Sermon Tone Analysis

My aim in this sermon is to honor motherhood and in this way glorify Jesus Christ who designed it, created it, and blessed it.

My aim in this sermon is to honor motherhood and in this way glorify Jesus Christ who designed it, created it, and blessed it.

What I want to honor in this message is the biblical calling on a woman’s life to weave a fabric of family life:

out of commitment to a husband and his calling, and

commitment to her children and their training, and

commitment to her children and their training, and

commitment to Christ and His glory.

· commitment to Christ and his glory.

In other words, I want to honor the biblical calling that makes marriage, motherhood, and home-management,

in the context of radical Christian discipleship,

the central, core,

dominant commitments of a woman’s life.

My aim to encourage the women—who believe that God’s call on your life is marriage, the joyful support

of a husband and his calling

as you display what the relationship between Christ and the church looks like,

and motherhood, the transmission of a God-centered, Christ-treasuring vision of life to your children,

and home-management, the creation of a beautiful and simple place

and a living organism called a home.

This is a very high and holy and crucial calling that you need to embrace, and

you won’t get any understanding or encouragement for God’s calling, from the world.

You are the ones who have heard not as oppressive

but as liberating.

Paul said to Titus that the older women should “train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blashphemed.”

You have heard that calling as

rich and

deep and

precious and

high and holy and

confirming your heart’s longings, and

as absolutely essential for the shaping of

a God-centered, Christ-exalting church and culture.

To you I direct this message as a word of honor and encouragement.

And to do that I want to spend part of our time together in 2 Timothy.

Let’s pray and see what God says to us today!

— 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, a beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, 4 greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, 5 when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

You’ll have a clearer understanding of this letter if one keeps in mind that this is a personal letter written to a very dear friend.

Also, that it is—in a very real sense—Paul’s last will and testament, since it was written during the last months before his death.

Persecution of the church was at its height under the Emperor Nero, and we should try to

enter into Paul’s feelings of loneliness and isolation as he awaits martyrdom in his cold prison cell.

The greeting

— Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

Although Timothy is a very dear friend, Paul is concerned at the outset to make it perfectly clear

Although Timothy is a very dear friend, Paul is concerned at the outset to make it perfectly clear that this letter is not simply ‘a substitute for a friendly confidential chat’.

that this letter is not simply ‘a substitute for a friendly confidential chat’.

Hence he begins by stressing his apostolic authority because he wants Timothy to understand

that he has some very serious matters to bring to his attention,

as even today, where God’s plan for women is being erased

right in front of our eyes and needs to be restored, for God’s glory.

The value of a godly home

With the greeting at an end, Paul strikes the personal note, which is, one of the hallmarks of this letter.

— 3 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, 4 greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,

He says, I thank God.

And we don’t find out what he is thankful for until you go the end of the sentence in v5.

He says, I thank God.

And we don’t find out what he is thankful for until you go the end of the sentence in v5.

Because, what really rejoices Paul’s heart

is the reminder of Timothy’s faith,

which owed so much to his spiritual upbringing.

— when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

Timothy was a third generation Christian and owed his ‘sincere faith’ ‘un-hypocritical faith’

Timothy was a third generation Christian and owed his ‘sincere faith’ ‘un-hypocritical faith’ to the groundwork done in his life by his mother and grandmother who had taught him the scriptures from infancy (:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.).

to the groundwork done in his life by his mother and grandmother

who had taught him the scriptures from infancy

— and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Throughout the Bible, the role of the family and godly parentage is clearly taught:

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.).

Throughout the Bible, the role of the family and godly parentage is clearly taught: ‘Honour your father and your mother’ ().

‘Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it’ ().

‘Children obey your parents in the Lord, … Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord’ ().

‘Honor your father and your mother’ ().

‘Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it’ ().

‘Children obey your parents in the Lord, … And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

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Being a parent in today’s society is a difficult task, especially if

there is no godly father to act as a role model

as was true in Timothy’s case.

But God gives a special grace for the task as is evident from

the good job Lois and Eunice did in bringing up Timothy

who was to become a powerful preacher of the gospel, missionary, and the pastor of the church at Ephesus.

We cannot under estimate the power of a godly mother and grandmother.

But in Scripture there is the contrast put forward.

I want to show you that contrast.

Look with me in chapter 3.

Here Paul is speaking of perilous times that shall come in v1.

He goes through and describes the characteristics of people in these last days

(very much what we see in our world we live in- as we read, see if you are seen).

2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.

And from such people turn away!

Then he says this in 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Here’s a description that contrasts a godly woman with a woman described as a gullible women laden with sins who are lead captive.

That phrase “gullible women” is a way of speaking of women with contempt.

This is God’s description of all women who are not saved.

And you’re not saved because you are led captive.

Look with me in chapter And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil!

This is our prayer for you dear lost woman.

That you would come out of the deception of the devil.

There is an intoxicating effect to deceit.

Lies flatter and we easily take in too willingly and too deeply.

This is how Satan works, he throws down various temptations in your thoughts,