QT 24/10/2024 Thu. 2Timothy 3. Imitating Who? 效法谁?

QT 24/10/2024 Thu. 2Timothy 3. Imitating Who? 效法谁?

QT 24/10/2024 Thu. 2Timothy 3. Imitating Who?
READ http://www.esvbible.org/2tim3

The Scripture is ancient but also modern. Many will identify with 2Tim 3:2-4, "For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive" etc.

REFLECTION (1): Have I followed Paul's warning to "Avoid such people" (2Tim 3:5). Have I resolved to remove all such negative traits mentioned in 2Tim 3:2-4 from my life with God's help?

Paul, however, exhorts Timothy to "continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it" (2Tim 3:14).

REFLECTION (2): Do you KNOW those from whom you learn about Christian teaching, conduct", aim in life, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, persecutions and sufferings (2Tim 3:10)?

REFLECTION (3): Are you consciously observing how your teachers overcome all these challenges in their own lives? Are you imitating their victorious examples?

REFLECTION (4): Do we move beyond "teaching" (2Tim 3:16) and also use God's word for "rebuking, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness"?


星期四 2024年10月24日 今日读经:提摩太后书3章。效法谁?
http://m.bbintl.org/bible/ncv/2Ti/3/

圣经的话语贯穿古今。许多人会认同提后3:2-4,“那时,人会专爱自己、贪爱钱财、自夸、高傲、亵渎、恶言中伤”等。

反思(1):我是否遵从保罗的嘱咐“这些人你应当避开”(提后3:5)。我是否也决志在神的帮助下,从我的生命中除去提后3:2-4所提到的恶习?

然而,保罗呼吁提摩太“应当遵守所学和确信的;你知道是跟谁学的”(提后3:14)。

反思(2):你是否认识那些教导你有关基督教信仰、行为、人生目标、信心、忍耐、爱、坚定、逼迫和苦难的人(提后3:10)?

反思(3):你是否特别留意你的老师如何克服生命中的这些挑战?你是否也仿效他们得胜的例子?

反思(4):我们是否不仅仅停留在“教导”(提后3:16)而是利用神的话语来“教训、责备、矫正和公义的训练”?