Relationships Within the People of God – Respect and Purity

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