Ministry Minded Practical Essentials For Those Who Serve
Lesson #3 Promotion Comes From The Lord
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1 Timothy 3:1
Ministry Minded
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1 Timothy 3:1
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
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1 Timothy 3:1
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. ESV The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
NIV Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.
NLT This is a trustworthy saying: “If someone aspires to be an elder, he desires an honorable position.”
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1 Timothy 3:1
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. Wuest The word "desire" is oregō, "to stretch one's self out in order to touch or to grasp something, to reach after or desire something." Thus the word means more than "to desire." It includes the idea of reaching after or seeking.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
Ministry Minded
Promotion Comes From The Lord
Lessons From Saul
Authority Is Given By God (1 Samuel 9:15-17) Don't Hide When God Gives You Authority
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) Don't Fight To Keep Your Authority
(1 Samuel 20:30-31)
Promotion Comes From The Lord Lessons From David
Authority Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 16:11-13, 1 Samuel 22:1-2) Don't Attack Those In Authority (1 Samuel 26:7-11) Let God Lead You Into More Authority
(2 Samuel 2:1-4) Let God Maintain Your Authority
(2 Samuel 15:25-26) Pass On The Authority (1 Kings 1:5-40)
Promotion Comes From The Lord
Lessons From Absalom
Don't Undermine Authority (2 Samuel 15:1-6) Don't Conspire To Get Authority
(2 Samuel 15:7-12)
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Authority Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Authority
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Authority (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Authority (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Authority (2 Samuel 2:1-4) 6. Let God Maintain Your Authority (2 Samuel 15:25-26) 7. Pass On The Authority (1 Kings 1:5-40) 8. Don't Undermine Authority (2 Samuel 15:1-6) 9. Don't Conspire To Get Authority (2 Samuel 15:7-12)
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13)
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13)
1 Corinthians 12 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22)
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22)
2 Timothy 1 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31)
Promotion Comes From The Lord 1. 2.
3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry
(1 Samuel 20:30-31)
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Promotion Comes From The Lord
3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry
(1 Samuel 20:30-31)
John 3 26 And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified behold, He is baptizing, and all are coming to Him!" 27 John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before Him.' 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11)
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11)
Romans 13 1 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4)
1. 2. 3. 4.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4)
Psalm 75 6 For exaltation comes neither from the east Nor from the west nor from the south. 7 But God is the Judge: He puts down one, And exalts another.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4) 6. Let God Maintain Your Ministry (2 Samuel 15:25-26)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
6. Let God Maintain Your Ministry (2 Samuel 15:25-26)
2 Corinthians 10 12 For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us - a sphere which especially includes you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ;
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4) 6. Let God Maintain Your Ministry (2 Samuel 15:25-26) 7. Pass On The Ministry (1 Kings 1:5-40)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
7. Pass On The Ministry (1 Kings 1:5-40)
2 Timothy 2 2 And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4) 6. Let God Maintain Your Ministry (2 Samuel 15:25-26) 7. Pass On The Ministry (1 Kings 1:5-40) 8. Don't Undermine Ministry (2 Samuel 15:1-6)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
8. Don't Undermine Ministry (2 Samuel 15:1-6)
Matthew 23 1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4) 6. Let God Maintain Your Ministry (2 Samuel 15:25-26) 7. Pass On The Ministry (1 Kings 1:5-40) 8. Don't Undermine Ministry (2 Samuel 15:1-6) 9. Don't Conspire To Get Ministry (2 Samuel 15:7-12)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
9. Don't Conspire To Get Ministry (2 Samuel 15:7-12)
John 11 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, "What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48 If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation." 53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.
Promotion Comes From The Lord
1. Ministry Is Given By God
(1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 16:11-13) 2. Don't Hide When God Gives You Ministry
(1 Samuel 10:21-22) 3. Don't Fight To Keep Your Ministry (1 Samuel 20:30-31) 4. Don't Attack Those In Ministry (1 Samuel 26:7-11) 5. Let God Lead You Into More Ministry (2 Samuel 2:1-4) 6. Let God Maintain Your Ministry (2 Samuel 15:25-26) 7. Pass On The Ministry (1 Kings 1:5-40) 8. Don't Undermine Ministry (2 Samuel 15:1-6) 9. Don't Conspire To Get Ministry (2 Samuel 15:7-12)
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1 Timothy 3:1
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. Wuest The word "desire" is oregō, "to stretch one's self out in order to touch or to grasp something, to reach after or desire something." Thus the word means more than "to desire." It includes the idea of reaching after or seeking.
Qualities Of Overseers Bishop - episkopē One Who Watches Over, An Overseer
Blameless Husband Of One Wife Temperate Sober Minded Of Good Behavior Hospitable Able To Teach Not Given To Wine Not Violent
Not Greedy Gentle Not Quarrelsome Not Covetous Rules His House Well Not A Novice Good Testimony Among Those Outside
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1 Timothy 3:1
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
Courson If a man desires to be involved in a greater degree of ministry, he desires a good work-not a good position, not a good salary, not a good retirement plan, but a good work. The ministry is not a profession one enters into, saying, "These are my office hours. These are my off hours. My phone number is unlisted." Ministry is a good work indeed-but it's work.
Discussion 1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
