The Importance of Teaching

Its Emphasis

1. TEACHING DEFINED
1. The Passing of Information
1. Two generations (Deuteronomy 4:10; Deuteronomy 6:7)
2. Three generations (Deuteronomy 4:9)
3. Four generations (2 Timothy 2:2)
1. Paul
2. Timothy
3. Faithful men
4. Others also
4. Accountability of generations (Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 5:9)
2. The Building of People
1. The responsibility of a teacher is to instruct the students (Proverbs 5:13).
2. By defining three words connected to teaching, we can gain an idea of the goal of teaching.
1. Inform - to place a form or shape within somone (Romans 6:17; 2 Timothy 1:13)
2. Instruct – to place a structure or order within someone
3. Edify – to build up; connected to the word edifice which is a building
2. THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES
1. In the Old Testament
1. In the law
1. Inform and its various forms (1)
2. Instruct and its various forms (3)
3. Teach and its various forms (22)
4. Total (26)
2. In the writings
1. Instruct and its various forms (40)
2. Teach and its various forms (73)
3. Total (113)
3. In the prophets
1. Inform and its various forms (1)
2. Instruct and its various forms (11)
3. Teach and its various forms (34)
4. Total (46)
2. In the New Testament.
1. In the gospels
1. Instruct and its various forms (3)
2. Teach and its various forms (61)
3. Total (64)
2. In the Book of Acts
1. Inform and its various forms (5)
2. Instruct and its various forms (1)
3. Teach and its various forms (20)
4. Total (26)
3. In the epistles
1. Instruct and its various forms (7)
2. Teach and its various forms (46)
3. Total (53)
4. In the Book of Revelation
1. Teach and its various forms (2)
2. Total (2)
3. COMPARED TO PREACHING
1. In the Old Testament
1. In the law
1. Teaching (26)
2. Preaching (0)
2. In the writings
1. Teaching (113)
2. Preaching (9)
3. In the prophets
1. Teaching (46)
2. Preaching (3)
2. In the New Testament
1. In the gospels
1. Teaching (64)
2. Preaching (38)
2. In the book of Acts (Acts 5:42)
1. Teaching (26)
2. Preaching (38)
3. In the epistles
1. Teaching (53)
2. Preaching (64)
4. In the Book of Revelation
1. Teaching (2)
2. Preaching (1)
4. IN THE MINISTRY OF KEY MEN
1. Christ (Acts1:1)
1. The emphasis on teaching
1. Teaching (46)
2. Preaching (19)
2. Demonstrated by His title
1. Master (Matthew 10:24-25)
2. Rabbi (John 1:38; John 3:2)
3. Rabboni (John 20:16)
4. Prophet (Matthew 21:11)
5. The overriding emphasis in the gospels is not that of Christ as the prophet or preacher, but as the teacher.
2. Paul (1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:11)
5. FOR THE PASTOR
1. The Qualifications of a Bishop
1. In 1 Timothy 3 (1 Timothy 3:2; 2 Timothy 2:24)
2. In Titus 1 (Titus 1:9)
2. Set Forth in the Pastoral Epistles
1. To Timothy (1 Timothy 4:11; 2 Timothy 2:2)
2. To Titus (Titus 2:1)
6. AS AN OFFICE
1. At the Church at Antioch (Acts 13:1)
2. Gifts to the body (1 Corinthians 12:27-28; Ephesians 4:11-15)