1 Timothy 3

📖 1 Timothy 1:3–7 ESV As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. 5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6 Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

📖 1 Timothy 3:14–15 ESV I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 15 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

The Church cannot be , it must be . 

1. God’s calling must within His for the .

📖 1 Timothy 3:1 ESV The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

2. God’s calling is by a to do for others.

📖 1 Timothy 3:1 ESV The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

When you are on the to others, yourself in , you’ve found your calling.

📖 Matthew 9:36 ESV When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

📖 Mark 1:41 ESV Moved with (compassion), he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”

📖 Mark 8:2 ESV “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.”

Calling isn’t about — it’s about .

3. God’s calling is by , not .

📖 1 Timothy 3:2 ESV Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.

Qualification for Pastors: They . 

📖 1 Timothy 3:3-5 ESV Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?

📖 Luke 16:10 ESV “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”

📖 1 Timothy 3:6 ESV He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

God wants to me before He me.

can you where can’t you.

4. God’s must to the .

📖 1 Timothy 3:7 ESV Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

Sermon in a Sentence:

God’s calling begins in cooperation with God’s , is directed by a to help others, is empowered by His , and is by credibility.