2 Timothy 4:3 - Forerunner Commentary

2 Timothy 4:3

Preach the Word

1 I ^acharge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ^bwho will judge the living and the dead² at His appearing and His kingdom:

2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. ^aConvince, ^brebuke, ^cexhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

3 ^aFor the time will come when they will not endure ^bsound doctrine, ^cbut according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and ^abe turned aside to fables.

5 But you be watchful in all things, ^aendure afflictions, do the work of ^ban evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Paul’s Valedictory

6 For ^aI am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of ^bmy departure is at hand.

7 ^aI have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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We see here indications of the influence of the world, the influence of the Babylonian mystery religion surrounding Christians wherever they might live. Gradually wearing them down, simply by its presence as well as by (from time to time) open persecution against the Christians. Gradually people were weakening rather than being strengthened and beginning to feel that the best thing to do was to give in—in—inch by inch—to what was going on. And beginning to request of the ministry, things that were not so close to the truth that they had been given by the apostles.

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