i grew up in church, but like many others, i grew older and distanced myself. I turned my back on God. I got into drugs and ran with the wrong crowd. It started with just some weed and drinking.. and before i knew it. things got dark. I was doing Heroin on a daily basis. I had a supernatural experience with Jesus Christ, because he knew i was stubborn and the only way to get through to me was with something powerful. Since then, i have had dreams and visions, where he speaks through me. He has given me wisdom and clarity that could only be coming from him. Things that i could not possibly know, and could not just be coincidence. Today i woke up, and prayed and ate lunch.. afterwards im watching youtube, and in my head, i hear 1st TIMOTHY CHAPTER 5, it will guide you. I have never read Timothy in my life… but i have been praying a lot lately that God would show me where he wants me to attend church and that i would find a loving and wise and compassionate Pastor and church family. So i turn to Timothy and i read the chapter and i also watched this video so that i back up what i am reading with someone’s opinion who is more familiar with it than i am.. and i realize it’s about exactly what ive been praying over! It’s about the qualities and what a church should be about and do. PRAISE HIS NAME! I think God wants me to start a church. I have a powerful testimony and i know i can help many people. Today starts a long, hard journey on the path God has bestowed upon me. But, i smile in the face of a challenge. Let Gods will be done. Thank you.

I’ve been scared of this verse because I really want to spread the gospel to my dad but idk why I struggle to.

@ylkabicasan2522

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@ylkabicasan2522

3 жыл бұрын

But if he has a phone just share a link that could help him see it 🙈

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

U got this however you feel conviction wise to share the gospel you got it!

@romanthechristian5237

2 жыл бұрын

Start a KZread channel. I’m not a very well spoken person, and I struggle as well, but I have one gospel video I share around. Start there, and build your way up.

@frankie7727

Жыл бұрын

Praying 🙏☦️

May God bless you and bless your service, Amen 🙏✝🌈❤

Jesus loves you accept him as Ur Lord and saviour

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

Ur preaching to the choir lol

plz pray my husband and i find good church be part of

Thank you for sharing the gospel with others!

Thank you!

Thank you

Weird dilemma that this made me think about (bear with me I know this probably has nothing to do with anything we just read) but if you're a younger widow, and you love your ex husband (now dead) and you don't wanna remarry because you just loved him that much, is it wrong to use the church funds? Or should you find means to use resources from your family? God doesn't force us to marry, all he says is that it's good, it's usually our desires that's God given that drives this motive for us. So there can't be a law that forces a man or woman to get married for the sake of this dilemma, what do you do?

@fernandoalarcon8534

2 жыл бұрын

I think what was going on is, that some of the women may have been wealthy or not left without anything by their husbands. The older widows, may have been left with little or nothing, thus being unable to work or provide for themselves.

Update google algorithms to included all perhaps

... Because Paul encourages the younger widows to marry a second time so that they don’t fall into sin... (assuming he is encouraging them here to marry Godly men rather than to marry for passion only).

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

Who r u replying to?

So I was a little dismayed when I read 1 Timothy 5:11-15 because it honestly struck me as something my women bashing grandfather would say, it sounded when I read it like Paul was singling out Women and degrading them. It seemed like he contradicted himself by saying it would be wrong to want to marry, but then he says he advises them to marry. It sounds so sexist but obviously I don’t believe God is sexist so what am I missing???!!!

@BranchTogether

4 жыл бұрын

It's understandable to be given pause as you read that. Often the language on the surface requires work to understand what it meant for the original hearers The text here is discussing "enrolling" widows into a support program where they commit to not marry and work for the church and in return, their expenses are covered. In that day, a woman was to be supported by a man - thats just the way it was. If a man died, a brother or next of kin would take the responsibility of caring for her. Later in life women that had no family were particularly vulnerable and the church took them in to care for them. To be sustainable, they did work for the church and committed to it. For younger women, they could still remarry, so he is suggesting to let them remarry. This avoids the cultural shame of having them commit to the church and later decide to recant. The context here is about protecting vulnerable women but also not reaching to far as to do more harm than good with the "program". Does that help?

@crystalbrooks2684

4 жыл бұрын

Branch Together Yes thank you!

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

@@crystalbrooks2684 ur grandfather sounds fun

Why does Paul restrict the support of widows because it’s a burden to the church, but then he encourages rewarding elders double?

What does it mean that the widow should be the wife of one husband? Is he saying she should not have ever committed adultery? Not have been married twice even due to a first spouses death?

@brianschroeder8964

6 жыл бұрын

This is a good question! For me I think that Paul is slightly referencing back to chapter 3 where he talks about a man being of one woman as an elder criteria. This then makes me think that it is not the number of husbands that the widow has had but her faithfulness to them. He also goes on right after he says this and says that she should have a “reputation for good works.” I believe that it is more of loyalty and like you said before a pure heart and not committing adultery then it is having a number of husbands if they were legitimate marriages, because in all Jesus tells us that in heaven there is no husband and wife but we will be like the angels in heaven. So I think here when Paul says that the widow should have been the wife of one husband I really think he is talking about her character and the person that she strives to be instead of a number of husbands that she may have had consecutively.

@BranchTogether

6 жыл бұрын

Yup - Brian is right. These were rules for them in their context, probably in response to certain abuses they were seeing. Our best guess is that Paul was interested in making sure the faithful widows were cared for first - the ones who were faithful in their marriages. This of course, does not preclude faithfulness if they got remarried after death.

I don't understand verse 11. Why does Paul talk about the younger widows wanting to remarry as a bad thing, if he commands that a few verses later?

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's just the language, cause that would trip me up too. Wait I think Kristi_Cherie had a response for this. ... Because Paul encourages the younger widows to marry a second time so that they don’t fall into sin... (assuming he is encouraging them here to marry Godly men rather than to marry for passion only). I saw this comment and I was like "Who you replying to?"

I'm handicapped and disabled... no income... so does that make me an infidel as it says in 1 Timothy 5:8 (KJV) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel... So if not, prove it through scripture... "Please," and Thank You... Because my wife brings in the income, so does 1 Timothy 5:6 (KJV) But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth... Describe her...? Thank You I'll wait...

I noticed that you didn't even try to explain 5:2. Now it may seem that it should be self explanatory to some. But I think you still should have touched on it, explaining it to those who may not understand fully what it was talking about. But this is something the church fails to do, and fails miserably, preaching on purity and sex.

Jesus did not drink wine even at the time of death, He had to be 1000% sober, still had a thief who needed to be saved. Believers should not use substances that hinder their attunement to God, nor be gluttonous, nor other types of addiction. For all we will be accountable. When one accepts Christ one is enlisted in an army. Watch your uniform

@happity

4 жыл бұрын

He was 1000% sober at the Cross because He didn't want to numb the suffering He went through.

@crystalbrooks2684

4 жыл бұрын

There’s nothing wrong with having a little wine, the bible is not against that.

@ajayjose8857

3 жыл бұрын

What about communion lol

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

@@happity That's hardcore, I woulda been 1,000 percent drunk cause that sounds smart knowing what he went through.

@thatoneguy1299

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajayjose8857 Ye who's gonna tell this guy that Jesus's blood was literally turned to wine. And if ur protestant well that's still wine that you're drinking in mass.