Tune: Melcombe
('New every morning is the love')
2 Timothy 2 v.14-19
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Be diligent to show yourself
Approved unto God, share His wealth
Be a workman that does not need
To be ashamed, but others feed
Feed them with the word of truth so
The gospel message they shall know
But profane and vain babblings shun
They only be profit to none
Though they will increase more and more
Discern, teach the Lord's word for sure
To oppose the ungodliness
Of false teachings, they not us bless
Such teachings will spread as canker
Which those led astray wi;; prefer
Things such as this they say, aghast
The resurrection it has past
In so saying they overthrow
The faith of some, they now not know
What to believe as true, deceived
For they these falsehoods have received
Yet the foundation of God stands
Sure, having this seal, to all lands:
"The Lord knows them that are His", so
"Let those who know Him Christ's life show"
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: February 7th, 2020 02:55
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre. The thought in verse 4 is that false teachers were saying that the resurrection is 'past', as in 'It's been and gone - you've missed it'. That caused others to become unsettled in the hope of their own future resurrection, as in verse 5.
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Comments1
Miss Berles knows Dilly Gent and Tim O'Thee.
Where did she meet Messrs Gent and Thee? I don't use thee and thou much. well, we don't say it in the 21st Century, do we, unless we're fogies? Do you know Fogey Berles (he or she?).
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