Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 44
PAUL – FIRST IN THE BODY OF CHRIST
I Timothy 1:1-16
We’re going to be looking at Paul’s letters to Timothy. We’ll be starting at chapter 1 verse 1. At that time he will write II Timothy. I trust you all realize that throughout Paul’s ministry he honestly thought the Lord would be coming for the Church during his lifetime. Remembering, now, Paul has just recently been released from his first imprisonment. All right, verse 1 of I Timothy chapter 1:
I Timothy 1:1
“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;” Now, of course, here again, it is so plain that his apostleship was a direct command of the Lord Jesus Christ. I was reading a book about Paul just the other night. Here it is in verse 11.
Acts 9:11
Now verse 13 says it all. “Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints (or believing Jews) at Jerusalem: 14. All right, now verse 15 and this is the Lord’s response to Ananias.
We know it’s just part and parcel of Paul’s apostleship.
Now Paul rehearses that same conversion experience, but in the first person. Because Jews had nothing to do with those pagan Gentiles. They had no concept that the God of Abraham would ever have time for those Gentile dogs, as they called them. Now verse 17, as he addresses this Jewish crowd in Jerusalem, this is what he says.
Now Paul comes back to the first person, and he says:
21. And he (the Lord Jesus from Glory) said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.”
The next verse shows the attitude of the ordinary, everyday, commonplace Jew. Verse 22:
Acts 22:22
All right, let’s read it, verse 1 of Acts 15.
Oh, now Paul’s gospel is alright as far as it goes, but that’s not enough. You go up to verse 5. Look what it says in verse 5 of chapter 15.
Well, that just flew in the face of everything that Paul said. Because what did Paul start out with? All right, let’s see how Paul deals with that. Let’s go to Galatians chapter 2. Galatians chapter 1 and this is exactly what Paul is dealing with—where these false teachers would come into his little groups of believers up there, especially in Asia Minor, which is now Turkey, and tell them that Paul’s gospel alone wasn’t enough. Galatians 1:6-7a
Now you know that Paul is constantly warning us of any kind of perversion of his Gospel. Well, that’s what they were doing with Paul’s Gospel. I’ll go on a little further here in Galatians chapter 2, because I want you to understand that when Paul speaks of his gospel as having been by way of the commandment of the Lord Jesus, it is indeed different than anything even Israel had ever heard before. Now in Galatians chapter 2 verse 2 and this is 14 years after his conversion, so he’s already been out there amongst the Gentile world for 10 or 12 years. Galatians 2:2a
The Lord instructed him. The Lord no doubt laid upon him and said, now, Paul, it’s time you go and meet with the leadership up there in Jerusalem. Galatians 2:2a
One for Peter and the Eleven and the Jews of that day to believe, and one for the Gentiles that was revealed to Paul in this Age of Grace—which is totally different. Today, everyone must believe Paul’s Gospel of Grace. I remember one young man out east someplace. Verse 4 and this is the Judaizers, the leadership of Jerusalem, who are trying to put Paul and his converts back under the Law.
Galatians 2:4
bondage:” Whenever Paul uses that word, what’s he speaking of? The Law! Next verse:
Galatians 2:5
Now verse 7:
Galatians 2:7
“But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision (the Gentiles) was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision (Jew) was unto Peter;” Now every time I teach that verse, what do I ask? How many gospels have you got in that one verse? The gospel of the uncircumcision is one, and the gospel of the circumcision, as I understand numbers, is two. All right, come on down to verse 8.
Galatians 2:8
Look at the verse again.
Galatians 2:9
“And when James, Peter, and John, who seemed to be pillars, understood the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we(Paul and Barnabas) should go unto the heathen, (Gentiles) and they (Peter, James, and John and the rest of the leadership in Jerusalem) unto the circumcision (Israel).”
And all the way through this, we have this concept that because of the commandment of the Lord Jesus, the Apostle Paul was indeed the Apostle of the Gentiles. Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians 2:8
Ephesians 3:1-2
“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 2. Ephesians 3:9
Well, what’s the man saying?
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