1. Approved
2 Timothy 2:14-19

2. beware false teachers
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in

3. beware false teachers
among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be on the alert… Acts 20:28-31

4. beware false teachers
As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere

5. beware false teachers
speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith… For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not

6. beware false teachers
understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions. 1 Timothy 1:3-7

7. 2 Timothy 2:14-19
Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman

8. 2 Timothy 2:14-19
who does not need to be ashamed accurately handling the word of truth. But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are

9. 2 Timothy 2:14-19
Hymenaeus and Philetus, men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

10. 2 Timothy 2:14-19
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”

11. 4 negative; 2 positive
Do not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. Avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness.

12. 4 negative; 2 positive
Their talk will spread like gangrene. Hymenaeus & Philetus, men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

13. word wrangling New Testament examples:
Greek philosophy that denied a literal future resurrection.
Jewish genealogies and legal debates that devalued grace.

14. word wrangling Examples today: Unending debates: theological issues
-election/predestination
-extent of the atonement
-sovereignty
-free will

15. word wrangling
Date setting

16. word wrangling Examples today: Unending debates: church issues
-style of music/instruments
-communion: wine or juice?
-pews or chairs?
-which Bible version?

17. word wrangling Concerns: Unending debates... -distracts the hearers
-discord sown among the church
-divisions result
-deters us from Word

18. word wrangling Concerns: Unending debates...
Hymenaeus and Philetus, men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place. (2 Tim. 2:17-18)

19. word wrangling Concerns: Unending debates...
Some have suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith…Hymenaeus… whom I have handed over to Satan, so that he will be taught not to blaspheme (1 Tim 1:19-20)

20. word wrangling Concerns: Unending debates...
…and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:28-31)

21. 4 negative; 2 positive
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

22. 2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth

23. 2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth

24. 2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth

25. 2 Timothy 2:15
Approved to God -I’m not fully accepted by God now? -What kind of approval is this? -I have to work for God’s approval?

26. 2 Timothy 2:15
Approved to God -δόκιμος (dokimos): pertaining to being genuine on the basis of testing; qualify; approve; an evaluation.

27. all kinds of evaluations
Movie reviews: 4 stars! **** Hotel reviews: 2 stars  Restaurants: stars or points system Football recruits: 1-5 star athletes Midterms & Finals

28. all kinds of evaluations

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35. James 1:2-3
Approved to God -δόκιμος (dokimos) Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

36. 1 Corinthians 3:13
Approved to God -δόκιμος (dokimos) …each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.

37. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Approved to God -δόκιμος (dokimos) Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the

38. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Approved to God -δόκιμος (dokimos) games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore, I run in such a way,

39. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Approved to God -δόκιμος (dokimos) as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

40. 2 Timothy 2:15
Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed

41. 2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth

42. Intentional
Influential
Intensive
The Word of Truth

43. Intentional
Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it…(Ezra 7:10a) Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman…(2 Timothy 2:15)

44. Influential
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind… (Romans 12:2a)

45. Influential
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteous-ness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. (2 Tim. 3:16)

46. Intensive
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where

47. Intensive
we were gathered together. And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was

48. Intensive
picked up dead. But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”  When he had gone back  up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long

49. Intensive
while until daybreak, and then left. They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted. (Acts 20:7-12)

50. Intensive
But when God…was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia…(Galatians 1:15-17)

51. Intensive
Although by this time you ought to be teachers…(Hebrews 5:12a) Like newborn infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation. (1 Peter 2:2)

52. 4 negative; 2 positive
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”

53. 4 negative; 2 positive
A reminder from God… That His church still stands and will not be thwarted by those wrongly focused on useless words.

54. 2 Timothy 2:14-19
Useless Words The Word of Truth

55. What’s next?
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58. Approved
2 Timothy 2:14-19