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1 Timothy 6:1-10 - Godliness WITH Contentment Is Great Gain · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Well, Happy New Year, friends and faithful listeners,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to the Bible Explained Podcast on this lovely January. First,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be in First Timothy, chapter six. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going to finish out this chapter just yet, but
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  Speaker 1: we have a really interesting topic today, actually a few
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  Speaker 1: interesting topics. We're going to talk about slavery. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about people who twist the Bible for their
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  Speaker 1: own selfish gain, and we're also going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the love of money. So we have a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stuff to discuss on today's episode. Stay tuned. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope you guys have had a great New Year so far,
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  Speaker 1: this lovely New Year's morning, and tell me what you
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  Speaker 1: But let's delve into Fir Timothy six versus one through ten.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, there's a lot of topics we're going
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  Speaker 1: to cover today, and I'll be getting into those in
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  Speaker 1: your cups of coffee or cups of tea, and let's
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  Speaker 1: read first Timothy six, one through ten. This morning. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be reading, as I always do, from the World English
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  Speaker 1: Bible or the Web. And by the way, for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who don't know why I read from Web,
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  Speaker 1: it is because it is a public domain version of Scripture,
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  Speaker 1: and I like the Web a little bit better than
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  Speaker 1: the KJV, which is another public domain version of Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why I read from that version. But of
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  Speaker 1: course I always encourage you guys to read from the
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  Speaker 1: version that you prefer, because I always encourage active Bible reading.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just take my word for it, grab a Bible
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  Speaker 1: and read it for yourself to make sure I'm not
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  Speaker 1: making any mistakes. So let's go ahead and dive in
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  Speaker 1: a scripture and read first Timothy six one through ten.
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  Speaker 1: Let as many as our bond servants under the yoke
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  Speaker 1: count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the
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  Speaker 1: name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. Those
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  Speaker 1: who have believing masters, Let them not despise them, because
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  Speaker 1: they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because
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  Speaker 1: those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved.
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  Speaker 1: Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches a different
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  Speaker 1: doctrine and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is
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  Speaker 1: according to Godliness, he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting,
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  Speaker 1: evil suspicions, constant friction of people of corrupt minds and
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  Speaker 1: destitute of the truth. Who suppose that godliness is a
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  Speaker 1: means of gain with a draw yourself from such. But
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  Speaker 1: godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing
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  Speaker 1: into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
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  Speaker 1: But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
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  Speaker 1: But those who are determined to be rich fall into
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  Speaker 1: a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts,
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  Speaker 1: such as drowned men in ruin and destruction. For the
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  Speaker 1: love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
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  Speaker 1: Some have been led astray from the faith in their
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  Speaker 1: greed and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Considering
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  Speaker 1: today is the new year, I really feel like this
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  Speaker 1: episode is perfect for starting out the new year because
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  Speaker 1: it's talking a lot about money, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that a lot of people do,
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  Speaker 1: myself included, is when we make New Year's resolutions, we
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  Speaker 1: think about how much money are we going to make
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  Speaker 1: for the following year, and we almost want to like
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  Speaker 1: make goals in that direction. So I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a good topic to talk about, especially today. It says
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  Speaker 1: in verse one, let as many as our bond servants
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  Speaker 1: under the yoke count their own masters worthy of honor,
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  Speaker 1: that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
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  Speaker 1: So this is one of those verses again where Paul
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  Speaker 1: actually commands slaves to obey their earthly masters. In the
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  Speaker 1: Roman world, half of the people you would meet were slaves.
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  Speaker 1: And so Paul never started like a revolution against slavery,
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  Speaker 1: but he somewhat started a spiritual revolution against slavery because
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  Speaker 1: think about it. You know, back in One Timothy three,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the qualifications of an elder. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the elder has to be the husband of one wife,
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  Speaker 1: he has to not be greedy with money. He's got to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fulfill all of these different qualifications in order
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  Speaker 1: to become an elder. But notice the one thing Paul
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  Speaker 1: does not say in that list of qualifications. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: talk anything about somebody's finances, how rich somebody is. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't talk about their social standing. He doesn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: whether they are a slave or a freeman. So that
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  Speaker 1: means that an elder in the church could potentially be
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  Speaker 1: a slave, especially since there were a lot of slaves
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  Speaker 1: in Paul's day. This means that if a slave became
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  Speaker 1: a Christian and the slave's master also became a Christian,
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  Speaker 1: those two men would start going to church together. And
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  Speaker 1: let's say the slave meets all of those qualifications for
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  Speaker 1: the elder and the slave ends up becoming an elder
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  Speaker 1: in that church. That means that spiritually that slave is
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  Speaker 1: above the master when they're at church together. And that
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  Speaker 1: right there shows that Christianity completely dismantles slavery. It dismantles it.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why Christianity historically was the institution that
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  Speaker 1: completely destroyed slavery across the entire world was because of
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this. And this is why Paul says there
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  Speaker 1: is no longer slave or free male or female, Jew
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  Speaker 1: or gentile, because under God we are all unified. There
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  Speaker 1: is not one person better than another person in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of Jesus. And so when people get so angry
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  Speaker 1: in the Old and New Testament, when we see stories
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  Speaker 1: of slavery, or even right here where Paul's like, all
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  Speaker 1: of you bond servants under your yoke must count your
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  Speaker 1: masters worthy of honor, people get upset about that because
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  Speaker 1: they're like, why doesn't Scripture completely forbid slavery if it's
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  Speaker 1: such an evil thing. Spiritually, slavery actually is forbidden. There
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  Speaker 1: is no person above another person in the eyes of God.
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  Speaker 1: But that wasn't the case according to Rome, where half
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  Speaker 1: the people that you met were slaves, which is why
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  Speaker 1: Paul has to address this. He says, let as many
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  Speaker 1: as our bond servants under the yoke count their own
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  Speaker 1: masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God
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  Speaker 1: and the doctrine not be blasphemed. So there's a few
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  Speaker 1: reasons for this why slaves need to honor their masters.
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  Speaker 1: The first reason is that if this slave is a Christian,
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  Speaker 1: he needs to spread the message of Christianity as much
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  Speaker 1: as he can in his personal life and say that
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  Speaker 1: master is not believing that master might look at the
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  Speaker 1: slave and be like, what changed about my slave? What
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  Speaker 1: makes him different? And wonder about Christianity when he sees
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  Speaker 1: the attitude of his slave actually getting better. It was
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  Speaker 1: for God to be glorified. That's what it says right
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  Speaker 1: here that the name of God and the doctrine not
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  Speaker 1: be blasphemed. So if a Christian slave, let's say he
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  Speaker 1: gets worse after he becomes a Christian and isn't honoring
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  Speaker 1: his master, is angry at the institution of slavery because
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  Speaker 1: you know, Paul has taught that all people are equal
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  Speaker 1: under God, and say this slave just gets worse and
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  Speaker 1: worse and more disrespectful to his master as the days
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  Speaker 1: go on. That's actually going to dishonor and blaspheme the
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  Speaker 1: doctrine of God. And then Paul says, those who have
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  Speaker 1: believing masters, let the slaves not despise them because they
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  Speaker 1: are brothers, but rather let them serve them because those
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  Speaker 1: who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. So
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  Speaker 1: Paul goes into it even deeper. He's like, look, you slaves,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a believing master, like he is also
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  Speaker 1: a Christian, you must keep doing the good work that
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  Speaker 1: you are doing because these men are actually your brothers.
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  Speaker 1: It's what Paul says. So again Paul is showing that
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  Speaker 1: equality between slaves and masters. But he tells the slaves,
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  Speaker 1: because your masters are brothers with you, brothers of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you should actually want to serve them all the more
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  Speaker 1: because you are helping another brother of Christ. You are
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  Speaker 1: benefiting another believer, and that is biblical. That is something
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  Speaker 1: you should be doing. So it is no excuse for
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  Speaker 1: you to become lazy once you find out that your
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  Speaker 1: master has become saved. In fact, you should be working
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  Speaker 1: for him even harder, even better, is what Paul says.
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  Speaker 1: Then he tells Timothy, teach and exhort these things. So
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  Speaker 1: these right here at commands. You know, thank God, there
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  Speaker 1: is no slavery in today's modern age, but there certainly
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  Speaker 1: is employees and employers, and this definitely is a message
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  Speaker 1: to all Christian employees across the world. Because you are
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  Speaker 1: a Christian, you need to spread Christianity with every single
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  Speaker 1: thing that you do. That's what Paul says. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all
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  Speaker 1: for the glory of God. And then elsewhere he says,
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  Speaker 1: don't work hard for the praise of other people, but
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  Speaker 1: work hard for the praise of God, not as men pleasers.
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  Speaker 1: So everything we do as employees, it's to be done
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  Speaker 1: as if we are spreading the Gospel message without saying
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  Speaker 1: a word, because people are going to view our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We are lights, is what Jesus said. We are the
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  Speaker 1: lights up on the hill where people are viewing everything
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  Speaker 1: we do. It actually says that people will view our
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  Speaker 1: good works and glory the Father in heaven. Notice that
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  Speaker 1: people aren't viewing the bad works that we do in
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  Speaker 1: glorifying God. They're viewing the good works that we do.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to do good work when we are
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  Speaker 1: at work so that God can be glorified when other
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  Speaker 1: people see our lives. And the same thing applies even
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  Speaker 1: if you have a boss that is a Christian, you
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  Speaker 1: should not despise that boss because he or she still
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  Speaker 1: expects you to work. You should work even harder for
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  Speaker 1: that boss because that boss is a brother in Christ
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  Speaker 1: and you are benefiting them through your hard work. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a biblical thing to do. We are to benefit
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  Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters in Christ, and one of the
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  Speaker 1: best ways you can do that is by doing good
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  Speaker 1: work for those brothers and sisters. So moving on to
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  Speaker 1: verse three through five, Paul starts wrapping up his letter
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  Speaker 1: to Timothy. So he says, if anyone teaches a different
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  Speaker 1: doctrine and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is
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  Speaker 1: according to Godliness, he is conceited, knowing nothing. So it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty blunt, pretty matter of fact. But this is a problem.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what church you go to, there are going
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  Speaker 1: to be people at the church that teach different doctrines
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  Speaker 1: and don't consent to sound words. And you might be like, well,
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  Speaker 1: my church, my pastor doesn't teach a different doctrine. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Paul's actually not talking about just the elders here or
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  Speaker 1: just pastors he's talking about anybody, any single person that
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  Speaker 1: teaches a different doctrine and doesn't consent to sound words.
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  Speaker 1: So that could be your average Joe in the audience,
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  Speaker 1: if he's going around disputing every single thing that the
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  Speaker 1: pastor is saying, or disputing what scripture says to promote
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  Speaker 1: his own agenda or to twist scripture in some way.
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  Speaker 1: Paul actually says that that person is conceited and knows
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  Speaker 1: nothing and is obsessed with arguments, disputes and word battles.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty strong language, but it's definitely the truth, because
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  Speaker 1: if somebody is twisting scripture to promote their own ideas,
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  Speaker 1: whatever their ideas might be, that person truly is conceded
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  Speaker 1: because they are saying, my ideas are better than what's
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  Speaker 1: here in the Bible. I just recently saw a YouTube short,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Mike Winger showing this like girl
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  Speaker 1: that said she's a Christian but doesn't agree with like
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  Speaker 1: any principles of the Bible when it comes to parenting.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Mike Winger certainly had some words to
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  Speaker 1: say about it. But I went to the comments section,
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  Speaker 1: as I often do and should not do, and I
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  Speaker 1: saw a bunch of people saying like, oh, Christianity is
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  Speaker 1: just a free for all. You know, people can claim
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  Speaker 1: to be Christian and just say whatever they want about
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. And that's why I don't believe in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: is because there's too many people that just make it
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  Speaker 1: a free for all. And I'm sure you've thought that
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  Speaker 1: before as well as have I. You know, in the past,
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  Speaker 1: I used to think that man like people could just
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  Speaker 1: make up whatever they want out of the Bible and
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  Speaker 1: just claim it to be the truth. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the one thing I am very careful about when
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  Speaker 1: I do this podcast. I pray about this quite often,
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  Speaker 1: is I try my hardest not to insert my own
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  Speaker 1: opinions into scripture as if they are fact. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna hear me say this is my opinion or
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  Speaker 1: this is what I think it is, because I never
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  Speaker 1: want to say, oh, my idea, my opinion is definitely
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  Speaker 1: biblical fact. And I try to do that across the board.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope, I desperately hope that I've always done
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  Speaker 1: that and not, you know, inserted my own opinion. But
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever thought that Christianity is a free for all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like people can just take what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says and just make it their own and insert their
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  Speaker 1: own agenda. Well, that's because of people like this people
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  Speaker 1: right here that Paul is talking about. These people that
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  Speaker 1: don't consent to sound words and teach a different doctrine. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, they take principles of the Bible, but
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  Speaker 1: they twist those principles to make them their own, or
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  Speaker 1: they ignore certain parts of the Bible, or they completely
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  Speaker 1: deny that parts of the Bible exist, or they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that part of the Bible has been corrupted or something
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  Speaker 1: along those lines. Those type of people, Paul says, are
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  Speaker 1: conceited and they know nothing, and that is absolutely true.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, if anybody is taking scripture and twisting
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  Speaker 1: it to their own thing, they are conceited, arrogant jerks,
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  Speaker 1: because they're saying, my ideas, the stuff I want to
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  Speaker 1: say is far more important than whatever this Bible has
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  Speaker 1: to say. And that is why it is so important
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  Speaker 1: for us to read the Scripture ourselves to see what
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  Speaker 1: it actually does say. The Bible is not filled with
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  Speaker 1: like puzzles and we just can't figure it out. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible is easy enough for anybody to understand. I am
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  Speaker 1: an example of that. I mean, look at me. I
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  Speaker 1: am a thirty two year old girl. I have never
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  Speaker 1: gone to seminary. I don't have a degree at all.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I have zero college degree. I am not educated.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I sit here and I research the Bible
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  Speaker 1: and I talk about it with you guys. If I
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  Speaker 1: can do it, anybody can do it. Anybody can sit
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  Speaker 1: down and read and understand the Bible. You know why,
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  Speaker 1: because we have the Holy Spirit helping us. The Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit who actually wrote these words down, used people to
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  Speaker 1: write these words down. He's here with us, and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to help us understand his words because he understands
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  Speaker 1: them fully. There's a verse in scripture that says, if
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  Speaker 1: you need wisdom, go to God and ask him. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be upset if you ask him for wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Go to God and ask him to help you understand
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. Christianity is not free for all. There is
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  Speaker 1: one gospel message, and that gospel message that is the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And so Paul says to Timothy, avoid these people again.
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  Speaker 1: They are conceited. They know nothing. They are obsessed with
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  Speaker 1: our arguments, disputes and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting,
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  Speaker 1: evil suspicions, constant friction of people, of corrupt minds, and
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  Speaker 1: destitute of truth. So there you go. These people are
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  Speaker 1: destitute of the truth. They don't know what the truth is.
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  Speaker 1: They have decided in their own minds what the truth is.
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  Speaker 1: They don't really know what the truth is at all.
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  Speaker 1: And they cause all of these problems as well. It
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  Speaker 1: says they cause envy, they cause strife and insulting and
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  Speaker 1: evil suspicions. So they're suspicions of everybody and everything. They
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  Speaker 1: have constant friction with each other. And that's because they
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  Speaker 1: suppose that godliness is a means of gain, is what
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  Speaker 1: it says right here in verse five. So withdraw yourself
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  Speaker 1: from such people. What does that mean? That godliness is
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  Speaker 1: a means of gain? Paul is saying that these particular
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  Speaker 1: people that twist the Bible or ignore the Bible, or
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  Speaker 1: say the Bible is corrupted, or whatever they might do
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  Speaker 1: the Bible to promote their own agenda. These people think
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  Speaker 1: that godliness is going to gain them some sort of
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  Speaker 1: physical thing, whether it's money or success or people noticing them,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. That's why these people are in
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  Speaker 1: the church. That's why these people are claiming the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus without truly believing what Jesus says, because they
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  Speaker 1: think that godliness is going to gain them something. They
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  Speaker 1: might even think that their religion is going to gain
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  Speaker 1: them brownie points with God. They might be that delusional.
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  Speaker 1: So these people have the wrong motives. They're only doing
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  Speaker 1: it for themselves. That's the only reason they are in
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  Speaker 1: the church to begin with. Only reason why they're spreading
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  Speaker 1: all of this crap around is because they think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to gain them something. They are selfish people. But
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  Speaker 1: then in verse six, here's what Paul says. He's like, actually,
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  Speaker 1: godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing
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  Speaker 1: into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
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  Speaker 1: So Paul kind of clarify what he means here. He's like, No,
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  Speaker 1: godliness with contentment actually is a great gain. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not what these people are doing. These people think that
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  Speaker 1: if they go to church and they pretend to be godly,
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  Speaker 1: and they pretend to be very wise in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: that that's going to gain them some sort of physical
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  Speaker 1: thing for themselves. And that's the wrong motive. But godliness
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  Speaker 1: with contentment is truly great spiritual gain. And then Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: we brought nothing into the world. We certainly can't carry
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  Speaker 1: anything out, but having food and clothing, we will be
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  Speaker 1: content with that. So contentment and godliness actually go hand
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  Speaker 1: in hand. That's when you truly stop looking at yourself
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  Speaker 1: and being selfish and looking out towards other people, because
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  Speaker 1: you're content and thankful for what you've been given, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that you're not going to be able to take it
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  Speaker 1: with you when you die. No matter what you gain
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  Speaker 1: here on earth, you're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: take it with you. Even if you're famous. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people might remember you for a little while, but you're
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  Speaker 1: eventually and get lost to history. You can't take these
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  Speaker 1: things with you. That's why it's good to be content
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  Speaker 1: and thankful for what God has given us. Now we
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  Speaker 1: can't take it with us. But those who are determined
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  Speaker 1: to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and
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  Speaker 1: many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drowned men in
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  Speaker 1: ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a
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  Speaker 1: root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led
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  Speaker 1: astray from the faith in their greed and have pierced
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  Speaker 1: themselves through with many sorrows. Because if you love money,
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to do anything to get the money. You're
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  Speaker 1: willing to do any kind of evil thing in order
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  Speaker 1: to gain money. I mean, just look at all of
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  Speaker 1: the corruption that comes because people are greedy for money.
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  Speaker 1: Like even in today's world, murder and prostitution and mistreatment
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  Speaker 1: of other people and slavery, all of these things happened
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  Speaker 1: because people were greedy for money. It says that some
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  Speaker 1: people have been led astray from the faith because of
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  Speaker 1: their greed. So that's another thing. Church members who might
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  Speaker 1: become greedy for money are willing to compromise on their
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  Speaker 1: faith in order to gain that money. So the love
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  Speaker 1: of money certainly is a root of all evil. But
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  Speaker 1: that being said, notice here that Paul says for the
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  Speaker 1: love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,
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  Speaker 1: so not the root. A lot of people actually misquote
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  Speaker 1: this verse and they say the love of money is
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  Speaker 1: the root of all evil, But that's actually not what
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  Speaker 1: this verse is saying. It's a root of all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of evil, and money in and of itself is not
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  Speaker 1: a moral evil. You know, you can own money without
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  Speaker 1: being greedy That's why the love of money is a
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  Speaker 1: root of all evil because loving money, wanting more, not
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  Speaker 1: having that contentment that Paul is talking about, that is
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  Speaker 1: when people start to go astray because they need more
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  Speaker 1: and more and more. And anybody, any single person on
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  Speaker 1: the planet, can have a love for money, whether they're
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  Speaker 1: the richest person on the planet and have all the
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  Speaker 1: money in the world, or the poorest person on the
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  Speaker 1: planet they don't have a penny. It doesn't make a
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  Speaker 1: difference who you are if you love money, that is
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  Speaker 1: where all of these problems start coming in. That's why
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  Speaker 1: godliness with contentment is great gain. So we have to
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  Speaker 1: have a healthy balance when looking at money and looking
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  Speaker 1: at our finances. Are we becoming too greedy that we're
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  Speaker 1: willing to compromise on our faith because we want more money.
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  Speaker 1: We have to look at stuff like that in our
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  Speaker 1: own lives and make sure that money is not becoming
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  Speaker 1: an idol, but that we're content with whatever God gives us.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why I think this portion of scripture is
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  Speaker 1: actually really good going into the new year, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that it's wrong to have, you know, financial
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  Speaker 1: goals or anything along those lines. I mean Paul did
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  Speaker 1: say in the last chapter that the worker is worthy
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  Speaker 1: of his wages, So I mean, yes, we are to
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  Speaker 1: be paid, and there's nothing wrong with getting paid. Money
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  Speaker 1: can help people, money can help our families, money can
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  Speaker 1: help widows in the church. So money in and of
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  Speaker 1: itself is not wrong. And you know, wanting to make
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  Speaker 1: money is obviously not wrong because you need to survive.
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  Speaker 1: But we also have to balance that with contentment and
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  Speaker 1: just be thankful God, thank you for the job you
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  Speaker 1: gave me. God, thank you for the finances you gave me. God,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the family you gave me that I
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  Speaker 1: get to support and provide for. So working towards contentment
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  Speaker 1: is a far greater benefit to us than working to
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  Speaker 1: become rich. So we talked about a lot of things today.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about money. We talked about bond servants being
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  Speaker 1: respectful of their masters, whether the masters are Christians or not.
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  Speaker 1: And we also talked about avoiding people who spread different
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  Speaker 1: doctrines and twist scripture, regardless of who they are, even
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  Speaker 1: if they're just an average Joe or an average Jane
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  Speaker 1: that goes to your church. If they're spreading different doctrines
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  Speaker 1: and leading people astray, they should be avoided completely. So
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  Speaker 1: we definitely covered a lot of topics and I hope
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  Speaker 1: we'll be finishing up First Timothy. Six. We will be
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  Speaker 1: done with the Book of First Timothy. So that's really
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  Speaker 1: exciting for anybody who's been with me since the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew because that means you will have listened to
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  Speaker 1: fifteen books of the New Testament. On Tuesday, when we
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  Speaker 1: finish up First Timothy, pat yourselves on the back. That's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of books of the Bible that you have
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  Speaker 1: gone through. But Faithul listeners don't forget that on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Thursdays are the New Testament episodes. So on
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  Speaker 1: Monday there's going to be an episode in Second Chronicles,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope to see all of you guys there now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, tomorrow is for the members. That's where I
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