Divine Leadership Part 13 Exodus 23:20; 1 Tim.3:6

Outline

Define Novice

Con’s to a Novice as a Pastor

Pro’s to a Young Man as a Pastor

Define Novice

(Neophyton) Where we get our word Neophyte—Newly converted: It has nothing to do with age. Enoch was 65 years of age when he became a neophyte. Genesis 5:2,22 “And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:”

Newly Planted (has weak roots)---A Novice is weak when it comes to the doctrine of the scriptures.

Con’s to a Novice as a Pastor

Lifted Up—(typhotheis) to be puffed up; conceited 1 Tim.6:4 “He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,”

Knowing Nothing—void of understanding and doesn’t know enough to know that he doesn’t know.

doting about questions--- (Sick about questions) Asking about things that if he had the answer to he still wouldn’t know. Trying to be “deep” when he can’t swim.

Strifes of Words—Profits nothing and subverts the hearers 2 Tim.2:14 “Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.”

Hurt to the Church

Envy--

Strife—fighting

Railings-slander “back biting”

evil surmisings—conjecture of what I think.

Perverse disputings—frictional strife—in house fighting

Pro’s to Having a Young Pastor

Plenty of Time to Grow—1 Tim.4:12 “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

Strength for the Labor---Joshua after Moses

Courage to Try New Things—David against Goliath

More Dependent Upon God because he doesn’t know---Solomon as a New King