Sunday, November 24, 2024

PT-1 "Affirmation" (2 Timothy 1:5)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/24/2024 7:48 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                                 Focus:  PT-1 “Affirmation”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                     Reference:  2 Timothy 1:5

 

            Message of the verse:  “For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.”

 

            We have been looking at different principles of motivation that Paul alludes to as he begins his letter to Timothy, and the final one is that of affirmation, which comes from verse five as seen above.  Now in the two previous verses Paul mentions his remembering Timothy in prayer and recalling his tears.  Again he reflects on their intimate association, and this time being mindful of the sincere faith within Timothy.

 

            Now I will break this section down by writing two short Spiritual Diaries and the reason is because it is Sunday morning and I have to leave to go and teach our Sunday school class this morning, and so I usually make the Spiritual Diaries that I write much shorter.  I will conclude this portion of our subject entitled “Affirmation” by quoting a paragraph from John MacArthur’s commentary.

 

            Anupokritos (sincere) is a compound word, composed of a negative prefix attached to hupokrites, from which we get the obviously related English word hypocrite.  Timothy’s faith was completely genuine, unhypocritical, without pretense or deceit.  In his previous letter to Timothy, Paul had written, ‘The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere [Anupokritos] faith’ (1 Timothy 1:5).  In his second letter to the church at Corinth, Paul used the term to describe his ‘genuine love’ (2 Cor. 6:6, emphasis added).  Peter used it in his admonition to all believers scattered through the Roman Empire:  ‘Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart’ (1 Peter 1:22, emphasis added).  James used it as the final qualification of ‘the wisdom from above [which] is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering without hypocrisy’ (James 3:17, emphasis added),’”

 

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