Outline—1 Timothy 6:17–21

1. Money held in trust (vv. 17–19)
2. Doctrine held in trust (vv. 20–21)

Other References

• Wiersbe

Take Home Points

• We, as Christians, are to be sentinels guarding the truth.
• You don’t need to find the truth because God has placed it beside you. Just pick it up!
• Practice the grace of sharing spiritual needs.
• Gifts to the saints really are an investment.

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Outline—1 Timothy 6:11–16

1. Challenge for the man of God (vv. 11–12)
2. Charge to the man of God (vv. 13–14)
3. Chief of the man of God (vv. 15–16)

Other References

• Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)
• Hendrickson’s Commentary

Take Home Points

• A man of God is a man owned by God.
• How would/should your life be different if you truly lived as a man of God?

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Outline—1 Timothy 6:1–10

1. Roots of Christian work ethic (vv. 1–2)
2. Death of Christian work ethic (vv. 3–5)
3. A guiding principle (v. 6)
4. A defining truth (v. 7)
5. A Reasonable conclusion (v. 8)
6. A danger in rejection (v. 9)
7. A final word on money (v. 10)

Related Scripture

• Romans 8:28
• Colossians 3
• Luke 12:19–20
• 2 Corinthians 9:8
• Job 1:21
• Proverbs 30:7

Other References

• William Penn to His Wife and Children (1682)
• Hendrickson’s Commentary

Take Home Points

• Godliness with contentment is great gain (far more valuable than money).
• You are not your earthly possessions.

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Outline—1 Timothy 6:1–5

1. Roots of the Christian work ethic (vv. 1–2)
2. Ruin of Christian work ethic (vv. 3–5)

Take Home Points

• When God says it, we must believe it!
• A lack of godliness causes a lack of knowledge.
• Much of our world is afraid of reality—don’t be counted among them.
• This (now) is the time on which my endless life (eternity) depends.

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Outline—1 Timothy 5:17–25

1. The ethics behind the preacher’s pay (vv. 17, 18)
2. The ethics behind the preacher’s protection (vv. 19, 20)
3. The ethics behind the preacher’s purity (vv. 21, 22)
4. The ethics behind the preacher’s pain (v. 23)
5. The ethics behind the preacher’s perception (vv. 24, 25)

Related Scripture

• Matthew 18:15–17
• James 1:27

Take Home Points

• High ethics may cost you physically, but will bless you spiritually.
• Judgment is required—discernment is necessary in Christian ethics.
• Serve the Lord out of purity.
• Why not write down your standard of ethics today? Prepare before choosing your friends and before deciding important issues.
• Protect you preacher by looking out for him spiritually.
• Don’t participate in the sins of other people.
• Choose to be pure over being good-natured. How you are thought of should take second place behind the way God sees you.

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Outline—1 Timothy 5:17–25

1. The ethics behind the preacher’s pay (vv. 17, 18)
2. The ethics behind the preacher’s protection (vv. 19, 20)
3. The ethics behind the preacher’s purity (vv. 21, 22)
4. The ethics behind the preacher’s pain (v. 23)
5. The ethics behind the preacher’s perception (vv. 24, 25)

Related Scripture

• James 4:2
• Matthew 22:39
• Psalm 15
• Proverbs 6:16—19
• Matthew 5:37 (…let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’)
• Leviticus 25, 19:13
• Colossians 1:10
• Acts 5:29
• Joshua 24:14
• Exodus 20 (the ten commandments)
• Romans 12:9, 10

Take Home Points

• Civil society is only as civil as it models Christian ethics.
• If we would just follow the ten commandments, our society would be well on the way to becoming civil.
• Moral excellence is doing that which is right and avoiding that which is wrong.

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