You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. — 2 Peter 3:17

The depth/level of our conviction that Christ will return is inextricably and proportionately linked to the Spirit’s work of conforming our character and conduct to Christ's Kingdom ethic.

Nick Parsons helped us dive into 2 Peter 3:8-10 and reminds us that followers of Jesus are to (eagerly) wait for Jesus’s return. We should do so with obedience, humility, faith, and wisdom.

There will always be scoffers/mockers of God’s kingdom. Because of this, Peter implores us to heed the moral requirements of the gospel, or what Paul in Galatians calls the ‘Law of Christ.’

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 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.