Good morning. Sorry. This accidentally got sent the other day. We are in first Timothy. He had told Timothy to instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which gave rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. We have that in the church today. Some people get off on a tangent – away from preaching the gospel of salvation. They are so enmeshed in figuring out what is going to happen and when Jesus is coming, that they completely get away from preaching salvation. They are tired of preaching the simplicity of the gospel – they figure their congregation is already saved and doesn't need to hear it. They are searching for the "deeper" things of God. There is nothing wrong with doing some of that on your own. However most people in the congregation need to be studying the elementary principles of the foundation of God. Paul continues: but the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers (in his case of the Law, in ours about Jesus's return), even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions. That is true today. They act like they have a special revelation from God about the end times, and so they make confident assertions. Father thank You that the reader has love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

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