SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
04/04/2004
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 Sodom and Gomorrah
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 2:6,
9b
Message of the
verses: “6 and if He condemned the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having
made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;” “and to
keep the unrighteous under punishment for the Day of Judgment,”
Dr. Wiersbe writes “Having cited these three examples of
certain judgment, Peter then applied the lesson to the subject at hand, the false teachers (2 Peter 2:9b). God has reserved the unjust for special
punishment on that Day of Judgment. The
false teachers may seem successful (for ‘many’ follow them), but in the end,
they will be condemned. Their judgment
is being prepared for (‘lingereth not’ 2 Peter 2:3), and what is prepared will
be reserved and applied on that last day.
What a contrast between the false teachers and the true
children of God! We have an inheritance
reserved for us (1 Peter 1:4) because Jesus Christ is preparing a home for us
in heaven (John 14:1-6). We are not
looking for judgment, but for the coming of the Lord to take His people home to
glory! ‘For God hath not appointed us to
wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ’ (1 Thes. 5:9).
“Peter next turned his attention to the believers
themselves. How could they stay true to
the Lord in such a wicked world?”
We will begin to look at that section in our next SD.
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