Tonight we conclude this series of sermons on Paul’s letters to his younger colleague Timothy; there were twenty-three in all. Next Lord’s Day evening we begin with one of the few remaining books of the Bible that I have never preach…
I tell you often enough that the best way to read the Word of God is to accept the force of its teaching and truth in any passage without necessarily seeking to reconcile that particular emphasis with other emphases that we find in the Word of God…
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v.10
The “You, however” or “but you” is one of five instances of that short phrase — just two short words in Greek, su de — in the two letters to Timothy. Timothy has not been and is not like the…
It has been a month since the last sermon in this series, so a brief reminder is in order. We are in the midst of Paul’s last letter, at least the last of his letters to have made its way into Holy Scripture. He wrote while in prison in Rome anticipa…
It’s always important to remember when we are taking the Bible paragraph by paragraph that very often the connection with what has gone before would be more obvious if we had read the entirety of the chapter up to and through the text that we are goi…
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Now the paragraph that we are about to read explicitly concerns the church’s teachers: good teachers and bad teachers are contrasted in various ways. However, there is little in the Bible that applies to the church’s leadership …
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v.1
Four times in 2 Timothy, five if you count 1 Timothy 6:11, we have a short phrase with the singular second person pronoun “you.” The Greek pronoun “ su .” Three times we have “But you” (3:10, 14; 4:5), and here “Y…
Second Timothy is one of Paul’s most personal letters. I mean that in it he talks a good deal about himself and his life. There is no surprise in that; he was writing to one of his closest friends. But it is a reminder that human life is a s…
As you know there are three of Paul’s letters that are typically grouped together as the so-called Pastoral Epistles : two to Timothy and one to Titus. In the Bible, understandably, they appear in that order: First and Second Timothy and th…
Tonight we conclude our sermons in 1 Timothy; next Lord’s Day evening, God willing, we will begin 2 Timothy.
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v.11
“Man of God” is a title often used of prophets in the OT but may be used in 2 Tim. 3:17…