1 Timothy 4:11
11 These things [tauta] command [paraggello] and [kai] teach. [didasko] KJV-Interlinear
11 Prescribe and teach these
things. NASB
These things, is a
reference to the doctrines and Biblical principles that Paul has been giving to
Timothy, in the previous verses.Namely
to study and teach sound doctrine, and live by it. That is a principle that applies to you and
to me, and to all Christians everywhere.
Command or prescribe, paraggello, means to present truth with command with
confidence, with certainty, to order, to mandate, to call into obedience.
Study so that you know,
and teach what is true and correct.
The Bible is filled
with words like, behold, or hear, or he who has an ear, or listen. And these words are designed to gain the
attention of people so that they will listen and hear the truth of life, and
then use it.
Unfortunately the
teaching in our day is preaching rather than teaching. It is intriguing, or entertaining, or
popular, or interesting.It is designed
to gain the short term attention of people through emotion, rather than
inculcating within them, a foundation of sound doctrine.
Far too often people
are enticed with music or cult notions, or hidden codes that do not exist
within the Bible, but are external from it, and are used to explain something
in the Bible.
However, the Bible
contains within itself, all that is necessary to understand what it has to
say.Even the prophecies of tomorrow are
explainable through the content of the Bible without the use of external
sources.If external sources were
required, then they would have been referenced within the Bible, and would have
been available throughout history.But
most external secret codes and such are nothing more than modern era or
contemporary inventions intended for marketing purposes, having nothing to do
with truth.
In other areas, the Bible
is set aside for more emotional activities, to gain attention and retain
memberships.Unfortunately modern
society has a shorter attention span, than in former times.
Teaching or instruction
must be commanding (lecture), convicting (truth), powerful (repercussions), and
transforming (change for the better).
All of the things that most students resist and thus bring failure in their
studies.
The notion of having
open discussions, of hearing or listening to new ideas, of accepting the views
of others, of considering that there is more than one truth or more than one
view, is a subtle attempt at watering down and compromising what the Bible has
to teach.
Command means to order,
to mandate, to call into obedience.And
that is what Bible doctrine does.
Teach means to instruct
repetitively, step by step, bit by bit, little by little, until the whole of
the subject is thoroughly understood.
This is accomplished by a strong commitment to the authority of the
scriptures, not by looking to outside sources, but by proper interpretation of
the scriptures by means of exegetical study and categorical assembly, and historical
setting, in order to gain the correct meaning of what is being said.
In 1776, brave and wise
men wrote the greatest document in all of human history, the Constitution of
these United States. It set out
limitations on government in order to insure the rights and freedoms of the
individual.
From that early time,
this nation has prospered to beyond boundaries never known by any nation ever
before in history.Just as our constitution
sets out to guard the individual, so too the Bible is the source document to
assure freedom and prosperity for the individual for all of eternity.
However, truth is
always under attack, and in an attempt to destroy both, the constitution has
been under attack these many decades by a liberalism called progressivism, and
the Bible has been under attack by a liberalism called compromise.
Both of which attempt
to remove very subtly, the rights and freedoms of the individual, replacing
them with an all knowing and all powerful elite group of people, who believe
that they can make our decisions for us, and believing that they can make
better decisions than we can on our own.
In order to gain
centralized power, one must first destroy the faith of the masses through
watered down principles, and destroy free choice through regulatory controls. And to do that the fundamental framework of documents
like our constitution or the scriptures, must be discredited, set aside, and
rendered powerless.
Those who teach
openness or promote faith by means of emotion or social activities, contribute
to the weakness of a society.
And you may very well
see and begin to understand just why society is failing to understand the basic
principles of life, and it is because too many do not knuckle down to a daily
study of the scriptures, and slug it out through a word by word, line by line learning
process.
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