Peter Barnes | 1 Timothy 5:1-2; Titus 2:2, 6
SERMON NOTES
RESPECT AND PURITY
(1 Timothy 5:1-2; Titus 2:2, 6)
– we relate to one another in terms of age and gender. Remember that Timothy was young (1 Tim.4:12)
1. How old men and young men are to conduct themselves.
– Tit.2:2; Calvin warns against ‘old foxes’; see Prov.26:1
– faith, love, and patience (note 1 Thess.1:3; James 5:7)
– Tit.2:6; note 2 Tim.2:22; Cicero thought this could not be done.
2. Pastoring men.
– 1 Tim.5:1; see Lev.19:32; Job 32:4-7.
3. Pastoring women.
– 1 Tim.5:2; see Rom.16:13 and Prov.23:22
– Patrick Fairbairn on treating the younger women as sisters: ‘A most necessary caution for all times!’
– 1 John 5:3