Resonates...Big Time...

 

1 Timothy 6:6-20

But godliness with contentment is great gain. 

(You betcha it is, know a lil something about it. Yup.)

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 

(Can a brother get an amen? 

Take this:

"I got more cheap junk made in China stuffed in my garage than you do so I'm better than you are" nonsense and get it out of here.)

But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 

(And a heater :-).

had to...

:-)

 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 

(Never wanted to, really never did, wanting to is more the problem than being and thats what people dont understand.)

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 

(Not money, money is indifferent, it will just highlight what kinda person you already are, it's what you do with it thats good or eveil, not the $ itself. A root, of all kinds of evil, not as some would tell you "all evil.")

Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

(I got to many people to keep me grounded...I hope :-)

Final Charge to Timothy

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

Final Recommendation and Warning

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care.

Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,

note on 6:20–21 

(NABRE)

A final solemn warning against the heretical teachers, with what seems to be a specific reference to gnosticism, the great rival and enemy of the church for two centuries and more (the Greek word for “knowledge” is gnōsis). If gnosticism is being referred to here, it is probable that the warnings against “speculations” and “myths and genealogies” (cf. especially 1 Tm 1:4; Ti 3:9) involve allusions to that same kind of heresy. Characteristic of the various gnostic systems of speculation was an elaborate mythology of innumerable superhuman intermediaries, on a descending scale (“genealogies”), between God and the world. Thus would be explained the emphasis upon Christ’s being the one mediator (as in 1 Tm 2:5). Although fully developed gnosticism belonged to the second and later centuries, there are signs that incipient forms of it belonged to Paul’s own period.