2 TIMOTHY 1 (FROM CAC'S NOTES)
2 TIMOTHY 1 (FROM CAC’S NOTES)
Paul looks to Timothy to rekindle his faith himself, he does not look to the Lord to do it.
Any support we get from the brethren is an extra support. There should be power with us to go on if everything is contrary. I have no other business than to serve others. “For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion”.
It is a threefold cord that would carry us through everything. This epistle supposes a general state of decline, and I am not to be part of it. This blend needs “wise discretion”, or the good may be lost of the other elements. The “testimony of our Lord” is all that He is rendering, all He would bring out, not merely that we are giving testimony to Him, but His testimony from heaven. The subject is what follows in verses 9 and 10 — all enters into the scope of it. (Reference to chapter 4: 17.) It brings people into the glorified state. We ought to boast in such testimony — not be ashamed of it! Every preacher is representative of the Lord as Administrator. (cf. Revelation 1: 1. It is revelation given to the exalted Man. It is His own revelation, giving peculiar interest to the book.)