2 timothy 3:12 explained11 Apr 2 timothy 3:12 explained
(1) that they who make a profession of religion, should come prepared to be persecuted. (187) And he says this, partly that believers may prepare themselves for submitting to this condition, and partly that good men may not view him with suspicion on account of the persecutions which he endures from wicked persons; as it frequently happens that the distresses to which men are subjected lead to unfavorable opinions concerning them; for he whom men regard with aversion is immediately declared by the common people to be hated by God. A. M. Chirgwin has story after story of how the Scriptures came by chance into the hands of men and changed their lives. They just are irritated by your love and by your patience and by your goodness because they feel guilty. It means to follow a person mentally, to attend diligently to his teaching and fully to understand the meaning of what he says. Persecution and hardships will come, but of two things Paul is sure. 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. In 2 Timothy 3:9 he meant that the teaching of evil does not necessarily become more extensive and capture a wider audience as evil becomes worse. And passion shall seize him that is peaceful. Every man doing his own thing or every man believing as he wants. 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. "Every scripture" for this is the proper force of the passage "Every scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.". 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. "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.". 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. 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. It is able to make us wise to salvation; that is, it is a sure guide in our way to eternal life. The reason is manifest: they themselves savour of the things of men, and not of God. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. "Much the greatest rogue of all is the man who has gulled his city into the belief that he is fit to direct it.". It is often a very great safeguard for the saint of God; for, after all, it makes no small difference who says this or that. The Greek is hupomone ( G5281) , which means not a passive sitting down and bearing things but a triumphant facing of them so that even out of evil there can come good. "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." 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. by George Whitefield. It was the glory of the Jews that their children from their earliest days were trained in the law. There is no godliness (Greek, "piously") or piety out of Christ. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; In Brazil Signor Antonio of Minas bought a New Testament which he took home to burn. 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. That is, without any sexual restraints. These twin qualities of the braggart and the arrogant man inevitably result in love of insult (blasphemia, G988) . 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. Accordingly the apostle reminds Timothy of this. 6. "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 ). Others must do that kind of work in future. It is in terms of these last days that Paul is thinking in this passage. The Jehovah Witnesses seeking to develop their doctrine concerning hell and that it is a place of oblivion, no consciousness, no awareness. For after all, I'm worth it. (2Baruch 27). Braggart has an interesting derivation. Timothy had a great advantage in being trained up under such a tutor, and being apprised of the doctrine he preached. But they will not get much further, for their folly will be as clear to all as that of those ancient impostors. (ii) The Scriptures are of use in teaching. "The foundation of God standeth sure [or, the firm foundation of God standeth], having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. 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. Observe, Timothy must continue in the things which he had learned and had been assured of. The man who is huperephanos ( G5244) , said Theophrastus, has a kind of contempt for everyone except himself. They will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. It begets disregard of God, thinking that it does not need him and that it knows better than he. Here we have him recurring to that which was entirely outside nature, and before its very platform existed. What use it will be of to us. In the midst of all, he is told to bring the cloak that he left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, but especially the parchments. He says: "Open thy mouth, speak whatsoever occurs to thee, and thou shalt prophesy." 4. He glanced at it as he consigned it to the flames. Product Information. "Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry." The Greek verb kratein ( G2902) means to control. Avoid such people. 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. Or are you going to develop a doctrine that is diametrically opposed to what Jesus said? 2. Man can do it but not God. He went home and found the fire was out. For example, "37-1-2459" means the reference is on page 37, is in column 1, and is word number 2459.). Or it can mean that a man is so dishonourable that he breaks the terms of the agreement he has made. There will always be those who have their own twisted ideas of the Christian faith, and who wish to win others to their mistaken beliefs. 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. 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. Note, Those are wise indeed who are wise to salvation. If your God is big enough to create the heavens and the earth, no problem, but you see, we stumble on the very first verse. The doctrine that he preached. ", The Lord said it's "what comes out of the mouth of a man, that defiles a man" ( Matthew 15:11 ). 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." This might deter a sensitive saint from his duty. The final condemnation of these people is that they retain the outward form of religion but deny its power. His mind was caught; he took it back. (2.) I think we've gone just about as far as we can. One only meets Satan when traveling in an opposite direction! You're in an alien world. Each of the chapters are done individually. You know, I mean, talk about lovers of selves, look at the advertising. [3.] "The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; but, when. [ See verse text ] Persecution against godly people is to be expected in this world; it's one of the few constants in life (2 Timothy 3:12). ", and [as such they are] profitable ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ). By it we are thoroughly furnished for every good work. 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. And so Paul is warning Timothy of certain things that will be transpiring in the last days. Here we come back to where we started; such men place their own wishes in the centre of life. If there is no human affection, the family cannot exist. "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 begets a contempt of men which can issue in hurting actions and in wounding words. Their minds become corrupted and they ultimately become reprobate concerning the faith. From childhood he has been guided by the Scriptures, and his faith in those Scriptures gives him assurance in his salvation (14-15). 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). (v) Paul makes a final point. Here is the essential conclusion. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. We should not be any more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive,Ephesians 4:14. "I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears." So don't expect the world to speak well of you or to applaud you for your living a godly life and taking a righteous stand. Paul cites three instances when he had to suffer for Christ. Job, tell me, have you been beyond the gates of death, do you know what it's about? Having a form of godliness ( 2 Timothy 3:5 ). Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Second Timothy 3:12-13 "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being. If we would know the holy scriptures, we must read and search them daily, as the noble Bereans did, Acts 17:11. The promise of the Messiah, the details of the Messiah, they are all there. Timothy's job, for the sake of the future, involves more preservation than innovation. But, says the apostle, "be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." 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. 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. The coming of the Lord will in no way manifest the faithfulness of the servant; His appearing will. fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, [and then] lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God ( 2 Timothy 3:3-4 ); The pleasuremania of the United States. 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." i. "Evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." 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. I believe that God intended you to have pleasure, but when it comes before God, it means that it has become your God and it makes a very poor God to worship or serve. Again he said, "Lo, I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God" ( Hebrews 10:7 ). The Kingdom had its price. He tells him further to "hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. But let him not infer, "therefore," that he is to be enrolled among the martyrs, and that he is certainly a real Christian. thoroughly furnished unto all good works ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). 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 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. 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. Wow, watch out now because Jesus bought it. Again and again Scripture has opened for men and women the way to God. It is used in Plutarch to describe what we would call an ugly wound. It is interesting, when Jesus in the Sermon on the mount described the Christian in the Beatitudes, after having described the traits of the Christian in the Beatitudes; you'd say, My, a man like that who is a peacemaker, who is merciful, who is hungering and thirsting after righteousness, who is meek, who is poor in spirit, surely you know the world would respect such a man. Story of Jonah has provoked a lot of problems for people, only because of their concept of God. 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. The disorder might be so great that we might make mistakes in our anxiety; but "The Lord knoweth them that are his." It will be getting better a little further down the road, but evil days are going to wax worse and worse, until the Lord takes His church out and then God judges the world for its unrighteousness and ungodliness. Barnes' Notes. That the scripture has various uses, and answers divers ends and purposes: It is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction of all errors in judgment and practice, and for instruction in righteousness. That the scripture was given by inspiration of God appears from the majesty of its style,--from the truth, purity, and sublimity, of the doctrines contained in it,--from the harmony of its several parts,--from its power and efficacy on the minds of multitudes that converse with it,--from the accomplishment of many prophecies relating to things beyond all human foresight,--and from the uncontrollable miracles that were wrought in proof of its divine original: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will,Hebrews 2:4. Now these seem to many very difficult indeed to combine. 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. What Paul is thinking of here is more than faithlessness in friendship--although that in all truth is wounding enough--he is thinking of those who to pay back an old score would inform against the Christians to the Roman government. For all scripture is given by inspiration of God ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ), Not as some would lead you to believe, some scriptures are given by inspiration of God. Verse 4. God said it.They are profitable. The wickedness of evil people, particularly charlatans, will increase as time passes. One of my most unfavorite promises in the Bible. When we are tempted to do so, we should hear again the voice of our blessed Lord saying on the Cross: "Father, forgive them.". 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. And he was probably in the company of those that were standing around, sort of crying, as they saw Paul's limp body on the ground. If Timothy would adhere to the truth as he had been taught it, this would arm him against the snares and insinuations of seducers. And for this reason we should continue in the things we have learned from the holy scriptures; not that we ought to continue in any errors and mistakes which we may have been led into, in the time of our childhood and youth (for these, upon an impartial enquiry and full conviction, we should forsake); but this makes nothing against our continuing in those things which the holy scriptures plainly assert, and which he that runs may read. 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. So the same Greek is used of the same thing, Lu 14:28, 33, "intending (Greek, 'wishing') to build a tower counteth the cost.". For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. And they use the book of Job as their proof text. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. First and foremost he has an aim in life. 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. He directs him to keep close to a good education, and particularly to what he had learned out of the holy scriptures (2 Timothy 3:14; 2 Timothy 3:15): Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned. ii. Noah, the earth was really flooded? The same tone of mercy is equally promised in this #epistle as in the last. But God prepares the instruments through which He works and the most important preparation is through the Word of God. Questions are before him more serious than a maintenance of order. In other words, it's not going to get better for awhile. It is not "the commandment," as of authority, but "according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus." 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. We have already seen how secluded the life of the respectable Greek woman was, how she was brought up under the strictest supervision, how she was not allowed "to see anything, to hear anything, or to ask any questions," how she never appeared, even on a shopping expedition, alone on the streets, how she was never allowed even to appear at a public meeting. 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. Let us look at them one by one. And they shall be dispersed among the Gentiles. 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." Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.' Nor do I at all see that any Christians should be above learning, if others can teach. We usually try to avoid it on Friday evening if we can, but sometimes our schedules are such that we just don't have time to. Look at, of course, all of these other things that have come along as the result of it. Now here observe. The real meaning of this is that all theories, all theologies, all ethics, are to be tested against the Bible. 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 . 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. The word is anemeros ( G434) and would be more fittingly applied to a wild beast than to a human being. 2 Timothy 3:12. It is of use to all, for we all need to be instructed, corrected, and reproved: it is of special use to ministers, who are to give instruction, correction, and reproof; and whence can they fetch it better than from the scripture? 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. And, let every one that nameth the name" not of "Christ," but "of the Lord depart from iniquity." What is the excellency of the scripture. 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. There are those who shrink from helping on others in order to the work and doctrine of the Lord. In other words, there is within the Old Testament so much concerning Jesus Christ that through the understanding and the study of the Old Testament you should logically be led to Jesus Christ. Thus he comforts Timothy at the same time that he admonishes him. Difficult is the Greek word chalepos ( G5467) . 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." 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 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. That is the inevitable way to ruin, for no man can master anything unless he first masters himself. So you have to be careful when you start chipping it away at one side because the whole thing will come down on you. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace,Hebrews 13:9. They had been long accustomed to the truth, and alas! Vincent, Marvin R., D.D. And that is precisely what Christianity demands that a man should do. They claimed that their children learned the law even from their swaddling clothes and drank it in with their mother's milk. shall suffer persecution; it is the will of God, and the appointment of heaven; Christ has foretold it, that so it shall be; and he the head has suffered it himself, and it is necessary that his members should, that they may be conformed unto him; it is the way Christ himself went to glory, and through many tribulations his people must enter the kingdom; and this is the common lot and certain case of all the saints, in one shape or another; for though all do not suffer confiscation of goods, beating, scourging, imprisonment, or a violent death; yet all are more or less afflicted and distressed by wicked men, and are subject to their reproaches and revilings, which are a branch of persecution; and that for professing Christ, and living a godly life in him and under his influence: and since such suffer as Christians, and not as evildoers; and this is the common condition of the people of God, in this world, it should not be thought strange, but be cheerfully endured; to encourage to which is the apostle's view in this passage.
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