GODLINESS I. It’s Important 1Tim 4:8 The Life that now is. 1. Uncertain 2. Short 3. Chequered 4. Important II. It’s Illusiveness 1Tim 6:11 III. It’s Often Faked 2Tim 3:5 IV. It is Emphatic 1Tim 6:3 V. It can be Yours 2Pet 1:2-3 A. How B. When C. Formula Conclusion 1Tim 3:16

1. GODLINESS
I. It’s Important 1Tim 4:8
1Tim 4:8
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness
is profitable unto all things, having promise of the
life that now is, and of that which is to come.
The Life that now is.
1.Uncertain
Jas 4:14
14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the
morrow…
2.Short
Jas 4:14

2. …For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that
appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Job 14:1-2
1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days,
and full of trouble.
2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut
down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and
continueth not.
1Chr 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and
sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days
on the earth are as a shadow, and there is
none abiding.
Ps 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth;
and I am withered like grass.
3.Chequered
Gen 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years
of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years:
few and evil have the days of the years of my life
been, and have not attained unto the days of the

3. years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage.
Rom 4:2
For if Abraham were justified by works, he
hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
1Cor 1:29, 31
That no flesh should glory in his presence.
31
That, according as it is written, He that
glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
4.Important
It has a relation to that which is to come.
1Tim 4:8
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but
godliness is profitable unto all things,
having promise of the life that now is,
and of that which is to come.
II. It’s Illusiveness 1Tim 6:11
1Tim 6:11

4. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
patience, meekness.
Jer 29:13
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye
shall search for me with all your heart.
Joel 2:12
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye
even to me with all your heart, and with
fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Acts 8:37
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine
heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for
he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
III. It’s Often Faked 2Tim 3:5
2Tim 3:5

5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof: from such turn away.
Matt 23:3
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe,
that observe and do; but do not ye after their
works: for they say, and do not.
Matt 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited
sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's
bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matt 23:28
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous
unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy
and iniquity.
Matt 25:3
They that were foolish took their lamps, and
took no oil with them:
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works
they deny him, being abominable, and
disobedient, and unto every good work
reprobate.

6. 2Pet 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
these things; in which are some things hard to
be understood, which they that are unlearned
and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction.
IV. It is Emphatic 1Tim 6:3
1Tim 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;
1Tim 6:5
…destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the
acknowledging of the truth which is after
godliness;

7. V. It can be Yours 2Pet 1:2-3
A. How
2Pet 1:2-3
2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through
the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3
According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us
to glory and virtue:
Prov 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge…
2Pet 1:5-8
5
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness;
7
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.
8
For if these things be in you, and abound, they
make you that ye shall neither be barren nor

8. unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
B. When
1Tim 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and
exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
C. Formula
Dan 4:27
27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable
unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness,
and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor;
if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Hos 10:12
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in
mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to
seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness
upon you.
1Tim 6:5

9. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and
destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
godliness: from such withdraw thyself. math
[If] gain= godliness [Then] Withdraw Thyself
1Tim 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Godliness + Contentment= Great Gain
2Tim 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will
increase unto more ungodliness. math
Profane Babblings * Vain Babblings= Ungodliness
∞
Conclusion 1Tim 3:16
1Tim 3:16
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness:

10. God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit,
seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world,
received up into glory.
2Pet 3:11
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness,
The Nature of Godliness.
Comprehends the fear of God.
Perpetual pursuit of the knowledge of God.
Growing relationship with God.
The practice of righteousness.
A humble and supreme regard to the honour
and glory of God in all things through the
instruction of Scripture.

11. John 14:23
23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he
will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we
will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
GODLINESS
I. It’s Important 1Tim 4:8
The Life that now is.
1. Uncertain
2. Short
3. Chequered
4. Important
II. It’s Illusiveness 1Tim 6:11
III. It’s Often Faked 2Tim 3:5
IV. It is Emphatic 1Tim 6:3
V. It can be Yours 2Pet 1:2-3
A. How
B. When
C. Formula
Conclusion 1Tim 3:16