5. Why so many cell phones?

7. Why so many cell phones?

9. Why so many cell phones?

10. Why so many cell phones?

11. Why so many cell phones?

12. Why so many cell phones?

13. Relating Why so many cell phones?

14. Relating as the Household of God Why so many cell phones?

15. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones?

16. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones? Because we (in God’s image) are so relational.

17. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones? Because we (in God’s image) are so relational. God has a major interest in your & my relating.

18. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones? Because we (in God’s image) are so relational. God has a major interest in your & my relating. Notice God’s foremost commandment in Matt. 22:34-40.

19. God’s Foremost Commandment A lawyer asked Him a question, testing Him, “ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

20. God’s Foremost Commandment A lawyer asked Him a question, testing Him, “ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment.

21. God’s Foremost Commandment A lawyer asked Him a question, testing Him, “ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these 2 depends the whole Law and the Prophets.” - Jesus in Matthew 22:34-40

22. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones? Because we (in God’s image) are so relational. God has a major interest in your & my relating. Notice God’s foremost commandment in Matt. 22:34-40 - God’s prime directive.

23. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones? Because we (in God’s image) are so relational. God has a major interest in your & my relating. Notice God’s foremost commandment in Matt. 22:34-40 - God’s prime directive. Notice God’s “one another” directives in the New Testament.

24. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Why so many cell phones? Because we (in God’s image) are so relational. God has a major interest in your & my relating. Notice God’s foremost commandment in Matt. 22:34-40 - God’s prime directive. Notice God’s “one another” directives in the New Testament.

25. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2

26. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self”

27. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self”

28. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self”

29. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” This is an imperative - directive.

30. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” This is an imperative - directive. Jesus did this characteristically. See vv.

31. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” This is an imperative - directive. Jesus did this characteristically. See vv. * keep a close watch on your teaching

32. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” This is an imperative - directive. Jesus did this characteristically. See vv. * keep a close watch on your teaching Pastors especially

33. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” This is an imperative - directive. Jesus did this characteristically. See vv. * keep a close watch on your teaching Pastors especially but we all give it out.

34. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” This is an imperative - directive. Jesus did this characteristically. See vv. * keep a close watch on your teaching Pastors especially but we all give it out. That what we give agrees with God 2P1:3,4.

35. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” * keep a close watch on your teaching Pastors especially but we all give it out. That what we give agrees with God 2P1:3,4.

36. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” * keep a close watch on your teaching Pastors especially but we all give it out. That what we give agrees with God 2P1:3,4. Persist/continue/keep on keeping in this.

37. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16: * keep a close watch on yourself literally- “to hold upon your own self” * keep a close watch on your teaching Pastors especially but we all give it out. That what we give agrees with God 2P1:3,4. Persist/continue/keep on keeping in this. Outcome = save/rescue yourself & hearers.

38. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Begin with yourself 1Tim. 4:16:

39. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Then with others 1Tim. 5:1,2:

40. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 Then with others 1Tim. 5:1,2: * toward an older man v1a as a father > not pounding rebuke > but calling along side to strenghten * toward younger men “ v1b like brothers * toward older women “ v2a like mothers * toward younger women v2b like sisters with all purity/wholesomeness

41. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2

42. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 One thing - This is my family ! Really -

43. Relating as the Household of God 1 Timothy 4:16-5:2 One thing - This is my family ! Really - It is suppose to be, aah yeah, like this.