With the passing of time the love believers have for God and His Word should flourish and intensify. It should be increasingly precious and satisfying to the soul like nothing else can. Such a high regard for God and His Word produces a longing to live pleasing and obedient to God. It also produces an intolerance of those who don't have a genuine love for God and His Word. A casual, disrespectful regard for God's Word reveals a heart and mind that is in effect, hostile toward God.
It is a great tragedy when individuals and the church allow a casual and careless regard for God and His Word to set in. In this context, Peter writes giving a strong and biting warning about false teachers within the church. These teachers take theological truth, give it a twist, and make it a deadly mix with their own ideas.
In this section, Peter focuses on how they go about enticing people to follow their corrupted teaching and ungodly conduct. They entice by making grand and appealing promises they cannot deliver and by telling people what they want to hear. Their flattery and self-confidence makes their vain words desirable to listen to.
Their end, and those who follow them, will be spent in the black darkness of eternal hell. This end the child of God must remember when they appear to be successful so as to keep from becoming discouraged. Their end should also provoke the child of God to continue in the ministry and proclamation of the truth of God's Word to any and all who will listen.
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In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...
