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Biblical Manhood & Womanhood - 1 Timothy 3 - Foundations of Biblical Leadership - Men & Women In Church Leadership · Mount Eaton Church

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  Alright, today we're going to read the Pauline Confession.
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  I don't know if you guys have ever heard of the Pauline Confession, but it's actually
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  in Timothy chapter 3.
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  So we're going to read this together.
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  Are we ready?
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  We are.
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  Alright, here we go.
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  Great indeed we confess is the mystery of godliness.
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  He was manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among
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  the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
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  That's Timothy 3.16.
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  How many of you guys have ever known that there was actually a confession right there
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  in the scripture?
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  Pretty neat isn't it?
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  One of the important things I want us to do as we go through this chapter 3 is really
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  start to, hopefully you guys have seen that as we've been dealing with the issue of biblical
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  manhood, the foundations of being a biblical man and the foundations of being a biblical
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  woman, we then get to the point of leadership.
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  And it's important as God is dealing with Timothy, Paul is trying to get Timothy to
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  really understand why it's important to be the man of God that God has called him to
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  be.
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  Chapter 3 deals with some very important things I think in the church.
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  Many churches, I want to say this gently, many churches don't follow this process.
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  Like how churches should operate.
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  And the importance of the structure of leadership.
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  And so there's these standards that he gives concerning the leadership and then there is
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  a clear understanding of these things as we go through them.
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  So we're going to go through this and we really ended in chapter 2 with this understanding
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  that Adam was born first then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived
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  and became a transgressor yet she will be saved or she will find her.
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  She will be well and whole as a mother, as bearing children if they continue in faith
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  and love and holiness and self control.
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  And all of a sudden he goes right into this statement concerning elders.
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  Why?
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  So before we get started there I'm going to pray and ask God that he would guide us through
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  this and so you can understand why Paul wrote this to Timothy.
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  Lord we want to thank you and praise you.
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  You are righteous and good.
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  You are a God of order.
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  You have set things in place for the well being of your people, for the health of your
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  church, for the proclamation of the gospel and so that all in the world may know that
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  we are your people.
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  Lord we praise you and thank you that you have set these things in place that your people
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  may live holy and godly lives.
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  We praise you in the name of Jesus.
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  Amen.
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  So the saying is trustworthy.
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  So what we notice here is as Paul starts his, this part of the letter to Timothy, he kind
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  of gives a clear understanding of where men should be in the hierarchy of the church and
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  the polity of the church.
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  The problem with the church in Ephesus is the women were dominant there.
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  They were running things.
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  They were managing things and the men were not really stepping up to do the job and so
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  he lays things down quite clearly in chapters one and chapter two and then he says here
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  is how things should be.
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  This is trustworthy.
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  If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
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  For an overseer must be a brubbly approach, the husband of one wife, sober minded, self
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  controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but
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  gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
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  He must manage his own household well with all dignity, keeping his children submissive.
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  For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's
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  church?
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  He must not be a recent convert.
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  He may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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  Moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders so that he may not fall into disgrace into
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  a snare of the devil.
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  Wives likewise must be dignified, not double tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy
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  for dishonest gain.
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  They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
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  Let them also be tested first.
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  Then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.
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  Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers but sober minded, faithful in all
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  things.
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  Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own household
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  well.
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  For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great
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  confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
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  I hope to come to you soon but I am writing these things to you so that if I delay you
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  may know how you ought to behave in the household of God which is the church of the living God,
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  a pillar and buttress of the truth.
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  Great indeed we confess is the mystery of godliness.
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  He was manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among
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  the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
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  So this is quite a remarkable chapter in that he gives the clear understanding of why he
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  is writing these things.
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  And that's in verse 15.
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  Principle number one.
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  The man who aspires to the episcopae.
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  This is where we get the word episcopalian from, episcopae is the word here.
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  So the man who aspires to the episcopae desires a wonderful occupation.
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  But know this, it is a work that will require a life fully devoted to Christ.
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  So I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ
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  as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed.
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  Shepherd the flock of God that is among you.
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  Exercise oversight, not under compulsion but willingly as God would have you.
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  Not for shameful gain but eagerly.
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  Not domineering over those in your charge but being examples to the flock.
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  And when the chief shepherd appears you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
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  Notice Peter 5, 1 through 4.
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  It's the supporting scripture here.
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  So interesting, this word trustworthy.
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  This means worthy of trust.
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  Pretty simple.
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  Can be relied on.
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  This statement can be relied on.
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  If anyone, they use the word anyone here.
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  It means a certain one.
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  A certain one aspires.
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  Not anyone meaning women.
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  This is not a woman's position.
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  And I am not going to be apologetic for speaking the truth.
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  This is a certain one is the word here.
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  The word is this.
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  A certain one aspires.
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  What certain one?
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  For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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  Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived.
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  This certain one.
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  He clarifies this later on here which we will get to.
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  So this certain one aspires.
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  This certain one is to stretch, to touch, or to grasp.
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  In other words, the one who is certain, the man who wants to grasp the office of overseer
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  is the idea here.
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  Episcopae is the word.
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  And the word means oversight, overseer, office, or charge.
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  This is not church's charge.
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  This is God's charge for that man.
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  He desires a noble task.
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  The word task here is argon.
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  Employment or occupation.
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  Why is that important?
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  Because this is not something that the man who gives his life to the service of you and
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  your people, he does for free.
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  He gives his entire life to the care of the sheep, to the care of God's people.
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  It is the church's responsibility to give unto that man what is rightfully due for his
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  work.
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  They did it with the priest.
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  We do it now in the church.
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  I'm saying this not because you guys don't take good care of me.
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  You do.
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  That's not the issue here.
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  I'm just trying to clarify exactly what Paul is teaching Timothy here.
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  Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach.
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  There is no other word better than the word reproach.
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  He must be above reproach.
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  He must not have any accusation against him publicly or in the church.
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  The husband of one.
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  The word is heis, one in one or in opposed to many, a monogamous.
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  That's what this word means.
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  Not one in a lifetime.
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  One meaning not a polygamous man.
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  Not a man who has many wives.
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  One wife.
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  The Lord knows one's enough.
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  Just saying.
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  Amen.
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  Thank you, Todd.
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  All right.
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  I'm not going to go there.
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  Cheryl will get them later.
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  He is a husband of one at a time.
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  One hopefully for the rest of his life, wife.
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  A sober minded, the word here, sober minded means not controlled by wine, clear headed.
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  It's interesting that there's two times he talks about wine or drunkenness.
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  One is here, meaning sober minded, clear headed, not controlled by wine.
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  And the other is a drunkard.
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  It's interesting, right?
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  So he must not be controlled by the outward influences.
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  Clear headed.
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  He must be self controlled.
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  So frown is the word here, curbing one's desires and impulses.
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  So self controlled means I am not going to be driven by my desires or impulses.
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  That's what he means here.
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  Respectable, well arranged, modest.
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  You'd be kind of different if I came in with ripped jeans.
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  It's kind of wild when I see some preachers behind the pulpit who come in with jeans and
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  a hoodie.
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  Like that's respectable.
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  It's not respectable in any church.
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  Remember who you represent.
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  I should wear ties.
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  Some of some of them wear ties.
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  I can't.
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  I'm not a tie guy, but button down would be nice.
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  But we must be respectable.
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  Hospitable, phylloxanas means generous to guests.
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  You wonder why I've set an example for the last three years of the importance of reaching
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  out to every single person that walks in the building.
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  That is an example set for you.
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  Set them an example, Peter says.
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  If I do not set that example, will you?
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  Every single person in our church should be going out of their way to touch and to shake
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  hands and to give a right hand of fellowship to any visitor that walks in.
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  Ask them how their visit was.
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  Let them know we love them.
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  We care about them.
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  We are glad that they're here.
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  Important, very important.
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  Able to teach.
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  I'm going to try to say this as well as I can.
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  But my Greek's not perfect.
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  Didaktikos.
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  Oh, thank you, Jesus.
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  Didaktikos means apt and skillful in teaching.
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  Apt and skillful in teaching.
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  I've been talking to a friend of mine from Delaware and telling me about a young man
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  that he's been under and this gentleman's been through some things and he's really
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  kind of young in the faith when it comes to shepherding.
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  The question for every person should be considering is that man apt and skillful in teaching?
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  Not that he can stand behind a pulpit and be charismatic.
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  Charismatic preachers don't equip.
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  Charismatic preachers make you feel real good and then you go out wondering how in the world
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  can I live this Christian life and you walk out defeated every single week because they
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  are not apt and skillful in teaching.
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  Not a drunkard.
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  Not violent, a bruiser, but quick to fight, but gentle, fair and mild, not quarrelsome.
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  Amikos, not quick to fight or provoke an argument.
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  Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.
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  Not a lover of money.
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  Money does not mean a heck of a lot if that's all you care about.
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  As a matter of fact, it's evil.
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  We are given money as stewards.
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  He must manage, pristime, to be over, to superintend, to preside over his own household with all
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  dignity, probity, high moral standard, or probity depending on how you want to say it in English.
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  I think it's probity.
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  I know it's probity.
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  I shouldn't have said that.
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  He should with all dignity keeping his children hupatege, obedient.
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  For someone does not, if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how
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  will he care for God's church?
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  He can't.
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  He cannot.
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  And this is just, understand man, this is not just about elders meaning even though
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  it's speaking of elders, you should be doing this in your home.
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  You are the shepherd of your house.
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  This is not just for pastor or just for the elders.
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  It's every man in this room.
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  Whether your kids are grown up and moved out, he must not be a new convert, a neophyte,
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  or a novice, or he may become puffed up with conceit.
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  To fa'o means rude and arrogant, lack of respect.
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  Man, we know some dudes that are like that.
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  Why?
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  Because they were given a position they should never have been given.
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  They haven't learned to suffer through well.
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  What does it mean to hold this kind of position and not lord it and domineering over it, but
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  to lovingly guide, shepherd, walk with, properly discipline out of love and concern, not out
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  of demand that you do what I tell you to do, but pointing you and driving you to the chief
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  shepherd of our souls, Jesus Christ.
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  So he must not be rude, arrogant, lack of respect, or proud.
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  He must fall into epipito.
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  What metaphorically means to come among robbers or to fall among robbers is the word here.
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  He must not fall into condemnation.
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  The condemnation he's talking about here is condemnation passed by God.
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  This is God's condemnation on the man who was supposed to be the shepherd of the people,
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  who is a new convert, who is proud and arrogant.
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  God condemns him.
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  He sentences him.
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  He judges him.
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  He judges him by presenting him to the accuser, the slanderer, the culminator.
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  God basically, in his discipline of this man, wrecks his ability to lead.
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  He is no longer above reproach.
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  God ensures that this man's testimony is a mess.
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  I can give you several examples of that, especially last year.
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  Don't need to do that.
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  God has already done that for some of these men who call themselves shepherds and are
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  not.
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  Moreover, he must be well thought of, good, character, and a testimony by outsiders so
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  that he may not fall into disgrace.
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  He may not fall into reproach or disapproval, into a snare.
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  Pagis is the word here, meaning that whatever brings peril, loss, destruction, allurements
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  to sin.
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  The allurements to sin of who?
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  The accuser, the culminator.
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  Interesting.
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  He writes this.
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  For those assigned, second principle, for those assigned to the office of deacon are
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  given a great task of stewardship in caring for God's people and properly managing God's
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  money.
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  If we think of eldership, understand we are held to the highest of standard and will give
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  an account for everything we do and say to the living God.
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  Everything.
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  Being deacons, the scripture says this in Acts 6, 2-3.
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  And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, it is not right that
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  we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
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  Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the spirit
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  and wisdom whom we will appoint to this duty.
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  Meaning that these listings here really do associate very well, perfectly actually, with
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  good repute, full of the spirit and wisdom whom they are appointed to this duty.
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  First Timothy 3, 8-13.
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  Daikonos, office assigned to the care, assigned to care for the needs of the church, family,
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  and steward God's money.
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  That's what this literally means.
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  An office assigned to care for the needs of the church, meaning God's family, and steward
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  God's money.
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  No deacon should be running the church.
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  There are many churches, I've come from a couple, where the deacons rule.
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  The deacons don't rule.
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  God's men rule here.
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  That's the way.
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  Why?
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  Because God is the chief shepherd.
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  He runs his church.
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  That's the design.
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  If you've ever been into a church where the deacon makes all the decisions, they've given
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  too much power, that's not their job and responsibility.
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  Believe me, if you were to ask our deacons how much work it takes to care for the needs
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  of the people and to steward God's money, that's more than enough.
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  That's a lot.
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  And I think they would agree.
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  Amen, deacons?
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  Now likewise, deacons must be dignified.
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  Semnas is the word here, respected for character and honorable, not double-tongued.
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  Dialogos, or logos, dialogue-os, meaning saying one thing to one person and something different
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  to another, not being consistent with their word.
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  That's important.
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  You go to someone, you know, they need groceries.
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  You go, we're going to give you, they got two kids, husband and wife, we're going to
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  give you $200 for groceries.
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  Their pantry is empty.
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  Next family comes in, happen to like them a little bit better.
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  Same issue, two kids, husband and wife, pantry is empty.
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  We're going to give you $500.
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  No!
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  That's not right distribution.
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  That's not fairness.
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  That's not being a person of honor and character.
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  That's why you can't be double-tongued, right?
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  That's what it's talking about here.
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  So don't say one thing to one person, another to something different to another.
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  Be consistent.
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  Consistency is everything when it comes to the care and to the stewardship of God's stuff.
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  The greatest stewardship we have is not just the money.
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  It's His people.
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  I have said this over and over again.
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  God will provide the money.
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  You better take care of His people.
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  Now not addicted, the word here, given to, controlled by, much whine.
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  Isn't that interesting?
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  Not greedy for dishonest gain.
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  In other words, not because you're trying to take money.
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  They must hold the mystery.
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  They must embrace and keep the Christian truths of God, of the faith with a clear conscience,
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  free from guilt, living rightly.
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  And let them also be tested.
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  Daikimazo, examine, prove, scrutinized.
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  That's why we do what we do.
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  We do the same thing with the elders.
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  We do the same thing with the deacons.
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  We scrutinize.
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  Notice it says let them be tested first before they become a deacon.
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  Then let them serve.
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  Dekanaeo means to serve as deacons.
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  If they prove themselves blameless, unaccused, unreproachable.
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  Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers.
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  The word slanderers here is interesting.
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  Diabolos is the word here.
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  It's the same word, or a word that comes from, you guessed it, devil.
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  In other words, don't be prone to slander or a false accuser.
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  Be sober minded, not controlled by wine, clear headed, faithful in all things.
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  Faithful in all things.
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  Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children in their own households
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  well.
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  For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great
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  confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
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  So why is Timothy talking here in the church as if it's just the men who are deacons?
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  Because the men weren't doing anything here.
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  Can you imagine you're roughly around 19 years old and you've been called by God to shepherd
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  a church in Ephesus, or the church in Ephesus, and the men are not being busy?
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  It's not by accident that God calls Timothy to do this.
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  His father is gone.
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  He's passed away.
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  He was raised by two women, his mother and his grandmother.
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  And he had the responsibility to be the man of his house.
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  He understood what it meant and Paul was holding him accountable.
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  Third principle, God commands elders and deacons to manage their households.
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  God has given us the example we must follow himself.
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  When we as deacons and elders have an example we must follow Jesus Christ himself, the chief
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  shepherd.
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  Look what it says in Philippians 1.27, only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel
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  of Christ so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are
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  standing firm in one spirit with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the
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  gospel.
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  The reason why we are to manage our households well is because it sets an example to a world
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  that desperately needs to see how God's people are with each other.
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  First Timothy 3.14-15, I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you
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  so that all these things that we have heard, all these things, chapter 1, chapter 2, going
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  into 3, all of these things, he writes, notice what it says, if I delay, you may know, eedle
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  is the word here, well known, acknowledge how, the word here is pos, in what way, so
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  let me say it this way, that you may know well and acknowledge in what way you must
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  live, you ought to, it is necessary, there is a need of, it behooves you, it is right
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  and proper on how you should behave, how you should walk, conduct one's selves in Christ
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  like character, in the household of God, oikos, when we think about how we should be living
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  with each other, how we should be setting the example, how we should be purposing to
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  walk side by side with each other, to serve with each other, this is how a household works,
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  there are times when my kids don't want to, they are 19, don't want to have to do dishes,
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  but we live in the house together, sometimes I am busy, sometimes mom is busy, it means
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  it requires that you step up, same idea here, we work together, we live with and among each
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  other, so if, Paul is saying if I delay, you, I write you these things so that you may know,
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  that you may acknowledge in what way it is necessary, it is right and proper for you
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  to walk and conduct yourself in Christ like manner, in the household, in the family of
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  God, which is the church of the living God, not just any church, the word living means
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  he is and be's, he is always, he be's, that is what that word living means, this is not
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  just something you do on Sunday, this is a family and we must walk with each other and
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  conduct ourselves with one another in a Christ like character because you are part of the
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  household, why is this important, because the church of the living God is a pillar,
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  a column, a buttress, a, to make firm and stable of the truth, when the church is out
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  of kilter, when the church is not living in the way she should, she is not a pillar that
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  holds the roof up of a coliseum, she is not the stable firm foundation that is necessary
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  so that pillar does not fall over, look at our country, our country is in the shambles
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  it is because the church is not the pillar and the buttress of the truth, we have accommodated
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  lies, and we have stuck our head in the sand in the lies that continue to happen, I am
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  not going to get on that soap box right now, I will not today, and what is left with us,
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  it is interesting that Paul goes through this and he gives us this one statement right at
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  the very end, what is the purpose of all of this, why should we walk in a way that is
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  Christ like character, the Pauline confession, and as a matter of fact God gives his own
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  confession, well the Pauline confession is God's confession, but either way he says something
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  very similar in a very short concise statement to the people of Israel in Deuteronomy 6,
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  4, here O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one, great indeed we confess a common confession
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  by consent of all we agree on this statement without wavering, is the mystery of godliness,
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  what is the mystery of godliness, here it is that he was manifest in the flesh, who
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  was manifest in the flesh, the God of all creation, the I am, the Alpha Omega, the everlasting
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  to everlasting, the always was and always will be, and the one who is to come, this
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  God manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, why, because he was resurrected, proven
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  that he is God over and over and over again, he didn't have to, but he did, seen by angels,
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  proclaimed among the nations and still proclaimed among the nations, because the devil has lost,
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  he is hindered, locked up, put away, because every nation is hearing the gospel, he is
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  no longer deceiving the nations, proclaimed among the nations and even till this day,
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  and is believed on in the world, and then lastly he was taken up in glory, he sits at
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  the right hand of God the father, he is the authority, he is in charge, he is the judge
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  and he will judge everything, every dead, every living, they will be judged, every one
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  of us, why is this important, because why would we be so quick to walk away from that
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  confession, that being said, I think we will end it with that, father I want to thank you
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  so much for your faithfulness and goodness, to you be honor and glory forever, we praise
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  you and thank you that you were manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen
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  by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory, and one
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  day you will as you have promised come back for us your people, to you be honor and glory
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  forever in Jesus name, Amen.