5 MIKE MAZZALONGO Warnings and Assurance for the

5 MIKE MAZZALONGO Warnings and Assurance for the Future II Timothy 3: 1 -17

Review • Encouragement • Instruction

Review • Encouragement • Instruction 1. 2. 3. 4. Hold fast Avoid Take care Preach and teach

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. - II Timothy 3: 1

1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. - John 14: 1 -2

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. - John 14: 3

But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. - Mark 13: 32

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 13 - I Thessalonians 4: 1314

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 15 - I Thessalonians 4: 1516

Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. - I Thessalonians 4: 17

‘And it shall be in the last days, ’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dreams; - Acts 2: 17

in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. - Hebrews 1: 2

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, - II Peter 3: 3

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 2 - II Timothy 3: 2 -3

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 4 - II Timothy 3: 4 -5

Major Sins 1. Lovers of self

Major Sins 1. Lovers of self 2. Lovers of money

Major Sins 1. Lovers of self 2. Lovers of money 3. Boastful

Major Sins 1. Lovers of self 2. Lovers of money 3. Boastful 4. Arrogant

Major Sins 1. 2. 3. 4. Lovers of self Lovers of money Boastful Arrogant 5. Revilers

Underlying Sins 6. Disobedient to parents

Underlying Sins 6. Disobedient to parents 7. Ungrateful

Underlying Sins 6. Disobedient to parents 7. Ungrateful 8. Unholy

Underlying Sins 6. Disobedient to parents 7. Ungrateful 8. Unholy 9. Unloving

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving 10. Irreconcilable

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. Malicious gossips

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. Malicious gossips 12. Uncontrolled

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. Malicious gossips 12. Uncontrolled 13. Haters of Good

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. Malicious gossips 12. Uncontrolled 13. Haters of Good 14. Treacherous

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. 12. 13. 14. Malicious gossips Uncontrolled Haters of Good Treacherous 15. Reckless

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Malicious gossips Uncontrolled Haters of Good Treacherous Reckless 16. Conceited

Underlying Sins 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Disobedient to parents Ungrateful Unholy Unloving Irreconcilable 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Malicious gossips Uncontrolled Haters of Good Treacherous Reckless Conceited 17. Lovers of

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 6 - II Timothy 3: 6 -7

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also. 8 - II Timothy 3: 8 -9

Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! 10 - II Timothy 3: 10 -11

Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 12 - II Timothy 3: 12 -13

You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 14 - II Timothy 3: 14 -15

Timothy’s Take-Aways 1. Follow Paul’s example

Timothy’s Take-Aways 1. Follow Paul’s example 2. Ministry is hard

Timothy’s Take-Aways 1. Follow Paul’s example 2. Ministry is hard 3. Rely on the Lord

Timothy’s Take-Aways 1. Follow Paul’s example 2. Ministry is hard 3. Rely on the Lord 4. Don’t be discouraged

Timothy’s Take-Aways 1. 2. 3. 4. Follow Paul’s example Ministry is hard Rely on the Lord Don’t be discouraged 5. Stay focused

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. 16 - II Timothy 3: 16 -17

Reasons to Rely on Scripture • They are inspired of God

Reasons to Rely on Scripture • They are inspired of God • They were given for a purpose – Teaching – Reproof – Correction – Training – Maturation

Bottom Line → Stay Faithful to the Word