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"Trucebreakers". And there's such a complete, total absence of love. 2 Timothy 3 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible It is needful to exercise judgment now. I am not at liberty of course to leave Christendom, I dare not get out of the great house at all; indeed I cannot (at any rate without becoming an apostate) leave the house of God, however bad its state may be. 1. The braggart is a swaggering creature, who tries to bluster his way into power and eminence. Any conversion which makes a man think of nothing but the fact that he has been saved is no true conversion. Man can do it but not God. Christ's apostles had no enemies but those who did not know them, or not know them fully; those who knew them best loved and honoured them the most. "Much the greatest rogue of all is the man who has gulled his city into the belief that he is fit to direct it.". All that will live godly So opposite to the spirit and practice of the world is the whole of Christianity, that he who gives himself entirely up to God, making the Holy Scriptures the rule of his words and actions, will be less or more reviled and persecuted. Thus the apostle comes to the close of his ministry, and touches upon the line of St. John. God said it.They are profitable. Paul "the aged," as he says, was just about to leave this world. The emphasis of so many people is just on being beautiful, lovers of themselves. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL He was to continue in the things which he had learned, and had been assured of, knowing of whom he had learned them a very important point. He must maintain this confidence, knowing that the Scriptures are divinely given and that they are Gods means of instructing people in right belief and right living. Death and resurrection, then, are thus put before this servant of God; the more remarkably, because the point here is a practical and not a doctrinal question. And may not their freedom from it prove that they have surrendered the principles of their religion, where they should have stood firm, though the world were arrayed against them? The Christian emancipation of women inevitably brought its problems. It is still possible for a teacher to gain an undue and unhealthy influence over others, especially when they are impressionable. In other words, there is within the Old Testament so much concerning Jesus Christ that through the understanding and the study of the Old Testament you should logically be led to Jesus Christ. There are still Church dignitaries whose main thought is their own dignity; but the Christian is the follower of him who was meek and lowly in heart. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. They appear to think that if you hold life in Christ to be the one thing that is most precious, to be the prize that your heart reverts to, all owning of anything short of this would be out of place; but it is exactly the contrary. A man may embrace some absurd opinion, and call it religion; he may adopt some mode of dress irresistibly ludicrous, from the mere love of singularity, and may call it conscience; or he may be boorish in his manners, and uncivil in his deportment, outraging all the laws of social life, and may call this deadness to the world; and for these, and similar things, he may be contemned, ridiculed, and despised.