Introduction
How we react to God's message in the Bible greatly affects our lives.
We are warned what will happen if God's message is ignored. By contrast we can have the hope of a long-term future through belief in God's plan with his special person - Jesus Christ.
Verses
1But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
6For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
10But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14But you remain in the things which you have learnt and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learnt them.
15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
17that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Questions
1. What does Paul say people will love in the last days, instead of God?
v 2 and 4 ... lovers of self, lovers of money, ... lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2. What does Paul say that those who live a godly life, should expect?
v 12 ... all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
3. What kind of wisdom is the Bible able to give you?
v 15 ... the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
Summary Points
- v 1 to 9 Timothy is warned what a godless world will be like in the last days
- v 10 to 13 Timothy is encouraged to follow Paul's example of godly living and suffering
- v 14 to 17 Paul encourages Timothy to continue in the way to salvation through faith (belief) in Jesus Christ by reading the holy Scriptures (the Bible) which are inspired by God
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