They still, you know, pay their respects. In vain shall we endeavor to detach Christ from his cross; for it may be said to be natural that the world should hate Christ even in his members. He did so to help him realize that he faced no unknown situation in Ephesus and to enable him to combat it intelligently. I thought you were, you know, the Son of God and smarter than that. Paul kept back nothing from his hearers, but declared to them the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27), so that if it were not their own fault they might fully know it. e Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.. Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You. B. It denotes a savagery which has neither sensitiveness nor sympathy. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. In other words, there is within the Old Testament so much concerning Jesus Christ that through the understanding and the study of the Old Testament you should logically be led to Jesus Christ. He is the man who is guilty of the "sin of the high heart." The world really doesn't admire true Christian traits. It may well be a proof of Timothy's courage and consecration that he had seen very clearly what could happen to an apostle and had yet not hesitated to cast in his lot with Paul. A. M. Chirgwin has story after story of how the Scriptures came by chance into the hands of men and changed their lives. The sister was persuaded to read a copy of St. John. The result would often be either that the woman broke off married relationships with her husband in order to live the ascetic life, or that she gave the lower instincts full play and abandoned herself to promiscuous relationships. It is well to maintain the largest heart for everything that is really of Christ. Boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy ( 2 Timothy 3:2 ). SEDUCTION IN THE NAME OF RELIGION ( 2 Timothy 3:6-7 ). [ See verse text ] Persecution against godly people is to be expected in this world; it's one of the few constants in life (2 Timothy 3:12). 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. (i) He says that the Scriptures give the wisdom which will bring salvation. But the phrase may mean any future time, whether near or distant. It is as if he said to them: "You have been well warned." It was a kindred error, though in an opposite direction, to that which false teachers sought to infuse among the Thessalonians: there that the day of the Lord was come, producing panic; here that the resurrection was past, leading, to ease. It is the whole spiritual experience, so to speak, of the apostle. To the Greek it was anosios ( G462) to refuse burial to the dead; it was anosios ( G462) for a brother to marry a sister, or a son a mother. No man is saved unless he is on fire to save his fellow-men. For example, "37-1-2459" means the reference is on page 37, is in column 1, and is word number 2459.). Or life, or death, or life after death? In other words, it's not going to get better for awhile. This was always the becoming tone; but now it is imperiously necessary, as well as wise and good. Men will be without human affection (astorgos, G794) . But the sin of the man who is arrogant is in his heart. At the same time He will have them undividedly for Himself; and He is also jealous of the way in which they seek even the ends of God. And that's what creates the problem all the way through. Boy, I'll tell you, I don't know. 2 Timothy 3:12 Context. There might be a mixture of timid shrinking from pain and shame. Now many people have a legitimate and proper desire to be used of God. He had not said a word about them before. She doesn't have the time to prepare the meal on Friday evening and we'll go out on Friday night. There is a sense in which slander is the most cruel of all sins. If Timothy wishes to live godly in Christ, he must make up his mind to encounter. But now before his heart just as in principle before the dying Lord Himself, wonderful to say two things come together: a deeper sense of what is in God, as revealed in Christ Himself, before there was any creation at all; and on the other hand so much the deeper sense also of what could be owned in nature. But then another thing. You're in an alien world. Paul goes on to other qualities of an apostle. God had made Jesus to be Lord and Christ, preached Peter on that day of power, when as yet much lay hid, and the great instrument of the revelation of the mystery was still shrouded in the darkness of midnight. 2 Timothy 3 1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 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. 1. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. It is Paul's conviction that the real follower of Christ cannot escape persecution. A book with a record such as it has cannot be disregarded. In this picture which Paul draws he is thinking in terms familiar to the Jews. I think we've gone just about as far as we can. He opened out the pages to make it burn more easily. We have sown the wind, now we're going to reap the whirlwind. Accordingly the apostle reminds Timothy of this. Any conversion which makes a man think of nothing but the fact that he has been saved is no true conversion. The early Church lived in an age when the time was waxing late; they expected the Second Coming at any moment. There are persons who think that the approach of death is intended to blot out everything here. The reason is obvious. But the condition of the believers had deteriorated. It is able to make us wise to salvation; that is, it is a sure guide in our way to eternal life. The scriptures are able to make us truly wise, wise for our souls and another world. Now are you going to, you know, take the word of Jesus? "All scripture is given by inspiration of God.". Plutarch uses the word to describe a quack doctor. They will refuse to recognize the debt they owe both to God and to men. And so Paul is warning Timothy of certain things that will be transpiring in the last days. Still the man has become crude, blasphemous, ranting and raving, a disgrace to Jesus Christ who said, "By this sign shall men know that you are my disciples, that you love one another" ( John 13:34 ). Quite a promise, isn't it? Two men were talking of a great satirist who had been filled with moral earnestness. The New Testament had not yet been canonized. And so Paul said to Timothy, "You have fully known". Having a form of godliness ( 2 Timothy 3:5 ). Verse 2 Timothy 3:1. 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 We've just experienced a tremendous demonstration of that in the Los Angeles basin in the last couple of weeks. They claimed that the law was so imprinted on the heart and mind of a Jewish child that he would sooner forget his own name than he would forget it. It may flourish for a time, but when it is exposed to the light of truth it is bound to shrivel and die. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
Now, it is doubtless as true as it ever was, that a man who will live as the Saviour did, will, like him, be subjected to some such injury or disadvantage. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. Resurrection is the form and character of the lowest blessings of which Jesus is the dispenser; much more is He risen to exalt God in the highest. Men will be implacable in their hatreds (aspondos, G786) . [2.] For after all, I'm worth it. If what be claims for scripture is true of the Old Testament, how much truer it is of the still more precious words of the New. (2.) "Men of corrupt minds. They were violent and dangerous. I refer to this just to remark that such links as these, which are connected with nature, all come before the apostle's mind, at the very moment when a spurious feeling would have judged it precisely the time to banish and forget them. Or it can mean that a man is so dishonourable that he breaks the terms of the agreement he has made. 2 Timothy 3:12, NLT: Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. If, in any manner, or in any way, he is subjected to disadvantage on account of his religious opinions, and deprived of any immunities and rights to which he would be otherwise entitled, this is persecution. They were said to be the two servants who accompanied Balaam when he was disobedient to God ( Numbers 22:22); they were said to have been part of the great mixed multitude who accompanied the children of Israel out of Egypt ( Exodus 12:38); some said that they perished at the crossing of the Red Sea; other stories said that it was Jannes and Jambres who were behind the making of the golden calf and that they perished among those who were killed for that sin ( Exodus 32:28); still other stories said that in the end they became proselytes to Judaism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1977. This the apostle guards Timothy against, and indeed ourselves, he warns him how seduction would go on more and more, but "from such turn away." 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. There would be two ways in which these heretics in the days of Timothy could exert an evil influence. Indeed it may be well to remark here, that we never read of Timothy appointing bishops or elders. Be assured, that if you do not bring the Spirit of God into these matters, perhaps your cloak, perhaps a book, will become a snare to you. With this prospect he comforts Timothy no less than his own spirit; but at the same time he speaks as to joining him, with a glance at one that had forsaken him. What does 2 Timothy 3:13 mean? for reproof, for correction ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ), And how often the word of God has brought correction to my course of life. But after giving the characteristics and traits of the godly man, Jesus then in the final Beatitudes said, "Blessed are ye, when men shall persecute you, and revile you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake" ( Matthew 5:11 ). Jewish thought had one basic conception. 2 Timothy 3:12 "Many are the afflictions of the righteous," the psalmist writes (Psalm 34:19).Peter supplies a partial answer to this in I Peter 4:12: "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you, as does Paul's statement in II Timothy 3:12: "Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer . He speaks of "all God-inspired scripture." They worship self instead of God. "Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God."