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THE MAN OF GOD & HIS MAIN MINISTRY (5 OF 7)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:1-16
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Title: "The Man of God & His Main Ministry"
Theme: "Paul emphasizes the word of God in the life of Timothy"
Text: "First Timothy 4: 1 - 16"

Sermon 5

First Timothy Series "Sustainable Standards for Today's Church"

I - The Man of God's Stern Expectation (1 - 6)

II - The Man of God's Stable Example (7 - 12)

III - The Man of God's Spiritual Exercising (13 - 16)

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Apostasy Among the Affluent

Cable television mogul Ted Turner criticized conservative Christianity and said, "Jesus probably would be sick at his stomach" over the way his ideas have been "twisted" by today's preachers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Turner made his remarks at a banquet in Orlando, Fla., where he was given an award by the American Humanist Association for his work on behalf of the environment and world peace. Turner said he had a strict Christian upbringing and at one time even seriously considered becoming a missionary.

He laughed and said, "I was saved seven or eight times," the newspaper quoted him as saying, but he said he became disenchanted with Christianity after his sister died, despite his prayers.

Turner said the more he strayed from his faith, "the better I felt."

Keeping the Main Thing, The Main Thing!!!

Evangelist Billy Sunday told a story about "a man who lived in east Tennessee. That man hunted rattlesnakes for a living. He would sell rattlesnakes. One particular time he caught a rattlesnake that had fourteen rattlers. It was a huge rattlesnake.

He put that rattlesnake in a box and put a glass top on that box so people could look down in that box and see that venomous snake. This man had a five-year-old son. When the father was out to work, he slid the glass aside and that rattlesnake reared its ugly head with those beady eyes, hissed several times, and then stuck that five-year-old boy right in the cheek. He went screaming out of the house.

The fath ...

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