Here's an outline for this week's scripture. You can always click TM for the passage in The Message .
- 3:1 Terrible times ahead
- 3:5 There will people that are religious on the outside, but who don't tap into, or even acknowledge the power there
- a. Avoid these people
- 3:10 You know all about me: my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
- 3:11 persecutions, sufferings – all the stuff that happened in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. But the Lord rescued me from all that.
- 3:12 In fact, all serious followers of Jesus will be persecuted
- 3:13 while evil people and fakes will just get worse, deceiving and being deceived
- 3:14 But you:
- a. Continue in what you've learned
- 1) remember that you've been convinced of it
- 2) remember who you've learned it from
- 3:15 You've been learning the scripture your whole life
- a. it's able to make you wise for salvation
- 1) through faith in Jesus
- 3:16 Scripture is:
- a. God-breathed and therefore useful for:
- 1) teaching us
- 2) showing where we are wrong
- 3) correcting us
- 4) training us in righteousness
- b. so that we can be properly equipped for whatever
- 4:5 Do this:
- a. keep your head in all situations – stay calm
- b. put up with hardship – endure it
- c. share the good news
- d. do your complete ministry – do all the things needed/required
- 4:6 For:
- a. I'm being sacrificed, like pouring out a drink offering
- b. my life is drawing to an end
- 4:7 I have:
- a. struggled to make certain I have done what I was supposed to
- b. completed all that I was assigned to do
- c. kept the faith, meaning:
- 1) I haven't abandoned or betrayed the Lord
- 2) I took my orders from God speaking to my heart
- 3) I've maintained and pursued a deeper relationship with the Lord
- 4:8 I will be rewarded by the Lord, and so will all who have wanted desperately to see him
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