1 Timothy 1:9-13 | Episode # 1196

May 18, 2026

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

1 Timothy 1:9-13

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for over 25 years. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word verse-by-verse and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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This is Hope Alive, where we apply God's Word to our daily life. My name is Chad Harrison. I'm first a husband, a father and a grandfather. I'm also the teaching pastor at Lake Community Church in Dadeville, Alabama, on beautiful Lake Martin. I've been serving as a pastor for over 30 years. I also serve as the Tallapoosa County District Judge. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word verse by verse through the Bible and to find his purpose and will for your daily life. If you would like sponsor this podcast, go to the Show Notes, where there's a link where you can make a donation. I pray in the name of Jesus that God would open his word to you, allow you to see him and to know him, so that you would know his will and his way for your life, that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today. Word of God, please speak to the hearers of your voice today in the name of Jesus. Amen. He starts out. He starts out. And he says, but we know in verse eight that the law is good if it's used lawfully. Now, he's fixing to go through some stuff, okay? All right? Now you've got to. You've got to. When you. When he goes through this list, don't go through it like most people do, okay? Don't go through it like most people do, okay? And what I mean, well, don't go through it and say, have I committed this act? Okay? Because remember, Jesus said. You've heard it said. And then he says, but I say unto you, and he uses fornication, and he uses. And he uses. He uses murder, okay? And in both of them, he takes them to the intent of the heart, which is, by the way, our legal profession is based off of that. That almost all crimes, not all of them, but almost all crimes require intent, okay? And for God, if there is intent in your heart to commit one of these crimes, to break the law in this way, all right? If it's the intent of your heart to break the law in this way, then you are a lawbreaker, you're a law breaker, okay? Which means you're a sinner, okay? You're a law breaker. So I'm going to go through this knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, all right? Now you're going. So if you think you're righteous because you are following the law, you're not righteous. Righteousness comes by faith. So the law is not for a person who is trying to live by Faith in the sense of trying to live by the law or being or doing it law way. Okay, if you're trying to live lawfully, then I'm not living by faith. If I live by faith, I will naturally live by the law. You following me? My faith in the leadership of the Holy Spirit will bring me to a place where I am following the law, but not following the law in the sense of trying to order my life by the law. So when we get to the intent, he says, knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, but it's made for the lawless. Now, does lawless mean they've broken all the law? No, it just means that they transgressed any aspect of the law at any time. That's lawlessness. Okay? And insubordinate for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and the profane. Now that's pretty negative. All right? He's saying that you can't have holiness by trying to live by the law. He says. He says you're going to be profane. You're going to be insubordinate to God. He says. He says you're going to be a sinner. He says for murderers. What do I have to do to be a murderer? I have to hate. It's all I have to do to be a murderer. Is there anybody in this room that's never hated anybody? Well, then you're lawless if you're going to live by the law rather than by righteousness, which comes by faith of fathers and murderers, of mothers. For man slayers. What is a manslayer? Manslayer? Who is someone who kills someone unintentionally? Under our modern law, it's unintentionally, but doing it by a wrongful act. So if I'm speeding down the road at 100 miles an hour on a 45 mile an hour zone and a child walks out in the street and I hit that child and I kill that child, then I've committed manslaughter because I've done a wrongful act which resulted in the death of another. He says, for fornicators, what I have to be to do to be a fornicator. Just lust, that's all. That's all that I have to do. Men and women. Men and women. For sodomites. Sodomite is deviant sexual activity. It has its own legal name for today, but that's what sodomy is for kidnappers, for somebody that takes away somebody else's freedom. For liars. What I have to do. What do I have to do to be a liar? All I have to do is have the intent to deceive from God's word any intent to deceive. Now listen to me. It is freeing to know this because I'm no longer under the law and I'm no longer cursed by the law. So anybody out there that you run into, anybody out there on the street, no matter how bad they perceive themselves to be, it's really the people who don't perceive themselves to be bad that are in trouble. But you're going to run into people, and especially in what I do, you're just going to run into people who perceive themselves just like. Just like that night, son. He perceived himself outside the grace of God. And the reason they perceive themselves outside the grace of God is because in their heart, they know they're a law breaker and they perceive that. That God's grace does not cover them. That's not true. So it's very powerful and very delivering Pastor. And you know, for a Friday night Bible study, we're not gonna have, you know, the folks from the street. We're gonna have, you know, the folks who are deep diving in God's word. But on Sunday morning, we're gonna have a lot of people from the street. And what is wonderful about the message of the gospel is, is that what you perceive to be the wall of separation that's between you and God because you are a law breaker is not there. We have a good news. We have a message that your access to God is not based off of your ability to follow the law. It's based off of your relationship with Christ, which was provided for by his redemptive work. Okay, so I have a good news. Can I, can. Can I? You know, I prayed with a young man today who has a very, very, very, very, very bad record. Strong likelihood is he got revoked not long after that by a circuit judge and is in. He probably on his way to prison tonight. You following me? All right. But he knows me and he's known me as a lawyer, he's known me as a judge, and he's known me as just Chad and a pastor in the community. And he came up and told me about his child being sick, having a. Having a disease that's going to kill his child. Okay. Now if he would not have brought that up to me because I can't help. It's not. It wasn't benefiting him, but he brought that up to me because in some way I have made it possible for him to Know that I believe that no matter what your lawlessness is, that God can redeem and that he does redeem. Okay? And so there's nobody that with the sound within the sound of my voice that's unredeemable. We're all redeemable. And so, you know, you know, there was conversation had this week about, you know, people were trying to figure out, you know, because when you're in front of a judge, you want to read the judge, you know, and, and one of the things they said is, you know, you, we. I know every judge, what they begin to do when they're angry. But I don't know what you do when you're angry. Well, if you've been college with me, you'd have known. But, but, but the reason is, is because I'm not angry with anybody that comes in front of me. I'm not. They. Do I think that they're lawless in some way? Do I think that maybe even they have to be. Have a timeout from society because they're being lawless to the detriment of other people? Sure. But I'm not mad with them because whatever they've done is the natural outgrowth of the fallen nature. They've just been farther down the road than others. But this is the same road. And anybody who's walked that road one step is lawless. Anybody who has. So I'm lawless too. So it's hard for me to be angry with you for being lawless when I'm lawless. Now I have a job to do, both as a pastor and as a judge. I have a job to do, but I don't have to do that job in anger because I have a propitient who has removed the wrath of God against sin. Jesus is my propitiation, and he's their propitiation too. And so I don't have to function in the wrath of God. I can, I can function in the justice system so that things are just. And I do. And some people will say I'm pretty hard, but I would never be hard with you if I didn't think that being hard with you might in one day lead you to a place where you, where you dealt with God, where you dealt with God such that you would receive his. Receive his redemption. I mean, that's the ultimate goal, is for every human being to experience the redemption of Jesus Christ. That's what we're wanting, knowing that not all will. But that's our desire. He says, but we know the. He says. He says they're they're manslayers, they're fornicators, they're sodomites, they're kidnappers, they're liars. They're. They're perjurers. Folks are shocked that people would lie in court. I don't know if y' all know that or not. Judge, he's lying. Well. And you'd be shocked at how much that really does happen in here. Perjurers. If there any other thing that is contrary to sound teaching. So anything that is contrary, not just the rules, but if it's contrary to sound teaching, it's lawless. You go. I don't know what's a good example of that. Well, let me give you a good example of that. When Jesus was reinstating Peter on the beach, y' all remember that? He said to Peter three times? No, he said to Peter twice, do you agape me? Which means, do you love me like I love you? Do you love me with God's love? Peter, having matured through the situation he was in, realized, I do phileo Jesus. I do love him like a brother, but I don't love him like I should. And so Peter, when he was asked twice, do you agape me? Jesus said, Peter said, lord, you know me. You know I phileo you. I love you. A brotherly love. Okay? And then at the end, he says, peter. And then when he says that, he says, feed my sheep, which means, do my will. Do what you're called to do. Live by the commandment God gave you. And then he says. Then he says to him, in the end, do you phileo me, Peter? And Jesus. And Peter says. Peter says, you know all things. You know I phileo you. Okay? Now I want you to hear me. I want you to hear me. By Peter saying that he did not agape God, he revealed that he was less than the full measure of the law. Because the law says, to agape God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Did g. Was Jesus satisfied with Peter at that moment? Yes. Yes. Because Peter had come to the recognition that he was not fully agape in God. He's not living by the greatest commandment. And his. The revelation of that, even though that meant that Peter was a trespasser and a sinner, was a revelation that he needed God to get us to the end. Now you think about that in its depth. I dare you to think about that for a year. That Peter was a trespasser, he was a law breaker, and he admitted it to Jesus on that beach. Because he did not. God in the flesh was Asking him if he agaped him, and he said, I don't do it. And God in the flesh, because he is the propitiation of God, because he is the satisfaction of the wrath of God, because of that, he was able to say, you keep doing what I've told you to. There you go. In fact, he led him to that realization. Now you tell me how great a God we serve that's able to do that. That's powerful. He says here, according now, it's anything that's contrary to sound doctrine and would. Would filet owing Jesus when he is the Gopi either agape of God. Would that be against sound doctrine? Sure it would. It'd be against the very teaching of Jesus. But he says, he says any other thing. This according to that, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which is committed to my trust. What he's saying is anything that's outside of the good news of Jesus Christ, which has been entrusted to me, but it's been entrusted to you. I want you to hear me. If there's any teaching in scripture that teaches us that there's not a hierarchy in the kingdom, it's the new test. The teachings of Paul. There's neither Jew or Greek or slave or free man or woman. He goes, he started everything that I could use to separate people out. Everybody has been entrusted with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul's just saying, I know it's been entrusted to you and it's been entrusted to me. I'm to live it out. And notice it's the blessed God. That's what he calls him, blessed Theos, which is committed to my trust. Notice now he transitioned. I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me because he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. Well, that's a. That's a. That's a mouthful, isn't it? Now I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you there's no way to do this effectively. There's no way to lead effectively unless you can. You can put yourself in the shoes of the next six verses and learn the humility of it. Paul, one of the five smartest men to ever live, writer of the most books in scripture, is about to describe himself as he has been revealed by God to be in his heart. Being flawed and yet totally called. He says, and I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me because he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. He counted me faithful, meaning he counted me one who would trust him. Although I was formerly a blasphemer now, remember, we think blasphemy, and it is a tangential. Is a tangential understanding of blasphemy. People think blasphemy is using God's name in vain. Okay, now it is. But. But way more. No, not. That's. That's like. That's the. You know, the part of the onion where you. Where it's really crunchy and you take that off because you don't really want the crunchy part in the meal. That's the crunchy part. Okay. Blasphemy is attributing to God something that he did not say or saying. He said something in a way he didn't say it. When the devil misquoted God when he was tempting Jesus in the wilderness. That's blasphemy. Yes. What do you say? He was. Now, you got to get this. There's some. There's some dichotomies that are in here that are just so powerful. They, they're. They, they, they. I. I'm convinced that we could spend a lot. You could spend a lifetime on them. Paul says he's a blasphemer. And he's a writer of the majority of the books of the Bible of the New Testament. How's that happen? Only God can take that person and do that. I mean, it's just evidence. Only God can do it. He says I'm a blasphemer. All the time he's writing the New Testament. Formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor. Notice he hangs out his dirty laundry. Don't. He can hang it out. He covers it up. You cover it up. He hangs it out. Sometimes it gets hung out by other people for you. You better off just saying, that's what I am. Paul just gets out there in front of it. Every time he says, I'm a blasphemer, I'm a persecutor, an insolent man, meaning he heard God and didn't do what he said. Now, I want you to listen to me. In no way to Paul attribute his pharisaical activities as okay. He does not do that. He does not say it's okay. He doesn't give himself the out. He takes responsibility for it. And let me tell you something. If you're going to lead people spiritually, you must. You must be. You got to be that way. Now, I'm not saying you gotta, you know, you gotta walk up into church and say, you know, there was this woman and she was there, and she's wearing this Dress. And, you know, then the next day, she was wearing that dress. And then, you know, I was in the grocery store and I. Somebody had $100 laying there, and I thought about grabbing it. And then, you know, somebody caught me doing something I shouldn't do, and I lied about it. And I mean, you ain't got to get up here and I mean, that's not how it works, okay? It's sufficient to say you're a liar, I'm a cheat, fornicator, it's fine. You ain't got to say it all the time. Okay? I'm a sinner. Saved by grace. That helps. But sometimes as a leader, God says, be. Be transparent. Just tell them and I'll be real with you. I'm, I'm. I am lustful. I will lie. I'm prideful. I'm a glutton. I'm selfish. I will take something from you. Not done it lately, but I, I probably would. You know what I'm talking about? I am. It's freeing to be that way, you know? What's so cool about that? Somebody coming to me. Well, you're just. No, I'm not. No, no, I'm not. No, no. In fact, see that woman walking off over there? I was the only thing about her when you walked up, you know, just. No, that's not how it works. You know, I was thinking about something somebody said and I wanted to kill them, you know? It's freeing. It's freeing. Now, is anything okay? No. But me being real with you and being real with God helps me to believe. I mean, if someone is, Is on a different level with you, if there's different levels to this thing, then you're incapable of getting to that level until you accomplish something to get to that level. And so it doesn't work. We're all equal at the foot of the cross. We're all the same. You have a unique call and a unique gift and a unique place. And God's made you uniquely to glorify him in your unique way. But. So we're not saying it's not equity, it's equality. Okay? Equity means we're all the same. Equality means God treats us as the same. Okay? And he does. He loves us all the same. He does. Notice. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. Now, you need to hear that. He's not saying. He's not giving himself an out. He's just saying I, I, I, I hadn't had all the full revelation. You, you're not going to be able to overcome sin except that God overcomes it in you. So he's saying I was ignorant and unbelieving and he was a teacher of the law and the whole nine yards. What he's saying is I knew this, but then I didn't. I mean, I didn't know it. I just, I didn't know how to do it right. And I want you to hear me, God, God sees it that way and notice he said and unbelief, which is the opposite of faith. I was operating in my own, in my own power. I wasn't operating in faith. That's what Jesus can say to Peter. Do you agape? Do you phileo me? Yeah, yeah. As you go today I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.