Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. This is God's demand and this is God's gift. It is all of grace. That's why the only fight we fight is the fight of faith—the fight to rest so fully in the grace of God—to be so satisfied with the glory of God—that temptation to sin loses its power over ...

Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 That's the definition. Now the next issue is SO WHAT? Why is this a big deal? Isn't sexual sin, especially when it's just a desire and not an act, sin with a little "s"? Shouldn't we get on with the big issues like nuclear arms and social justice? You've known people like that, I suppose. They say, Sexual attitudes and sexual behavior ...

Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 5. In the End Covetousness Destroys the Soul 1 Timothy 6:9 says, "Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction." In the end covetousness destroys the soul in hell. The reason I am sure that this destruction is not some temporary financial fiasco but final destruction ...

Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 Now what Paul is doing in 1 Timothy 6:6-12 is trying to persuade people not to be covetous. But let's be real sure that we see how Paul understands this battle against covetousness. He gives his reasons for not being covetous in verses 6-10 (which we will come back to), and then in verse 11 he tells Timothy to shun or to ...

"When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I." Psalm 61:2 Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipes a dish and turns it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam ends like a vessel mastered by the storm. Discoveries of inward corruption will do this, if the Lord permits ...