Question: Please explain what appearing is referred to in 2 Timothy 4:8. O.
Answer: It is when the Lord comes with His saints (1 Thess. 3:13, 4:14; 2 Thess. 1:7, 10; Titus 2:13). The “blessed hope” is His coming for us. The “glorious appearing” is His coming with us.
Question: How can we walk worthy of God as in 1 Thessalonians 2:12? L.
Answer: Paul is writing that he charged the Thessalonians to do this, and chapter 1:3 and all the chapter tells, us how they did it, and how we also can do so, by walking in the same path in our “work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our Father.” They turned to God from idols to serve the living and the true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, Jesus, our Deliverer from the coming wrath.
Question: When the Lord said, “This do in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19), was it a command or a request? Y.
Answer: To those who truly love Him, it was more than either of them. It was love’s gift to express to us His love; and in our remembering Him, we express our love to Him. Precious privilege!
Question: What is meant by “Make to yourselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness?” What does “fail,” and “everlasting habitations” mean? Luke 16:9. S. S.
Answer: Man is looked at as a steward here. We found ourselves unfaithful stewards that must give account. Now we are converted, we are still stewards. The wise steward makes use of the present stewardship for the future.
Verse 9 teaches us so to do. Naturally we would use all for ourselves, for the present, but we are reminded that our present will “fail”, and wisdom secures something for the future. Our future is glory with Christ, but our stewardship requires us to use our present so that we will be rewarded then as in 1 Timothy 6:17-19. For if we live selfishly; Luke 16:11,12 teach that our unfaithfulness will hinder our enjoyment of our own heavenly riches, as in Ephesians 1:3. We will not enjoy what is really life (see N. T. 1 Tim. 6:19).