Review of October 13
In our second session we focused on our Covenant position and condition of being the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Especially in light of the exhortation of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:34. “Awake to righteousness and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” Awakening to the spiritual reality that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus will help us to stop sinning against God and become a vessel of honor.
[Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition] Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.
[Disciples’ Literal New Testament] Sober-up righteously and do not be sinning, for some have an ignorance of God. I speak to your shame.
[1599 Geneva Bible] Awake to live righteously, and sin not: for some have not the knowledge of God, I speak this to your shame.
[Christian Standard Bible] Come to your senses and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.
[Wycliffe Bible] Awake ye, just men, and do not ye do sin; for some men have ignorance of God, but to reverence I speak to you. [Wake ye, just, and do not ye sin; forsooth some have ignorance of God, to reverence I speak to you.]
October 20 Teaching
2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
a. Amplified Bible: But avoid all empty vain, useless, idle talk, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness.
b. NLT: Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior.
1. “But shun profane and vain babblings…”
a. shun [Strong: 4026 periistemi per-ee-is'-tay-mee [perry-is-te-mee] from 4012 and 2476; to stand all around, i.e. (near) to be a bystander, or (aloof) to keep away from:--avoid, shun, stand by (round about).] [Zodhiates: to place oneself from a distance from, avoiding.]
b. profane [Strong: 952 bebelos beb'-ay-los from the base of 939 and belos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked:--profane (person).] [Zodhiates: unhallowed, the opposite of sacred, profane, void of religion.] [Google Chrome Search: relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious. (of a person or their behavior) not respectful of orthodox religious practice; irreverent. (of language) blasphemous or obscene.]
1). 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
a). We keep or guard what has been committed to us by avoiding profane and vain talk.
2). 1 Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
c. [and] vain babblings [Strong: 2757 kenophonia ken-of-o-nee'-ah from a presumed compound of 2756 and 5456; empty sounding, i.e. fruitless discussion:--vain.] [Zodhiates: kenophonia; keno-vain; phone-a voice; Empty or fruitless speaking.]
1). Pastor Mike’s preaching of not watching his favorite western because God’s name is being used in vain. The Holy Spirit has used his words to convict me about what I view as entertainment.
2). Taking God’s name in vain was the Third Commandment.
a). Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
b). Under the Mosaic Covenant they were put to death for this (Leviticus 24:10-16). Psalm 139:20 says the enemies of God take his name in vain.
3). All Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament except for the Fourth Commandment of keeping the Sabbath. The Third Commandment is repeated in 1 Timothy 1:20 and 1 Timothy 6:1. Ephesians 4:29 tells me not to let any corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth. I had to change what I viewed as entertainment.
2. “…for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”
a. for [Strong: 1063 gar gar a primary particle; properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles):--and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.]
b. [they will] increase [Strong: 4298 prokopto prok-op'-to from 4253 and 2875; to drive forward (as if by beating), i.e. (figuratively and intransitively) to advance (in amount, to grow; in time, to be well along):--increase, proceed, profit, be far spent, wax.] [Zodhiates: prokopto; pro-before, forward; kopto-to cut, strike, impel; In 2 Timothy 2:16 it means to further.]
b. unto [Strong: 1909 epi ep-ee' a primary preposition; properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc.:--about (the times), above, after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, X have charge of, (be-, (where-))fore, in (a place, as much as, the time of, -to), (because) of, (up-)on (behalf of), over, (by, for) the space of, through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), with. In compounds it retains essentially the same import, at, upon, etc. (literally or figuratively).]
c. more [Strong: 4119 pleion pli-own, or neuter pleion pli'-on, or pleon pleh'-on comparative of 4183; more in quantity, number, or quality; also (in plural) the major portion:--X above, + exceed, more excellent, further, (very) great(-er), long(-er), (very) many, greater (more) part, + yet but.]
d. ungodliness [Strong: 763 asebeia as-eb'-i-ah from 765; impiety, i.e. (by implication) wickedness:--ungodly(-liness).]
1). The grace of God was given to us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts.
a). Titus 2:11, 12 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
2). Words are seeds. Profane, empty speaking will increase [or descend] into ungodliness. The process is further described in the next verse. This is one of the warnings against indulging in popular culture. American popular culture is overflowing with content not fit to watch. Under the guise of free speech, TV programs, movies and music provide seeds and fertilizer to produce more and more ungodliness. It is a universal spiritual law that seeds will reproduce after their own kind. Not only is the level of corruption increasing but the speed at which it is increasing is accelerating. Ungodliness is increasing. Institute Of Creation Research Daily Devotional 8/2/2013: The results of “profane and vain babblings" are not good. Ungodliness will increase. Error will eat away at spiritual health and truth like gangrene. (2 Peter 3:17). HMM III
3). Our words are very powerful and important.
a). Matthew 12:33-37 [Classic Amplified] Either make the tree sound (healthy and good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good), or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit.
12:34 You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the Superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks.
12:35 The good man from his inner good treasure Flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse Flings forth evil things.
12:36 But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every Idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.
12:37 For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.
b). Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].
c). Hebrews 6:4, 5 For it is impossible [to restore and bring again to repentance] those who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
6:5 And have felt how good the Word of God is and the mighty powers of the age and world to come,
4). One way it leads to more ungodliness is sin will cause our spirits to be hardened or calloused to the degree we will not hear the voice of God when He is speaking to us.
a). Hebrews 3:12, 13 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
2 Timothy 2:17
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
a. Amplified Bible: And their teaching will devour; it will eat its way like cancer or spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus.
b. NLT: This kind of talk spreads like cancer, as in the case of Hymenaeus and Philetus.
1. “And their word will eat as doth a canker…”
a. word [Strong: 3056 logos log'-os from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):--account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.]
b. will eat [Strong: 2192 echo ekh'-o, including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; (used in certain tenses only) a primary verb; to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition):--be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.]
c. [doth a] canker [Strong: 1044 gaggraina gang'-grahee-nah from graino (to gnaw); an ulcer ("gangrene"):--canker.] [Zodhiates: Gangrene or mortification which, unless properly treated, spreads from the place affected and eats away or consumes the neighboring parts of the body and at length destroys the whole body.]
1). Combining the two verses, it says that profane, fruitless and empty words that are the opposite of, or opposing the sacred, opposing the truth of Scripture are to be avoided because ingesting them, dwelling on them will increase ungodliness. The words themselves will eat like gangrene. It will be a breeding ground or a feeding ground for ungodliness.
2). This verse reinforces the principle of the power of words. Here Paul writes that words, profane, and unhallowed, will further ungodliness. These kinds of words will eat like gangrene and instead of flesh it eats something else. The next two verses reveal just what it eats. Profane , secular and empty words will eat away at our faith.
2. “…of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;”
a. Hymeneus [Unger’s Bible Dictionary] “Pertaining to Hymen, the god of marriage, a person in Ephesus twice named in the Epistles of Timothy, who along with Alexander (1 Timothy 1:20) and Philetus (2 Timothy 2:18) had departed from the truth in faith and practice. The chief doctrinal error of these persons consisted in maintaining that “the resurrection was past already” 2 Timothy 2:18. The precise meaning of this expression is by no means clearly ascertained; the most general and perhaps best founded opinion is, that they understood the resurrection in a figurative sense of the great change produced by the gospel dispensation, thus he stands as on of the earliest of the Gnostics.”
1). As mentioned above the Apostle Paul had dealings with Hymenaeus that was recorded in his first epistle to Timothy.
a). 1 Timothy 1:19, 20 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
b). In Scripture the phrase to “deliver to Satan” is the last action included in the process of church discipline. The individual or individuals are cast out from the local body and then they are “delivered unto Satan”. This probably is an action of prayer where all Divine protection is removed from the person involved and they become an open target for the enemy to attack them in order to force them to repent.
c). Dake: The purpose of delivering him to Satan was to destroy the flesh. This required members to withdraw all fellowship and spiritual influence from him, and to quit praying for him, so as to permit Satan to afflict his body thus perhaps bringing him to repentance, that his spirit might be saved in the end…This destruction did not kill the man. Whatever it was, it was capable of bringing him to repentance.
2). In 1 Timothy 1:19, 20 Hymenaeus and Alexander are described as having “made shipwreck”, because they put away faith. These individuals such as who Jude described in Jude 12.
a). Jude 12 [NASB] “These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feats…”
b). Reefs cause shipwreck.
b. Philetus [Strong: Philetos fil-ay-tos' from 5368; amiable; Philetus, an opposer of Christianity:--Philetus.] [Unger’s Bible Dictionary: an apostate Christian name in connection with Hymenaeus as holding false views regarding the resurrection.]
Institute Of Creation Research Daily Devotional 8/2/2013 The results of these "babblings" are not good. Ungodliness will increase. Error will eat away at spiritual health and truth like gangrene. The two church leaders that Paul mentions, Hymenaeus and Philetus, are listed as examples of such a cancer. They taught that the resurrection had already occurred for the saints. Peter's warning is very similar: "Beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness" (2 Peter 3:17). HMM III
2 Timothy 2:18
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
a. Amplified Bible: Who have missed the mark and swerved from the truth by arguing that the resurrection has already taken place. They are undermining the faith of some.
b. NLT: They have left the path of truth, claiming that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred; in this way, they have turned some people away from the faith.
1. “Who concerning the truth have erred…”
a. truth [225 aletheia al-ay'-thi-a] [Strong: truth:--true, X truly, truth, verity.] [Vine: objectively, signifying "the reality lying at the basis of an appearance; the manifested, veritable essence of a matter"… in Ephesians 4:21, where the RV, "even as truth is in Jesus," gives the correct rendering, the meaning is not merely ethical "truth," but "truth" in all its fullness and scope, as embodied in Him; He was the perfect expression of the truth; this is virtually equivalent to His statement in John 14:6;]
c. have erred [Strong: 795 astocheo as-tokh-eh'-o from a compound of 1 (as a negative particle) and stoichos (an aim); to miss the mark, i.e. (figuratively) deviate from truth:--err, swerve. ]
2. “…saying that the resurrection is past already…”
a. resurrection [Strong: 386 anastasis an-as'-tas-is from 450; a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth):--raised to life again, resurrection, rise from the dead, that should rise, rising again.]
d. is past [Strong: ginomai ghin'-om-ahee a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.):--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.]
e. already [Strong: 2235 ede ay'-day apparently from 2228 (or possibly 2229) and 1211; even now:--already, (even) now (already), by this time.]
1). The doctrine of the resurrection is one of the foundational doctrines of Christianity.
a). Hebrews 6:1, 2 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3. “…and overthrow the faith of some.”
a. overthrow [Strong: 396 anatrepo an-at-rep'-o from 303 and the base of 5157; to overturn (figuratively):--overthrow, subvert.] [Zodhiates: to subvert, overturn.]
c. faith [Strong: 4102 pistis pis'-tis from 3982; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:--assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.]
e. of some [Strong: 5100 tis tis an enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object:--a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).]
1). A foundation of faith can be eaten away by profane and empty words similar to gangrene to the extent it will be overthrown. Lester Sumrall used to say, “Feed your faith and starve your doubts to death!” As has been previously mentioned, Hymeneus had already been excommunicated, out of the Ephesian church. The only two times he is mentioned is in both of Paul’s epistles to Timothy and Timothy was the overseer of the Ephesian church. Looking at the context of his first mention in 1 Timothy, he was probably a leader in the church of Ephesus.
a). 1 Timothy 1:18-2:2 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
2). Notice that after Paul mentioned Hymenaeus being excommunicated in verse 20, Paul begins to exhort Timothy and us about prayer for our leaders. The probable reason is Hymenaeus was a leader in the Ephesian church.
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