Scoffers Gonna Scoff
II Peter 3:1-13
“Be steadfast”
- Desire to fill their own lust (v. 3)
- To get rid of God’s restraints (Psalms 2:1-3)
- They judge what they cannot see by what they can see (v. 4)
- They judge the eternal by the temporal
- They judge what God said by what they see
- II Corinthians 5:7, II Corinthians 4:18
- They are willingly ignorant of God’s Word and God’s creation
- They refuse to acknowledge the truth and those who believe and teach the truth (Romans 1:21)
- THE BELIEVER’S RESPONSE TO SCOFFERS
- Do not be ignorant – read and know God’s Word
- Trust God’s timing and plan (vv. 8-9)
- Rejoice in God’s goodness (v. 9)
- Get serious about holiness (vv. 10-11; I John 3:3)
- Stay forewarned and forearmed (vv. 2-3, 17-18)
- Let the scoffers scoff, what is that to you? You be steadfast and keep serving God.
