It doesn't matter how small you think it is.

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This is not an option here.

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Those men should not teach.

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Instead, they devote themselves to myths and genealogies.

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That's their teaching.

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They come up with these myths and genealogies about who is really important in the kingdom

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of God and all these other things that they teach.

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You can imagine how many other gospels were coming out, the gospel of Mary and all these

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other things that people were talking about at the time.

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These particular men were talking about the myths and then this genealogies concerning

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the law as if they knew something.

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It's terrible.

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Are we as men willing to say, no, you can't teach that?

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At least here in this church, we do.

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There's an expectation to teach sound doctrine.

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It's one of the reasons why we go through the qualifications and the work of proving

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out these men.

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There's a reason why, for example, that Owen has been under our leadership for the past

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going on a year soon.

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We need to know that he handles the word of God well and that he is purposed in his life

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to continue to grow in true faith and not to deviate from the gospel.

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But these men that he's talking about here do.

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So as men of God, are you willing to say, no?

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What happens when you devote yourself to myths and endless genealogies to false doctrine?

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It promotes speculations.

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Zaitasis is the word here.

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It means to dispute or question.

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I can't help but to think how much dispute and questioning has been brought up into the

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church as a result of the false gospels of the church.

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Instead of teaching the full gospel of Christ, there's this drive to make Jesus more palatable.

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Jesus doesn't want to be palatable to you.

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He wants you to understand the truth that can save your lives.

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So do we teach things that aren't sound and as a result create dispute and question?

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Those myths and endless genealogies rather than the stewardship, rather than the knowledge

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of the things by which God has provided for and prepared salvation, which is by faith

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alone.

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Do we steward the gospel and all that is contained in it?

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All the doctrines that you can imagine that God has concerning salvation is solidly foundational

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in the gospel.

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And this particular stewardship of the gospel is from God that is by faith.

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Only salvation is by faith alone, in Christ alone.

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There is no other gospel.

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Verse five, the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience

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and a sincere faith.

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That's our aim.

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That's our goal.

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Our goal to command is out of love for you, is what Paul is saying to Timothy.

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My heart is pure for you, Timothy.

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Timothy is young.

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He's a young man.

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He must place his feet on the rock and not deviate.

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Sincere faith.

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Certain persons by swerving from these doctrines have wandered away into vain discussion.

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The word here is mataiya lagia, mataiya lagia.

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This word is empty talk.

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They just blabber.

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They talk about nonsense.

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It just doesn't matter.

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Why?

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They're desiring to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they are

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saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

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It reminds me so many of these false teachers who just talk just to talk.

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And we throw our money and our time at them.

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What kind of men are they?

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They're not men.

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They're not even boys.

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Men of God live obediently and purpose to walk with Christ continually.

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So if we are committed to Christ, if we are living in such a way that we are holding to

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sound doctrine, we are stewarding the gospel, we are careful to teach and proclaim God's

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word, are you living obediently for others to see that you would be a model of that?

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And do you purpose personally to continue to walk with Christ every single day or is

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he just a Sunday God for you?

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Are you truly a Jesus freak?

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I know a modern group brought that term up, but do you love him supremely that nothing

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else matters but him and him alone?

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Men of God live obediently and purpose to walk with Christ continually.

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Here it is, men, you ready?

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Be watchful, men.

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Your responsibility is to guard.

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Watchful.

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Pay attention.

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Watch.

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Listen.

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Stand firm in the faith.

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Do not waver from the gospel.

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Do not waver from the sound doctrine of the word of God.

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Notice what he says here in 1 Corinthians, chapter 16, verse 13 and 14.

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You're welcome to turn there if you want, but this is what he says, be watchful, stand

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firm in the faith, act like men.

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You're not a woman.

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You're a man.

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Act like it.

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Thank you.

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Told you this was going to be a little hard on you guys.

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That does not mean that men cannot be gentle.

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Jesus was gentle and tender, but there was not a greater man.

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No one took my life from me.

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I lay it down of my own accord.

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That's what a man does.

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Act like men.

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Be strong.

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Let all that you do be done in love.

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Act like men.

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Partner in your households.

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Be men in your homes.

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Be men here.

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Why do I say that?

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I'm thankful.

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Jerry, I'm going to use you as an example.

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You're a man, my brother.

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You are a man of God, my friend.

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He gets the men to work and help, but I'm going to be honest with you, you can do a

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heck of a lot more.

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These women outwork you all day long, and they should not.

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You shouldn't be dependent on the ladies fellowship to do everything, but thankfully our men are

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starting to step up, but it requires that we act like men.

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We lead.

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We do.

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How can I do?

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How can I say that confidently?

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Because I lead.

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Act like men.

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Be strong.

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Let all that you do be done in love.

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What is the motivation of every godly man?

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Love for Christ, love for his people.

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Act like men.

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Here's the difference in this verses eight through 10.

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There are two clear differences here.

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Men who are men and men who are not.

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Verse eight.

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Now, we know that the law is good.

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That's true it is.

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If one uses it lawfully.

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The problem is none of us can.

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Only Jesus has used the law lawfully.

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Only Jesus has fulfilled the law perfectly.

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And as a result of Christ doing that for us on our behalf, we fulfill the law through him.

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Praise God because without him it's impossible.

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But understand this.

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That the law is not laid down for the just.

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Do you hear that?

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If you're in Christ you have been justified.

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In Christ you are made just.

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In Christ.

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But apart from Christ you are not just.

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So the law has been laid down for the unjust.

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For the lawless and disobedient.

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For the ungodly and sinners.

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For the unholy and profane.

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For those who strike their fathers and mothers.

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For murderers, the sexually immoral.

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Men who practice homosexuality.

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Enslavors.

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Those men who steal men and women and children to put into service.

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Liars.

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Perjurers.

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And whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.

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By God's grace this country still exists.

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And we are a godly country.

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We've enslaved children.

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Or we ignored it.

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That is not godly.

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And nothing will change until the men of God stand firm on sound doctrine and call out

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the false teachers.

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Or those who claim that they know better.

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But we who are the just live in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed

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God with which I have been entrusted.

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God has entrusted you with the most precious, most expensive, costly thing.

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The gospel of his son.

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That's what you have as men.

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Men have been entrusted with things.

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This is the responsibility that we hold.

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The gospel.

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There is no other gospel that Christ the God man came, put on flesh, died on the cross,

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was buried and rose again on the third day to give us life and that he has commanded

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us to teach all things concerning him and to be obedient.

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That's what he's told us.

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That's the gospel.

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There is no other gospel.

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And God has entrusted you men with that.

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So these two very important principles.

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To be committed to sound doctrine and the stewardship of the gospel.

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To be careful to teach and proclaim the full truth of God's word.

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To live obediently and purpose to walk with Christ continually every day.

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That is the beginning and the foundations of leadership.

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As men act like men.

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Over the next week and the week after we'll be dealing with the rest of the chapter.

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And when you look at what Paul's life was before Christ saved him.

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It's quite remarkable that God, he says this.

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I'll give you a little bone because I didn't do this in verse but I'm going to give you

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a little something to look forward to.

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Specifically in 2 Peter 3, 9.

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Do you remember that?

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What's 2 Peter 3, 9 say?

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God is patient not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance.

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That's exactly what Paul says here Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example

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to those who were to believe in him.

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It is about election.

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He is patient.

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He was patient with Paul and he's patient with us.

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His people will come and they will come through and by the gospel through faith alone in Christ

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alone.

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By grace alone.

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There is no other way.

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It is a very skinny road.

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And be honest with you I think it's like a path like I don't even think it's a road I

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think it's like a trail.

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Not a two lane trail like one trail.

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If you had a mountain bike you might be able to get through a little faster maybe.

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So I hope this has been a challenge to you as men to be men.

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Act like men and we'll pick up next week.

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Father I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness.

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Thank you Lord for your word.

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Thank you Lord for this opportunity to challenge the men to come to live to to take on the

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responsibility as men and to love you supremely so they can love their wives and their children.

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That you reign in their hearts and in their lives as King and as God and as Savior.

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We praise you and thank you in Jesus name.

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Amen.