SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
05/01/2004
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “It
Involves False Experience”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
2:21-22
Message of the
verses: “21 For it had been better
for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have
known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is
happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own
vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
We begin this SD by looking at the third reason why
freedom offered by these false prophets is false. Dr. Wiersbe in his commentary on verses 17-22
entitles that chapter “False Freedom,” and we have been looking at these verses
ten days now and from the looks of what Dr. Wiersbe wrote in his commentary on
this last main point we will be looking at these verses for a while too. This subject that we are looking at which
comes from the second chapter of second Peter are very important for believers
to understand so that they do not fall into any traps that the false teachers
of our day have set for us. I have
mentioned Joel Osteen in past Spiritual Diaries as one of the false teachers of
our day. He actually showed his true
colors as a recent hurricane came upon southern Texas and he refused to open
his church to people who were in need of shelter from this terrible storm. There are other false teachers and false “religions”
in our day as the Jehovah Witnesses and the Mormons seem to be everywhere
trying to tell their false religions to true believers and that is why
believers are to continue to study the Bible and be a part of a church where
the Word of God is taught, and then when it is taught to go back home and take
out your Bibles and make sure what is being taught is the truth.
In 2 Peter 2:12 we read “12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to
be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
shall utterly perish in their own corruption.”
Then in 2 Peter 2:22 we read “22 But it is happened unto them according
to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that
was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
From brute beasts to dogs and hogs we see these names that Peter has
called these false teachers. Not very
complementing is it?
Dr. Wiersbe writes “It is very important that we
understand that the pronoun they in
this entire paragraph (2 Peter 17-22) refers to the false teachers and not to
their converts. It is also important
that we remember that these teachers are not truly born-again people. Jude described these same people in his
letter and stated clearly that they were ‘sensual having not the Spirit’ (Jude
19). It is not profession of spiritually that marks a true believer but possession of the Spirit of God within
(Rom. 8:9).”
The problem is that these people that Peter is talking
about did have a “religious experience” all be it the wrong kind of experience,
they did have and experience which is why they could infiltrate into a true
Bible believing assembly. Their
experience, like their promises was false.
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