2 Timothy 2:11-13 KJV
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
I take the "we" this passage to not so much be a reflection of Paul and Timothy but of mankind in general.
• Those who have trusted Christ as Saviour and are therefore dead with Him are those who shall also live with Him.
• Those believers who particularly suffer in their walk with Christ are those Christians who will reign the most gloriously with Christ in eternity (so that to be fair well here as a Christian is not so much a sign of God's favor, but perhaps a sign of just the opposite.)
• Those who deny the Lord are those who have not been born again.
But the thrust of the lesson is not about mankind at all but about the Lord. The lesson is; whether we die with Him, suffer with Him or deny Him, regardless of how men respond to the Lord, He is still faithful and He is still Christ.
• We take too much upon ourselves.
• We think too highly of ourselves.
He is the unchangeable, immutable One. We do not in any way make the character of God. He makes us!
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
I take the "we" this passage to not so much be a reflection of Paul and Timothy but of mankind in general.
• Those who have trusted Christ as Saviour and are therefore dead with Him are those who shall also live with Him.
• Those believers who particularly suffer in their walk with Christ are those Christians who will reign the most gloriously with Christ in eternity (so that to be fair well here as a Christian is not so much a sign of God's favor, but perhaps a sign of just the opposite.)
• Those who deny the Lord are those who have not been born again.
But the thrust of the lesson is not about mankind at all but about the Lord. The lesson is; whether we die with Him, suffer with Him or deny Him, regardless of how men respond to the Lord, He is still faithful and He is still Christ.
• We take too much upon ourselves.
• We think too highly of ourselves.
He is the unchangeable, immutable One. We do not in any way make the character of God. He makes us!
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