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1 Timothy 5:1-16 - What Should The Church Support Financially? · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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Welcome to Tabernacle talk. Tabernacle talk is a Bible study
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podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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I'm your host, Brian self. We hope this podcast encourages
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you to know Christ, grow in his word and show his love to
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others. Let's dive right in.
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Welcome back to the Tabernacle talk.
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Today we are in first Timothy chapter 5, first Timothy 5, and
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we're going to be looking at verses one through 16.
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Now, today's passage has some really interesting verses and
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and things, topics that it's going to be talking about.
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And not all of these things kind of translate well into our
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current culture. So we don't do some of the
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things that are talked about here.
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This was a specific church, the church at Ephesus that Paul's
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son in the faith, Timothy, was helping to kind of lead and
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direct out of some false teaching, bad behavior, false
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doctrine. And so Paul is helping Timothy,
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if you will, kind of put the church back in order or as we
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would read in chapter 3, Paul told Timothy, I have written
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these things so that you will know how people ought to conduct
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themselves in God's household, which is the Church of the
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living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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So that's the purpose for why this letter is written.
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And we're going to see some specific things that the church
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at Ephesus was paying for financially.
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So we're going to be looking at a little of that both today and
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tomorrow. So if you will, this is the one
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of the only times that we get a look at the budget of early
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churches. And so I, I think that this will
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be a really interesting look together.
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So let's begin reading. I'm going to read all the way
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through verses one through 16. And then we'll go back and we'll
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look believe that there's three, yeah, there's three main
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sections that we're going to look at.
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So beginning in verse number one of First Timothy 5, don't rebuke
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an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as
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brothers, older women as mothers, and the younger women
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as sisters with all purity. Support widows who are genuinely
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in need, but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let
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them learn to practice godliness toward their own family 1st and
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to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
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The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her
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hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and
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prayers. However, she who is self
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indulgent is dead even while she lives.
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Command this also so that they will be above reproach.
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But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially
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for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse
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than an unbeliever. No widow is to be enrolled on
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the list for support unless she is at least 60 years old, has
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been the wife of one husband, and is well known for good
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works. That is, if she has brought up
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children, shown hospitality, washed the Saints feet, helped
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the afflicted, and devoted herself to every good work.
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But refuse to enroll younger widows in.
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Sorry, but refuse to enroll younger widows.
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For when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want
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to marry, and will therefore receive condemnation because
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they have renounced their original pledge.
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At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from
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house to house. They're not only idle, but are
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also gossips and busy bodies saying things they shouldn't
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say. Therefore, I want younger women
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to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the
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adversary no opportunity to accuse us, for some have already
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turned away to follow Satan. If any believing woman has
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widows in her family, let her help them.
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Let the church not be burdened so that it can help widows in
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genuine need. All right.
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Well, this is, as I'm sure you guys noticed as we went through
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this is a smorgasbord of us entering into a a church
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scenario that is very, very foreign to us.
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So let's begin first with verses 1 and 2, because that's the easy
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part of the passage. That's the familiar things here.
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He says don't rebuke an older man.
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So let me give kind of the best example I currently know of.
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So here Paul is writing to Timothy.
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He had just said don't let anyone despise or look down on
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your youth, but be an example of the believers.
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And here he tells this young pastor, don't rebuke an older
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man. I have kids and I've got my 66
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year old as of this Sunday. So I think it's like 2 days
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after this comes out, I'll have a six year old, my son.
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I can talk to him and I can correct him in some ways that if
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I corrected people within my church, especially older men, I
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think I mentioned an episode or two ago, I'm currently the
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youngest male member at Tabernacle.
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So literally any guy at Tabernacle would be an older man
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to me. But you know, I've got some of
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my friends, you know, let's say Jim Newman or Bob Bourne or you
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know that that was another guys if I corrected them if and when
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they were to do something wrong, like I correct my 6 year old
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here. Paul says that that wouldn't be
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an appropriate way to treat someone within the family of
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God. It's not that someone doesn't
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need some correction, but he says don't do it like a rebuke.
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Don't do it like you are talking to an inferior.
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You are talking to someone that is part of the same family, the
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same household that you are a part of.
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So he says don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father
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that you are encouraging him to go in the right.
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He is not, if you will, other people at Tabernacle.
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They are not my my servants, my household slaves.
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That's not the relationship that we have.
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We have the relationship of family.
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And so here he says, Timothy, as you're interacting with older
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men in the church, like exhort them, encourage them in the
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right way that they ought to go, if you will.
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We're we're pushing people towards Christ likeness.
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We're not necessarily always and again, I need to temper even
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this verse with other passages that both Jesus and Paul
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instruct us like, hey, there are going to come times when you
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need to like sharply correct someone where you do need to
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rebuke someone because they've sinned.
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Paul does that with Peter Galatians 2.
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He highlights that. So there are times that a rebuke
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needs to happen, but as far as a regular habit, especially the
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younger pastor is I need to be encouraging people towards the
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right way. Can I ask you, when you try to
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correct other people, are you doing it like in a rebuking
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manner? Like, oh man, you really screwed
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that up. You did this awful.
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You never, you need to never do this or that again.
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Or are you encouraging people towards the right path?
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Like, hey, I know you said this the the last time that we were
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together. It would really help me and help
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our relationship if you did this next time or if you said it in
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this way next time. I think that there's some
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valuable things here as we think about like relationship and
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especially relationship with people, that maybe there's some
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weird age dynamics. Maybe there's a even can be like
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a, a gender dynamic or a cultural dynamic, Perhaps that
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encouraging people towards good behavior can even be better than
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just correcting bad behavior or chiding, you know, kind of
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laying down the law for someone. So he says, don't rebuke an
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older man, but exhort him as a father.
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And then he gives some different ways in which Timothy is to
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interact with the various ages and genders of those within the
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church. He says, treat the older men in
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the church like they are your father.
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So however you would treat. Again, this only works if you're
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led by the Spirit. I, I know many people during
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this time, many people even that might be listening or watching
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to this, listening to or watching this podcast.
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You might be like, oh, OK, I can treat them like I'd treat my
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dad. Yeah, I'm really going to let
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him have it. No, no, no.
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This is in an ideal situation. Here is how you would want to
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treat your father and a good earthly father.
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That is the way in which you should interact with older men
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within the church. That doesn't just go for the
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pastor, by the way. You should also follow that
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instruction if you are, you know, an older woman, or perhaps
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you're an older man. You're not the oldest man in the
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church when there are other older men like view them as part
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of your same family. You are not just people who go
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to the same place together to worship.
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You are not just people that you know, pay your dues to get into
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a club together. No, you are family members.
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And so treat each other like it. Have encouragement, have growth,
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have a love and a care for one another within the household,
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the family of God. She says treat the older men
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like fathers. He says treat the younger men as
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brothers. That when I interact with, you
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know, Zach or when I interact with Mike, I'm viewing these as
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brotherly relationships. We are not rivals.
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We are not people with, you know, competing ideas within a
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company. No, we are part of the same
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family. And so that ought to materially
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change the way that we interact with one another.
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And fortunately a lot of churches, especially if they
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want to do things well and they want to have excellence in what
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they do. Part of the the problem that can
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often come is we view the church as being a product or we view
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the church as a laundry list of programs that we put on that
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hopefully get people to come to the church rather than know this
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is a family. And so we are inviting people
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into a family relationship. And if the church is a business,
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well, you can just not do business at that location
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anymore. Or they don't sell the product
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that I want anymore. And so I'm going to leave the
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church. That is not what the church is.
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The church is a family. So treat the older men as
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fathers. Treat the younger men as
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brothers. Says treat the older women as
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mothers and the younger women as sisters.
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And then he adds here with all purity.
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Hey, young Pastor Timothy, treat the young women like your
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sisters with all purity. And frankly, as you look over
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the last, you know, 30 to 40 years, especially with the
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advent of greater accountability in the world, you can see over
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and over and over again where there have been pastors or
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church leaders or those in charge of either those in charge
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of children that did not have this mindset.
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Like, no, this is my family member.
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Like I protect them, I care for them, I love them.
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It's when, if you will, when pastors get predatory, that
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awful things take place. And so I want to encourage you
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the with all purity that can go for any particular age, you
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know, you, you can be inappropriate with an older man
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or an older woman or a younger man or a younger woman with all
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of the relationships that you have, like treat them all with
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purity, that there's a sincerity, a simplicity in the
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way that you're interacting with one another.
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You're just true of heart in the way that you are interacting.
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You're not, you're not interacting at church in order
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to get something from someone else, but it's just genuine
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familial love between the lot of you.
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So there's that first part. Treat one another like family.
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Then he goes into you actual family members and those that,
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as we're talking here about older women, some of the older
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women will find themselves in time of great need.
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Back in 1st century Rome. You do not have Social Security,
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you don't have pensions, you don't have retirement.
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When a woman's husband died, especially if she did not have
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family, that could be an incredibly dire situation and
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she could be in tremendous need. And so the church at Ephesus,
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their practice, and I think we could see even some of this back
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in Acts 6 with the apostles and then the first kind of proto
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deacons caring for the Hellenistic Jews and the Hebraic
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Jews, that there was a consistent care in the early
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church for the financial needs of truly destitute widows.
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And man, what a, what a joy to see God's people caring for
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those that are genuinely in need.
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Now today we do have great wonderful things like Social
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Security, life insurance, pensions and, and you know, 4 O1
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KS and all that kind of stuff. So today people can be set up in
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some situations to be better off.
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But churches are often still called on, frankly, almost
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every, almost every phone call that I have ever received on a
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church landline, almost every single one of those calls has
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been for money. Now, sometimes that's been a a
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missionary calling about financial support, but far and
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away the most common communication that a church
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landline gets, like literally 9 out of 10 calls are someone
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asking for money from the church, people that have no
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interaction with the church. I think versus 3 through 16
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actually give us a really good road map for how we think about
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how the church spends its funds. So let's walk through this
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together. I'm going to be honest with you
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guys. I, I haven't done a full like
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walkthrough breakdown write down of this passage before.
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And so I'm going to kind of be verbally processing through some
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things as we're walking together.
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And so we're going to learn this together.
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And if I say anything that's dumb, you can be like, well,
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Brian, that was kind of dumb. And I probably, as I say it will
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think that was dumb, that that wasn't correct.
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Hopefully, I'll, I'll correct myself soon, soon enough as I
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speak it. So verse #3 he says support
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widows who are genuinely in need.
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Support widows. Or maybe, depending on your
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translation, you might see the word honor.
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That same phrase is going to come up again in verse #17
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talking about elders that labor in teaching and preaching.
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But it's that we are to support those widows who are genuinely
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in need. So there are some people that
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would seek financial support from the church in the 1st
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century there in Ephesus that should not receive church funds.
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OK, Who should and who should not receive church funds in, if
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you will, the widows program. Now this was not just giving
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money to widows, this was actually these women were viewed
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as kind of like employees of the church.
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So a little bit in the same way as the elders at the church, not
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all of them, but those that labored in teaching and
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preaching were provided for financially by the church.
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The, the widows who would be on this particular list, the
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supported widows list, they had responsibilities at the church.
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I think that's a super interesting thought.
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Like if you went, OK, well, who all does your church hire?
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Well, we hire widows 60 and above with no family in the area
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and, and we, you know, hire some of our, our teachers and
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preachers at the church, like those are the two groups that we
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hire. You might be like, wow, that's,
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that's a really weird employee list or criteria, you know, job
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qualifications. You have first Timothy 3 one
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through 6 and you have first Timothy 5 three through 16.
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You might be like, wow, that's those some weird job
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qualifications. But this is what the early
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church did. So, so support widows who are
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genuinely in need. OK, Timothy would then say This
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is why Paul writes the rest of us all right, what defines in
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need? Who do we hire onto this
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particular list? He says, but if any widow has
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children or grandchildren, let them learn to practice godliness
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toward their own family 1st and to repay their parents for this
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pleases God. Here are the first criteria that
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Paul has is they cannot have local individuals within their
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own family. Those individuals within their
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family, they are to be responsible for meeting the
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financial needs of those that are their family members.
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And here he even phrases it as they need to practice godliness.
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It is a matter of faithfulness and being like our God to take
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care financially of your family members, especially those that
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are elderly. This can definitely be a trying
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thing for some families. I forget if I mentioned it at
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all on the podcast last year, but my in laws were caretaking
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for my father in It was very expensive at times
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it could be emotionally taxing, but they did it out of love for
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Chuck's mom and they did it out of really, I think a reflection
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of the heart of God that God says, listen, I will provide
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food and water and shelter and clothing and I will sometimes
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give those things to people through their family members.
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So those that have family, their family has a responsibility
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towards that person and I love that.
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He says that they need to practice godliness and to repay
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their parents for this pleases God.
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Brian and Sally Self, my parents, they supported me for,
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you know, really, I'll say 21 years of my life.
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Obviously in college, I, I began, you know, supporting
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myself in some ways and, and, and working all through college,
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that kind of stuff. But they were there for me and,
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and they helped out financially at sometimes that were a huge
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blessing to me. But they worked their tails off
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to give me clothing and food and family and fun, all of that over
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the course of the 1st 21 years of my life.
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I should not get to, you know, like let's say my parents are.
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65 or 70 or 95 and they're in need.
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I shouldn't go. Well, listen, I've got my own
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family now. And you guys, you know you, you
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made your bed now you got to sleep in it.
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I am not responsible for you. Scripture says your family
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members, your your parents or your grandparents, you owe them
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a debt. That is what God says.
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And so care for them, love them, provide for them.
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However God enables you to. Just like you would say if you
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had a kid, you have a responsibility to care for that
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child. God says you have a
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responsibility. If you have parents or
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grandparents, you have a responsibility to make sure that
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they are provided for, that they are cared for, that they are OK.
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This is what the word of God says verse #5 the widow who is
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truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God and
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continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
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A widow that does not have family but is really just
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reliant on God to go, all right, Lord, if I'm going to have food,
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if I'm going to have clothing, I need you to help me.
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That should be where, if you will, the church's benevolence
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goes to those who are without other recourse.
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There's no one else that ought to be responsible to care for
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their needs, but it's someone that their only hope is God.
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Paul says, hey, the church is a great answer from the Lord to
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that person as they are praying for God to meet their needs.
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Verse #6 as opposed to a widow who is truly in need and calls
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out to God. Verse number six.
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However, she who is self indulgent is dead even while she
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lives. Someone that is spending and
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wasting everything that they have like indulgently.
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They're not being careful. They're not in, if you will, I'm
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going to use the word investing. I don't necessarily mean like
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into a four O 1K or something, but they're not making good
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financial decisions. They're they're making wasteful
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financial decisions. Paul says, listen, that person
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like they are making the choice of what they are relying on.
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And what they are relying on right now is, oh, I can have
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fun. I can have some funds, and then
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I'll just ask the church for money.
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Unfortunately, as a pastor, or maybe fortunately, now that
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we're in the social media age, you're able to see when people
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are, you know, requesting funds and things from the church.
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You're able to see, Oh, yeah, they were out partying all last
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week and two weeks ago, You know, they are showing off, you
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know, some fancy watch and oh, man, they just got a new car
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about two months ago. And hear from the word of God.
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We're instructed like there are people who are genuinely in need
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and they are calling out to God for help and they're not using,
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they are not requesting funds from the church.
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They're not, you know, requesting to be hired is one of
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these widows on the roll. They're not requesting money in
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order to further bankroll like all the fun that they want to
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have. Like they're just genuinely in
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need. Help out people who are
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genuinely in need. Verse #7 command this also so
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that they will be above reproach that anyone that would see these
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widows that are on the roll, they go man, you know Miss Susan
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is just a phenomenal person and she is godly and you know she
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misses Mr. Steve very much. But man, Miss Susan like she,
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she is a prayer warrior. She loves the Lord.
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I'm so glad that we as a church get to help out Miss Susan.
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Verse #8 It says but if anyone does not provide for his own
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family, especially for his own household, he has denied the
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faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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This would be because God is the one that provides for us like he
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sacrificed his life to care for us.
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But someone that does not hear a man that does not provide for
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the needs of his family, especially when that here
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there's a widow. So this would be his mom or his
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grandma that is totally destitute and in need of
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financial assistance or in need of a home and he does nothing to
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help her. That is so anti gospel.
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And so here that's why Paul says this person is worse than an
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unbeliever. I grew up on the King James, it
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says is worse than an infidel. It is to deny the faith, to deny
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loving care for those within your family.
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Do with that, however the Lord guides your spirit.
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Verse #9 No widow is to be enrolled on the list for support
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unless she is at least 60 years old, has been the wife of one
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husband, and is well known for good works.
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I have to hurry up here real quick.
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This is hopeful. Paul is walking through.
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All right, Who goes on the list? Is it just anyone that does not
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currently have a husband? He says no.
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This ought to be people that they are faithful to the spouse
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that they had. You don't have, you know, serial
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adulteresses, sexually promiscuous people.
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You have people that they they can't remarry.
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Here it's 60 years old is the age that he sets for it.
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Certainly if you're past 60, you can marry.
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But here Paul says you're not as likely to.
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This is someone in kind of the sunset years of their life, they
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aren't going to be able to remarry.
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And so he says those that have been faithful to their spouse,
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they aren't able to remarry and thus find support from from
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their new husband. And they are known for just
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doing good works. This is a great category for
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anyone that the church would give money to is prioritize
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those that they're going through incredibly hard times.
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But man, they are faithful, good people.
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And I've seen so many of those within my life.
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I do not have time to give illustrations.
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But then in verse #10 Paul describes what some of those
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good works are bringing up. Children like loving kids, not
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abdicating their responsibilities.
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But OK, I had these kids and now I'm going to raise these kids.
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Showing hospitality to others, making food for others or having
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them into their home. Washing the Saints feet.
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This is personal, devoted care and love for another.
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It says. Helping the afflicted and
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devoting themselves to every good work.
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This is what it looks like to do good and all of these things.
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This goes for widows. This goes for regular men and
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women. This goes for single people.
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All of these works are great things for all of us to do.
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Where's #11 but refused to enroll younger widows.
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And here he's talking specifically about those that
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would pursue desire leaving Christ and adopting the religion
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of their new husbands. So Paul wants younger widows to
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remarry. That's what we're told in verse
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#14 he says, I want the younger women, the younger widows to
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remarry. But like they should only be
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marrying other Christians. Christians should not marry non
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Christians. That is a consistent theme
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throughout scripture. So verse 11 he says, but refuse
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to enroll younger with us. For when they are drawn away
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from Christ by desire, they want to marry and will therefore
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receive condemnation because they've renounced their original
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pledge. So you would have those that
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would want to get on this this church widow role to receive
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funds, but then these ones that were like, Oh yes, like we will
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care. We will pray for people.
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We will help people. They meet someone that is not a
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Christian and they go, they marry that person, they adopt
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this new religion. And the church has been, if you
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will, bankrolling them all of this time as they do that.
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And there's condemnation there as they've renounced their
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pledge to Christ and renounce their pledge to help out those
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within the church. Verse #13 At the same time, they
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also learn to be idle, going from house to house.
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So they are lazy that are not doing anything with their time.
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They're not doing anything spiritually productive with
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their time. They're going from house to
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house. They are gossips and busy bodies
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saying things they shouldn't say.
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Here again in the Bible, gossips, those that slander
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others. That is never a good thing.
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Verse 14 Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have
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children, manage their households and give the
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adversary no opportunity to accuse us attempt as far as the
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Lord gives you the ability to walk in the regular everyday
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life that God has for you. Whether that's a first
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Corinthian 7 God's given you the gift of singleness like use it
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to pursue Christ and serve the church and a lot of others.
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If God leads you into marriage that you use that and pursue
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like not just vacations and trips and fun and lots of money.
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No, no, like pursue loving your spouse, loving your children
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that the Lord gives you and children are a good thing a a
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heritage, a treasure, a gift from the Lord is what we read
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together in Psalms. All of that takes place.
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This is so that the adversary Satan does not accuse us.
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He says for some have already turned away to follow.
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Satan says if any believing woman has widows in her family,
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let her help them. Let the church not be burdened
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so that it can help widows in genuine need.
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From this I would get, and this is the last thing I'll say today
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because I know I went way over on time again, the church ought
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to do what no one else can do. So if there's someone that could
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be meeting a need, the church does not need to take that on.
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If there's a need that only the church can meet, then the church
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can. And I, I would say has a
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scriptural responsibility to care for those without any other
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recourse. So I don't know what the Lord
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has for you from some of that today.
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Maybe you need to care for your family.
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Maybe you need to treat others within the body of Christ as
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your brothers and sisters or as a spiritual father or mother
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having a love and a care for them.
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Maybe God wants you to not be a gossip or a busy body, or the
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Lord would have you to like, love your spouse and live life
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to the fullest in the ways that he would have you. 2 All of
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these are wonderful truths that we can apply to our lives and I
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hope it's been an encouragement to you today.
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See you next episode as we look at Elders, the good and the bad,
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and looking forward to that time together.