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Significant Lessons from Second Letters
Remember, Peter’s last letter he wrote that we have.
The benefit of all his life’s experience.
What’s most important that he think’s we need to remember.
He wrote it down.
Needle in a Haystack
Have you ever found a needle in a haystack?
Literally?
Figuratively?
Our house in LR had a pool.
We’d have the youth group over for parties and games.
Youth pastor, wife, and volunteers would come too.
There was a couple who were volunteers and had just gotten engaged.
Just got the ring, looooved the ring.
Very proud of what her poor husband and given her.
And, she wore it to play in the pool.
Volleyball, basketball, all sorts of activities.
Party is winding down, she gets out to dry off and notices.
The ring is gone.
No idea how long, where, just gone.
We stop everything.
Let the water calm down.
Couple of guys put on masks and dive to the deep end, around the drain.
It was big enough it shouldn’t have gone down the drain.
And, too heavy to get into the skimmers.
But, could it be in the big sand filter?
It wasn’t in the pool.
Picture our back yard.
The house is on a hill.
Walk out basement to the pool, down some stairs.
Behind the pool is a hedge, between the hedge and back fence is a gnarly ivy for ground cover to keep the topsoil from eroding.
Off the shallow end is a wood deck.
Gaps between boards.
But only a foot off the ground.
Off the deep end was a big magnolia tree.
They shed big leaves.
Mulch underneath to keep the grass and weeds out.
Then up by the house, more bushes and ground cover.
It’s gnarly, it’s thick, it’s deep, and that ring could be anywhere.
We’re all upset.
But, you can imagine what’s going thru the young couple’s mind and heart.
Her engagement ring.
Represents so much.
For them, expensive!
She’s heartbroken.
More and more each time a search of a section of the pool and yard come up empty.
Then, one of the students gets ready to leave, walks up the steps to the door to the house, happens to look down at the base of the bush right next to her and sees something shiny.
What are the chances?!
Sometime, during a heated volleyball game, she took a swing at the ball and her ring flew off and landed right by the steps to house under that bush.
The trial was big.
The stress was huge.
And the relief for everyone produced tears.
That ring is like us.
When we come to faith God makes us like a diamond wrapped in gold and we are precious to Him.
But, at times, we feel lost in a gnarly, mulch-rotting, snake and rodent infested, dirt eroding, dark under the deck place.
And we wonder, “Does God see us?” “Will He provide what I need to survive and protect me so I will?” “Will He ever rescue me?”
W/ the stresses and trials of all the gnarliness sometimes we give in to it.
We don’t lose faith or stop believing, but maybe we start behaving in ways more like the rot than the ring.
Will God still rescue me?
Peter assures us that we might be that needle in a haystack, and the haystack might even be on fire.
But, God knows exactly where we are, providing everything we need, protecting us for eternity, and with pin-point accuracy will lift us out and rescue us while everything else around us is rotting and destroyed.
You may feel lost, but God hasn’t lost you.
God will certainly rescue you out of the rot and treat you like the ring He made you to be.
In the Greek, v.1-10a is one conditional sentence.
“If....then.”
v.1-8 are the ‘ifs’.
v.9-10 is the ‘then.’
Peter starts out ch.2 talking about where the gnarlyness and the rot are going to come from.
It’s going to get hard.
“If....then.”
v.1-8 are the ‘ifs’.
From Within
2 Peter 2:1-3
He just got done writing about the inspiration of the OT prophet and how God preserved their message.
They wrote and spoke in a time when there were others claiming prophet of God status but were not.
God preserved His message.
Now, future tense, there will be more like those who claim godly status and divine authority but they are not.
Characteristic of these leaders and speakers, they come from w/in.
It’s hard enough to stand up against those outside the church who try to divert us from walking w/ Jesus, maintaining high moral standards, and influencing others to join us.
But, when the opposition comes from w/in, it’s even harder.
It’s not that these mis-leaders are definitely Christian or not.
But, they are misleading.
These doctrinal differences they promote don’t change over night.
They are incremental, gradual, but eventually cross the line of fundamental and biblical Christianity.
Eventually, no, they will not be Christians, though recognized as church leaders.
And, characteristic of their message, just like those who opposed the OT prophets, will be one of supposed “good news.”
But it isn’t.
They will teach peace and love, inclusion and tolerance.
But, the problem is they teach tolerance of ungodly behavior.
Then, for those who try to live by higher standards, they will be considering hateful.
Hate-mongering.
Hate speech.
It’s going on now.
It’s going to get worse.
Peter lists 8 points that profile these mis-leaders.
They are devious.
Not openly defiant.
Appear to be faithful and on board but introducing changes secretly, from w/in.
They claim t/b supportive while introducing contradictory doctrine.
They perpetrate serious error.
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