So, please tell me what the wages are in Luke 10. Why don't you still understand that Jesus doesn't what the worker to carry money bag?
Paul wasn't talking about getting paid or receiving any wages for what he is doing. Did you read v6,
Or [is it] only Barnabas and I [who] have no right to refrain from working?
He is questioning if he had no rights to work elsewhere - not getting wages.
(1Tim 5:18) For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain," and, "The laborer [is] worthy of his wages."
This is one of the most misunderstood verse ever for most of them who preach are paid, so they take this to justify themselves.
The verse before (v17) and the verse after (v19) speaks about giving honor to elders and not accuse an elder unless there is 2-3 witness. The Elder is going God's work for God. 'Muzzle an ox' is stopping it from eating while it is working. So, what is the food and what is the work of God? John 6:29, John 4:34 - People believing in Christ and doing His will. Paul is writing about not to silence the Elder by not honoring or accusing him (when writing to Timothy). This verse has nothing to do with the Elder making a living. The next verse in other location after referring to 'muzzle an ox' immediately speaking (1Cor 9:11) about not expecting to reaping material things. How can you consider 'Muzzle an ox' to making a living when it is referring not to silence the Elder when he is working for God?
In fact, the entire chapter of 1 Cor 9 speaks about not expecting anything worldly nor supporting anything like making a living.
Today's hirelings had not only twisted this to make it worldly but also preach it as worldly to justify their work.
Earning from gospel work is not a God given right. If it is a God given right, then Christ must have done it. Neither Christ, nor John the baptist and none of the apostles and disciples of Christ ever lived their living from doing gospel work.
Nope. It's unbiblical and we don't see it clearly in Bible. The wages for gospel work must be according to how Christ defines in Luke 10.
If I had to follow Christ, I must take a whip and drive ALL merchants from the Temple of God exactly as Christ did - referred as His Body - which is nothing but the true bride of Christ, His Church.
Lets see, they were ALL SLEEPING
in Matt. 25
And these ones of Matt. 23 are being told by Christ that His Tithes & Offerings are done away with? Perhaps you know what Christ has said here which is abstract?
Matt. 23
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23] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and
[not to leave the other undone].
OR..
Matt. 23
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1] Then spake Jesus
to the multitude, and to his disciples,
[
2] Saying,
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
[
3]
[[All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do;]] but
do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
And Mal. 4..
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6]
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
(and see Heb.13 for for Our Jesus Christ that is the same foe ever! + 'yesterday!')
[
7] Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
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8]
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But
ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. (both!)
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9]
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
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10]
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
OK: Who believes God??
: !
Now, 'i' will admit that one could ROB GOD by who they support with His %10 + offerings! Even in Rev. 18:4 we find a commanded mandate to not be 'yoked in membership' with the many daughters of the whore mother of Rev. 17:1-5, let alone support them!
Yet one best be carful what they teach that 'hinders' the Gospel of God!
1 Cor. 9
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3] Mine answer to them
that do examine me is this,
[
4] Have we not power to eat and to drink?
[
5] Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
[
6] Or I only and Barnabas,
have not we power to forbear working?
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7]
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
[
8] Say I these things as a man? or
saith not the law the same also?
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9]
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
1 Tim. 5
[
17] Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour,
especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
[
18] For
the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
--Elijah