Sunday, May 11, 2025

PT-1 "Ministry Duties" (2 Tim. 3:10a)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/11/2025 7:49 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                          Focus:  PT-1 “Ministry Duties”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Timothy 3:10a

 

            Message of the verse:  “my teaching, conduct purpose.”

 

            As mentioned on many Sunday mornings my Spiritual Diaries are shorter due to the fact of getting ready to go to our Sunday school class where I have been the teacher since 2016, with time off for covid when people did not go to church but watched the service on TV with an empty audience. 

 

            Didaskalia (teaching) is a general term referring to instruction, or “doctrine,” as it is sometimes rendered. MacArthur writes that “The reference here is to the specific, divinely inspired, apostolic teaching that Timothy had heard expounded so often and so carefully by Paul (my), his beloved mentor.  A few verses later he reminds Timothy that ‘all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching [Didaskalia], for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness’ (v. 16).  This teaching included all ‘the things which [Timothy had] heard from [Paul] in the presence of many witnesses,’ truths he, in turn, was to ‘entrust to faithful men, who [would] be able to teach others also’ (2:2).”

 

            Now it was because Paul was ‘an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God’ (1:1), that Paul’s teaching was apostolic teaching and so therefore divine teaching.  We know that what was written in the Word from the very beginning when Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible all the way until the apostle John penned the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible that it was all inspired by the Holy Spirit of God and as verse sixteen above states  all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching [Didaskalia], for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.’  The term means that it was “God breathed.”  We can be assure that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and therefore can trust it, and this should cause us to read and study from it each and every day of our lives.

 

            MacArthur writes “The time would soon come when Timothy’s hearers would ‘not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they [would] accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires’ (4:3). For that reason Paul had just commanded, ‘I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction’ (vv. 1-2).”

 

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