Paul's Exhortations & Instructions to Brother Timothy 1st Letter Volume 6

Paul Declares to Brother Timothy the Purpose of God's Law Part 4

1 Timothy 1:10-11 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. KJV

Now as the Apostle Paul continues to list some of the sins that are against the Holiness of our Lord, Master, and Savior Jesus Christ, let us remind all that this list by no means is a complete list of humanities sin, but it is used here by Paul to see to it that no man or woman be in the business of declaring sinful rebellion as some sort of overlooked human right that needs no cleansing or purifying by the Blood of Christ Jesus our Lord. So, Paul declares this next list of human sin as a lawful use of God's Law being against them as he writes these words, "For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;" (1 Timothy 1:10) (KJV). The English word 'whoremongers' is translated by the Greek word pornos meaning a (male) prostitute (as venal), that is, (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine): - fornicator, whoremonger. In other words, this is the describtion of a man who is morally unrestrained and finds no limits in or to the pursuits of his sexual gratification, even in such activity as rape or sexual molestation of children and in the Law of Moses these words were declared against this very sin as it is written, "Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and become full of wickedness. You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord. Turn not to those [mediums] who have familiar spirits or to wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God." (Leviticus 19:29-31) (Amplified Bible). Likewise in the New Testament here is another place that the Apostle Paul wrote against the sin of being a whoremonger when he wrote this to the Hebrews, "Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge {and} punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous." (Hebrews 13:4) (Amplified Bible).

The somewhat long English phrase 'for them that defile themselves with mankind' is translated by one Greek word arsenokoitēs which means a sodomite: - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind, that is, a male homosexual who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male). In other words, this sin goes against not only the written Law of God given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but also against the law of nature (also this is God's Law) which means for male and female to come together in sexual copulation, therefore, we find God the Father using very strong and harsh language to desribe His punishment for those who commit this sin as it is written, "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination." (Leviticus 18:22) (Amplified Bible) and "If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable); they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." (Leviticus 20:13) (Amplified Bible) and "And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another--men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own bodies {and} personalities the inevitable consequences {and} penalty of their wrong-doing {and} going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution." (Romans 1:27) (Amplified Bible) and lastly "[The wicked are sentenced to suffer] just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent towns--which likewise gave themselves over to impurity and indulged in unnatural vice {and} sensual perversity--are laid out [in plain sight] as an exhibit of perpetual punishment [to warn] of everlasting fire." (Jude 1:7) (Amplified Bible), you think God the Father could make His view any clearer on this sin, I think not, and every false profit or teacher or biologist or psychologist or DNA specialist or Geneticists or anyone who declares to a boy or teenager or young man 'the lie' that he is born this way deserves the very highest level of the eternal fire that will be theirs in eternity.

The little English phrase 'for menstealers' is translated by the Greek word andrapodistēs which is used this one time only in the New Testament meaning an enslaver (as bringing men to his feet): - men-stealer. In other words, this is the sin against buying and selling another human being as if he or she were any other kind of animal just as occured in this 'so-called' Christian nation the United States of America and went on for a few hundred years, this is what the JFB Commentary has to say concerning this sin, "The most heinous offense against the eighth commandment. No stealing of a man’s goods can equal in atrocity the stealing of a man’s liberty. Slavery is not directly assailed in the New Testament; to have done so would have been to revolutionize violently the existing order of things. But Christianity teaches principles sure to undermine, and at last overthrow it, wherever Christianity has had its natural development (Matthew 7:12)." The English phrases 'for liars' and 'for perjured persons' are pretty self explanatory for the sins of lying, that is, the deliberate act of deviating from the truth or the telling of an untruth to pretend with the intent to deceive leads only to make the sinner engaging in such look like the father of lies the devil (John 8:44). When Paul writes to Timothy these words, 'and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine', he is simply declaring this list not to be including all sin that is opposed to God the Father and to His Holy Word and therefore, every other sin that is opposed to Him and His word is referenced by this statement. It is Paul desire to convey to Brother Timothy that everything he has listed here all conforms to what he received personally from our Lord, Master, and Savior Jesus Christ when he met Him long ago on the Damascus road, so Paul now concludes this discourse to Timothy with these words, "According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust." (1 Timothy 1:11) (KJV). Paul with these words convey to Timothy and to we believers today that he writes not his thoughts or his opinion or his judgements, but he is the vessel, the conduit, the servant of Christ Jesus our Lord and it is his desire, determination, and his duty to speak the Word of God only and not the word of man (even himself). 

"The sound teaching which is thus commended is Paul's, who teaches in Christ's name and by His authority. In all the three letters it is called the truth, the knowledge of which is bound up with salvation. As truth it is sound or healthful. It is the object of faith. To be sound in the faith is, practically, to follow sound teaching or the truth. The subjective characteristic of Christians is godliness or piety and the teaching and knowledge of the truth are represented as according to godliness. The contents of this sound teaching which is according to godliness are not theoretical or dogmatic truth, but Christian ethics, with faith and love. See truth is used of moral things, rather than in the high religious sense of Paul. Whoever grasps the truth has faith. That the ethical character of faith is emphasized, appears from the numerous expressions regarding the false teachers. There is a tendency to objectify faith, regarding it as something believed rather than as the act of believing. In comparing the ideal of righteousness with that of Paul, note that it is not denied that Christ is the source of true righteousness; but according to Paul, the man who is not under the law is the man who lives by faith in Christ. Paul emphasizes this. It is faith in Christ which sets one free from the law. Here, the man for whom the law is not made is the man who is ethically conformed to the norm of sound teaching. The two conceptions do not exclude each other: the sound teaching is according to the Gospel, but the point of emphasis is shifted." Vincent's Word Studies

"The Gospel is a system of divine revelation. It makes known the will of God. It states what is duty, and accords in its great principles with the law, or is in harmony with it. The law, in principle, forbids all which the Gospel forbids, and in publishing the requirements of the Gospel, therefore, Paul says that the law really forbade all which was prohibited in the Gospel, and was designed to restrain all who would act contrary to that Gospel. There is no contradiction between the law and the Gospel. They forbid the same things, and in regard to morals and true piety, the clearer revelations of the Gospel are but carrying out the principles stated in the law. They who preach the Gospel, then, should not be regarded as arrayed against the law, and Paul says that they who preached the Gospel aright really stated the true principles of the law. This he evidently intends should bear against the false teachers who professed to explain the law of Moses. He means here that if a man wished to explain the law, the best explanation would be found in the Gospel which it was his office to publish; compare (Romans 3:31)." Albert Barnes

If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...

Sincerely in Christ,

Clifford D. Tate, Sr.
Author of “Silent Assassins of the Soul - Are you Broken by Pornography and Masturbation? You can be Restored by the Lord Jesus Christ and brought into Deliverance, Freedom, and Victory! A Guide for Men and Women in the Enemy’s Crosshairs” e-book available now @ Amazon Kindle, @ Apple I Bookstore for IPod, Barnes and Noble for Nook, Reader Store for Sony Reade, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker and Taylor, and eBookPie…