Not willing that any should perish12/1/2023 ![]() Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”Ī. ( 2 Peter 3:3-4) The message of scoffers. He would think it strange for supposed papal authority to be credited to him.Ģ. Significantly, Peter saw this authority invested in the apostles, not in him alone. ![]() It is they and they alone who are put on a level with the Old Testament prophets.” (Green) Peter is referring here to the ‘apostles of Jesus Christ’. When the New Testament writers mean merely ‘church emissary’ by apostolos, they say so, or the context makes it plain ( Philippians 2:25). “ Your apostles does not merely mean ‘your missionaries’, the folk who evangelized you. He understood this from passages such as Matthew 16:19, where Jesus gave the apostles authority to bind and loose, much as the authoritative rabbis of their day. Peter understood that Jesus gave His apostles the inspired authority to bring forth God’s message to the new covenant community. By the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: By placing the messengers of the new covenant on the same level as the messengers of the old covenant, Peter understood the authority of the New Testament, even as it was being formed. He said that they did not signify it was only the inward life-germ of the chick within that was important so he broke all the shells, and thereby destroyed the life… If the words could be taken from us, the sense itself would be gone.” (Spurgeon)Ĭ. “Peter believed in the inspiration of the very ‘words’ of Scripture he was not one of those precious ‘advanced thinkers’ who would, if they could, tear the very soul out of the Book, and leave us nothing at all but he wrote, ‘That ye may be mindful of the words’ - the very words - ‘which were spoken before by the holy prophets.’ ‘Oh!’ says one, ‘but words do not signify it is the inward sense that is really important.’ Exactly so that is just what the fool said about egg-shells. Peter clearly believed that the words of Scripture were important the words themselves, and not merely the meaning behind the words. That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before: Peter knew the importance of reminding his readers of the Scriptural message, both received from the Old Testament ( spoken before) and contemporary to his own day ( and of the commandment of us). That would only be to do mischief but pure minds may be stirred as much as you please, and the more the better.” (Spurgeon)ī. It would be a great pity to stir up impure minds. “The purest minds need stirring up at times. But here he wanted to emphasize what should be known in light of the coming of Jesus and the prophecies surrounding His coming. I now write to you this second epistle: Peter already wrote about the importance of being reminded ( 2 Peter 1:12-13). ( 2 Peter 3:1-2) Another reference to the importance of being remindedīeloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,Ī. The certainty of the last days and God’s promise.ġ.
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