But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it.”
2 Timothy 3:14
Today’s Scripture is one of my favorites. From the Scriptures “which are able to make wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15) to “All Scripture is breathed out by God” (2 Timothy 3:16) to people accumulating “for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” (2 Timothy 4:3).
So much good stuff.
And so applicable for today.
False teachers who lead people astray are everywhere. “Pastors” and “preachers” who teach what they want instead of what God says. They align themselves with the culture instead of with the Christ; with the world instead of with the Word; with the secular instead of with the sacred.
And people follow them instead of Him.
This is a travesty. This is idolatry. This is heresy.
It does not lead people to paradise but to perdition.
We are called to “continue in what [we] have learned,” – i.e., continue in the Holy, inerrant Word of God and nothing else.
But to “continue” in something means we also need to have learned it in the first place.
We need to constantly and consistently be in the Word, for It is the only rule and norm for living and the only Word that leads to Christ Jesus, the Savior.
Everything else is just for “itching ears” to satisfy sinful hearts and a fallen world.
Continue in the saving Word of God, through faith in Jesus!
Every day. In every way.
Scriptures
- 2 Timothy 3:14-4:4
- Psalm 121
