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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello and good morning, friends and faith listeners.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning into the Bible Explained Podcasts on

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Speaker 1: this chilly morning. And Hi, my name is Jen. I

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Speaker 1: am the host of this podcast, and I am so

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Speaker 1: excited that you're here to share a delicious cup of

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Speaker 1: hot coffee with me as we discuss first Timothy five

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Speaker 1: and finish out this chapter. So right now, we're going

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Speaker 1: through a winter storm, which is not uncommon for where

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Speaker 1: I live. In fact, we've had quite a few winter

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Speaker 1: storms this year, I'd say more than normal. Actually we

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Speaker 1: haven't gotten a lot of snow, but it's just been

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Speaker 1: almost like a constant dropping of snow, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: But today we have a lot of wind mixed with snow,

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Speaker 1: so it's actually a blizzard. So I've got myself wrapped

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Speaker 1: in my heated blanket that I got for Christmas, And

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Speaker 1: this was a gift from my brother in law and

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Speaker 1: I have been living in this thing ever since I

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Speaker 1: got it. And then my husband, to top it off,

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Speaker 1: he got me some electric hand warmers that like plug

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Speaker 1: into the wall and they are wonderful. So I am

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Speaker 1: nice and toasty and warm, because that's the one thing

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Speaker 1: about me. I am always cold. I'm always cold, and

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Speaker 1: so I feel like the theme of my gifts this

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Speaker 1: year was let's be warm. I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: gifts that will keep me warm this year, which I

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Speaker 1: am very very excited about. So tell me what you

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Speaker 1: got for Christmas. I'd love to hear about it. Tell

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Speaker 1: me what your favorite gift was. Okay, you can contact

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Speaker 1: me via the email address listed in the description of

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Speaker 1: this episode, But for right now, let's go ahead and

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Speaker 1: read First Timothy five seventeen through twenty five. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be finishing out this chapter today. We've been in First

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Speaker 1: Timothy five for actually quite a while, several weeks now,

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Speaker 1: I feel like because there's just so much content in

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Speaker 1: this chapter. In the last two episodes, in One Timothy five,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the rules for widows and whether or

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Speaker 1: not the church should actually financially compensate widows, what would

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Speaker 1: be the guidelines for that. So that's what we discussed

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Speaker 1: all of last week and the week before. But now

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Speaker 1: we're going to be finishing up by talking about pastors

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Speaker 1: and how we should be treating our pastors. Should we

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Speaker 1: listen to accusations against our pastors, how do we critique

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Speaker 1: our pastors when they're wrong. Paul is going to lay

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Speaker 1: all of this out in the passage we read today.

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Speaker 1: But before we get into this episode, please listen to

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Speaker 1: a quick word from one of our sponsors. All right,

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Speaker 1: So now that we've heard from our sponsor, let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and read First Timothy five seventeen through twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I'll be reading this, as always, from the web version,

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Speaker 1: but feel free to grab the version of the Bible

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Speaker 1: that you prefer this morning, whatever that might be. And

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Speaker 1: also your cup of coffee or tea or hot coco

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Speaker 1: or whatever you're drinking to warm yourself up, because it's

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Speaker 1: needed on this cold winter day. Unless you live in

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Speaker 1: like Arizona or something. I don't know, maybe it's not

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Speaker 1: needed down there, but if you're up north like me,

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Speaker 1: you need a cup of coffee today for sure. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's grab those things and give reverence to the reading

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Speaker 1: of God's word. Let the elders who rule well be

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Speaker 1: counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in

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Speaker 1: the word and in teaching. For the scriptures say you

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Speaker 1: shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain,

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Speaker 1: and the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't receive

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Speaker 1: an accusation against an elder, accept at the word of

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Speaker 1: two or three witnesses. Those who sin reprove in the

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Speaker 1: sight of all that the rest may also be in fear.

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Speaker 1: I command you, in the sight of God and the

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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ and the Chosen Angels, that you observe

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Speaker 1: these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. Lay hands

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Speaker 1: hastily on no one. Don't be a participant in other

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Speaker 1: people's sins. Keep yourself pure, Be no longer a drinker

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Speaker 1: of water only, but use a little wine for your

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Speaker 1: stomach's sake and for your frequent infirmities. Some men's sins

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Speaker 1: are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow

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Speaker 1: later in the same way. Also, there are good works

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Speaker 1: So I've been going to church for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm thirty two years old, and I've visited

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Speaker 1: And there's generally two extremes that I've consistently seen throughout

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Speaker 1: Either people think the pastor can do no wrong. He

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Speaker 1: is completely perfect. Everything he says is straight from God's lips.

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Speaker 1: we're going to leave the church. Those are the two

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Speaker 1: extremes that I've always seen. But in our passage for today,

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Speaker 1: Paul's talking about a much more moderate approach when viewing

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Speaker 1: in verse seventeen, let the elders who rule well be

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Speaker 1: counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in

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Speaker 1: we've previously established in the last chapter, this would be

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Speaker 1: any man that has a pastoral position in the church.

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Speaker 1: That is who Paul is talking about. In Paul's day,

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Speaker 1: there was not one pastor that ruled everything like we

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Speaker 1: see in most American churches nowadays. Instead, there were multiple

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Speaker 1: people who had a pastoral lead. It was a group

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Speaker 1: of men that actually led the church instead of one

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Speaker 1: single individual, because it's a much healthier way to do church.

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Speaker 1: You know, giving all the power to one man is

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Speaker 1: not good for anybody. It's not good for the church.

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Speaker 1: It's not even good for the pastor because the pastor

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Speaker 1: has a million responsibilities that he has to do all

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Speaker 1: on his own. Giving that much power to one man

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Speaker 1: isn't healthy either, because, as we know, power corrupts. So

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Speaker 1: an elderboard is a very good thing to have in

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Speaker 1: your church, and that is what Paul is talking about.

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Speaker 1: He says, the elders who rule well should be counted

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Speaker 1: worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the

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Speaker 1: giving double honor to every single elder across the board.

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Speaker 1: He's saying the elders who rule well should be counted

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Speaker 1: worthy of double honor, and especially the elders who labor

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Speaker 1: in the word and in teaching. So that would be

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Speaker 1: talking about the preaching elders, the elders who comb through

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Speaker 1: the scriptures, who learn everything they can about the Bible

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Speaker 1: to present it to the congregation and teach them more

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Speaker 1: about those scriptures. That is who Paul is talking about

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Speaker 1: those men should be worthy of double honor only if

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Speaker 1: they are also ruling well. So if they are not

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Speaker 1: doing what they should be doing as elders. You know,

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Speaker 1: those qualifications and are teaching well. Those men are worthy

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Speaker 1: of double honor. And when we see the word honor here,

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Speaker 1: the word time in English, but it means honor, value, money, reward, price, price,

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Speaker 1: set some It's not just talking about like giving somebody honor.

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Speaker 1: This is talking about rewarding these elders financially. And Paul

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Speaker 1: actually makes that very clear in the next verse, verse eighteen.

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Speaker 1: For the scriptures say you shall not muzzle the ox

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Speaker 1: is found in the Book of Deuteronomy, and the second verse,

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Speaker 1: the laborer is worthy of his wages is actually from

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Speaker 1: Jesus's own lips. Those who work for the gospel should

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Speaker 1: be paid. Even Jesus said that. The actual verse, if

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Speaker 1: He says, remain in the same house, eating and drinking

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Speaker 1: things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of

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Speaker 1: his wages. Do not go from house to house. And

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Speaker 1: that was when Jesus sent his disciples out. He told them,

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Speaker 1: go to these cities, teach the gospel, heal the sick,

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Speaker 1: cast out demons, and remain in one house the entire time,

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Speaker 1: and let them feed you. Take what they offer. You,

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Speaker 1: take the room and board and the food, because the

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Speaker 1: laborer is worthy of his wages. So even Jesus taught

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Speaker 1: paid by the people receiving ying that message. It is work,

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Speaker 1: and it is hard work that people deserve compensation for.

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Speaker 1: First Corinthians nine goes a lot more in depth with this. Actually,

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Speaker 1: Paul talks in detail about how pastors and apostles and

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Speaker 1: teachers of the Word should be paid. So let's get

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Speaker 1: into this one. Corinthians nine one through fourteen from the

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Speaker 1: NIV version. Actually, Paul says, am I not free? Am

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Speaker 1: I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Our Lord?

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Speaker 1: Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?

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Speaker 1: Even though I may not be an apostle to others,

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Speaker 1: surely I am to you, for you are the seal

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Speaker 1: of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense

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Speaker 1: to those who sit in judgment on me. Don't we

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Speaker 1: have the right to food and drink? Don't we have

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Speaker 1: as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and cephists.

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Speaker 1: Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the

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Speaker 1: right to not work for a living, who serves as

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Speaker 1: a soldier at his own expense, who plants a vineyard

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Speaker 1: and does not drink the milk? Do I say this

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Speaker 1: merely on human authority? Doesn't the law say the same thing,

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Speaker 1: not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain?

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Speaker 1: Is it about oxen? God is concerned? Surely he says

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Speaker 1: this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us,

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Speaker 1: because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do

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Speaker 1: we have sown spiritual seed among you? Is it too

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Speaker 1: much if we reap a material harvest from you? If

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Speaker 1: others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we

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Speaker 1: have it all the more? But we did not use

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Speaker 1: this rite. On the contrary, we put up with anything

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Speaker 1: rather than hinder the Gospel of Christ. Don't you know

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Speaker 1: that those who serve in the temple get their food

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Speaker 1: from the temple, and that those who serve at the

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Speaker 1: the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who

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Speaker 1: preach the gospel should receive their living from the Gospel.

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Speaker 1: And man that verse right there, verse fourteen, it says,

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Speaker 1: the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel

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Speaker 1: pastor should be paid. He should be paid. And it

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Speaker 1: is a shame that the majority of churches in America

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Speaker 1: don't pay their pastors, or pay their pastors hardly anything

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Speaker 1: at all. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that this is fully the fault of the congregation of

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Speaker 1: the church. There are some pastors that probably don't deserve

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Speaker 1: to be paid. As Paul said himself, you know, in

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Speaker 1: one Timothy five he said, only the elders that are

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Speaker 1: serving well deserve this type of honor. So if there

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Speaker 1: are pastors out there that are not serving the congregation well,

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Speaker 1: they should not be getting paid. Because if you're just

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Speaker 1: damaging the church, if you're just damaging the reputation of God,

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Speaker 1: why would we honor you with anything at all. You

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Speaker 1: I thought it was fun to talk about. I like

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Speaker 1: delving into the logistics of how churches should be run,

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Speaker 1: and this is essentially all this chapter was talking about,

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Speaker 1: is how to effectively run a church. I love it,

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Speaker 1: so I hope that you guys enjoyed it as well.

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Speaker 1: We'll be finishing up First Timothy very soon, probably not

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, but likely next week. And yes, there will

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Speaker 1: be an episode Thursday, even though it's New Year's Day.

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Speaker 1: I took a lot of time off this month only

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Speaker 1: because of my vacation that I took with my husband

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Speaker 1: and then Christmas. So yes, we will be starting on

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Speaker 1: Timothy six on Thursday, so I hope to see all

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Speaker 1: of you guys then six am or whenever you choose

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Speaker 1: to wake up and listen, and then also tomorrow don't

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Speaker 1: forget there's going to be an episode from Second Chronicles,

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Speaker 1: but we'll get into that tomorrow morning. Until then, happy

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Speaker 1: listening and God bless. I just want to take a

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Speaker 1: second to thank the team at Life Audio for their

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Speaker 1: partnership with me on the Bible Explain podcast. In fact,

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Speaker 1: if you go to lifeaudio dot com you will find

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Speaker 1: dozens of other faith centered podcasts in their network. They've

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Speaker 1: got shows about prayer, Bible study, parenting, and more.