Qualities of
Deacons and Members
No. 10
By
Shelby G.
Floyd
Part Two: The Qualities of the Deacon and His Family
10.
1 Timothy 3:11
“Even so must their wives be…sober…”
KJV
Drinking
alcoholic beverages has been and still is one of the greatest curses on the
human race. Yet it is a choice that people make to their detriment. Drinking
alcoholic beverages will destroy a person externally, internally and
eternally—it will destroy “your whole spirit, soul and body” (1 Thessalonians
Christian Women Must Be Also “Sober”
This
word “sober” [nhfaleos-nephaleos] is only found three times in the English New Testament.
It is applied to the “overseer—bishop,” to the deacon’s wife and to older men
and women (1 Tim. 3:2, 11; Tit. 2:2). Paul declared to the Roman Christians:
Romans 13:11-14
And do
this, knowing the time, that now it is
high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first
believed. The night is far spent, the
day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put
on the armor of light. Let us walk
properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and
lust, not in strife and envy. But put on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
NKJV
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Deacons Wives |
Attribute |
Christians |
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1 Timothy 3:11 “Their wives likewise must be…sober…” |
Sober, temperate, sober-minded—1 Timothy 3:11 |
Titus 2:3-5 the older women
likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, NKJV [Emphasis
SGF] Compare I Pet. 4:3; Rom. |
Since
the word of God forbids “drinking parties” (1 Peter 4:3,