1 Timothy 5, Chuck Smith teaching (C3000, 1985 to 1999)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on 1 Timothy 5

Read the opening of his teaching

First Timothy, chapter five.

Timothy is a young man. In the fourth chapter, Paul has told Timothy, don’t let any man despise your youth. But as a young man and there in a position of responsibility in the church in Ephesus, to sort of put things into order, Paul now instructs his young son in the faith, Timothy, in just how things are to be run. As he said as you might know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God. So this is good, practical instruction for the young minister, Timothy.

Rebuke not an elder, Now the elder here is an older man. The presbuteros was of course an office of an elder in the church. An office held by the elder men in the church—the presbuteros. But here it is referring as it just does in the Greek language, to an older person, to an old man.