(3.) Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: they are men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith ( 2 Timothy 3:8 ). He must take care of the manner in which he strives. 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. His mind was caught; he took it back. Paul said, you know, what kind of a life I've lived. This shows in a clearer light the difference between the true teacher and the false. It may flourish for a time, but when it is exposed to the light of truth it is bound to shrivel and die. The way of sin is down-hill; for such proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. They did not keep the covenant that they made. Or life, or death, or life after death? 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. The doctrine that he preached. 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. 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. Braggart has an interesting derivation. 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. THE DUTIES AND THE QUALITIES OF AN APOSTLE ( 2 Timothy 3:10-13 ). 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. Synonyms of the New Testament. Get out your pen and take out the red, put the blue one. 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. Timothy was from Lystra. The doctrine of the necessity of persecution was no new thing to Paul. The Greek word (prodotes, G4273) means nothing less than a traitor. The insult which comes from anger is bad but it is forgivable, for it is launched in the heat of the moment; but the cold insult which comes from arrogant pride is an ugly and an unforgivable thing. It was not then an indifferent matter to God. Paul was a prisoner again and awaited death. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 3:8-9 In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men whose minds are corrupt, and whose faith is counterfeit. Not so the apostle Paul. Now these seem to many very difficult indeed to combine. Men will be treacherous. It is as if he said to them: "You have been well warned." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. Thou hast fully known my afflictions. 1 Paul, a an apostle of Christ Jesus b by the will of God according to c the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,. 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. It's twelve thousand miles a second, but that's pretty fast, too. 1. 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. Verse 2 Timothy 3:1. The adjective used is philautos, which means self-loving. Now many people have a legitimate and proper desire to be used of God. I've never found that in one of those little Bible promise books, I mean, promise things yet. When the Lord was entering on His ministry He says, "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" There is faith, complete belief that God's commands are binding and that his promises are true. As Shakespeare had it: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord. Now are you going to, you know, take the word of Jesus? If we consult the scripture, which was given by inspiration of God, and follow its directions, we shall be made men of God, perfect, and thoroughly furnished to every good work. But yet it is absolutely unavoidable that all of them shall have the world for their enemy in some form or other, that their faith may be tried and their steadfastness proved; for Satan, who is the continual enemy of Christ, will never suffer any one to be at peace during his whole life; and there will always be wicked men that are thorns in our sides. In the former epistle, Timothy was told how to behave in the house of God, as yet in order; but now we are told how to behave in such a state of things as the present disorder. Note, Those are wise indeed who are wise to salvation. Whether Timothy made it to Rome before Paul's execution is not known. Verse 1. It appears it was not merely in Rome. The ancient world set duty to parents very high. And that is precisely what Christianity demands that a man should do. And you will find as God's word becomes a very part of your life and you begin to be guided by the word of God, that God will begin to use you in very exciting ways. "Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. We must remember that this was written just at the beginning of the years of persecution, when it was becoming a crime to be a Christian. A form of godliness, a profession of Christian faith without a godly life . The coming of the Lord will in no way manifest the faithfulness of the servant; His appearing will. 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 ). The final condemnation of these people is that they retain the outward form of religion but deny its power. Now hatred is attended by cruelty, and hence arise persecutions. Paul goes on to list the things in which Timothy has been his disciple; and the interest of that list is that it consists of the strands out of which the life and work of an apostle are woven. Don't expect the world to applaud when you speak out against evil. In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. . Now you get out your, you know, your green and blue pens and for the inspired ones, we'll underline those with blue and we'll use red, maybe, to underline those that are not inspired, you know and, and so here I am, I'm the authority.Well, the next liberal comes along and he says, Well, no, no, no, he was wrong on that one. 2 Timothy 3:12, CSB: In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. He might even seem to be humble; but in his secret heart there is contempt for everyone else. It describes, not the spirit which accepts life, but the spirit which masters it. The first is the moral character of the source or channel whence Timothy had derived what he knew. They love pleasure more than they love God; that's the indictment. The cause of this is the present confusion, and accordingly the apostle brings a picture of it before Timothy's mind. In these terrible days men would be braggarts and arrogant. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. She doesn't have the time to prepare the meal on Friday evening and we'll go out on Friday night. 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. The emphasis of so many people is just on being beautiful, lovers of themselves. This is the right thing to do. Persons sometimes say it does not matter who taught; but God does not treat the matter so lightly. 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]. Description of His Past Curriculum 2 Timothy 3:10-12. How gracious of the Lord to point out the path for the saint, separate from that which grieves the Lord, yet enjoying all that He sees good for us of the privileges of Christianity! (3) If we are persecuted, we should carefully inquire, before we avail ourselves of this consolation, whether we are persecuted because we live godly in Christ Jesus, or for some other reason. 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. Christianity changed all that and a new set of problems arose. The wickedness of evil people, particularly charlatans, will increase as time passes. The Gnostic insinuators would teach these doctrines to impressionable women. 3:6-7 For from among these there come those who enter into houses, and take captive foolish women, laden with sins and driven by varied desires, ready to listen to any teacher but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. (iv) The Scriptures are of use for correction. And in the end they shall perish together with them." "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. The oldest Greek laws disfranchised the man who struck his parents; to strike a father was in Roman law as bad as murder; in the Jewish law honour for father and mother comes high in the list of the Ten Commandments. "I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 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. We must remember that they were Gnostics and that the basic principle of Gnosticism was that spirit was altogether good and matter altogether evil. It begets disregard of God, thinking that it does not need him and that it knows better than he. Verse 4. All who will show their religion in their conversation, who will not only be godly, but live godly, let them expect persecution, especially when they are resolute in it. The world is full of these braggarts to this day; the clever know-all's who deceive people into thinking that they are wise, the politicians who claim that their parties have a program which will bring in the Utopia and that they alone are born to be leaders of men, the people who crowd the advertisement columns with claims to give beauty, knowledge or health by their system, the people in the Church who have a kind of ostentatious goodness. At the same time there is not the smallest slight of the only and abiding standard. In these terrible days men will be slanderers. The most amazing things may happen if he does, for there is a saving wisdom here that is in no other book. The task of the apostle is not only to tell men the truth; it is also to help them do it. 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. Such offence can and does happen yet. 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. He said, "A wicked and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign; but no sign will be given it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" ( Matthew 12:38-40 ). "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 ). They choose to lay, again and again, the early foundations of their Christian faith i.e. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. . Every man going his own way. 2 Timothy 3:12 - Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch It is the sign of a supremely decadent civilization when youth loses all respect for age and fails to recognize the unpayable debt and the basic duty it owes to those who gave it life. I refer to this just to remark that such links as these, which are connected with nature, all come before the apostle's mind, at the very moment when a spurious feeling would have judged it precisely the time to banish and forget them. And so Paul is warning Timothy of certain things that will be transpiring in the last days. A. M. Chirgwin in The Bible in World Evangelism tells the story of a ward sister in a children's hospital in England. So he's referring to the Old Testament Scriptures, those which Timothy knew from the child and he called them the "holy scriptures," which they are, "and they are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus." thoroughly furnished unto all good works ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.". 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 ). Who is talking all these words without knowledge? Activity of service was no longer before him. They'll say, Crucify him, rather than applaud. THE QUALITIES OF GODLESSNESS ( 2 Timothy 3:2-5 ). 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." In the last days there would come times which would menace the very existence of the Christian Church and of goodness itself, a kind of last tremendous assault of evil before its final defeat. Timothy, again, winced under trials, too sensitive to slights, disappointments, and the manifold griefs that came upon him. He flung the New Testament on it. As Timothy was about to enter upon a new phase of his ministry, without the apostle's presence or living counsel, the latter charges him with great emphasis, "before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word, be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine." "They that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." They're profitable for doctrine. Some of you are separated not by your own desire or wish, but because someone was a trucebreaker. Verse of the Day , 2 Timothy 3:12 Treasury of Scripture Knowing, God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). What does 2 Timothy 3:13 mean? He who feeds his mind on cheap literature can in the end find nothing in the great masterpieces. (2.) Persecution and hardships will come, but of two things Paul is sure. Have you ever seen an age when people were more conscious of their own selves? They will be inflated with a sense of their own importance. Blasphemia is the word which is transliterated into English as blasphemy. 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). It denotes a savagery which has neither sensitiveness nor sympathy. 2 Timothy 3:12, NASB: Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. (12) Yea, and all that will live godly.--But St. Paul would not allow it to be thought for a moment that in the fact of his enduring persecution and suffering there was anything remarkable or singular; so he adds the words of this verse, which repeat in a peculiarly solemn way the great Christian truth that eternal glory was only to be reached by man through an avenue of sufferings. We must remember that the scripture of which Paul is writing is the Old Testament; as yet the New Testament had not come into being. So the Greek word that is used here to describe these that are going around, leading captive the silly women, is the same Greek word that was used to describe quackery, and that's probably they're quacks, Paul is saying. Negative and positive illustrations 3:8-13. Observe, (1.) We find a precisely similar kind of combination in Paul. And the reason why he makes it so urgent not to be turned aside was, that the time would come when men would not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts they should heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they should turn away their ears from the truth, and should be. She had never tried the Bible, for a friend had convinced her by subtle arguments that it could not be true. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, 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 whole idea is that of thoroughly fitting you as an instrument that God can use. 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. 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. For, if we do not believe their truth and goodness, they will do us no good. The braggart is a swaggering creature, who tries to bluster his way into power and eminence. But when dying upon the cross, He calls to John to behold His mother. "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.". The age of children is the learning age; and those who would get true learning must get it out of the scriptures. (2 Timothy 1:1.) Then are we Christ's disciples indeed, John 8:31. 2 Timothy 3:12 Context. Sponde is the word for a truce or an agreement. 4. 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. He had not said a word about them before. I reply, it is not always in one way that Satan persecutes the servants of Christ. 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. Two men were talking of a great satirist who had been filled with moral earnestness. The Christian, the minister, is the man of God. We have the practice and treatment of true Christians: they live godly in Jesus Christ--this is their practice; and they shall suffer persecution--this is the usage they must expect in this world. Introduction; 2 Timothy 1 Commentary; It is still possible for a teacher to gain an undue and unhealthy influence over others, especially when they are impressionable. Promotions are withheld, invitations are denied, and a snickering unpopularity are the daily portion of many precious souls working in a hostile, atheistic environment. And those who wish to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted; while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceived themselves and deceiving others. Indeed it may be well to remark here, that we never read of Timothy appointing bishops or elders. It would not be accordant with the mind of God. 2 Timothy 3:12 New International Version 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, Read full chapter 2 Timothy 3:12 in all English translations 2 Timothy 2 2 Timothy 4 New International Version (NIV) Easy it seems to get sort of distracted and off course. It is interesting that the Scriptures in many places speak of the last days and in every case where the Scriptures speak of the last days, you find that it is an apt description of the day and the age in which we live. and then shall we find the benefit and advantage designed thereby, and shall at last attain the happiness therein promised and assured to us. 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. shall suffer persecutionand will not decline it (Ga 5:11). But they do enshrine the permanent truth that some time there must come the consummation when evil meets God in head-on collision and there comes the final triumph of God. From , before, and , to deliver up.Those who deliver up to an enemy the person who has put his life in their hands; such as the Scots of 1648, who delivered up into the hands of his enemies their unfortunate countryman and king, Charles the First; a stain which no lapse of ages can wipe out.
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