You can't beat the heat! 070710

You can't beat the heat! {1 Peter 3:10} revessle@yahoo.com 1. Peter Is explaining a false teaching. False teachers even today deny the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ. If you know any, stay away. People have been teaching this since their forefathers. 2. At the end of verse 4 the scoffers denied Christ's second coming. His picture of the end Is very simple: fire will destroy the sky, the earth and everything on it (v. 10), and new heavens and a new earth will stand in their place (v. 13). 3. He was frying to save new converts from being lured into tills heresy. Just as you and I should do today for the Kingdom. 4. We have seen what these false teachers were devoted to: they were devoted to the world (1:4; 2:5,(the floods come upon the ungodly of the world, like Rev. Noah,) 20; 3:6). They exploited the doctrine of God's grace (Jude 1:4 lack of self-restraint and twisting God's Words. See Titus 1:16 as well.) 5. Now let's turn to our text and give closer attention to Peter's admonitions. Verse 10: "But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief." It was Jesus who put these two things together: the Day of the Lord and the image of the thief. He said it In Matthew 24:42-43: 6. The great Day of the Lord Is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the Day of the Lord Is bitter, the mighty man cries aloud there. 7. And Malachl, who also refers to "the Day of the Lord" (4:5), describes it in 3:2; 4:1-2: 8. So Peter was not saying anything new or unexpected. 9. It might seem strange to us that God should destroy the world which he created and which he once called "very good" (Gen. 1:31). 10. The false teachers in 2 Peter lined their pockets with money (2:14-16).