Our text for this lesson is 2 Pet 3:9-18.  In the context of the prior verses in this chapter, this passage deals with the long-suffering of God before fulfilling the promise of his coming.  While we wait for his coming, what should we be doing?  We should: Come to repentance...

2 Pet 3:1-8 is a passage that assures us that the coming of the Lord Jesus is soon.   However, according to verses 3 and 4, the closer we get to the Lord’s coming, the more skeptical people are that he will come.  “In the last days scoffers… (say) Where...

We have been studying the false teachers who bring in damnable heresies [2 Pet 2:1].  Today, we are going to study 2 Pet 2:18-22, in which we learn what affect these false teachers have on people who have already “escaped from them who live in error,” [2 Pet 2:18].  You’re...

In 2 Pet 2:4-17, Peter continues dealing with the subject of false teachers.  In this section of the chapter, Peter tells us that God will judge the false teachers and will not spare them.  He cites God’s judgment of the fallen angels, the world that was flooded in Noah’s day,...

Wherever there is truth, there are going to be lies.  In the Old Testament, there were false prophets among the people, when there were holy men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [2 Pet 1:21].  In the New Testament, Peter said, “there shall be...

Peter mentions the everlasting kingdom of Jesus in 2 Pet 1:11.  He mentions the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in 2 Pet 1:16, and the promise of his coming in 2 Pet 3:4.  Therefore, what he wrote in 2 Pet 1:12-21 definitely has something to do with the coming...

After we are saved, we must be diligent to add to our faith [2 Pet 1:5].  Rom 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  Faith then is simply believing what God said and trusting God to perform his word.  Heb 11:1 says, “Now...

As the descendants of Adam, all of us are sinners by nature, and we are all appointed to die [Rom 5:12].  We know good and evil, but we don’t know God.  According to 2 Pet 1:1-4, when we are saved, we can obtain divine things through the knowledge of God. ...