He is sure that the ungodly man will go from bad to worse and that there is literally no future for the man who refuses to accept the way of God. You know, I mean, talk about lovers of selves, look at the advertising. He was one that needed to lean on an arm stronger than his own. There are those who shrink from helping on others in order to the work and doctrine of the Lord. One of my most unfavorite promises in the Bible. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Given the right conditions, such oppositions would be just as deadly as the great Roman persecutions. They will maintain the outward form of religion, but they will deny its power. 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. The same tone of mercy is equally promised in this #epistle as in the last. Had the Lord Jesus not sent him? "[21] See also under 1Thessalonians 3:3. "Because ye are not of the world therefore the world hateth you" (John 15:19; Matthew 10:22,38,39). I am not at liberty of course to leave Christendom, I dare not get out of the great house at all; indeed I cannot (at any rate without becoming an apostate) leave the house of God, however bad its state may be. Pride always begets insult. The doctrine of the necessity of persecution was no new thing to Paul. This may be either an injury done to his feelings, his family, his reputation, his property, his liberty, his influence; it may be by depriving him of an office which he held, or preventing him from obtaining one to which he is eligible; it may be by subjecting him to fine or imprisonment, to banishment, torture, or death. Good to have pleasure but don't make it your God. "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. Titus, we know, did so; but God took care that it should never be positively stated about Timothy. It follows from this: (1) that they who make a profession of religion, should come prepared to be persecuted. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. 12And all who wish to live a godly life (186) Having mentioned his own persecutions, he likewise adds now, that nothing has happened to him which does not await all the godly. 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). This shows in a clearer light the difference between the true teacher and the false. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Surely if it is an urgent call to convey what we know of Christ and the truth to those that know nothing, it is a great privilege to help to contribute a greater knowledge of the truth to those that know little. Well, Jesus has and He told us what to, what it's about in Luke, the sixteenth chapter. Well soon your Bible will be so messed up you wouldn't be able to read it. Now these seem to many very difficult indeed to combine. This he had known most extensively, but it was closed; no longer had he before him any prospect of having to fight the battles of the church of God. 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. By it we are thoroughly furnished for every good work. So I listened to that voice, and heard the truth, and found my Saviour.". This is a further reason why Timothy should endure hardship and not turn aside from the work God has given him (3-5). [4.] 2 Timothy 3 Commentary; 2 Timothy 4 Commentary; HENRY ALFORD 2 TIMOTHY COMMENTARY The Greek Testament. 2 To Timothy, d my beloved child:. If they had been more faithful, and more like their Master, would they have always escaped? Moreover, as soon as zeal for God is manifested by a believer, it kindles the rage of all ungodly men; and, although they have not a drawn sword, yet they vomit out their venom, either by murmuring, or by slander, or by raising a disturbance, or by other methods. (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. But God prepares the instruments through which He works and the most important preparation is through the Word of God. 1. He is the man whom God resists, for it is repeatedly said in scripture, that God receives the humble but resists the man who is proud, huperephanos ( G5244) ( James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5; Proverbs 3:24). "To Timothy, my dearly-beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. A. M. Chirgwin in The Bible in World Evangelism tells the story of a ward sister in a children's hospital in England. Then he points out the two principal guards for the faithful, in such a perilous state. Even an unbeliever is acting unfairly unless he tries to read it. Things will get worse as people turn away from those who teach the Scriptures, and listen to those who teach their own theories. But let him not infer, "therefore," that he is to be enrolled among the martyrs, and that he is certainly a real Christian. "They that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Perverse Men 2 Timothy 3:2-4 . Then the word went on to widen its meaning until it meant any braggart. The braggart is a swaggering creature, who tries to bluster his way into power and eminence. 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. It is the Greek parakolouthein ( G3877) and literally means to follow alongside; but it is used with a magnificent width of meaning. The Christian, the minister, is the man of God. ", The Bible tells about God giving people over to reprobate minds, men who resist God and the truth of God. Comp. Observe, As good men, by the grace of God, grow better and better, so bad men, through the subtlety of Satan and the power of their own corruptions, grow worse and worse. In his own neighbourhood he had seen Paul suffer because of his devotion to Christ (10-12; cf. In other words, the word of God is that which thoroughly prepares me for any work that God might have for me to do. The devil is the patron saint of all slanderers and of all slanderers he is chief. C. Description of His Present Resource 2 Timothy 3:13-17. Their own word would eat as a canker, and do harm to others as well as to themselves, "who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some." In the Jewish pictures of these last terrible times we get exactly the same kind of picture as we get here. They should remember that, in this respect, they are treated as the Master was, and are in the goodly company of the prophets, apostles, and martyrs; for they were all persecuted. A man can reach a stage when, so far from controlling it, he can become a slave to some habit or desire. Blasphemia is the word which is transliterated into English as blasphemy. They're profitable. "Perilous times shall come." 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. 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. If you can read and buy the first verse of the Bible, you should have no problem with the rest of the Bible. Instead of hiding either from Timothy, he points all out to him. 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 ). He lets Timothy know that while he laid this on others, he must look carefully to his own ways. "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." One day a visitor came to the ward and left a supply of gospels. He said that one isn't inspired; obviously inspired. 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. "Blessed is he who will come in the name of the Lord" ( Psalms 118:26 ). What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? As Shakespeare had it: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all" ( Psalms 34:19 ). 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. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God. 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. 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. This is God's attitude to men. And this, I believe, is much to be considered. Verse 4. 2 Timothy 3:12, CSB: In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. (This book is used for definition of Greek words. For after all, I'm worth it. 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. 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." Every man doing his own thing or every man believing as he wants. There was the great trade route from the Euphrates valley which came by way of Colosse and Laodicea and poured the wealth of the east into the lap of Ephesus. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. A true insight would have made them recognise in Jesus the Messiah for whom they waited. But [Paul said] they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as [Jannes and Jambres] also were ( 2 Timothy 3:9 ). a) Subject and Purpose of Epistle This second epistle which was written several years after the first draws a totally different picture before our eyes. Socrates skid that they were to be found in every walk of life but were worst of all in politics. And the comfort is that, if prepared to cleave to the will of the Lord alone, we shall have, through His grace, fellowship with the true-hearted. "I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. I don't know exactly yet what He said but when I find out I know He's going to be right. And many shall be stirred up in anger to injure many; And they shall rouse up armies in order to shed blood. It will be getting better a little further down the road, but evil days are going to wax worse and worse, until the Lord takes His church out and then God judges the world for its unrighteousness and ungodliness. Timothy had been schooled in the Scriptures from his early youth by his mother and grandmother, and so as Paul began to, with the Scriptures, prove that Jesus was the Messiah, with Timothy's background, he could see the truth of it. THE QUALITIES OF GODLESSNESS ( 2 Timothy 3:2-5 ). Therefore it is incumbent for the Christian to look to this gravely, never to be dragged by the fear of breaking unity into accrediting what dishonours the Lord. What am I to believe about sin? And then again "the husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits." He had fully known his conversation: Thou hast fully know my doctrine, and manner of life; his manner of life was of a piece with his doctrine, and did not contradict it. Here we come back to where we started; such men place their own wishes in the centre of life. Paul completes the story of the things in which Timothy has shared, and must share, with him, by speaking of the experiences of an apostle; and he prefaces that list of experiences by setting down the quality of endurance. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 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. 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. But let him not infer, therefore, that he is to be enrolled among the martyrs, and that he is certainly a real Christian. Paul goes on to other qualities of an apostle. 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 There is faith, complete belief that God's commands are binding and that his promises are true. And when you lose authority you have anarchy. The reason is obvious. That is to say, they go through all the correct movements and maintain all the external forms of religion; but they know nothing of Christianity as a dynamic power which changes the lives of men. 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. I'm afraid that that is also true of us. . No man can teach what he does not know, and therefore before a man can teach Christ to others he must know him himself. 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 Verse of the Day , 2 Timothy 3:12 Treasury of Scripture Knowing, God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). Originally the alazon ( G213) was a wandering quack. 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 man who is mastered by his lower passions will gratify them in the most shameless way, as the streets of any great city will show when the night is late. Robertson, Archibald Thomas. A book with a record such as it has cannot be disregarded. The word is propetes ( G4312) , precipitate. Negative and positive illustrations 3:8-13. In these last terrible days men will come to have no love for good things or good persons (aphilagathos, G865) . But they will not get much further, for their folly will be as clear to all as that of those ancient impostors. You're a pilgrim. And the word of God comes and it brings a balance, it brings a correction, it brings a correct perspective.It's profitable. 2 Timothy 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. They still, you know, pay their respects. It describes, not the spirit which accepts life, but the spirit which masters it. How are we to walk so as to please the Lord when disorder reigns, claiming to be the only true order? "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'.". Then are we Christ's disciples indeed, John 8:31. "He kicked the world about," said one, "as if it had been a football." The one was suited to upset the young, the other to beguile the old. If he does not hide the sorrowful view of an old fellow-labourer's cooling in zeal, with all its dangers, the consolation is also before Timothy both of those that go on in faithful labour, and of one at least restored. More and more the Christian is a marked person because the more corrupt the world becomes, the more the Christian stands out. He flung the New Testament on it. (iii) The Scriptures are valuable for reproof. How appropriate that "trucebreakers" is for this day. 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. He would not have him to be spreading doubtful opinions; but what he had heard from the apostle himself he need not scruple to give out freely. Practical Bible study on 2 Timothy 1. Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. 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. Look at the magazines that were once really under the counter kind of stuff and sold illegally. A great many certainly flatter themselves that they are thus favoured; but the cases are uncommon where it is more than pretence. It is easy for a professed Christian to avoid persecution, if he yields every point in which religion is opposed to the world. Difficult is the Greek word chalepos ( G5467) . It is an immense blessing that we have the truth not only in a book, but in a practical shape, the truth that comes out of the heart and from the lips of living men of God. God wants you to be complete. In the second chapter he turns to another theme, he instructs and exhorts Timothy as to communicating (not authority, or status, or gift, but) truth to others. If they contradict the teaching of the Bible, they are to be refused. In other words, you may go along for a while, but ultimately it's going to catch up with you. It is the ability not to lose patience when people are foolish, not to grow irritable when they seem unteachable. Verse 2 Timothy 3:1. For example, "37-1-2459" means the reference is on page 37, is in column 1, and is word number 2459.). 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.

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