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Continue in Good Works

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:14
Devotional Series: Good Works
Teaching: Good Works pt. 1 (WED 2023-04-12) by Pastor Star R Scott


In 2 Timothy 3:14 He says, “But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.”  Those are some pretty good admonitions; amen?  Now remember, this is Paul writing to young Timothy, the pastor of the church of Ephesus, one of the great churches of that day.  A gifted young man, Timothy, who was a contemporary of Titus.  In fact, Paul would use them, many times, in conjunction with one another to affect the ministry of the church.  Paul had that missionary team.  As the apostle, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, he would administrate these particular gifts to affect the will of God, recognizing the different calls and gifts that were upon them as individuals.  He would use them at different times, for different tasks.  One of the times we’re most aware of is the fact that both of them were sent to the carnal church of Corinth.  They kind of roughed Timothy up a little bit in his visit to Corinth.  Timothy appears to be a little meeker.  Timothy was told to “stir up the gift that was in him,” amen?  The reminder that we “had not received the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”  Titus, a gentile, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, was used on a number of occasions.  He traveled with Paul fairly extensively.  He was on a number of the missionary parties.  Galatians tells us he went with Paul to Jerusalem to meet with the elders “lest he had run in vain.”  Titus was involved in that ministry.

What we best know about Titus is in the epistle Paul sent him.  It’s in this group of books, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, that we call the Pastoral Epistles.  These are giving insight into how to facilitate and oversee the local church.  It deals with the placing of elders and the requirements that it took to be an elder, of the deacons.  He deals with “the aged men” and “the aged women” and how they relate to the rest of the body, to be teachers, and how it’s necessitated.  This is something that we have, here, in our midst.  It can be operating even better, but that’s the awareness within the church.  You younger men need to respect the more mature men, the more proven.  Because the fact is they have experience, though you might have knowledge.  The same goes with the older women.  “Elders” are not always chronologically older, the word having to deal with “maturity,” but the chronological also.  Just the fact that these people have lived life, they’ve experienced these things and they’re still standing; amen?  It would be good to listen to them so when you get to their age, you’re still standing.  As we’re “followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises of God.”

How are you doing at that?  Or do you think that you’re old enough, now, that it’s stopped with you?  “I can hear from God, I’m mature.”  That’s why God has made His dealings with man, both Old and New Covenant, a generational process.  We learn, we watch, we follow, we humble ourselves, we’re teachable; amen?  That especially goes for the elder.  That aspect of remaining humble and teachable is what will allow you to carry on good, sound doctrine to the next generations.

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