The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Need For A Disciplined Lifestyle

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00:00:19.600 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,

00:00:22.340 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

00:00:25.340 You're listening to Daily Truth.

00:00:30.000 Now notice the second half of verse 6.

00:00:32.140 See, if you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus.

00:00:36.760 Being trained in the words of the faith and of a good doctrine that you have followed.

00:00:44.000 There's a sense in which Timothy, being trained, what Paul is saying is that Timothy has already been trained.

00:00:49.080 There's a past tense that Timothy has been trained in these things and being trained.

00:00:54.680 There's a present tense in which Timothy has been trained in these things, and he is presently being trained in these things.

00:01:02.000 But as we see, the primary command in our text today, second half of verse 7, the command of the apostle to Timothy and to all of us is that we, in a future sense, go on training.

00:01:16.280 Look at the second half of verse 7.

00:01:18.880 Train yourself for godliness.

00:01:21.520 now remember all scripture is for us not all scripture is to us so so the particular audience

00:01:29.960 that paul has in mind is timothy so paul is telling timothy train yourself for godliness but

00:01:35.520 when we when we compare the the end of verse 7 train yourself for godliness as a command given

00:01:42.120 to timothy but for all of us when we compare that with what we've already seen in the second half

00:01:47.300 of verse 6 of our text, well, Timothy's already been trained, right? He's being trained. We see

00:01:53.400 Paul addressing him elsewhere, speaking of his grandmother and mother and how he, even in his

00:01:58.020 childhood, he had already been trained. So Timothy has been trained in the past. He's being trained

00:02:03.840 in the present. So why is it so imperative? Why is it so significant? The apostle commands him

00:02:11.580 to go on training because the christian life is a life of perpetual and continual training for

00:02:18.920 godliness you never stop just like physically and we see him use this as an illustration in the text

00:02:26.520 in verse eight right physical training bodily training it's of some value but but spiritual

00:02:33.660 training training for godliness is of infinitely more value because it holds promise not only for

00:02:39.000 this life but for the next and just like physical training i don't think it's i don't think it's a

00:02:44.300 coincidence that the apostle uses this as a comparison as the illustration physical training

00:02:49.520 you can be in the best shape of your life and train for 20 years but the moment you stop

00:02:54.340 all of a sudden you begin to slide downhill right it's not as though in physical training

00:03:01.180 you can reach a certain point and then if you don't train anymore you just stay there

00:03:06.740 No, you're paddling upstream.

00:03:09.900 So the moment that you stop, you don't just maintain.

00:03:13.400 You lose the ground that you previously covered.

00:03:18.560 So it is with training for godliness.

00:03:21.480 So it is with spiritual training.

00:03:23.020 So it is with Christian discipline.

00:03:26.880 We must have been trained. 0.94

00:03:29.160 We need to be trained in the present.

00:03:31.500 But we must go on training in the future.

00:03:33.540 For the moment we stop, we decline.

00:03:37.900 And so this is the command to Timothy, but for all of us.

00:03:41.980 It is a continual command.

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The NXR Podcast - December 15, 2022

DAILY TRUTH - The Need For A Disciplined Lifestyle

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