A. Good minister. 4:1-10 The sound minister’ s understanding of the marriage and food. v.1-5 V.1 a) Departure from Christ - I. Declaration of the Spirit. A. Spoken Presently - Its spoken to warn believers. B. Shared Prophetically - Its yet future. II. Departure from the faith. Before Antichrist is revealed a departure from faith occurs. 2.Thes.2:3; Matt.24:11; Mark 13:22; Acts 20:29-30; 2.Tim.3:1-9, 13; 2.Peter 3:1-9 III. Deceiving Doctrines of Demons. A. Deceiving spirits. The early stage of being deceived through words, spiritual senses, dreams and spiritual experiences - They are pews of their deception. B. Doctrine of Demons. When a person is deceived then they are being established in their doctrines - They are spokesmen of their doctrines. V.2 b) Defect Conscience - I. Hypocrites Speaking lies. They are Refusing to Respond to their former knowledge of Truth. II. Hot Seared conscience. They have become insensitive to Truth. V.3 c) Denial of Created things - I. Denial of marriage. Probably denying marriage to receive higher spiritual status and revelation. II. Despising foods. A. Probably despising food because of reincarnation and Judaism. B. God has declared food clean in the New Testament. Matt.15:10-20; Acts 10:9-16; 1.Cor.10:23-33 C. Believers should receive the food with thanksgiving and not with a bad conscience. V.4 d) Design of the Creator - I. Eat all for it is Good. All that God has created is good; he didn’ t create anything bad. Gen.1:31 II. Eat all with Gratitude. The problem is mans conscience, everything should be eaten with a thankful heart. V.5 e) Declaration of the Word and prayer - Purified by the Word and Prayer - If we pray and ask God to bless it God will be faithful to purity the food. Acts 10:15 V.6 f) Follow the good conscience - The sound minister’ s mind. I. Good minister. A good minister is one that preaches Truth and not what people like to hear. II. Good doctrine. A minister can only become a good minister by: A. Being nourished in word of faith. B. Being nourished in doctrine. C. Continual following these. The sound minister’ s exercise of godliness. V.7 g) Fables reject and exercise godliness - I. Profane fables. All that are not founded upon Scripture but only myths, fables, stories and man’ s ideology and commandments he should reject. II. Practise of godliness. Only the things that cause godly fear should be considered. V.8 h) Favourable of godliness - I. External profit. All kinds of bodily exercises has no eternal rewards or value, only a little momentarily benefits, II. Eternal profit. A. Building up the Body of Christ has eternal rewards, great value and eternal benefits. B. Godliness is beneficial for all areas of life even the eternal life. C. Spiritual development is more important than physical development. V.9 i) Faithful saying - Faithful and Favourable saying. I. This saying is to be trusted. II. Its content is worthy to be received by all. V.10 j) Faith in God - I. The Labouring Goal. All devoted believers forsook the world and lived for God, they were focused on the eternal life to come. Heb.11:8-10, 24-26 II. The Living God. They were not focused on physical exercise but instead trusted God who is able to save.