1 Timothy 6:6-19 Paul commands Timothy to live for God ‘I charge you’, he says in v14, ‘to keep this command’. Which command? The command to (v11) ‘pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.’ They are precious qualities. Godliness : (I’m putting this first because this is the quality that is also mentioned in 1 Tim 6:6) - god like-ness. Jesus was the eternal Son of God become human. So becoming like God is about looking at Jesus and desiring to become like him. Righteousness : right-ness. But right-ness as God sees it. Pursuing righteousness is about putting God and God-stuff first. Faith : seek faith, but this is not speaking about faith in general. The faith that is spoken of here is about a faith in God. Seek to live by faith in God each day, each moment: trusting him, doing it his way – even when you don’t like it. They interviewed a woman out shopping in Nairobi last week. They asked her if she was scared after the Westgate att
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