I Timothy 2:14

I Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. When God gave the command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it was given to Adam. Then Eve was created. Eve heard of the command from her husband, Adam. So Adam was the responsible one. The serpent tempted Eve, not Adam. God had instructed Adam and he should have listened to him, but Adam followed his wife into sin. He knew better. Even though Eve sinned, Adam should not have. But he did. Eve was deceived, but Adam knew full well what he was doing and went along with his wife’s disobedience. Eve was tricked, but Adam rebelled. God holds each of us responsible for our own sin. Eve was responsible for being deceived and Adam was responsible for his disobedience. But thank goodness for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ! Because Jesus paid for our sins on the cross, we can all be forgiven and we can all be restored to sweet fellowship with God! What we lost in Adam, we can regain in Jesus Christ!

I Timothy 2:3,4

I Timothy 2:3,4 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. Some people say that God has planned some people to go to heaven and some people to go to hell. But that doesn’t sound like a God of love to me. If you are one of the ones going to heaven, you will like that kind of thinking. But if you are one of the others, oh well, too bad. But the truth of the matter is, it is not up to us or up to our thinking. Going to heaven is up to God. After all, God is in charge of heaven and God is the one who decides who will get into his heaven. So, back to our verse. What does God say? Who does God want to be saved? That’s right! God wants everyone to be saved. God has made a way for everyone to be saved. The decision is up to us. Once we decide for God, He gives us the conviction of our sin and the free gift of salvation. Thank you, Lord, for our salvation!

I Timothy 2:12

I Timothy 2:12 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Often we are mad at our government leaders. We elect them to do a job and they just let us down. They make promises and then go to Nashville or Washington and forget where they came from. It makes me want to scream! But what does our verse say about our government officials? We should pray for them! Could it just be that the reason that they fail is that we fail to pray for them? If they blow it, have we been holding them up in prayer? It could be that we have good leaders who just don’t have enough prayer backing them! Satan is out to defeat them. Let’s not fail them in praying for them! Let’s remember to pray for our senator and representative. Let’s pray for our governor and for our President. Let’s pray for God’s protection around them, and let’s pray for wisdom and boldness to stand up for what’s right! Pray for our government!