1. Lesson 11
2nd Quarter
2017

2. 2 Peter 2:19 
‘They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for people are slaves to whatever masters them.’ NRS
Memory Verse

3. 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. 
Verse 2  And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 
Verse 3  And through covetousness shall they
with feigned words make merchandise of you:
Sunday

4. 2 Peter 2:12  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 
Verse 13  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 
Verse 15  Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages
of unrighteousness; 

5. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest;
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water,
clouds that are carried with a tempest;
to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

6. 2 Peter 2:18  For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. 
Monday

7. John 8:34  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 
Verse 35  And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 
Verse 36  If the Son therefore shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed. 

8. 2 Peter 2:21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 
Verse 22 … the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing
in the mire.
Tuesday

9. Matthew 12:44  Then he (the evil spirt) said, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he
finds it empty, swept
and garnished. 
Verse 45  Then goes he,
and takes with himself
seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. ..

10. 2Peter 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. 
Jude 1:4  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained
to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God,
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:6  And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 
2 Peter 2:9  The Lord
Knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
and to reserve the unjust
unto the day of judgment
to be punished: 
Wednesday

11. 2 Peter 2:6  and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly.
15  They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 
16  but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. 
Thursday

12. Freedom in Christ is by thousands mistaken for lawlessness;
‘The great truth of our entire dependence upon Christ for salvation lies close to the
error of presumption.
Freedom in Christ is by thousands mistaken for lawlessness;
and because Christ came to release us from the condemnation of the law, many declare that the law itself is done away, and that those who keep it are fallen from grace.’
CTr p324
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