1. 2 Peter & Philemon
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2. Read 2 Peter 1:1-11
1. Who wrote 2 Peter? (look this up; its not as simple as you assume)
2. To whom was 2 Peter written? As used here, what does “faith” mean? (1:1)
3. Why does Peter emphasize Christian knowledge in this letter? (1:2,3,8, 2:20, 3:18)
4. What did Peter say has been given to his readers? Has this been given to us too? (1:3)
5. What did Peter urge his readers to add to their faith? What will be the result of possessing these seven qualities? (1:8, Colossians 1:9-12)
6. What happens to the person who does not possess these Godly qualities? (1:9,1 John 2:11)

3. 2 Peter 1:12-21 1. In what did Peter say his readers were established?
2. What did Peter know would happen to him soon and what did he want his readers to do then? (1:14-15)
3. What gave Peter strong credibility? (1:16)
4. How important is it to your faith that Peter (and other New Testament writers) were eyewitnesses to the life of Christ?
5. In 1:19, Peter speaks of the “word of the prophets being made more certain” by the transfiguration. From where do Biblical prophecies come? Who is qualified to interpret them? (1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:16, Revelation 22:16, 2 Samuel 23:2, Acts 1:16)
6. In 1:19, what did Peter tell his readers (and us!) that they should do?

4. 2 Peter 2:1-22
1. In Verses 2:1-3, Peter speaks of clever false teachers, but what are they actually teaching? (2:3, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18)
2. In 2:1, what exactly does “destructive heresies” and “sudden destruction” mean?
3. What effect did living among immoral people have upon Lot? (2:7-8)
4. How did Peter say that the Lord would deal with godly people? How about with wicked and unrighteous people? On who is he especially hard? (2:9-10)
5. How did Peter say a person could escape the corruption of the world? What about someone who has escaped and then gets tangled up again? (2:20-21)
6. Why and how could someone who has known the love of Christ return to the unrighteousness from which he or she had been rescued?

5. 2 Peter 3:1-18
1. Why did Peter say he wrote both of his letters? What did he want the readers of the letter (Christian believers) to recall? (3:1-2)
2. What did Peter say would occur in the last days? (3:3)
3. What was the argument against the second return of Christ that the scoffers were using? (3:4)
4. “The Day of the Lord” is a large concept and will be a great event! What does the Bible say about it? (Joel 1:15, 2:10-11, 2:30-31, Amos 5:18- 20, Isaiah 2:11, Malachi 4:1, Hebrews 4:13)
5. What reason did Peter give his readers (and you!) for living holy and godly lives? (3:11-13)

6. Read Philemon
1. Can this short letter be viewed from different perspectives? What might some of them be?
2. Could the common view of Onesimus as a runaway, thieving slave be wrong? What might be another view?
3. In Verses 10-11, what did Paul say about Onesimus?
4. Why would Martin Luther consider Verse 18 to be the central focus of the book and Harry Ironside say it is a picture of the entire gospel?
5. What response from Philemon did Paul anticipate? (v. 21)
6. What are the main lessons for us today from this short book of Philemon?