Teaching Your Timothy

1. TeachingYourTimothy 2 Timothy 3:10-15

2. Danny Murphy George Goldman

3. How many will be faithful servants of God because of the time you took last week?

4. Basil Overton: “I love what I’m doing, because I don’t know what I’m doing.”

5. Basil Overton: “I love what I’m doing, because I don’t know what I’m doing.” His point: We do not know the lives we may be impacting because of our work.

6. Basil Overton: “I love what I’m doing, because I don’t know what I’m doing.” His point: We do not know the lives we may be impacting because of our work. • Dennis Jones: “Gentlemen, we are changing the population of heaven.”

7. Basil Overton: “I love what I’m doing, because I don’t know what I’m doing.” His point: We do not know the lives we may be impacting because of our work. • Dennis Jones: “Gentlemen, we are changing the population of heaven.” You hard work is “changing the population of heaven.”

8. This morning’s text deals with the positive influence of proper teaching.

9. 2 Timothy 3:10-15

10. Timothy was apparently still in Ephesus when Paul wrote 2 Timothy to him.

11. Timothy was apparently still in Ephesus when Paul wrote 2 Timothy to him. • False teaching was a problem in Ephesus.

12. Timothy was apparently still in Ephesus when Paul wrote 2 Timothy to him. • False teaching was a problem in Ephesus. • “As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine” (1 Tm 1:3, ESV).

13. Timothy was apparently still in Ephesus when Paul wrote 2 Timothy to him. • False teaching was a problem in Ephesus. • 1 Tm 1:3. • “O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called ‘knowledge,’ for by professing it some have swerved from the faith” (1 Tm 6:20-21, ESV).

14. The context of this morning’s text is also false teaching.

15. The context of this morning’s text is also false teaching. • “Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith” (3:8, ESV).

16. The context of this morning’s text is also false teaching. • “Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith” (3:8, ESV). • Then, Paul contrasts the behavior of the false teachers with the expected behavior of Timothy.

17. The context of this morning’s text is also false teaching. • “Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith” (3:8, ESV). • Then, Paul contrasts the behavior of the false teachers with the expected behavior of Timothy. • “You, however, have followed my teaching....” (v 10, ESV).

18. The context of this morning’s text is also false teaching. • “Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith” (3:8, ESV). • Then, Paul contrasts the behavior of the false teachers with the expected behavior of Timothy. • “You, however, have followed my teaching....” (v 10, ESV). • The false teachers lived one way, but Paul expected Timothy to live another way.

19. In pointing out the way he expected Timothy to live, Paul points back to Timothy’s teaching.

20. In pointing out the way he expected Timothy to live, Paul points back to Timothy’s teaching. • This morning, we wish to examine what Timothy was taught, how he was taught, & the purpose for which he was taught.

21. In pointing out the way he expected Timothy to live, Paul points back to Timothy’s teaching. • This morning, we wish to examine what Timothy was taught, how he was taught, & the purpose for which he was taught. • Our aim is to understand the work of teaching.

22. Teaching’s Pattern vv 10-11

23. “You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endures; yet from them all the Lord rescued me” (vv 10-11, ESV).

24. Timothy had an example in Paul.

25. Timothy had an example in Paul. • “You have followed….”

26. Timothy had an example in Paul. • “You have followed….” • The Greek term “followed” is a technical term for the relation of a disciple to his teacher.

27. Timothy had an example in Paul. • “You have followed….” • The Greek term “followed” is a technical term for the relation of a disciple to his teacher. • In Jewish society, pupils would gather around a teacher, not just to gain “book learning,” but to learn how to live.

28. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first.

29. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God.

30. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • Timothy accompanied Paul on missionary journeys.

31. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • Timothy accompanied Paul on missionary journeys. • “Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek” (Acts 16:3, ESV).

32. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • Timothy accompanied Paul on missionary journeys. • “Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek” (Acts 16:3, ESV). • Timothy would have learned much as he heard Paul preach on those journeys.

33. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • Timothy accompanied Paul on missionary journeys. • Timothy was present when Paul wrote some of his Epistles.

34. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • Timothy accompanied Paul on missionary journeys. • Timothy was present when Paul wrote some of his Epistles: E.g., “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother” (2 Cor 1:1, ESV).

35. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • But, Paul’s teaching was not divorced from his character.

36. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • But, Paul’s teaching was not divorced from his character. • Paul immediately follows “my teaching” up with traits such as “conduct,” “faith,” “patience,” & “love.”

37. Notice that among the attributes Timothy gained from Paul, “my teaching” is mentioned first. • Paul did, indeed, teach Timothy the truth of God. • But, Paul’s teaching was not divorced from his character. • Paul immediately follows “my teaching” up with traits such as “conduct,” “faith,” “patience,” & “love.” • Paul did not live by the maxim: “Do as I say but not as I do”!

38. We must understand that what we teach matters greatly, but how we live also matters greatly.

39. We must understand that what we teach matters greatly, but how we live also matters greatly. • “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice” (Mt 23:2-3, ESV).

40. We must understand that what we teach matters greatly, but how we live also matters greatly. • “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice” (Mt 23:2-3, ESV). • We must never allow such words to be said of us!

41. Mario Cuomo: “I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week.”

42. What are we teaching by our example?

43. Teaching’s Prevention vv 12-13

44. “Evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it” (vv 12-13, ESV).

45. Evil individuals will grow worse, both “deceiving” & “being deceived.”

46. Evil individuals will grow worse, both “deceiving” & “being deceived.” • Deception has been Satan’s ploy since time began.

47. Evil individuals will grow worse, both “deceiving” & “being deceived.” • Deception has been Satan’s ploy since time began. • When Satan “lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44, ESV).

48. Evil individuals will grow worse, both “deceiving” & “being deceived.” • Deception has been Satan’s ploy since time began. • When Satan “lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44, ESV). • “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:14, ESV).

49. No wonder Satan deceives!

50. No wonder Satan deceives! If he told the truth, who would follow?