Preacher: Nam Park
1 Timothy 4:6-8
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We talked about it already (because the word has already come up in a couple of contexts as we’ve been studying through 1 Timothy). “Godliness” has the meaning of “right or good religion.” Now, we might be tempted to think it examines this idea of external piety, that it has more to do with what we put on externally than what we are on the inside, but that is not the way that Paul uses it. In fact, if you kind of examine the entire body of this concept, especially in the pastoral epistles of Paul, what you find is that this concept of godliness is what we are on the inside that flows to the outside that is complete and thorough in us. It means that we are so thoroughly immersed in the desire to be like unto God in holiness, in conduct, in purity, etc., that it displays itself. It is important for us to understand that it is worship that bleeds out into obedience and makes us doers of the Word, not just hearers of the Word.