How can you guard yourself against false teaching? How can you be properly equipped to live the life God has for you? God has given us the Bible so that we might be trained and equipped. God is speaking to us from His Word and if we’re going to be prepared to recognize false teaching […]
Guard The Truth – 1 Timothy 6:20-21
“A story is told of a man who, resisting the cost of oats he fed his mule, decided to gradually substitute sawdust in its diet. Everything went fine for a while but by the time the mule was satisfied with sawdust, he died. The same is true spiritually. The changeover from truth to error is […]
Generous Living—Truly Living – 1 Timothy 6:18-19
I’d like to return for a moment to a question I’ve asked you already in our study of 1 Timothy. Have you ever wondered what you would do if you suddenly became very wealthy and had more money than you knew what to do with? I think a good indicator of what any one of […]
Put Your Hope In God – 1 Timothy 6:17
Kevin A. Pierpont Higgins Lake Baptist Church 2/29/04 17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. When you think of wealthy people, who comes to mind? Bill Gates? Warren Buffett? […]
Fight the Good Fight – 1 Timothy 6:12-16
Can there be such a thing as a good fight? Have you ever been in an argument with someone and you walked away saying to yourself, “That was a good fight!”? I remember being picked on a lot when I was a youngster in grade school. I was in a fight or two as a […]
Flee And Follow – 1 Timothy 6:11
A country preacher decided to skip services one Sunday and head to the hills to do some bear hunting. As he rounded the corner on a perilous twist in the trail, he and a bear collided, sending him and his rifle tumbling down the mountainside. Before he knew it, his rifle went one way and […]