II Timothy 3:1-9

II Timothy 3:1-9

Beware of Anti-Christs!

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 

2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 

2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 

2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 

2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

2Ti 3:8  Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 

2Ti 3:9  But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. 

1. Watch Out For Anti-Christs – vs. 1-4*
1. The Nature of an Anti-Christ

                                                               i.      John describes those that have crept into the church to deceive and destroy as anti-christs

1.      1 John 2:18-23 

                                                             ii.      Twelve marks of an Anti-Christ

1.      They are lovers of themselves

2.      They are covetous

3.      They are boastful

4.      They are proud

5.      They are full of profanity or are blasphemous

6.      They are despise the rightful authority of the parents in the home

7.      They are ungrateful

8.      They are unholy and impure

9.      They mistreat their own family

a.       1 Timothy 5:8 

10.  They are trucebreakers

11.  They are false Accusers

12.  They have uncontrolled anger and are violent

13.  They hate good people

14.  They betray those they should protect

15.  They are reckless and unthinking

16.  They love pleasure more than God

a.       1 John 2:28-29 

                                                            iii.      Four facets of the nature of an anti-christ

1.      They may look godly on the outward but in reality they deny the power of the gospel. – vs. 5*

a.       Matthew 7:15-20 

2.      They lead captive foolish women, who are burdened with guilt, in order to take advantage of them. – vs. 6*

a.       Jude 1:3-4 

3.      They are continually learning, but never accept the truth of the gospel. – vs. 7*

a.       Proverbs 14:5-8 

4.      They resist God ordained authority – vs. 8*

a.       The reason they resist God ordained authority is because they have depraved minds and they are reprobate concerning the faith

                                                                                                                                       i.      Ephesians 4:11-14 

2. Anti-Christs and their evil deeds will be exposed. – vs. 9*
1. Anti-Christs and deceivers will be stopped, and their wickedness revealed.

                                                               i.      Jeremiah 28:15-17