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Introduction:
Introduction:
Hello and good evening, tonight we are going to be talking chapter 2 in 2nd Peter. tonight we are going to be seeing what Peter was trying to warn the early church about false teachers, and how to probably handle them. false teachers, false doctrine has been around since the early church, and we haven’t been able to really stop it since the beginning of the early church. lets turn in our Bibles 2nd Peter 2:1-5
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
before we dive right into the first verse lets look back at couple of verse in 2nd Peter 1:20-21
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
What Peter explains here at the end of the first chapter explains that the prophetic words were not men words but words that were inspired by God we can also reference this to 2nd Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
what somethings that we should notice here in 2nd Timothy?
is the all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and instruction in righteousness, So that a man of God may be completer thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Now if we look at the first verse here in 2nd Peter 2:1
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
we see that Peter continues with the fact God’s words are not man’s words, and we see that Peter warns about False teachers, and how they will secretly bring in destructive heresies, and even denying the Lord who brought them. they will also bring swift destruction on themselves. we can also see the history about false teacher: turn in your Bibles to Isa 9:15-17
The elder and honorable, he is the head;
The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
For the leaders of this people cause them to err,
And those who are led by them are destroyed.
Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men,
Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows;
For everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer,
And every mouth speaks folly.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
what should we take from this passage here in Isa?
even in the Old Testament there false teacher, false prophets:
They led astray
cause confusion
The lord does what about this?
does not take pleasure in their young men
God has no pity for their orphans or their widows
they are consider godless, and an evildoer
their mouths speak foolishness
we see that God does what to them
His anger does not turn away
and his hand is still stretched out
an other example about false Prophets or Teacher comes from Jer 14:14
And the Lord said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.
here Jeremiah what is God talking about? what are the things that God is point out here in Jeremiah?
The prophets are prophesying falsehood in his name.
God has neither sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them
They bring false vision, divination, futility, and deception of their own mind.
God here explaining that false teachers divide, and they deceit people, and we see that Peter back in chapter 2 of 2nd Peter. Peter warns them of this. another example we can tie in with this comes from Ezek 13:3
Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
just here from Ezekiel we see that God calls them foolish because they follow their own spirit and have seen nothing. False teachers are going to follow own their desire over God’s will. just from these passages in the Old Testament we see that False Prophet’s were expected to come, and deceive the people of Isreal. as of False teachers are expected to come, even the early church had them, people who claim to God had told them to do this or that, but in the New Testament we see that the early church had warnings of them, and to correct the false teachings. here are some of passages we can look at from the New Testament, turn in your Bibles to Matt 24:5
For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
This Jesus talking saying hey there are going to be people who say they follow me, and they are going to deceive you and teach you wrong things. another passage we can look at Matt 24:24
For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
they are going to try and deceive’s us from the truth, they are going to be able to talk really well, and say things that will be incorrect, but seem to be correct. we can also look at Act 20:29-30
For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
There are man who rather out in this world who believe they themselves are god, they will do anything to have power or status of some kind to look important. they will try to tell you follow them instead of God. turn in your bibles to 1st Tim 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
even Paul warns Timothy about how some will leave the faith because of wordly desires. we can also look at 1st John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
throughout the Bible from Old Testament to New Testament we’re are told about False Prophets, and False teachers that will come into the church and try to deceive us and tempt us to follow the world then the Truth, here in 1st John. John is telling us that we need to be prepare and always ready to test each spirit to see if they are for God, or for their own desire. all of this references the first half of 2nd Peter 2:1 now if we look at the second half of 2nd Peter 2:1
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
The second half this verse here in 2nd Peter 2:1 is were Peter explain that this guys used all kinds of methods and had help for those who believe in their lies about God. during this time frame there would be many that would question about God. because of the false teachers and what they were teaching. Peter makes a connection to what Paul was explain to the Church in Corinthians 1st Cor 6:20
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
We were bought at the Price which was the Blood of Christ, why would we want to believe in something other then the God, and His son Jesus Christ? we can also see that Peter reference here Heb 10:29
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
See Peter here in verse 1 of 2nd Peter hes warning those who bring in false teaching also because of the destruction that it will cause to fellow members and themselves. we can also see that Peter is talking about his personal experience in denying christ, let turn in Bibles to 1st John 4:15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Here in John we, see that John writes about whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and He in God. with this mind think about this way. when we confess Christ at that moment we are baptized in his name, at that moment we just joined God’s family. God now knows who his children are, and we are his children. we can also look at Act 20:28
Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
another point that we are going to be hold accountable for what we teach, even those of us who teach the non-christian’s. how we act around each other, and what we say. will be judged accordingly. Now we can look at verse 2 in 2nd Peter 2:2
And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
What is Peter trying to explain here?
Peter here is just explain that many will follow in these destructive ways, and follow false doctrines. because some will not acknowledge God, and explain that there all kinds of paths to get to Heaven, But if you turn in your Bibles to John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
we can also look Matt 7:20-23
Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
and we can also look at Luke 13:1-5
There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”
with these all in mind we understand that there is only one God, and one Faith. People today are always searching for something, the problem is people take words from others and not study for themselves, and follow the wrong teaching. now can look at verse 3 here in 2nd Peter 2:3
By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
What is some we should notice here?
what is Peter trying to Explain here?
They are doing this for personal gain, those who teach false doctrine, doing this for the status, for wealth. they do not care how harmful it can be by messing with someones soul. some examples come from 1st Tim 6:5
useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
We see that Paul is trying to explain that these men do not care except for worldly gain. we also look at Tit 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
We see that Paul talks about their motives are wealth and worldly gain and not spiritual or Godly. what are your though from here before we move on to from this we can move on to 2nd Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
What is Peter referencing here?
The angles that sinned against God
The destruction of the old world (The Flood)
the overthrow of cities of the plains
The first thing that Peter mention here in verse 4 is the angels who sinned against God, angles are moral being that are answerable to God, we see that here in Heb 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
they are consider to be outside of the redemption period of Grace and salvation turn in your Bibles to Heb 2:16
For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
here in Heb we see that author explains that angels are moral beings that serve God, and were consider to be liable for there actions because if we continue with verse 4 here we see in the second part of verse 4 should notice that that some of them sin too, and those who sin were liable for their action, and cast into Hell or Tartarus, known by the Greek culture back then lets turn in Bibles to Luk 16:23-26
And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
From this passage we see the imagery about Hell, and kind of what it is, now if we go back to the topic about the angels Many people have mistake the Son’s of God to be angels at the begin Gen 6:2-4, believe that these angels sin was fornication with women. but if we read Gen 6:1-4
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
we see in this passage there is no mention to the Angels. on the other hand we see the real cause of what lead angels to sin against God in Jude 6.
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
From this passage in Jude, People and Christians assume that Satan was created Angel who led a Revolt in Heaven Rev 12:7
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
The Revolt was over a spiritual pride and higher position. go back 1st Tim 3:6
not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
Because of this we see the following:
Angels were created to be Holy
they sinned against God
they left there habitation
because they left there position, they were punished and cast into hell
This allows us to move on to verse five in 2nd Peter 2:5
and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
in this verse what do we see Peter talking about Here?
We see that Peter is talking about the Flood and the old world before God destroy the men of the old world who did evil in the sight of God, God spared only 8 people from the Flood Noah, Noah’s wife, and his sons and their wife’s. we can reference Gen 7:7
So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
we can also see this in 1st Peter 3:20
who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
we see that Peter here references that account of the Great Flood in Gen 6:13-8:19. and we can From the historical account from the great Flood we know that Noah tried to warn the people of old about the flood that is to come. we see that from Psalm 119: 172
Psalm 119:172 (NKJV)
My tongue shall speak of Your word,
For all Your commandments are righteousness.
we can also go back to Gen 6:9
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
we see the characteristic, of Noah about how he was a Just man, perfect from his generation, Noah walked with God. with this in mind we can move on to the third point of what Peter is trying to explain here chapter 2 of his letter lets turn in Bibles to 2nd Peter 2:6
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
here verse six we that Peter makes another reference to the Old Testament, but this time to Sodom and Gomorrah back in Gen 19:23-29. Peter here is showing that the destruction of God is something to be feared. throughout the Bible we see that some the Old Testament Prophets acknowledge this account Isa 1:9-10
Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers of Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:
we can also look Ezek 16:48-56
“As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
“Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done. You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
“When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them, that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them. When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,
we can also turn in our Bibles to Luk 17:28-32
Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
“In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife.
and Jude 7
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
all these verses here tie together to an historical event that lead to the destruction of two cities that would not repent to God. Peter is warning the early church to stay focus on truth of Christ, and God. even today we struggle to because of many false teaching that come, and they have led many astray from the truth. this allows us to move to Verse 7 in 2nd Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
from this verse here we see that Peter mentions Lot, and Lot was distress from the people who did not live godly lives but ungodly ones, and we see that Lot tried to protect his family from the worldly lifestyles that surround them but we see that his Sons in laws thought he was joking. turn in your Bibles to Gen 19:14-16
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
from this we can move on to verse 8 in 2nd Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—
what do you think Peter is trying to explain here in this verse in 2nd Peter?
well for starters we see that Peter is trying to explain that Lot had choice to make back in Gen 13:1-13
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar. Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
from this passage in Genesis we see that Lot made a choice and through that choice there pro’s and con’s to the choice we make in this life. Lot chose to go dwell in plains near Sodom, and i am pretty sure after few years living there he realize his mistake, and wanted to move but probably could not move for some reason. we on the other get the whole account of Sodom and Gomorrah, and we see in verse 13 of Gen that Sodom and Gomorrah where not a good place to live. another thing we have to realize is that Lot was not changing for people around him, yes he live around ungodly people of that time, but he did not allow their lifestyle to come into his way of living for God. he concern about how the people around him lived.
