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James encourages us by explaining that those who persevere under trial, on the journey to maturity, will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him, and He exhorts us to consider it all joy, when we encounter various trials.There is an urgency in this final letter thatPaul wrote before his death, to remind us that ALL who live godly lives in Christ will certainly suffer persecution. In short, let us know that we are Christians on this condition, that we shall be liable to many tribulations and various contests. The word is anemeros ( G434) and would be more fittingly applied to a wild beast than to a human being. Boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy ( 2 Timothy 3:2 ). I'm afraid that that is also true of us. Every man doing his own thing or every man believing as he wants. 442.]. So you see, I'm not inerrant in all, but the scriptures are. Thou hast fully known my afflictions. You may be able to deceive people for a while, but ultimately, it's going to catch up, even as it did with Jannes. At the same time there is the carrying on his full notice of everything found here below that would be a source of comfort to one who anticipated the ruin of Christendom. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. He flung the New Testament on it. This was to touch the right chord in his heart. Many and many a time we would be saved from hurting ourselves and from wounding other people, if we would only stop to think. (186) Et tous ceux aussi qui veulent vivre en la crainte de Dieu. And all those also who wish to live in the fear of God., (187) Que rien ne luy est advenu que tous fideles ne doyvent aussi attendre. That nothing has happened to him which all believers must not also look for.. THE DUTIES AND THE QUALITIES OF AN APOSTLE ( 2 Timothy 3:10-13 ). If they contradict the teaching of the Bible, they are to be refused. "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace." Thayer, Joseph H. Thayers Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. by George Whitefield. Bishop Pearson proves the divine origination of Christianity from its success being inexplicable on the supposition of its being of human origin. They will not only deceive others, but their sins and other deceivers will deceive them increasingly too. Paul cites three instances when he had to suffer for Christ. He warns Timothy of the fatal end of seducers, as a reason why he should stick closely to the truth as it is in Jesus: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, c., 2 Timothy 3:13; 2 Timothy 3:13. The essence of Christianity is not the enthronement but the obliteration of self. First and foremost he has an aim in life. In other words, they simply remain in spiritual infancy and keep repeating the first stage of their Christian faith, over and again, without pressing on to spiritual maturity.Many are falsely taught that becoming a Christian will secure a quiet life and provide a ticket to prosperity, with numerous earthly blessings and a free pass from God, to prevent or remove any difficulties or dangers that may arise. The promise of the Messiah, the details of the Messiah, they are all there. The word is almost exactly the English swelled-headed. for instruction in righteousness ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ): And righteousness is just actually the act of being right or doing right or living right. So don't expect the world to speak well of you or to applaud you for your living a godly life and taking a righteous stand. He opened out the pages to make it burn more easily. There was a certain heretic called Marcus who dealt in magic. And I filed many scriptures in that file. Jannes and Jambres were the names of the two magicians that withstood Moses. This of itself indicates that the epistle provides for a time when it is no longer simply a question of recognising persons coming out of the world. He was one that needed to lean on an arm stronger than his own. But let not a man who will do this, suppose that he has any claim to be numbered among the martyrs, or even entitled to the Christian name. The difference between the braggart and the man who is arrogant is this. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1977. It is not enough to be satisfied when a church is humming like a dynamo and every night in the week has its own crowded organization. And yet, it is becoming in this hedonistic society commonplace, all too commonplace, tragically commonplace. "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." There is that in the scripture which suits every case. Barnes' Notes. One dark night in a forest in Sicily a brigand held up a colporteur at the point of a revolver. There is love. i. But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: a. Again he said, "Lo, I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God" ( Hebrews 10:7 ). How appropriate that "trucebreakers" is for this day. Luke recorded the very words spoken on the mission field long ago, "Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22); and, in the words of White, "Consistency in the life of Christ must necessarily be always opposed by the world. When we know the afflictions of believers only in part, they tempt us to decline the cause for which they suffer. Then the word went on to widen its meaning until it meant any braggart. And he was probably in the company of those that were standing around, sort of crying, as they saw Paul's limp body on the ground. There would come a kind of terrible flowering of evil, when the moral foundations seemed to be shaken. It is perfectly true--as we have so often said--that Christianity is not founded on a printed book but on a living person. It is needful to exercise judgment now. The same tone of mercy is equally promised in this #epistle as in the last. When the Lord was entering on His ministry He says, "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" thoroughly furnished unto all good works ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). Verse of the Day , 2 Timothy 3:12 Treasury of Scripture Knowing, God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). If Timothy would adhere to the truth as he had been taught it, this would arm him against the snares and insinuations of seducers. Then in 2 Timothy 3:1-17 he proceeds to show us not merely a picture of the condition that Christianity will fall into, but, besides, a state of things that would be produced by this confusion. But yet it is absolutely unavoidable that all of them shall have the world for their enemy in some form or other, that their faith may be tried and their steadfastness proved; for Satan, who is the continual enemy of Christ, will never suffer any one to be at peace during his whole life; and there will always be wicked men that are thorns in our sides. Oh, Jesus, you mean you believe that story? And so Paul, you know, how I've lived; my faith, my longsuffering, my love, my patience, and the persecutions and afflictions that came to me. The Greek moralists wrote much about this word. Whose will is to live, or who are bent on living. I think the next major event, Revelation 4:1 . He is the man who is guilty of the "sin of the high heart." ii. It was a part of his lot. In the former epistle, Timothy was told how to behave in the house of God, as yet in order; but now we are told how to behave in such a state of things as the present disorder. This is a further reason why Timothy should endure hardship and not turn aside from the work God has given him (3-5). I am reminded of the prophet of God who spoke concerning Israel, and he said, "They have sown the wind, and now they must reap the whirlwind" ( Hosea 8:7 ). ", and [as such they are] profitable ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ). Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:2, "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God." Certain of the temporary persecution, he is equally certain of the ultimate glory. They were violent and dangerous. She had been finding life, as she herself said, futile and meaningless. II. In other words, it's not going to get better for awhile. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. I don't know exactly yet what He said but when I find out I know He's going to be right. Or life, or death, or life after death? Narcissism is at an all-time peak, but with lovers of yourself comes. And you will find as God's word becomes a very part of your life and you begin to be guided by the word of God, that God will begin to use you in very exciting ways. Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Second Timothy chapter three? "My God shall supply all of your needs" ( Philippians 4:19 ). (2 Timothy 1:1.) What a blessing. It can never cease to be a Christian's duty to maintain the unity of the Spirit; but it is not maintaining the unity of the Spirit to couple with the name of the Lord that which is fleshly and sinful. Let us look at them one by one. All God-inspired scripture is useful for teaching, for the conviction of error, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work. Thus we have everything cared for here; the state of confusion is clearly depicted, as it then was beginning, and as results have proved yet more. He read them and never rested until he obtained the rest of the Bible. Robertson, Archibald Thomas. Man can do it but not God. "True," said the other, "but he kicked it to a goal." He did so to help him realize that he faced no unknown situation in Ephesus and to enable him to combat it intelligently. It is a divine revelation, which we may depend upon as infallibly true. The one was suited to upset the young, the other to beguile the old. That is where you become thoroughly equipped to do the work that God has designed and ordained for you. "The foundation of God standeth sure [or, the firm foundation of God standeth], having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. Take what is called physical Christianity a stupid, gross, and heathenish phrase, but just enough to show where people are drifting to. But, if one confesses the name of the Lord, the word is imperative: "let him depart from iniquity." But the sin of the man who is arrogant is in his heart. First, there are the duties of an apostle. 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. 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. 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 . Nowadays we have to restate these old pictures in modern terms. Years later that same brigand turned up again. Far more harm is done from want of thought than almost anything else. (2.) Anosios does not so much mean that men will break the written laws; it means that they will offend against the unwritten laws which are part and parcel of the essence of life. God said it.They are profitable. They had been long accustomed to the truth, and alas! True, he is telling of something which happened later than this, but the wretched story would be the same (Irenaeus: Against Heresies, 1, 13, 3). 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. She doesn't have the time to prepare the meal on Friday evening and we'll go out on Friday night. The reason is manifest: they themselves savour of the things of men, and not of God. She had never tried the Bible, for a friend had convinced her by subtle arguments that it could not be true. Timothy's job, for the sake of the future, involves more preservation than innovation. Had the Lord Jesus not sent him? It is no accident that the first of these qualities will be a life that is centred in self. They'll say, Crucify him, rather than applaud. He wants to accustom his mind to expect hardship instead of shirking it. The nature of its doctrine was no way likely to command success: (1) it condemns all other religions, some established for ages; (2) it enjoins precepts ungrateful to flesh and blood, the mortifying of the flesh, the love of enemies, and the bearing of the cross; (3) it enforces these seemingly unreasonable precepts by promises seemingly incredible; not good things such as afford complacency to our senses, but such as cannot be obtained till after this life, and presuppose what then seemed impossible, the resurrection; (4) it predicts to its followers what would seem sure to keep most of the world from embracing it, persecutions. Persecution and hardships will come, but of two things Paul is sure. Word Pictures in the New Testament. The Gnostics had their own fanciful books; the heretics all produced their own literature to support their claims. Commentary on 2 Timothy 3:14-17. In that large heart which weighed so justly and with single eye, there was a deepening feeling as to all that he saw around him; there was a realizing of the importance of things of which he had said not a word before. When our Lord was pleased to take upon himself the form of a servant, and to go about preaching the kingdom of God; he took all opportunities in public, and more especially in private, to caution his disciples against . 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. and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution ( 2 Timothy 3:12 ). As teachers we should sometimes ask ourselves: what am I trying to do with these people whom I teach? 2 Timothy 3:12, "Yes, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.". One only meets Satan when traveling in an opposite direction! And if you align your life with God, you're going to find yourself out of alignment with the world and persecution will come. Oh, yeah, I like that one. 3:1 You must realize this--that in the last days difficult times will set in. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. "It shone and glowed with truth," she said, "and my whole being responded to it. No man can teach what he does not know, and therefore before a man can teach Christ to others he must know him himself. Practical Bible study on 2 Timothy 1. Originally the alazon ( G213) was a wandering quack. That is why the church which has no Bible Class is a church in whose work an essential element is missing. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. human nature began to show itself out in indifference. That the scripture has various uses, and answers divers ends and purposes: It is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction of all errors in judgment and practice, and for instruction in righteousness. "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.". And that quality of conquering endurance is necessary, because persecution is an essential part of the experience of an apostle. It would not burn. There were those who would revenge themselves on an enemy by informing against him. It should be considered as one of the proper qualifications for membership in the church, to be willing to bear persecution, and to resolve not to shrink from any duty in order to avoid it. In the last days This often means the days of the Messiah, and is sometimes extended in its signification to the destruction of Jerusalem, as this was properly the last days of the Jewish state. There are those who shrink from helping on others in order to the work and doctrine of the Lord. This was to reverse the lesson of a risen Christ, and to open the way for all laxity. It's instructing you on the right kind of life. We must remember that Timothy's work lay in Ephesus, perhaps the greatest market in the ancient world. See also 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:11, and on godliness, 1 Timothy 2:2. But you see, if you start whacking away at the story of Jonah, and say, oh, I can't really buy that. All that will live godly So opposite to the spirit and practice of the world is the whole of Christianity, that he who gives himself entirely up to God, making the Holy Scriptures the rule of his words and actions, will be less or more reviled and persecuted.

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