The Shepherd and Bishop of Our Souls

Well, if you would open your Bibles with me to first Timothy chapter three. First Timothy chapter three. I felt like this morning might be a good time to look at the qualifications of a Bishop. And I promise you, I'm not going to talk about men this morning, but preach Christ from this text. I've titled the message, the shepherd and Bishop of our souls. In verse one, Paul writes, this is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good word.

Now that word desire means what we think it means wants. If he, if he has some feeling of, of being called to this office, but the word is, has a deeper meaning than that. It means that a man is willing to give himself up to the work of the ministry. He's got to give himself up to it and he's going to work at it.

I remember one time in the Todd Nyberg preacher school, Bruce Crabtree was there and he said, people ask me sometimes, where am I going to find a pastor? Our congregation needs a pastor. Where are we going to find a pastor? And Bruce said, I'll tell you where you're going to find him.

You're going to find him working a job because he's got to have the work ethic that the ministry takes. He's going to have a good work ethic. And if a man desires that and is willing to give himself up to the work, Paul said, that's a good thing. And the word bishop that Paul uses doesn't mean somebody dresses up in a funny robe like what we see and unfortunately in our mind's eye from what false religion shows us, but it means one who looks after the flock, one who cares for the flock. And Paul says in verse two, he must be blameless. Now that word does not mean he doesn't have any sin or faults.

It means he has a good reputation among men. He's an honest man. People can respect him. And if they respect him, they'll listen to him. You know, if you don't respect a man, you just cannot listen to him. Then Paul says he, the husband of one wife. Now that doesn't mean a pastor has to be married. The apostle Paul wasn't married, but, Just based on my experience, I'd say it's probably a good idea for a pastor to be married. His wife will sweeten him up some and maybe show him a more gracious way of looking at things. That's just my experience.

Well, what this means particularly is one wife at a time. One wife at a time. Polygamy was a real problem at this time. It must be, he must be married to one wife at a time. And it just makes good sense, doesn't it? That a pastor be a good husband. How can a man minister to the bride of Christ if he doesn't know how to love and care for his own, his own bride?

Then Paul says he must be vigilant. You know, a pastor has to be vigilant. The word is watchful. He must be watchful. for the leadership of the Holy Spirit. He has to be watchful over himself, over his conduct and over his doctrine. He must guard the pulpit against false doctrine. You know, we'll be very, very careful who we let in this pulpit to preach. You must be watchful that the doctrine that we preach is the doctrine of Christ. Then Paul says he must be sober.

And the word means self-controlled. He's got to be able to govern himself. Maybe a better word to translate it here would be temperate. He's temperate in all things pertaining to the flesh, not just drinking of wine and things, but eating of hobbies. Remember, I go back to if a man gives himself over to this work, he can't be given over to something else. He's got to be temperate in use of things of this life. And then of good behavior, Paul says. And the word means modest. He must be a modest man, a humble man, someone who is considerate of other people. He's humble. He's not up here in the ivory tower on a higher plane than everybody else. He's just like everybody else.

You know the reason that I know the gospel that you need to hear? because I know the gospel I need to hear. I'm just like you all the same weaknesses and sins and faults. And it's just a, if a man's going to be effective in the ministry, he's got to, he's got to be a kind person, kind to other people and not preach down to them. I hate when I feel like a preacher is preaching down to me. I want him to preach the gospel in kindness. and humility, considering that both of us are sinners that need to be saved by the grace of God and the blood of Christ.

The impulse is given to hospitality. Brother Henry told me something one time I thought was, it was so impactful to me. It's when brother Tom Harding was first going to move to Pikeville to be the pastor there at Zebulon. And I was telling Henry, oh, Tom is going to do so well there. I mean, I just hardly know anybody that knows the scriptures and studies the scriptures and can preach Christ from the scriptures like Brother Tom. And Henry said, that's true. That's true. He said, you know what's going to make him a success there?

He loves people. He loves people. How can you minister to people except you love them and care for them, care for their bodies, care for their souls? You know, people will listen to a man if they know he loves them. And if you love people, your home is open to them, your heart's open to them, your ear is open to them. It's easy to be around somebody that loves you. It's hospitable. And then Paul says, apt to teach. Now, pastors are pastor teachers. They've been given some knowledge of the scriptures, and they've got the ability to communicate that. They've got the ability to teach that truth to other people. You don't necessarily have to be an eloquent public speaker, but you've got to be given some ability, and only be given from God, to teach the truth of Christ to other people.

Then Paul says, verse three, not given to wine. Now, there's nothing wrong with drinking some alcohol, but this goes back to being sober and temperate. Use all things in moderation. This is not just pastors. This is good advice for everybody. Use all things in moderation, particularly something that's addictive and alters your behavior, makes you go out and act like a fool. Let your moderation be known to all men.

And then Paul says, no striker. Now this is not just with his, his hands. I think primarily what Paul is referring to here, referring to pastors and preachers is not being a striker with his tongue, not being a striker with his tongue. God's pastors are not bullies and they're not harsh men. They're gentle. They're, they're considerate. Later on in verse three, Paul says, not a, not a brawler. The man's not looking for a fight all the time.

But now let me tell you, God's preachers, are willing and able to contend for the truth. We'll contend for the truth at all costs, won't we? By God's grace, we will. But we're not looking for a fight. I'm not going out and picking one. Peace is a whole lot better than fighting, if you can have it.

The end Paul says, not greedy, a filthy lucre. You know, covetousness. They covet the things of this world, covet money and praise of men and glory of men, Greed, those things are contrary to grace. And every believer wants to avoid being greedy. It's just contrary to grace. But I'm telling you, and I've seen this, there's nothing worse than a greedy preacher. I mean, there's just nothing worse because it's deadly to the gospel.

It's deadly. If a man is greedy of money or greedy of praise and adoration of men, He'll change his money for it, or his message for it. He'll change his message for money or for praise of people. If somebody likes hearing free will, he's willing to preach it if somebody will praise him for it. It's deadly to the gospel. You can't be greedy, a filthy lucre. I think it's a good thing to ask ourselves every once in a while, do I believe the Lord will provide? Or has that just become a catchphrase? The Lord will provide. I know that because that's what he said.

Then Paul says patient must be a man must be patient, patient in trials, patient with people. Now there are some things we'll never tolerate error in doctrine or error in conduct. There's some things that are spelled out in scripture that we will never tolerate. But listen, we've got to be patient with people. I mean, The older I get, the more I've learned this. You've got to be patient.

People, even believers, let's just remember we're still sinners saved by grace. We're still nothing but a pile of dust. And if you put too much pressure on a pile of dust, what's it going to do? It's just going to collapse. Be patient with people. Be patient to wait on the Lord. Let's not just run out ahead of the Lord. Let's be patient and wait on the Lord.

Then verse four, Paul says, one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? Now, before a man could take on the awesome responsibility of leading God's church, don't you reckon first he should prove he's got some ability to handle the smaller task of ruling his own home, that he's got the courage to lead his home well. He's got the courage to make sure his home worships the Lord. You know, when our children were little, they knew, don't ever question this. Sundays and Wednesdays, we're going to worship the Lord. We're going to worship. It just stands to reason, doesn't it? Now, I think it's worth pointing out, this is when he's talking about children, children who are still at home.

Once a child gets out, you know, you hope you have some influence over them, but you know, at that point they're their own person, but a man should be respected in his own home before he becomes a pastor over God's people. In verse six, not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. You know, a pastor cannot, be a babe in Christ, because it takes time, doesn't it? It takes time to learn. It takes time to grow in wisdom. And it takes time to grow in humility. When I first started preaching to the congregation in Ashland, usually it was on a Wednesday night.

And boy, you stand at that back door and everybody tells you what a great message and how wonderful they think you are and stuff. And I was always worried, don't breathe too much into this, don't get the big head. And on Wednesday nights when I got home, you know what I had to do? I had to take out the garbage, because the garbage ran on Thursday morning at our house. And I always thought, now that's a good reminder, this is about what you're qualified to do, take out the garbage. It takes time, doesn't it? To grow in humility.

God's gotta take starch out of a man. before he's going to be of any use to God's people. He's just got to take the starch out of him. The Lord spent 40 years humbling Moses on the backside of a mountain before he was ready to go leave the children of Israel out of Egypt. You know, when Moses left Egypt at 40 years old, he thought he can deliver these people with the arm of the flesh. Forty years later, when God told him, now you go back to Egypt and you tell Pharaoh, let my people go, Moses said, you got the wrong man. I can't do it. When you know you can't do it, now the Lord's ready to use you. Now the Lord's ready to use you.

Just let a man be around long enough to prove his faith and love and sincerity in Christ and to learn some humility. In verse seven, Paul says, moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without. lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. The pastor's got to have a good reputation with people outside the church. Now, they may not like what he preaches, but hopefully he conducts himself in such a way that they got to admit this is an honest man, a kind man, a man of integrity. And I would point out that these characteristics here are not just important for pastors and elders, But when you say every believer ought to strive to have these characteristics in the way that we live our life, because every believer is following Christ.

Every believer is in the ministry. Every believer is not a preacher, but every believer is in the ministry to support the ministry and help the ministry, do what we can in this ministry. This is not my ministry. It's our ministry. We're in this together.

Now that's the qualifications of a bishop, but I think it's probably a good thing for us to know. Our dear friend, Moose Parks, used to call me the Bishop of Ashland. Now I reckon he'd call me the Bishop of Danville. That's Moose's rich, colorful way of talking, you know.

And you know, you can find a way to look at these qualifications, either something true, something made up, something exaggerated. You can find a way to tear a man down If you want to, you really can. But if you do, and he's preaching the gospel, if he's preaching Christ, be careful that you're not tearing down the preaching of the gospel of Christ. But now this passage, just like every passage of scripture, these verses are no different than any other verse in the whole word of God.

This is not written to exalt pastors, to say, look how these pastors, they live on a higher plane and they meet these higher qualifications than the rest of us do. If you trust in a man like that, you're going to be damned. You're going to be disappointed because he's nothing. He's just a pile of dust, just like you are.

This passage is written to glorify Christ, to cause us to look to Christ, the shepherd and bishop of our souls, so that we see him. We see him in his glory. We see him in his perfection. So we trust the salvation of our souls to him. If you trust Christ, the bishop of our souls, you can never perish. Here's the one. You can never tear down. You can never find even a chink in his armor. Christ our Savior. Let's go back up there to verse two. Christ our Savior, the Bishop of our souls, is blameless. The Lord Jesus is the only sinless man who ever lived.

He could not sin because he has a righteous nature. Now he has our nature too. He had two natures. He's the God man, the nature of God, the nature of man. And he was perfectly righteous. He never even thought about sin. He was never even acquainted with any sin. Now that's not just good doctrine. It's good doctrine. It's true, but it's not just good doctrine. That's our salvation.

The only way you and I could ever be made righteous is in the righteousness of Christ, that we were in him when he was obeying God's law. And if Christ lived for you, he lived. And when he obeyed the law, you're in him because from eternity past, the father puts you in him. He puts you in Christ before the foundation of the world so that he's your representative.

You did what he did. And when he obeyed the law, you obeyed it too. Just like you were in our father Adam, all of us were. And when he sinned, we all sinned, didn't we? Well, if you're one of God's elect, he put you in Christ. And when he obeyed the law, so did you.

And at Calvary, if Christ was made sin for you, he took your sin away from you into his own body on the tree, and he put it away by his awful, bloody sacrifice and death, then brother, You're righteous. I mean, you're righteous right now. It's not that you have to wait to awaken glory to be righteous. He made you the very righteousness of God in him.

See, that's not just doctrine, is it? That's the person of our salvation. This is the person that we trust. This is the person I want to preach to you so you see him and believe him. Then he's the husband of one wife. I'm telling you what a bridegroom we have. Mm-mm-mm.

He's faithful. He's always faithful to his bride. And he makes her beautiful. He gives her the wedding garment of his perfect righteousness, clothes her in his righteousness, gives her the jewels of his mercy and his grace. And he provides for her. He provides everything that she needs.

She'll never want for anything. And he'll never leave her. I think of how sad it is when you see a man been married, got a wife and children, and finally one day he just wakes up and says, I don't love you anymore, I'm leaving. Just what a, heartbreaking situation that that is. Our bridegroom will never do that. He's promised, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.

He's going to be there to protect and provide for his wife. She's in union with him so that those two become one flesh. He's the head and we're the body. joined to this glorious person of Christ our savior. Oh, what a blessing that is. Then Paul says vigilant, vigilant, our savior, our bridegroom, our protector. He never slumbers or sleeps. He's always got his eye on his people so that they're safe. Even when we can't see him, he sees us.

You remember the time that the Lord sent the disciples to row across the sea of Galilee and he went up alone into the mountain apart to pray and it was nighttime there humanly. There's no way somebody from that mountain could see a little boat down on that sea of Galilee is being tossed with waves.

The storm was so bad. The wind was contrary to them. These disciples have been on that sea thousands of times. but they thought they're going down with the ship. This thing's going down. And the savior saw them. They couldn't see him, but he saw them and came walking to them on the water and said, peace, be still. He sees his people. He hang on to that because there comes times we think I can't see the savior. I can't, but he sees us.

Then sober, self-controlled. Well, of course, our Savior's self-controlled. He's getting control of everything because He's the sovereign of the universe. Now that makes us with awe, doesn't it? Awe. Fear and trembling bow down before Him. He's the sovereign of the universe. But I love to think about and talk about the sovereignty of our Savior, that He's sovereign over everything, because His sovereignty is the guarantee that nothing can happen to cause one of His people to ever fall away from Him and perish. His sovereignty.

Then Paul says, of good behavior. Well, of course, that's our Savior, isn't it? Everything He does is good. He will never do bad for his people. When things happen to us that come up and they're hurtful, they're disappointing, it's sometimes in the midst of that hurt and disappointment, it's hard to remember this, but it's still true. Our God's doing good. He always does good for his people.

And I love this one, given to hospitality. This man receiveth sinners and eats with them. He doesn't invite the good people of town into his house. This man receiveth sinners. He loves to be with his people. He loves to be with them. He said, where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am. in the midst of them. He's given to hospitality. Now, from what I read in God's word, that means that our Savior is here with us this morning. And if anything of the preaching of Christ is a blessing to us, you know why that is? Because he's here. He's given to hospitality. He's blessing it to the hearts of his people. He's doing it so freely and then apt to teach.

There is no teacher like Christ our Savior. We read in scripture of how the Lord sat and taught the people. And my soul, wouldn't you love to hear that? I mean, we read it in the Word, but wouldn't you like to just see our Savior sitting there teaching?

Well, he's still teaching his people. Christ is our teacher. He teaches, not just the head. But the heart, heart. One of my favorite John Chapman quotes is this. John said, Christ is the teacher and he's the lesson too. It's Christ who teaches Christ to the heart. Everything that we need to know about salvation is all found in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I used to, I'm ashamed to say this, kind of fancy myself pretty sharp mentally. And I see that eroding away quickly. And that makes the gospel all the more precious to me. You don't have to be right smart to understand the gospel. because of the simplicity, the singleness of the gospel. Everything you need to know about the gospel, all the treasures of the wisdom and grace and mercy of God, it's all found in one place. The Lord Jesus Christ in every page of this book is written to say, here he is. Look and live. Look and believe.

Then it says, not given to wine. You know, our Lord was called a winebibber. I guess that means he was addicted to wine or something. I think it's very, this is just the way people are, you know, as, as, as the Pharisees are drinking them a glass of wine, they're calling the Savior a winebibber.

But that wasn't true. Our Savior was not addicted to any of those kinds of things, but you know what he was addicted to? He was addicted to this. You talk about a man giving himself over to this work. Our Savior had given himself over to the work of glorifying his Father by saving his people from their sin. He was addicted to it. From the very beginning, he was addicted to it.

Wish ye not, this 12-year-old boy said, I must be about my Father's business. And that's our salvation. I'm telling you, I know this about myself. I am such a great sinner. The Savior's got to be addicted to saving me. He's got to be giving himself over to saving me or he'll finally give up on me and cast me aside.

But he won't because he's addicted to saving his people from their sin, to ultimately present them all before the Father. I mean, what a day that will be. Father, here I am with all the children that you've given me. And then no striker. Your Savior was a meek and mild man, wasn't he?

He showed his wrath to the Pharisees. He showed his wrath to self-righteousness. He showed himself to that greediness, that, you know, turning religion into a money-making scheme, you know. He showed that wrath to the Pharisees. But his rebukes to his people, they're so gentle. They're so gentle. You think of poor old Peter. Peter thought, I'm no better than Judas. Judas has hung himself, and I'm cast out too. And the only thing our Savior said to him was Peter, do you love me? Oh ye of little faith. That's the kind rebuke that sheep need. My dear wife adored her gammy, her grandmother, her gammy. She's a gammy because she called her grandmother gammy. She adored her. And all it would take To break little Jan's heart was her grandmother going. If the Lord says, Peter, do you love me? That's all it takes to break your heart, isn't it? And when the Lord says, then feed my sheep, I'm going to go feed them. I can tell you about the sweetness of the forgiveness of sin in the blood of Christ. I can tell you, I can tell you, someone that's been saved by the grace of God, by the blood of Christ, that he would sacrifice himself to save me.

There's none of this, there's no thought of mixing grace and words. There's no thought of me being high and mighty. Oh, how it humbles you, doesn't it? It breaks your heart that the gospel, the rebuke of the gospel is just this. It's look at Christ. Lord, save me. Lord, save me. Lord, thank you. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your grace. It's beyond measure. And then he says, not greedy, a filthy lucre.

Well, our Lord Jesus was He lived that, didn't he? He was a poor, homeless man. He had no place to lay his head. Sounds like he did have a home when he was a young boy, but he worked with his stepfather in the carpenter shop. This man, I mean, you think about, this is the one that made the earth. This is the one that caused the tree to grow and gave somebody the strength to cut it down, and now he's the one getting calluses on his hands, planing it into two-by-fours. He owns a cattle on a thousand hills, but he lived as a poor man.

Yet he could not be swayed when Satan offered him all the riches of the world. The Lord even paid his taxes to a wicked government. They told Peter, go get the, go get our tax money out of the mouth of a fish, but he still did it. And there's no need for him to be greedy or covetous because he already owns everything. But I think this is the real key to this statement, not greedy.

Our Lord at Calvary's tree became poor. He became more poor than anyone has ever been before. He became poor of righteousness. He became poor of that loving relationship with his father. He became so poor that we, his people, through his poverty might be made rich.

Rich in grace, rich in salvation, rich in righteousness, rich in holdings, rich. When we think of it that way, why would we ever be greedy of anything? Oh, how rich our Savior made us. And then patient. And this kind of goes back with being no striker. Our Savior is so patient with sinners. He's so patient with His people.

Before His people know Him, before they're brought to faith in Christ, they're living a life of absolute, utter rebellion. And it might not be out in the bars and honky-tonks and drug dens and all those things. They're living a life of complete and utter rebellion in what Brother Don called a goat farm. Sitting in some free-will religion place under whatever heading you want to put it.

Bowing down, worshipping an idol. Worshipping their own selves. And our Lord is so patient with them, isn't He? And then He brings them to Him. He reveals Himself to them. He gives them faith in Him. And they come to Him so willingly and so lovingly. They have such faith and joy in Christ. And they think, this is it.

I've got a tiger by the tail on the downhill pole on the shady side. I mean, everything is alright with me. And right soon, we find ourselves to be such a faltering, weak saint. We find ourselves doubting and fearing. And our Savior's so patient. He's so kind and tenderhearted and forgiving. He's so patient with his people. You know what he's told us? Come to me at any time. In any time of need, you come before my throne of grace. You know what you're going to find? Grace and mercy to help. Come. The apostle Paul, Peter told us, the apostle Paul said, you account that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation. None of us could be saved from our sin if our savior wasn't so long suffering and patient with us.

Then verse four, one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? Our Savior is faithful in all of his house because he's the one that built the house. He built it and he orders his house well. He rules his house in wisdom and love and his children, all of them, they love him and they trust him. He rules his house well. He provides for his children. He teaches his children. He takes care of his children.

There is not a greater blessing in this life than to be a child of God, a child of God. And verse six says, not a novice. Lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Well, our Savior can't be a novice, can he? He's the eternal Savior. He's the eternal Savior. He's the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And if Christ is your Savior now, He always has been. There comes a point when through the preaching of Christ, He lets us in on it, but He's always been our Savior, always been our Savior.

I was someplace visiting one time preaching, And I was quite young, so I didn't get what was going on at first. Took me a while to figure it out. But one of the men was taking me back to the airport to fly back home, and he asked me, when is a man justified? When is a sinner justified?

And I said, well, we're justified before the foundation of the world. When the Father put us in Christ before the foundation of the world, we were justified in Christ the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Then we're justified at Calvary. Christ must come in time. He must shed his blood. He must be sacrificed for our sin. We're justified when Christ suffered and died at Calvary. And then we're justified when Lord's pleased to reveal Christ to us and in us. And Shelby, this is what he said. He said, well, Don Fortner says will also be justified when we awake with Christ in glory. And I said, that's true. I, I am in that. I agree with that. Last time I ever spoke to him because the first thing I said is what he did not agree with. You're not justified in eternity.

According to this book, we are according to this book, we're put in Christ before the foundation of the world. And if he gives you faith in him, You can never be lost. And when he gives you faith in Christ, again, all he's done is let you in on what he did for you in eternity, and what he did for you on the cross, and what he did for you when he rose from the tomb. All he's doing is let you in on it. And faith in Christ, God-given faith in Christ is the assurance you can never perish. Never perish.

Now, that's the Savior. That's the Savior that we preach. That's the Savior we believe in. That's the Savior that we trust in and rely on. He is the shepherd and bishop of our souls. Of our souls. Now this is the first Sunday as your pastor. And you might get tired of hearing me say it, but I'm going to keep saying it. You come to Christ. Right now, where you sit in your heart, you come to Christ. He's the shepherd and he's the bishop of our souls. And if you've come to him before, come to him again today. Come to him again today. Doesn't it thrill your soul? Don't you find such comfort? This is our savior, the bishop of our souls. I pray God will bless that to you. just kind of give you a word here in closing.

You're going to find about me that I'm the most untalented man that you have ever met. I mean, I have no talents whatsoever. I don't have a dynamic personality that just interests people and would draw people to me. I don't have that. I've been accused of being Mr. Spock, you know, just, I don't have that.

But God has given me a work ethic. That's one thing he gave me. It was a work ethic. And by his amazing grace, he's saved me. He's revealed Christ to me. He's taught me the gospel. And he's given me some ability to preaching. And he's given me a love for you. He's given me a love. I love you. I love you already. And I know it's going to grow. I know it's going to grow. And this is what I can promise you. God is my helper. This is until he takes my mind and health away from me, I can promise you this.

I will work hard in prayer and study to bring you messages that are all Christ, that glorify him, lift him up on high so we can see him. And I would ask that you pray for me. The Apostle Paul said, who's sufficient for these things? I covet your prayers. But don't stop there. Wouldn't it be selfish of me to say, now y'all pray for me. I'm doing this. One thing I've noticed over the past years that I've been a visitor here that I really, really have liked and been a blessing to me is the men who preside frequently say this at the end of the message, pray for each other. Don't forget that. Pray for each other and pray for our community. Pray for our community. People need to hear and believe this gospel, this gospel that God's given us. He's put this church up on a hill. The guy that has been my mechanic for a while back in Ashland, I told him, I trust him. He does such great work. He's got pretty good prices and so forth.

And I told him, we're moving here. I said, now, what I need you to do, I need you to move to Danville or to Harrisburg and open up a shop. And he said, where are you moving? And we're, you know, church in Danforth. I told him Grace Baptist Church. He said, oh, the white church on the hill. I know it. The Lord's put us up here on this hill. We've got a gospel to preach to sinners. And let's pray. Pray for our community. Pray that God bless his word here. And I have every confidence that he will. I really do. All right, let's bow together.

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