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Devotional: 2 Peter 2:11-16

Today’s passage: 2 Peter 2:11-16

Helpful thoughts:

  • This passage starts with verse 10b, “Bold and willful…“
  • False teachers think highly of themselves.  This pride makes them:
    • Irrational
    • Impulsive
    • Speaking as experts (Fully believing they are) in areas of ignorance…which results in more false teaching
  • False teachers don’t wait until the darkness to unleash their sinfulness.
  • False teachers target the church.
  • False teachers target those who are “unsteady”.
  • The feasting and greed could be termed today as chewing people up and spitting them out.
  • False teachers will reap consequences for their actions.
  • Balaam’s story starts in Numbers 22.

Questions to consider:

  1. What kinds of things could be true of a Christian who is presently “unsteady”?  What would make them vulnerable?  What would they need to be “steadied”?
  2. Who is the false teacher seeking to benefit?  How would he/she feel toward those they are hurting?  To whom would they attribute fault when conflicts and troubles arise or when their methods and lies come into question?
  3. What did it take to restrain (Not stop…) Balaam’s “madness”?  How can this give us wisdom in our desire to attempt to confront and stop a false teacher?

January 30, 2019 Category: 2 Peter, Devotions

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