THE CARE OF WIDOWS PART III"
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Why does Paul spend so much time on the topic of widows?
Within the church at Ephesus the false teachers has had a major influence on the women specifically the widows - telling them that they are being taken advantage of. Telling the widows things like you can do whatever you want the church will take care of you.
The Priority of Widows - vs. 3
The Care of Widows - vs. 4-10
The Positive Call for the Family - vs. 4
Priority of learning respect - vs. 4a
Priority of practicing respect - vs. 4a
Motivation for respect - vs.4 b
The Negative repercussions for the Family - vs. 8
Refusal to provide generally - vs. 8a
Refusal to provide specifically - vs. 8a
The Results of Refusal - vs. 8b
Qualifications for being a widow - vs. 5, 7, 9-10
Disqualified for care from the church - vs. 6
As we continue in our study called “the care of widows” We are going to be learning - 1) the qualifications of widowhood, and 2) the disqualifications of widowhood.
Qualifications of widowhood - vs. 5
Qualifications of widowhood - vs. 5
Timothy 5:5–8 (NASB95)
5 Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
“Indeed” - (ontos) - adverb - ambiguous or simple adverb - really; truly -
Sense: really - in accordance with truth or fact or reality
The Greek word “indeed” is used in the following passages - (5 times and of those it is used 4 times in 1 Timothy)
John 8:36 (NASB95)
36 “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
1 Timothy 5:3 (NASB95)
3 Honor widows who are widows indeed;
1 Timothy 5:5 (NASB95)
5 Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy 5:16 (NASB95)
16 If any woman who is a believer has dependent widows, she must assist them and the church must not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 6:19 (NASB95)
19 storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.
Lives alone -
“who has been left alone” - (monoo) - verb, perfect, passive, participle, singular, nominative, feminine - attributive adjective - leave alone; forsake
Sense: to make alone - to make be the only one; cause to be single and isolated from others
This is the only time that this Greek word is used -
Continually focuses on Christ -
“has fixed her hope” - (elpizo) - verb, perfect, actisve, indicative, third person, singular - finite verb -
Sense: to hope (in someone) - to have trust or confidence in someone; especially as regards the future
Take note of the preposition that is used - “On”
1 Timothy 4:10 (NASB95)
10 For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
1 Timothy 5:5 (NASB95)
5 Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy 6:17 (NASB95)
17 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
1 Peter 1:13 (NASB95)
13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
“Continues in” - (prosmeno) - verb, present, active, indicative, third person, singular - finite verb - remain; stay with; continue
Sense: to stay with (steadfast) - to remain firm and steadfast in one’s association (with someone or something)
Acts 13:43 (NASB95) - the was at the beginning of Paul’s first missionary journey -
43 Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in the grace of God.
Entreaties continually -
“Entreaties” - (deesis) - noun, dative, plural, feminine - dative of reference - prayer; supplication -
Sense: divine entreaty - an earnest or urgent request (to God).
Noun: δέησις (deēsis), GK 1255 (S 1162), 18×. deēsis is a “prayer, petition, supplication” based on a person’s need—in the NT always addressed to God. It is not a general word for prayer but specifically a prayer of “supplication,” a request for a need—usually an urgent request (1 Tim. 5:5), though not always (Lk. 5:33; Eph. 6:18). In every prayer of Paul for the Philippians, the supplication is accompanied with joy (Phil. 1:4). Mounce, W. D. (2006). In Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words (p. 532). Zondervan.
Prayers continually -
We (Believers) pray in many forms -
Pray to Worship Him -
Pray to Confess our Sins -
Pray to Thank Him -
Pray for our needs -
Pray for others needs -
Here are the main types of prayers that we find in the Scriptures -
The prayer of faith -
5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”
The prayer of agreement (also known as corporate prayer) -
14 These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
The prayer of request (or supplication) -
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
The prayer of thanksgiving -
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
The prayer of worship -
2 While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
The prayer of consecration -
39 And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”
The prayer of intercession -
1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
“Prayers” - (proseuche) - noun, dative, plural, feminine - dative of reference - prayer
Sense: petition - a request made to a deity -
1 Timothy 2:1 (NASB95)
1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
1 Timothy 5:5 (NASB95)
5 Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
Disqualifications of widowhood -
Disqualifications of widowhood -
1 Timothy 5:6 (NASB95)
6 But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.
Follows the ways of the world -
“Gives herself to wanton pleasure” - (spatalao) - verb, present, active, participle, singular, nominative, feminine - substantival participle - live luxuriously
Sense: to be self-indulgent - to be or become characterized by excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites.
In our text only but it is also uses a similar phrase in James 5:5
James 5:5 (NASB95)
5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Spiritually dead
“is dead” - (thesko) - verb, perfect, active, indicative, third person, singular - finite verb - die; be dead
Sense: to perish (spiritually) - to be or become without spiritual life under the condemnation of God
1. thnesko (θνήσκω, 2348), “to die” (in the perf. tense, “to be dead”), in the NT is always used of physical “death,” except in 1 Tim. 5:6, where it is metaphorically used of the loss of spiritual life. The noun thanatos, and the verb thanatoo (below) are connected. The root of this group of words probably had the significance of the breathing out of the last breath. Cf words under DEATH. Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., & White, W., Jr. (1996). In Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Vol. 2, p. 167). T. Nelson.
Uses of the word “dead” in the NT -
Matthew 2:20 (NASB95) - When Herod ordered that all males 2 years and younger would be killed
20 “Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”
Mark 15:44 (NASB95) - Speaking of Jesus
44 Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.
Luke 7:12 (NASB95) - The Centurion’s Servant
12 Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.
John 19:33 (NASB95) - Speaking of Jesus
33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
Acts 25:19 (NASB95) - Paul Preaching the Word of God
19 but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.
1 Timothy 5:6 (NASB95) - used metaphorically for the loss of spiritual life
6 But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.
The Responsibility to teach these things -
The Responsibility to teach these things -
1 Timothy 5:7 (NASB95)
7 Prescribe these things as well, so that they may be above reproach.
Prescribe - (the phrase as well is possibly referring to the last time that Paul said prescribe)
“Prescribe” - (parangello) - verb, present, active, imperative, second person, singular - finite verb - command; give orders
Sense: to order - to give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
“Parangello means to command, order with authority, such that the person is obligated to obey.”
Examples of this time of command -
Demons are commanded to leave the human body -
Luke 8:29 (NASB95)
29 For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.
Acts 16:18 (NASB95)
18 She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.
People who have seen a healing are commanded to be quiet -
Luke 8:56 (NASB95)
56 Her parents were amazed; but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.
Apostles are commanded not to leave Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit is sent -
Acts 1:4 (NASB95)
4 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;
Sanhedrin commands the apostles not to preach about Jesus -
Acts 5:28 (NASB95)
28 saying, “We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
Judaizers “insist” that believers follow the Mosaic law -
Acts 15:5 (NASB95)
5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”
God commands all people to repent -
Acts 17:30 (NASB95)
30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
Paul commands that Timothy stop the false teachers -
1 Timothy 1:3 (NASB95)
3 As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines,
To be above reproach
“Above reproach” - (anepilemptos) - adjective, nominative, plural, masculine - predicate adjective - irreproachable
Sense: irreproachable - not deserving or worthy of rebuke or criticism.
2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
7 Prescribe these things as well, so that they may be above reproach.
14 that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
SO WHAT??
Believers - let me provide you with a general application as it pertains to the Scriptures - My prayer is that each of us here today or listening online with me committed to accurately handling the word of God.
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.