1. 2 Peter 2:10-22

2. them, will in the end, experience condemnation and destruction.
Remember that Peter is NOT describing pagans here – but apostates – those who have denied the truth and compromised the Word!
The main point of the chapter is that these false teachers and those enticed by
them, will in the end, experience condemnation and destruction.

3. Brazen Willfulness. 10b-13a Carousing and Greedy. 13b-16
Empty Teachers Revealed. 17
Distorting the Gospel of Freedom

4. Brazen Willfulness. 10b-13a
blasphemy - to speak with a sense of irreverence, especially about God or other holy things.
“You can learn a lot about preachers simply by paying attention to what they say with their mouths. False preachers evidence a certain lack of respect for those who obediently carry out God’s Word.”

5. 2. Carousing and Greedy. 13b-16
“The brazen willfulness of the false teachers is seen in their doing in the daytime, what other sinners only dare to do at night.”

6. 2. Carousing and Greedy. 13b-16

7. 3. Empty Teachers Revealed. 17

8. 4. Distorting the Gospel of Freedom. 18-22
The way the false teachers entice new and unstable converts is by promising them freedom…But this was not a call to give free reign to your passions.

9. 4. Distorting the Gospel of Freedom. 18-22
Biblical Freedom Knows:
Christ died to free us from the guilt and power of sin;
That we are free from the law in the sense that we need no longer strive to keep it in our own strength; and..
That we are given new hearts by the Holy Spirit so that freely we delight in holiness.

10. 5. Dogs and Pigs, two cases in point. 20-22

11. 5. Dogs and Pigs, two cases in point. 20-22
“Peter pictures the real possibility in verse 20 that by learning of Christ some people make a start in the Christian life, and by all outward appearances have escaped from the defilements of the world. Then the cares and riches and pleasures of life (as Jesus says) choke the young plant, and it withers and bears no fruit and dies (Luke 8:14).”