October 11, 2022

Passage Read: 1 Timothy 5-6
Meditation Verses: 6:2-3

Thought

There are many things taught in Scripture that men today consider backwards, and that is their excuse to turn away from such teachings. A slave serving well, especially if his master is a believer? The master should free the slave! How dare the Bible support slavery! Yet, that is what it says, because slavery is neither good nor bad. What is bad is how we treat one another. The excuse that we're so far past things taught in the Bible, like equality for women, that we can't go back to what the Bible teaches, that flies in the face of what Paul says here. We must hold fast to sound doctrine, to what Scripture teaches to be true. We must walk in obedience to God's Word even when it seems impossible to go back to it. To remain in disobedience is to further our destruction, not our salvation.

Application

It doesn't matter how "backward" a teaching in Scripture may seem, it still needs to be taught and believers need to be called to obey it. Anyone who refuses to repent and obey it should be avoided, because they are not seeking the good of the congregation or of God, but of their own selves. They are sinning and will take the whole congregation with them.