Food for Thought, 9/28/06
I was trying to remember which Scriptures came to me yesterday a.m. as I studied them and this chapter came back to me...The Lord's been working on me about my pride. Part of the crux of this chapter is in verses 3-12. When I asked our Pastor about praying out loud versus just in my head as I have done most of my life, he quoted verse 12 as part of his answer and it got me studying this chapter, but not reading the whole thing completely until yesterday.
(POPUP TRIVIA: "Yesterday" by the Beatles is the first song that I ever did as karaoke, in Japan...sung as a duet with Yoshida-san, who was the co. crackup/funnyman...his serious Japanese slurring accent and my mostly off-key, low voice made quite the amusing combo, even if I was petrified at hearing myself magnified to my worst fear sounding even worse than when it's just me that hears me)
6Now godliness with contentment is great gain. I pray for this for all of us.
1 Timothy 6
1Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. 2And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
3If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, 4he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
6Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
17Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
20O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—21by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
The Lord of Hosts was spoken to me at the Healing Rooms a while back...I keep being led to passages where He is thus called. Just now it was Isaiah 54 which also contains verse 17: I've been praying out loud the first portion of this, that no weapon formed against me will prosper-I've been claiming this as truth instead of whatever the devil tries to throw at me in this world.
Psalm 24
A Psalm of David.
And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face.
Selah
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
He is the King of glory.
Selah
I sang on 9/29's walk: "The King of Glory comes, the nation rejoices. Open your gates before him, lift up your voices. Who is the king of glory? How shall we call him? He is Emmanuel, the promised of ages." I always enjoyed that song growing up at St. Chaz.
(POPUP TRIVIA: "Yesterday" by the Beatles is the first song that I ever did as karaoke, in Japan...sung as a duet with Yoshida-san, who was the co. crackup/funnyman...his serious Japanese slurring accent and my mostly off-key, low voice made quite the amusing combo, even if I was petrified at hearing myself magnified to my worst fear sounding even worse than when it's just me that hears me)
6Now godliness with contentment is great gain. I pray for this for all of us.
1 Timothy 6
1Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. 2And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
3If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, 4he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
6Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
17Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
20O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—21by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
The Lord of Hosts was spoken to me at the Healing Rooms a while back...I keep being led to passages where He is thus called. Just now it was Isaiah 54 which also contains verse 17: I've been praying out loud the first portion of this, that no weapon formed against me will prosper-I've been claiming this as truth instead of whatever the devil tries to throw at me in this world.
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord.
Psalm 24
A Psalm of David.
1 The earth is the Lord’S, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell therein.
2 For He has founded it upon the seas,
And established it upon the waters.
3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord,And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face.
Selah
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
He is the King of glory.
Selah
I sang on 9/29's walk: "The King of Glory comes, the nation rejoices. Open your gates before him, lift up your voices. Who is the king of glory? How shall we call him? He is Emmanuel, the promised of ages." I always enjoyed that song growing up at St. Chaz.
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