We come to the concluding verses of 1 Timothy, and we see how Paul wraps up his letter to Timothy. Paul leaves him with some final exhortations and encouragements, which we will do well to read and apply too.

We are all being discipled by something or someone.

A heart that loves money is self-sufficient and reliant. Your relationship with money has everything to do with your relationship with God. What the love of money reveals in our hearts is a deep discontentment with God. It is a heart that loves money is a heart that says Christ is not enough. It is a heart that is self sufficient and self reliant.

In this section of 1 Timothy, Paul’s argument is clear — your relationship with money has everything to do with your relationship with God.

W e are in a section of 1 Timothy in 1 Timothy 5-6 which speak of honouring different groups. Godliness expresses itself in honouring others. The command given is to regard with high value and worth. Hence, here, we have a vision for how we think about work, and how we are to respond to them directly. And therefore how we are to see ourselves as workers. 

Paul, a church leader, is writing to another church leader. Before we think that it has nothing to do with us if we are not elders, we can learn from the way he is writing to Timothy about elders and see how we can encourage one another. This is how we can all take it back, and apply it in our churches.

We practice encouragement by learning how to honour, to make holiness our goal and to pay attention to how we live. 

Paul has continually exhorted Timothy to be faithful to the gospel and to also train himself in godliness. This section of 1 Timothy focuses on how Timothy is to also train the church to care for widows, as this too, is a matter of godliness.

1 Timothy is a training manual, given in wartime. This might be hard for us to understand, as we are used to training in peacetime for war. So, what does training in wartime look like? What time do you think you are in? What kind of training are you undergoing? 

What will it be like if we were truly godly? What if we know the meaning of our life to be truly for God, such that our ambitions would smell like God? 

1 Timothy 3 lays out what the elders and the deacons should be like. As church members, this help us to understand what we are to look for in the leaders in our church. It also clarifies and shapes what we should value in the leaders of our church. 

What is the most important word in our title tonight?

The most important word is “godly”. 1 Timothy 2 contains verse that may be surprising or confusing to us, but the purpose of this chapter is to promote godliness. We will see God’s design for godliness and as we read this chapter, we are reminded that we are going to be weighed against God’s requirements for godliness. 

Are you godly? Does your life reflect God as He has revealed Himself to be?

We continue our series in 1 Timothy, and in this opening chapter, Paul writes to Timothy about the grace of God. It is important for Christians to understand and be clear about grace.

This is the first of a series in the book of 1 Timothy, a letter that is a wonderful resource for young people, seeking to be established in the faith.

What would you say to a young person to encourage them to be rooted and established in the faith? Paul writes 3 things — there are things to remember, there is doctrine you need to know and there’s godliness you need to pursue.