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Bad Times, Good God
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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intensification of ungodliness in the last days.
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.
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?
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.
Ex 8:
‘corrupted and disqualified - connection
disqualified -
how does one cleanse himself?
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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These magicians in Exodus - not merely performing a magic tricks.
They were using the dark arts -
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