SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/28/2025 8:58 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1
“Captors of the Weak”
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: 2 Timothy 3:6-7
Message of the verses: “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.”
I begin this morning talking about the third
identifying mark of false teachers which is their capturing of the weak. Now this particular characteristic does not
apply to all of the false teachers however it is found among them. The word in the Greek for enter is enduno,
and this carries the idea of stealth and so therefore of creeping in undetected. I was watching an older story on TV where a
family had just lost a son and there was a lot of guilt afterwards because of
that loss. There was a character in the
story who would seduce women who were venerable from things that went on in
their life, as he prayed on their guilt to seduce them. He would tell the story of how his first wife
died to get sympathy from his victims, but in the end it was found out that
this man was never married. Women would
feel very guilty after falling for this man.
I think the story illustrates what Paul is writing to Timothy in this
section. However in this section Paul is
telling Timothy that these certain men would come into churches and seduce the congregation
into believing false doctrine. Jude
wrote of “certain persons [who had] crept in unnoticed, those who were long
beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace
of God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ”
(Jude 4).
John MacArthur writes “A favorite target of these
particular false teachers is weak women [who are] weighed down with sins, [and
are] led on by various impulses.”
Because they are deep into sins and ungodly impulses that have weighed
[them] down emotionally and spiritually, the weak women Paul describes here are
especially vulnerable to being religiously seduced by false teachers. They are weak in truth and weak in virtue,
and they feel the heavy weight of their sin and the guilt it brings. And just as wrong doctrine leads to wrong
living, so can their wrong living easily lead to embracing wrong doctrine. Just as Eve was the first target, as the
weaker sex (1 Peter 3:7), so Satan continues to garget women as his initial
captives. Cults not only are often
spawned by women, but women are the most numerous and devout adherents.”
I
will stop here and try and finish this section in tomorrow’s SD.
Spiritual
Meaning for My Life Today: The best way that bank tellers find
counterfeit money is by knowing and studying everything about a real bill. The same goes for not falling into false
religious practices and that is studying and knowing the Truth of the Word of
God.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to 2Ti 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who
does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.”
4/28/2025 9:24 AM
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