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People are so susceptible to distorted Bible teaching concerning financial gain because there is some truth in its teachings The distortions that I may have heard are almost the same as I get from this lesson. 2 issues that I always hear, that is, poverty is a sin and bondage, wealth is God

The Gospel has sown the seeds that will eventually destroy slavery in ways that make us God

Paul says, "Don't be hasty in the laying on of hands" because if doing so, Timothy or ones who lay on of hands make themselves and church in danger The dangers in doing so are, first, because we do not really know deeply the lives of them whom have been ordained, it may be apparent that they do not live godly lives or do not live in accordance with God’s word, which those lives will affect the people, and so make church in danger; second, if it is apparent that they do not live godly lives or live in sin, they who lay their hands on those who have been ordained are equally responsible for their deeds and so they can share in the sins of them These dangers can be lessened in a way that ordain ones we really know deeply, after observing them in a long enough time period and testing them in particular ways, that they are mature in Christ, and live in godliness, and so ones are not new converts

It is necessary to make formal accusations and "try" the false teachers because by it we will stop them in what they

Elders should be compensated financially in circumstances of that they labor in preaching and teaching, and that they do their work well The Scriptural support for such a practice is as follows: 1. Support for Priesthood (who are Levites) by other tribes of Israel (Deuteronomy 18: 1-8) 2. The right of the plowman and the thresher to share in the harvest based on what they each do (Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:5-14; Galatians 6:6) 3.

To help aging family members we have responsibilities of caring and provide for them According to Paul, this is our Christian responsibility in ways that provides for our own family and so repays their parents and grandparents This is a "repayment" of a debt in a way that repays them for something that our parents and grandparents do for us when we were child Paul compares those who refuse this responsibility to those who deny the faith

Rigid, unsmiling orthodoxy can teach right doctrine, but cannot produce godliness because it has no enough power to encourage people practice a godly live; in order that people produce godliness, an example of godliness by church leaders is needed, it is not enough just with words. A strong example of godliness in church leaders is essential to a healthy church because people learn to practice a godly life through seeing it from church leaders; if they do not see it, they will not know how to practice a godly life and are not encouraged to practice it

Performance of legalistic requirements is so attractive to people because it appeals to a sense of self-righteousness The fruit it produces in a person's life is nothing, but conceit This emphasis is so different from the true gospel in these ways: first, according to the true gospel no one can be saved and justified by doing the law, but by God's grace through Jesus Christ; second, according to the true gospel no one is able to meet what is required by the law by one’s own strength, but by the help of Holy Spirit

Leaders should be observed carefully and tested before placing them in office because the leaders that do not have the qualities as church leaders can be disastrous for the church and for the church leaders, too. During this period I should be looking for character qualities, that is, among others, blameless, faithful, trustworthy, upright, holy

Paul remind Timothy (and the church) of predictions concerning widespread apostasy because what is said in those predictions has happened in the church at Ephesus, which have upset and overwhelmed the people of the church On his ministry and the church's perception of the situation, this knowledge should have the effects that Timothy keeps on being faithful in his ministry, not being upset overwhelmed by what is happening in church, and that the church has great perception in its assessment of the situation so that the people keep hold of their faith in Christ

I see two primary difference in qualifications between overseers/elders and deacons The differences are firstly, overseers/elders must be hospitable, while that qualification is not for deacons. Secondly, overseers/elders, as charged with the specific duty of teaching, must be able to teach, while that qualification is not for deacons, which they are just charged with an administrative function

Tendencies to anger, intimidation, force, and pride are so important to consider in selecting church officers because they are excluded from love the character quality that Christ

The leader I believe Paul is indicating for us with the phrase "husband of one wife" is one that is faithful within his marriage, that does not have sexual relations with women other than his wife A leader's family is an important indicator of leadership potential or problems because the leader

Women dressing in fancy clothes threatened to compromise the church's witness in Ephesus in these ways: it made the church more emphasize outward show than good seed, and it accentuated the divide between the rich and the poor We apply the principle of Paul's directive in twenty-first century churches without instituting a new legalism in this way: we must do it within a particular culture on the basis of principle, not of law

Among the men of the congregation, the problem that Paul is referring to in verse 1 Timothy 2:8 is that of anger or dispute, which may be the effect of the teachings of the false teachers That is so serious about worshipping with the opposite of love in your heart is the impurity of worship, which if we worship with this way God will refuse our worship and prayer.

In the context of the salvation of all, Paul emphasizes the roles of Mediator and Ransom because to be reconciled to God who considers us our enemy we need a mediator and a ransom. We are his enemies because we are sinners. We need a mediator because we ourselves as the sinner are improper to come to God, who is holy, because of our sins. We, who are slaves of the devil because of our sin, need a ransom to release us. Christ fulfilled both these roles in a way that he, who is his son and does not sin, acts as Mediator between God and men, and he himself act as a ransom or price of release of us through his death on the cross

Paul emphasizes salvation of all mankind in this letter because in the Ephesus church, where this letter was sent to, the false teachers with their Jewish myths and genealogies have been promoting a kind of Jewish exclusivity so that they had lost their focus on the salvation for the Gentiles, which has been God

About God from this doxology, we learn that he is the King eternal, immortal, invisible, and the only God About praise, we learn, that to God to be honor and glory for ever and ever Yes, I have been trying speaking out a doxology in my personal prayer or praise time The effect that a doxology has on the speaker is he/she will be blessed by God

Paul comments on his own life after a paragraph on the law because he wants to explain how we should treat and use law rightly, and teach the true teachings of salvation, that is, through Christ not the law, that conforms to the glorious gospel entrusted to him with taking his own life as an appropriate example, which he, that is the worst of the sinner, was saved by God

Some of the results of false doctrine in the church at Ephesus were that they promoted controversy rather than God

Gideon slays Zebah and Zalmunna because they are the kings of Midian, if he let them alive, they would build their force again from their remaining people to take revenge. He is fulfilling his just obligation that God has given the Midianites to Israel

The cities of Succoth and Peniel refuse aid to Gideon's army because of their arrogance and egoism Gideon punishes these cities later because they taunted him. Their sin is that they committed a breach of hospitality to their brothers, which showing hospitality was their covenant responsibility as fellow Israelites, which what they did was against the God of the Covenant. No, Gideon is not just because what Gideon did is not equal to what they did, that they did not kill somebody so that they deserved this punishment. A circumstance when a Christian might be guilty of the sin of Succoth and Peniel is one that he refuses aid to his brother in Christ