2 Timothy 3:5-9
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Bad Times, Good God
Bad Times, Good God
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
not just be aware of false teachers but be ready to take a stand against them.
‘among them’ - false teachers were among the ungodly from the previous verses
creep - worm their way into homes and gain control
in Gk - sinking into a garment - like a stain that is hard to remove once it’s set into clothing. The stain then becomes a part of the garment itself.
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capture - someone under captivity. capture one’s mind is to captivate them.
false teachers apply themselves to particular persons. They visit them in their houses. Evil hates the light. to make them proselytes - trying to convert them.
weak women - morally weak and spiritually dwarfed. Why women? Not limited to one gender. Just shows how low these false teachers are willing to go to lead people astray from the Gospel.
deception of Eve in Genesis - not weak by nature but made the wrong choice - doubting God and His goodness and believing the lie of the false teacher - Satan.
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“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
intensification of ungodliness in the last days.
while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Tim 3:
- devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
Lions knows the weak points of their prey - even though they may be bigger and stronger than them. This is how they can bring down their prey.
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.
always learning and never arriving at the understanding of the truth.
Taking in of information but not leading to change in their hearts.
conjugate - hand in hand.’also/as well as.
burdened (unmoving) and led astray (moving)- past tense
with sins and by various passions - divers lusts
2nd conjugate - ‘always’ and ‘never’
‘always - being fed with new information but never maturing in the faith.
‘never’ - why is it that they are never able to arrive at the truth.
1 Cor - having the mind of Christ
when a lover of good thinks about evil
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/when-a-lover-of-good-thinks-about-evil
Jannes and Jambres - Egyptian names - 2 Egyptian magicians imitated the miracles of Moses and Aaron in order to destroy their influence with the king. No mention of them in Exodus.
How and in what way did they oppose Moses?
Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
Ex 7:
Moses and Aaron were representing God so these magicians by opposing Moses and Aaron were opposing God.
These men - false teachers are hindering people from knowing God.
Why trust God when others can bring about similar?
They are imitating - having a form of godliness
Just as Jannes and Jambres did not get very far in imitating Moses and was not ultimately successful, so these false teachers will not get very far and they will be exposed.
For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.
Ex 8:
And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
‘corrupted and disqualified - connection
disqualified -
how does one cleanse himself?
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
The testing - related to the suffering for the sake of the Gospel
acceptable - approved
‘corrupt’ mind cannot discern the will of God and what is good.
Anything they teach will not be from God but oppose God.
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Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
These magicians in Exodus - not merely performing a magic tricks. They were using the dark arts -
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.