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Lesson Summary:

Paul tells Timothy to expect difficult times and encourages him to remain steadfast in the truth he has learned.

Focus Passage: 2 Timothy 3

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. Expect Difficult Times (3:1-9)

Principle: Believers will Endure Difficult Times because they Belong to Jesus.
Application: What evidence do you see around you that we are indeed living in difficult times today?
Scripture Reference

¹⁸“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
John 15:18-19 (NASB)

II. Emulate Good Examples (3:10-13)

Principle: Believers Can Endure Difficult Times by Emulating Godly Examples.
Application: What godly examples are you following? How are you being a godly example to other believers?
Scripture Reference

¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;
¹⁶however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
¹⁷Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
Philippians 3:15-17 (NASB)

III. Equip Yourself with the Truth (3:14-17)

Principle: Believers Can Endure Difficult Times by building their Lives on the Word of God.
Application: How is your equipping with God’s Word progressing? Are you ready for every good work?
Scripture Reference

²⁴“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
²⁵And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
Matthew 7:24-25 (NASB)