LOVE IS AN ACTION WORD Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22 Rather than embracing erotic love, physical pleasures, gluttonous appetites, and…

HUNT DOWN HARMONY Shun youthful lusts and flee from them, and aim at and pursue righteousness (all that is virtuous and good, right living, conformity to the will of God in thought, word, and deed); [and aim at and pursue]…

THE SCOPE OF SCRIPTURE

MOST FAITHFUL TRUSTEE If we are faithless [do not believe and are untrue to Him], He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself. 2 TIMOTHY 2:13 (AMPC) Jesus must remain true to…

PASSIONATE, COMPASSIONATE PREACHING Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 1:13 Paul repeatedly told Timothy to stick to the gospel message as he had…

THE PURSUIT OF PATIENCE But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 6:11 Another word for patience is “constancy” which according to Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the…

PURSUE LOVE But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 6:11 The man of God, Timothy, needed to run from false teaching and the sin that accompanied it…

FLEE FALSEHOOD: FOLLOW AFTER FAITHFULNESS But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 6:11 The word translated “faith” is the same Greek word throughout the New Testament. It…

BLAZING GLORY

A CHOICE TO LOVE Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 Every time we see the word translated…