Title: Why You Give Me Grace
The reason you gave me grace
January 26, 2008 (Sat) Tel Aviv Joppa Church
1 Timothy 1:12-19
It was when I lived in Jerusalem. I remember it was two years ago, and in the morning, I sent my eldest child to school. And when I went to school, I saw someone in the little garden in front of the house. Someone said it was a big kid. He was spending his time at school doing something in the garden.
After rushing to school, I thought about it all morning. Why...? It was difficult. I thought he was adjusting well because he had a good personality and got along well with his friends, but it was difficult. After school, we talked.
It wasn't that schoolwork was difficult, but that it was difficult to play with the children before class. I don't feel that when we meet one-on-one, but when we play together, we get bullied because we're not Jews. It was so hard that I didn't go to school until the playtime was over and class started.
When I heard that story, my heart ached and I was very sorry. So we talked about 'frontal breakthrough'. They say that if you try to avoid it, the problem becomes bigger, it feels more difficult, and it only increases your fear, but if you break through it head on, it becomes nothing. I got strength from these words, and since then, I've been doing well without any such incidents.
Every parent teaches their children an attitude or life lesson. Although it may sound like nagging to children, it is a parent's heart that they want their children to have the right attitude to life and to go on the right path and the right path. In particular, the more upright the parents, the more stories they want to teach their children.
Today we come across a lesson from a father to his son. Although the relationship between the physical father and the son was not, the teaching that the apostle Paul, the spiritual father, gives to the disciple Timothy, the son of faith, is the Book of 1 and 2 Timothy. In particular, today's text is a lesson about ministry. We are teaching Timothy how to carry out the ministry.
. Verses 12-17 are in some ways similar to the testimony of the Apostle Paul. The testimony shows what the motive for the ministry is. Let's look at verse 13.
“I used to be a slanderer, a persecutor, and an assaulter, but I found mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.”
“Before I was…”, this means before I met Christ, before I was saved, before I was born again. At that time, Paul confesses that he was a slanderer, a persecutor, and an assaulter.
Acts 8:1 shows that the apostle Paul really was such a man.
“Saul deserved him to be put to death.”
Saul (