False Teaching Leads to Ungodliness (2 Timothy 2:16-18)

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Calvin: ‘If we would serve God we must be sworn enemies of evil.’

  1. False teaching is ungodly and damaging.
  • 2:16-18. See 1 Tim. 6:20-21. Calvin refers to ‘futile babbling’, and the Greek word is a combination of two words ‘empty’ and ‘voice’ – ‘empty voice’. It happened earlier with the Galatians – Gal. 5:7-9.
  1. How getting the resurrection wrong is disastrous. Hymenaeus and Philetus are not referring to the resurrection of Christ, but the resurrection of Christians. (a) Heresies are invariably partly true. See Col. 3:1; Rom. 6:4 for here and now. Phil. 3:21 for the future. (b) Heresies use Christian terms. Hymenaeus, at least, is mentioned back in 1 Timothy 1:20. He was excommunicated, but apparently that did not faze him. Like Rudolf Bultmann. (c) To deny the resurrection of God’s people undermines the creation and the re-creation. Acts 24:15. (d) To deny the resurrection of God’s people promotes immorality. 1 Cor. 6:13-15, 19-20; 15:32-34. (e) To deny the resurrection of God’s people hinders holiness. 1 John 3:2-3. (f) If the spiritual resurrection is all there is, there is no ultimate comfort in death. 1 Cor. 15:52-55. That is not past; that is still to come. Get the full-orbed picture of the resurrection wrong, an
  2. Christ has risen from the dead in A.D 30 or 33. It is history.
  3. The Christian dies, and his soul or spirit goes to be with Christ.
  4. Christ comes again and all the dead are raised in the body.
  5. Christian believers are received in their resurrected bodies into the new heaven and new earth.

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