St. Paul wrote nearly one-third of God’s New Testament. In 2 Timothy 2:8-15, The Greatest Catholic Evangelist divides the billions of people who would read his Bible Words for the next 2,000 years into two groups: “Obedient Catholics” and “Harmful Disputers”.
“Beloved: Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my Gospel, for which I am suffering, even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But, The Word of God is not chained.”
Paul, and every Catholic for the past 2,000 years, loves their neighbors enough to encourage them to “Be Catholic!” and stop “Disputing” about the “unchained” Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope: “And I say unto you: ‘Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.'”
We pray that all will be blessed to ask God to let them “be chosen” to “Be Catholic!” and get His reward: “Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they, too, may obtain the Salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with eternal glory.”
“Eternal Glory” is provided by The Seven Catholic Sacraments that are among the “unchained” blessings that are among “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”!
Then, St. Paul tells us Two Things about how important it is to ask God to let us be “chosen” to “Be and Stay Catholic!”:
1. “This saying is Trustworthy: ‘If we have died with Him, we shall also live with Him; …’
2. ‘… if we persevere, we shall also reign with Him.'”
Then, he gives us One Warning about the fate of Disputers who refuse to “Be Catholic!” or to “Stay Catholic!” and get “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” that Jesus died to leave to His First Catholic Pope and no one else:
“But, if we deny Him, He will deny us.”
Those who are blessed to “Be Catholic!” and to “Stay Catholic!” do God’s Holy Work on earth, and we: “Remind people of these things and charge them before God to stop disputing about words.” Catholics get past the self-serving “disputing” that is the foundation of thousands of Protestant Marketing Plans with respectful “obedience” to every “unchained Word of God”!
The World’s Greatest Catholic Evangelist gave the world this “Hidden Prophecy” about how “useless” and “harmful” those who “dispute about words” are: “This serves no useful purpose, since it harms those who listen.”
Catholics obey This Bible Instruction that tells us: “Be eager to present yourself as acceptable to God, a workman who causes no disgrace, imparting The Word of God without deviation.”
We must always remind ourselves of this fact: Catholics are The Only People On Earth who are blessed to “impart” THIS “Word of God without deviation”:
“And I say unto you, ‘Thou art Peter, and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”’
We may begin to “Be Catholic!” with one request to God in Today’s Psalm 25:4, “Teach me Your ways, O Lord.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Disputing any Words of God / makes us into hopeless clods.”
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