2 timothy 3:12 explained

And he embraced Christianity, but he was probably standing there in Lystra when the people in the city stoned Paul until they thought he was dead and dragged him out of the city. "I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 2. A word altogether unbecoming in one mouth might be most proper in another. That Day of the Lord was to be preceded by a time of terror, when evil would gather itself for its final assault and the world would be shaken to its moral and physical foundations. One only meets Satan when traveling in an opposite direction! This was always the becoming tone; but now it is imperiously necessary, as well as wise and good. John 15:19; Matthew 10:22; Matthew 10:38-39, 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 scripture is a perfect rule of faith and practice, and was designed for the man of God, the minister as well as the Christian who is devoted to God, for it is profitable for doctrine, &c. If anyone proposes to introduce into his life a loyalty which surpasses all earthly loyalties, there are bound to be clashes. Persecution and hardships will come, but of two things Paul is sure. What is the excellency of the scripture. Thou hast fully known my afflictions. Now are you going to, you know, take the word of Jesus? Heavenly Father, thank You for the privilege of being one with Christ, positioned in Him, and clothed in His righteousness. For after all, I'm worth it. Men will be without human affection (astorgos, G794) . And so Paul is warning Timothy of certain things that will be transpiring in the last days. Thank You that Your grace is sufficient for any attack that the evil enemy of my soul can throw at me, and that nothing can ever separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. All rights reserved. The Gnostic heretics taught, either that, since matter is altogether evil, a rigid asceticism must be practiced and all the things of the body as far as possible eliminated, or that it does not matter what we do with the body and its desires can be indulged in to the limit because they do not matter. 1:15; 4:9-12, 16) and facing imminent execution, Paul wrote to Timothy, urging him to hasten to Rome for one last visit with the apostle ( 4:9, 21 ). Abandoned by virtually all of those close to him for fear of persecution (cf. The ancient world set duty to parents very high. The adjective used is philautos ( G5367) , which means self-loving. The doctrine that he preached. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. Paul met him on his first missionary journey. On the other hand, if a soul confesses the name of the Lord, he must have done with iniquity. Why then yield to the enemy? 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. O that we may love our Bibles more, and keep closer to them than ever! If the Lord doesn't come soon, we're going to destroy ourselves as we just sink in the filth. Description of His Past Curriculum 2 Timothy 3:10-12. His answer was: "That which will be most useful to them when they are men." There was a certain heretic called Marcus who dealt in magic. In English we usually associate it with insult against God, but in Greek it means insult against man and God alike. When we know the afflictions of good people but in part, they are a temptation to us to decline that cause which they suffer for; when we know only the hardships they undergo for Christ, we may be ready to say, "We will renounce that cause that is likely to cost us so dear in the owning of it;" but when we fully know the afflictions, not only how they suffer, but how they are supported and comforted under their sufferings, then, instead of being discouraged, we shall be animated by them, especially considering that we are told before that we must count upon such things (2 Timothy 3:12; 2 Timothy 3:12): All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution: not always alike; at that time those who professed the faith of Christ were more exposed to persecution than at other times; but at all times, more or less, those who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Product Information. This was to touch the right chord in his heart. He is the man who is guilty of the "sin of the high heart." The scriptures are able to make us truly wise, wise for our souls and another world. Christian life is a life of purpose. 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 And many shall be stirred up in anger to injure many; And they shall rouse up armies in order to shed blood. Even a dog may be sorry when he has hurt his master, but there are people who, in their treatment of others, can be lost to human sympathy and feeling. Proud member At Ephesus some of the greatest roads in the world met. On account of his opinions, he may be held up to ridicule, or treated with neglect, or excluded from society to which his attainments and manners would otherwise introduce him, or shunned by those who might otherwise value his friendship. But we have also been supplied with many precious promises which reassure us that His grace is sufficient, His strength is perfected in our weakness, that suffering for Christ's sake is a privilege for the child of God, and that no amount of trials, tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or the sword, is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.May we grasp this truth in His strength, and remember that in this world we will have tribulation but that if we fellowship in the suffering of Christ, we will also be glorified with Him Who loved us so much that He died for us, that we might live for Him forever. Vincente Quiroga of Chile found a few pages of a book washed up on the seashore by a tidal wave following an earthquake. Perilous Times 2 Timothy 3:1. Easy it seems to get sort of distracted and off course. I mean, people will have had it with the unrighteousness of the world. Why not baptize at once every soul around? The best way to overcome and to banish the false is to live in such a way that the loveliness and the graciousness of the truth is plain for all to see. 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). Titus, we know, did so; but God took care that it should never be positively stated about Timothy. But no man ought to separate himself from the children of God, unless it be a dire necessity for the Lord; it is clearly not according to Christ. At the same time he shows also his sense of the kindness of a particular individual and his family. Oh, yeah, I like that one. The Jehovah Witnesses seeking to develop their doctrine concerning hell and that it is a place of oblivion, no consciousness, no awareness. "Blessed is he who will come in the name of the Lord" ( Psalms 118:26 ). 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. There was the road from north Asia Minor and from Galatia which came in via Sardis. 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 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. "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.". Or life, or death, or life after death? And how profitable is the word of God to us today! They will be inflated with a sense of their own importance. (2Baruch 27). The technique would be the same in the days of Timothy as it was in the later days of Irenaeus. Now when Moses appeared before Pharaoh and he threw down his rod and it turned into a snake, you'll remember that Pharaoh's magicians threw down their rods and they also became snakes, but Moses' snake swallowed theirs. Timothy was well aware of this, even before he joined Paul in his work. There was a state of things coming when it would be impossible to have local charges chosen according to the full sanction which they had in apostolic days. A. Characteristics of the last days 3:1-13. Story of Jonah has provoked a lot of problems for people, only because of their concept of God. Living here almost in a Sodom-Gomorrah atmosphere and environment. This shows in a clearer light the difference between the true teacher and the false. It was the glory of the Jews that their children from their earliest days were trained in the law. There is love. Thus he looks not to the coming of the Lord to receive him to Himself, but to the "appearing of the Lord," which is the usual side of the truth taken in these epistles. (iii) The Scriptures are valuable for reproof. So the same Greek is used of the same thing, Lu 14:28, 33, "intending (Greek, 'wishing') to build a tower counteth the cost.". (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. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. 2. In this picture which Paul draws he is thinking in terms familiar to the Jews. Jewish thought had one basic conception. And they were able to imitate the workings of God up to a point and then they came to the place where they were backed down by Moses, but "men of corrupt minds, they are reprobate concerning the faith. Only Luke is with me." In the light of this warning from the Saviour, no Christian should be surprised at persecution. They're profitable for doctrine. It opened at the Sermon on the Mount. "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Paul said to Timothy. (2.) The coming of the Lord will in no way manifest the faithfulness of the servant; His appearing will. We are not meant to titillate our minds with the latest intellectual crazes; we are meant to purify and strengthen ourselves in the moral battle to live the Christian life. In contrast, the sins of "evil people and impostors" can be expected to get worse and worse. 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. It is beautiful to trace this double working and current of the apostle that is, what is imperishable, above and beyond nature; and, along with this, the utmost value put on everything that he would own in those naturally bound up with him those of either family that feared God. Men will be implacable in their hatreds (aspondos, G786) . That's proper and you should have that desire. 1. 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. There was the road from the south which centred the trade of the Maeander valley in Ephesus. When we are tempted to do so, we should hear again the voice of our blessed Lord saying on the Cross: "Father, forgive them.". Traitors . Questions are before him more serious than a maintenance of order. human nature began to show itself out in indifference. The world easily puts up with the mask of a religion which depends on itself, but the piety which derives its vigor directly from Christ is as odious to modern Christians as it was to the ancient Jews [Bengel]. Christianity changed all that and a new set of problems arose. It is used by ancient writers on astrology to describe what we would call a threatening conjunction of the heavenly bodies. "Much the greatest rogue of all is the man who has gulled his city into the belief that he is fit to direct it.". I must do so, if I own Him only in the indispensable truth of His Lordship if I own Him simply as the One that has authority over my soul. Years later that same brigand turned up again. 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. 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. God is right. A book with a record such as it has cannot be disregarded. Our God is much too small. But the phrase may mean any future time, whether near or distant. 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. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known 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. Friday evenings, you know, everybody out looking for their weekend companion, incontinent, no sexual restraints. For "all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Love of self is the basic sin, from which all others flow. 2 To Timothy, d my beloved child:. They claimed that their children learned the law even from their swaddling clothes and drank it in with their mother's milk. Of course it was infinitely higher, it is needless to say, in the Master; but the servant was as closely as possible following in His steps. To love men is to forgive them and care for them as God forgave and cares--and it is only he who can enable us to do that. Verse 1. The kind of guys that went around selling snake oil or cure-alls, deceiving, defrauding people. And man has prepared a great fish and they powered it with atomic engines. And so Paul said to Timothy, "You have fully known". Men will be ungovernable in their desires (akrates, G193) . This is a further reason why Timothy should endure hardship and not turn aside from the work God has given him (3-5). Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 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 ). Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution - Paul takes occasion from the reference to his own persecutions, to say that his case was not unique. Timothy was from Lystra. Only here and Titus 2:12. The apostle well knew that the God who had brought these glorious truths to man, the God that had manifested His grace, had given a witness of their reality in the man from whom he had learned them; and this was meant to have an enduring effect on the conscience and heart of Timothy. How big is your God? The crumbling away of everything here was before the apostle; and accordingly it is one of the peculiar features of this second epistle, that he brings out that which never can decay which was before there was a world to dissolve namely, that life which was in Christ Jesus before the world began. It is to be remembered that a man may lose his soul far more easily in prosperity than in adversity; and he is on the way to losing his soul when he assesses the value of life by the number of things which he possesses. 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. I have many scriptures that I don't understand yet. In certain of these books Jannes and Jambres figured largely.