"GOD'S OMNIPOTENTS IN ACTION"
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Last week we saw God’s omnipotent on display by His 1) Saving, 2) Calling, and 3) Granting.
Tell about the time that I saw God’s power in Action - deep sea fishing (storm arose)
Proposition - Today we are going to see God’s Omnipotent in action; by looking at 1) God’s power revealed in the Flesh, 2) God’s power revealed in conquering death, 3) God’s power revealed through the light, 4) God’s power revealed through the message of reconciliation, and 5) God’s power revealed through His children.
Interrogative question - How is God’s power at work in your life?
1. God’s Power Revealed in the Flesh - vs. 10
1. God’s Power Revealed in the Flesh - vs. 10
2 Timothy 1:10 (NASB95)
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
“has been revealed” - (phaneroo) - verb, aorist, passive, participle, singular, accusative, feminine - attributive participle - reveal; make clear -
Sense: to be manifest - to be or become clearly revealed to the mind, the senses, or judgment.
The verb manifested is of frequent occurrence in the Gospel according to John (see N.T.C., Vol. II, p. 476, especially footnote 294). Paul also uses it several times (Rom. 1:19; 1 Cor. 4:5; 2 Cor. 2:14; 11:6; Col. 4:4; Titus 1:3). It was through the epiphany or appearing (employed everywhere else to designate the Second Coming—2 Thess. 2:8; 1 Tim. 6:14; 2 Tim. 4:1, 8; Titus 2:13—, but here to indicate the First Coming), that is, through the “rising of the Sun of righteousness with healing in its wings” (Mal. 4:2; cf. Luke 1:78, 79; cf. Titus 2:11), that God’s grace toward his people has become manifested. Hendriksen, W., & Kistemaker, S. J. (1953–2001). Exposition of the Pastoral Epistles (Vol. 4, p. 233). Baker Book House.
“to be manifest” - to be or become clearly revealed to the mind, the senses, or judgment -
1 Timothy 3:16 (NASB95)
16 By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.
2 Timothy 1:10 (NASB95)
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
“to make manifest” - to cause to become clearly revealed to the mind, the sense, or judgment -
Titus 1:3 (NASB95)
3 but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
“Appearing” - (epliphaneia) - noun, genitive, singular, feminine - prepositional object - appearing; appearance -
Sense: divine appearance - the event of a deity becoming visible or coming into sight.
“divine appearance” - the event of a deity becoming visible or coming into sight -
2 Thessalonians 2:8 (NASB95)
8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
1 Timothy 6:14 (NASB95)
14 that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 1:10 (NASB95)
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
2 Timothy 4:1 (NASB95)
1 I solemnly 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:
2 Timothy 4:8 (NASB95)
8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
Titus 2:13 (NASB95)
13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,
“Savior” - (soter) - noun, genitive, singular, masculine - subjective genitive - savior
Sense: savior - someone who rescues something from danger or violence; especially used of Christ as the one who rescued His people from their sins and the resulting danger of judgment.
2. God’s Power Revealed in Conquering Death - vs. 10
2. God’s Power Revealed in Conquering Death - vs. 10
2 Timothy 1:10 (NASB95)
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
“who abolished” - (katargeo) - verb, aorist, active, participle, singular, genitive, masculine - attributive participle - abolish; set aside; wipe out
Sense: to inactivate - to cause something to become idle, inactive, inoperative, or useless
“Who hath abolished death” is literally since He has made of none effect death. Death means something altogether different to the child of God—Christ made it of no effect. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (1 and 2 Timothy/Titus/Philemon) (electronic ed., Vol. 50, p. 98). Thomas Nelson.
Katargeō (abolish) literally means to render inoperative. It is not that death no longer exists or that believers are promised escape from it, unless they are raptured. But for believers, death is no longer a threat, no longer an enemy, no longer the end. Quoting first from Isaiah 25:8 and then from Hosea 13:14, Paul exulted, “When this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ ” (1 Cor. 15:54–55). MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1995). 2 Timothy (p. 24). Moody Press.
Quoting - Isaiah 25:8
8 He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken.
14 Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
3. God’s Power Revealed through the Light - vs. 10
3. God’s Power Revealed through the Light - vs. 10
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
“brought to light” - (photizo) - verb, aorist, active, participle, singular, genitive, masculine - attributive participle - enlighten; give light to
Sense: to cause to know - illuminate - to cause to know; conceived of as shining light onto something so as to make it visibly clear.
As Paul says elsewhere, the Lord “will bring to light [φωτίσει] the hidden things of the darkness and will make clear [φανερώσει] the purposes of the hearts” (1 Cor 4:5; cf. Eph 1:18; 3:9). Mounce, W. D. (2000). Pastoral Epistles (Vol. 46, p. 485). Word, Incorporated.
“Life” - (zoe) - noun, accusative, singular, feinine - direct object - life
Sense: life source - the inherent capacity for producing (and maintaining) living beings; especially understood as a life characterized by healthiness, happiness, exuberance, energy, vitality, and the like.
“immortality” - (aphtharsia) - noun, accusative, singular, feminine - direct object - incorruptibility
Sense: incorruptibility - the inability of an organic substance to breakdown or decay
Thus Paul speaks of Christ bringing “life” to Christians (cf. Rom. 6:4, 11, 13). When those who belong to Christ are resurrected, the last aspect of “death,” physical death itself, will also be abolished (cf. 1 Cor. 15:26, using the same verb as here), and this, too, will occur on the basis of Christ’s decisive work, which, according to Heb. 2:14, took place in Jesus’ own death. Knight, G. W. (1992). The Pastoral Epistles: a commentary on the Greek text (p. 376). W.B. Eerdmans; Paternoster Press.
4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
As Lock observes, “There was hope of immortality in the world before, but the Resurrection had converted it into a certainty and shown from beyond the grave the continuity of life there with life here.”18 R. L. Child has described the work of Jesus in abolishing death:
By his patient endurance of the judgment of God upon sin, and by His steadfast testimony to the character of God as loving and good, Jesus has transformed the significance of death, and in so doing has destroyed its power to hurt us.… the resurrection of Jesus exhibited once for all His victory over sin and death, and demonstrated the reality of life beyond death.19 Lea, T. D., & Griffin, H. P. (1992). 1, 2 Timothy, Titus (Vol. 34, pp. 192–193). Broadman & Holman Publishers.
4. God’s Power Revealed through the message of reconciliation - vs. 10
4. God’s Power Revealed through the message of reconciliation - vs. 10
2 Timothy 1:10 (NASB95)
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
It is the Gospel of God’s Grace -
Acts 20:24 (NASB95)
24 “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.
It is the Gospel of Salvation -
Ephesians 1:13 (NASB95)
13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
It is the Gospel of Peace -
Ephesians 6:19 (NASB95)
19 and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
It is the Gospel that Holds out Hope -
Colossians 1:23 (NASB95)
23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
The Gospel is Worthy of Dying for -
Mark 8:35 (NASB95)
35 “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 10:29 (NASB95)
29 Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,
The Gospel is the power of God for Salvation to everyone who believes -
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
The Gospel is the fulfillment of the Old Testament promise of the coming kingdom of God. -
14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Jesus announces, the time has come, the kingdom of God is near. “Repent and believe the good news -
15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
The Gospel is to be preached to all nations -
14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
10 “The gospel must first be preached to all the nations.
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.
6 And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;
5. God’s Power Revealed through His Children - vs. 11
5. God’s Power Revealed through His Children - vs. 11
11 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.
He also was commissioned as an apostle “of Christ Jesus by the will of God” (2 Tim. 1:1; cf. 1 Tim. 1:1) and a teacher. Preacher emphasizes his function in ministry, apostle emphasizes his authority, and teacher emphasizes his interpreting the message he authoritatively proclaimed. MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1995). 2 Timothy (p. 25). Moody Press.
This verse is almost an exact repetition of 1 Tim 2:7; see there for specific discussion. The two differences are the omission of the phrases “I speak the truth; I do not lie” and “(teacher) of the Gentiles in [the] faith and [the] truth.” In 1 Tim 2:7 Paul is emphasizing his divine call to preach authoritatively the gospel to the Gentiles, and so these phrases are significant not for Timothy but for the Ephesian church. However, Paul’s second epistle is more personal, and the issue of his apostolic authority is secondary (contra Easton, Hanson [1983]). What is important is how v 11 encourages Timothy. Paul is encouraging Timothy to suffer for the gospel, to be loyal to it and to Paul, and to see how Paul’s and his own ministries are intertwined (cf. v 3). By closely associating himself with the gospel, Paul shows Timothy that loyalty to himself and to the gospel are in essence the same thing. As Paul suffers, so should Timothy. V 11 not only looks backward but also forward to v 12, where Paul will complete the argument. Mounce, W. D. (2000). Pastoral Epistles (Vol. 46, p. 486). Word, Incorporated.
SO WHAT?
How is God’s power at work in your life?