4,000 weeks hours to Live ~ 2 Timothy 3:1-9

August 21, 2022

C.T. Don’t be fooled by foolish people. Avoid them.
Psalm 139:7–12; Luke 21:10-17; Philippians 2:3–8

Is the preacher from God?

Acts 20:27; Hebrews 13:7; 2 Corinthians 3:2

NEXT WEEK: 2 Timothy 3:10-13

Questions for the Community

Personal Reflection
1.  Honesty in our relationships is vital for health. How have you seen the fruit of this in your relationships with other people and with God? Is it hard to get honest in this season?
2.  Are you more naive or more suspicious of people? How does this help you? How does this hurt you? In the passage this week, what are the results of blind belief?

Group Discussion
3.  Re-read the text from this week. What emotions stir up in you as you read? What is a key take-away you had from Sunday?
4.  Do you think of people and their behavior as signs of the End Times? Respond to what was brought up Sunday about Pride Month. Are there other kinds of behaviors that indicate the end?
5.  What are helpful responses when things go from bad to worse? What are hurtful responses? How can you tell the difference?
6.  How does Paul use the O.T. in his letter to Timothy (see vss 8-9)? How is this instructive for us?

Plan of Action
7.  Do you follow teachers for Biblical, lasting reasons or petty, personal reasons? A filter of 3 ways to tell the health and truth of a teacher was offered on Sunday. Review and add your own.
8.  Celebrate that we are being led to an arrival of deep and lasting knowledge of the truth! See the contrast of vs 7 and pray for yourself and others in your church to stay the course, avoid kidnappers and walk in the love of God!