1 Timothy 6:13

“I charge you”: To command, order, give orders, instruct, direct.

1 Timothy 6:13 “In the presence of God”: Compare with Galatians 1:20; 1 Timothy 5:21; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timothy 4:1. “He cautions him to remember that God witnesses and will hold him to strict account if he fails to meet the responsibility thus taken upon himself” (Lipscomb p. 184). Here is an incentive to faithfulness, God is always watching.

1 Timothy 6:13 “Who gives life to all things”: This pictures God as the source of all life. In the Greek, this is. present participle, and thus characterizes God as. continuing life-giver. See Acts 17:25; Numbers 2:22. “Perhaps he means that God is the source of life, and that as He has given life to Timothy natural and spiritual He had. right to require that it be employed in His service” (Reese p. 288). “It views God as the Preserver of all, able to preserve His servant faithful even unto death in. courageous defense of the Gospel” (Reese p. 117).

Seeing that God gives life to all things, we must reject the unscientific theory of spontaneous generation, which naturally excludes the theory of evolution that is based on the above false premise. Nothing came into being by accident.

1 Timothy 6:13 “And of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate”:

The same Jesus who brought all things into existence (John 1:1; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:2; Colossians 1:16), is the same Jesus to stood before Pontus Pilate and made the good confession (Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:3; John 18:33).

1 Timothy 6:13 “Before Pontus Pilate”: Pilate was. governor from 25-37 A.D. Eusebius, who lived in the fourth century tells us, on the authority of certain Greek historians, that Pilate fell into such calamities and that he committed suicide. Paul wrote to Timothy around 66-67 A.D., how times had changed. “His confession before Pilate became the model, the motive, and the power of all the confessions which His followers make for Him” (Hiebert p. 118). Before Pilate, Jesus confessed that He was King (Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:2; John 18:37), and that He had. kingdom whose source was not of this world (John 18:36). “Paul terms Christ's confession ‘good' because it contains the great truths which make possible salvation for men. Thus it is the Savior-Christ who is vitally interested in the ministries of His servants” (Kent p. 202).