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. 3:10-13 The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ, as taught by the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it. In the Jewish pictures of these last terrible times we get exactly the same kind of picture as we get here. Had the Lord Jesus not sent him? E. F. Brown has pointed out the danger of what he calls "intellectual curiosity without moral earnestness." Possibly he did appoint them; but there is no scriptural proof of it. But then another thing. On the other hand, it is unholy to tamper with evil. She had been finding life, as she herself said, futile and meaningless. I've never found that in one of those little Bible promise books, I mean, promise things yet. 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. THE EXPERIENCES OF AN APOSTLE ( 2 Timothy 3:10-13 continued). Noah escaped? It is Paul's conviction that the real follower of Christ cannot escape persecution. 2 Timothy - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org After considering his own life, Paul speaks of others desiring to live godly lives as he has done, a life of piety toward God that will always be opposed by the world. Or life, or death, or life after death? (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.. Jambres. Now what is it that Timothy had so fully known in Paul? He was to communicate the things he had learnt of Paul, that they might be able to teach others also. Yet. Not so the apostle Paul. 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]. It was only to be expected that certain women would not know how to use their new liberty. Let us look at them one by one. Otherwise this might have seemed to be (what unbelief taunts and stigmatizes it, spite of His sanction) pride of heart and presumption. (This book is used for definition of Greek words. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Et tous ceux aussi qui veulent vivre en la crainte de Dieu, Que rien ne luy est advenu que tous fideles ne doyvent aussi attendre. Here is one of the most terrible pictures in the New Testament of what a godless world would be like, with the terrible qualities of godlessness set out in a ghastly series. He is sure that God will rescue the man who puts his faith in him. 2 Timothy 3:12 Context. (4.) For "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" ( Matthew 12:34 ). Don't start trying to cut out certain stories because they don't fit your scheme because you have a little hard, you have a hard time sort of believing that. If you can read and buy the first verse of the Bible, you should have no problem with the rest of the Bible. Love of self is the basic sin, from with all others flow. Thou hast fully known my afflictions. There can come a time in a man's life when the company of good people and the presence of good things is simply an embarrassment. It answers not a little to the kind of thing ,;et forth here. 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. All rights reserved. This I cannot but consider as a proof of want of faith. Sets before him his own example, which Timothy had been an eye-witness of, having long attended Paul (2 Timothy 3:10; 2 Timothy 3:10): Thou hast fully known my doctrine. They just are irritated by your love and by your patience and by your goodness because they feel guilty. 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. The task of the apostle is not only to tell men the truth; it is also to help them do it. The scriptures we are to know are the holy scriptures; they come from the holy God, were delivered by holy men, contain holy precepts, treat of holy things, and were designed to make us holy and to lead us in the way of holiness to happiness; being called the holy scriptures, they are by this distinguished from profane writings of all sorts, and from those that only treat morality, and common justice and honesty, but do not meddle with holiness. Compare the catalogue, Ro 1:29, &c., where much the same sins are attributed to heathen men; it shall be a relapse into virtual heathendom, with all its beast-like propensities, whence the symbol of it is "a beast" (Re 13:1, 11, 12, &c.; 17:3, 8, 11). Judaism had its divine institutions and hopes, but the truth is found in Christendom only: nevertheless in Christendom, who fails to discern Jewish elements and heathenish enormities? Have you ever seen an age when people were more conscious of their own selves? 2. They had been long accustomed to the truth, and alas! 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. That the man of God may be perfect ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). Men will be ungovernable in their desires (akrates, G193) . Our God is much too small. In certain of these books Jannes and Jambres figured largely. And the word perfect of course is always that of completeness. He forbad his going on in association with those that dishonour the Lord with vessels to dishonour; but he tells him to follow these things "with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." Real teaching is always born of real experience. 4. The world just exists, no real goal, no real meaning; you're just existing. Do you have a hard time accepting that man can build a great fish that can swallow men and keep them under water for several days and deposit them later at a port?Hey, hey, wait a minute then. Every man doing his own thing or every man believing as he wants. It is Paul's charge that such people are "willing to learn from anyone, and yet never able to come to a knowledge of the truth." They must not lie by us neglected, and seldom or never looked into. She doesn't have the time to prepare the meal on Friday evening and we'll go out on Friday night. 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. Why then yield to the enemy? Not only did he become a Christian; he devoted the rest of his life to the distribution of the Scriptures in the forgotten villages of northern Chile. 2 Timothy 3:12 (NASB) Verse Thoughts We live in a fallen world, and there are many challenges that face the believer who has not only trusted Christ for salvation, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christ's example, and say without compromise - Thy will, not mine, be done. 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 ). His mind was caught; he took it back. Then the apostle brings out most important directions for the days that were then coming in, but now come, and more. For that very reason it is unanswerable that, whatever a man might argue about the rest of the Bible, it is impossible for the Church ever to do without the Gospels. 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. 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." As I read the things that are happening in our modern-cultured Orange County, as I read the reports from the social department on the child abuse, I just shake my head in disbelief because a person could not possibly do these things unless they were without natural affection. (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. godly, Godfearingly. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear" (it was what Timothy was manifesting), "but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. In these last terrible days men will come to have no love for good things or good persons (aphilagathos, G865) . Oh, Jesus, you mean you believe that story? Such is the perversity of sin. Accordingly, there is a depth of feeling that one may safely say far exceeds the first epistle, although it had shown so much tenderness and care both for Timothy and the faithful of those days. Look at the lack, lackness. 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. 3:2-5 For men will live a life that is centred in self; they will be lovers of money, braggarts, arrogant, lovers of insult, disobedient to their parents, thankless, regardless even of the ultimate decencies of life, without human affection, implacable in hatred, revelling in slander, ungovernable in their passions, savage, not knowing what the love of good is, treacherous, headlong in word and action, inflated with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 2. 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. Thus he comforts Timothy at the same time that he admonishes him. But, if one confesses the name of the Lord, the word is imperative: "let him depart from iniquity." They did not keep the covenant that they made. We can still see this kind of man in fairs and market-places shouting the virtues of a patent medicine which will act like magic. Oh, yeah, I like that one. In the Old Testament they are not named, but they are referred to in Exodus 7:11; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 9:11. It is used by ancient writers on astrology to describe what we would call a threatening conjunction of the heavenly bodies. "My God shall supply all of your needs" ( Philippians 4:19 ). "If religion gives no quarter to vice, the vicious will give no quarter to religion and its professors.". One dark night in a forest in Sicily a brigand held up a colporteur at the point of a revolver. 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. This is a very striking word. he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me." The first is the moral character of the source or channel whence Timothy had derived what he knew. The devil is the patron saint of all slanderers and of all slanderers he is chief. 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. 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. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 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. And so Paul said to Timothy, "You have fully known". In these terrible days men would be braggarts and arrogant. Indeed it may be well to remark here, that we never read of Timothy appointing bishops or elders. 1 Timothy 3:12 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org 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 this is in particular a difficulty for saints, when they have revived before the soul the blessedness of maintaining the unity of the Spirit. A. Characteristics of the last days 3:1-13. When God came on the scene and entered the conversation with his friends? [Note: Knight, p. Accordingly, although they are not exposed to the same assaults, and do not engage in the same battles, yet they have a warfare in common, and shall never be wholly at peace and exempt from persecutions. 2 Timothy 3: Bible Study, Commentary and Summary "I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 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. Persons sometimes say it does not matter who taught; but God does not treat the matter so lightly. He glanced at it as he consigned it to the flames. So from his earliest childhood Timothy had known the sacred writings. For him the light of eternity already shone strongly on present things, instead of taking him completely out of them. It is the word alazon ( G213) and was derived from the ale, which means a wandering about. Is it knowledge, or is it life, that we are trying to transmit? Blasphemia is the word which is transliterated into English as blasphemy. 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. Friday evenings, you know, everybody out looking for their weekend companion, incontinent, no sexual restraints. 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. He went home and found the fire was out. Then are we Christ's disciples indeed, John 8:31. If the Lord doesn't come soon, we're going to destroy ourselves as we just sink in the filth. They appear to think that if you hold life in Christ to be the one thing that is most precious, to be the prize that your heart reverts to, all owning of anything short of this would be out of place; but it is exactly the contrary. 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. The cause of the perilous times are found in the things that people will be doing, and at the top of the list. It is not "the commandment," as of authority, but "according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus." Therefore, isolation is never desirable, though it may be sometimes necessary. The doctrine of the necessity of persecution was no new thing to Paul. The age of children is the age to learn; and those who would get true learning, must get it out of the Scriptures. And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness correcting those that oppose, if perhaps God may give them repentance for acknowledgment of the truth, and they may for his will wake up out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him." And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully." THE QUALITIES OF GODLESSNESS ( 2 Timothy 3:2-5 ). The Kingdom had its price. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Closely allied with the braggart, but--as we shall see--even worse, is the man who is arrogant. (8) Using the boldness God gives, don't be ashamed of the imprisoned apostle. For after all, I'm worth it. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Help me totake this verse seriously, that I will suffer persecution if I live godly in Jesus Christ. 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. So I listened to that voice, and heard the truth, and found my Saviour.". 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 reason is manifest: they themselves savour of the things of men, and not of God. 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. Let me remark, that there are comparatively few indeed that receive truth without help of others directly from God. It was a part of his lot. What am I to believe about man? Noah, the earth was really flooded? Just to go line upon line, precept upon precept, plodding right straight through the word of God. In 2 Timothy 3:13 he meant that evil becomes more intensive as time goes on. The real meaning of this is that all theories, all theologies, all ethics, are to be tested against the Bible. And there's such a complete, total absence of love. It was the glory of the Jews that their children from their earliest days were trained in the law. Paul suffered as he taught: a single eye to Christ and His grace made him consistent. And there came that place where, hey, Moses performed a miracle of God and they backed away. Man can do it but not God. And so there comes that point where they will proceed no further: "their folly becomes manifest to all men", as Jannes and Jambres also was. 2 Timothy 3:12 - Bible Hub And this, I apprehend, is the reason. The emphasis of so many people is just on being beautiful, lovers of themselves. He was to remember, then, "that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel: wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil-doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound." For he does not say Jesus Christ simply in. Godly = adv. The thing that amazes me is that he can attract people who will support him. There is no godliness (Greek, "piously") or piety out of Christ. These were the names given to the court magicians of Pharaoh who opposed Moses and Aaron, when Moses was leading the children of Israel out of their slavery in Egypt. 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. It is easy for a professed Christian to avoid persecution, if he yields every point in which religion is opposed to the world. Avoid such people. 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. On his mother's side Timothy was a Jew, although his father had been a Greek ( Acts 16:1); and it is clear that it was his mother who had brought him up. Ephesus was called "The Treasure-house of the ancient world," "The Vanity Fair of Asia Minor."
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