September 14, 2014
At the start of the third chapter of his second letter to Timothy, Paul warned this young pastor about difficulties he could expect from the surrounding culture. Alistair Begg helps us see that these same difficulties have been faced by every generation of believers and explains how the world’s “solution” to the underlying problem is itself part of the problem. Only in Christ do we find the real answer: loving God above all.
1But understand this, that yin the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2For people will be zlovers of self, alovers of money, bproud, barrogant, abusive, bdisobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3cheartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, dnot loving good, 4treacherous, reckless, eswollen with conceit, flovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having the appearance of godliness, but gdenying its power. hAvoid such people.
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