Finally, we have his assertion of the blessed Lord's care, and his confidence in Him that He would preserve him from all evil to His heavenly kingdom; closing this solemn and touching epistle (it would seem the last words he wrote) with salutations to various saints. Negative and positive illustrations 3:8-13. It means to follow a person spiritually, not only to understand what he says, but also to carry out his ideas and be the kind of person he wishes us to be. As individuals, we should sometimes ask ourselves: what is our aim in life? To take pains and to endure are requisite even in what pertains to this life. Thus it was that God had made him: there was no use denying it. It has become their God and thus, they are guilty as those in the Old Testament who were worshipping Mammon, who, or rather Molech who was the god of pleasure. His own desire after going to the Lord did not prevent this, but the reverse: "that I may be filled with joy: when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." Those who are well instructed in the Scriptures will always be ready when an opportunity arises to do good (16-17).Since Gods servants must give him an account of their service, they should not miss any opportunity to teach the Scriptures, though they must always speak in a manner suited to the circumstances (4:1-2). YEA, AND - an additional consideration. These were the names given to the court magicians of Pharaoh who opposed Moses and Aaron, when Moses was leading the children of Israel out of their slavery in Egypt. We have sown the wind, now we're going to reap the whirlwind. "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. A man may embrace some absurd opinion, and call it religion; he may adopt some mode of dress irresistibly ludicrous, from the mere love of singularity, and may call it conscience; or he may be boorish in his manners, and uncivil in his deportment, outraging all the laws of social life, and may call this deadness to the world; and for these, and similar things, he may be contemned, ridiculed, and despised. Thayer, Joseph H. Thayers Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. 3. The technique would be the same in the days of Timothy as it was in the later days of Irenaeus. Oh God, I want you to use my life. There were false teachers who were quick to take advantage of that. THE QUALITIES OF GODLESSNESS ( 2 Timothy 3:2-5 continued). He is now looking at the state of disorder in the house of God, instead of contemplating it in its public integrity, as in the first epistle. It is the ability not to lose patience when people are foolish, not to grow irritable when they seem unteachable. 3:14-17 But as for you, remain loyal to the things which you have learned, and in which your belief has been confirmed, for you know from whom you learned them, and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that will bring you salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. Man can do it but not God. Years later that same brigand turned up again. For, if we do not believe their truth and goodness, they will do us no good. What use it will be of to us. (iv) The Scriptures are of use for correction. It is the sign of a supremely decadent civilization when youth loses all respect for age and fails to recognize the unpayable debt and the basic duty it owes to those who gave it life. It is often a very great safeguard for the saint of God; for, after all, it makes no small difference who says this or that. In living in such a manner, persecution will come; but the Lord will deliver the faithful. There will always be those who have their own twisted ideas of the Christian faith, and who wish to win others to their mistaken beliefs. When we are tempted to do so, we should hear again the voice of our blessed Lord saying on the Cross: "Father, forgive them.". The real meaning of this is that all theories, all theologies, all ethics, are to be tested against the Bible. So God's word, scripture given for inspiration, by the inspiration of God and is profitable.Of course, this morning we pointed out that the inspiration of the Bible is proved by internal evidences, such as its total accuracy with known facts of science, when it happened to cover scientific subjects. When Carlyle's father was discussing the kind of minister his parish needed, he said: "What this parish needs is a man who knows Christ other than at secondhand." So from his earliest childhood Timothy had known the sacred writings. "To make thee wise to salvation through faith." You have no authority.So if I tell you that some scriptures are not really inspired of God, then I become the authority, not the Bible anymore, because you can't just read the whole Bible and trust it because not all of it is inspired. There is only one test for falsity--"You will know them by their fruits." The most amazing things may happen if he does, for there is a saving wisdom here that is in no other book. It is the whole spiritual experience, so to speak, of the apostle. Get out your pen and take out the red, put the blue one. 3 f I thank God g whom I serve, as did my ancestors, h with a clear conscience, as I remember you i . C. Description of His Present Resource 2 Timothy 3:13-17. The doctrine of the necessity of persecution was no new thing to Paul. One dark night in a forest in Sicily a brigand held up a colporteur at the point of a revolver. How appropriate that "trucebreakers" is for this day. It's twelve thousand miles a second, but that's pretty fast, too. And yet, it is becoming in this hedonistic society commonplace, all too commonplace, tragically commonplace. And the word of God comes and it brings a balance, it brings a correction, it brings a correct perspective.It's profitable. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. "In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Sponde is the word for a truce or an agreement. Men will be treacherous. It is used in Matthew 8:28 to describe the two Gergesene demoniacs who met Jesus among the tombs. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus All that live according to the will of God revealed in his word; and to the glory of God, as the end of all their actions; and which the grace of God in the Gospel, and in their own hearts, teaches them; and who have the principles of a godly life from Christ, and derive the fresh supplies of grace and life from him, to maintain it; in whom their life is hid, and who live by faith upon him; all such that live, and that will live so, are desirous of living after this manner; in whom God has wrought in them both to will and to do, and are concerned when it is otherwise with them: these. 2 Timothy 3 Commentary; 2 Timothy 4 Commentary; HENRY ALFORD 2 TIMOTHY COMMENTARY The Greek Testament. In certain of these books Jannes and Jambres figured largely. They still, you know, pay their respects. They will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. He was to continue in the things which he had learned, and had been assured of, knowing of whom he had learned them a very important point. 3. "To Timothy, my dearly-beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. No one can possibly mistake him. This might deter a sensitive saint from his duty. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; And that is, it doesn't tell us in the Scripture in Exodus that that was their names but Paul gives us their names here, Jannes and Jambres who withstood the truth. Some of you here are victims of broken covenants. The essence of persecution consists in subjecting a person to injury or disadvantage on account of his opinions. It is something more than meeting his opinions by argument, which is always right and proper; it is inflicting some injury on him; depriving him of some privilege, or right; subjecting him to some disadvantage, or placing him in less favorable circumstances, on account of his sentiments. It is said that, after hearing an evangelical sermon, Lord Melbourne once remarked: "Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." If Timothy wishes to live godly in Christ, he must make up his mind to encounter. Now you get out your, you know, your green and blue pens and for the inspired ones, we'll underline those with blue and we'll use red, maybe, to underline those that are not inspired, you know and, and so here I am, I'm the authority.Well, the next liberal comes along and he says, Well, no, no, no, he was wrong on that one. Rather he must "labour before he partake of the fruits." "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life" (he must be unencumbered, and undivided in his object); "that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. In the Old Testament they are not named, but they are referred to in Exodus 7:11; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 9:11. Persons sometimes say it does not matter who taught; but God does not treat the matter so lightly. We live in a fallen world, and there are many challenges that face the believer who has not only trusted Christ for salvation, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christs example, and say without compromise Thy will, not mine, be done.The newbornbaby Christian has to grow in grace and mature in the faith over an unspecified periodof time, to reach this level of maturity in his faith, while other who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ may slip in and out of carnality and worldliness for many years, stunting their growth and even regressing in their faith back to spiritual infancy.Many, if not all believers, are called to become mature in the faith by walking in spirit and truth and living godly, Christ-centred lives, but few are willing to exchange the cosy blessings of early Christian infancy, for the difficulties that inevitably follow the mature believer. It is not merely what had been preached, but what is in a permanent shape for the good of the saints of God here below, which elicits the remarkable assertion of its peculiar worth. What am I to believe about angels or the future? He had not said a word about them before. (2Baruch 27). Paul's life: one of faith. That which finishes a man of God in this world is the scripture. There would be two ways in which these heretics in the days of Timothy could exert an evil influence. God said it.They are profitable. He forbad his going on in association with those that dishonour the Lord with vessels to dishonour; but he tells him to follow these things "with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." Amidst all the stories one fact stands out--Jannes and Jambres became legendary figures typifying all those who opposed the purposes of God and the work of his true leaders. 2 Timothy 3 1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. This present age was altogether evil; and the age to come would be the golden age of God. The defeat of error depends not on skill in controversy but in the demonstration in life of the more excellent way. human nature began to show itself out in indifference. It is profitable to us for all the purposes of the Christian life, for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. And they shall be dispersed among the Gentiles. And so there comes that point where they will proceed no further: "their folly becomes manifest to all men", as Jannes and Jambres also was. But we, so often, make the mistake of going out ill-equipped or running without a message. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man" ( Luke 17:26 ). Some of you are separated not by your own desire or wish, but because someone was a trucebreaker. Why not baptize at once every soul around? Vincente Quiroga of Chile found a few pages of a book washed up on the seashore by a tidal wave following an earthquake. Paul goes on to list the things in which Timothy has been his disciple; and the interest of that list is that it consists of the strands out of which the life and work of an apostle are woven. At Ephesus some of the greatest roads in the world met. Certain of the temporary persecution, he is equally certain of the ultimate glory. Now, there's nothing wrong with enjoying life. He opened out the pages to make it burn more easily. Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, 7: 2) defined the alazon ( G213) as "the man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out." How is a man to walk in such a state of things as this? At the same time he shows also his sense of the kindness of a particular individual and his family. For all scripture is given by inspiration of God ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ), Not as some would lead you to believe, some scriptures are given by inspiration of God. In it we find the duties, the qualities and the experiences of an apostle. Storge is the word used especially of family love, the love of child for parent and parent for child.

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