Sermon: Action (2 Peter 3:14-18)

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2 Peter 3:14–18

¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. ¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 2 Peter 3:17–18

¹⁹And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

¹³I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

⁹ “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9a

I. Guard (v. 17)

¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 2 Peter 3:17 (NASB)

¹⁶There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 2 Peter 3:16

Savior Sensitive > Seeker Sensitive

¹⁷take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 2 Peter 3:17b

¹Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, ²and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:1–2

How do any of us discern twisted Bible teaching?

ZOOM IN

¹⁴By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you. 2 Timothy 1:14

³remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 1 Timothy 1:3b

ZOOM OUT

II. Grow (v. 18)

¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2 Peter 3:18a

¹⁰ that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Philippians 3:10

III. Glorify God (v. 18)

¹⁸To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18b

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