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Hey everybody, welcome to Prairie Lakes Church this weekend, no matter what campus you're joining us from, welcome. We're glad that you're here. And I just wanna say, hey, good job prioritizing church this week, because listen, I know, uh, we're right in the middle of like weddings, grad parties, end of your school stuff. The weather is finally nicer outside, so there's a million things you could be doing and, uh, you're a part of Prairie Lee's Church right now. So good job, uh, God honors that obedience and wants to speak to you today. All right, let's dive right in.

This is week three in the final week of a series called Lessons from First and Second Timothy, where we're talking about what matters to God and what should matter to followers of Jesus. And first and second Timothy are two letters written by a guy named Paul, an evangelist, church planner to a young pastor named Timothy, probably around in mid sixties ad somewhere in that timeframe.

And, uh, like a wise old sage passing on spirit infused wisdom and battle wounds, Paul gives this young pastor clarity on how to lead the church and some amazing truths to follow, uh, to live and, and love and obey Jesus more. So here's, we've been in the series so far, uh, week one, pastor John kick us off by talking about your doctrine matters, how what we believe informs how we live, what we do. Last week, pastor Jesse said, your leadership matters.

We had 10 principles that he laid out for us from first and second Timothy. Then this weekend we're gonna talk about how your character matters, your character matters. And so as we start this weekend, I'm gonna answer three really important questions about character. Before we dive into the Bible. I'm gonna level sit and talk about what character is because I think it's really important that we know what it is and what Paul's describing when he talks about Christian character in these two letters. Now, character's an interesting word.

Uh, we use it in lots of different ways. We say things like, that person is a shady character or they have bad character, or I have character flaws. Or we say things at work or in school like this character counts, but what is character, right? Even as parents we're like, Hey, I want my kid to have good character and integrity.

I want to marry people of good character. I want their friends to be people of good character. What does character mean? Here's what character means. Character is a part of your identity. It's a group of traits or qualities about you that are true most of the time. Okay? So doesn't be true about you all the time, but most of the time. And character is one of the driving forces behind our words and our actions.

Character motivates why we do what we do. So character is a group of traits that are true about us. Most of the time that comp comprises part of our identity, we can say that person is honest or that person has integrity, or that person is kind or loving or courageous. That's a part of their character. It's a part of who they are.

Or we can say that person is deceitful, lazy, untrustworthy, or greedy. But understand this as a Christian, identity and character are both ands. Here's what I mean by that. For the Christian character is only a part of our identity because for all of us who step over the faith on and trust in Jesus, we're called holy and blameless. In Ephesians one, four, second Corinthians five 17 says that we are new creation, new creatures in God's sight, that the old is gone, that the new has come.

Romans six 11 says that we're alive in Christ. And Paul, in a lot of his letters, he calls Christians, he calls us saints that you may not feel like a saint, but you are one, because in Christ, when you step over the faith line, your identity in Christ, your security in him is fixed forever. Your identity there does not change. You're a child of God and all the wonderful things the Bible says about you are always true of you. And, and the rest of our lives is spent growing together in christlikeness and growing in character. So we are have a fixed identity in Christ, and the rest of our lives is growing in a Christ-like character with Jesus.

That's the beautiful thing about the gospel. The good news of Jesus Christ is this, your character can change and grow, that it's not just you're born with a certain type of character and you just live that way the rest of your life. Character, because of the good news of Jesus and the transformational power of the Holy Spirit in our lives means that we can grow and change.

That's the good news of the gospel. In fact, the entire life of a Christian, once you step over the faith line, is a journey of becoming more like Jesus and your character being more like Christ's. So for the Christian, your identity is fixed in Christ and your character should grow to look more like Jesus over time. It's a both and for followers of Jesus.

So the second question is this, how do we grow in character? How do we grow in character? Um, I I call growing in Christian character for the follower of Jesus becoming who you are. It's the process of growing up and becoming more like Jesus. And I would say this about growing in character, growing character is closing the gap between what you believe or you profess to believe and how you actually live.

It's closing the gap between who you are and who Jesus is. This is what it means to grow in character, that you close gaps in your life between what you say you believe and how you live and between who you are and who Jesus is. The fancy theological term for this is sanctification becoming more and more like Jesus. And here's what I mean. For instance, we may say, Hey, I believe that God is generous and God's gonna take care of me financially, but yet we're not generous to people around us.

There's a gap between what we say we believe and how we live. We may say, Hey, I believe kindness matters and we should should treat all people with respect regardless of what they believe. But then we could gossip about them. We could say, I believe that forgiveness of enemies and those that hurt you is crucial to the follower of Jesus and yet not extend forgiveness.

Those are gaps in our character between what we profess to believe in, how we live between who we are and who Jesus is and the the growth in character as a follower of Jesus is always closing those gaps when they appear in our lives. Now, the last question I want to answer, uh, this weekend as we start is this, why does character matter for the Christian?

Like why we spending a whole week talking about this? Why did Paul feel impressed to write about character to Timothy 2000 years ago? Here's why. Our personal obedience to Jesus and holiness matters that your relationship with Jesus, your becoming more like him matters to God and it matters to the people around you that that faith in Jesus is not just, Hey, I step over the faith line, I got my gold ticket to heaven and I'm just gonna coast all the way into eternity. That is not what Jesus died for.

Jesus died for you to be conformed into His image to look more like him. In fact, the journey of a Christian is one of confession and repentance of dying to self and living for him, and that matters to God. But it's not just about our journey for ourselves. The second reason why character matters is our collective witness as the church to the watching world matters.

Our witness as individuals and as the church together to a world that needs to know who Jesus is, absolutely matters. The world is watching you and the world is watching us to see if Jesus is real, to see if he makes any difference in our behavior, in our lives. If what we profess to be true is what we actually do. In fact, one of the primary criticisms of a non-Christian world to the church is this. You know what? A bunch of hypocrites, there's always a scandal, right?

This church is falling apart and they're blowing up and they're dividing this pastor's falling into this sin and can't lead anymore. And there's all these different things that people say about the church. Some of it's fair and some of it's not. But the point is this, the world is watching to see if you believe what you say you believe the world is. Watching the church to see if we will reflect Jesus or not. And when we do, it is so powerful and when we don't, the people in our little Iowas, they kind of shrug their shoulders and go, eh, told you so, right?

Bunch of hypocrites. There's a lot at stake when it comes to our character and becoming more like Jesus. Here's what I want you to do right now. I'll just grab your Bible. If you got one, open it to first Timothy chapter two. If you got your phone, grab that, grab your Bible app, whichever one you use and navigate to First Timothy chapter two.

I'm gonna put the words on the screen as well, but here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna look at three lessons about character from First Timothy. Just First Timothy. So we're not gonna dive into second Timothy today. We're gonna dive, dive only into first Timothy, and I'm gonna give you three zingers. Paul's got these zingers that he gives to Timothy about character that are really, really powerful for us today.

And so I want you to turn to to first Timothy chapter two verse one. And here's the first one we're gonna look at. Here's what Paul says. He says, I urge then first of all, that petitions and prayers and intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people, for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. Now, here's what I want you to notice.

Paul doesn't say pray for each other and pray for the church. He includes that under the umbrella of all people. But he specifically says, pray for kings, people in authority, people in power over you. Why? Why, why, why? Why? Because, because the point here is, is that we should pray for those in power and those in authority over us so that we can live out our faith so that God blesses us and so that the people around us can see that we live differently.

And here's a convicting question for you today. Do you pray for those across the political aisle from you? That's what Paul's saying. We're supposed to do that because we wanna be a witness to the people around us. We're gonna be a witness to the people that don't know God, that he's real. Verse three says this, this is good and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and come to knowledge of the truth again, what's the point of all the praying and blessing those around us, those in authority so that we can live peaceful, quiet lives? Well, it's so that people will be drawn to Jesus and come to faith in him.

So the Christians might be seen in a positive light. And here's what Paul describes next about this good news. In verse five, he says four, there's one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Jesus Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed at the proper time. And for this purpose, I was appointed a herald and an apostle. I am telling the truth, I'm not lying, and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles. Now, in verse six, there's a word in there, uh, the word witness, it's the Greek word martu, and it means to testify or give evidence of something. Uh, another way we might describe that word is to say we are gonna give proof of something. Paul is saying here, something's happened that's powerful that everybody needs to know about.

And what it is is that Jesus Christ is the savior of the world, that he's our made our mediator between God and us. Jesus Christ, is that there is good news to tell, that we should live our lives in such a way that our lives demonstrate the good news of Jesus Christ. It's the point that he's trying to make is that there's good news to share.

So Timothy, Timothy, I'm gonna give you instructions for men and women now on how they should live. And here's what Paul says in verse eight. He says, therefore, I want men everywhere to pray lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing. Now listen, I'm not sure if you know about men or not, but we are a strange group of people.

Dudes have three primary emotions, okay? The primary emotions, the trinity of emotions that men feel are hungry, angry, and numb. You ask a guy, Hey, what do you feel? I'm just kind of frustrated and angered right now. Or you ask a guy, how do you feel? Ah, I'm hungry. Or you ask a guy, how do you feel? And he's like, I have no idea how I feel right now. It's one of those three, okay? That's what men feel. And men can fight about anything.

The dumbest stuff we fight about. It's crazy. Ford versus Dodge versus Chevy real tree versus mossy Oak Cardinals versus Cubs, Packers versus all the other inferior NFL franchises out there, right? We fight about anything. But here's Paul's point. Paul's like, I don't want men to quarrel.

I don't want their posture to be fisticuffs like this. I want men's posture to be raising up holy hands and praying. I want that to be the impression that people get about men in the church. Now, because Paul is an equal opportunity offender, he talks about women next and what they should and shouldn't be doing. He says in verse nine, I also want the women to dress modestly with decency and propriety adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

Now, I wanna be careful with this one because it's a little bit delicate because most women care for and invest deeply in their appearance. And it's certainly not wrong to take care of yourself. And look, that's not a bad thing. It's good to take care of your appearance. It's just not good to make your physical appearance the priority of your life and draw unnecessary attention to yourself or parts of your body by how you dress or how you look. Uh, any man knows this reality be true. You go on a date with a woman, here's the deal. It takes you 10 minutes men to shower, put on your favorite pair of jeans and get out the door.

It takes your date just a little bit longer to get ready. And every man fears this question, the most unfair question that women ask men, you ready? How do I look? Oh, there is no right answer to that question. It's like that dude on Star Wars is like, it's a trap. Every time a woman asks that question, here's what you do, you're like, I don't know what to say. Because if you say, great, you're saying it just to make her feel good.

If you say anything other than great, you should duck and order flowers right away, okay? There is no right answer to that question. But the point that Paul's trying to make is this, women should be known more for your good deeds in how you look. The modesty should be a goal, not trying to hide your beauty, not trying to make your beauty the focus of your lives and not drawing attention to yourselves or your physical beauty. Now, certainly you can flip the script, right?

There's a lot of dudes I know that care way too much about their appearance. I've seen dudes wear tight shirts they shouldn't wear, okay? And I know that women can also be chum and gossipy and caddy and fight, but what Paul's doing is he's playing to stereotypes and he's saying that what's most visible about us are usually these things, which leads to character lesson number one that I wanna highlight this weekend.

Character lesson number one is this, the first impression that your life gives to the world about Jesus and about Christians matters and reveals your character. The first impression that your life gives to the world about Jesus. And Christians reveals your character, and it absolutely matters. If someone right now were to describe your character in a few words, what are the few words they would say?

The answer to that question really matters. Is your life a witness to Jesus is the first impression people have of you, one that you would want them to have of Jesus and the church? See, Paul's character point here is that the first impression people have about you as a follower of Jesus should not be competitive, angry, worrisome, immo, or drawing unnecessary attention to yourself.

The first impression that people get about you should be prayer, good deeds and concern for others. First, because as Christians, we've got good news to share and that good news that we have, this share should not get muddled or interrupted by a bad witness and bad character that we describe or show to the world. The first impression people have about you matters because often it's one of the first impressions they'll have about Jesus or the church.

That's character lesson number one. Here's the second scripture I wanna look at in the second lesson. It's first Timothy chapter five. So just flip over a few pages if you're there. We're gonna look at verse 24 and 25, and there's this short but profound passage, two verses that outlines an incredible truth that I want you to see.

First Timothy 5 24 through 25 says this, the sins of some are obvious reaching the place of judgment ahead of them, the sins of others, trail behind them. In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not obvious cannot remain hidden forever. What is Paul saying here? Well, Paul saying this, some of our sins and our character gaps are public, embarrassing and obvious.

They make the news. Other people see 'em and hear 'em when, when marriages break down and the reasons are public, when someone's caught in the act of a lie or cheating in a business deal in real time, and it's discovered that is public and real and it, it's out in front of people, other sins are gaps in our character are only known right now to God and to you.

But you know they exist and God knows they exist. That secret sin of yours, the secret addiction, the inappropriate texting or app chatting you do with someone who's not your spouse, how resentful you feel inside to somebody, even though you're fake and nice to their face, how you feel about them inside. Those types of character gaps often get revealed down the road.

They stay hidden for a while. And the point that Paul's trying to make here is that you really don't get away with anything in the end that it will eventually get exposed in this life or in final judgment. Either way, God sees the good and the bad, the public and the private. It'll all come out eventually. So don't ignore your character. Don't sweep it under the rug.

This is character lesson number two that I want you to see here. Your character gaps will be exposed. It's not a matter of if, it's when and when they are. Don't hide or pretend. Own it and surrender to Jesus in order to close the gap. When your gaps are exposed in your character, when it becomes public, or just when you know it privately, don't sweep it under the rug.

Acknowledge it, call it what it is, and let God into it. Surrender it to Jesus and be transformed. Because the opposite is also true. Doing good deeds outta the goodness of your heart and the good character inside of you will not be hidden forever, even if the world doesn't see the good that you do, even if nobody knows how generous you really are, God sees and God rewards.

So don't give up and don't quit. But when the character gaps in our lives are exposed by God, whether it's publicly or privately, let God guide you to repentance. When you see those gaps, let that be an invitation to be more Christ-like in your character and your witness to the world. Here's why this matters.

When we see character gaps in our lives, whether they're public or private, our our initial response often is to hide, to cover and make excuses that is not helpful. Instead, we should own it and grow and let the Holy Spirit guide you and grow you. Now here's an example of this from my own life that is really embarrassing.

Okay? So, uh, this was a massive character gap that was about four or five different character items that I was pouring visible in my life at the same time. So fall of 1998, I'm a sophomore at Hastings College, and, uh, I'd stepped over the faith line about a year earlier, and I was a part of a select group of people on the campus of Hass College called the PR council. Now the PR council, we wore blue blazers with a cool little patch on it, and we toured around prospective college students, you know, high school seniors and their parents.

So I got to be like the face of Hastings College and I got to do this. It was an awesome honor, it was really cool. And, uh, in this sep this September day beginning of the year, Michelle, the student student leader for PR council, sent around an anonymous survey to all the people in PR council faculty and, and, and uh, uh, student leaders and said, give anonymous feedback.

And she was gonna forward it on to people. So I thought, okay, cool, anonymous feedback. Now here's what you need to know about me. Um, I have a strong sense of justice, uh, on the Myers Briggs, the J part. I'm like 99% j I can be very black and white, and I can go from frustrated to resentful in about 3.2 seconds when things aren't going smooth or right.

I've got a very strong sense of things should be working optimally all the time, and when they're not, I have strong feelings about that. Okay? So I get this email from Michelle and I'm like, oh, anonymous survey. This is awesome. So I typed and I typed and I typed, and then I pressed send without looking at who I was sending it to.

And guess what I did? I sent it to everybody on the distribution list, not just Michelle, every other PR council member, every faculty representative of the PR council, personal attacks, criticism, all kinds of frustration. It flowed outta me and everybody saw it, and I didn't even know it until the next morning. I got a call at eight o'clock to come to Mike's office.

Mike was the faculty leader of the PR council. Here's what he did. He sat me down and I thought I was getting an assignment like, where's the family I'm supposed to meet and take on a tour? And he's like, Hey, sit down. He had all of my feedback printed off pages. He highlighted the really good parts and he put it in front of me and he said, Hey, what of these things do you believe to be true?

And I felt like I was this tall. I wanted to crawl under the desk. And after 30 seconds, I embarrassingly said, all of this is what I wrote tonight. I guess I kind of believe all this stuff is true. And he called me out, he said, this is poor character. This is not good leadership. And he knew I was a Christian and he, he appealed to my Christian faith.

And in that moment, this character gap was exposed in my life, that I was a coward, that I was a gossip, that I had a critical spirit, that I wasn't willing to say things to people's faces, and I was just gonna hide behind a keyboard. And by God's grace, I was allowed to stay as a member of the PR council. But I just gotta tell you what, 25 years later, I flinch every time I send an email to more than one person.

Like I double check and triple check because of that moment. But, but listen, I've got a ton of stories like that, and chances are you've got a lot of stories like that as well. But here's what I need you to know, my friends, you can pretend with others, you can lie to yourself and hide who you really are. But in the end, it all gets exposed. You'll be found out good and bad.

You can't outrun who you really are, and you certainly cannot run God. So when character gaps are revealed, stop running, stop denying, stop hiding. When they are exposed by God's grace, become more Christ-like. It's God's gift to you, to mold you and shape you into who God wants you to be. Don't resist those times. Don't hide, don't pretend. Don't explain away. Use those as opportunities to grow and be more like Jesus. Now, here's the last lesson that we're gonna look at in first Timothy six.

So just flip over at page first Timothy six. I know last time I preached, I highlighted this passage, but I'm gonna come back to it because it's really, really important. The last character lesson here, Timothy says this, or Paul says this to Timothy, he says, but godliness with contentment is great gain. He says, if you want to have a lot in life, here's what you do. Work on your character, become more Christ-like in your character, and be content with what you have.

And you'll have it all. Four, we brought nothing into the world. We can take nothing out of it, but if we have food and clothing, we'll be content with that. Paul says, be content with your daily bread. Wealth is so fleeting. Pursue godliness and contentment. Focus on becoming more Christ-like in your character, not your bank account or your possessions. I could say it this way. Paul says, Hey Tim, your character matters more than your bottom line.

Your character matters more than your bottom line. And then he continues in verse nine, he says, for those who wanna get rich, fall into temptation and a trap. And in many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Some people eager for money have wandered from the faith and they've pierced themselves with many griefs. Paul says, Hey, Tim, young pastor, you need to know this money has a powerful pull on people's hearts. It can easily lead to compromising our character with money and possessions. It can be easy to be impressed with the, the money that possessions of others more than their character and loving money and pursuing that first and not Jesus will lead to a whole host of problems. And it's caused people to wonder from the faith. So, so Tim, Tim, don't walk down that road and lead your people to not walk down that road either. Here's character lesson number three I want you to see today, our relationship with money is a character mirror.

It gives us insight into our character and is a reflection of our character to the world. This is really important. Don't miss this. Our relationship with money is a character mirror. It gives us insight into our own character and it reflects our character to the world. Now listen, money is not evil. Money in our world is necessary. It's neutral. And like many things in our world, it's not whether you have a lot of money or possessions.

It's whether your money and possessions have you. Whether money rules your heart or Jesus does, because our relationship with money is a mere into our own character and a projection of it to other people. So are you drowning in debt right now? If so, what does that say about your character or what you love or what you're pursuing?

Are you saying the wrong yeses in your life so that you don't have time for family and, and time for your church family? Are you a generous person or a generous family? Do you give to God and others to the point of needing to adjust your own lifestyle or, or is all that God gives you spent on you and your own lifestyle?

See, the answers to those questions reveals your true character, not what we say we value, not what we want to value, but what we actually value. When your little Iowa holds up the mirror to your life in how you manage money and possessions, what do they see? Do they see a refreshing picture of someone who is focused on being content with what they have in pursuing Christ's likeness and and being generous?

Or do they see something else? Paul says to Tim, Hey buddy. Um, life is not found in the abundance of your possessions or money, but it's pursuing godliness and Christ-like character and be content with what you have. Because money is a mirror into our character and a projection of our character to the people around us. It absolutely matters.

That's number three. My friends, first and second Timothy, are so rich. There's so many different things I could have drawn out in these two books. So if you haven't read these two letters yet, do it. It's not gonna take a long time. But there's so many things about character that you'll see popping out of the pages of these two letters.

But character matters because your personal obedience and holiness matters. And our witness as a church collectively to the world around us, your little Iowa needs to see Christ-like character from you and from this church. And when you see gaps in your character between who you are and who you want to be between who you are and who Jesus is, it's an invitation from the Holy Spirit to pay attention and to invite God in and to repent and to surrender and say, I'm gonna close that gap with God's help.

I wanna be more like Jesus and who I am. And I, I'm gonna close this way, closing the gap in your character is not about doing better and trying harder. It's not about just working really, really hard to be a better person. And listen, I'm gonna speak to a couple different groups of people right now as I close.

I know some of you listening right now. You're not a follower of Jesus right now. You're checking Jesus out. Maybe you grew up in the church, but you've never stepped over the faith on, you've not trusted in Jesus. And right now, here's what you're doing. You're working really, really hard to be a good person and you're failing and you're really frustrated.

And the reason why is that you're trying to be like Jesus without a relationship with him. And that is impossible. You, you simply can't do it. Hebrews 11, six says it, without faith, it's impossible to please God. Without the power of Jesus in your life, you cannot become more like him. You cannot close those character gaps in your life on your own strength and power. You need to confess, repent, trust in him and find life others of you. Right now, you, you've trusted in Jesus, you stepped over the faith line, but, but here's your deal. You're on the sidelines of faith. You, you, you see gaps in your character and you just kind of ignore 'em.

You see sins in your life and you kind of tuck 'em under the rug and go, oh, there's always gonna be sin. God's grace covers it. Like I know I'm saved. It's not a big deal. And you're just kind of coasting into eternity on the sidelines of faith. And if you're in that spot, I want to challenge you this weekend to get off the sidelines.

Get back in the game of faith. Jesus died for way more than you just a coast in a comfortable life into eternity. He wants you to be sanctified. He wants you to work on those gaps of character in your life, to grow, to be more like Jesus. That's the point of faith. There's others of you right now that know are listening and you're like, Hey, I'm a father of Jesus and I am exhausted because it feels like I play whack-a-mole with all the character gaps in my life. You know that game, whack-a-mole, you smack the mold and like three more pop up.

Some of you right now are, you're just like, Hey, I, I feel like I've got these gaps as a parent. I've got these gaps as a friend. I've got gaps of integrity as a worker in my workplace, and I just feel like I hit one of 'em and three more pop up. And I'm so tired of fighting and I'm so tired of trying to just do better and I'm so tired of like God pointing out all my flaws. Listen, if you're in that spot today, first of all, I absolutely understand it because I'm wired that way.

But if you're in that spot today, here's what you need to remember. You're not supposed to be perfect. Only, only God is, only Jesus wasn't. He was perfect for you. And you need to know today that shame will never motivate you to change. But grace will be motivated by God's grace to change. Jesus says, come to me all who are weary and I'll give you rest. Jesus, come to me because my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

And maybe today you just need to be reminded that hey, God knows, God understands. He sees your effort, he sees your heart. He knows you're trying. He knows that, that you're seeking Him and you're pursuing him. And just remember God's grace. And if you're in that spot today, I'm gonna encourage you to rest and remember it's grace that fuels change.

Not shame, not even guilt. It's God's grace and his love that should be fueling your change. So rest in that surrender whatever weight you feel to him, and just remember that Jesus knows and that God's got you no matter what. Hey, no matter what spot you're in this weekend, um, the solution is all the same. It's surrendered to Jesus. It's confessed when those gaps appear, surrender them to God and let His power empower the way that you change and that you grow because your character matters. Let's pray together, uh, right now as we close God, all of us are in different spots on this faith journey.

Yet your invitation to all of us is the same. You want us to surrender to you to see the character gaps in our lives and by your grace and through your spirit to confess and repent and to grow more like you. For those God today listening that need to step over the faith line and trust in you, God, give them the courage to take that step.

For those that need to get off the sideline and quit coasting in their faith. God, would you convict them to pursue you more wholeheartedly? And for those who are tired and weary of the fight, God, give them rest and give them grace today. God, help us to reflect more of your character to the world, our little Iowa God that desperately needs to see who you are.

It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.