PT-2 "Their Reveling" (2 Peter 2:13-14a)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 04/15/2004

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  PT-2 Their Reveling

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Peter 1:13-14a

            Message of the verses:  “13 Their wickedness has earned them an evil end and they will be paid in full. These are the men who delight in daylight self-indulgence; they are foul spots and blots, playing their tricks at your very dinner-tables. 14 Their eyes cannot look at a woman without lust (Phillips).”   “13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls (KJV).” 

            False teachers teach false doctrine, Dr. Wiersbe writes “False doctrine inevitably leads to false living, and false living then encourages false doctrine.  The apostate must ‘adjust’ God’s Word or change his way of life and he is not about to change his lifestyle!  So, whatever he does, he secretly defiles people and makes it easier for them to sin.  It is possible to go to a church fellowship and be defiled!”  We can see that the apostates that Peter is writing about in these verses even does his false teaching in the day light hours a the dinner tables of what could have been the love feasts at a church function which would then perhaps end up with celebrating the Lord’s Supper.

            We can see from verse fourteen that Peter makes it clear that these apostates attend these church meetings for two reasons.  Now the first reason is to satisfy their own lusts; and as we can see from some of the paraphrased versions we have looked at this could indeed mean the lusting after women who were there.  The second reason they are there is to capture converts for their cause, and their cause certainly is contrary to what the Bible teaches.

            Dr. Wiersbe writes “Beguiling unstable souls’ presents the picture of a fisherman bating a hook or a hunter baiting a trap.  The same image is used in James 1:14 where James presents temptation as ‘the baiting of the trap.’  Satan promised Eve that she and Adam would become ‘like gods’ if they ate of the forbidden tree (Gen. 3:4-5), and they ‘took the bait and were trapped.” 

            We will continue in this section in our next SD by looking at what kind of bait the apostates use to catch people.

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