2 Peter 2:1-3 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. 3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.”
Many Will Follow in Their Depravity
We live in a day and age where there are multitudes of these
false prophets (preachers, teachers) teaching lies to the people, and when it
appears that the majority of those professing faith in Jesus Christ are
following after the lies, and are rejecting the gospel taught by Jesus and by
his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. And this is
not to say that they are believing all the lies or that they are rejecting all
of the gospel message, but many are believing a diluted gospel which pacifies
the flesh.
And those who are teaching the diluted and altered “gospel”
message, which is intended to appeal to and to appease human flesh, are either
doing so out of ignorance, because it is what they were taught by their
teachers, or else they are doing so deliberately to lead people to a false
gospel so that the people will reject the correct biblical gospel message, and
so they will feel safe in continuing in deliberate and habitual sin and in not
having to obey God’s commands. But they are giving them a false hope of
salvation.
Those who are the latter are people of sinful minds and
hearts who are following the devil, and not Jesus Christ. Many of them are
malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, manipulators, opportunists, liars, fakes
who fake their Christianity, not trustworthy, egocentric, and are rapidly
multiplying. They are among the immature, the childish, the self-indulgent, the
selfish, the morally impure, the irresponsible, foolish, and self-centered who
are thinking only of themselves without any regard for the will of God.
So, they not only reject the biblical gospel of Christ, but
they lead many others to also reject the biblical gospel of our salvation and
to follow after the lies of the enemy, Satan (the devil). For so many of them
are teaching that we do not have to deny self, die to sin, and obey God. For
they call that “works salvation.” And they lead many into believing that they
can continue in their sinful addictions, and not in walks of faith in obedience
to the Lord, and still be saved from their sins, and still be on their way to heaven.
The Gospel According To
Christ and His Apostles
Scripture Summaries
But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny
self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if
we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity.
But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience
to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with
God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew
7:21-23).
For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our
own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ
to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as
slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no
longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires.
For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is
what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with
God (see Romans 6:1-23).
For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training
us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled,
upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave
himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a
people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)
And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have
fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we
claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we
are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in
Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and
who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice,
and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God
in heaven.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts
26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans
8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians
5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14;
Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24;
1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation
3:1-22]
False Teachers Among You
An Original Work / July 16, 2026
Christ’s Free
Servant, Sue J Love
My Sheep
Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
My sheep hear me.
They know me.
They listen to my
voice and obey.
I call them and lead
them.
They know my voice,
so they follow me.
They will never
follow strangers.
They will run away
from them.
The voice of a
stranger they know not;
They do not follow
him.
So, I tell you the
truth that
I am the gate, so
you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find
forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever
enters
Not by the gate;
other way,
He is the thief and
a robber.
Listen not, the
sheep to him.
Oh, I am the Good
Shepherd,
Who laid his own
life down for the sheep.
I know them. They
know me.
They will live with
me eternally.
The thief only comes
to steal and
Kill and to destroy
the church.
I have come to give
you life that
You may have it to
the full…
They know my voice,
so they follow me.
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