The following Scriptural Rerun, although not a part of our current Apostolic Faith SERIES, will provide additional context for our look at the Gospel of John written about five years before the Elder's Epistles.
READ any post linked below from our 2020 SERIES from the Gospel of John
Scriptural exposition in the context of A.D. 85-90,
19 March AD2020 Churches ordered closed..while during recent months:
some sought to stream the stage of worship
some sent seeker-friendly scripture into our homes
some church communities disintegrated while others diminished & distanced (like our 2020 remote office meetings complete with slides).
To review the Gospel of John, simply click on any link in the outline below& it will open in a new window.
Roger – author of A.D. 2020 series on the Gospel ‘Good NEWS’ of John
I hope you were blessed by the secure links to reliable sites for further study of Scripture, as well as insight into the 1st century church of John’s Gospel (written ~A.D.- 90).
IN THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
ALL THINGS came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of
MANKIND.
And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Book of the Prologue
John’s Prologue [1:1-18], from which the Apostle next proceeds to the testimony of John the Baptist and the Messiah’s calling of the Twelve, states many important theological themes & along with his Epilogue [21:1-25 {linked below}] provides additional depth of purpose of John’s Gospel.
‘My Father’s House – John 2“You must be born again.I am the Messiah – John 4Before Abraham was, I AM John 11“..and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.also love one another-John 13Jesus prays – John 17Jesus answered him – John 19:11 Jesus said:
Gospel of John
“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! – John 1:29b
As Jesus passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from birth. – John 9:1
Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be?” – John 8:53
“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. – John 10:26-28
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise from the dead.”
.. “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.
Hear all the unrelenting bad news of yesterday or today or any future year in the Common Era of these last days.
For followers of Jesus, His death diminished life’s hope in eternal life;
that is, until the GOOD NEWS of the Lord’s resurrection reached the eyes and ears and touch of His dearly beloved friends.
John and the Disciples witnessed the Lord Jesus in His Risen Flesh several times after His resurrection, as had hundreds of other disciples also seen their risen Christ!
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
John 20:20
Their sorrow had turned into joy and so must ours; for in Christ Jesus his disciples of every generation have eternal life through His sacrifice for our sins. This is our Gospel, John’s Good News to those who would believe.
John’s Epilogue
John 20:30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 20:21 CSB
Go in Peace and Believe
I pray that the Lord has blessed you through the Gospel of John in A.D. 2020 and now I might add, the Good NEWS of John by God’s grace continuing these last days in 2023 of the Common Era ..
May our Lord Jesus Christ
draw you into His grace,
giving you new hope of Eternal Life in the remaining years of our Common Era of 2023 and beyond if it is God's will,in the Name of the Father and the Son Christ JESUS, Who IS and Was and will judge all things when the Lord returns, and the Holy Spirit who sustains saved sinners in these last days.
AMEN.
But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Second Letter of Paul to Timothy 3:14-15 NKJV
The Apostle Paul will now show his successors, including at the time of his impending execution Timothy in Ephesus, how they must refute false teaching by focusing on Scripture.
Today's look at 2 Timothy within our SERIES of Apostolic Faith is primarily TOPICAL with focus on SCRIPTURE and its related terms. - RH
Scripture is…
Many of us tend toward an easy answer of quoting scripture as a single and particular verse within a chapter, within a book, within a category of books, i.e. the Torah. Yet this epistle of Paul and books of the Prophets often point to additional books for origin, application and/or context.
the Scripturesare books
Paul reminds Timothy: “.. you have known the Holy Scriptures..”, translated from the Greek: τὰ [ho] ἱερὰ [hieros] γράμματα [gramma] οἶδας [you have known].
No doubt you recognize the Greek word for Scripture – gramma, as grammar.
γράμμα grámma, gram’-mah; from G1125; a writing, i.e. a letter, note, epistle, book, etc.; plural; learning:—bill, learning, letter, scripture, writing, written.
Writings
Yet let’s not miss that the Apostle Paul points Timothy to the ‘scriptures‘ [plural] and more importantly with specific reference that those writings that are “holy.”
Biblia
The earliest Christian use of ta biblia (the books) in this sense is said to be 2 Clement 2:14 (c. a.d. 150): “The books and the apostles declare that the church . . . has existed from the beginning.” (Compare Dan. 9:2, “I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures,” where the reference is to the corpus of Old Testament prophetic writings.) Greek biblion (of which biblia is the plural) is a diminutive of biblos, which in practice denotes any kind of written document, but originally one written on papyrus.
A term synonymous with“the Bible” is“the writings” or “the Scriptures” (Greek hai graphai, ta grammata), frequently used in the New Testament to denote the Old Testament documents in whole or in part. For example, Matthew 21:42 says, “Have you never read in the Scriptures?” (en tais graphais). The parallel passage, Mark 12:10, has the singular, referring to the particular text quoted,“Haven’t you read this Scripture?” (ten graphen tauten).
“Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua..
Exodus 17:14a – Masoretic Text, Revised Standard Version
Strong’s H3789 – kāṯaḇ (for write) is the same Hebrew word used in the giving of the Commandments.
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written H3789 with the finger of God.
Exodus 31:18 KJV
“Write this as a memorial in a book,” the LORD instructs Moses to give to his successor Joshua.
New testament
Some pastors and teachers wander from the Truth of Scripture by dismissing Old Testament Law and especially the Prophets from the hearing and remembrance of their church.
“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
.. there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
“But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
New Testament Gospel of John 5:43, 45b-47 NKJV
The Lord Jesus Christ, however, connects His own testimony to that of the Hebrew Bible:
“.. he (Moses) wrote [γράφω – graphō] about Me, ” states the Lord Jesus. And the Christ or Messiah of Israel adds:
“But if you do not believe his (Moses’) writings [γράμμα – gramma], how will you believe My words [ῥῆμα – rhēma]?”
This, in addition to being a frequent warning of Christ, became an Apostolic word of warning written in several epistles to A.D. first century pastors.
a word from The Apostle Peter
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words [rhēma] of eternal life
Gospel of John 6:68 – Jesus’ Apostles remain faithful as the Lord’s crucifixion approaches
And this is the wordG4487 which was proclaimed to you as good news.
1 Peter 1:25
I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles..
Paul in his second pastoral epistle to Timothy also provides a remembrance of Scripture for generations to follow.
Second Timothy 3:15 (RSV)
speaks of “the sacred writings”
(ta hiera grammata), and the next verse says,
“All Scripture is God-breathed”
(pasa graphe theopneustos).
In 2 Peter 3:16 “all” the letters of Paul are included along with “the other Scriptures” (tas loipas graphas),
by which the Old Testament writings and probably also the Gospels are meant.
ibid.
It is written…
Is the phrase familiar?
as it is written in the book of the law of Moses – Joshua 8:31
Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. – 2 Kings 23:21
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [sēp̄er] it is written [kāṯaḇ] of me.. – Psalm 40:7
Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
“It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’[Jesus, quoting Isaiah 54:13]
Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
Gospel of John 6:43-45 NKJV
Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written H3789 of me.
“Every scripture inspired of God,” the ASV translates.
“Every scripture is inspired by God,” reads the New English Translation.
“Every scripture is divinely inspired,” in the Darby translation.
“every Writing is God-breathed,” states Young’s Literal Translation.
Pivotal Proof, IF you believe
How do false teachers oppose God and Christ?
First, in order to turn faithful saints of the church against God false teachers must attack Scripture. They do this with the subtlety of Satan with a simple turn of a word. For when all is said and done, false teachers insist that God is wrong and that they know why.
In a section headed, SCRIPTURE PROVIDES INSTRUCTION FOR SANCTIFICATION (which of course false teachers want no part of), John MacArthur writes:
Some scholars suggest that All Scripture is inspired should be translated,
“All Scripture inspired by God is..,”
which would leave open the possibility that someScripture is not inspired by Him. But that rendering would make the Bible worthless as a reliable guide to divine truth, because we would then have no way to determine which part of it is inspired by God and which is not.
Men would be left to their own finite and sinful devices and understanding ot discover what part of the Bible may be true and which may not, what part is God’s Word and what part is human conjecture.
THE MACARTHUR NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY – 2 TIMOTHY, P.142
MacArthur definitively adds:
Many men who wrote Scripture, such as Moses and Paul, were highly trained in human knowledge and wisdom, but that learning was not the source of divine truth they recorded. David was a highly gifted poet, .. but it was not the source of the divine truths in those psalms.
ibid. p.143
Does 2 Tim 3:16 prove the inspiration of all Scriptureor just some?
excerpt from: A POPULAR HANDBOOK ON BIBLE DIFFICULTIES
PROBLEM:
Some think that the word “all” should be replaced by “every.” Plus, one believe that.. “is” should be placed after.. not before.
SOLUTION:
[edited excerpt] .. those that translate this verse with “is” after “God” make it sound like there are some scriptures not inspired of God. “all” should be translated, “every” if the definite article is missing. However, whenever the word “Scripture” (graphē) is used in the NT, it always refers to authoritative and inspired writings— never the opposite…
Paul’s context here refers to “the Holy Scriptures” (1:15) Timothy’s Jewish mother and grandmother had taught him (2 Tim 1:5), and this could be none other than the whole Jewish OT.
WHEN CRITICS ASK, Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe, pp 505-506
πᾶσα γραφὴ θεόπνευστος καὶ — ALL SCRIPTURE given by inspiration of God, and…
4 Profitable Imperatives
The Apostle Paul then continues to instruct Timothy and readers of his pastoral epistle in HOW TO APPLY the TRUTH of GOD-BREATHEDSCRIPTURE.
By 'profitable,' Paul means helpful or advantageous
Once again, let’s just list Paul’s MUST DO list from various translations noting also the interralationship of these actions of applying Scripture.
et utilis ad docendum ad arguendum ad corrigendum ad erudiendum in iustitia’
from the Latin Vulgate
WE resist many of these Scriptural imperatives; but the Apostle Paul assures Christ-followers that GOD breathed-out the Commandments WRITTEN in the BIBLE.
Let's simplify Paul's four-point list in 2 Timothy 3:16
DOCTRINE – didaskalia
REPROOF – elegchos
CORRECTION – epanorthōsis
INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS – paideia endikaiosynē
Doctrine, learning, teaching or Instruction
The Scriptures serve as a comprehensive guide for teaching and imparting knowledge about God, His will, and His ways. … The Bible provides moral and spiritual guidance, helping believers understand the nature of God and the principles of His kingdom.
a proof, that by which a thing is proved or tested
conviction
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence G1650 of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
correction, improvement of life or character,
restoration to an upright or right state – a derivative of the base of G3717; to straighten up:—lift (set) up, make straight.
And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up…
And He [Jesus] laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Gospel of Luke 13:11,13 NKJV
ἐπανόρθωσις – a straightening up again, i.e. (figuratively) rectification (reformation):—correction.
Paul assures Timothy that Scripture can rectify that false teaching which has made your spirit and life crooked with sin.
Instruction in righteousness –
the whole training and education of children
(which relates to the cultivation of mind and morals, and employs for this purpose now commands and admonitions, now reproof and punishment)
It also includes the training and care of the body
παιδεία paideía, pahee-di’-ah; from G3811; tutorage, i.e. education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction:—chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath,
Paul’s protégé and young pastor to the saints at Ephesus, will not overlook his apostolic example as the type of righteousness required in the instruction of Scripture.
That the man of God may be perfect
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Timothy 3:17 KJV
One last word here about ALL SCRIPTURE, before the Apostle pushes on to PREACH THE WORD.
ἵνα ἄρτιος ᾖ – that perfect may be
Perfection (used in the King James Version) refers to perfection in Christ.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Gospel of Matthew 5:48 KJV – Jesus teaching the crowds in the Beautitudes
Other translations use ‘complete.’
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.
Revelation of Jesus Christ to John: 3:2 ESV – To the Church in Sardis
Still other translations point the preacher of God to Scripture as essential to be: fit, adequate, capable, or proficient.
ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος – of God the man
The Apostle is addressing the man of God, a technical phrases used only of Timothy in the New Testament. In the Old Testament it is frequently used as a title for one who proclaimed the Word of God. In this context, man of God refers most directly to Timothy and, by extension, to all preachers.
John MacArthur New Testament Commentary – 2 Timothy, p.162
(and in the Greek, followed by ‘thoroughly furnished.’
And Paul’s practical preparation for the man of God gives good reason:
The Apostle prescribes SCRIPTURE as a preacher’s tools, useful for building good works among the saints of their church.
ἐξηρτισμένος – thoroughly furnished
throughly [KJV prior to 16th c. archaic]furnished
unto all good works.
ἐξαρτίζω exartízō, means: to furnish perfectly; to finish, accomplish, (as it were, to render the days complete).
One instance of this concept takes place when John the Baptist objected to Jesus that Christ should be baptizing him.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be sonow:G737 for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 3:15 KJV
Scripture Written – the Word Spoken
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said…
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
Genesis 1:1-3a, Psalm 99:6 KJV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
Gospel of John 1:1-2 KJV
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Gospel of John 1:8, 10:27 KJV – Spoken by JESUS Christ
More than thirty years earlier the Apostle Peter preaching on Pentecost had charged all Israel to accept JESUS as both God and Christ:
“This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses…
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying,
“Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
Acts of the Apostles 2:32,40 ESV – Peter preaching on Pentecost ~AD 30
You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses,
commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
Second Letter of Paul to Timothy 2:1-2 Christian Standard Bible
The Elected Saints (among the Gentiles)
By the grace of God, Paul — that is, Saul of Tarsus — was commissioned by Christ on a road to Damascus to fulfill his election as the Apostle to the Gentiles.
It had been some thirty years ago and Timothy, who had first met Paul in Lystra and followed the Apostle is now a pastor to the church at Ephesus.
Be Strong in the Lord
Paul points to Christ, writing:
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:3 CSB
The Apostle had enlisted Timothy in the service of Christ back in Lystra.
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the commanding officer.
2 Tim 2:4 CSB
In his humility and citing other witnesses Paul has pointed to Christ whom he serves as well. Certainly a soldier of Jesus Christ, risen from death, will be strong in the word given directly to the Apostle who enlisted his service.
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
2 Tim 2:5
If ever there was a zealous follower of the rules it would be Paul, that is, Saul. And the Apostle had even insisted on circumcising Timothy (though not other gentiles) to fulfill the Lord’s purposes among the Jews.
Remember that Timothy’s absent biological father was Greek, but his grandmother had been a faithful Jew and his mother a Christ-follower.
Why does the Apostle use these two illustrations and the work of the farmer which follows?
Paul has written to the saints in Corinth:
To the Jews.. I became as one under the law–though not being myself under the law–that I might win those under the law.
To those outside the law (that is, Gentiles) I became as one outside the law.. but under the law of Christ–that I might win those outside the law. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Corinthians 9 excerpt CSB
The Apostle with whom Timothy also traveled to Corinth also writes words likely recalled now in Ephesus:
I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.
Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize?
So run to win. Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 NET
Paul will return to this before the close of this final pastoral epistle.
The Gospel for the Elect
Remember that Jesus Christ,
of the seed of David,
was raised from the dead according to my gospel, for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains;
but the word of God is not chained.
Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy 2:8-9 NKJV
As the Apostle nears the finish line of his race into the gentile world of the Roman Empire, Paul’s encouragement of Timothy as pastor of the elect Ephesian saints builds up a key church in a city of a quarter-million people, the third largest in the Empire.
Clement of Alexandria, second largest city in the Empire, would be an important convert in the second century of our Lord Jesus Christ and of course Rome remained the Empire’s largest metropolitan area.
For the Sake of Salvation of the Elect
WHY do all these early Christian saints endure persecution, martyrdom and rejection by the vast majority of those in the cities in which they preach?
Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Timothy 2:10 NKJV
Among the millions of souls surrounding the Apostles and martyred saints in Rome, Ephesus, Corinth and throughout the Empire, Paul encourages pastors in what Christ Himself has promised in the salvation of the elect — believing Jew or pagan Gentile.
The saying is trustworthy, for:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. – Gospel of John 14:19
if we endure, we will also reign with him;
So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. – Gospel of Matthew 19:28 NKJV
if we deny him, he also will deny us;
but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. – Matthew 10:33
if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven… – Matthew 24:35-36a
Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy 2:12-14 ESV – quoting the Gospels and other Scripture
You may recognize my Heading from Joshua's challenge to the Elect to remember the LORD of their Salvation.
(Remember that this successor[יְהוֹשׁוּעַ] of Moses has a name [yᵊhôšûaʿ] meaning: "Jehovah is salvation" — iēsous, the Greek name for Jesus having the same Hebrew root.)
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
.. “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ..
“Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served…
“And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, …
But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Joshua 24 excerpt NKJV
PAUL now encourages young Timothy — the Apostle builds up pastors and saints to follow until the Day of Jesus Christ.
Remind them of these things, solemnly charging them in the presence of God..
Second Letter of Paul to Timothy 2:14a LSB
Many commentators cite the importance and difficulty of these key verses in 2 Timothy 2:10-13. We will close this section with these observations for your consideration (IF you are among the remnant elect saints of this Common Era):
God must be sovereign in our salvation precisely because we are neither willing nor able to choose salvation for ourselves.
John MacArthur – THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE
Why did the world hate Christ?
.. Earlier in John’s gospel, Jesus explained,
“The world … hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil” (7:7)
Fallen man does not want to be confronted with the true nature of his heart, he doesn’t want to face his inherent wickedness.
He has to find a way to tolerate and excuse himself from the guild he naturally faces each day.
So he falls back on his most dominant sin, pride, and imagines a version of himself that can escape condemnation. He spins a web of delusions, convincing himself that he is truly good and noble—anything to distract from the fact that his deeds are evil.
ibid. pp 7-8
It was true in Ephesus and Rome in the first century AD; it is true in this twenty-first century of the Common Era in Rome and in every other city.
Salvation in God alone
“It’s a well established reality that the doctrine of election is disturbing to many people,” observes MacArthur.
He continues, “Numerous ministry leaders, pastors, and major authors harbor animosity toward the doctrine of election.”
ibid. pp 55,56
Note a later idolatry and heresies which crept quickly into the churches with false teaching seeking to include men as only interpreters of Scripture and intercessors for active sin through memories of saints gone before.
MacArthur cites numerous Scriptures besides those here [2 Timothy 2:10]
ibid. 68-
Before we return to a brief MacArthur outline from this section from his commentary on 2 Timothy, note his QUOTE of Martin Luther introducing this section on:
DIVINE ELECTION:
NO MAN CAN BE THOROUGHLY HUMBLED UNTIL HE KNOWS THAT HIS SALVATION IS UTTERLY BEYOND HIS OWN POWERS, DEVICES, ENDEAVORS, WILL, AND WORKS, AND DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON THE CHOICE, WILL, AND WORK OF ANOTHER, NAMELY, OF GOD ALONE.
MARTIN LUTHER
2 Timothy – NEXT in our outline
An overview Outline of 2 Timothy [Kress Biblical Resources] follows Paul’s brief prologue (2 Tim 1:1-2) with an extended section we have just completed:
Persevere in the ministry and be unashamed to suffer for the gospel (1:3-2:13)
The following extended section we will follow next pivots on 2:14.
Proclaim the truth and be unashamed to confront error (2:14-4-8)
John MacArthur in his NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY OF 2 TIMOTHY outlines this section of Paul’s second letter to Timothy:
The Elements of a Strong Spiritual Life [2 Tim 2:1-7]
Motives for a Sacrificial Ministry [2 Tim 2:8-13]
The Danger of False Teaching [2 Tim 2:14-19]
and completing 2 Tim 2 – An Honorable Vessel
Remember
Paul’s pivotal imperatives of this section of the Apostle’s second pastoral epistle.
BE STRONG – v.1
CONSIDER – v.7
REMIND – v. 14 (our pivotal hinge today)
AVOID, ABSTAIN, FLEE, PURSUE, REFUSE
ALL next in Paul’s commands to Timothy.
MACARTHUR NT COMMENTARY 2 TIMOTHY, p. 55
Looking for some more Apostolic controvery?
NEXT – We’ll address these warnings against false doctrine.
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