Ep 367 – 2 Peter 3:1-7

Doubt. It is an ever-present reality for all believers. And we don't need any help with it. It comes naturally. But the enemy has always taken advantage of our natural propensity to doubt God, by sending false teachers with faulty information that gets us to question what God has promised. That's exactly what was happening in Peter's day. The false teachers had entered the local fellowship to whom Peter was writing and had begun raising questions about the second coming of Christ. They raised doubts about its plausibility and caused the believers to begin wondering whether it was ever going to happen at all. Well, if you remove the possibility of Christ's return, then you end up putting all the emphasis on this life and all it has to offer. There is no future life – no true eternal life. And that is what has Peter so riled up. He will not tolerate these false teachers casting dispersions on the promises of God by raising doubts about the future return of God's Son. And so, he goes out of his way to remind his readers that God's Word can be trusted. We don't judge the veracity of God's word based on what we see, but on what He has said.