My Dear Precious Child,
Paul was so concerned about the false teachers who sowed different gospels than what he preached and so he warned Timothy several times to tell the converts of Christ Jesus not to listen to any arguments about words because all that produces is destruction in the people who hear the spiritually powerless arguments. Timothy was to present himself to the converts as a man who had, by the power of My Holy Spirit, come successfully through trials and he was a man who was not ashamed of his life's work. Timothy had kept a straight course with the message of Truth and he had no reason to be fearful or ashamed. Paul said that talk like that of the false teachers was like gangrene, taught by men who had wandered away from the Truth and claimed that there was only one resurrection and that it had taken place when Christ Jesus rose from the dead. Those men had taught that the followers of Christ would not be resurrected at the death of their bodies. Paul knew that other people in the church did not have faith enough to stand up to them so he wanted Timothy to act like My child and speak the truth to them in love.
He talked about dishes in a large house being not only made of gold and silver but that some are made of wood or earthenware; some were for special occasions and some were for ordinary purposes. He said that the way to become made for spiritual special occasions is to avoid the faults of the people he had been warning against, the false prophets. He wanted Timothy and the other converts of Christ to become fit for Christ himself to use, kept fit for any and all good works.
Paul also warned Timothy again about not giving in to his impulses like other young men, but instead he must focus his attention on holiness, faith, love and peace in union with all who call on Me with a pure mind. Part of that involves avoiding futile and silly speculations, knowing that that only causes quarrels. He wrote that My children are not to engage in quarrels, but they must be kind to everyone, being a good teacher and always being patient. He must be gentle when he corrects people who dispute his Gospel. He must never forget that I always give people chances to change their mind so that they recognize Truth and come to their senses when they are finally out of the trap where the devil caught them and where he kept them enslaved to him in doing his will.
He reminded Timothy that Christ had said that in the days of the last covenant of the Holy Spirit that there would be difficult times, that people would be self centered, boastful, arrogant, rude, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, nonspiritual, heartless, never satisfied; and that they would be slanderers, savages, prone to self indulgence and enemies of everything that is good. He added that they would be treacherous, reckless, demented by pride and prefer their own pleasures to the blessing of My kingdom of heaven. He warned that they would keep up the outward appearances of religion but would deny the power of it.
Paul didn't stop there. He added that in the days of My covenant of the Holy Spirit that there would be false teachers who would be favorable to families in order to influence silly women who are obsessed with their sins and follow one new craze after another in an attempt to educate themselves but they never come to a knowledge of the Truth. He identified the false teachers as men who defy the Truth, whose minds are corrupt and their faith is fake. Paul was assured that their foolishness would become obvious to everybody.
In defense of the true Good News, Paul reminded Timothy of what he had taught and how he had lived, what his aim had been which was to intimately know Me. (I Corinthians 2:2) Paul reminded Timothy of his own faith, his constancy and the persecutions and hardships which he had endured from which I had rescued him every time. Paul did not sugarcoat the fact that anyone who is called to live in devotion to Christ will certainly be attacked while the imposters, the false teachers, will go on from bad to worse deceiving others as well as themselves. He wrote that Timothy must be true to what he had been taught, remembering who his teachers were, and the fact that he had known the scriptures since he was a child which led to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Paul proclaimed that all scripture is inspired by Me and is profitable for teaching, for correcting error, for instruction and for training in righteousness. My Holy Spirit takes the scripture and makes it alive and powerful in the minds of My children, just as Christ Jesus prophesied. (John 16:12-16) By the power of My Holy Spirit the veil is removed from your mind and the revelation power of My Holy Spirit causes My Words to become flesh in you. When My Words become flesh in you, then you are being transformed into My image in the world, drawing all people to Me because of My glory that is revealed in you. (Romans 12:2; Hebrews 13:20-21)
I put Paul's letters to Timothy in My Instruction Book in order for you to be educated in the ways of your enemy, the devil, and thus you would be able to recognize the false teachers and prophets when they appear in your life. They appear in your midst in order to divert you from the true Good News that Christ Jesus rose from the dead and then sent My Holy Spirit into you and My other children of promise in order to establish My new covenant with My creation. When My new covenant is established, the old is null and void. My children who continue to rely on the old covenant as a means for their salvation make the sacrifice of Christ Jesus of no effect in their lives because faith completely disappears when the Law is elevated in the minds of My children as a means of salvation. Solomon prophesied that it's like a dog returning to eat its own vomit. (Proverbs 26:11) Peter confirmed it. (II Peter 2:22)
Faith in the Lord Christ Jesus set you free from the Law of sin and death. Stand fast in your freedom and don't become entangled again in the yoke of bondage to an ineffective Law which only brings sin and death. (Galatians 5:1)
Your Father of Transforming Power
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