(Arthur Pink, "First Things First")
"Let them first learn--
to show piety at home."
1 Timothy 5:4
The Christian is first to manifest
godliness in the family circle.
We would especially press this
upon the attention of those
who are so anxious
to engage in what they term
"service for the Lord."
The "service" which God
requires from all of His people--
is not a running about here
and there, asking impertinent
questions of total strangers and
prattling to them about
Divine things--
but to be in subjection
to Himself, and to walk
obediently to His Word.
To talk to other people
about Christ, is far easier than
the task which He has assigned
to His people--
to deny self, take up our cross,
follow Him, and to show
piety at home.
For if there is no piety
in our home life--
then all our seeming piety
in the Church, and
before the world--
is but hypocrisy and self-deceit!
" Knowest thou not this of old,
since man was placed upon earth,
That the triumphing of the wicked
is short, and the joy of the hypocrite
but for a moment? " Job 20: 4, 5
"Take heed Unto thyself, and unto
the doctrine; continue in them: for
in doing this thou shalt both save
thyself, and them that hear thee."
1 Timothy 4:16
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