Summary: I. EXORDIUM: Word study of family based on two greek words II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To enumerate principles to learn about the word "family" IV. TEXT: 1 Timothy 3:4 (Amplified Bible) He must rule his own hou

I. EXORDIUM:

Word study of family based on two greek words

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To enumerate principles to learn about the word "family"

IV. TEXT:

1 Timothy 3:4 (Amplified Bible)

He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful.

V. THESIS:

Learn principle of family

VI. TITLE:

Family

Word Study: Family (according to Greek words: patria, oikos

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Apostle Paul

B. Date written: Uncertain, probably 64 A.D.

C. To whom written: Timothy, Paul's spiritual son

D. Main themes: advice and exhortation to a young pastor respecting his personal conduct and ministerial work

E. Keyword: conduct

F. Key verse: 1 Timothy 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

If I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and stay (the prop and support) of the Truth.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Family means

1. patria means "paternal descent", kindred, lineage.

2. oikos means "dwelling", home, household, temple

B. Family characteristics:

1. Carries with it your reputation and the pressures of attaining to it.

a. family of David

Luke 2:4 (Amplified Bible)

And Joseph also went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the town of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

Luke 1:27 (Amplified Bible)

To a girl never having been married and a virgin engaged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

1 Peter 4:17 (Amplified Bible)

For the time [has arrived] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will [be] the end of those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news (the Gospel) of God?

2. Carries with it the blessings

Acts 3:25 (Amplified Bible)

You are the descendants (sons) of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant which God made and gave to your forefathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed (Heir) shall all the families of the earth be blessed and benefited.

Acts 11:14 (Amplified Bible)

He will give and explain to you a message by means of which you and all your household [as well] will be saved [from eternal death].

Acts 16:31 (Amplified Bible)

And they answered, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ [give yourself up to Him, take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping] and you will be saved, [and this applies both to] you and your household as well.

Acts 18:8 (Amplified Bible)

But Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed [that Jesus is the Messiah and acknowledged Him with joyful trust as Savior and Lord], together with his entire household; and many of the Corinthians who listened [to Paul also] believed and were baptized.

3. Both physical and spiritual

Ephesians 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

For Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named [that Father from Whom all fatherhood takes its title and derives its name].

Matthew 12:4 (Amplified Bible)

How he went into the house of God and ate the loaves of the showbread—which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for the men who accompanied him, but for the priests only?

Matthew 21:13 (Amplified Bible)

He said to them, The Scripture says, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

1 Peter 2:5 (Amplified Bible)

[Come] and, like living stones, be yourselves built [into] a spiritual house, for a holy (dedicated, consecrated) priesthood, to offer up [those] spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

4. Place of comfort, rest, privacy and relaxation

Matthew 9:6-7 (Amplified Bible)

But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins and remit the penalty, He then said to the paralyzed man, Get up! Pick up your sleeping pad and go to your own house.

And he got up and went away to his own house.

Mark 7:17 (Amplified Bible)

And when He had left the crowd and had gone into the house, His disciples began asking Him about the parable.

Mark 9:28 (Amplified Bible)

And when He had gone indoors, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could not we drive it out?

5. Can refer to a whole country: Israel

Matthew 10:6 (Amplified Bible)

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24 (Amplified Bible)

He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

6. human body

Matthew 12:44 (Amplified Bible)

Then it says, I will go back to my house from which I came out. And when it arrives, it finds the place unoccupied, swept, put in order, and decorated.

7. dwelling place or home

Mark 2:1 (Amplified Bible)

AND JESUS having returned to Capernaum, after some days it was rumored about that He was in the house [probably Peter’s].

Mark 2:11 (Amplified Bible)

I say to you, arise, pick up and carry your sleeping pad or mat, and be going on home.

8. Can be broken or divided

Luke 12:39 (Amplified Bible)

But of this be assured: if the householder had known at what time the burglar was coming, he would have been awake and alert and watching and would not have permitted his house to be dug through and broken into.

Luke 11:17 (Amplified Bible)

But He, [well] aware of their intent and purpose, said to them, Every kingdom split up against itself is doomed and brought to desolation, and so house falls upon house. [The disunited household will collapse.]

Luke 12:52 (Amplified Bible)

For from now on in one house there will be five divided [among themselves], three against two and two against three.

9. A place where to eat physically and spiritually

1 Corinthians 11:34 (Amplified Bible)

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together to bring judgment [on yourselves]. About the other matters, I will give you directions [personally] when I come.

1 Corinthians 14:35 (Amplified Bible)

But if there is anything they want to learn, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to talk in church [for her to usurp and exercise authority over men in the church].

1 Corinthians 16:19 (Amplified Bible)

The churches of Asia send greetings and best wishes. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church [that meets] in their house, send you their hearty greetings in the Lord.

10. A place where you can rule

1 Timothy 3:4-5 (Amplified Bible)

He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful.

For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God?

Luke 8:41 (Amplified Bible)

And there came a man named Jairus, who had [for a long time] been a director of the synagogue; and falling at the feet of Jesus, he begged Him to come to his house,

Luke 14:23 (Amplified Bible)

Then the master said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and urge and constrain [them] to yield and come in, so that my house may be filled.

1 Timothy 3:12 (Amplified Bible)

Let deacons be the husbands of but one wife, and let them manage [their] children and their own households well.

Hebrews 3:2 (Amplified Bible)

[See how] faithful He was to Him Who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses was also faithful in the whole house [of God].

Titus 1:11 (Amplified Bible)

Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.

11. Can receive honor

Hebrews 3:3 (Amplified Bible)

Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater honor and glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house [itself].

IX. CONCLUSION:

Value more the spiritual family.

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