Tag: 1 Timothy

 

This section is on the tasks of elders and their remuneration.

1. Elders are to teach and rule.
   • 5:17. Calvin sees ruling and teaching elders. But all elders are to rule and to teach – 3:2, 4-5. The distinction is between those who labour at these tasks and those who

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Two things might help us here: (a) The widows are to receive support from the Church, and presumably to minister in some way for the Church. (b) Some of this is surely specific to the situation in Ephesus e.g. verse 9. Calvin considered that the widows of 1 Timothy …

 

Mark 3:31-35. Bonhoeffer refers to four creation mandates for all humanity: labour, marriage, government, and the Church as the community of believers.

1. Pastoring men.
   1. Older men. The KJV has ‘elder’ but it is not referring to a man with the office of elder but an older man.
   • Lev.19:32. Calvin

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The emphasis is clearly on the Word of God understood and applied.

1. Dwell on biblical teaching and godliness.
   • 4:11. The ‘these things’ could look back to verses 6-10, but it is probably looking ahead, as in the paragraphing of the ESV and NIV. Paul wants Timothy to persevere and

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Calvin: ‘As we know, most people soon tire of things which are beneficial to them’ … ‘Yet men, alas, are always craving novelty.’

1. Be nourished by good doctrine.
   • 4:6. Timothy was trained in Scripture from an early age – 2 Tim.3:15. Daniel the prophet read the Scriptures – Daniel

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Not long before this Paul had to warn the elders there about threats to biblical truth – Acts 20:29-30.

1. The source of false teaching.
   • 4:1-2. The ‘later times’ is not near the end of all things, but within Timothy’s own lifetime.
   • 2 Cor.11:13-15; John 8:44. Look at what happens

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Paul has been telling Timothy about how the church at Ephesus is to be run. Now he comes to summarise the message of the Church.

1. Our plans for the future are provisional.
   • 3:14-15; note 4:13; 1 Cor.4:19; 1 Thess.2:17-18; 3:1, 5-6, 9-10. We are meant to plan for the

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1 Timothy 3:1-13 shows that there are two ordinary offices in the Church. Deacons must derive from Acts 6:1-6. Calvin: deacons are ‘those whom the Church appoints to dispense alms, and take care of the poor’.

1. Deacons must be godly.
   • 3:8 (note v.3); 3:12 (see vv.2, 4-5); 3:10.
2. Deacons

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1. The elder must be able to teach.
   • 3:2. For all in Hebrews 5:12. Lawrence Eyres: ‘An elder need not be a gifted public speaker, or an able teacher of the Bible to large groups, though both these gifts are highly desirable. But at the very least, an elder must

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Kathy Keller: ‘One woman told me tearfully when she learned Redeemer did not ordain women as elders or pastors, “It was like finding out that your fiancé is a child molester!”’ The subject has certainly made for drama and melodrama.

1. Women are not to teach or exercise authority over

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