SERMON NOTES
“Avoid the Rot” 2 Timothy 3:1-9
*Listen and take notes.
DEVOTIONAL: personal and small groups
Focus Point: Holy Living
Read Matthew 23:1-12
Background: The scribes and the Pharisees were the Bible experts of their day.
Vv.1-2 Did Jesus challenge their role or how they carried out their role as teachers of Scripture?
As God’s representative, when you speak before others you teach what you believe about God.
How does your behavior affect how others see God, His message, and His church?
V. 3 The world separates a leader’s private moral behavior from their public behavior. How does Jesus’ life and teaching differ?
V. 4 How was Jesus' example different from the hypocritical teachers of the day? Explain.
Vv.5-7 How do these religious people have the appearance of godliness but their live lives that are powerless to overcome temptation to sin?
According to 2 Timothy 3:2-3, what are they be loving instead of God?
In what ways have you fallen into the same misguided love in your own life?
Vv.8-11 How are leaders identified differently in name and behavior in 1 Timothy 3:1-13?
V.12 According to Acts 3:19 & 1stJohn 1:9-10, what should we do and what can we expect from God?