Thursday, January 9, 2025

PT-6 "The Teacher" (2 Tim. 2:2)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/9/2025 9:22 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                                Focus:  PT-6 “The Teacher”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                     Reference:  2 Timothy 2:2

 

            Message of the verse:  The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

 

            We have been talking about the role of a teacher for some time now and I suppose that we will be for at least a couple of more days as the role of a teacher, one who teaches the Word of God is a very important role and in this letter to 2nd Timothy Paul is challenging Timothy to get back to doing the things that God has called him to do including teaching. 

 

            Like Timothy, every preacher and teacher is to guard the purity and the integrity of God’s Word.  In the spirit of this first sentence I saw a post on FB this morning from a well know Pastor in our area who said something like when people who read the Bible and throw out the things that they don’t like in the Bible they are making the Bible say what they want it to say.  Like Timothy we too are to guard the purity and the integrity of God’s Word and do nothing to change it to fit what we want it to say.  That would be very foolish indeed.  I have to say that when I began writing my blogs a long time ago that I named both blogs 2 Timothy 2:15 and the reason was that I did not want to say anything that was untrue when it came to the Word of God and that is why I have to study it to read it, to think about it, to listen to it in order to know it and thus not put anything that is not true about the Word of God on the blogs that I write.  One may wonder why I have two blogs name 2 Timothy 2:15, and the reason is that when I started my blog that I accidently began two blogs and so since I had wrote many Spiritual Diaries before I began my blogs that I decided to put the older Spiritual Diaries onto the second blog, so perhaps this was exactly what the Lord wanted me to do all along.

 

            Now back to 2 Timothy and MacArthur writes that “Some of those also are called to accurately and fully teach other godly leaders in the church.  As already mentioned, if the church is weak, it is because its leaders are weak.  Conversely, if the church is to be strong, its leaders must be strong.  And leaders can become strong only if they are carefully built up in the Word of God.  We all received the truth from faithful men before us, and we are to preserve it so that it is passed on accurately and fully to the next generation (cf. 1 Tim. 6:20; 2 Tim. 2:14).”

 

            MacArthur goes on to write about something that I know is near and dear to his heart and that is Bible schools.  I will quote one more paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary in a moment but first I want to talk about how the colleges in our nation have turned from teaching the Bible to teaching against the Bible.  In the early years of our country what we call the ivy league schools, like Harvard and Pristine were begun to teach the Word of God, but it seems that Satan was allowed to get into the teaching of these schools and they gradually began to turn away from the Word of God.  I remember listening to a sermon by John MacArthur a few weeks ago as he was talking about a famous seminary in our country that he refused to name and how it too was beginning to turn away from the accurate teaching of the Word of God.  I can say that the church that I attend began before the civil war in our country and although it has been at different locations it has stood firm on the Word of God and what the Word of God teaches.  I am thankful for that for the last church that I attended for 32 years called a Pastor that certainly was not the kind of Pastor I wanted to sit under and so my wife and I left and came to the church we are now attending.

 

            MacArthur writes “It is for that primary purpose that Bible schools, Christian colleges, and seminaries are founded and that books and commentaries are written—to prepare dedicated Christian men and women for effective service to the church and in the world.  And within that broader purpose is the narrower one of giving special attention to raising up new generations of mature spiritual leaders who are uniquely trained and assigned to carefully guard and faithfully articulate God’s truth.”

 

Spiritual meaning for my life today:  To make sure that I always when I am studying the Word of God to “Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Trust the Lord to guide me to do the things that He has called me to do, and do them faithfully.

 

1/9/2025 9:52 AM  

 

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