How do we live the life?
- We want to live life to the full but do we know how?
- We don't know straight away but the bible guides us in the life we strive to live.
- 1 Timothy 4 v 1-11
- Paul is speaking to Timothy as a young leader and I know not everyone is in that bracket but there is a key principle we can learn from what Paul says.
- Who do we have around us?
- Paul has just instructed Timothy on how to gather the right leadership team and overseers but now he is telling Timothy to be aware of the people who will speak things into his life which could damage and destroy not just him but others in the church.
- Paul wants Timothy to get a great group of leaders round him.
- He also wants Timothy to be wary of who influences him.
- Matthew 12 v 35 - "A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart."
- Jesus is saying that we should invest in ourselves the right things and the right people.
- Paul was encouraging Timothy to build using strong foundations.
- Matthew 7 v 24-27 - "24 “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25 Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”"
- What people speak and influence our lives with should not affect our foundation in God.
- What are we storing up?
- What influences you?
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