1. Pure Minds
2 Peter 3

2. 2 Peter 3
Purpose: Stir up minds with a reminder, 3:1 (awake, arouse completely, 1:13-15)
Two minds discussed in this chapter
Pure minds (remember when reminded)
Lustful minds (forgetful, blasphemous and unstable - defiled)
We choose which we will have, Phil. 2:5; 4:8; Col. 3:2; Titus 1:15-16

3. Unsullied, sincere; “found pure when unfolded and examined by the sun’s light” (Thayer)
Pure Minds

4. Pure Minds 2 Peter 3 Remember the word of God, 3:1-2, 16-18
Memory into useful knowledge, 3:3-4
Spiritual growth, 2 Peter 1:12 (5-11)
Meditate on God’s law…Understanding, obedience and restraint, Psalm 119:97-102
Do not forget, 3:5, 8-9
God’s word, work and judgments, 3:5
God’s nature, 3:8-9 (Isaiah 30:18)
Recall to remain faithful, Hebrews 10:32-35

5. Pure Minds 2 Peter 3
Motivated by the Lord’s coming to be holy, 3:10-12
Effect of His coming, 3:11 (1 Pet. 1:15-17)
With diligence, 3:14-15 (2 Tim. 2:15; Rom. 12:11)
Look forward, 3:12-14
Day of God (12): Punishment to escape
New heavens/earth (13): Reward to retain
Also with diligence, 3:14-15, 9

6. Pure Minds 2 Peter 3 Respect the Scriptures, 3:16-18
Study to handle correctly, grow, live in Christ – do not fall, 2 Tim. 2:15; Col. 3:16-17
Steadfast and not led away with error, 3:17
Steadfast and growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, 3:18; 1 Cor. 15:58

7. “Longing, desire, lust, craving”
Lustful Minds

8. Lustful Minds 2 Peter 3 Scoff at the promises of God, 3:3-4
Jesus was mocked, Matt. 20:19; 27:29, 31
Driven by personal lusts, not personal faith, Jude 18-19
God will not be mocked! Galatians 6:7

9. Lustful Minds 2 Peter 3
Willfully forget the works and word of God, 3:5-8
Renounces the Lord, Psalm 10:3-4, 11
Refuses to remember God’s work and word that created the world and judged its sin with the flood, Hebrews 12:25, 29

10. Lustful Minds 2 Peter 3 Are untaught and unstable, 3:16
Being untaught, they twist Scriptures to suit themselves, causing strife and division, Titus 3:9-11
Destruction is on the way, and there will be no escape, 1 Ths. 5:1-3; 2 Ths. 1:7-9

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