Jesus Fellowship: All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God. 10/30/15

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Day 302

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2 Timothy 4

Preach the Word

4 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Personal Instructions

9 Do your best to come to me soon. 10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,[b] Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. 12 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. 15 Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. 16 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Final Greetings

19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus. 21 Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.[c]

22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.[d]

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom[a] you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[b] may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

Our only resolve October 30th

“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants [or, resolves] to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” JAMES 4:4

James exposes the source of our struggles. The word “wants” in this verse is very significant. It means “resolves.” This same word is used by Paul in 1 Timothy 6:9-10, which sheds further light on our understanding: 9 “Those who desire [or, resolve] to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” The word “desire” in verse 9 is not merely an impulse to be rich. It is a resolve to be rich. It is the kind of decision one makes with a definite intention. So Paul speaks of resolving to be rich, and James speaks of resolving to be a friend of the world.

When we receive the Lord, He comes in to take over. All the rights to our life are gone. We belong to Him. We are under His headship. We are under His lordship. To have any resolve other than the resolve to follow Him, to know Him, and to live by Him is to have an evil eye (Matt. 6:23). The Lord tells us that our eye should be “single” (v. 22, ASV). This means that we should have only one goal, look at only one thing, and not tolerate a divided heart. To have a single eye means to have a single heart (vv. 21-23). When the Lord spoke of having a single eye, He did not contrast it with having double vision. Rather, He used the word “evil” as the contrasting wordfor“single.”ThisisbecauseinGod’sthoughthavinganything other than God Himself as our one goal is evil.

Any resolve in our life apart from the Lord Himself will lead us into trouble. There are serious consequences when we resolve to be a friend of the world or when we resolve to be rich. Even to resolve to “get rich for Jesus” is an error of the heart. We only need to have one resolve and that is, “Lord, I love You, and I am one with You. My only desire is to be under You and to follow You on the path of life” (cf. Matt. 7:14). In the New Testament, Paul uses the phrase “Jesus Christ our Lord.” This confession is very significant. It means that the Lord is not someone outside of us that we are observing from afar. No! He is the One who lives and rules in us. When we feel inwardly restrained from doing or saying something, we need to go along with that restraint. Jesus Christ is not just our Savior. He is our Lord! Our only resolve is to say “Amen” and “Yes” to Him.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Anna, Ariana, Ariel, Georgie, Wes, and Zoe.