Now are you going to, you know, take the word of Jesus? It is used by ancient writers on astrology to describe what we would call a threatening conjunction of the heavenly bodies. It's twelve thousand miles a second, but that's pretty fast, too. That is, without any sexual restraints. 2 Timothy 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Paul's life contrasted with the world. 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 ). In the last days perilous times will come: The word translated perilous has the idea of troubles, difficulty, and stressful situations. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1975. In a measure, no doubt, the truth is in Christendom, and only there; for one cannot look for the truth in Judaism or heathenism now. 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. The woman, thrilled to the heart, does so and is deluded into thinking that she can prophesy. This present age was altogether evil; and the age to come would be the golden age of God. There would come a kind of terrible flowering of evil, when the moral foundations seemed to be shaken. Boy, I'll tell you, I don't know. It is used in Plutarch to describe what we would call an ugly wound. I believe that God intended you to have pleasure, but when it comes before God, it means that it has become your God and it makes a very poor God to worship or serve. Men will be thankless (acharistos, G884) . There would be two ways in which these heretics in the days of Timothy could exert an evil influence. Perverse Men 2 Timothy 3:2-4 . Men would become lovers of money (philarguros, G5366) . It is easy for a professed Christian to avoid persecution, if he yields every point in which religion is opposed to the world. But the apostle remembered it all, felt deeply for if not with him, and greatly desiring to see him once more. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Persecution and hardships will come, but of two things Paul is sure. So if you want God to use your life, then thoroughly equip yourself in the Word of God, the study, the understanding.That's why we're here tonight. Whatever duty we have to do, whatever service is required from us, we may find enough in the scriptures to furnish us for it. 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. If Timothy wishes to live godly in Christ, he must make up his mind to encounter. These things may be expected in the best times, and under the most favorable circumstances; and it is known that a large part of the history of the world, in its relation to the church, is nothing more than a history of persecution. 3:8-9 In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men whose minds are corrupt, and whose faith is counterfeit. That is the inevitable way to ruin, for no man can master anything unless he first masters himself. And I filed many scriptures in that file. 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. The real meaning of this is that all theories, all theologies, all ethics, are to be tested against the Bible. Confrontation and conflict become inevitable (cf. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord" (there must, I suppose, have been some ground for the exhortation), "nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel, according to the power of God; who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." 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. 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. Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. They had been long accustomed to the truth, and alas! Sponde is the word for a truce or an agreement. If anyone proposes to introduce into his life a loyalty which surpasses all earthly loyalties, there are bound to be clashes. That's just fable. There was the road from north Asia Minor and from Galatia which came in via Sardis. Men will be ungovernable in their desires (akrates, G193) . The insult which comes from anger is bad but it is forgivable, for it is launched in the heat of the moment; but the cold insult which comes from arrogant pride is an ugly and an unforgivable thing. What am I to believe about man? How is it that you could be deceived, Jesus? It describes the man who is swept on by passion and impulse to such an extent that he is totally unable to think sensibly. In all life there is nothing so creative of really productive effort as a clear consciousness of a purpose. And Jesus himself had said: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake" ( Matthew 5:10). I don't know exactly yet what He said but when I find out I know He's going to be right. Traitors . They were never meant to be anything else but visions; we do violence to Jewish and to early Christian thought if we take them with a crude literalness. What a blessing. Only Luke is with me." And there's such a complete, total absence of love. This might deter a sensitive saint from his duty. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, (2 Timothy 2:1.) There is teaching. And suddenly, of course, their tears were changed because Paul began to breathe and move and he stood up and he said, Let's go back in and preach some more. He read them and never rested until he obtained the rest of the Bible. First, there are the duties of an apostle. He is sure that in the long run it is better to suffer with God and the right than to prosper with men and the wrong. The world is full of these braggarts to this day; the clever know-all's who deceive people into thinking that they are wise, the politicians who claim that their parties have a program which will bring in the Utopia and that they alone are born to be leaders of men, the people who crowd the advertisement columns with claims to give beauty, knowledge or health by their system, the people in the Church who have a kind of ostentatious goodness. The same Spirit that breathed reason into us breathes revelation among us: For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men spoke as they were moved or carried forth by the Holy Ghost,2 Peter 1:21. And those who wish to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted; while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceived themselves and deceiving others. Jambres. 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. Note, It is not enough to learn that which is good, but we must continue in it, and persevere in it unto the end. It was not then an indifferent matter to God. The world really doesn't admire true Christian traits. "Evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." What use it will be of to us. Thus the apostle comes to the close of his ministry, and touches upon the line of St. John. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. And then Jesus will come and establish God's righteous kingdom, but by then, those that will remain will be saying, Oh, God help us. The cause of this is the present confusion, and accordingly the apostle brings a picture of it before Timothy's mind. Word Pictures in the New Testament. Or life, or death, or life after death? It answers not a little to the kind of thing ,;et forth here. In these terrible days men will be slanderers. "He read on, forgetful of time, through the hours of the night, and just as the dawn was breaking, he stood up and declared, 'I believe'.". This is a very striking word. This again has stumbled the minds of men. 2 Timothy 3:12 New International Version 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, Read full chapter 2 Timothy 3:12 in all English translations 2 Timothy 2 2 Timothy 4 New International Version (NIV) This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come ( 2 Timothy 3:1 ). fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, [and then] lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God ( 2 Timothy 3:3-4 ); The pleasuremania of the United States. But when dying upon the cross, He calls to John to behold His mother. It is in terms of these last days that Paul is thinking in this passage. It is the ability not to lose patience when people are foolish, not to grow irritable when they seem unteachable. And when you lose authority you have anarchy. (8) Using the boldness God gives, don't be ashamed of the imprisoned apostle. Good. That the man of God may be perfect ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). The thing that amazes me is that he can attract people who will support him. Christ's apostles had no enemies but those who did not know them, or not know them fully; those who knew them best loved and honoured them the most. You know, I mean, talk about lovers of selves, look at the advertising. It is a great happiness to know the holy scriptures from our childhood; and children should betimes get the knowledge of the scriptures. Those ministers are likely to do good, and leave lasting fruits of their labours, whose manner of life agrees with their doctrine; as, on the contrary, those cannot expect to profit the people at all that preach well and live ill. 3. The doctrine that he preached. Real teaching is always born of real experience. 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." The word here is makrothumia ( G3115) ; and makrothumia, as the Greeks used it, usually meant patience with people. Accordingly, in much grief of heart, the apostle writes to his tried and trembling child in the faith, and seeks to strengthen him, above all things not to be discouraged, and to make up his mind to endure hard things. Then the apostle puts before them a blessed model of that which he had before his own soul. Those who would acquaint themselves with the things of God, and be assured of them, must know the holy scriptures, for these are the summary of divine revelation. No amount of intellectual curiosity can ever take the place of moral earnestness. Those who deceive others do but deceive themselves; those who draw others into error run themselves into more and more mistakes, and they will find it so at last, to their cost. The fact is that God loves to make His children mutually dependent; and if we are only humble, there are very few saints from whom we may not derive some good, though not always in the same way. Why? Men will be implacable in their hatreds (aspondos, G786) . Nowadays we have to restate these old pictures in modern terms. We must remember that the scripture of which Paul is writing is the Old Testament; as yet the New Testament had not come into being. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? Practical Bible study on 2 Timothy 1. (iv) The Scriptures are of use for correction. Without natural affection ( 2 Timothy 3:3 ). That's proper and you should have that desire. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. The latter gains a following only by turning away from the truth of God (13). He who feeds his mind on cheap literature can in the end find nothing in the great masterpieces. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. 2 Timothy Greeting. . When children are disobedient to their parents, and break through the obligations which they lie under to them both in duty and gratitude, and frequently in interest, having their dependence upon them and their expectation from them, they make the times perilous; for what wickedness will those stick at who will be abusive to their own parents and A true insight would have made them recognise in Jesus the Messiah for whom they waited. But of one thing Paul was sure--the days of the deceivers were numbered. Some of you are separated not by your own desire or wish, but because someone was a trucebreaker. What we have learned we must labour to be more and more assured of, that, being grounded in the truth, we may be guarded against error, for certainty in religion is of great importance and advantage: Knowing, (1.) And there came that place where, hey, Moses performed a miracle of God and they backed away. Look at the magazines that were once really under the counter kind of stuff and sold illegally. But it is asked, Must all men be martyrs? There was no despising natural links or spiritual here, far from it. If they contradict the teaching of the Bible, they are to be refused. Death and resurrection, then, are thus put before this servant of God; the more remarkably, because the point here is a practical and not a doctrinal question. It may well be that the greatest handicap to Christianity is not the scarlet sinner but the sleek devotee of an unimpeachable orthodoxy and a dignified convention, who is horrified when it is suggested that real religion is a dynamic power which changes a man's personal life. "The cloke," then says he, "that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books," not only the clothing, but even that which he is to read, "especially the parchments;" what he was going to write on, probably. Friday evenings, you know, everybody out looking for their weekend companion, incontinent, no sexual restraints. "Men of corrupt minds. The Gnostic insinuators would teach these doctrines to impressionable women. Paul's life: one of faith. 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. (2.) Who is talking all these words without knowledge? 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. And how profitable is the word of God to us today! And that quality of conquering endurance is necessary, because persecution is an essential part of the experience of an apostle. But, says the apostle, "be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: they are men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith ( 2 Timothy 3:8 ). (4) let those who have never been persecuted in any way, inquire whether it is not an evidence that they have no religion. Bishop Pearson proves the divine origination of Christianity from its success being inexplicable on the supposition of its being of human origin. We usually try to avoid it on Friday evening if we can, but sometimes our schedules are such that we just don't have time to. Because the true child of God brings the worldly person under conviction. Any conversion which makes a man think of nothing but the fact that he has been saved is no true conversion. . Vincent, Marvin R., D.D. Paul was a prisoner again and awaited death. [1.] The word is almost exactly the English swelled-headed. Now what is it that Timothy had so fully known in Paul? The coming of the Lord will in no way manifest the faithfulness of the servant; His appearing will. The word of God is the foundation for doctrine. The difference between the braggart and the man who is arrogant is this. They claimed that their children learned the law even from their swaddling clothes and drank it in with their mother's milk. Blasphemia is the word which is transliterated into English as blasphemy. Many and many a time we would be saved from hurting ourselves and from wounding other people, if we would only stop to think. Paul suffered as he taught: a single eye to Christ and His grace made him consistent. It is not simply now to follow these, as urged in the first epistle (1 Timothy 6:11); but he adds a most characteristic word in the second epistle. No matter what the reasons or excuses for joining with them, "turn away.". (2) they who are persecuted for their opinions, should consider that this may be one evidence that they have the spirit of Christ, and are his true friends. For example, "37-1-2459" means the reference is on page 37, is in column 1, and is word number 2459.). 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. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Plutarch uses the word to describe a quack doctor. Product Information. Noah escaped? How comes it so? 2. I watch very little, but with horror and dismay, the deterioration of a man who probably at one time had a legitimate ministry, but I've seen the gradual erosion of this person on television just right before my eyes. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. The absence of persecution, in any active sense, from the lives of most Christians of this era is generally due to the watered-down version of their Christianity and not to any subsidence of the savage hatred of the darkness for the light. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. The essence of Christianity is not the enthronement but the obliteration of self. There is just a certain natural love that would keep people from doing a lot of the things they are doing today. You can you see what's happened even in the last twenty-five years. "Knowing especially the firm foundation upon which thou hast built, namely, that of the scripture (2 Timothy 3:15; 2 Timothy 3:15): That from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures.". God takes care of His people, and ensures them a blessed end. I mean, people will have had it with the unrighteousness of the world. This world is in rebellion against God. A book with a record such as it has cannot be disregarded. It begets a contempt of men which can issue in hurting actions and in wounding words. Robertson, Archibald Thomas. You know the persecutions that I experienced, but the Lord delivered me out of them all. Yet. In these last terrible days men will come to have no love for good things or good persons (aphilagathos, G865) . A form of godliness, a profession of Christian faith without a godly life . THE VALUE OF SCRIPTURE ( 2 Timothy 3:14-17 ). shall suffer persecution; it is the will of God, and the appointment of heaven; Christ has foretold it, that so it shall be; and he the head has suffered it himself, and it is necessary that his members should, that they may be conformed unto him; it is the way Christ himself went to glory, and through many tribulations his people must enter the kingdom; and this is the common lot and certain case of all the saints, in one shape or another; for though all do not suffer confiscation of goods, beating, scourging, imprisonment, or a violent death; yet all are more or less afflicted and distressed by wicked men, and are subject to their reproaches and revilings, which are a branch of persecution; and that for professing Christ, and living a godly life in him and under his influence: and since such suffer as Christians, and not as evildoers; and this is the common condition of the people of God, in this world, it should not be thought strange, but be cheerfully endured; to encourage to which is the apostle's view in this passage. 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." But the apostle at the same time owns, and loves to own, that which another might perhaps despise. In other words, it's not going to get better for awhile. Timothy's job, for the sake of the future, involves more preservation than innovation. It is to be supposed that the younger labourer cowered somewhat, unwilling to incur the odious charge, so easily made but hard to refute, of setting himself up and taking the place of some great one. The word is propetes ( G4312) , precipitate. The study of the Scriptures must never be selfish, never simply for the good of a man's own soul. 1. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL It is the word alazon ( G213) and was derived from the ale, which means a wandering about.

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