Lesson for August 16, 2025
STRIFE AND BACKBITING
Scripture Reading: 2 Tim.2.
Memory Verse: 2 Tim. 2:24.
- What important charge does the Saviour instruct the churches to remember? II Tim. 2:14.
- What does He warn us regarding the results of strife over trifling matters? Verse 16
- If we do these things forbidden, to what does He compare it? Verse 17.
Note: A canker is a troublesome sore that finally will destroy life, and in this same way will contention and strife cause death to our spiritual life causing indifference and discouragement.
- What kind of questions are we instructed to avoid and why? Verse 23.
Note. Bible subjects not clearly set forth in the scriptures about which an argument might be raised, should be avoided in class, but discussed privately, because our duty and work is to feed the lambs and the sheep. St. John 21:15-17. Strife and argument is far from wholesome food, and such poisons the lives of the weak and the babes.
- Should we pay our attention to things that introduce vain questions or rather to such as cause godly edification? I Tim. 1:4.
- Being servants of the Heavenly Father, what does He command us not to do? II Tim. 2:24.
- How must we be unto all men? Verse 24.
- Should people oppose themselves against us for teaching the Truth, shall we unkindly resent it? Verse, 25.
- In whose power are all such persons declared to be? Verse 26.
- Should we ever speak evil of anyone, or should we show gentleness and meekness? Titus 3:2 and 3.
- After the love of the Master has come what change must be wrought in our lives? Titus 3:3 and 4.
- As compared to the professed Christian world should there be any difference between them, and members of the body, and in what way? Titus 2:14.
