THE SERVANT A SOLDIER

THE SERVANT A SOLDIER

I have looked at the passage where “faithful men” occurs, and it seems plain that there is but one condition attached, namely, sufficient or “competent to teach others also”. Quite true, the epistle is addressed to a servant, but if I hear what is the true service of a servant, I know at least what I am called to do. I do not think that the idea of a soldier is that one is to have no secular work. See 2 Thessalonians. Surely Timothy worked with his hands there. The idea of a soldier is that he is ready to leave everything to obey orders. It may apply to a man marrying, but certainly not to secular business. Paul can leave Ephesus when business was good, and he stays at Thessalonica when it was bad. Business was not the paramount thing, but service. This should be always the case.