2 Peter 2:1 ¶But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
First of all C Moore, I can understand why there is so much debate about scripture. There are religionest among us. I have all ways said that religion will send one striate to hell. The first thing any born again believer must understand is that they have been delivered from the things of this world and delivered to a new life in Christ Jesus. Notice that the people who bring destruction upon them selves are those who who practice religion, and those who are led away by there false teachings. Peter calls there teaching “Damnable Heresies”. Notice also this is done privately. They are secret agents of Satan, if you will.
Notice the tense of the word bought. It is past tense. One of the things they will say is that Jesus has not bought them. If saying we are not saved today is not denying the The Lord that bought them then listen to this.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
We are God’s property TODAY and we should act like we are God’s property.
The second thing that will happen is that the way of truth will be evil spoken off. “Reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.” It is because of the false teaching that the way of truth will be evil spoken of. It is the righteousness of Christ Jesus that is acceptable to the Father, not mine. I comply with ever tenant of law in Christ because He is the fulfillment of the law.It is because I cannot fulfill the law in the flesh be cause I am not God in the flesh. Th law is the exact manifestation of the character of God. If I could fulfill the law in the flesh there would have been no need of a Savior. If you listen to these people you will hear them saying that my conduct is sufficient for heaven’s glory and Christ Jesus accounts for nothing.” Speaking evil of the way of the truth.”
The next truth that they misrepresent is judgment. They like to apply only half the truth and ignore the rest. The problem is they don’t know the difference between sheep and goats.
Rev 20
11 ¶And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Matthew 25:31 ¶When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:-----------------------
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:---------------------------
Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Notice that the first thing that happens is a division of the nations (peoples). One is called sheep and the other is called goats. This division is made before the judgment of works. Who are the sheep? Is it not those who are found written in the lambs book of life. Who are goats? Is it not those who are not written in the lamb’s book of life. The sheep were not aware that they had done the good work ascribed to them.There is good reason for this. The work that Jesus did through them was assigned to them and they were rewarded for it as though they had done it. The goats had to answer for there own actions and received there just reward in the lake of fire. Notice also that they were a sheep or a goat before they ever arrived at the judgment. The way has been prepared for us and can be secured in Christ now.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 ¶Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 ¶For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
The flood was a judgment of God on a wicked and perverse world. The ark was the means by which God would save the righteous from the judgment he brought on this world. Noah preached for one hundred years and only eight were saved. We have been preaching for two thousand years the coming judgment and like in Noah’s day the world only gets worse. Like Noah, we have been proved a way of escape.When Jesus returns it will be in judgment. Just like the flood in Noah’s day, it will be to late to escape the wrath to come. Just as God shut the door on the ark and protected those inside from the judgment that then was so shell the blood of Jesus Christ protect us from the judgment to come. Once out life on this earth is over it will be to late just as it was to late for those outside the ark after the rain started.