This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
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… 1 Timothy 2. 1 Timothy 2 verse 3 Paul writes to his younger Timothy explaining here the go-between, the mediator 1 Timothy 2.3, not 2 Timothy, it's 1 Timothy 2.3 this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator. One go-between. One arbitrator. One umpire. There is one God. Don't forget that in this in this era of many gods, don't you tell one another that all the gods are the same. Don't you believe that lie? There is one God, the creator God. It is not Allah. It is the living God of the scriptures. There is one God. And there is one mediator between this God of the heavens who has made us and all things pertaining to us and humanity on this earth. And he has identified there is one mediator, the man Christ Jesus. There are not many. The way is narrow. …
… 1 Timothy 2. 1 Timothy 2 verse 3 Paul writes to his younger Timothy explaining here the go-between, the mediator 1 Timothy 2.3, not 2 Timothy, it's 1 Timothy 2.3 this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator. One go-between. One arbitrator. One umpire. There is one God. Don't forget that in this in this era of many gods, don't you tell one another that all the gods are the same. Don't you believe that lie? There is one God, the creator God. It is not Allah. It is the living God of the scriptures. There is one God. And there is one mediator between this God of the heavens who has made us and all things pertaining to us and humanity on this earth. And he has identified there is one mediator, the man Christ Jesus. There are not many. The way is narrow. …
… Verse 3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. This is a good thing. To be a prayer warrior for the people on your Francis list and for your enemies and for people that you don't like and for those in positions of authority, we are called to pray for them. They both put 20s down. Let me see who sent them down here. Bless you. I said all of this just to get to verse 4. I walked through all of this. I walked from chapter 1, verse 18, all the way through chapter 2, verse 3, to get to verse 4. And here's what verse 4 says. This is a God who, this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved. God desires for all of these people on your list to be saved. That way, here's what that's telling me. You can pray and know that you're praying in the will of God because he wants them to be saved. …
… But then listen now as St. Paul goes on, adding another dimension. This is good and pleasing to God our Savior, praying for those in authority. Now why? Who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth. Well, now he puts it in a very explicitly theological framework. What's at least one of the purposes of political authority is to allow for salvation, meaning, it seems to me, providing the context and conditions for a flourishing religiosity. We'll speak of religious liberty quite correctly. The free exercise of religion, we say, in our American context. Well, quite right. That's one of the purposes of government is to allow for religion to flourish. and so everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth, that knowledge might be shared, that there might be the conditions that make real learning possible. Think here of Thomas Jefferson. He would say one of the purposes of government is to provide for education. See, beautiful. Don't demonize power as though it's just a bad thing. …