Paul's Charge to Timothy

Sermon Notes

I. The War is Real

"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."

--Ephesians 6:11-12

II. The War is Personal

III. The War is for the Soul

"Here, therefore, is the duty of every church member towards those with whom he walks in fellowship: that by using God’s Word, he should admonish any member who he judges is, in some particular, not living according to the right way, and he is to do so with the one purpose of recovering that member’s soul."

---John Owen, Duties of Christian Fellowship

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean."

---Matthew 23:25-26