We are going to spend the summer looking at the very specifics of the things that Paul says we ought to do BECAUSE we are Bible Believing Rightly Dividing Paul following Christians!  (The word Christian has truly lost its definition today - almost everyone says they are a Christian...)

• I Timothy 1:16 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

• Philippians 4:9 - Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

• I Corinthians 4:17 - For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

• II Thessalonians 2:15 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

• Jeremiah 1:10 is still a good verse for us.  We must root out and throw down, etc. the junk in our life as we try to learn what Paul preaches to us how to build on the foundation of Jesus Christ.  See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
• Ephesians 4:22 - That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Colossians 3:8 - But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Colossians 3:9 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

• II Corinthians 13:10 - Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

• Romans 8:2 - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Romans 7:6 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

• New testament begins AFTER Christ has died.  See Hebrews 9:16,17 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
• Follow Paul, not the Gospels and not Peter, John, James, Jude, etc. II Corinthians 3:6 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

P.S. Beware not to make this into another bondage situation!
Galatians 3:3 - Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 4:9 - But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Audio Sermon Tape One - Introduction and Philemon - 06/25/06
Audio Sermon Tape Two - Titus - 07/02/06
Audio Sermon Tape Three - II Timothy 1,2 - 07/09/06
Audio Sermon Tape Four - II Timothy 3,4 - I Timothy 1 - 07/16/06
Audio Sermon Tape Five - I Timothy 2 - emphasis on modesty - 07/23/06  See notes on Modesty