1 Timothy 6:1

“What Is Best For Me?” Vs. “What Is Best For The Cause Of Christ?”

What About Slavery?

The Apostle Paul Never Got Into Social Justice And Political Injustice Arguments

Simply: That Was Not His Calling

And 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.
1 Timothy 6:2

If 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, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, (“reviling” means “speech injurious to another’s good name”
– Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon), evil suspicions, 1 Timothy 6:3-4

useless wranglings (KJV- Perverse Disputing) of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself. Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
1 Timothy 6:5-7

And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
1 Timothy 6:8

This Statement Is Not About Prosperity But About Contentment

Paul Was Not Saying God Only Wants
Bare Necessities In Life

Contentment Is An Issue Of The Heart

But 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. For the love of money (Power of Purchase or Power of Influence) 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.
1 Timothy 6:9-10

God Does Not Mind Us Having Money, As Long As Money
Does Not Have Us

Money Is Just A Tool

Money Is Our Slave,
Money Is Never Our Master

But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold (Seize The Opportunity) on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:11-12

I 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, that you keep this commandment (Flee these things – Verse 11) without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing,
1 Timothy 6:13-14

which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:15-16

Instructions To The Rich
Command those who are rich
(2 Things) 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.
1 Timothy 6:17

Tell those rich in this world’s wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage—to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they’ll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 (The Message Bible)

Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
1 Timothy 6:18-19

You Cannot Take
Your Money With You

But You Can Send It On
Before You By Investing It
Into Other People’s Lives

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:20-21

Paul To Timothy
First Timothy A.D. 64
Second Timothy A.D. 66-67
The Apostle Paul And Luke
The Prison Dungeon In Rome

Paul Shows Emotions, More Than Intellect
Missed His Friends – “I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;”
Felt Forsaken – “All they which are in Asia be turned away from me;”

Poor Prison Conditions – “The cloke that I
left at Troas with Carpus, when thou come, bring with you”

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, a beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:1-2

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance the
genuine (Authentic) faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.
2 Timothy 1:3-5

Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear (cowardice and timidity), but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:6-7

There is no love in fear and no fear in love. They are opposite emotions and mutually exclusive (1 John 4:18). Fear also causes us to think emotionally and not logically. Fear is deadly and something that we should not tolerate in our lives. Fear activates the power of the devil similarly to the way faith releases the power of God.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,
2 Timothy 1:8

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
2 Timothy 1:9-10

to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I
know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
2 Timothy 1:11-12

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
2 Timothy 1:13-14

This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;
2 Timothy 1:15-16

but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out very zealously and found me. The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day—and you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus.
2 Timothy 1:17-18