Intro to 2 Peter 2:10-16

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 04/09/2004

My Worship Time                                                                           Focus:  Intro to 2 Peter 2:10-16

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Peter 2:10-16

            Message of the verses:  “10 And especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, 11 whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, 13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children; 15 forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16  but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.”

            Peter continues to write about false teachers that were making an effort to infiltrate into the church during this era of the church age.  The problem today is there are not many who try to do something about the false teachers who are trying to do the same thing today.  Peter knew that these false teachers teaching were subtle, but he also knew that they were teaching things that could be fatal and he wanted to warn the churches about them.

            Dr. Wiersbe writes “Remember, however, that Peter opened this letter with positive teaching about salvation, Christian growth, and the dependability of the Word of God.  He had a balanced ministry, and it is important that we maintain that balance today.  When Charles Spurgeon started his magazine, he named it The Sword and Trowel, alluding to the workers in the Book of Nehemiah, who kept their swords in one hand and their tools in the other as they were repairing the walls of Jerusalem.

            “Some people have a purely negative ministry and never build anything.  They are too busy fighting the enemy!  Others claim to be ‘positive,’ but they never defend what they have built.  Peter knew that it was not enough only to attack the apostates; he also had to give solid teaching to the believers in the churches.

            “In this section of his letter, Peter condemned the apostates for three specific sins.”

We will begin our next SD on this section by looking at the sin of reviling.

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