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SwordPlay - Ep. 18 - 2 Tim. 2

- How is one “strengthened by grace”? (v.1)

- Would this be primarily oral teaching? What would qualify one as being able to teach others also? (v.2)

- Why does Paul have to even ask Timothy to suffer hardship with him? (v.3)

- What is Paul getting at by mentioning a soldier, athlete, and farmer? (v.4-6)

- Is there any significance to Paul mentioning Christ as risen from the dead and descendent of David? (v.8)

- Who are the chosen? How would they obtain salvation, don’t they already have it? (v.10)

- What do we know about the “trustworthy saying”? (v.11-13)

- When and how will we reign with Christ? (v.12)

- Who is Timothy to remind? What words are they wrangling over? (v.14)

- What does it mean to “rightly handle the word of truth”? (15)

- What is “irreverent babble”? (16)

- Who are Hymenaeus and Philetus? (v.17)

- Why would someone believe the resurrection had already taken place? Was this lie the same as saying the Day of the Lord had come like in 2 These. 2:2? (v.18)

- What is the firm foundation of God? What is the meaning of the seal? (v.19)

- What things are one to be cleansed of? (v.21)

- So does this mean we should avoid conflict altogether & never confront people? (v.23)

- Tough Text: “God may grant them repentance” (25) - how does God do this?

- How are people held captive to do the devil’s will? (v.26)

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SwordPlay - Ep. 17 - 2 Tim. 1

- Occasion & purpose of the book?

- Who is Timothy? (v.2)

- How did Paul’s forefathers serve God with a clear conscience? (v. 3)

- What is a sincere faith? (v.5)

- What is “the gift of God” Timothy is to fan into flame? How is he to kindle this gift afresh? Why would Paul lay his hands on Timothy for this gift? (v.6)

- Is this the Holy Spirit or one’s own spirit? (v.7)

- Why would Timothy be ashamed? (v.8)

- Is Paul is jail? (v.8)

- What is Paul and Timothy’s holy calling? (v.9)

- What does it mean that Christ abolished death? (v.10)

- What’s the difference between a preacher, apostle, and teacher? (v.11)

- What has Paul entrusted and for what day? (v.12)

- What is “the pattern of sound words”? (v.13)

- What is the treasure and how should Timothy guard it? How would he guard it through the Holy Spirit? (v.14)

- Tough Text: How does the Holy Spirit “dwell within us”? (v.14)

- Why would people in Asia turn away from Paul? Who are Phygelus and Hermogenes? (v.15)

- Who is Onesiphorus? (v.16)

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SwordPlay - Ep. 16 - Obadiah

Lightning Round

- Who wrote the book of Obadiah?

- Where was Edom located?

- To whom was it written?

- What is Teman?

- Why was this book written?

Tough Text

- When was it written?

Show

- Who is the envoy and how would they convince the nations to arise in battle against Edom? (v.1)

- How will God make Edom small among the nations? (v.2)

- What is meant by an eagle building its nest among the stars? (v.4)

- What is Edom’s sin?

- What does it mean to be cut off forever? (v.10)

- How does the day of the Lord draw on all nations? (v.15)

- What does it mean by all the nations drinking? (v.16)

- What does it mean by the house of Jacob possess their possessions? (v.17)

- Did God fulfill His word and leave “no survivor” for Esau? (18)

- Why mention the house of Jacob and the house of Joseph? (v.18)

- Why does it list certain places becoming a possession? (v.19-20)

- Who are the deliverers and how will they judge the mountain of Esau? (v.21)

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SwordPlay - Ep. 15 - 2 Thess. 3

- What does it mean for the word of the Lord to “be honored”? (v.1)

- Tough Text: Does prayer really work? (1a) Then, why does it seem like my prayers aren’t answered?

- Who does Paul have in mind with the “wicked and evil men”? Connection to “not all have faith?”(2)

- Can we reconcile “protection from the evil one” with their persecutions and afflictions of 1:4? (v.3)

- What does an unruly brother look like? (v.6)

Should we disfellowship everyone who doesn’t work? (6) - “keep away”

- Verse 10 sure seems harsh. What if someone can’t work due to a disability?

Lightning Round:

- Does a minister have a right to be paid? (v.9)

- What is a busybody? (11)

- What does it mean to work in a quiet fashion? (v.12)

- Why would Paul be concerned of their growing weary in doing good? (v.13)

- Does verse 14 describe disfellowship or some other form of church discipline? (v.14)

- Did Paul write only the last verse himself? Why? (v.17)

- What does all this mundane, day-to-day instruction have to do with eschatology?

- More prayers to Jesus (5, 16). It’s still OK to pray to Jesus, right?

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SwordPlay - Ep. 14 - 2 Thess. 2

Lightning round

What is eschatology?

What is the historical approach?

What is the preterist approach?

What is the futurist approach?

What is the idealist approach?

What is the rapture?

- Coming of the Lord...Day of the Lord - final coming v. historical judgment?

- How would they be disturbed by a spirit? (v.2)

- What is “the rebellion/apostasy”? (v.3)

- Tough Text: Who is the man of lawlessness/son of destruction?

- Follow-up: Isn’t the man of lawlessness the Antichrist? Does this chapter need to harmonize with 1 These. 4?

- How is the mystery being held back? (v.7)

- How will the Lord’s breath remove him? What is the appearance of His coming? (v.8)

- Why would God send a deluding influence? (v.11)

- How are we chosen from the beginning? How are we called? (v.13-14)

- Do we have all the letters? Are we missing any “word of mouth” teachings? (v.15)

- Can we pray to Jesus? (v.16-17)

- What do good works and words have to do with this chapter? (v.17)

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SwordPlay - Ep. 13 - 2 Thess. 1

- Who were the Thessalonians? Where is Thessalonica located? What do we know about Thessalonica? (v.1)

- Why is their suffering evidence of God’s righteous judgments? (v.5)

- How are these Christians “worthy” of God’s kingdom? (v.5)

- Do all Christians have to suffer to be considered worthy of the Kingdom of God? (v.5)

- How does Jesus’ coming give them relief unless He comes during their lifetime? Do they need relief still after death or in the resurrection? (v.7)

- How do some not know God in light of Rom. 1:18-20? (v.8)

- Why is God waiting to punish those who don’t know Him & don’t obey the gospel? (v.8-10) What are the divine motivations for delayed punishment?

- Does eternal destruction mean hell? (v.9)

- Does being removed from the presence of the Lord mean that they once were in His presence? (v.9)

- Is Christ’s glorification in His saint’s a singular/circular, past/future event? (v.10)

- What is a work of faith with power? Miraculous? (v.11)

- How is the name of Jesus glorified in them? (v.12)

- Purpose of the epistle? (v.11-12)

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SwordPlay - Ep. 12 - Titus 3

- How far does submission to rulers & authorities go? Are we to be subject to evil rulers and authorities? (v.1)

- Can we be gentle without being naive? (v.2)

- Does Paul imply that he was deceived as well? (v.3)

- What is the work of the Trinity in redemption? (v.4-6)

- What is the basis of gaining salvation? Is there a basis for keeping/losing salvation? (v.5)

- Tough Text: What is the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit? (v.5)

- When did God pour out the Holy Spirit? More than once? Is the pouring out for the individual believer or the collective body of believers? (v.6)

- What are we heirs of? (v.7)

- Was Titus lacking confidence? How does insisting on “these things” lead to good deeds? (v.8)

- Does Paul disagree with Jesus on the matter of church discipline? (v.10) Jesus seems to teach a three-stage format for discipline yet Paul only has two-stages. Is this/these model(s) applicable today?

- Does self-condemned imply a loss of salvation? (v.11)

- How do they learn to engage in good deeds? Are good deeds the same as bearing fruit? (v.14)

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SwordPlay - Ep. 11 - Titus 2

- What is sound doctrine? (v.1)

- What is self-control? (v.2)

- Why are the older men to be just as virtuous as the appointed overseers? (v.2)

- Why these qualities for older men and women, younger men and women?

- Why is the word of God dishonored when the wife is not virtuous? Are these virtues still required?(v.5)

- Who is the opponent? (v.8)

- Why would a master adorn the doctrine of God just because of a virtuous slave? (v.10)

- Why would Paul mention the resurrection (does he?) in the context of a virtuous lifestyle? (v.13)

- Does Titus call Jesus “God?” (v.13)

- Application: What did it look like then, and what does it look like now to be zealous for good deeds? (v.14) Are the good deeds done primarily as individuals or as a group (i.e. the “people” of His possession)? Are the deeds aimed primarily at unbelievers or believers?

- Does Paul anticipate kickback from some? (v.15)

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SwordPlay - Ep.10 - Titus 1

Who is Paul? (v.1) Who is Titus? (v.4) How are they chosen? (v.1) When did God promise eternal life long ages ago? (v.2) Is it biblical for preachers/ministers to appoint elders? (v.5) Does verse 5 teach parishes (“elders in every town”)? Are elders over an entire city? (v.5) What do the qualifications mean? (v.6-9) Who are “those of the circumcision party”? Who are the circumcision? How are they upsetting whole families? Who would pay them sordid gain? (v.10-11) Is the circumcision group pseudo-Christian? (v.13-16) Why does Paul call Epimenides a prophet? (v.12) Tough Text: What are the Jewish fables/genealogies? (v.14)

Video Reference:

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SwordPlay - Ep. 9 - Guest Jimmy Hinton - pt. 2

We continue our conversation with Jimmy Hinton about sexual predators in the church and what we can do on a practical level to protect the vulnerable around us. Listed below are several recommended resources by Jimmy for further study.

Books:

Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders by Anna Salter

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide for Churches and Ministries by Basyle (Boz) Tchividjian and Shira M. Berkovits

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, and Sandra Blakeslee

Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing after Sexual Abuse by Mary DeMuth

Websites:

JimmyHinton.org

netgrace.org

findingahealingplace.com

together-we-heal.org

cryingoutforjustice.com

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