The Treatment of Widows
1 Timothy 5:3-16
Introduction: It is vitally important for a church to have good interaction between its members. The finest program on earth will fail if response of staff and congregation are not right with one another. Beware of cliques, factions.
Pastor has a great responsibility to promote harmony! You will have disagreements in a family, but with proper respect, response, review, repentance they can be worked out. Families are very resilient organizations.
Why the problem of widows? First internal problem in the church. Why? (Question from Blanche: Wasn't Ananias and Sapphira before this?)
The NT church had in its fellowship many widows in the church (welfare need). Reasons.
First, men die sooner than women. More women born than men; live longer than men. War/death.
Second, no jobs for women. Slaves did the work. Labor very heavy, men's work. (Ruth- widow, gleaned in the field).
Third, divorce women who had been sent away. Jews - I divorce you - three times; Romans - just wrote out a ''receipt'' women had nothing. So either became prostitutes or beggars.
For all these reasons and others a tremendous challenge to the struggling early church widows' Paul says here is the way to deal with it. There are some things for widows to do. There are some things for families to do. There are some things for the church to do.
I. THE CALL OF WIDOWS (vv. 3,4,8,9a)
1. Compassion for them (v. 3) (with skin on it!)
Honor = timao i.e. esteem, appreciate with material help. God's word about deacons.
1) God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge of the widows. Ps. 68:5
They are under his special care and protection (Ex. 22:23; Deut. 10:18; Prov. 15:25; Ps. 146:9).
(2) By means of the tithe and ''the forgotten sheaf'' he provides for them (Deut. 14:29; 24:19-21; 26:12, 13). At the feasts which he has instituted, they too should rejoice (Deut. 16:11, 14).
(3) He blesses those who help and honor them (Is. 1 ...
1 Timothy 5:3-16
Introduction: It is vitally important for a church to have good interaction between its members. The finest program on earth will fail if response of staff and congregation are not right with one another. Beware of cliques, factions.
Pastor has a great responsibility to promote harmony! You will have disagreements in a family, but with proper respect, response, review, repentance they can be worked out. Families are very resilient organizations.
Why the problem of widows? First internal problem in the church. Why? (Question from Blanche: Wasn't Ananias and Sapphira before this?)
The NT church had in its fellowship many widows in the church (welfare need). Reasons.
First, men die sooner than women. More women born than men; live longer than men. War/death.
Second, no jobs for women. Slaves did the work. Labor very heavy, men's work. (Ruth- widow, gleaned in the field).
Third, divorce women who had been sent away. Jews - I divorce you - three times; Romans - just wrote out a ''receipt'' women had nothing. So either became prostitutes or beggars.
For all these reasons and others a tremendous challenge to the struggling early church widows' Paul says here is the way to deal with it. There are some things for widows to do. There are some things for families to do. There are some things for the church to do.
I. THE CALL OF WIDOWS (vv. 3,4,8,9a)
1. Compassion for them (v. 3) (with skin on it!)
Honor = timao i.e. esteem, appreciate with material help. God's word about deacons.
1) God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge of the widows. Ps. 68:5
They are under his special care and protection (Ex. 22:23; Deut. 10:18; Prov. 15:25; Ps. 146:9).
(2) By means of the tithe and ''the forgotten sheaf'' he provides for them (Deut. 14:29; 24:19-21; 26:12, 13). At the feasts which he has instituted, they too should rejoice (Deut. 16:11, 14).
(3) He blesses those who help and honor them (Is. 1 ...
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