Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
Three things stand condemned here: sloth in a painful calling, worldly-mindedness that makes earthly gain the chief aim, and carelessness toward your people's souls. The lamp of your life burns brightest lighting others to heaven, not in the service of your own ease or riches.
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Good ministers stir up remembrance of what believers already know; we are slow to learn and apt to forget the things of God. While you teach others, you teach yourself, and this is how ministers grow in faith alongside their brethren.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 4:6-16
The Spirit plainly warns that false teachers will come, placing all holiness in outward ceremonies while they shadow the true spiritual worship of God. Men love hypocrisy by nature, and Satan finds it easy work to persuade them that God is honored by ceremonies rather than by the heart.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 4:1-16