October 18, 2015 Sermon Lesson 18 1 Timothy 5:9-16
SHOWING GODLINESS TOWARD OTHERS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST—PART II
Main Idea: We need to support our widows!
• We need to honor our widows (5:3) Honor your mother and father (Ex 20:12; Deut 5:16) Encourage older women as mothers (1 Tim 5:2) • We need to honor our “widows indeed”/“enrolled on the list” (5:3, 5, 9-16) Qualifications ▪ Positive • Sets her hope on God (5) • Continues in supplication and prayer (5) • Wife of one husband (a “one-man-woman”) (9) • Reputation for good works (10) • Has raised children (10) • Has shown hospitality (10) • Has washed the feet of saints (10) • Has cared for the afflicted (10) • Has devoted herself to every good work (10) • Has made a pledge to say single and to serve (12) ▪ Negative • No relatives to support her (4, 8, 16) • Not self-indulgent (5) • Not less than 60 years of age (9) • Not a young widow (11-15) Duties ▪ Young widows: marry, bear children, manage households, give adversary no occasion for slander (14-15)
• Responsibilities of caregivers (church and family) For widows: families of widows (16b) For “widows indeed”: the Church (3-4, 16a)
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