1 Timothy 1:19
19 Holding [echo] faith, [pistis] and [kai] a good [agathos] conscience; [suneidesis] which [hos] some [tis] having put away [apotheomai] concerning [peri] faith [pistis] have made shipwreck: [nauageo] KJV-Interlinear
19 keeping faith and a good
conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their
faith. NASB
Paul warns and
encourages Timothy, to keep in the Word, faith and good conscience, which many
have rejected.
Faith is a reference to
the content of the word of God.Faith is
not hoping or wishing, or praying for miracles, or asking others to pray for
you.
Faith is the resultant
construction of confidence due to ones detailed study (daily study), of the
Word of God.
A good conscience is
the correct application of knowledge learned.
Paul is addressing
believers here, not unbelievers.Since unbelievers
do not have a relationship with God, because they have not believed, then they
have no viable faith.They have nothing
real to believe in, for their life.
Believers on the other
hand, can go from hot to cold, and everything in between, with their attitude
toward God, Christ, and doctrine.
Most will be high on
God, high on Jesus, and cold toward doctrine.
After all, Bible doctrine is something that you have to study, and who
wants to do that, when it is much easier to be just emotional? And so they sing the songs, chant the chants,
quote the verses, and otherwise exercise only their emotional desires. But they haven t learned anything, and thus
have not grown up spiritually.
Faith is based on
learned information. Faith steers a straight course in life. Emotions are responses or reactions to
situations in life.Life situations
change and so do ones emotions. Eventually
the course of emotion or emotional revolt, and it is a revolt because it runs
counter to Gods mandate to learn and grow up, anyway,
emotional revolt eventually ends up in a shipwreck for ones
life.
A shipwreck means poor
navigation ending up on the rocks of life, stranded from the hub of life.
Bible doctrine is the
hub of life.Sound doctrine in the soul
is the basis for a full life, not emotion.
Timothy is commanded to
guard doctrine, 1 Tim. 6:20, be nourished by it, 1 Tim. 4:6, and keep it, 1
Tim. 4:13; 2 Tim 4:2, and advance to maturity through the study of doctrine, 2
Tim. 2:15.
Being shipwrecked is
where most folks fail in life. This is where the spiritual lives of most folks
do not work out as they had hoped.This
is why most folks, when they fall on hard times, get frustrated and blame God
or anyone else who happens by.
They just refuse to
study doctrine, daily.
And study does not mean
your self-defined home-schooled method of study, but Gods approved method of
being taught by means of a consistent and academic approach, word by word, verse
by verse, precept by precept, learning, applying, and growing up.
This is the way of a
safe and sure and successful and full course through life.
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