Fake News Series

• Peter also references the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in verse 6.

• Genesis makes clear that sexual perversion was the primary cause of Sodom and Gomorrah.

• This was intended to be a fearful example of the seriousness of not observing the sexual distinctions which God has determined.

• These cities were full of sinful, detestable behavior.

• In Genesis 19 it is the men following their basest sexual desires that lead to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Peter refers to the “filthy lives of lawless men” in the next verse.

• In verses 13–14, Peter will accuse his opponents of the same.

• Here he assures his readers that their fate will also be like that of Sodom and Gomorrah. (College Press Commentary, 2 Peter)

• Today people think that with all the perversion around us, that their will no harm done, that God will turn a blind eye to what is happening.

• I believe there is an effort to force Christians to accept and embrace whatever immorality society deems fit.

• In our desire to be compassionate (WHICH WE SHOULD BE), we are neglecting our responsibility to lovingly share the truth with lost people.

• You cannot have it both ways; you either believe what the Word of God teaches, or you do not.

• If you seek to twist, change or turn the scriptures, you do not believe the Bible.

• Let’s turn to verses 7-10.

2 Peter 2:7–10 (CSB)

7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the depraved behavior of the immoral

8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

10 especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones;

III. Trust that God can protect you.

• One of the lures of following false teaching is we think we are missing something.

• One group tells us there is another testament of Jesus, one that, for some reason, had been hidden for a couple of thousand years after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus.

• There have ALWAYS been groups who claim to have secret teaching that had not been revealed until they discovered them.

• We have to trust that God has given us what we need to live the life God calls us to live!

2 Timothy 3:16–17 (CSB)

16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

• We have to trust that God can and will protect us in the end.

• We do not need to jump on the false teaching bandwagon to be saved.

• We do not need another revelation of Jesus to know who He is and to be saved!

• God rescued Lot and most of his family during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Verse eight tells us that Lot was protected from destruction because his righteous soul was tormented by what he had seen.