II Timothy Ch 1

In Paul’s second letter to Timothy we’ll examine the threads of remembrance, warning and encouragement Paul delivers to strengthen Timothy to continue in ministry even as Paul readies for his departure from this world into the glorious heavenly kingdom of God.

We note the fact that Paul remembers Timothy’s grandmother Lois, and his mother Eunice, but not his father, who Paul reminds him is God in heaven, and Paul on earth. We’ll study through what Paul means that he and Timothy were given God’s grace, “,,,in Christ Jesus before the world began in light of Calvinist, Open Theist, and plain Biblical thought.

Did God understand that in creating beings other than himself that sin and death would be an inevitable reality he would have to overcome? What is the BIG difference in the gospel Paul has been appointed to preach as an apostle and a teacher of the gentiles? What is the division Paul marks when he says “…but now is made manifest by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ?” And was Cornelius saved into the Body, or into the Little Flock?

Find out what God’s will is for your life is! It’s simpler than you might think! I Tim 2:4, that all men would be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. And that Paul was “appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.”

When Paul said “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” What day was he tasking about? We’ll pursue the biblical uses of the word “form” and discuss the doctrine of biblical preservation in light of the power of the love in Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit..

And we’ll try to determine if Paul’s reference to Onesiphorus being granted Christ mercy “in that day holds a clue to whether or not “all those who are in Asia” turning against him refers to an apostacy, or the lack of friendly witnesses at his trial before Caesar.

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