SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/9/2025 7:47 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 Intro to “The Danger of False
Teaching”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy 2:14-19
Message of the verses: “14 Remind them
of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to
wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the
hearers. 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who
does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 16 But
avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further
ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are
Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 men who have gone astray from the truth saying that
the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some. 19
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The
Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of
the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.’”
I
will continue quoting from John MacArthur’s introduction, and I remind all who
read this to continue to be in prayer for John MacArthur who is having heart
issues and has spent much time in the hospital.
“He
continued to inform the young pastor that ‘the Spirit explicitly says that in
later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful
spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in
their own conscience as with a branding iron….In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good
servant of Christ Jesus, constantly
nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have
been following (4:1-2, 6; cf. 6:3-4, 20-21).
“Already
in the second letter, Paul has admonished Timothy, ‘Retain the standard of should
words which you have heard from me, in
the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in
us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you’ (2 Tim. 1:13-14). In a later passage he cautions:
1 But realize this, that in the last days
difficult times will come. 2 For men
will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable,
malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have
denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into
households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various
impulses, 7 always learning and never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
This ends the introduction by John MacArthur for our
verses that we will continue to look at beginning tomorrow, Lord willing with
2Timothy 2:14a).
2/9/2025 8:00 AM
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