{"id":18182,"date":"2020-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/2-peter-009-gods-pattern-of-judgment\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T05:00:00","slug":"2-peter-009-gods-pattern-of-judgment","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/2-peter-009-gods-pattern-of-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Peter 009 &#8211; God&#8217;s Pattern of Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[106],"series_event":[507],"sermon_service_type":[474],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-18182","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-2-peter","series_event-2-peter","sermon_service_type-wednesday-evenings","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"2 Peter 009 - God's Pattern of Judgment","sermon_date":"20200318","sermon_month":"3","sermon_year":"2020","sermon_notes":7630,"sermon_slides":7631,"sermon_mp3":7660,"sermon_id":"319201953134119","series_or_event":507,"service_type":[474],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":106,"chapter_and_verse":"2:3-9","sermon_transcript":"2 Peter #9\nGod\u2019s Pattern Of Judgment\n2 Peter 2:3-9\nMarch 18, 2020\nDr. Andy Woods\n\nMy name is Dr. Andy Woods. I'm the pastor-teacher at Sugar Land Bible Church. We\u2019re living in some extraordinary times related to regulations and recommendations concerning social distancing. One of the verses that the Lord ministered to me was 2 Timothy 2:9, where the Apostle Paul essentially says that he was a prisoner. He wrote that letter from prison, but he indicates there that the Word of God is not in chains. That's how we feel about it. You can pass all kinds of rules and regulations and recommendations, but we\u2019re going to find every possible opportunity that the Lord gives us to teach and preach His Word because that's our calling.\n\nBefore we start tonight\u2019s study, I also wanted to convey the following. I had some health issues last Sunday morning. I think what I had was a pretty good case of the common cold\u2014with maybe a little bit of flu thrown in. When that kind of circumstance takes place, I usually try to just press through it. But I didn't want to this last Sunday because of all of the scare regarding the coronavirus.\n\nMy goodness\u2014maybe I had the coronavirus and didn't realize it. Maybe I would have contaminated people and so forth. So, we decided to cancel services at the last minute and now everybody thinks I\u2019ve got the coronavirus. I don't think I have the coronavirus because I never broke out in a fever and I never developed a shortness of breath. My energy level is gradually returning, and I appreciate all y'all's prayers and well wishes on my behalf. I think I'm on the mend! Enough introductory issues. Let's go ahead and open up tonight with a word of prayer.\n\n<strong>Opening Prayer<\/strong>\n\n\u201cFather, we thank You for this evening. We thank You for Your truth. We thank You for Your Word. We thank You for Your church. We thank you for the fact that Your Word is not in chains and we\u2019re still able to teach Your Word with great opportunity.\n\nI pray that You will use the study tonight for those who are watching and those who will be watching later. I pray that You use this time to edify us and fortify us in Your Truth. I ask that Your name would be lifted up and Your truth would be exalted.\n\nI pray for the means of communication. I pray that all the technical issues would go over smoothly. I just ask for Your blessing on this evening, and we lift these things up in Jesus\u2019 name.\u201d\n\nAnd God's people said? \u201cAmen!\u201d You guys said that so loud I could hear you right through the camera (being a little facetious there). If you\u2019ve got your Bible with you, can you open it up to 2 Peter 2?\n\nWe\u2019ve been teaching this series on 2 Peter. We worked our way through some introductory issues. We didn't meet last week because it was spring break. We also had, at the same time, the Chafer Theological Seminary conference. By the way, it went really well. Appreciate all y'all's prayers on that. So we had a one week hiatus.\n\nYou\u2019ll remember that we were teaching through 2 Peter. This is our ninth lesson. We learned that 2 Peter was basically a book written to a Hebrew Christian audience seeking to fortify them for the groundswell of false teachers that were about to enter their midst.\n\nHere is an outline of 2 Peter. It has three parts.\n<ul>\n \t<li>2 Peter 1 \u2014 Call to maturity<\/li>\n \t<li>2 Peter 2 \u2014 Characteristics of false teachers<\/li>\n \t<li>2 Peter 3 \u2014 Doctrine of the false teachers (uniformitarianism)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPeter, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is seeing all of these things coming in advance, and he's warning his flock. He\u2019s probably writing from Babylon\u2014literal Babylon (1 Peter 5:13)\u2014to a Hebrew Christian audience in the northern central Turkey area. It\u2019s a Hebrew Jewish\/Christian Jewish audience.\n\nWe\u2019ve completed chapter 1, which is a call to growth. The basic thrust of chapter 1 is to grow up\u2014to mature. You might ask yourself, \u201cWhat is a chapter in a book on false teachers doing here, when it's just about maturity?\u201d The answer is that false teachers prey on the unstable; you see that in 2 Peter 2:14, \u201centicing unstable souls.\u201d So, what better way to insulate people from false teachers than to get his audience stable and solidified?\n\nSo once we finished chapter 1, we then moved into chapter 2. Now we have probably one of the greatest treatments in the whole Bible that I can think of, a description of the characteristics of false teachers. \u201cWhat exactly are they like? What do they look like? How do they operate? What are their motives?\u201d That's what we have in chapter 2.\n\nChapter 2, basically, is a description of the characteristics of false teachers. And I can't think of a more pertinent or relevant chapter to look at than that one. Because most people would agree that the church of Jesus Christ here in the United States\u2014and certainly worldwide\u2014is being inundated with false teaching. Probably as never before.\n\nYou know, when Peter wrote his epistle, he was dealing with one brand of false teaching: Gnosticism. Gnosticism was coming into that northern central Turkey area. Think of all of the false teachings that we are dealing with all over the world coming into the church globally. Quite clearly, false teaching is on the rise and this is why the Holy Spirit gave us this particular book.\n\nLook at the next slide, and you can see an outline of the material in chapter 2. You have the predicted arrival of the false teachers described, the devices of the false teachers, the doom of the false teachers, the depravity of the false teachers, the emptiness of these false teachers, and then the retrogression (or regression) of these false teachers.\n\nWe already looked at verse 1 (their predicted arrival) where Peter says, \u201cThey're coming.\u201d You see that in the first part of verse 1. It\u2019s interesting that Jude, the Lord's half-brother, would write his book roughly six years later. Peter wrote about A.D. 64. Jude probably wrote as late as A.D. 70, maybe a little earlier, A.D. 68. So, 4 to 6 years later Jude says, \u201cThey're here.\u201d\n\nYou see that in Jude verse 4:3 and particularly verse 4, \u201cThey\u2019re here.\u201d So, Jude wrote to explain how Peter's prophecies of coming false teachers would have materialized just within a very short period of time.\n\nThen we went to the second part of verse 1 and into verse 3 where we began to look at the devices of the false teachers. We saw that they will bring in false teaching (second part of verse 1). They will teach licentiousness (verse 2). I think that's where we left off last time.\n\nThe reason these false teachers are teaching this licentiousness relates to Gnosticism. Gnosticism taught dualism: that the physical world was essentially evil and the spiritual world was good. It was a strange belief system. If you believe that the physical world is inherently evil, then you can blame your sin on your body. \u201cIt's not me gossiping; it\u2019s just this tongue, which is evil.\u201d\n\nSo, it was a convenient way to remove moral responsibility. That's why Peter tells us, \u201cWhen these false teachers come, they\u2019re going to teach a doctrine of licentiousness.\u201d Which basically means, \u201cIt's okay to sin\u2014sin up a storm! Living the holy life in Christ really doesn't matter.\u201d\n\nYou\u2019ll notice that there are two extremes that Satan pushes the church into. One extreme is legalism, where you put the sin nature (which we all have\u2014even as Christians) under external controls not found in the Bible. And the Bible is very clear that those external controls, absent the internal work of the Holy Spirit, don't do anything to control the sin nature.\n\nIt's like looking at a sign that says, \u201cDo not touch\u2014wet paint.\u201d What\u2019s your first impulse? If you're honest with yourself, your first impulse is to touch the wet paint. That's how the sin nature is. And just putting a sign up that says, \u201cDon't touch it,\u201d stimulates the sin nature. So, legalism doesn't work.\n\nThen the opposite, \u201cWell, if I can\u2019t control the sin nature through legalism, then just let it do what it wants to do. After all, I\u2019m saved by grace. So, what does it matter if I go back to the sin nature and live how I want?\u201d That's a doctrine called licentiousness.\n\nThe audience that is about to be hit by false teaching is about to be dealing with that latter concept; they\u2019re going to tempted into licentiousness. So, Peter deals with the licentious teaching of the false teachers in verse 2.\n\nThen verse 3 (which is where we pick it up) continues with the devices of these false teachers. It says, \u201c<em>and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep<\/em>.\u201d So, we see another device of these false teachers: it is, essentially, greed. You'll notice it right there at the beginning of verse 3; it says, \u201cin their greed.\u201d\n\nI'm reminded of Christ's interaction with the Pharisees who were motivated by money. That's why they were in the ministry\u2014to get wealthy. Matthew 23:25 says, \u201c<em>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence<\/em>.\u201d This is the New American Standard Bible. \u201cRobbery\u201d is another way of saying \u201cgreed.\u201d Some of your Bible versions may actually say \u201cgreed.\u201d And isn\u2019t it interesting? When the televangelist scandals hit\u2014you recall that\u2014in the 1980s, all of the licentious living of these televangelists was uncovered. Impropriety related to finances, the lust for more and more money, and a standard of living far beyond the people was also uncovered.\n\nOne individual, I remember, had an air-conditioned doghouse. And all of this was exposed. Isn\u2019t it interesting that Peter spots that? He says, \u201cThe way to spot a false teacher is they are motivated by greed.\u201d\n\nAnother one of their devices\u2014continuing here with the slides\u2014is their exploitation of the flock. Look at verse 3 one more time. It says, \u201c<em>and in their greed they will exploit you with false words<\/em>\u2026\u201d Now, \u201cexploit,\u201d basically, is the idea of taking advantage of somebody. In other words, these false teachers are in the ministry not so much to <em>feed<\/em> the flock but to <em>fleece<\/em> the flock. In other words, they\u2019re interested not so much in ministering to people; they\u2019re interested in what they can get out of people.\n\nQuite frankly, there's a lot that can be taken from Christians. You can take their money. You can use them to build your own popularity. So that's how you spot a false teacher: their motive is not feeding but fleecing; their motive is exploitation.\n\nA great parallel passage on this is the whole 34th chapter of Ezekiel. I wish we had time to read the whole chapter. But verse 2 says, \u201c <em>\u2018Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, \u201cThus says the Lord God, \u2018Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?\u2019<\/em> \u201d\n\nYou\u2019ll see a sign here at Sugar Land Bible Church right when you walk in the door and look up to the right. We have it there on a marquee\u2014a poster\u2014if you will. We have Ezekiel 34:2 which says, \u201cShould not the shepherds feed the flock?\u201d In other words, this is a reminder that the spiritual leaders at our church\u2014whether it's the pastor, the associate pastor, the youth pastor, the secretaries that we have, the elders, and the deacons\u2014are not here for ourselves.\n\nWe\u2019re not here to build our own kingdom. We\u2019re here to minister to God's people. You see, a false teacher doesn't think that way. The false teacher is always looking at the sheep for what he\u2014or in some cases \u201cshe\u201d\u2014can get out of the flock.\n\nI mean, that is completely contradictory to the life of Christ. In John 10:11 Jesus says, \u201c <em>\u2018I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.\u2019 <\/em>\u201d Mark 10:45 (of Christ) says, \u201c <em>\u2018For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.\u2019<\/em> \u201d What was Christ\u2019s whole ministry about? It wasn't to exploit people. It wasn't to take advantage of people. It was to lay down His life in service for other people. And that's what ministry is all about. But a false teacher is not that way; they\u2019re exploiters.\n\nContinuing on with their devices\u2014continuing on with the slides\u2014you see that they're going to be people of false words. Back to verse 3 which says, \u201c<em>and in their greed they will exploit you with false words<\/em>\u2026\u201d Look up this word \u201cfalse\u201d in the Greek language. As I articulate this word, try to think what English word goes with this. It's the word PLASTOS, and you might recognize the word \u201cplastic\u201d from that word.\n\nThe English word \u201cplastic\u201d comes from this Greek word. What Peter is saying is, \u201cThese false teachers are going to have plastic words\u2014not real words.\u201d In other words, they are <em>plastic preachers<\/em> because the words really don't come from God and God's Word. Their words come from their own wicked minds.\n\nPaul the apostle, towards the end of his third missionary journey, stopped in a port city called Miletus and summoned the nearby elders of the church at Ephesus. He spoke to them in a final address. It\u2019s an amazing address! In the course of that discourse he says to the Ephesian shepherds in Acts 20:30, \u201c<em>and from among your own selves<\/em>.\u201d I mean, that probably put the fear of God into them! Because he is saying that false teachers are going to arise from within this rank right here\u2014the leadership at Ephesus. I think what he was saying is, \u201cSome of <em>you<\/em> are going to end up being false teachers.\u201d\n\n\u201c<em>and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things<\/em>\u2026\u201d That's the same concept that Peter is using here\u2014plastic words, plastic preachers. For what purpose? \u201c<em>to draw away the disciples after them<\/em>.\u201d So, they're going to be interested in ministry for the purpose of building their own personal popularity, their own resume, their own financial base, their own kingdom. In the process, they are going to be teaching plastic words and speaking perverse things. And\u2014my, oh my\u2014do we need to understand what the Holy Spirit said 2000 years ago about these false teachers, because this is a fitting description of so many of the things that we run into today in the body of Christ.\n\nYou\u2019ll notice how verse 3 ends. It says, \u201c<em>their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep<\/em>.\u201d In other words, they're not getting away with anything. We\u2019re going to see that in just a moment in verses 4-9. God is going to deal very aggressively with these false teachers under His timetable.\n\nGo through the Gospels and read about the life of Jesus Christ; you see how compassionate Christ was to so many people\u2014the worst of the worst in society\u2014the tax collectors, the sinners, the prostitutes. But there's one group of people that He reserves His harshest words for, and that was the spiritual leaders who were misleading the nation. He aimed his comments at the Sadducees\u2014but primarily at the group of legalists called the Pharisees.\n\nI challenge you to read Matthew 23 sometime. Boy, oh boy, do you see a blistering denunciation of false teachers. This is why James 3:1 says, \u201c<em>Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we<\/em> [it\u2019s interesting that James puts himself into this category] <em>will incur a stricter judgment<\/em>.\u201d\n\nSo, teaching is a wonderful thing because you're able to sway or direct the thinking of a lot of people. You can use that gifting in the right way. But\u2014boy, oh boy\u2014you can use it in the wrong way too! You can direct a whole lot of people into thinking errant un-biblical thoughts. And the moment someone becomes a teacher is the moment their level of accountability just went up in God.\n\nSo, God (through Peter) says, concerning these false teachers, \u201cThey\u2019re not getting away with anything.\u201d End of verse 3, \u201c<em>their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep<\/em>.\u201d Now, you might say, \u201cWell, do you have some examples of God judging evil? I mean, if God is going to judge these false teachers, are there any biblical examples of God judging evil?\u201d\n\nI'm so glad you asked that question. Look at our outline. We move away from the devices of false teachers to the doom of the false teachers. The doom (or the destruction) of these false teachers has already been hinted at; the end of verse 1 says, \u201c<em>bringing swift destruction upon themselves<\/em>.\u201d\n\nThen, verse 3, which we just read: \u201c<em>their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep<\/em>.\u201d Peter takes a general concept of the destruction of false teachers and now gives a historical outworking of it. He gives three examples. That's why we've entitled the Bible study this evening: \u201cGod's Pattern of Judgment.\u201d He gives there three examples (verses 4-9) of how God historically has dealt with evil or false teachers as a reminder that false teachers are not getting away with anything.\n\nNotice here the outline of verses 4-9. The thing that I\u2019d like to communicate to you is that in Greek this is set up like a giant \u201cif-then\u201d syllogism. \u201cIf these things (three of them) are true (verses 4-8), then there's an obvious conclusion (verse 9). Verse 4 says, \u201c<em>For if God<\/em>\u2026\u201d Then the NASB translates verse 6 and says, \u201c<em>and if<\/em>\u2026\u201d Verse seven, \u201c<em>and if<\/em>\u2026\u201d Then finally you get to verse 9 and it says, \u201c<em>then<\/em>\u2026\u201d See that? It\u2019s if\u2026if\u2026if\u2026then. So, it\u2019s a giant \u201cif-then\u201d clause.\n\nI think one of the reasons this is given here is Peter is trying to encourage his audience. Because they\u2019re probably overwhelmed at this point by all of this teaching they\u2019ve been given by the apostle about false teachers coming in among them. And they probably felt defeated. You know, it's easy when you get descriptions of evil to think, \u201cThe world is against me.\u201d But he is saying, \u201cGod has a pattern of dealing with evil; and as He deals with evil, He simultaneously rescues the godly.\u201d\n\nSo, God is going to do the same thing with <em>you<\/em> when these false teachers come. God is somehow going to rescue you, preserve you, in the midst of it. At the same time, while He's preserving you, He's going to simultaneously bring judgment on these false teachers. That's why, when you read stories about televangelists buying $50 million airplanes (and all of these kinds of things), there is no need to get despondent about that.\n\nYou have to understand that God already has those people under judgment, and He's going to deal with them very aggressively while simultaneously protecting the godly. So that's a word of encouragement to us being hit by false teachers. But the point here is that God has a habit of doing this, God has a pattern of doing this, God is good at doing this, and if He's done it three times in the past, He will do it again.\n\nSo, let's go through these three historical examples. The first example is the fall of the angels. The Luciferian rebellion and the original fall of the angels did not take God off guard at all. God dealt with that very aggressively. Then, the angels got obnoxious again in the Genesis 6 situation which I'll talk about for moment, and God dealt with them a second time. Notice what it says here in verse 4, \u201c<em>For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment<\/em>\u2026\u201d So, example one is the fallen angels.\n\nWe see that in 2 Peter 2:4, \u201c<em>For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment<\/em>\u2026\u201d Now, what event is this speaking of? A lot of people will say, \u201cThis was the original fall of Satan (Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:12-17), where Satan fell and deceived a third of the angels into falling with him (Revelation 12:3-8). I don't think that's what it\u2019s speaking of here, because that original fall never resulted in an incarceration of some of the fallen angels.\n\nI think the best explanation for this is <em>some<\/em> of those fallen angels that originally fell with Lucifer\u2014a subset of them\u2014became involved in the sin of Genesis 6:1-4. I don't think I'm going to go into too much detail here, because we\u2019re doing a series in Sunday school on angelology where we\u2019re specifically getting into this issue. I think we\u2019ve taught four lessons, and there are likely a couple more, at least, on the horizon. So, I would encourage you to go to our angelology series to really get our full thoughts on Genesis 6:1-4.\n\nBut, essentially, what was happening is some of those angels\u2014that we call demons\u2014began to cohabitate with human women to prevent the birth of Jesus Christ. And those evil angels involved in that sin were placed in a place of incarceration. You see this pie chart where two thirds of the good angels are on our side. Praise the Lord for that\u2014the majority is on our side.\n\nOne third of them fell with Lucifer. Some of that number\u2014I don\u2019t know how many\u2014got involved in this Genesis 6 sin. And the ones involved in that Genesis 6 sin did something so heinous (they left their natural abode), that God immediately put that group in jail or in Tartarus. And that's the only explanation you have, biblically, as to why some fallen angels are free.\n\nClearly, some are free because we wrestle with them. Ephesians 6:12 says, \u201c<em>For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age<\/em>\u2026\u201d But some, like in this passage here, are in prison.\n\nWe know from other books (like 1 Peter 3:19, 20) that Peter makes a reference to the exact same thing. We also know from the Book of Jude (Jude 6, 7) that Jude makes a reference to the exact same thing.\n\nWhy bring up all of this? It's easy to get bogged down on the Genesis 6 situation. I don't mind getting bogged down on that\u2014we\u2019re getting bogged down on that in Sunday school. But for our purposes here this evening, the main point to understand is when evil took place, God dealt it.\n\nWhen Lucifer sinned, God dealt with it. When the angels fell with Lucifer, God dealt with it\u2014they lost their position in the heavenlies. And when another group of those demons started to contaminate the genetics of the human race, God dealt with it.\n\nSo, if God has a pattern of dealing with evil, then why are we so upset about false teachers? God is going to deal with them. If God didn't deal with them, He would be acting differently than how He's acted historically. Verse 4, then, becomes the first example of how God is going to deal with false teachers.\n\nThe second example is the flood. Notice, if you will, verse 5. Second Peter 2:5 says, \u201c<em>and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly<\/em>\u2026\u201d Notice that the Bible indicates that the world in the time of Noah was really wicked.\n\nAll you have to do is go back to Genesis 6 and read all about it. The earth was filled with violence. The earth was corrupt. Every inclination of man's heart was perpetually wicked. It got so bad that God grieved that He even made man to begin with.\n\nSo, what God did is He preserved the righteous. In this case it was Noah and his family. Notice what it says here, \u201cNoah\u2026with seven others.\u201d Peter\u2019s other book indicates that it was eight persons in the ark. First Peter 3:20 says that there were eight persons total in the ark.\n\nSo, there were eight righteous people. Who were those righteous people? Noah and his wife, Noah's three sons\u2014Ham, Shem, and Japheth\u2014and their respective wives. Everybody else is wicked to the core.\n\nSo what does God do? He preserves the righteous in the ark. And He brings, shall we say, curtains\u2014or judgment\u2014upon whom? Upon the wicked world in Noah's day. So, what we see here is example number two where God deals with evil. First, He dealt with the fallen angels. Secondly, He dealt with the evil in Noah's day.\n\nNow, there were 120 years of grace, and Noah was a preacher of righteousness. First Peter 3 speaks about how God waited patiently in the days of Noah. So even today, as you see false teachers on the horizon, God is actually being patient with them. But their judgment is hanging over their head in the sense that God is going to deal with them aggressively. And He is going to preserve the righteous\u2014just like He did in Noah's day.\n\nThe third historical example is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. You know that story. It's recorded in Genesis 19 concerning how God brought fire and brimstone upon the wicked city of Sodom and Gomorrah. Let\u2019s read about that; this is example number three. Notice, if you will, verses 6-8. Notice what it says here, \u201cand if\u2026\u201d In other words, this \u201cif-then\u201d syllogism is continuing. \u201c<em>and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter<\/em>\u2026\u201d\n\nHope you're paying attention, United States of America. We are experimenting sexually with every deviant lifestyle that can be imagined\u2014other than the lifestyle that God Himself chose for man and woman (heterosexual monogamy). As we go this direction, I hope we\u2019re paying attention to this historical example.\n\nI think it was the Billy Graham who said something to this effect, \u201cIf God doesn't judge America, \u00a0then He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.\u201d The fact of the matter is America has something that most nations of the world don't have\u2014she has spiritual light.\n\nJust study American history. Not the redacted version they get today in the public school system, but American history as it truly exists. Look at the Mayflower Compact. Look at the rules for Harvard University. Look at the Declaration of Independence. Look at the things that Christopher Columbus wrote in his <em>Book of Prophecies<\/em> as he came to America. You see godliness and biblicism all over America's foundation.\n\nLook at the Old Satan Deluder Law, which was the beginning of the public schools in Massachusetts in the United States of America. Those schools were set up to teach kids the Bible, to teach kids to be literate. Not so they could pick the best stocks and retire early, but so they could learn God's Word.\n\nThe Old Satan Deluder Law, 1647. I could go on and on talking like this. America has <em>light!<\/em> And the fact of the matter is, \u201cto whom much is given, much is\u2026\u201d What? \u201cMuch is expected.\u201d That\u2019s why American needs to think very carefully about what she's doing in terms of rejecting God's principles and God's rules related to sexuality, abortion, and every other sin that's come into our country\u2026pornography.\n\nEverybody today is shocked about this coronavirus. How could some force from the outside come into this country? I'm not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, and I don't have any extra-biblical revelation on anything. But the fact of the matter is, the way this country has treated God, I am not surprised by it at all!\n\nIn fact, the only thing that really surprises me is why an epidemic like this didn't come faster? So this is not a time for games. This is a time to be in sackcloth and ashes, mourning before God. And we ought to be studying this historical record. We ought to be particularly looking at this verse where God dealt with Sodom and Gomorrah as an example. To whom much is given much is expected (paraphrase of Luke 12:48).\n\nWe continue in verse 7, \u201c<em>and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds)<\/em>\u2026\u201d This is our third historical example of God dealing with evil.\n\nIt is interesting here. Three times in these verses it refers to Lot as \u201crighteous Lot.\u201d To be completely frank with you, if I didn\u2019t have these verses in my Bible and I just had the Old Testament record, I wouldn't even think Lot was saved. Lot, you\u2019ll remember (Genesis 13:12), is the man who was not walking by faith the way Abram was walking by faith. Lot was walking by sight; he lifted up his eyes and picked the lushest part of the valley he could pick. It says, \u201che pitched his tent toward Sodom.\u201d That was the beginning of Lot\u2019s deterioration.\n\nWhen you go out to dinner and they say, \u201cWould you like to order dessert?\u201d and you say, \u201cNo,\u201d there's a reason they say, \u201cCan you at least look at the dessert tray?\u201d I know all about this; I'm \u201cexhibit A\u201d in this area. Because when you look at something like that, it creates an appetite. You end up spending your money on something you maybe shouldn\u2019t spend your money on.\n\nOne of the best-kept secrets is that stuff they have that they bring to the table that looks so good, most of the time it\u2019s made out of cardboard. Did you know that? When you stick out your hand to lick the chocolate, the waiter will pull the thing away. Don\u2019t go out and try that tonight. Well, you can\u2019t go out tonight; we\u2019re under social distancing, right?\n\nLot looked toward Sodom. Therefore, is it any shock that he began to <em>live<\/em> in Sodom (Genesis 19:1)? He was sitting at the city gates of Sodom; he was in a position of authority. This is the guy who offered his own daughters sexually to the sodomite crowd (Genesis 19:4-6). And then he got serious about God and said, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get out of here.\u201d\n\nBut Genesis 19:14b says, \u201c<em>But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting<\/em>.\u201d He had no credibility anymore. And the whole sad story of Lot ends with Lot having an incestuous relationship with his two daughters. And from those unholy unions come the Moabites and the Ammonites who became perennial enemies of Israel (Genesis 19:30-38).\n\nIf all of that is true, why is Peter here calling Lot a righteous man? Well, he was a righteous man positionally in the sense that he was saved, but he is an example of someone whose lifestyle was not consistent with his position. Can that happen to people? Yes, it can.\n\nNotice 1 Corinthians 3:15. It says, \u201c<em>If any man\u2019s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire<\/em>.\u201d This is talking about someone that is saved, that gets into heaven by God's grace. But when their works are evaluated at the Bema Seat Judgment of Christ, everything goes up in smoke! So, they\u2019re saved, but they smell the smoke on their garments.\n\nSo, it is possible for a Christian to be a non-persevering believer. That's what you have in the story of Lot. This is why 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 exhorts us not to be babes (or carnal), but to be spiritual.\n\nIn fact, when you look at this pie chart (Four Kinds of People), you can take the world of the saved and divide it into three according to what Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3. You\u2019ve got the spiritual believers (or the maturing believers). You\u2019ve got the young in Christ (he calls them infants). And you\u2019ve got the carnal Christians who are going to heaven but aren\u2019t going to fare well at the Bema Seat Judgment of Christ. And that's where you put Lot\u2014Lot was a carnal believer in the Old Testament sense of the word.\n\nYou know, look all the things Lot lost. A lot of people have the mindset, \u201cWell, I\u2019m saved! It doesn\u2019t matter how I live!\u201d This is what Peter's audience is going to be exposed to when the Gnostics come and teach licentiousness. And Peter says, \u201cYou better not go back to that sin nature, because you're going to lose a lot.\u201d\n\nThere are two parts to this chart, which is a description of all of the things you lose as a Christian when you go back to the sin nature. You lose power. You grieve the Holy Spirit. You lose joy. You lose spiritual sight.\n\nYou'll notice, in the right-hand column, all the verses you can look up to back these things up. You lack spiritual growth. You remain carnal. You\u2019re unfruitful. Your life lacks purpose. You lack stability. You come under the conviction of God. That's what Lot was under. His soul was vexed. The most miserable person in the world is a Christian under the conviction of the Holy Spirit because God loves us too much to see us self-destruct in sin. So He\u2019ll make us feel very uncomfortable when we move back into sin.\n\nSo, we should avoid sin just to stay away from that conviction! It\u2019s like walking on a beach and all of a sudden you feel pain in your feet because you're walking on glass. The glass is just beneath the sand and you can't see it. The pain there becomes your friend because it tells you to quit walking. If you keep walking, you\u2019re going to destroy your feet. That's what the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit is like. That\u2019s what Lot was under; that\u2019s why he was vexed.\n\nThe believer can suffer divine discipline, sometimes premature death, loss of reward, loss of fellowship, even excommunication from their own church, a host of temporal consequences, unanswered prayer, a loss of testimony. (That's what Lot lost). Because when he finally got serious about getting his relatives out of harm's way, they thought he was jesting (Genesis 19:14).\n\nIn fact, to my knowledge, that's the only place in the Bible where the word \u201cjesting\u201d is used. You lose your testimony, and you disqualify yourself from leadership. We\u2019re in the process here at Sugar Land Bible Church of selecting elders and deacons, and we\u2019re looking at the lifestyles of people. Not that they\u2019re perfect\u2014who is? But are there ongoing patterns of sin that would open them up to accusation?\n\nYou see, that's one of the reasons we don't want to go back into sin as Christians; because we don't want to lose all of these temporal blessings. And these are all things that happen to Christians! Lot was saved. That's why he's called \u201ca righteous man.\u201d So, a good sermon title that I've heard is as follows, \u201cAre you a lot like Lot?\u201d Because, as Christians, we can get that way when we go back to the sin nature.\n\nBut what is the central point of this passage? Here is the central point of the whole thing: even though Lot was in that state, God removed Lot from judgment before judgment fell. Do you see the pattern? The days of Noah\u2014God takes out the righteous and He destroys the world of the ungodly in the pre-flood world.\n\nThen, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, the exact same thing happened. God brought judgment upon that wicked city of Sodom and Gomorrah. But He got out of the way His own. Even Lot, in his state of wickedness, was removed.\n\nIn fact, in Genesis 19:22, an angel was commissioned by God to destroy the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. The angel said something very interesting in Genesis 19:22\u2014to Lot. It says, \u201c <em>\u2018Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.\u2019 Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar<\/em>.\u201d\n\nIt's interesting that the angel, when he came to destroy the city, did not say to Lot, \u201cI <em>will not<\/em> do anything.\u201d He says, \u201c<em>I cannot<\/em> do anything until you're removed.\u201d So, God's people had to get pulled out of there before judgment fell\u2014and that included Lot, even in his non-persevering, carnal state.\n\nSo, God did this once with the angels and judged them when they sinned. And God did this the second time in the days of Noah; He brought a global flood on that pre-diluvian society but saved eight in the ark. And God did it a third time with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He destroyed that wicked city but\u2014at the same time\u2014preserved even a carnal Christian like Lot. Can't God do that again with these false teachers? Can He ultimately protect you from their negative influence and simultaneously destroy them in the process? That's the point.\n\nAs we\u2019ve looked at this, it's been \u201cif,\u201d verse 4, \u201cif,\u201d verse five, \u201cif,\u201d verses 6-8. Now we get the conclusion of the whole thing, verse 9. How does this whole thing end? Here is the conclusion, \u201cthen\u2026\u201d See that? In the New American Standard Bible, \u201c<em>then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment<\/em>...\u201d\n\nSo, the conclusion of this whole matter is that God will similarly rescue Peter's audience from false teachers and simultaneously destroy these false teachers. \u201cWell, can we really trust God to do that?\u201d You bet you can if you understand the historical record! In fact, God is quite good at this historically.\n\nNow, one of the thing that's hotly debated in the Christian world today is the whole concept of the Rapture. I hope you believe in the Rapture\u2014and not because I say, \u201cBelieve in the Rapture\u201d\u2014it\u2019s in the Bible!\n\nThere's a debate concerning, \u201cWhen does the Rapture happen?\u201d Does it happen before the Tribulation? Those are called pretribulationalists; that's the viewpoint we represent here at Sugar Land Bible Church.\n\nMidtribulation, \u201cThe Rapture is going to occur in the middle of the Tribulation.\u201d Post-tribulation, \u201cThe Rapture is going to occur at the end of the Tribulation.\u201d There is a view called \u201cpre-wrath Rapturism,\u201d and these guys have been very aggressive lately. The fact of the matter is their view is basically three quarters Rapture. They think the church is going to be here for three quarters of the Tribulation period.\n\nWhich of these views is correct? We believe the pretribulation view is correct. You can see it here in chart form; the pretribulation view on top\u2014that the church is going to be removed from the earth before the Tribulation period occurs. That's why you know, for example, that the coronavirus, as severe as it is, is not the apocalypse. Maybe it's some kind of precursor to the apocalypse, but it's not the apocalypse. Because if it were the apocalypse, we wouldn't be here, according to the pretribulation view.\n\nNow, why do I believe in the pretribulation view? Lots and lots of reasons! But one of the reasons that I believe in it is what has been expressed here in 2 Peter 2:4-9, God's pattern. Do you see a pattern here? Before judgment hit Sodom and Gomorrah, the destroying angel said, \u201cI can't do anything until even carnal Lot is removed.\u201d Before the floodwaters hit planet Earth, Noah and his family were tucked safely and securely inside the ark.\n\nJesus said, in Luke 17:26-30 (paraphrasing), \u201cAs it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be\u2026 As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be\u2026\u201d What do the days of Noah and the days of Lot have in common? The paragraph we\u2019re working in here, 2 Peter 2:4-9, brings the commonality together. In both circumstances, God took His own people out of harm's way before judgment hit. And if God has done that twice already, that pushes me in the direction of pretribulationism: God is going to remove the church from the earth before the Tribulation period comes.\n\nNow, I know there are some wise guys out there, and they're going to say, \u201cGee-whiz, what about Israel being put into the 70 year captivity? What about Daniel being put into the lion's den?\u201d What you have to understand is those examples relate to God's dealings with <em>Israel<\/em>.\n\nGod has a separate plan for Israel. Israel is going to be converted <em>through<\/em> a time of distress, Jeremiah 30:7. But that\u2019s not what God said to the church. What did God say to the church? Revelation 3:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, Romans 5:9, Romans 8:1, 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (we could go on and on), that the church will be removed <em>before<\/em> the Tribulation even occurs.\n\nSo, the typology for us is not Israel\u2014we\u2019re not Israel\u2014but it is these two individuals: Lot and Noah. Noah, of course, was Gentile; there were no Jews when the story of Noah took place. The story of Israel doesn't begin until Genesis chapter 12.\n\nI\u2019m almost out of time. Let me just communicate one more idea. I find this very interesting at the end of verse 9. Again, verse nine says, \u201c<em>then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation<\/em>\u2026\u201d Look at the end of verse 9 very carefully, \u201c<em>and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment<\/em>\u2026\u201d\n\n\u201cKeep\u201d there\u2014and I\u2019ll probably have to double check this\u2014is in the present tense. In other words, God brings judgment on the false teachers and brings them down as they await the Great White Throne Judgment. (Because the presumption here is that Peter's audience is saved but the false teachers are unbelievers.) As they await that final judgment, they are <em>under<\/em> judgment.\n\nLook at it very carefully. It says, \u201c<em>to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment<\/em>\u2026\u201d In other words, these false teachers are kept\u2014present tense\u2014under judgment as they are waiting for judgment. Now, that is reminiscent of Luke 16:23, 24. Do you remember when the rich man died in unbelief? It says this, \u201c \u2018<em>In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom<\/em>. <em>And he cried out and said, \u201cFather Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.\u201d \u2019<\/em> \u201d\n\nNow, this is immediately upon death, as the Great White Throne Judgment hasn\u2019t even happened yet. So, you\u2019ll notice what's happening here is that he\u2019s in torment\u2026waiting for torment. A lot of people dismiss this and say, \u201cThat\u2019s just a parable. Luke 16 is just a parable.\u201d\n\nIt can't be a parable for the simple reason that when Christ tells parables He says, \u201cLearn the parable of such and such.\u201d He doesn't do that here. And Jesus never uses proper names in parables. Here He uses three such names: Lazarus, Abraham, and at the end of Luke 16 you\u2019ll see Him using the word \u201cMoses.\u201d\n\nWas Moses a parable? No, Moses was a real person. This was a real place that this unbeliever went to, awaiting final judgment. So, in essence, that is what happens to these unbelievers, these false teachers.\n\nI think on that note we\u2019re ready to close. Amen? I know I'm tired. We appreciate you guys joining us as we continue to teach through God's Word on Wednesday nights in spite of all of these social distancing requirements. We will pick it up next week there at 2 Peter 2:10, rounding off our discussion of the devices of the false teachers. Then, in verses 4-9, we\u2019ll deal with the doom of the false teachers. We know that they\u2019re doomed because of God's three historical patterns of judgment.\n\nSo, keep us in prayer during this tumultuous time. We\u2019ll keep you in prayer. And all things being equal, we\u2019ll be back here exactly the same time Wednesday evenings.\n\nWe\u2019re hoping to see you Sunday at 9:45 AM for Sunday school and then the main service that follows around 11:30. We are finishing up, God willing, the Book of Revelation this Sunday and continuing to deal with the Genesis 6 issue in Sunday school. Let\u2019s close in a word of prayer, and them we\u2019ll dismiss for this evening.\n\n<strong>Closing Prayer<\/strong>\n\n\u201cFather, we\u2019re grateful for Your Truth and Your Word even though some of the things in it are difficult, and harsh, and hard. But these are things we need to learn to understand what You have to say about these false teachers.\n\nHelp us to be good stewards of this portion of Your Word. We\u2019ll be careful to give You all the praise and the glory. We ask these things in Jesus\u2019 name. 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