Foundation of the Word
1 & 2 Timothy - The Household of God • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 1:10:44
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Scripture Intro:
Scripture Intro:
Scripture Reading (“Please stand…”)
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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Pray...
Intro:
Intro:
Up until 2015,
Doreen Virtue was the world’s top-selling New Age author.
She enjoyed a phenomenally lucrative lifestyle,
living on a 50-acre ranch in Hawaii.
She described that time in her life...
During my 20 years as a New Age teacher, I promoted techniques like “positive affirmations,” believing and teaching that “your words create your reality.” We held up our wealth and fame as evidence that our principles were true and effective. Yet despite this worldly success, we were unrepentant sinners with lives marred by divorces and addictions. Having sold-out workshops, standing ovations, adoring fans, and celebrity friends gave us swollen egos. I remember believing my every thought was a message or a sign from God or his angels.
In January 2015, she was driving along a Hawaiian road
listening to the pastor Alistair Begg.
It was a sermon called “Itching Ears” taken from 2 Timothy 4,
where the Apostle Paul writes that a time is coming
when people will want their itching ears tickled by false teachers
who offer false hope (v. 3).
She said,
I could tell he was describing people just like me. God used Begg’s sermon to convict me for the first time in my life. His words pierced my stony heart, and I felt ashamed of my false teachings. Then when I read Deuteronomy 18:10–12, I encountered a list of sinful activities that included several I was practicing, such as divination, interpreting signs and omens, and mediumship. I was broken, deeply shamed, and humbled. I dropped to my knees in shame and sorrow. “I’m so sorry, God!” I kept wailing in repentance. “I didn’t know!” On that very day I gave my life to Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Having to admit that I was wrong to the entire world—my books were published in 38 languages—has been deeply humbling. Even so, I needed that humility to better learn how to lean upon God. After seeking but never finding peace in New Age, I have finally found it in Christ.
God’s Word is Our Foundation
God’s Word is Our Foundation
(3:10-15)
“you followed my ...”
“teaching, conduct, aim of life, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, persecutions, sufferings”
Instead of “deceiving and being deceived” (v. 13)
“continue in what you learned and firmly believed”
“from childhood”
Remember, mother and grandmother from 2 Timothy 1,
“a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and you mother Eunice”
“acquainted with the sacred writings”
“able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.”
“breathed out by God”
(3:16) “All Scripture is breathed out by God...”
This Greek word is found nowhere else in the NT or is Greek literature.
It’s possible that Paul made up the word in order to capture the essence.
“God” - “breathed”
The origin and authority of God’s word is derived from where it came...
God himself.
“Inspired by God” (some translations)
knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
“life”
Deuteronomy 32:46–47 (ESV)
“Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life...
ILL. Norma Evans
Passed away this week.
Sitting with her family yesterday,
one of the sweetest things they spoke of...
her love for God’s word.
Every day, reading and studying God’s word...
Praying.
She lived knowing God’s word was her “very life”
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One year she and her husband gave Study Bibles to their children.
Inscription to one of their kids...
"to present you with something I pray you will treasure
more than any gift you have received at any Christmas.
Our prayer and hope is that you will study this and grow to love Him-walking daily with Him.”
“We love you, but remember, His love is much greater,
Mama and Daddy”
Now, that reminds us of the foundation of God’s word.
God’s Word Prepares Us
God’s Word Prepares Us
(3:16-17)
“profitable”
“useful” - makes a difference
2 Timothy 3:16–17 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
“for teaching”
“for training in righteousness”
“complete”
“equipped”
“for every good work”
“teaching” - instruction, doctrine
“training in righteousness” -
Root word in the Greek - “child, servant, slave”
So training is submitting to someone or something that is over you.
“Training in righteousness” - submit to the Scriptures so that you can be trained.
Ultimately, “teaching” and “training”...
require humility.
To be a learner, you must admit you don’t know and you need to learn.
To be trained, you have to realize you need further development.
“complete” and “equipped”
These two words don’t capture fully what is happening in the Greek.
1 and 2 Timothy and Titus—To Guard the Deposit Continue in the Gospel Because of What Scripture is (vv. 16, 17)
Paul here uses two forms of the Greek word for equip (an adjective and a participle) to make his point. The man of God is super-equipped by the Word of God.
“equipped equipped”
“for every good work”
God works in us...
so that he can work through us.
Growing through God’s word is never meant to stop with you.
“equipped for every good work”
App. God develops our eyes to see.
God grows our faith.
God matures us in our gifts.
All for his glory and the advancement of his kingdom.
God’s Word Redirects Us
God’s Word Redirects Us
(3:16-17)
“profitable”
“reproof” - rebuke
Has the sense of discipline.
Also, the sense convincing you of something different than you are thinking.
“correction” -
“restoration” , “reformation”
We like the notion of being built up...
but we resist the idea of correction.
Yet, God’s word seems to do that constantly.
App. It exposes what we are trying to keep secret.
It brings light to those places of our lives.
It helps us see ourselves more clearly.
It helps us to see God as he truly is.
God’s Word Anchors Us
God’s Word Anchors Us
“preach the word”
But the context of preaching is sobering...
2 Timothy 4:1–2 (ESV)
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word...
Knowing the reality of eternity,
Knowing the reality of final judgment,
Knowing that Jesus will return
Preach the word.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
And why is God’s word so important to be preached and taught?
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
God’s word anchors us in the truth.
It keeps us from being tossed around by the waves of false teaching.
If people have “itching ears”...
Then God’s word counteracts that.
App. Our world is loaded down with false teachings.
Health-Wealth Gospel
Moralism to make your life work out better
New Age
Mindfulness and Eastern Meditation
(teaser for Sunday School today - Other Worldviews series)
Hedonism - pleasure and enjoyment has become our god
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** On Communion Sunday...
If after 10:32,
go straight to the Lord’s Supper.
Close in Prayer
Close in Prayer
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Benediction:
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