We will look briefly at sixteen of the nineteen vices listed here. To make this more manageable, we will look at them under the last ‘love’ heading, at the end of verse 3, which is a negative ‘not loving good’.
Paul lists nineteen character flaws here, which make it difficult to preach on. There are four references to ‘love’ so this week we will look at the times, the right love, and disordered loves.
1. Understand the times.
– 3:1. See Acts 2:17; Heb. 1:1-2; 1 John 2:18. Christianity has …
John Stott: ‘The combination of unbiblical speculations and uncharitable polemics has done great damage to the cause of Christ.’
1. Avoid foolish controversies.
– 2:23. Paul has said this sort of thing repeatedly throughout the Pastoral Epistles – 1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; 6:4, 20; 2 Tim. 2:14, 16; Tit. 3:9. …
Richard Baxter: ‘O brethren, watch therefore over your own hearts: keep out lusts and passions, and worldly inclinations: keep up the life of faith and love, and zeal: be much at home, and be much with God.’ In Eph. 4:22-24 there is ‘put off/put on’; in 2 Timothy 2:22 it …
There are not two foundations but two aspects of the one foundation.
1. The Church is a mixed body.
– 2:20. This refers to the mixed nature of the Church. Today there are something like 2.4 billion people in the world who identify as Christians in some way. Not all …
Calvin: ‘If we would serve God we must be sworn enemies of evil.’
Peter Barnes: Handling the Word of Truth Accurately, 2 Timothy 2:14-15 (Sunday 23 August 2020 Morning Service, 9.00 a.m.)
– 2:2, 8, 10.
1. Do not quarrel about words.
– 2:14. The ‘them’ must be those mentioned back in 2:2. Some quarrels are necessary and some are pointless, and some …
Peter Barnes: Christ Cannot Deny Himself Matthew 10:16-33; 2 Timothy 2:1-13 (Sunday 16 August 2020) Morning Sermon Notes, 9.00 a.m.
This is chronologically the last of the five faithful sayings in the Pastoral Epistles – 1 Tim.1:15; 3:1; 4:9-10; Tit.3:8. in 2 Timothy 2:11- 13. Many have said that this …
Peter Barnes: Remember Christ Risen, 2 Timothy 2:8-10 (Sunday 9 August 2020 Morning Sermon Notes, 9.00 a.m.)
Paul in prison to younger Timothy – 1 Tim.5:23; 1 Cor.16:10-11; 2 Tim.1:6-7.
1. Remember Christ risen. – 2:8. It is not the resurrection so much as the one who was …
Peter Barnes: Be Single-Minded in The LORD, 2 Timothy 2:3-7 (Sunday 2 August 2020 Morning Service, 9.00 a.m.)
Count Helmuth von Moltke was brought before the Nazi People’s Court in January 1945, and the head of the court, Ronald Freisler harangued him: ‘We and Christianity resemble each other in only …
