Outline notes below, real notes to come
Larry Price
- 1 Tim
3:6-7
- Structure
i.
Characteristic
ii.
Warning
iii.
Conditional Result
iv.
Verse 6
1. Not:
A Novice (Negative says speaker)
a. Inward
Reality: Low Spiritual Maturity
2. Lest:
Being lifted up
a. Conditioned
on what he becomes
3. Into:
Condemnation of the devil
a. Automatic
(?)
i.
Falls into the same condemnation the way the devil did
1. 2
Cor The Devil blinds the minds of people who don’t believe with pride
v.
Verse 7
1. Must:
Have a Good Report (Positive says speaker)
a. Outward
Report
2. Lest:
He Fall
a. Automatic
(?) on not having an Outward Report
3. Into:
Reproach and a snare
a. Dual?
Falls into reproach AND the snare of the devil
i.
A snare is a trap set by someone else: an outward
influence who is the devil
b. The
Devil
i.
Is 14
ii.
Devil in 1 Tim: 1:20; 2:14; 4:1; 5:15
1. and
in this passage, twice
a. This
shows the high danger in this area
-
- Not
a Novice
i.
You can be a Methuselah in years and a babe in grace
1. Paul
tells Timothy “let no man despise your youth” in this same book—but here it
isn’t an age
ii.
Character Not Title
1. character
needs time to develop
2. there
must be an age to mature
a. elder
implies maturity
b. Moses
acquires the elders among the people; not the youngest
i.
Some people grow quicker than others
ii.
Biblically speaking; people who pastor the flock of God
were never imported
1. It
was never “Go out and bring a man in”
2. The
people don’t know him and he doesn’t know the people
a. The
people have to see the development of the individual
3. We
must be careful not to push young people into the Limelight
iii.
Lay Hands Suddenly on no man (1 Tim 5:22)
1. Don’t
raise someone up without proving them
a. (1
Tim 3:10) Let these first also be proved
b. (1
Tim 5:4) Let them first show piety at home
i.
A small circle of usefulness is not to be despised—show
piety first at home
-
- Good
Report
i.
Blameless
1. What
is this person’s testimony?
2. What
do people outside think of him? At his job?
ii.
The world’s expectation
1. They
have an idea of what a Christian should be
a. “you’re
a Christian and you do X?”
iii.
The Service of God
1. The
Nazarites
a. Numbers
6: Had to be willing to forego things that were completely legitimate for
special service
b. We
must be willing to forgo legitimate things for the special service of God—the
work of an elder
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