Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love

Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
1Tim 11-21
Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you 14to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.
17Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 18Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
20Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, 21which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you.
Notes from Nobody:
In reading Timothy, I have found that Paul really loved Timothy and wanted him to receive all this good and know the real truth. Also how much God loves me by making this letter Holy Scriptures so that I may read understand and know the truth. Please I urge you not to take any of these teachings and Gods truth for granted. Please look at each chapter as a love letter from God to you.
3If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
6But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
11But you, man of God, flee from all this
Notes from Nobody: I wanted you to read the good stuff first before the warnings. I think these warnings are a good reminder for all of us that become slaves to bills and 401K’s and worrying about this a that, this plainly tells us all these things go nowhere when we die. The awesome thing about being a Christian VRS and someone that doesn’t believe is this, we have much more to look forward to. This life that we know if simply a testing ground for us. We have eternity to look forward to and should want this for everyone. So command a teach those that do not know the truth and good news of the gospel. Pay no attention to false things. If you are a college student beware, this sounds so much like our colleges today;
20 Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, 21which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith.
Remember the truth, I have often wondered why if these things called knowledge can take you from the real truth why most Church’s now insist in their pastors and priest having a degree rather than building them up from the Church’s.
Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
Amen