From 4b06ee8b95808dcc0a790dbd6c1a109f4bdc4a19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joycerendahl Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:05:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add '55-1ti/intro.md' --- 55-1ti/intro.md | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 55-1ti/intro.md diff --git a/55-1ti/intro.md b/55-1ti/intro.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81a9a03 --- /dev/null +++ b/55-1ti/intro.md @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +# Introduction to 1 Timothy +## Overview + +Paul wrote Timothy to help him correct the church at Ephesus. Many false teachers were +in this church. They caused a lot of problems. Paul knew this would happen. He also told +others it would happen when he met with the leaders in the Ephesian church. Paul wrote +to Timothy to encourage him to correct the false teachers. He also wrote him to give +Timothy an example of how to do the things that honor God. The main purpose of 1 +Timothy was to help Timothy to teach and care for the churches. + +See Map: Ephesus + +### Who wrote 1 Timothy? + +Paul wrote that he was the author of 1 Timothy. He wrote about how he used to +persecute the church. Also, he wrote about how the story of how he started to believe in +Jesus was an example of God’s grace toward people (1:12-16). He called himself an +“apostle” (see: 1:1, 2:7), a “herald,” and a teacher of the gentiles (see: 2:7). + +See: Persecute (Persecution); Grace; Apostle; Gentile; Herald + +### When did Paul write 1 Timothy? +1. Some scholars think Paul wrote First Timothy during his third missionary journey. He left Ephesus and went to Macedonia (see: Acts 20:1). Timothy joined him later (see: 20:4). +1. Some scholars think that Paul was released from his Roman imprisonment (see: Acts 28:30-31) and then wrote this letter before a second imprisonment in Rome. + + +See: Paul’s missionary journeys + +See Map: Macedonia; Rome + +### To whom did Paul write First Timothy? +Paul mainly wrote this letter to  Timothy. However, he also wrote this letter to the church +of which Timothy lead. He did this so they would know that Paul wanted Timothy to lead +this church. Paul had Timothy join him while on Paul’s second missionary journey (see: +Acts 16:1-3). Later, when Paul going into Macedonia, he asked Timothy to stay in +Ephesus to help the church there with problems it was having (see: 1:3). + +See: Church; Paul’s missionary journeys + +See Map: Macedonia + +### Why did Paul write First Timothy? + +Paul wrote the letter to give Timothy instructions about helping the church at Ephesus. +They needed this help because false teachers had taught the wrong things and caused +many Christians to sin. People thought the church in Ephesus did evil things. Paul +wanted Timothy to make people to think good things about this church because it did +good things. He wanted Timothy to do this by teaching Christians the right things about +God. In particular, he wanted families to live in an orderly and godly way (see: 3:4-5, +3:12, 5:4-8, 13-14; 6:1-2). + +See: Church; Sin + +### What did the false teachers teach other people? +The false teachers taught a different type of Judaism. Teachers in that day used much +time arguing about tiny details of the Old Testament (see: 1:3-8; 6:4-5; 6:20). Some of +the teachers believed that Gentiles could not be saved (see: 2:4-7). They thought that +some things in the world were unclean, such as certain foods and marriage (4:3-5). +Some teachers taught that there would not be a future resurrection of Christians (see: 2 +Timothy 2:18). They also did sinful things and love to have a lot of money (see: 4:2; 6:5- +9). Paul taught that Satan tries to get people to believe the wrong thing and to do things +that do not honor God (see: 4:1; 5:15). + +See: Satan (The Devil); Gentile; Save (Salvation; Saved from Sin); Clean and Unclean; +Marriage; Resurrect (Resurrection) + +## Outline +1.     Paul greeted Timothy (1:1-2) +2.     Timothy needed to stop false teaching in Ephesus (1:3-20) +3.     The Christians in Ephesus must all do the things that Christians should do (2:1-15) +4.     Timothy must appoint good leaders for the church (3:1-13) +5.     Timothy must be a good leader (3:14-4:16) +6.     The Christians in Ephesus must all do the things that Christians should do, +continued (5:1-6:2) +7.     Timothy must warn against false teaching and against greed (6:3-19) +8.     Conclusion (6:20-21)