Category Archives: 2 Timothy

2 Timothy, 2021, Acts, Amos

Carpet Color?

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Have you as I often heard or even said yourself, ‘we can agree to disagree?”

I have come to think that is not Biblical.
I have yet to find an address in Scripture that says we are allowed to agree to disagree.
Example.
Paul and Barnabas had such a disagreement they parted company.
They did not agree to disagree.
Their disagreement had to do with John Mark. (Don’t you just love that name? John Mark. Sounds like his mama could have yelled that out the backdoor so well.)
Paul did not want John Mark to go along on their next missionary journey and Barnabas did.
Check it out HERE.
Sometime later Paul changed his mind about John Mark. (2 Timothy 4:11)
So perhaps he and Barnabas came to a time they could keep company again even before they got to Heaven.
I hope so.

It is the will of the Father that His children be of one accord. (See Acts 2)

Scripture asks us this question:

Amos 3:3  (NKJV) 3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? source

In the Body of Christ, we don’t get to agree to disagree over Sin.
We don’t get to agree to disagree over Scripture.
We get to come together in one accord and pray until we KNOW what GOD has said and we both agree with HIM which puts us in agreement with one another.

Red carpet or Blue carpet?
Really? Are we going to divide the Body over that?!
For these kinds of matters to bring us to hot words and slamming doors means we have far, far, far uglier problems in our hearts than carpet color.download (6)

1 Peter, 2 Timothy, 2021, Questions

Eating

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Just a quick word. It seems important. 

2 Timothy 2:15 and 1 Peter 2:2
Both are familiar.

2 Timothy 2:15  (NKJV) 
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. source

It takes work to eat. You have to be intentional.  Good nutrition does not come without effort. 
Planning, prepping, preparing, and actually eating. 

1 Peter 2:2  (NKJV) 
2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, source

Newborns. Have you noticed Moms don’t have to beg healthy newborns to take milk?
So, based on 1 Peter 2:2 why do Christians not desire the Word of GOD as intently as babies desire milk?

That’s it. I promised quick. 

2 Timothy, 2021, Gospel of Matthew, Guests, Political awareness

An Offer to Read

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I have a read for you this morning.

It is entitled The Stupidest Idea Ever. No, I did not write it. :)

Is it a political sounding piece? 
It is. 

Is it a call to be an unlawful militant?
Nope.
But it is to encourage those who prize truth and freedom, to know we are not alone, stay in peace and hope, and do what is right. 

Again I say these are the days to be Wise as serpents, harmless as doves, and to study to show ourselves approved.

Matthew 10:16  (NKJV)
Persecutions Are Coming
16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. source

2 Timothy 2:14-16  (NKJV)
14 Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. source

Click HERE to read the aforementioned article by Mario Murillo.