...from such withdraw thyself.

1 Timothy 6:3

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

Notice here that Paul is telling us that the words he preaches and teaches are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ.  You see, when we [who are mid-Acts, Pauline doctrine, bible believers that rightly divide the word of truth] say we listen to Paul the apostle, we are actually saying Paul is his apostle (i.e., sent one) but we are listening to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine (i.e., compartmentalized teaching) which is in according to godliness. 

Godliness is God-likeness.  When God created Adam, he said let us make man in our image and after our likeness.  The image is the outward form.  When the Lord Jesus Christ formed Adam from the dust of the ground, the Lord had a body that consisted of a head, a torso, arms, and legs, etc.   Adam and Eve saw him and talked with him in the garden in the cool of the day.   Angels are spirits, but when they manifest themselves, they look like men.

Daniel 9:21

Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

Psalm 104:4

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

So that, is the ‘image’ of God.   But God didn’t just create man in his outward image.   He made him in his ‘likeness.’  When you see that word godliness, it is ‘God likeness.’   What that means is this: you think like God thinks; you act like God would act in that situation; and, you labour with him.  The issue of godliness is what you put in your, spirit—your inner man.  It is Paul’s doctrine [words which the Lord gave to Paul to take to the gentiles] that we are to store in our inner man.

1 Timothy 6:3

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

Paul’s doctrine leads to godliness, it is in accordance and in line with ‘God likeness’; but a man that teaches otherwise is proud, knowing nothing!   Do you know what ‘destitute means?  It’s a man that has nothing, like a bum on the street, and in this case, a man, proud, knowing nothing, destitute of the truth.   If the church, the body of Christ, a local assembly, is to be the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15) and they let someone in their pulpit that is destitute of the truth [as given to Paul], they are not fulfilling their calling, but are supposing that gain [health, wealth, prosperity] is godliness…from such [ungodliness] withdraw thyself. 

…from such withdraw theyself.

Transcribed and edited excerpt from  The Way To A Mans Heart

Found in Bro Ron Knight’s studies in Romans

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