2 Timothy 2

These scriptural readings are lengthy, each chapter, so therefore you can read these particular scriptures, chapters, from the comfort of your home and we will read the foundation scriptures in this class.

And the foundation scriptures are Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30, 2 Timothy 2 15 and Isaiah 9 6.

Matthew 11, 28 through 30.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.

And ye shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

2 Timothy 2.15 Study to show thyself approved unto God Yud-Heh-Wav-Heh, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Isaiah 9, 6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

When a scripture is misinterpreted, a truth is lost.

And this brings to fore Brother Paul's words to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:15.

Put it up again for me.

2 Timothy 2:15.

Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

The word study was translated from the Greek word spoudazo.

"Do thy diligence to come before winter.

Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren." The word diligence.

That's who Titus was.

That's what 2 Timothy 2 calls us to do.

It's right in front of us.

And we've simply got to be willing to answer the bell.

Look at the verse, 1 Corinthians 9, verse 24 says, run and erase, run all, but one receiveth the prize, so run that you may obtain.

Every man that striveth for the masteries, underline it there in verse 25, masteries, that matches right there in the margin of your Bible, write down 2 Timothy 2, verse 5, 2 Timothy 2, 5, write it down in the margin of your Bible.

is temperate in all things.

Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, what kind of crown? An incorruptible crown.

You're running a race, Christian.

You're running a race.

Now, take your Bible and look at 2 Timothy 2, and I want you to look at verse 6, 2 Timothy 2, 6.

And it says, "...a husbandman that laboreth must be first partakers of the fruit." Laboreth, the husband that laboreth.

Now, for the sake of time, we'll skip a bunch.

I want you to go to 2 Timothy 2, verse 13.

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Timothy

Welcome back.

I'm going to share this story with you, but let me give you this that I mentioned before the break, but let me share this verse first from 2 Timothy 2.

That's just the Apostle Paul's words that are, he says it differently, but it's basically the same principle of making disciples.

He said, you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that's in Christ Jesus and the things that you've heard from me.

Ephesians 6.10, be strong.

2 Timothy 2.1, be strong.

So the New Testament commandment is the same as the Old.

Be strong.

That's what men are supposed to do.

It's a masculine trait.

Look at 2 Timothy 2.

Say, I just trust in God.

She's from Ontario, Canada, a frequent caller.

Today she's got a question about 2 Timothy 2.

So, Kat, what's on your heart this afternoon? What you got for us?

Well, hello, Andrew.

Go ahead.

Yeah, what you got for us?

Well, yeah, 2 Timothy 2.

Oh, my gosh, this is weird.

And let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2 Timothy 2.19. Timothy, unto whom this epistle was writ, was an evangelist, that is, inferior to apostles and extraordinary prophets, and above ordinary pastors and teachers.

second timothy four five ephesians four eleven and he with the rest of those under his circumstances was to go with the apostles hither and thither to be disposed of by them as they saw need for the further edification of those who by the apostolical ministry were converted to the faith and hence it is that titus was left at crete and that this timothy was left at ephesus first timothy one three for they were to do a work for christ in the world which the apostles were to begin and leave upon their hands to finish now when the apostles departed from places and had left these evangelists in their stead usually there did arise some bad spirits among those people where these were left for the furtherance of the faith this is manifest by both the epistles to timothy and also by that to titus wherefore paul upon whom these two evangelists waited for the fulfilling of their ministry, writeth unto them while they abode where he left them, concerning those turbulent spirits which they met with, and to teach them how, yet further, they ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.

And to this purpose he gives them, severally, diverse instructions, as the judicious reader may easily understand, by which he encourageth them to the prosecution of that service which for Christ they had to do for those people where he had left them, and also instructeth them how to carry it towards their disturbers, which last he doth, not only doctrinally, but also by shewing them, by his example and practice, what he would have them do this done he laboreth to comfort timothy with the remembrance of the steadfastness of god's eternal decree of election because grounded on his foreknowledge saying though hymenaeus and philetus have erred from the faith and by their fall have overthrown the faith of some, yet the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.

Why wouldst thou go to heaven? Is it because thou wouldst be saved from hell, or because thou wouldst be freed from sin? I say, wouldst thou go to heaven because it is a place that is holy, or because it is a place remote from the pains of hell? i ask again wherein dost thou think the blessedness of heaven consists is it in the holiness that is there or in the freedom that is there from hell there is not a man alive but would go to heaven that he may be saved from hell but how many would go thither that they might be saved from the pleasures of sin from the inward pleasure of sin of that i will be silent though surely they are those that are out of love with sin and that do depart from iniquity verily my brethren it is a great thing to depart from iniquity it is a great thing to have my will my mind and my affections departing from it but second As they that depart from iniquity withdraw their minds and affections from the lusts and motions of it, so they depart also from the occasions of it.

There are occasions by which sin worketh to bring forth the fruits thereof, and some seek those occasions.

Romans 14.13 1 Timothy 5.4 Exodus 23.7 Proverbs 5.8 2 Timothy 2.16 But he that hath set himself to depart from sin in himself will not seek occasions from abroad to do it.

Such a man as will keep far from an evil matter will not company with a person that pollutes and defiles, nor will he come near the door of the adulteress's house.