The Value of the Preacher
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Don’t you realize that those who work in the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings. In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it. Yet I have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I want to start now. In fact, I would rather die than lose my right to boast about preaching without charge. Yet preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
1 cor 9;13-5
Don’t you realize that those who work in the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings. In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it. Yet I have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I want to start now. In fact, I would rather die than lose my right to boast about preaching without charge. Yet preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
For the law of Moses says, “You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.” Was God thinking only about oxen when he said this?
Don’t you realize that those who work in the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings. In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it. Yet I have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I want to start now. In fact, I would rather die than lose my right to boast about preaching without charge. Yet preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
I solemnly urge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will someday judge the living and the dead when he comes to set up his Kingdom: Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching.
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
1 cor 9;13-
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I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Today I’d
1 cor 9:16
It’s hard to be a preacher, especially a young preacher
I started preaching at 14
and then you preach something that people don’t like and things get even harder
and then you preach something that people don’t like and things get even hqrder
so today I’d like to encourage this great gathering of preachers
I’d like to preach from this subject
The value of the preacher, what to do when people won’t endure sound doctrine
If you follow social media you’ve probably heard of Pastor John Gray and the criticism he’s faced lately’
he bought his wife a $200,000 car
now I don’t have time to deal with the key issues of modesty, stewardship, debt and last but not least minding your own business
but it does make me wonder
What does it say about the value of the preacher when we debate what John Gray does to bless John Gray’s wife with the money that God gave John Gray
No one complains when LeBron James buys something for his wife
No one polices Steph Curry’s check book
But when a preacher does it...
and even if it came from his church paycheck what does it matter?
Do you ask your boss permission to buy a car just because they gave you the money?
isn’t funny how we want the preacher to preach us into
preach us into
good health
prosperity
a new job
a new spouse
but we get mad when the preacher gets the same
If John Gray prophesied that you would get a $200,000 car would you still be mad?
That’s the point Paul makes in the in
he quotes a Levitical law in v.9 (Ox)
he Ox should eat because the Ox is doing work
that’s why the priest ate from the sacrificex
you have value because you are doing valuable work
Paul makes the argument that the preacher has value
and it’s important to know your value
because when people don’t want to hear the truth they will devalue your work
You got to know what you’re worth when men don’t endure sound doctrine
But Paul doesn’t stop there
Paul says in vrs 14&15 I have a right to be paid because I have value but don’t pay
because I don’t preach to be paid a preach because I have a responsibility
If you’re preaching to get your wife a $200,000 car, you might need to reconsider your call
Paul wasn’t asking for money he was making a point about how theqa
