diff --git a/55-1ti/06.md b/55-1ti/06.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..463b25f --- /dev/null +++ b/55-1ti/06.md @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ +# 1 TIMOTHY 6 + +## 6:1-2 + +### What was a slave? + +A “slave”(δοῦλος/g1401) was a person owned by another person. The slave worked for the owner. A slave +was not paid for the work they did. However,  a “slave” was taken care of by his owner. The owner gave +them food to eat, clothes to wear, and a place to live. + +See: Ephesians 6:5-8; Colossians 3:22-25; + +See: Serve (Servant, Slave) + +### What did it mean to be “under the yoke”? + +A yoke (ζυγός/g2218) was a piece of wood that was placed around the necks of two large animals to join +them together. This allowed them to pull heavy loads. To be “under the yoke” was a metaphor. That is, it +was used to talk about how slaves were owned by a master and made to do work. + +See: Metaphor + +### Why did Paul write, “worthy of all honor”? + +Paul wanted Christian slaves to respect their master by obeying him. + +### How might the “name of God” be blasphemed? + +The word “blaspheme” was used to say that someone said something bad about God or another person in +some way. Some scholars think Paul wrote about God being spoken against when he wrote Christians not +to do things to blaspheme. That is, If slaves were disobedient, it gave reason for non-Christians to speak +bad things about God and the things Christians taught. + +See: Romans 2:24; Titus 2:9-10 + +See: Blaspheme (Blasphemy) + +## 6:3-10 + +### What was teaching that did “not agree” with Paul’s message? + +Throughout the book of 1st Timothy, Paul wrote Timothy about how the church was to work together. Paul +wanted Timothy to know that anything someone taught that did “not agree”(ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω/g2085) with +the things Paul wrote in this letter was false teaching. + +See: Galatians 1:6-9 + +See: Church + +### What were “controversies and arguments about words”? + +Paul wrote again what he had already written about false teachers. They taught about things that did not +matter much. They also taught wrong things about the Old Testament (see: 1:4, 6-7; 4:7). These things +caused arguments about things which were not things about which they needed to worry. Paul warned +Timothy that false teachers harmed the church. + +See: Proverbs 20:3; Titus 3:9 + +See: Church + +### What was a “depraved” person? + +Some scholars think a “depraved” person was someone who did not know the truth or they no longer +believed the things that were true. Other scholars think a “depraved” person does not know the difference +between right and wrong. + +### Why did Paul write the word “contentment”? + +“Contentment” was used to talk about a person who had enough of the things he needed to live. He had no +need for help from other people. Also, it was used to talk about a person who did not want anything more in +their life. In Paul’s letters, Christians were content because they knew God provided their needs. + +See: Matthew 6:25-26; Philippians 4:11-13 + +See: Greed (Covet) + +### How were godliness and contentment “great gain”? + +Paul wrote that godliness and contentment were “great gain” because doing the things that honored God +were good for a person both now and forever. + +See: Godly (Godliness) + +### Why did Paul write “the world”? + +In the same way that newborn babies have nothing in this world, people cannot take anything from this +world with them when they die. + +See: Job 1:21; Matthew 6:33-34 + +See: World + +### What was “the love of money”? + +A person with “love of money” only wanted to have much money and things they could buy with it. + +### How was the love of money “a root of all kinds of evil”? + +Paul used the metaphor of a “root.” That is, the love of money causes much evil in the same way a root +causes a plant to grow.   + +See: Ecclesiastes 5:10; Luke 16:13-15 + +See: Metaphor + +### How did people who loved money “pierce themselves with much grief”? + +When a person pierced or stabbed themselves with a knife or other sharp thing, it caused pain. Paul used +that idea to say that people who have a love for money often times cause themselves to have pain, such as +the loss of friendships. + +## 6:11-21 + +### What was a “man of God”? + +Some scholars think Paul wrote about Timothy as a man of God because Timothy was a Christian. Also, +Timothy wanted to do the things that honored God. Other scholars think Paul wrote “man of God” to write +that Timothy was similar to a prophet. In the Old Testament, the words “man of God” were often used to +write about Moses, Samuel and Elijah. + +See: 2 Timothy 3:17; Deuteronomy 33:1; 1 Kings 17:18 + +See: Prophet + +### Why did Paul write Timothy to  “flee these things”? + +Paul told Timothy to “flee” certain things.  He wrote this to tell Timothy not do the things that trap people +who do these things because they love money. However, Paul wrote Timothy to “pursue” other things. He +told him to do the things that make him  to live in a way that honors God. + +See: 2 Timothy 2:22 + +### What was the “good fight of faith”? + +Paul wanted Timothy to know that a Christian will be persecuted by people who do not believe in Jesus. + +See: Persecute (Persecution) + +### What was the “good confession” made by Timothy? + +Some scholars think the “good confession” about which Paul wrote was when Timothy told others that he +believed in Jesus. Other scholars think Timothy made the “good confession” when he began preaching the +gospel (see: 2 Timothy 1:14). + +See: Romans 10:9-10 + +See: Confess (Confession); Preach (Preacher); Gospel + +### Why did Paul write Timothy to “keep the commandment without spot or blame”? + +Paul wrote Timothy to obey God’s commandment “without spot.” That is, he needed to obey God +perfectly. To be “without blame” meant Timothy was to do things in such a way that no one could accuse +him of doing the wrong things. + +See: 4:11-16; 2 Peter 3:14 + +### Why did Paul write “reveal Christ’s appearing”? + +Paul wrote “reveal Christ’s appearing” to write that God decided when Christ will return. God will cause it +to happen (see: Acts 1:6-7). “Appearing”(ἐπιφάνεια/g2015) was one of the words used to talk about when +Jesus came to earth the first time  (see: 2 Timothy 1:10). The same Greek word for “appearing” is also used +for the second time Jesus will come in the future (see: 2 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Timothy 4:1, 8; Titus 2:13). + +See: Matthew 16:27; 24:30; Colossians 3:4 + +See: Reveal (Revelation); Jesus’ Return to Earth; Glory (Glorify) + +### What was “immortality”? + +God has “immortality.” That is, only God has always lived and will live forever and never dies (see: 1:17). +God promised Christians that they will live forever with God also (1 Corinthians 15:53-54). + +See: Immortal (Immortality) + +### What was “unapproachable light”? + +God’s presence is so bright that people cannot be physically close to him. This was the light of God’s glory +at Mount Sinai (see: Exodus 24:16-17). + +See: Psalm 104:1-2 + +See: Light and Darkness (metaphor); Presence of God; Glory (Glorify) + +See Map: Mount Sinai + +### How was someone “rich in good works”? + +When Paul wrote to Timothy about people being “rich in good works,” he wanted people to do many good +things. + +See: Acts 9:36; Titus 3:8; + +### What was a “good foundation”? + +Paul wrote about a “good foundation.” This was a metaphor. In the same way cement and large rocks made +a foundation to build a solid house, so the things taught in the Bible is the foundation for a Christian to live. + +See: Matthew 6:19-21 + +See: Metaphor + +### Why did Paul write to Timothy to“protect” what was given to him? + +Paul told Timothy the truth, and Timothy needed to “protect”(φυλάσσω/g5442) it. Also, Timothy needed to +teach  Christians the truth in the same way that Paul taught Timothy. Some scholars think that this was all +the things Christians taught. Other scholars think that it was only the things Paul wrote Timothy in this +letter. + +See: 1:11, 18; 2 Timothy 1:14 + +### Why did Paul write some men “missed the faith”? + +Some scholars think Paul wrote the words “miss”(ἀστοχέω/g0795) the faith to write about people who did +not fully understand the message about believing in Jesus. Therefore, they began to teach false things about +what was faith. Fewer scholars think Paul used the words to “miss” the faith to write about people who no +longer believed the message of faith. + +See: 1:6, 19; 2 Timothy 2:18 \ No newline at end of file