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1 1 2 10/14/01 2Timothy 2:1-13 Paul the apostle has told Timothy in chapter one what he is to be, courageous after the model of Paul and Epaphroditus! Paul gave Timothy several reasons why he is to be courageous. 1. Paul's affection. vs Paul's prayers. vs A godly heritage. vs God gave him gifts. vs God gave him the Spirit of power. vs Christ has abolished death. vs Paul's confidence is to be persevered by Christ, example of courage. vs The example of a courageous servant, Onesiphorus. vs Christ will reward each believer. vs. 18 Having said this, Paul now goes on to chapter two to tell Timothy what he is called to be. There are seven metaphors that Paul uses to show Timothy what he is called to be, and so with every believer. * The second is a simile for it is introduced by the word as or like. 1. Son. vs Soldier. vs Athlete. vs farmer. vs Workman. vs Vessel. vs Servant. vs. 24 Remember the three-fold outline. I. Commitment to perseverance through the gospel. 2Tim. 1:3-2:13 II. Commitment to protection of the gospel. 2Tim. 2:14-3:17 III. Commitment to the proclamation of the gospel. 2Tim. 4:1-18 2:1-7 The various aspects of a person in Christ. 2:1 Timothy was to be like a faithful son. The word therefore is the sun total or result of what was said in chapter one, in view of what I've said, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. * Keep on being strong, it is in the present passive! 2) The source of Timothy s strength is to be the grace that is in Jesus Christ. a) Grace charis means unmeritted favor. 2Tim. 1:6-9, b) This is one of God's attributes that is immutable, it neither decreases or increases.

2 3 4 c) Law given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Jn. 1:17 d) By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace what was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was in me. 2Cor.15:10 * My grace is sufficient, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2Cor. 12:9 e) The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you. 1Pet. 5:10 f) We are to grow in grace, it is to be multiplied. 2Pet. 1:2; 3:18 3) The command is a spiritual one. a) The word strong endunamoo, means to be strengthened or endued, but it is for inward strength through grace. Eph. 6:10 b) The command is emphatic you and in the present, passive imperative, emphasizing progress in strength. * Literally, you keep on being empowered inwardly! 4) The command is to Paul s spiritual son. a) The word for son teknon is used for natural and spiritual children. b) The term is one of endearing affection, one produced by divine promise. Jn. 1:12 5) The source of this grace is bound up in one person, Christ Jesus. a) The title Christ means the anointed of God and used for the Messiah of God. b) The name Jesus means, Jehovah is salvation. c) The God who became man is the reservoir of grace for all who are to be saved and dispensed to after salvation. 2:2 Timothy was to be a faithful to his heritage. 1) First as a son Timothy is to be faithful to commit to others the things he had been taught by Paul. a) The things point to the gospel message for lost man and the doctrines to revealed by God. 1) The Great Commission. Matt. 28:19 2) The lost condition of all mankind. Rom. 3:23 3) The new creation and divine nature imparted for life. 2Cor. 5:17; 2Pet. 1:3-4 b) The word commit parathemi means to set besides or before, the technical meaning is a deposit.

3 5 6 c) As Paul had deposited to Timothy the gospel, Timothy was not only to guard it but to deposit it to others. d) These men are to be faithful or reliable men. Acts 20:32; 1Tim. 6:20; 2Tim. 1;12, 14, 18 1)) Those who have been proven. 2)) Those who have God is anointing and using. 2) The purpose of this command is that these men in tern be able to teach others also the gospel and doctrine. a) Just as Paul had been taught by Jesus and then taught others. b) Just as Paul had discipled Timothy, so he was to disciple others. c) For all believers must contend for the faith, which was once and for all given to the saints. Jude 3 2:3 Timothy was to be like a soldier. 1) The conclusion once again was that Timothy was to be a good soldier like Paul and Epaphroditus. 2Tim. 1:8, 17 a) The address is emphatic again, you, Timothy. b) Epaphroditusis called a fellow-soldier by Paul. Phil. 2:25 2) The phrase endure hardness sunkakopatheo does not mean merely to suffer some hardship different from other soldiers of the cross but that he was to share in the part of sufferings that fell to him. Phil. 3:13-14 a) In Classical Greek it commonly meant to suffer misfortune or to be in distress. b) It is in the imperative aorist active, a command with no specific reference to its duration, repetition or completeness. (The Complete Bib. Library Gr. grammar index: 200, 213) c) The same tense is found one other time in the epistle. 2Tim. 4:5 1) Paul is telling Timothy to share with him in the patient enduring of sufferings for the gospel. 2Tim. 1:8 2) Paul's personal cost was to be bond in chains yet the word was not bond. 2:9 3) Paul declares why he endures all the sufferings, for the sake of those chosen in Christ. Eph. 1:4 * Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb 11:25 3) Timothy was to be a good soldier. a) The word good Kalos as we have stated is related to an Indo-European word for powerful, excellent and

4 7 8 strong with the sense of something being healthy, serviceable, what is ordered or sound. (Kittle). * The word is a key word in the Pastoral epistles, found 22 times. 1Tim. 1:8, 18; 2:3; 3:1, 7, 13; 4:4, 6; 5:4, 10, 25; 6:12, 13, 18, 19, 2Tim. 1:14; 2:3; 4:7; Tit. 2:7, 14; 3:8, 14 b) The book of Hebrews tells us that Timothy was imprisoned at one time and released. Heb. 13:23 c) The amour is spiritual. Eph. 6:10-18; 1Thess. 5:8 * He is to be courageous, equipped and trained in warfare. 2 4 Timothy was to have the mindset of a soldier. 1) A soldier does not entangle himself with the affairs of this life being engaged in warfare. a) The word entangle entangles emplekomae means to weave or get involved but with the idea of being impeded for effectiveness or victory. b) The picture is of a soldier whose weapon is entangled or trapped in his cloak, unable to defend himself or defeat the enemy! 2) The reason is that he might please him who enlisted him as a soldier. a) He keeps himself from getting entangled in a web. b) He is focused and ready to fight the battle. c) He is wanting to please his commanding officer, Jesus Christ. 2:5 Timothy is to be like an athlete. 1) If anyone competes in athletics. a) The implication is a rigorous agonizing discipline in training. b) The chance of injuries is sure and the sacrifices many. c) The Olympic an Ithmian games were familiar to the Greek mind and Paul used the metaphor often. 1Cor. 9:24-27; Phil. 3:14; 2Tim. 4:7-8 2) An athlete cannot be crowned unless he competes according to the rules. a) The rules nominos refers to what is lawful or permitted and the professional athlete, not an amateur and if a person broke the rules he would be disqualified and all the work and agony would be for nothing, open to public shame and barred from the games. 1Tim. 1:8 1)) They had to prepare ten months before the games.

5 9 10 2)) They had to pledge an oath to Zeus that the preparation would be done right. b) The word for crown Stephano was a victor's crown, laurel wreath. 1Cor. 9:25; 2Tim. 4:8; Heb. 9:27 * There is a crown for royalty diadema. Rev. 12:3; 13:1; 19:12 c) The individual would stand on the victors stand, the Bema, a raised platform. d) The believer will be rewarded at the Bema seat of Christ and the basis will be the 1Cor. 3:11-15; Rom. 14:10; 2Cor. 5:10 e) The rules for the believer is the that cross comes before the crown! 2:6 Timothy was to be like a farmer. 1) A farmer is a tiller of the soil. 2) A farmer is hardworking kopion which means toiling to the point of exhaustion. 1Tim. 5:17 a) He sows, cultivates, waters and harvests. b) Paul said, I have planted, Appolos watered, but God gave the increase. 1Cor. 3:6 3) A farmer must be the first to partake of the crop. a) You will be the first to receive the benefit. 1)) In the harvest of souls and spiritual growth. 2)) In the fruit of labor, pay. 1Tim. 5:17; 1Cor. 9:4-14 b) You can t give what you do not have. 2:7 The call to contemplate the council. 1) Timothy was to consider what Paul said. * The word consider noeo means perceive with the mind, to ponder, meditate Notice the Lord give you understanding or insight. 2) Timothy was not to simply lean to his own understanding but on the Lord s illumination. a) The mind and guidance of God by the Scriptures. Prov. 3:5-7; 1Cor. 2:9-13 b) James say, If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God... Ja. 1:5 c) Such was Paul's prayer for the Ephesian. 2Tim. 1:17-19; Col. 1:9 3) As a son he is to be faithful to pass on the inheritance. As a soldier he is to be victorious through hardship. As an athlete he is to compete through discipline and rules. As a farmer he is to toil that he may bring forth the harvest.

6 :8-10 The available power of Christ for sufferings. 2:8 Christ is the source of power. 1) The seed of David refers to his humanity as the promised Messiah. 2Sam. 7:12 a) Jesus marks His humanity. b) Messiah marks His deity. c) The present imperative indicates, keep on remembering. 2) He was raised out from among the dead, defeating death. 2Tim. 1:10 a) Timothy was to remember that the power that raise Jesus was available to him. Eph. 1:19-20 b) He abolished death and the power of death. 1Cor. 15:55; Heb. 2:14 c) Through being a faithful son, soldier, athlete and farmer, Christ through His sufferings defeated Satan. 3) He was raise according to my gospel. a) The Good News for mankind. Rom. 1:1-4; 1Cor. 15:1-4 b) The reference to my gospel is found two other times in Romans. Rom. 2:16; 16:25 c) Peter said, We have not followed cunningly devised fables. 2Pet. 1:16 2:9 Paul was in prison as a result of the gospel. 1) Paul was view by the unsaved both Jew and Gentile as an evil doer. a) The phrase evil doer kokouragos means a criminal or malfactor. b) They saw him as one doing harm to society at large rather than good. 2) The evidence was in his chains in a Roman prison. 2Tim. 1:8; 3:12 3) The important thing is that the Word of God, the Gospel can not be chained or bound. a) The word for chained deo literally means shackles or fetters b) The word went forth to the churches as Paul was in his first imprisonment and he saw himself as there by appointment for the furtherance of the gospel. Phil. 1:12-14 c) Paul wrote the four Prison Epistles, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon. d) Paul told the Colossians that he was filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ for his body's sake, the church. Col. 1:24 e) The Lord had stood with Paul in his last hours. 2Tim. 4: :10 The love of Paul for the elect. 1) Paul says that the reason he endures all things is for the elect s sake.

7 13 14 a) The word endure hupomeno means to bear up under, to tolerate or take to oneself. b) Not for his own benefit but for the elect or chosen. 1)) The elect can be the Jews sometimes in the Scriptures. 2)) The elect at other times are those saved and comprising the church. 3)) The context will always determine which one is being indicated. 4)) In our text refers to those who will be saved but it does not exclude the Jews who were rebellious to the gospel at Ephesus and were attempting to teach the Law as a form of righteousness before God. 1Tim. 1:3-4, 7; 2: ) Paul hope was that they might obtain like he salvation which is in Christ Jesus, not the Law. a) In the Messiah, the anointed of God. b) In Him is the only hope of eternal glory. 3) The election is not automatic but through free-will, both are Scriptural and necessary without any contradiction. a) Predestined before the foundation of the world. Eph. 1:4 b) According to foreknowledge of God... 1Pet. 1:2 c) Looking to eternal glory. Rom. 8:28-29 d) The key is Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. 1:27 e) When Christ who is our life shall appear, we shall appear with Him in glory. Col. 3:4 2:11-13 The various promises of Christ. 2:11a The faithful saying of Paul. 1) The phrase can refer to what precedes or what follows. a. Two of the five seem to point to what precedes it. 1Tim. 4:9; Tit. 3:8 b. The other three seem to point to what proceeds, our text being one of the three. 1Tim. 1:15; 3:1; 2Tim. 2:11 1)) There are some commentators who feel that this particular text refers to what precedes it but I don't agree with them. 2)) The saying is certainly in relation to what precedes it but it is not the saying itself. 3)) The entire picture of the metaphors communicates service that costs, hardship and suffering with faithfulness. vs. 1-6

8 )) The primary example of Jesus and the supporting example of Paul are models of faithfulness. vs ) The saying is after the order Hebrew poetry of parallelism with an If clause followed by a conclusion. a) The first two are in the positive. vs a-b b) The last two are in the negative. vs. 12c-13 3) This is a faithful or trustworthy saying. vs. 11a * The reason that it is trustworthy is that it is re-enforcing the topic of sufferings that are endured for Christ sake and the elect. 2:11b-12b The two positive parts of the saying. 1) If we have died with him literally in the aorist tense, we shall also live with Him, referring to now in the present, not the future. vs. 11b-c * The doctrine of reckoning the Old Man dead. Rom. 6:3-6, 11 2) If we endure huponomen, continuously, the tense is present tense, we shall also reign with Him in the future in the Kingdom Age. vs. 12a-b 1)) This is the benefit to those who endure and are faithful to the end. Matt. 10:22 2)) Jesus said If you confess Me before men if you deny me... Matt. 10: :12c-13 The two negative parts of the saying. 1) If we deny him, He also will deny us. Vs. 12c-d a) Such as Hymenaeus, Philetus and Demas. 2Tim. 1:17-16; 4:10 b) This is a strong warning to those who will not enter heaven. 2) If we are faithless, He remains faithful. Vs. 13 a) The idea is that if we are faithless to believe who He is, even what He says, it does not make Him or the truth unfactual truth, it remains Divine truth. b) He will hold every person responsible for what they know and denied about the words of the gospel, in word or deed, otherwise He would be denying Himself as God who can not lie. c) Jesus will be faithful to reward to faithful and to punish and deny the unfaithful. Num. 23:10; Tit. 1:2 3) What great capacities we have in Christ, what great power we have in Christ, what

9 great promise we have in Christ, let us be faithful sons and daughters. a) Let us be victorious soldiers. b) Let us be disciplined athletes. c) Let us be toiling farmers