I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners-- of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Following the Track 1 Old Testament reading selection from Jeremiah, where Yahweh spoke through His prophet, saying how foolish if was to not know Yahweh, the Track 2 Old Testament reading selection from Exodus 32; where Yahweh showed Moses prophecy of the future when sinners will have broken the Covenant with Yahweh, while trying to defend evil deeds as their right; along with both supporting Psalms that sing of those who choose sin and those who repent their sins, this reading selection from 1 Timothy must be seen as the redemption of Saul, who changed his name afterwards to Paul. Everything that Saul was is what existed in a failing Judah and was foreseen by Yahweh to be the same in a failing Christianity today (long ago begun to fail). It is this connection that must be made, as the strong theme written in these selected verses (and all 1 Timothy 1) is “faith.” Faith (not beliefs) can only come when a soul has come to realize its need to marry Yahweh, be Baptized pure by His Spirit, and be the soul where the soul of Jesus can resurrect, becoming one’s Lord and guide that defeats all urges to sin.
In verse twelve is written the Greek word “piston,” which means “faithful.” In verse fourteen, Paul wrote “pisteōs,” which translates as “of faith,” in the Genitive case. This says “faith” is a matter of divine possession, coming from Yahweh. At the beginning of verse fifteen, Paul wrote a capitalized “Pistos,” which in a divinely elevated statement that “Faithful” is relative to a relationship with Yahweh. In verse sixteen, Paul then wrote “pisteuein,” which means “to have faith in, with that followed closely by his writing “autō,” which becomes a statement about “to his soul,” with the masculine singular being the soul of Jesus. This connects “faith” to the presence of Jesus. In verse thirteen, when Paul was listing his evil traits, prior to his becoming divinely changed, he wrote the word “apistia,” which says “to unfaithfulness.” Leading to that word Paul wrote, “epoiēsa en apistia,” which says, “I acted within to unfaithfulness,” where “within” means Saul’s acts of evil came from a lack of “faith” within his soul. Certainly, Saul was a devout Jew, who had the blood-lineage and the intellectual memorizations of Mosaic Law in his brain; but without Yahweh sending His Son Jesus to strike Saul blind for three days, Saul was content acting in evil ways, due to his lack of true “faith” … because he was full of intellectual beliefs. Beliefs are concepts told to believe, but when tested they can be proved false beliefs. Faith is the truth that comes from Yahweh, through the guidance of His Son Jesus “within;” and, the truth can never be found false.
All of this is then found confirmed in the capitalized words written by Paul: “Christō” (twice) “Christos” (twice), “Iēsou” (twice), “Iēsous” (twice), “Kyriō” (once), “Kyriou” (once), and “Theō” (once). Twice Paul wrote the Dative case that says, “to Christ to Jesus.” Once he wrote “Christ Jesus,” with similar written as “Jesus Christ.” Each word is capitalized, making each word separately written to be understood as a divinely elevated word that is directly relative to Yahweh. In the first example in the Dative case, Paul added to “to Christ to Jesus to this Lord of our souls.” In that, the Greek word “hēmōn” is the possessive pronoun, plural, in the Genitive case, stating the possession of “ourselves,” with “selves” equating to “souls.” This says “to Jesus to this Lord of our souls” says all Apostles (all like Paul) had “Jesus” as the “Lord” in possession “of their souls.” In the last example, where Paul wrote what is read in Christian churches as the full name of “Jesus Christ,” where his closest buddies can simply refer to “Jesus” by his last name – “Christ,” this is not the case. Here is what shows in the Greek text:
In between “Jesus” and “Christ” is a mathematical symbol called a ‘left right arrow.’ It appears to denote the truth of equality, as “If the left is true, then the right is true.” If either is found to not be true, then the equation verifies a false statement. Thus, Paul wrote, “a soul has Jesus” as its Lord, then a soul has been Anointed by Yahweh, which is the purifying Baptism of Spirit that makes one’s soul become a “Christ” or a “Messiah” (from the Hebrew equivalent). This says to be able to claim truthfully, “I am Jesus reborn,” then one must equally state truthfully, “my soul has married Yahweh and Anointed my soul as a Christ.” Jesus can only resurrect in pristine souls, those cleansed of all past sins by Yahweh. If one’s soul has been made pristine by Yahweh’s Baptism of Spirit, then one’s soul will receive the soul of Jesus to become that wife-soul’s Lord.”
When this reading selection is read as connecting the Old Testament to the Gospel, where Jesus was dining with sinners and the Pharisees were grumbling about that as a sin, one needs to see the element of redemption being stated loud and clear in Paul’s first epistle to Timothy. Saul was just like those of ancient Judah that was headed to ruin (and would find it in captivity in Babylon). Saul was just like those in the future prophecy, where those saying they believe in God will panic and begin building idols of false worship (like bad translations of Scripture lead to). Yahweh is never pleased with sin; but for those who say they are His children, when He does not know their souls (they are the foolish of Jeremiah 4), Yahweh holds harsher Judgment for their souls. Saul was just like the sinners Jesus would dine with, because they were seeking guidance how not to sin. Paul’s letter to Timothy states it all: You must have the true faith that comes from Yahweh having made your soul a Christ, into which His Son Jesus’ soul can resurrect. With Jesus as one’s Lord within, then there will never again be worry about sins.