Now they're right out where little kids can go in and pick them up and leaf through them. As individuals, we should sometimes ask ourselves: what is our aim in life? In the days between the Old and the New Testaments many Jewish books were written which expanded the Old Testament stories. Barnes' Notes. 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. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. Love of self is the basic sin, from with all others flow. There is a type of person who is eager to discuss every new theory, who is always to be found deeply involved in the latest fashionable religious movement, but who is quite unwilling to accept the day-to-day discipline--even drudgery--of living the Christian life. The scriptures are able to make us truly wise, wise for our souls and another world. He had fought the good fight of faith. Ephesus was called "The Treasure-house of the ancient world," "The Vanity Fair of Asia Minor." "To Timothy, my dearly-beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Second, there are the qualities of the apostle. That persecution which will properly furnish any evidence that we are the friends of Christ, must be only that which is "for righteousness sake" Matthew 5:10, and must be brought upon us in an honest effort to obey the commands of God. Description of His Past Curriculum 2 Timothy 3:10-12. The braggart is a swaggering creature, who tries to bluster his way into power and eminence. This again has stumbled the minds of men. Only here and Titus 2:12. Their falsity would be demonstrated and they would receive their appropriate reward. He who feeds his mind on cheap literature can in the end find nothing in the great masterpieces. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1977. The strange characteristic of ingratitude is that it is the most hurting of all sins because it is the blindest. The study of the Scriptures trains a man in righteousness until he is equipped for every good work. In between there was The Day of the Lord, a day when God would personally intervene and shatter the world in order to remake it. Lipscomb's Commentary on Selected NT Books, Verse 12. I. When we know the afflictions of believers only in part, they tempt us to decline the cause for which they suffer. Here he mentions his persecutions and afflictions at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, besides what he suffered elsewhere. Far more harm is done from want of thought than almost anything else. Timothy needed to realize, as all Christians do, especially those to whom "prosperity theology" appeals, that when a person determines to live a godly life he or she will suffer persecution. 2. We find a precisely similar kind of combination in Paul. Though his life was a life of great usefulness, yet it was a life of great sufferings; and none, I believe, came nearer to their great Master for eminent services and great sufferings than Paul: he suffered almost in every place; the Holy Ghost witnessed that bonds and afflictions did abide him, Acts 20:23. And then again "the husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits." But shun profane and vain babblings.". "Perilous times shall come." 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. Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5-6,Acts 14:19; Acts 16:1-2). Things will get worse as people turn away from those who teach the Scriptures, and listen to those who teach their own theories. The Greek moralists wrote much about this word. Persons sometimes say it does not matter who taught; but God does not treat the matter so lightly. This time he was a Christian minister, and it was to the reading of the books that he attributed his change. You're a stranger. Afterwards he also speaks of his own work and of that which he was suffering. 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. When Job was talking to his friends and they were talking to him about the future, and Job said, Oh, I wish I were dead. Now I'm not about to say God was wrong. Paul said to Timothy. Not so the apostle Paul. 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. If we would know the holy scriptures, we must read and search them daily, as the noble Bereans did, Acts 17:11. The Gnostic insinuators would teach these doctrines to impressionable women. And they shall be dispersed among the Gentiles. It is the ability not to lose patience when people are foolish, not to grow irritable when they seem unteachable. Again and again Scripture has opened for men and women the way to God. 2 Timothy 3:12, CSB: In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. In the first part of this chapter 2 Timothy 3:1-8, Paul reminds Timothy of the great apostasy which was to be expected in the church, and states some of the characteristics of it. How big is your God? It means to follow a person mentally, to attend diligently to his teaching and fully to understand the meaning of what he says. 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. (i) He says that the Scriptures give the wisdom which will bring salvation. 2 Timothy 3:12 Context. And as we go down the list, it's like reading the afternoon newspaper. Such is the meaning of purging himself. And that is, it doesn't tell us in the Scripture in Exodus that that was their names but Paul gives us their names here, Jannes and Jambres who withstood the truth. The true leader gives training in living. It is not meant that the Scriptures are valuable for finding fault; what is meant is that they are valuable for convincing a man of the error of his ways and for pointing him on the right path. I reply, it is not always in one way that Satan persecutes the servants of Christ. Men will be treacherous. 2 Timothy 3:12, NASB: Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. The scriptures are profitable to establish the foundation of my beliefs. Socrates skid that they were to be found in every walk of life but were worst of all in politics. He wants to accustom his mind to expect hardship instead of shirking it. He says that in them difficult times would set in. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully." In either case home and family life were destroyed. No one can possibly mistake him. It is a divine revelation, which we may depend upon as infallibly true. for reproof, for correction ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ), And how often the word of God has brought correction to my course of life. Then the apostle brings out most important directions for the days that were then coming in, but now come, and more. Here we find the perilous times fairly brought before us. The page number in Thayer is given, and the column on the page follows the hyphens. (2.) In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Therefore, isolation is never desirable, though it may be sometimes necessary. Men will be disobedient to their parents. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.' 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 . God wants you to be complete. "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." 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. Activity of service was no longer before him. 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. The numbers of people who flocked to the various athletic contests, loving pleasure. It may flourish for a time, but when it is exposed to the light of truth it is bound to shrivel and die. It is the word alazon ( G213) and was derived from the ale, which means a wandering about. The devil is the patron saint of all slanderers and of all slanderers he is chief. 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. It is our duty to use our minds and set them adventuring; but the test must ever be agreement with the teaching of Jesus Christ as the Scriptures present it to us. 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. If they contradict the teaching of the Bible, they are to be refused. "In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. Christianity was cradled in Judaism and very naturally thought largely in Jewish terms and pictures. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. He lets Timothy know that while he laid this on others, he must look carefully to his own ways. Xenophon tells us how Cyrus, the Persian king, defined the alazon ( G213) : "The name alazon ( G213) seems to apply to those who pretend that they are richer than they are or braver than they are, and to those who promise to do what they cannot do, and that, too, when it is evident that they do this only for the sake of getting something or making some gain" (Xenophon: Cyropoedia, 2, 2, 12). First, there are the duties of an apostle. [4.] It would not burn. Now here observe. And passion shall seize him that is peaceful. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977. We have sown the wind, now we're going to reap the whirlwind. "That thou hast had good teachers. You have no authority.So if I tell you that some scriptures are not really inspired of God, then I become the authority, not the Bible anymore, because you can't just read the whole Bible and trust it because not all of it is inspired. Closely allied with the braggart, but--as we shall see--even worse, is the man who is arrogant. In other words, the word of God is that which thoroughly prepares me for any work that God might have for me to do. And a less confession than this God never permitted the church to accept; nor in fact in Jerusalem itself was less ever accepted than the naming the name of the Lord. 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. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL We're going to drown in our own corruption. He was to communicate the things he had learnt of Paul, that they might be able to teach others also. He must take care of the manner in which he strives. 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. It answers not a little to the kind of thing ,;et forth here. He blames the Jews who searched them, because they failed to learn the lesson which they were intended to convey. "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.". It describes, not the spirit which accepts life, but the spirit which masters it. Look what they did to Jesus, and Jesus said, "If they persecuted me, they're going to persecute you" ( John 15:20 ). "True," said the other, "but he kicked it to a goal." 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. 2 Timothy 3 1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

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