Queen's Road Cell

  7. On what has Timothy based his personal convictions? (3:15-17) " and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16  All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17  that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." (2 Tim 3:15-17) Since he was a child, Timothy has based his personal convictions on the OT writings, which have prepared him for salvation in Christ Jesus. No one can be saved through the OT alone at this time. The Jews of the OT looked forward in faith to Christ’s work on the Cross, even though they would not have seen Him clearly. In contrast, the Jews of today have already rejected their true Messiah (Rom 9-11). There is the implication that it is an advantage to grow up in a Christian home (1 Cor 7:14, Mal 2:14-15) There is also the truth th...

I was sharing how I found in the book of Judges (Chapter 1) how t4he Israelites did not destroy the Cannanites from their midst but "put them to forced labour". Their lack of total obedience and single-mindedness led eventually to apostasy and oppression by their enemies. I can see how in my own life it would be possible to forgo total surrender simply because of the usefulness and convenience of certain things and situations, even though these things would be out of God's will. Winnie also shared her lesson about the ingratitude of the Israelites in the wilderness, who scorned manna from heaven and thought of the nice food they had in Egypt. I shared how a participant in last week's FTP had raised questions about alleged contradictions between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, about the wrongness of the NIV translation and about the inerrancy of Scripture. There was a claim that NIV had 'cheated' by using the tense 'had formed' (Gen 2:19) rather than ...