For this last week exploring False Teachers in 2 Peter 2, Mike Wilcox joined us to look at False Teachers’ Claims and how we go about discerning them in community.

We often fail to see that forgiveness flows not just through a person (Jesus) but through a person in his official capacity as King (the Christ) crucified, raised, and reigning!

As a church, we’re spending Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday exploring the climax of the inbreaking of God’s Kingdom and the inauguration of the redemption for humanity.

We pushed deeper into Peter’s excursus on false teachers in 2 Peter 2:10b-17. We switched things up a bit this week and did a combo sermon with a follow-up Q&A. Give it a listen.

Peter enters into a harder topic for us. But understanding and refuting false teachers is as equally important in our modern context as it was in the 1st Century.

As Spurgeon aptly observed, “the most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the Gospel.” And this is the work of the trustworthy and Spirit-inspired Word of God.

Because of our new birth and the precious promises and the divine power offered us in Christ we cannot sit back and rest content with ‘faith.’ Our discipleship takes work.

Many of our struggles lie not in a lack of doctrine but in a failure to believe the essence of the gospel that beckons us to replace inferior joys in inferior objects with superior joys in God himself.

To call Christ Lord and proclaim God to be King is to be humbled under God’s mighty display of eternal power rather than to cower before the pale might of any earthly ruler.