1 Timothy: Where Have All the Pastors Gone?
Part of 1 Timothy
September 23, 2022

1 TIMOTHY

Where have all the Pastors gone???

Today’s Text: *1 Timothy 5:17-25

Today’s Topic: How a church “ought to behave” (3:15) toward Pastors.
NOTE: Some Pastors “

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” (5:17) while others persist
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. (5:20)

I. HOW TO TREAT PASTORS “WHO RULE WELL”:

😊 Like an ox treading out the grain … (18) [cf. Deut. 25:4]

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(17-18) = worthy of
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(19) = “
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admit a charge … “
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(21-22) = “without
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,
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”

II. HOW TO TREAT PASTORS “WHO PERSIST IN SIN”:

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_ publicly (20) = in the presence
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“keep
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” (21) = in accordance to
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(grace and truth; forgiveness; repentance; consequences)
“keep
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” (22) = avoid “
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” (hasty ordination)
NOTE: “Do not be hasty in laying on of hands” (ordination)

KNOW THIS ABOUT YOUR PASTORS BASED ON 5:24-25:

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(good or bad) is revealed
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BOTTOM LINE:

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to Pastors who rule well 😊
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graciously Pastors who persist in sin ☹