"Intro to 2 Timothy 3:1-9"

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/28/2025 10:12 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                         Focus:  Intro to 2 Timothy 3:1-9

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Timothy 3:1-9

 

            Message of the verses:  “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. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.”

 

            The following is the quotation from John MacArthur’s commentary on these first nine verses of 2 Timothy chapter three and he entitles this 7^th chapter in his book “Danger in the Church.”

 

            “The full counsel of God has been displeasing, unacceptable, and even repugnant to self-centered, self-serving, and worldly mankind through the ages.  But even in the professing church today there is greater confusion, apostasy, moral decay, and tolerance for things that are clearly unscriptural than ever before. Sermons on current issues, selectively using Bible passages that are ‘relevant’ and ‘positive,’ are attracting many hearers, including genuine but misled and worldly believers.  ‘The time will come,’ Paul writs later in this epistle, ‘when [many in the church] will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; (2 Tim. 4:3).’”

 

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