The Sunday School Lesson A Discerning and Persevering People by David McGee
May 30, 2021
A Discerning and Persevering People (40:55)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Peter 2:1-9; 2 Peter 3:3-13; Jude 1:3-4; Jude 1:17-23
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2 Peter 2:1-9
1) But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2) Many will follow their destructive ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
3) In covetousness will they exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn‘t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
4) For if God didn‘t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;
5) and didn‘t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
6) and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
7) and delivered righteous Lot, very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
8) (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, tormented his righteous soul from day to day with lawless deeds):
9) the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment;
2 Peter 3:3-13
3) knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
4) and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming?" For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5) For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
6) by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
7) But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8) But don‘t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9) The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is longsuffering towards us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11) Therefore since all these things are thus to be destroyed, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
12) looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
13) But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
Jude 1:3-4
3) Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
4) For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even they who were of old written of beforehand to this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:17-23
17) But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18) They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
19) These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
20) But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
21) Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
22) On some have compassion, making a distinction,
23) and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
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