1 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,700 When we discuss the qualifications of an elder, we 2 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:10,300 find that those things are given to us by the Apostle. 3 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:14,400 Paul in two places in the New Testament, one is found in the 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,100 book of 1st Timothy and the other is found in the book of 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:22,900 Titus and as we mentioned from time to time we reference this 6 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:26,700 passage that's found in the book of Titus Chapter 1 and verse 5 7 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:31,500 and I'm just very briefly say a few introductory things. 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,700 That are what by way of review just a few. 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,500 First of all in Titus Chapter 1 and verse 5, Paul gives the 10 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,600 reason that he left Titus in Creed two-fold. 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,500 Reason number one is set in order, the things that are 12 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:48,700 lacking and part of that was lacking was to ordain Elders in 13 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:52,100 every city in every church. It's also very important to 14 00:00:52,108 --> 00:00:54,600 remember. That creep was not just some 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,800 little place. In fact, it was the fifth 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,100 largest island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. 17 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:05,600 It Had over a million people living there and I told by 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,100 ancient historians and Scholars, there was, at least 100 cities. 19 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:14,500 It was a big place. It was 185 miles long and at the 20 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:20,200 widest part, it was 35 miles wide, very big place and Paul 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,200 told Titus, I left you in Crete to set in order the things that 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,400 are lacking and ordain Elders in every city. 23 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:33,300 And by that we simply say every city Is every church or 24 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:38,500 congregation now, the word Elder is described in three ways. 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,600 Three different words, describing the same office. 26 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,500 He is called an elder. He is called a bishop and he is 27 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:50,000 called a pastor and all three of these words, refer to the same 28 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,800 man, it refers to the same office, but it describes 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,200 different aspects of his position as an elder by way of 30 00:01:58,208 --> 00:02:01,900 his duties and so forth. For example, the word Elder 31 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:06,000 itself just means older. This is describing a man that is 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 older and with experience and by the very definition of the word 33 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,200 Elder it disqualifies. A young man. 34 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,000 He's also called a bishop and why is that it describes his 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,800 duty to the congregation as what a bishop or overseer? 36 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:26,600 He is also called a pastor, why's that it describes his task 37 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,500 and that is to feed or Shepherd the Church of God. 38 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,400 Now. I want to add this that I didn't 39 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,400 do last Sunday. Let's look at this. 40 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,500 Let's look at passages that describe all of them together 41 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,200 and Acts chapter 20 and verse 17. 42 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,700 It says from my letus, he sent to Ephesus and called for the 43 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:52,100 Elders of the church. So in Acts chapter 20, it's 44 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:55,500 talking about Paul's addressing the Ephesian, Elders. 45 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,300 What else? Drop down to about verse number 46 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:00,900 28. And it says this, therefore, 47 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:02,900 take heed to yourself and to others. 48 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 All the flock among the which the Holy Spirit has made you 49 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:13,200 overseers that's Bishops to Shepherd that's Pastor the 50 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,600 Church of God which he has purchased with his own blood. 51 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:20,800 That's noticed one more, First Peter, chapter 5 verses 1 and 2. 52 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,900 It contains it all in the same two verses. 53 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:27,500 It says, the elders who are among you I exhort I who am a 54 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:31,000 fellow Elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and 55 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,900 also a partaker of the glory Glory that will be revealed 56 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,600 Shepherd or Pastor. The flock of God which is among 57 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,500 you serving as overseers or Bishops not by constraint but 58 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:47,600 willingly, not for dishonest gain, but eagerly I simply 59 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,100 showed you this passage to describe. 60 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,900 It's the same man, he is an elder, he is a Shepherd or 61 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:58,300 pastor and he is an overseer or a bishop as well. 62 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:01,000 It's all talking about the same man. 63 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,000 All right, so we're We realize this. 64 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:07,600 There's about twenty? Four qualifications for a man, 65 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,300 to be an alga, what if we noticed so far? 66 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,200 Number one, he must desire the office, but not only that if 67 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,000 he's going to desire the title, he must eagerly and more 68 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,100 earnestly desire. The work. 69 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:24,400 Sometimes people just want the title, they don't want the work 70 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,100 in life and in various aspects of life. 71 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,800 And Paul would describe if a man desires the office, he must even 72 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,900 more so desire, the work. He must be a man of good 73 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:37,400 reputation in other words. No, sustainable charge held 74 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,100 against him not perfect but blameless Used to be a one-woman 75 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:45,900 man. He is to be faithful and true to 76 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,300 his bride. Just like Jesus Christ is 77 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:52,400 faithful and true to his bride and that is the church. 78 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:56,200 So what is that called? Paul calls that the husband of 79 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,700 one wife regardless of how many children that he has. 80 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,700 It must all be faithful Christians not faithful to their 81 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,600 father, but faithful to the Lord. 82 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,100 He must be a calm person. And watched whole the King James 83 00:05:11,100 --> 00:05:13,500 Is calls that Vigilant the new King James. 84 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,300 Just simply says, that means temperate. 85 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,000 He is to be a man of self-control. 86 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:22,200 I have to make a little side point here. 87 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,900 Have you noticed all of the qualifications we've noticed so 88 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:31,200 far and we'll notice today. How many deal with a person 89 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,000 self-control? How many deal with a person 90 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,800 having self-control controlling yourself? 91 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:41,000 You know why it's hard to do that? 92 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:44,900 It's sometimes hard to do that. But this is a man, this is a 93 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:49,200 man, an elder he is going to be sober minded and that means 94 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,900 this. He's going to demonstrate 95 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:55,500 self-control in both his premeditated actions and his non 96 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:59,900 premeditated reactions. He must not be a reactionary 97 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,200 type Resort, what else? He's to be respectable. 98 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,400 Or a good behavior. Remember the word that we get 99 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,000 another word from that? Greek word is the word 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,800 Cosmetics? Remember, I talked about that 101 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,900 cosmetics and the kind of Cosmetics were talking about is 102 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:19,000 not something that conceals or covers up but it's something 103 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,500 that highlights and reveals the beauty. 104 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:24,600 That's already there. That's what we're talking about. 105 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,800 An elder is somebody by a respectable lifestyle with good 106 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,300 behavior demonstrates outwardly the beauty That he already has 107 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:39,600 inside and that's Jesus Christ. Remember that song we used to 108 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,900 sing? Let the beauty of Jesus be seen 109 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:47,100 in me or how about songs like Christ liveth in me. 110 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,700 That's the way a Christian lives. 111 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:51,100 That's the way a Christian is. You know, what? 112 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:53,200 Elder must be? He must be a person. 113 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,500 That is a good behavior demonstrating that, which is 114 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:59,200 already inside. And by the way, every Christian 115 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,800 falls into that category, don't all of these are most of these 116 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,500 are many of these describe just a regular Christian. 117 00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:11,100 What else has to be hospitable? That means a lover strangers and 118 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:16,200 must be able to teach and that is skillful, and that is capable 119 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,000 of doing so. All right. 120 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,400 Now, we're going to begin with Point number 10. 121 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,000 Qualification. Number 10, and by the way, some 122 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,700 of these things will go quickly. Some of these things are more 123 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,000 obvious than others and some of these things will spend a little 124 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 more time. And again, like I said, our 125 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,200 sermon has six points and one verse in the first one that we 126 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,400 want to notice is not given to wine. 127 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,000 Now, when you talk about this is found in first, Timothy chapter 128 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,400 3 and verse 3. What does it actually mean? 129 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:54,200 When it says not given to wine that phrase actually means this 130 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:57,800 and don't let anyone else tell you any differently, the phrase 131 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,800 not given to Wine. Simply means this he must not 132 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:06,500 drink. Intoxicating beverages period, 133 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:15,300 Now literally it means this it means not beside why Kenneth 134 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:20,700 wuest said this it's a person who is beside wine is a person 135 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:26,400 that sits long at his wine. Now the meaning is a person who 136 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,600 is given to wine is one who is beside wine? 137 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,500 So what is he saying? An elf and Elder has nothing to 138 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:38,200 do with that stuff period. Okay, we have to fast-forward a 139 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,500 few lessons from now. As we get into the deepens, I'm 140 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:43,000 just going to make one quick point. 141 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,800 We're going to get back to it later on down the road. 142 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,100 When he talks about an elder, he says an elder must not be given 143 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:55,700 to Wine but then when he talks about a deacon he says an elder 144 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:59,300 a deacon must not be given to much wine. 145 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,000 See you know how people interpret that they say oh an 146 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,700 elder can't have any A deacon can have a little there for 147 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:09,800 fatigue. Him can have a little then, a 148 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,600 Christian can have a little in moderation and therefore, social 149 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,900 drinking is okay. Okay, I promise to get into that 150 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:20,300 later on. I'm just going to tell you 151 00:09:20,308 --> 00:09:23,700 though, it doesn't mean that. And when he says, not given to 152 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:25,900 much wine, it doesn't mean you can have a little just don't 153 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:27,500 have a lock, doesn't mean that at all. 154 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:30,400 All right. That being said about an elder, 155 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:35,400 not given to wine. Also this it doesn't justify 156 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:39,900 anybody else in addition to an elder being allowed to drink. 157 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,400 In fact, Barn says this, listen to this the way in which the 158 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,900 Apostle mentions the subject of wine here would lead us to 159 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,300 fairly suppose that he did not mean to commend. 160 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:54,700 Its use in any sense that he regarded its use as dangerous. 161 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:58,500 And that one would do no injury to himself or others by leaving 162 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:01,800 it entirely alone. He may do injury though by 163 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,200 indulging in it. Now let's go further about this 164 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,200 and prove what it actually means. 165 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,300 It actually comes from a Greek word pair or Enos and that is a 166 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:15,800 combination of the preposition para which means at by the side 167 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,200 of or near and the word boy, knows which his wine. 168 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,100 In other words, an elder doesn't need to be anywhere near that. 169 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:29,800 And I got to say this. Does that mean does that mean 170 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,100 that if you're in a restaurant, The summit 8, we don't go to 171 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:39,200 bars, we don't go on stuff. But Ima take, you can't 172 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,700 eliminate every aspect of somebody else drinking in your 173 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:45,300 vicinity. You can't eliminate that, it's 174 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:47,100 all around, you have nothing to do with that. 175 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:50,600 You go to a restaurant and sit at a table and be with there 176 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,900 with your family, drinking ice tea, and somebody sitting right 177 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:55,600 there and attend a table. Right next to you, is drinking 178 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,800 alcohol. So is Paul saying when he says, 179 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,400 you cannot be beside wine? Is he saying that you have to 180 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,600 get up and leave and you can't be sitting next to To a table 181 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,000 that is having alcoholic beverage. 182 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:13,100 No, not at all. You know, just means it. 183 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:17,500 Simply means this when he says, You must not drink it, you can't 184 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:19,700 be beside it. You can't be near it. 185 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:25,700 What it means is, total abstinence that's all It means 186 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:28,800 total. Abstinence. 187 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:36,200 Now some mistranslations folks have led some people to believe 188 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:39,800 that Paul was just being against the idea of being drunk. 189 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,900 In other words, as long as you drink it in moderation it was 190 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:47,200 okay but if you have it in excess that's wrong and don't 191 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,300 get drunk. And one of the reasons that 192 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:53,300 people deduce that is because of various mistranslations. 193 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:56,700 I'm going to give you a mistranslation of this passage 194 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,300 and it's a bad translation on that is founded the Purified 195 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:04,000 Bible, listen to this. In the Amplified Bible it's a 196 00:12:04,008 --> 00:12:08,100 misleading bad translation on this passage because it says not 197 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:12,000 addicted to wine. But that's not the point at all. 198 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:14,300 His point was, it being addicted to Wine? 199 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,500 His point was stay away from it, completely and Elder has to stay 200 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:20,100 away from it. Totally now, interesting, 201 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:24,700 though, in the Amplified Bible classic edition, it says the 202 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:28,000 same thing not given to wine and that's the point. 203 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,000 So the reason that he's not talking about being addicted to 204 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,000 wine. And that's a bad translation is 205 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,300 because Paul is talking about just staying away from it 206 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:40,800 period. Okay, I got to add something. 207 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,300 I got to add alcoholism and addiction for a minute. 208 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,300 I'm going to tell you something alcoholism. 209 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:57,500 And the addiction is real stuff. And it is true. 210 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:03,100 That some people more than others, have an addictive 211 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:06,600 personality or have addictive traits. 212 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,200 So one person could partake of something and really they could 213 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,300 take it or leave it for the rest of their life and other people 214 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:19,300 can partake of something and become addicted to it, and have 215 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:22,200 to have it. I want to talk about that for 216 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,000 just a minute. I want to talk about alcoholism 217 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,900 and I want to talk about the idea of being addicted. 218 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,000 First of all, let me say this and let me add this to. 219 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,100 I do agree. That once a person has 220 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:41,700 alcoholism or is addicted to it, the experts say that that could 221 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:46,000 be categorized or classified as somebody that has an actual 222 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,700 disease. Is the disease of alcoholism or 223 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,000 it's the disease of addiction okay? 224 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,300 I could buy that with this exception. first of all, alcohol 225 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:03,400 is and maybe a disease with the choice to drink is not The 226 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,900 choice to drink is not a disease. 227 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,500 That is a willful choice and the absolute best way especially 228 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:16,800 when some of us may have very addictive personalities and very 229 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,900 best way to not get in trouble, is to not be anywhere near it. 230 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:23,600 Don't have anything to do with it. 231 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,300 And by the way, I've known some very addictive Personalities in 232 00:14:27,300 --> 00:14:28,900 my life that I got a good friend. 233 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,400 I got a very good framework that we grew up together. 234 00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:36,300 We Junior Rodeo together, we went to Cal Poly together, great 235 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:39,400 friends. And after Cal Poly, he lives 236 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:43,000 here in Bakersfield, he continued to drink and drink and 237 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,200 drink and drink became an alcoholic. 238 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:48,500 And I remember that we had an intervention, I was asked to go 239 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:51,600 there by his father and we tried and we got him into rehab. 240 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:58,300 Now, he was absolutely addicted to the chemical of in alcohol. 241 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:01,200 He was addicted to it. Absolutely, he needed help. 242 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,000 He needed even medical help to get off of. 243 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:09,800 Okay, my point is this he had never had a problem if you never 244 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:16,300 took the first drink, Alcoholism maybe a disease but the choice 245 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:21,100 to drink is not an elder folks needs to abstain an elder needs 246 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:24,300 to stay away. And by the way, I'm talking to 247 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,800 every Christian, please get that, please understand. 248 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:30,900 If you want to be on the path of what God wants for your life, 249 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:33,700 you abstain from those kind of things in your life. 250 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,100 What else? As I said before some of these 251 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:40,200 things, go to go quickly and some a little longer. 252 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,200 Here's another one. What about this? 253 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:46,100 Not violet the King. James says not a striker. 254 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,200 And I think it's obvious what that's talking about and we go 255 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,900 back to our passage. So, not only not only is an 256 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:55,700 elder not to be given to Wine, which means what don't go 257 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:57,100 anywhere near it. Stay away from it. 258 00:15:57,100 --> 00:16:01,800 If staying total, abstinence move on, but then you can't be a 259 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,300 striker. You can't be violent. 260 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,700 That actually means not a Bruiser. 261 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:11,100 Not one, ready with a blow? That's somebody else, that is 262 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:14,100 called a bully. Now, I'm going to tell you, I 263 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:17,800 have to say this too. I do believe that the word, 264 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:22,400 bully and bullying is an overused word. 265 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,800 It really is in fact that even get and I'm, I'm against 266 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,100 bullying, I'm against picking on people I'm against that totally 267 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:32,700 thoroughly completely against it. 268 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,700 But sometimes people look at the idea of a bully and they say 269 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:40,300 bullying because somebody said I don't like your hairstyle 270 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,300 bullying by the way that happened in school, I've heard 271 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:46,800 about these kids and one said that's that's the dumbest 272 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,500 looking haircut I've ever seen to another boy. 273 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:49,800 You know what? He reported. 274 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:55,200 It bullying me. Really. 275 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,900 Is that how far we become to being courageous and tough and 276 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:00,900 life? Is that it? 277 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,300 I used to have a small hand. When I was growing up in big 278 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:11,500 ears. I was in class one day. 279 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:13,599 This guy kills his men. How big are your ears? 280 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:22,000 You know what they say? They bully A bully is a bully. 281 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Is someone that is a Bruiser. He is somebody that is ready 282 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,200 with the blow. He is somebody that is ready. 283 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,700 With a strike, he is ready for some, what for to do, those kind 284 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:35,600 of things, that's a bully Elder can't be that. 285 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,500 By the way, Christian can't either. 286 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,900 He wasn't saying an elder. You better not be violent but 287 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:43,100 Christians fair game starts talking to each other. 288 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:45,600 It's all right. It's not what he said. 289 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,000 Listen to this. One scholar said that there's 290 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,500 quite possibly, a reason that the word violent is listed right 291 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:58,400 after. Why listen to this, I'll read it 292 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,600 to you. He said, perhaps Paul, is 293 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,500 referring to fights resulting from the consumption of 294 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:08,800 intoxicating, drinks, intoxicating drinks, as well as 295 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:13,800 uncontrolled emotions can result in physical, violence, and an 296 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,600 elder must not be in, must be in control of both of those now, 297 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,100 I've known people in my lifetime, every time they went 298 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:28,400 out and drink, they got a fight. In other words, they're drinking 299 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,200 was connected or their use of intoxicants was connected to 300 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:33,900 their behavior and they became Bible. 301 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,000 Is that why Paul lists of these one after the other? 302 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 I don't know. Makes sense though. 303 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,100 I've known two kinds of people when they get drunk, one loves 304 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:44,500 everybody. The other one wants to fight 305 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:48,600 everybody. Can't do that. 306 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,000 Can't be a violent person. In fact what we need to be, is 307 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 this, this is the flip side and Elder is gentle considerate of 308 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,500 the other person. Incidentally, so is a Christian. 309 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:05,100 Second Timothy 2:24 25 and the servant of the Lord must not 310 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:09,200 quarrel, but be gentle to all able to teach patient in 311 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,700 humility correcting, those who are in opposition, if God, 312 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:15,000 perhaps will grant them repentance. 313 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:20,500 So that they may know the truth. So an elder can't drink and he 314 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,200 can't be violent. What else? 315 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,300 He can't be greedy for money. You know, this is an interesting 316 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:30,700 one here. Interesting one here, found in 317 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:35,900 our passage, not greedy for money, it actually comes from a 318 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:40,400 Greek word. That means he is not a lover of 319 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,400 money. This word is only found in two 320 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:49,200 places in all of the Bible to places it's found here and it's 321 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,400 also found in Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 5 and it's translated 322 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:59,000 in Hebrews 13:5 as Covetousness as the King James renders that 323 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,600 and it's also translated and rendered in the NIV as free from 324 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,800 the Love of Money. Now, what is the root of all 325 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,500 evil? It is not money. 326 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,300 It is the Love of Money. It's the Love of Money. 327 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:20,200 David Lipscomb said this. This is a person who is not 328 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,100 willing to use, wrong means to obtain money. 329 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,800 He's not anxious for sudden riches. 330 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:34,300 Another commentator said this, we're talking about someone if 331 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:37,700 he is guilty of this being greedy for money, we're talking 332 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:41,200 about someone that has an intense fondness for money 333 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:46,000 avarice or miserliness. What does that mean? 334 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,900 Well, first of all, The word avarice means extreme Greed, for 335 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,100 material, gain or wealth. That's what a verse means. 336 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:56,800 So, in other words, the person that's greedy is going to be a 337 00:20:56,808 --> 00:20:59,300 person. That's that Elder has to be the 338 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:01,300 opposite of that. What else a miser? 339 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:05,200 Have you ever known a miser? Sometimes people criticize 340 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,900 others that are close to the vest as more there. 341 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:13,400 Really a Miser, I'm not saying that a Frugal person is guilty 342 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,700 of being a miser. Please understand. 343 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,000 Because I'm going to tell you, we have to be good stewards of 344 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,400 our money. We have to do that. 345 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,400 We got to make good choices with what the Lord has blessed us 346 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,900 with, that's all true. So when I say that, somebody is 347 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:29,800 Frugal or somebody is really under control regarding their 348 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,600 finances. I'm not saying that's a miser. 349 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:38,200 I'm saying that a miser is somebody that's a person that 350 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:43,300 Hoards wealth and spends as little as possible, even when it 351 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:49,700 is necessary, it is the opposite of generous It's the opposite of 352 00:21:49,708 --> 00:21:53,400 generous. This is a very neglected 353 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,400 qualification. Here's the point, though. 354 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:03,100 An elder that stingy and miserly with his own money, is probably 355 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:04,800 going to be the same way with the Lord's money. 356 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:13,900 A congregation that is miserly, won't spend the money to preach 357 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:17,300 the gospel. Now, I got to tell you, this 358 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:20,500 congregation does an excellent job. 359 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,300 And has the right attitude and the right Spirit when it comes 360 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:27,500 to spending the Lord's, money to preach the gospel. 361 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,600 As you know, that we support this congregation supports, I 362 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,500 believe seven Filipino preachers. 363 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:38,100 We support partly support, brother Duane permenter in 364 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,900 Hawaii. We support another preacher in 365 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:46,500 Africa, All of you, the congregation here supports me 366 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:48,200 and my living to preach the gospel. 367 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,000 We have gospel meetings where we will spend money when a preacher 368 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,100 comes and preaches the gospel. So, when I say about somebody 369 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,000 being a Miser, I'm certainly not speaking of this congregation 370 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:02,700 I'm just saying no wonder, no wonder it's a requirement, 371 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,900 because a man that is greedy for money is, guilty of Everest is 372 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,300 guilty of being a miser, guess what? 373 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,400 You put that value in, he'll be just as, as the opposite of 374 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:18,000 generous in the church, as he will be in his personal life, 375 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:25,600 have to be somebody of a generous spirit. 376 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,200 Elder should be examples of generosity. 377 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,400 In the church. Paul said, love the love of 378 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,400 money is the root of all kinds of evil. 379 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,800 An elder who is miserly will also be critical of those who 380 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,000 attempt to teach the truth about liberal giving. 381 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,300 That's true. My the way did you know this? 382 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,000 Did you know this? That that even happened to 383 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,100 Jesus? That even happened to Jesus a 384 00:23:51,108 --> 00:23:53,900 couple weeks ago, Terry gave us an excellent lesson on, giving 385 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:58,400 on the contribution on liberal giving and how we give. 386 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,600 And the Bible's clear about how the money is to be spent in a 387 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,300 generous way and to take care of the work of the church. 388 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:11,600 A person. That's a miser will be critical 389 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,900 of somebody that taught a lesson like Terry top. 390 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:16,500 And you know what? What's amazing is you don't have 391 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:18,200 to feel bad. If there's a miser like that, 392 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,200 they take it like that, and they're critical. 393 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:23,400 Because guess what happened to the Lord to Jesus is teaching a 394 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,700 lesson in the Book of Luke on money. 395 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:28,900 And in Luke 16 and 14. Watch this. 396 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:33,200 Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money, also heard all 397 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,000 these things and they derided him but we're derided simply 398 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,700 means contempt or ridicule. So a person that's a miser, a 399 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:46,300 person that is greedy for money will criticize somebody that 400 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:50,500 teaches a lesson about how we should feel about money. 401 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:55,200 Paul go is not saying that an elder should not be concerned 402 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,900 about financial matters. In fact, Paul even defended the 403 00:24:57,908 --> 00:25:02,400 fact that an elder can receive financial remuneration or 404 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,700 support for his Services, just like a preacher. 405 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:08,500 In fact, in 1st Timothy Chapter, 5 and verse 17. 406 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,700 Listen to this, let the elders who rule we'll be counted, 407 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:15,100 worthy of double honor. Especially those who labor in 408 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:18,100 word and Doctrine. Now, let me explain double 409 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:20,900 honor. Double honor doesn't mean he 410 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,700 gets to paychecks. Double honor. 411 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:27,700 One of them is talking about financial remuneration or 412 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:32,000 support and the other is talking about the honor of being in the 413 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,600 position of an elder. That is Honorable, it's 414 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,400 honorable before men in his honorable before God and helmet. 415 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:44,100 So what he's saying is if an elder is dedicating his entire 416 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:48,400 life to being an elder and teaching the word of God in word 417 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,800 and Doctrine, that's his job. Now he doesn't, he doesn't have 418 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,400 another job. Worthy of double honor. 419 00:25:55,900 --> 00:26:00,700 The second honor is the financial support. so, Paul 420 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:05,200 wasn't saying, That Elder can't have anything to do with 421 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,800 receiving money. When elder serve in a full-time 422 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,300 capacity, they may be paid as preachers, who serve the church 423 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:15,800 and preach the gospel. First Corinthians 9, 14 even. 424 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,400 So the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel 425 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,500 should live from the gospel. Paul is simply saying with this 426 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:27,700 qualification that his attitude must be a certain way toward 427 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:31,300 material things. He must be generous and 428 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:38,000 unselfish Here's another one. He must be gentle and I got to 429 00:26:38,008 --> 00:26:42,700 tell you. This doesn't mean that he's a 430 00:26:42,708 --> 00:26:46,700 pushover. This doesn't mean he's not a 431 00:26:46,708 --> 00:26:50,900 strong person. This doesn't mean that at all. 432 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,500 In fact the word gentle there comes from a Greek word. 433 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:58,300 Get this. That means mildness Channel - 434 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:02,300 fairness and sweet reasonableness. 435 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,200 Let's flip that. Have you ever dealt with a 436 00:27:06,208 --> 00:27:07,900 person that was completely unreasonable? 437 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,400 if you ever had a discussion with somebody, and the person 438 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:17,000 was completely unreasonable, You are wasting your time when you 439 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 deal with an unfair or unreasonable person. 440 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,600 So the elders supposed to be this guy, he is jail. 441 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,700 What does that mean? He is gentle, he's Fair, he's 442 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,300 reasonable. He's a reasonable man. 443 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,700 The King James renders, this passing simply patient. 444 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:42,500 This word is also found in other passages in James chapter 3 and 445 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:45,500 verse 17. But the wisdom that is from 446 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,600 above is first. Pure then Peaceable, gentle 447 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:52,600 willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, with 448 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,200 partiality. And without hypocrisy. 449 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:01,000 Here's another passage Titus Chapter 3 and verse 2 to speak. 450 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,700 Evil of no one. Same word to be Peaceable. 451 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:09,500 Gentle showing all humility to all men, Philippians 4 15, let 452 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:11,900 your gentleness be made known to all men. 453 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,200 The Lord is at hand. So instead of what he's saying 454 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:21,000 is instead of being this guy, Don't do that. 455 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,200 Be that guy. In your demeanor, in your 456 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,200 behavior. And be reasonable be yielding to 457 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,700 your relations with your relations to others. 458 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:40,000 In fact, Paul also uses the word to describe the general nature 459 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,900 of every servant. Which means this. 460 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:46,600 It is all Christians. Except with the ability to teach 461 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:50,000 it says in the CERN of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle 462 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,200 to all able to teach and patient. 463 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:58,300 So a person that is gentle an elder is described in that way. 464 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:03,200 As someone that is gentle kind yielding and moderate. 465 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:07,200 And again here's another example of somebody that could be put in 466 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:14,900 a category of someone that demonstrates self-control Let me 467 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:16,600 just say this, before we go to the next one. 468 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,900 Don't you think with a lot of the things that we have noticed? 469 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:28,300 I'm talking to the man. I'm talking to the women in a 470 00:29:28,308 --> 00:29:31,200 lot of the things that we have noticed be regarding demeanor 471 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,700 and behavior. Don't you think that if you 472 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:36,400 would do these things and work on these things in your life, 473 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:42,200 you would be a better Christian. So when I preach on elders, 474 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,300 don't think that if you're a sister in the congregation that 475 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:47,800 it really goes, those are great points but they don't have 476 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,400 anything to do with me. That's not true. 477 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,900 There are many things that are exclusive to the office of an 478 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:58,300 elder but there's a many things that also affect and include all 479 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:04,200 Christians. Now, an elder is a man. 480 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:09,800 Also, that is not quarrelsome. Not quarrelsome. 481 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,000 In other words, he's a man that is without battle and that comes 482 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,200 from the Greek word a makos. Now, one of the ways to 483 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,200 understand the word a mako's is to look at the Greek noun, the 484 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,100 opposite of that. So what's the opposite? 485 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,500 The opposite is the word mock. Oh by the way, do you see what 486 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,400 kind of English word looks like that word. 487 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:37,300 Remember that Ridiculous song Macho Macho Man. 488 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:42,000 And what they did is they took that song as describing a man 489 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,600 that was a manly man who was called a macho man. 490 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,600 What they're doing is what they're doing is they're kind of 491 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,700 misapplying, the word mock. Oh the Greek word mock. 492 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:56,100 Oh it means this somebody that is guilty of squirrels disputes 493 00:30:56,100 --> 00:31:03,700 and fighting so, that word means, so, in other words, Don't 494 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:09,400 be physically violent. Don't be argumentative. 495 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,300 Don't be involved in corals all the time. 496 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:22,100 Disputes all the time. Paul said also to avoid 497 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:25,300 questions that gender strife and in the very end and that's about 498 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,800 in second Timothy 223, the very next word, The Neighbor. 499 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,400 Next verse is the verb form of the word used in this passage 500 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,900 notice this and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel. 501 00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:39,400 It's the verb form of this word. Don't do that. 502 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,300 Don't be a quarrelsome type person. 503 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,400 Now a little context at this time, you know, many of the Jews 504 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,500 were being very contentious and they were being quarrelsome 505 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,800 about certain theories that they had developed concerning the law 506 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:57,100 and they were very argumentative about that. 507 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,000 Paul told Timothy, don't engage in these squirrels with the 508 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,700 Jews. He told Titus the same thing in 509 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:06,300 Titus 3 and 9. He said but avoid Des foolish 510 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:11,100 disputes, genealogies contentions and strivings about 511 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,900 the law for they are unprofitable and Useless. 512 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:18,000 Now, I'm not saying that you don't urge Lee contend for the 513 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,700 faith. I'm not saying you don't stand 514 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:21,400 for the truth. I'm not doing that at all. 515 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:25,700 But have you ever had a religious discussion with 516 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:27,500 someone? And they really didn't want the 517 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:29,200 truth. It just wanted to fight. 518 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,400 They just wanted to argue. They had a preconceived idea of 519 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,900 what they thought they believe. So instead of sitting down with 520 00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:42,200 the word of God and reasoning with the word of God to find the 521 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,600 truth, all they wanted to do was quarrel and fight the Jews were 522 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,200 like that. The Jews were guilty of that, 523 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,500 they had all these theories around the law and they wanted 524 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:54,900 to argue, they wanted to be quarrelsome. 525 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:58,100 They wanted to be contentious. It wanted to cause problems. 526 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,500 Paul told and to passages Timothy and Titus don't do that. 527 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:12,800 Don't do that. I had a Bible study one time 528 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,500 with the fella. He did that. 529 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:23,800 He came in with a paper bag and the paper bag was full of all 530 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,600 kinds of books. And these books were basically 531 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,700 proving in his mind is fiery about Christianity and salvation 532 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,600 and it was where he got all of his thoughts and what have you. 533 00:33:39,700 --> 00:33:41,600 And I showed up with only the Bible. 534 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,000 And he got mad when I refused to look at the books. 535 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:53,200 I said, read that right there. Very respectfully and kindly 536 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,700 read that he read it and then he said, but it doesn't mean that. 537 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,600 I said, why isn't that? Why doesn't it mean that you 538 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:58,800 only did? He went into the bag? 539 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,100 Is? No, no, no. 540 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:04,100 The bags off lemons. And then he got mad, he wanted 541 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:05,900 to argue and fight. You really want to know the 542 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:10,500 truth one to fight? What I'm saying is this, that 543 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:12,699 kind of a personality of somebody that wants to fight, he 544 00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:15,699 can't be an elder. He can't be an elder. 545 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,600 He can't be a quarrelsome or argumentative person. 546 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,300 And finally, here's our last one, it's obvious and quick. 547 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,800 Here it is. It fits Being Greedy for money 548 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,500 falls into line with the very same thing, and it's the idea of 549 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:34,900 not being covetous, not being covetous. 550 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:41,100 Now, Kenneth wuest says that not being covetous means he is not 551 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:47,800 fond of silver. But he is free from the love of 552 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,600 silver. He further said it's similar to 553 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,699 being greedy for money. In other words, the love of 554 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:57,400 money is not his problem. This is the guy that says he's 555 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,700 free from the love of that and he's not materially minded. 556 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:07,300 Money is not his God. That's all that means. 557 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:18,000 Guess what we've done and for lessons in for sermons we now 558 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:23,300 knocked out 15 qualifications. So in closing and in conclusion, 559 00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:27,100 here they are. We talked about all of these, 560 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:29,400 I'm not going to go back into these, we talked about these 561 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,700 before, we began our lesson but there they are. 562 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,600 What do we know today? He can't have anything to do 563 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,900 with drinking it all. He's got to stay away. 564 00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:42,000 From any all those intoxicants he's not to be a striker or a 565 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,500 violent man, physical altercations. 566 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:47,800 He can't be that kind of a guy. He was not be greedy for money. 567 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,500 He must have a generous spirit and not be a miser for that. 568 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:55,100 He must be gentle in that. He must be a reasonable man. 569 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:59,200 A fair man one, that considers the other person's thoughts and 570 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,300 the other person as a person when they discuss things with 571 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:04,300 him. He's not to be a quarrelsome. 572 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:08,700 Argumentative kind of guy and he must not be Covetous. 573 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Money cannot be his God, he must have only one God and everything 574 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,100 else Falls in line with that. 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