I Timothy Chapter 6

I Timothy Chapter 6 
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Introduction:  In chapter 5, we studied how the pastor should deal with the men and women of the church, and also how we should deal in our relationships with one another.  We covered the churches responsibilities towards widows in the church, and how that we should help them if they were truly alone in the world and without a family to help them.  

Paul admonished young Timothy to not rebuke an elder, and to treat the older women with respect like a Mother.  He also taught that we are not to listen to accusations against our pastor except in the presence of 2 or 3 witnesses.
This week we close our study on I Timothy as see the relationship that should exist between masters and servants.  This teaching can also relate to employers and employees.  It then discusses contentment with one’s lot and attitudes toward money.  
 
I.  Slaves and Masters

1 Tim 6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
1 Tim 6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
 
Paul now directs attention to the master and servant relationship. He begins with the relationship of the servant to the master. The master-servant relationship in ancient times would roughly parallel with the modern employer-employee relationship. The difference is that ancient masters were in a position of authority, more so than the modern employer.
 
The principle is that servants ought to be respectful (and by implication submissive) to their masters. Not only is this a fulfilling of social order, it also is a testimony of Christian living.  An obedient Christian will submit and respect duly appointed authority. This is true whether the master was a believer or not. Paul admonished those who were servants to “rather do them service.”

Christian servants were directed to duly serve even believing masters “because they are faithful and beloved.”  Servitude was a legal social custom of that day. Therefore, Christian servants were to have respect to their Christian masters.  The same scriptural directives here generally apply to the employer- employee relationship of this day. For the most part, a day’s wages for a day’s labor.
 
Don’t allow an employer or an employee to provoke you causing you to set aside the principles that you know to be good and right. In anger, one can do much unnecessary damage to their personal testimony. The main purpose of the instruction is all about the results, “that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.” 

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