05-1Tim1:3-5

Timothy 1:3-5(ESV)

3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 

4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship £ from God that is by faith. 

5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Paul was telling Timothy to convince those that were teaching false doctrines to stop! We need to avoid ‘speculation’ that would take us to an understanding beyond what God had told us in His word.

1 Timothy 1:4 (ESV) – nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. Compare to:  Titus 3:9 – But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless –  To be a ‘testament’ of God and not myths……

myth \ˈmith\ noun [Greek mythos] 1830 1           a : a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b : PARABLE, ALLEGORY 2                a : a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone especially : one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society 〈seduced by the American myth of individualism —Orde Coombs〉 b : an unfounded or false notion 3     : a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4 : the whole body of myths

MW Collegiate Dict. (11th Ed.)   – 

Meaning a fable or far-fetched story often about the gods.  It can stand alone meaning essentially falsehood.  Plato, for one, used the term to denounce certain stories not simply as false but also deceptive as they were told to lend credence to immoral behavior or practices by linking them to ancient stories about the gods.

Genealogy. Record or study of descent involving a tracing backward or forward of the ancestry of a nation, tribe, family, or individual. The Hebrews were not the only people in the ancient world to take an interest in maintaining genealogical records. The Sumerian king list of the 3rd millennium B.C. contains records of the early rulers of Mesopotamia. In Babylonian records the word “son” was frequently used in the sense of “descendant of.” King Tirhakah of Egypt (c. 685 B.C.) referred to his “father,” Sesostris III, who lived some 1200 years before him. Greeks and Romans also kept genealogical records. However, the biblical genealogies, especially those in Genesis and 1 Chronicles 1–9 are unique in the literature of the ancient Near East. Only at the beginning of the Islamic age are such broad genealogical records found. Even today among tribal Semites, such as Arab nomads, there is an intense interest in genealogy, and it is not unusual for an Arab to be able to recite accurately the …

DISPENSATION   oikonomia (οἰκονομία, 3622) primarily signifies “the management of a household or of household affairs” (oikos, “a house,” nomos, “a law”); then the management or administration of the property of others, and so “a stewardship,” Luke 16:2-4; elsewhere only in the epistles of Paul, who applies it (a) to the responsibility entrusted to him of preaching the gospel, 1 Cor. 9:17 (RV, “stewardship,” KJV, “dispensation”); (b) to the stewardship committed to him “to fulfill the Word of God,” the fulfillment being the unfolding of the completion of the divinely arranged and imparted cycle of truths which are consummated in the truth relating to the church as the body of Christ, Col. 1:25 (RV and KJV, “dispensation”); so in Eph. 3:2, of the grace of God given him as a stewardship (“dispensation”) in regard to the same “mystery”; (c) in Eph. 1:10 and 3:9, it is used of the arrangement or administration by God, by which in “the fullness of the times” (or seasons) God will sum up all … VCEDONTW – BEB

1 Timothy 1:5 – The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

LOVE – the First and last word in Christian theology and ethics…..

Note: the word (agape) defined by Strong’s Greek and Louw Nida 

The base is:  “…sincere appreciation and high regard”  it is regard

for the other person, not the promoting of SELF as engaging in intellectual arguments to draw attention to SELF. 

Pure Heart:  CHASTE   hagnos (ἁγνός, 53) signifies (a) “pure from every fault, immaculate,” 2 Cor. 7:11 (KJV, “clear”); Phil. 4:8; 1 Tim. 5:22; Jas. 3:17; 1 John 3:3 (in all which the RV rendering is “pure”), and 1 Pet. 3:2, “chaste”; (b) “pure from carnality, modest,” 2 Cor. 11:2, RV, “pure”; Titus 2:5, chaste. See CLEAR, HOLY, PURE.¶   Note: Cf. hagios, “holy, as being free from admixture of evil”; hosios, “holy, as being free from defilement”; eilikrines, “pure, as being tested,” lit., “judged by the sunlight”, katharos, “pure, as being cleansed.”   VCEDONTW 

Louw Nida 53.29  53.29 καθαρόςb, ά, όν: pertaining to being ritually clean or pure—‘clean, pure.’ πλὴν τὰ ἐνόντα δότε ἐλεημοσύνην, καὶ ἰδοὺ πάντα καθαρὰ ὑμῖν ἐστιν ‘but give what is (in your cups and plates) to the poor (literally ‘as charity’) and everything will be clean for you’ Lk 11:41. In Lk 11:41 καθαρός may be rendered in some languages as ‘pure in the eyes of God’ or even ‘right in the eyes of God.’ In a number of languages there is simply no relationship between physical cleanness and ritual acceptability or purity. Accordingly, it may be necessary to render καθαρός in Lk 11:41 and similar contexts as ‘acceptable to God’ or ‘good in God’s eyes’ or ‘good as God thinks.’

Conscience. Self-awareness that judges whether or not an act one has carried out or plans to carry out is in harmony with one’s moral standards. Both the English word “conscience” and the Greek word translated as “conscience” in the NT literally mean “to know together.” In the OT, Adam and Eve hid themselves from God in shame because their consciences passed moral judgment on their disobedience (Gn 3:8–10). All human beings normally have the power of moral judgment: “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts” (Prv 20:27). Conscience, then, is a gift of God to provide light in matters of good and evil. – BEB

Louw Nida 26.13  26.13 συνείδησιςb, εως f: (contrast συνείδησιςa ‘knowledge about something,’ 28.4) the psychological faculty which can distinguish between right and wrong—‘moral sensitivity, conscience.’ συμμαρτυρούσης αὐτῶν τῆς συνειδήσεως καὶ μεταξὺ ἀλλήλων τῶν λογισμῶν κατηγορούντων ἢ καὶ ἀπολογουμένων ‘their consciences also show that this is true, since their thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them’ Ro 2:15. In some languages συνείδησιςb may be rendered as ‘the inner voice’ or ‘the voice in one’s heart’ or ‘how one knows right from wrong.’ In some instances συνείδησιςb may be equivalent to some organ of the body, for example, heart or liver, but generally some descriptive phrase proves to be the most satisfactory equivalent.

1 Timothy 1:6 – 6 Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,