PREPARING FOR WHAT IS TO COME

OVERVIEW OF II PETER

PREPARING FOR WHAT IS TO COME

• By diligently growing (chapter 1)• By avoiding false prophets

(chapter 2)• By living a proper life in view of

the coming judgment (chapter 3)

CHAPTER 1

• Everything pertaining to life and godliness (1:3)

• Precious and magnificent promises (1:4)

• Partakers of the divine nature (1:4)

• Having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust (1:4)

DILIGENTLY GROW IN:

• Faith• Moral Excellence• Knowledge• Self-Control• Perseverance• Godliness• Brotherly Kindness• Love

CHAPTER 1

• Useful and fruitful (1:8)• Make certain about His calling

and choosing you (1:10)• You will never stumble (1:10)• Entrance into the eternal

kingdom… abundantly supplied to you (1:11)

THE FATE OF THE FALSE PROPHETS

• Swift destruction on themselves (2:1)• Their judgment from long ago is not

idle and their destruction is not asleep (2:3)

• Keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment (2:9)

• Will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed (2:12)

THE FATE OF THE FALSE PROPHETS

• Suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong (2:13)

• Black darkness has been reserved (2:17)

• Their last state is worse than the first (2:20)

• Would have been better for them to have never known the way of righteousness (2:21)

WHAT THE FALSE PROPHETS WILL DO

• Secretly introduce destructive heresies (2:1)

• Denying the master who bought them (2:1)

• Greedy (2:3)• Exploit you with false words (2:3)• Indulge the flesh in its corrupt

desires (2:10)• Despise authority (2:10)

WHAT THE FALSE PROPHETS WILL DO

• Daring (2:10)• Self-willed (2:10)• They do not tremble when they revile

angelic majesties (2:10)• Are like unreasoning animals (2:12)• Reviling where they have no knowledge

(2:12)• Count it a pleasure to revel in the

daytime (2:13)

WHAT THE FALSE PROPHETS WILL DO

• Stains and blemishes (2:13)• Reveling in their deceptions (2:13)• Carouse with you (2:13)• Eyes full of adultery (2:14)• Never cease from sin (2:14)• Enticing unstable souls (2:14)• Heart trained in greed (2:14)• Accursed children (2:14)

WHAT THE FALSE PROPHETS WILL DO

• Forsaking the right way (2:15)• Gone astray (2:15)• Followed the way of Balaam (2:15)• Springs without water (2:17)• Mists driven by the storm (2:17)• Speaking out arrogant words of

vanity (2:18)

WHAT THE FALSE PROPHETS WILL DO

• Entice by fleshly desires (2:18)• Entice by sensuality those who barely

escape from the ones who live in error (2:18)

• Promising freedom (2:19)• Are slaves of corruption (2:19)• They had escaped the defilement of the

world by knowledge of the Lord (2:20)• They are again entangled in them and

are overcome (2:20)

LIVING IN VIEW OF THE JUDGMENT

• Remember the words spoken and the commandments (1-2)

• Know that there will be mockers that doubt (3)

• Present heavens and earth are reserved for fire; judgment and destruction (7)

LIVING IN VIEW OF THE JUDGMENT

• Remember God's patience and purpose (8-9)

• Remember the certainty… the day of the Lord will come (10) and uncertainty… “like a thief”

• Heavens, elements, earth, its works pass away, destroyed and burned up (10)

WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE OUGHT YOU TO BE?

• Since wickedness will be punished? (II Peter 3:7,9,11,14)

• Since the world and its works will be destroyed? (II Peter 3:7,10,12-13,17-18)