First of All

First of All

Series: Dear Timothy: Letters to a Young Pastor

September 12, 2021

Speaker: Don Guthrie

1 Timothy 2:1

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Don Guthrie

Interim Pastor

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A great challenge to the way we do church.

 

First (not a number) is a preposition.  Means, "before, in front of."  Superlative form.  "Firstest"

 

Prayer Meeting rather than private prayer.

 

Entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings.  All plurals.

 

"My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."--Isaiah 56:7

 

Repentance from pride and privacy and shame.

 

Why should prayer be first at Hunters Glen?

 

 

 

 

--A Call to LIVE LARGE

 

     Scope--ALL men (1)  ALL authorities (2)  ALL godliness and dignity (2)  ALL to be saved (3)

 

     Subject--salvation and sanctification (4)

 

     Three reasons to pray huge.

 

          --Monotheism--just one God

 

         --Incarnation--just one Mediator

 

         --Atonement--just one paid Ransom

 

 

 

 

--A Call to LEARN PATIENCE

 

     "The testimony given at the proper time." (6)

 

     "He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart. . .will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?"--Luke 18:1, 7

 

 

 

 

--A Call to PURSUE HOLINESS

 

     "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me."--Psalm 66:18.

 

     Lift up HOLY hands.

 

     "First be reconciled to your brother."--Matthew 5:24

 

     Aggression.  Appearance.  Neither violence nor vanity.

 

 

 

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     "These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. . .When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place, and suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting."--Acts 1:14, 2:1-2

 

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