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." In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. 2 Timothy 3: Bible Study, Commentary and Summary "Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." Truth and holiness and endurance are wanted, not authority or outward order. This might deter a sensitive saint from his duty. It is a great happiness to know the certainty of the things wherein we have been instructed (Luke 1:4); not only to know what the truths are, but to know that they are of undoubted certainty. 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. Vincente Quiroga of Chile found a few pages of a book washed up on the seashore by a tidal wave following an earthquake. 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. Socrates skid that they were to be found in every walk of life but were worst of all in politics. 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? Persons sometimes say it does not matter who taught; but God does not treat the matter so lightly. Regardless of the persecution, it is our duty to live in such a way that the world will know that we are Christians. It is not enough to be satisfied when a church is humming like a dynamo and every night in the week has its own crowded organization. 2. ", Now when you have difficulty in your understanding of a scripture, rather than setting that aside and saying, Well, God really didn't say that; just say, hey, I really don't understand that yet. 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. This is evidently not the true remedy to abandon the confession of Christ: only an apostate could think of it. They said, Wait a minute, this is the hand of God, we can't, we can't touch this. The woman, thrilled to the heart, does so and is deluded into thinking that she can prophesy. The Jews divided all time into this present age and the age to come. 4. The New Testament had not yet been canonized. Ephesus was the town of a prosperous, materialistic civilization; it was the kind of town where a man could so easily lose his soul. Robertson, Archibald Thomas. The word is anemeros ( G434) and would be more fittingly applied to a wild beast than to a human being. And may not their freedom from it prove that they have surrendered the principles of their religion, where they should have stood firm, though the world were arrayed against them? 2 Timothy 3:2 Commentaries: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of They must expect to be despised, and that their religion will stand in the way of their preferment; those who will live godly must expect it, especially those who will live godly in Christ Jesus, that is, according to the strict rules of the Christian religion, those who will wear the livery and bear the name of the crucified Redeemer. At first these magicians were able to match the wonders which Moses and Aaron did, but in the end they were defeated and discredited. His answer was: "That which will be most useful to them when they are men." "Beloved, consider it not strange concerning the fiery trials which are to try you, as though some strange thing has happened to you" ( 1 Peter 4:12 ). Having a form of godliness ( 2 Timothy 3:5 ). What am I to believe about sin? 2 Timothy 3:12 - KING JAMES BIBLE ONLINE Lipscomb's Commentary on Selected NT Books, Verse 12. So you have to be careful when you start chipping it away at one side because the whole thing will come down on you. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. and then shall we find the benefit and advantage designed thereby, and shall at last attain the happiness therein promised and assured to us. Paul contrasts the conduct of Timothy, his loyal disciple, with the conduct of the heretics who were doing their utmost to wreck the Church. At that time Timothy was just a very young boy, probably in his mid-teens and yet he was attracted to Paul the apostle because of the message that Paul bore. 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." In those days trade tended to flow down river valleys; Ephesus was at the mouth of the River Cayster, and commanded the trade of one of the richest hinterlands in all Asia Minor. Heavenly Father, thank You for the privilege of being one with Christ, positioned in Him, and clothed in His righteousness. At the same time He will have them undividedly for Himself; and He is also jealous of the way in which they seek even the ends of God. He lets Timothy know that while he laid this on others, he must look carefully to his own ways. They will be inflated with a sense of their own importance. It imagines "the faith" as something to be guarded (see 2 Timothy 1:14), lest it become corrupted or . There is little likelihood that Timothy will be easily led astray by false teaching. To the Greek it was anosios ( G462) to refuse burial to the dead; it was anosios ( G462) for a brother to marry a sister, or a son a mother. Paul suffered as he taught: a single eye to Christ and His grace made him consistent. I've never found that in one of those little Bible promise books, I mean, promise things yet. Certain of the temporary persecution, he is equally certain of the ultimate glory. 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." The word is almost exactly the English swelled-headed. Everything today is, you know, for the body beautiful. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. It was thus Paul treated the proud reasonings and speculations of man; withal briefly touching on those that had gone entirely astray Hymenaeus and Philetus. Verse of the Day , 2 Timothy 3:12 Treasury of Scripture Knowing, God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). I mean, people will have had it with the unrighteousness of the world. He glanced at it as he consigned it to the flames. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. 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 the whole spiritual experience, so to speak, of the apostle. It is given by inspiration of God (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Timothy 3:16), and therefore is his word. Look at the lack, lackness. "And in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.". This the apostle guards Timothy against, and indeed ourselves, he warns him how seduction would go on more and more, but "from such turn away." How comes it so? The Christian, the minister, is the man of God. There was no longer the freshness of a new thing; and where the heart was not kept up in communion with the Lord, the value of divine things was less felt, if it did not quite fade away. What am I to believe about angels or the future? 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. But let not a man who will do this, suppose that he has any claim to be numbered among the martyrs, or even entitled to the Christian name. It can never cease to be a Christian's duty to maintain the unity of the Spirit; but it is not maintaining the unity of the Spirit to couple with the name of the Lord that which is fleshly and sinful. But this is not what the Bible teaches. 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. The Gnostic insinuators would teach these doctrines to impressionable women. 1. 2 Timothy 3:12-17 - Bible Gateway In the end not a book was burned; the brigand left the colporteur and went off into the darkness with the books. He says that in them difficult times would set in. He says: "Open thy mouth, speak whatsoever occurs to thee, and thou shalt prophesy." But the sin of the man who is arrogant is in his heart. It answers all the ends of divine revelation. 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. [3.] The more the person who lives godly and righteous in Christ stands out. 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. The man who is anosios ( G462) offends against the fundamental decencies of life. Well soon your Bible will be so messed up you wouldn't be able to read it. 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 Christs example, and say without compromise Thy will, not mine, be done.The newbornbaby Christian has to grow in grace and mature in the faith over an unspecified periodof time, to reach this level of maturity in his faith, while other who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ may slip in and out of carnality and worldliness for many years, stunting their growth and even regressing in their faith back to spiritual infancy.Many, if not all believers, are called to become mature in the faith by walking in spirit and truth and living godly, Christ-centred lives, but few are willing to exchange the cosy blessings of early Christian infancy, for the difficulties that inevitably follow the mature believer. In living in such a manner, persecution will come; but the Lord will deliver the faithful. As we know, there may be over it all a certain form of godliness, but underneath it is really wickedness. In the Old Testament they are not named, but they are referred to in Exodus 7:11; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 9:11. Have you ever seen an age when people were more conscious of their own selves? Resurrection is the form and character of the lowest blessings of which Jesus is the dispenser; much more is He risen to exalt God in the highest. Whose will is to live, or who are bent on living. for instruction in righteousness ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ): And righteousness is just actually the act of being right or doing right or living right. At the same time there is the carrying on his full notice of everything found here below that would be a source of comfort to one who anticipated the ruin of Christendom. That's not the kind of promises we really enjoy, is it? Wow, watch out now because Jesus bought it. In 2Baruch we get an even more vivid picture of the moral chaos of these last times: And envy shall rise in those who had not thought ought of. If what be claims for scripture is true of the Old Testament, how much truer it is of the still more precious words of the New. Only Luke is with me." How big is your God? Oh, yeah, I like that one. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. This shows in a clearer light the difference between the true teacher and the false. Then the word went on to widen its meaning until it meant any braggart. 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. 2 Timothy 3:12, NLT: Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 2 Timothy 3:12 - Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch Now they're right out where little kids can go in and pick them up and leaf through them. It is the sign of a man of honour that he pays his debts; and for every man there is a debt to God and there are debts to his fellow-men, which he must remember and repay. Fear and timidity will keep us from using the gifts God gives. 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. 2 To Timothy, d my beloved child:. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. We must not be afraid of a manifest duty because it has been abused. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." "Men of corrupt minds. 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 It follows from this: (1) that they who make a profession of religion, should come prepared to be persecuted. The most amazing things may happen if he does, for there is a saving wisdom here that is in no other book. And they use the book of Job as their proof text. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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.