SIN AND SALVATION
II Peter 2:4-9
"For if God did not spare the angels who sinned ... and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah ... and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes ... and delivered righteous Lot ... then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment."
Sin is no small matter. Peter uses the rebellious angels and the cultures of Noah and Lot to demonstrate that those who imagine that they can violate God's holiness with impunity will be punished. These ungodly people are "examples to those who afterward would live ungodly" (vs. 6:b). But Peter also gives examples of God's deliverance of those who would live godly. Noah was "a just man, a perfect man in his generations [who] walked with God" (Genesis 6:9). And Lot is called a "righteous man [who] tormented his righteous soul from day to day" when he saw their lawlessness (vs. 8). God delivered Noah and Lot, and He will deliver people today who choose to live for Him in the midst of an evil and corrupt society. Sinners will be judged, but God will deliver those who walk with Him.
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: God judges and punishes sinners, but saves the righteous.
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Have a godly day. Love you.
II Peter 2:4-9
"For if God did not spare the angels who sinned ... and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah ... and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes ... and delivered righteous Lot ... then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment."
Sin is no small matter. Peter uses the rebellious angels and the cultures of Noah and Lot to demonstrate that those who imagine that they can violate God's holiness with impunity will be punished. These ungodly people are "examples to those who afterward would live ungodly" (vs. 6:b). But Peter also gives examples of God's deliverance of those who would live godly. Noah was "a just man, a perfect man in his generations [who] walked with God" (Genesis 6:9). And Lot is called a "righteous man [who] tormented his righteous soul from day to day" when he saw their lawlessness (vs. 8). God delivered Noah and Lot, and He will deliver people today who choose to live for Him in the midst of an evil and corrupt society. Sinners will be judged, but God will deliver those who walk with Him.
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: God judges and punishes sinners, but saves the righteous.
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Have a godly day. Love you.
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