1 Timothy 1:1-20

Contents: Legalism and unsound teaching rebuked.

Characters: God, Christ, Timothy, Alexander, Satan, Hymenaeus

Conclusion: Witnesses of Christ must not only be charged to preach the true Gospel doctrine but charged to preach no other doctrine, for it needs no improvement, and to add the letter of the law to the doctrines of grace is an impossible mixture, leading to unprofitable jangling. Those answer the end of the law who have a good conscience toward Christ and faith unfeigned.

Key Word: Vain jangling, 1 Timothy 1:6.

Strong Verses: 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Timothy 1:15.

Striking Facts: 1 Timothy 1:15. The errand of Jesus Christ in the world was not to be a great teacher and reformer, but to die as a ransom for sinners of whom there are two classes the sinner who thinks himself righteous (as did Paul before converted) and the sinner who feels himself a sinner.