Destructive Doctrines

Kept by the Word of God - Message 14 - Destructive Doctrines - 2 Peter 2:1-3

I. A Review: The Certainty of Christ's Coming - 2 Peter 1

A. God’s Provision – vs. 1-4
B. Our Progress – vs. 5-11
C. Peter’s Post-Its (Reminders) – vs. 12-15
D. God’s Promises – vs. 16-21

II. A Warning: The Challenges Facing the Church - 2 Peter 2

A. Who – False Teachers – pseudo-prophetai – Matt. 7:15; Jer. 5:12-13, 30-31; 14:14; Lamen. 2:13-14; Matt. 24:11, 24; Luke 6:26; 1 John 4:1
B. What – Destructive Heresies – Acts 24:5, 14; 28:22; 1 Cor. 11:19

1. Factions
2. Dogma that Destroys – Gal. 5:20
   C. When – Future (soon, after Peter’s death) – see 1:14; Acts 20:28-31
   D. Where – Among You
3. Denying the Lord, who (they profess) bought them
4. Disown, disobey – Matt. 7:21-23; 10:33; Luke 6:46
   E. How
5. Secretly – speaks to malicious intent – Gal. 2:4
6. With Destructive Ways – Jude 4
7. Many with Follow, Blaspheming Truth
8. By Covetousness (Greed) – 1 Thess. 2:5; 2 Peter 2:14
9. Exploiting with Deceptive Words
   a. Exploit – engage in business, make merchandise or you
   b. Deceptive Words – plastois logois, fabricated words, made up stories
   c. Always Comforting, Never Confronting/Convicting
   F. And Then? – Judgment is not sleeping but will be swift and sure – NEXT MESSAGE: Delivered into Darkness – vs. 4