BLESSINGS FROM TAKING WISE ADVICE

My Dear Precious Child, Paul continued to advise Timothy, his replacement in the church at Ephesus, on the principles of Christianity that cause My Kingdom of God to be able to manifest your spiritual inheritance to you. He wrote in his letter that workers/slaves must pay the respect that is due to their bosses/masters. If they don't, then My name and the teachings of the church suffer abuse. He advised that workers/slaves whose bosses/masters are brothers in the faith must not take familiar liberties with them on account of the family relationships. He wrote that those workers/slaves must perform their tasks even more faithfully since those who will profit from their work are believers as well as family brothers. He encouraged Timothy to make sure that principle was taught to the people in the church. He wrote that anyone who teachers in any other way will not be holding to the sound doctrines of the Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is proper religion will be considered as conceited and ignorant, pointing to a sick man in his passion for politics and controversy from which envy, dissension, slander and evil suspicious come, the bickering of people with twisted minds who have lost all sense of truth. Paul wrote that such men only value religion as a means of personal gain. Paul wrote that people come into the world with nothing and if they succumb to the desire to get rich they will be dragged down to ruin and destruction because the love of money is the root of all evil. Some people yield to foolish and harmful desires which drag them down to ruin and destruction. Those desires can also cause passions that make people stray from faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and they have come to grief and great pain. Paul wrote to Timothy calling him a Man of God, and told him to flee from all of those temptations. Instead, he told Timothy to seek integrity, piety, faith, love, steadfastness and a gentle spirit. He told him to fight the good fight and to take hold of the eternal life to which he was called when he made his profession of faith. He challenged the Ephesians to keep My commands without blame or reproach until Christ appears who gives Life to all and made His own confession of faith before Pontius Pilate. Paul reminded Timothy that Christ is the blessed and only ruler, the King of kings, Lord of lords who alone has immortality and walks in Divine Light whom no human has ever seen. All Honor and Glory is to Him. In his letter Paul told Timothy to tell the people who are rich in the world's goods not to be proud and not to rely on such uncertain things as wealth because it can be temporary. Instead, they must trust in Me who provides richly in all things for their use. He urged Timothy to charge the rich to do good, to be rich in good works and to be generous, sharing what they have with others. If they do share, they will be building a secure foundation for the future, for receiving Life which is Life indeed. He closed his first letter to Timothy by telling his former student to guard what had been entrusted to him, to stay clear of worldly, idle talk and what is falsely referred to as knowledge which some men miss the goal of faith when depending upon that human knowledge. Paul filled his letter with good advice for Timothy, telling him not to depart from his first anointing of the Holy Spirit, which was wise advice. Your Father of Wisdom and Grace