SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/9/2025 9:27 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Urgency of His Commission”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
4:3-4
Message of the verses: “3 For the time
will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have
their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance
to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will
turn aside to myths.
This morning I will try and just look at these
verses as yesterday it seemed to me that the Lord desired me to write other
things that went along with these verses, but were not a real study of them.
Now
after calling Timothy to excellence in preaching and also teaching, Paul now
informs him about the opposition he eventually will face, and the reason is
because of that preaching and teaching.
Yes we live in a world where Satan and his demons do everything they can
to cause trouble for those who are teaching the truth. Now for the second time in this letter (see
3:1-5; cf. 1 Tim. 4:1-3), Paul the apostle prophesies about the end times, as
he writes “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” I mentioned in yesterday’s SD that it is my
belief that we are in the Laodicean part of the church age and then wrote about
what Jesus said about this church, which to me is happening around the world at
this time and a part of that age is what Paul wrote to Timothy about as seen in
this paragraph highlighted in dark letters.
MacArthur
writes “Because there is no antecedent for they this pronoun possibly could
refer to the unbelieving world, which, of course, is opposed by nature to God’s
truth (cf. 1 Cor. 2:14; 2 Cor. 4:4). But
Paul’s reference to the time will come implies a change of mind, from one
enduring to not enduring, in which case they refers to unbelievers who become
nominal believers in the church, whose profession of faith was only
superficial. They are men and women whose
hearts are rocky and in Jesus’ parable, the seed immediately springs up in their
lives, but because there is no depth of belief there is no spiritual root. Therefore when they are tested by the heat of
the ungodly world, their superficial profession is ‘scorched’ and quickly
withers (Matt. 13:5-6). That describes
the urgency of Timothy’s commission:
Many nominal believers (they) in the church at Ephesus eventually would
come to reject his faithful preaching of the Word, a pattern repeated through
the centuries.
“Kairos does not refer to chronological
but epochal time, a period or era of time.
It is the same word Paul uses in the previous chapter in regard to ‘dangerous
times’ that would come ‘in the last days,’ and doubtless refers to the same
period of time as here.
“Jesus
gave a similar warning early in His ministry:
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of
wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves. But beware of men; for they will deliver you
up to the courts, and scourge you in their synagogues; and you shall even be
brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to
the Gentiles. And brother will deliver
up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against
parents, and cause them to be put to death….And you will be hated by all on
account of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be
saved. (Matt. 10:16-18, 21-22).
Spiritual
Meaning for My life Today: Continue to read, study, and listen to the
Word of God so that I do not have the kind of trouble that we are talking about
in this SD.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I desire to continue to pray for those people
affected by the flash flood that happened in Texas last week, especially for
those parents who have lost their children in this flash flood.
7/9/2025 10:00 AM
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