But of the Son He says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.” Hebrews 1:8 NASB O God – Could there be a more powerful proof text for the Trinity than this? Here the author of Hebrews seems to clearly state that the Son…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Unholy – Describe the unholy person. Write down his character traits (or flaws). What you will end up with is a list of culturally conditioned spiritual and behavioral attributes. And you won’t come…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Ungrateful – One day quite a few years ago my wife remarked about the joylessness of my life. “Why are you so down all the time? Why don’t you just take one of…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Disobedient to parents – “Honor your father and mother” says the Law. But sometimes we need a word like goneusin to remind us why respect and deference are required. Goneusin is the Greek…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Revilers – Once you read the Greek, you have no doubt about the meaning of this word, but in English translations the true intent will escape you. The word is blasphemoi. Ah, now…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Arrogant – Aristotle invented the “Golden Mean.” But God gave him the idea. Like most things in life, extremes lead to sin. Standing on the middle ground is often the way to avoid…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Boastful – Not exactly! The NASB translation of alazon doesn’t quite capture the idea Paul has in mind. That’s because in the Tanakh and the LXX, alazon points us to yahir, a Hebrew…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Lovers of Money – I’m guessing that most of you are too young to remember the punch line of the advertisement, “A little dab’ll do ya.” The message was clear. You just need…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Lovers of self – How do you make an atomic bomb? One of the important steps is to build a core that implodes in order to create enough energy to set off the…
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 Timothy 3:1 NASB Last days – So how will we know we are in the last days? First, let’s examine the question. Do we need to know? Is the question even appropriate? In an important sense, this question reveals human pride, not…
