Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe,
Arizona.
In this video, I want to give a very detailed and thorough explanation of 1 Timothy chapter
6 verses 13 through 16.
I want to just break this down word by word, explain the parts of speech, explain the grammar
here.
And the reason that I'm doing that with this portion of scripture is that our disgraced
deacon that was fired a year ago, Tyler Baker, claimed that this was the verse that led him
into his oneness heresy, that he believed this oneness, Pentecostal view of Godhead,
as opposed to a traditional Trinitarian view.
Let me make it clear, Faithful Word Baptist Church believes in the traditional Orthodox
view of the Trinity.
Well, now another of our staff members has been fired, Garrett Kirschway, and not only
has he embraced this oneness heresy and called the Trinity polytheistic, well, he has also
embraced this bizarre interpretation of 1 Timothy 6 that led to all of this.
Now the stupid interpretation of 1 Timothy 6 is that no one has ever seen Jesus.
Now that right there on its face to anybody who's ever read the Bible or even remotely
heard about the Bible or Jesus, that right there on its face should be seen as just nonsense
and ridiculous because we know that Jesus Christ lived on this earth.
He walked among us and even after he died and was buried and rose again, he was seen
of over 500 brethren at once.
So how can any person in their right mind walk away from the New Testament saying that
no one's ever seen Jesus?
It's just so ridiculous.
It's not even worth addressing, but I guess it needs to be addressed because now other
people are embracing this bizarre teaching from 1 Timothy 6, so I'm going to take the
time to break it down and explain it.
Now it's pretty clear throughout the Bible that nobody's ever seen God the Father because
the Bible is clear that if any man sees his face, they will die.
He told Moses, no man shall see my face and live.
And when Moses even just caught a glimpse of the hinder parts of God as he passed by,
you know, his face shone and he had to put a veil over his face because the children
of Israel couldn't even look at him.
And the Bible says in John 1 18, no man has seen God at any time.
The only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he had declared him.
So people have seen the Son of God.
People have seen the Lord Jesus Christ, but they have not seen God the Father.
Well, according to these heretics, they're saying that 1 Timothy 6 proves that nobody's
ever seen Jesus, which is right away.
That should just be seen as ridiculous because it would contradict the whole rest of the
Bible.
But let's break this down and see if that's actually what's being taught here.
Let's go through it word by word here.
I give thee charge and the sign of God who quickeneth all things and before Christ Jesus
who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession that thou keep this commandment
without spot unrebucable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which in his times
he shall show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
who only at the mortality dwelling in the light, which no man can approach unto whom
no man has seen nor can see to him be honor and power everlasting.
Amen.
Now, the first thing I want to show you about the scripture is that this is all one sentence.
You can clearly see at the end of verse 13, semicolon, colon there at the end of 14, semicolon.
The period doesn't come until verse 16, so this is all one sentence.
Now at the beginning of this passage, we have two different persons mentioned here.
We have God and we have Jesus.
I give thee charge and the sign of God who quickeneth all things and before Christ Jesus
who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession.
And then he goes on.
But the point is that pronouns that occur later in the scripture can refer to either
of these two persons.
And in fact, it makes the most sense that if God is going to bring up two persons here,
God and Jesus, we wouldn't just spend the whole rest of the time only talking about
Jesus.
It would make sense that we would talk about both God and Jesus, which were introduced
at the beginning of the sentence.
Now Tyler Baker and Garrett and the rest of these oneness heretics, they're saying, well,
there's no other antecedent here.
It's gotta be Jesus.
No it doesn't gotta be Jesus because we have two antecedents right here, God and Jesus.
And we know that it's God whom no man hath seen at any time.
That's what it says in John 1 18, no man had seen God at any time.
The only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the father, he hath declared him.
So we know that every eye shall see him at his second coming.
I mean, how can you say that whom no man had seen nor can see is referring to Jesus
when he's already been seen and everybody's going to see him at his second coming.
That just flies in the face of hundreds of clear scriptures that they just want to ignore
and completely throw out and take this bizarre view of first Timothy chapter six.
Now let's see that actually these pronouns could easily refer to God and not Jesus.
In fact, that is what they refer to and that's what any normal person reading this passage
would believe since they've read the rest of the Bible where Moses can't look on the
face of God and live and all these different things that prove that whereas we see Jesus
being seen and handled and looked upon.
Now let's go through these pronouns here.
I labeled some of these with an S for subject and a DO for direct object just to make it
a little bit easier to follow just to make this very simple.
I want this to be clear and simple.
Now this is pretty important to realize that this is who not whom.
If this were whom, then it would be the object.
So when it says which in his times he shall show, the who here is not the one being shown
or it would say whom with an M on the end, but this is the one that is doing the showing.
This is the one who is doing the manifesting, the showing, the demonstrating, the revealing.
Down here when it becomes a direct object, it's whom.
Whom no man has seen or can't see, obviously the no man is the subject and so on.
Now as we go through this, you'll see here that the who is the subject because it actually
is the same person as this person right here, the he here.
He shall show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
who only hath immortality, still the same person, dwelling in the light which no man
can approach unto, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and power of the
lasting Amen.
Now this is all the same person, but this is not Jesus.
This is God the Father.
See it's the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it's God the Father who is the
blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who only hath immortality,
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto.
We know that Jesus Christ does not dwell in a light that no man can approach unto.
I mean when we die and go to heaven, we're going to see Jesus and we will be able to
follow him whithersoever he goeth and it's God the Father that dwells in the light that
no man can approach unto.
That's why in Acts chapter 7 when Stephen looks up to heaven, he sees the glory of God
and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
So this isn't Tyler's world where he looks up and just sees one throne and one person
on that throne.
No, he actually looks up and he sees the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand
of God.
Now he saw the glory of God.
Another word for glory is brightness or shining.
So he saw the light that no man can approach unto and he saw Jesus standing at the right
hand of the glory of God in Acts 7 55.
Now this is where Tyler and friends go off the rails.
They think that because it says King of Kings and Lord of Lords that it has to be Jesus
and they'll take you to another verse that calls Jesus the King of Kings and Lord of
Lords.
But what they don't understand is that God the Father is also the King of Kings and Lord
of Lords.
And in fact, if we go back to the Old Testament, we'll find God referred to as God of Gods
and Lord of Lords.
And all of the Old Testament names of God can all refer to God in general or to the
Father or to the Son or to the Holy Ghost.
The Old Testament names of God are not just for God the Father.
Any of the names go for any member of the Trinity.
So whether we're talking about Jehovah, the Lord of Hosts, the Lord God, God, all of those
terms can be used in reference to Jesus or God the Father because Jesus is the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords.
But are you going to tell me that God is not also the Lord of Lords?
Are you going to tell me that God the Father is not Lord of Lords and King of Kings?
Obviously he is.
And so for them to just look at King of Kings and Lord of Lords and just say, oh, that has
to be Jesus because he's called that over here.
Well, newsflash, they're both called the Lord.
They're both called God.
They're both called King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
They're both called the Lord of Hosts.
So just the fact that it says the Blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, Lord
of Lords, who only hath them our time, that's all God the Father right there.
It's Jesus Christ who appears.
It is Jesus Christ who is revealed by God the Father.
And it makes perfect sense because we start out the verse talking about God and Jesus.
And then who do we talk about later in the verse?
Jesus and God the Father.
So instead of just giving a quick nod to God the Father and then the whole rest of the
passage being about Jesus, it actually mentions God the Father, talks about Jesus, talks about
Jesus, talks about God the Father.
So the witch here I've labeled as a direct object.
This is not a who or whom.
This is referring to the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But who is the one who reveals the Lord Jesus Christ?
Who's the one who sent the Son to be the Savior of the world?
It's obviously God the Father.
And so He's the one who is doing the showing.
The appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ is the show.
And this is the one that does the showing.
Okay.
Now you say, well, how do you know you're right, Pastor Anderson?
How do you know that this isn't referring to Jesus?
Well, I'll tell you how I know.
Because of the fact that the entire rest of the Bible goes on and on about Jesus being
seen over and over again.
And there are tons of scriptures that refer to God the Father not being seen.
And it clearly says no man has seen God in any time, but the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He had declared Him.
We have the Father mentioned and the Son mentioned.
And it's the Son who was manifested in the flesh and dwelled among us.
And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.
So you can't just read this scripture in a vacuum, okay?
If you have pronouns here, who, who, whom, they have to refer to an antecedent.
These are your two options right here.
God and Jesus.
Okay.
So if we look at the whole rest of the Bible, it's crystal clear that it's the Father who
has not been seen and the Son who has been seen.
So which of these antecedents do we plug into these pronouns?
We plug in God the Father.
And then the scripture makes sense.
So let's go ahead and plug it in, okay?
So that thou keep this commandment without spot unrebucible until the appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and then let's plug in for which the appearing of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which in his times, God the Father shall show, God the Father who is the blessed
and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, God the Father who only has
immortality dwelling in the light which no man could approach unto, God the Father whom
no man has seen nor can see, to whom God the Father be honor and power everlasting.
If we plug in God the Father, this makes perfect sense.
Now if we plug in Jesus, we would say the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ shall show, which doesn't make as much
sense that he is showing his own appearing, okay?
Because that would be redundant and grammatically strange.
It makes more sense that it's God the Father who reveals Jesus, not Jesus just revealing
himself.
But see, the modalist Jesus does everything to himself.
He prays to himself.
He loves himself.
He glorifies himself.
He honors himself.
Of course, Jesus Christ said that he did not send himself.
He does not bring honor to himself, glorify himself.
He didn't make himself a high priest.
And it's the Father who loved the Son.
But you know, right here, it's pretty clear that if we plug in Jesus, it doesn't fit.
If we plug in God the Father, it fits.
It makes sense.
Okay.
So if we're going to sit there and for these guys to build a whole doctrine on this and
say, well, see right there, there's only one antecedent.
It has to be Jesus.
Well, no.
And no one in their right mind would plug Jesus into this because you'd have to throw
out so many clear scriptures.
So anyway, I hope that that breakdown was educational for you.
If you're unsaved, you're going to continue to believe in modalism because you're under
the control of the devil.
And the devil is clearly rolling out this Trinity denying doctrine in the end times,
this oneness, modalist heresy.
It's springing up in a lot of places at the same time.
It's going to continue because it's perfect for the end times to bring all religions together
to worship a oneness God because the Trinity is unique to Christianity.
So you know, that's why this is happening.
So look, if you're watching this and you still think that nobody's ever seen Jesus, well,
congratulations, you're not saved because you can't understand scripture.
You're actually so foolish to think that nobody's ever seen our Lord and Savior, Jesus,
who died on the cross for us and was buried in Rosegate.
You think nobody's ever seen him.
You don't believe in the witnesses, I guess, who saw him rise from the dead.
I guess they're all liars.
And I guess you don't believe he's coming back someday and that everybody's going to
see him then.
So congratulations on being unsaved.
If you're actually saved and you realize that nobody's ever seen God the Father, but the
people have seen Jesus, well then, you know, I just hope that this video helped you sharpen
up your sword a little bit.
God bless you.
Have a great day.