2 Timothy – Revesby Presbyterian Church

Godliness in the Last Days (2 Timothy 3:1-5, Part 2)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:00:00 +0000

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’.

When ‘not loving good’ takes over.

3:2-5. We will content

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Godliness in the Last Days (2 Timothy 3:1-5, Part 1)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 22:00:00 +0000

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 …

Preaching Repentance (2 Timothy 2:23-26)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:00:00 +0000

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. …

Fleeing and Pursuing (2 Timothy 2:22)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:00:00 +0000

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 …

The Lord Knows His Own (2 Timothy 2:19-21)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:00:16 +0000

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 …