Portrait of a False Teacher

I. The False Teachers Primary Concern – Themselves 2:10-16

1. They are anti-authority – 10-11
   See also Jude 8-10

2. They are like brute animals -- v. 12

3. They wink at gross sin – v. 13-14a
   See also Jude 12a

Barclay – “The aim of the man who gives himself to such fleshly things is pleasure; and his tragedy is that in the end, he loses even the pleasure. For awhile he may enjoy what he calls pleasure, but in the end, he ruins his health, wrecks his constitution, destroys his mind and character, and begins his experience of hell, even while he is still on earth.”

4. What do they love besides themselves? Money – v. 3, 14b-16

II. The Emptiness of False Teachers 17-19

1. They are full of false hope -- v. 17
   See also Jude 12b-13
   
   a. “Wells without water”
   b. clouds with no rain

2. They are full of debased sin -- v. 18

     a.  They are good at talking  v. 18a
     b.  They lead others into sin  v. 18b
     
   

   3. They are full of ironic promises -- v. 19

III. The Fate of False Teachers 20-22

1.  Their latter end worse than the beginning  -- v. 20
2.  It is always worse to sin against knowledge -- v. 21
3.  Two descriptive proverbs -- v. 22