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II TIMOTHY
Updated: June 8, 2007
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[C]2000-07 by Richard L Zorek
- II Tim 1:2: To Timothy, my beloved son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. The word "beloved" isone of the strongest words Paul could use to express his love for Timothy, for it is a form of the Greek verb agapao, which emphasizes a love so great that it loves even when there is no response. To emphasize this strong word for love, the King James translators rendered it "Dearly beloved."
- II Tim 1:3: I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. Paul prayed night and day.
- II Tim 1:5: I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. A strong faith past from generation to generation.
- II Tim 1: 7: For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. He has given us a boldness to express love unconditionally.
- II Tim 1:16: May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. Ever been ashamed to be seen with someone carrying around "chains?"
- II Tim 2:4: No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier There's a lot of things going on in this world that is really irrelevant in the scheme of things.
- II Tim 2:13: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself" Unbelief does not always cancel out faith.
- II Tim 3:5: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." Biblical Christianity is an all or nothing proposition. But men want the form of godliness, not God. They attempt to use the church as a hiding place from God. The modern church, however, modernist and fundamentalist, is bent on pleasing all such rather than turning away from them.
- II Tim 3:6: "Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift og God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands." Stir up="kindle afresh". Gift="charisma".
- II Tim 3:16: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." The alpha and omega of our understanding godly submission is that we understand that every word of God is God-breathed and is binding on us. Because it is God-given, the words of Scripture are all God's law. The Bible is God's law-book. It is scripture which equips us for every good work. If we follow our inward conviction, then we open the door to subjectivism and deception.
- II Tim 4:7: "I have fought a good fight, I have finshed my course, I have kept the faith." Paul's spiritual battles were those he fought in the context of his ministry. Paul's ministry, his appointed work, was the context of his spiritual battles, his battles fought in the power of God's Spirit.
- II Tim 4:16: No man stood with me, but all men forsook me Betrayal will happen in all likelihood.
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