But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.
(2 Timothy 3:9)
(2 Timothy 3:9)
While this verse really doesn't apply, it does remind me of bad drivers. How many times have you been cut off by someone (cut off means the drive right around you, pull over right in front of you, almost hitting you)? It usually brings a response like "look out!" or "what were you thinking!". Well, at least from me. This is a bad driver. Or maybe a angry driver? And then, to add topping to the fright cake, the driver immediately exits the road.
That is when I look back in my rear view mirror and notice that there is no one else behind me!
So what gives?
Then I go to service and I hear this example: "When someone cuts you off, how do you react?" and I proceed to get dressed down about being a "Christian Example" to the other driver. What other driver? He or she blew by me and came just this close (hold up two fingers 1 inch apart) of removing my family from the highway. He never noticed.
But, if the above verse really did apply here, I love the first part of the verse....they will not get very far...great!
And that is so true of just about everything isn't it?
The verse is actually talking about people who oppose the truth, the gospel. and how Paul confronts these people: "But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, "(2 Timothy 3:10)
Paul really let's them have, by living like Jesus.
So the question here is this-what example are you living today? Can you oppose those who oppose the truth?
And finally, can you bear the cost?
and my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
(2 Timothy 3:11)
Can you bear being the example, like Paul bore the example?
That is when I look back in my rear view mirror and notice that there is no one else behind me!
So what gives?
Then I go to service and I hear this example: "When someone cuts you off, how do you react?" and I proceed to get dressed down about being a "Christian Example" to the other driver. What other driver? He or she blew by me and came just this close (hold up two fingers 1 inch apart) of removing my family from the highway. He never noticed.
But, if the above verse really did apply here, I love the first part of the verse....they will not get very far...great!
And that is so true of just about everything isn't it?
The verse is actually talking about people who oppose the truth, the gospel. and how Paul confronts these people: "But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, "(2 Timothy 3:10)
Paul really let's them have, by living like Jesus.
So the question here is this-what example are you living today? Can you oppose those who oppose the truth?
And finally, can you bear the cost?
and my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
(2 Timothy 3:11)
Can you bear being the example, like Paul bore the example?