Growing In Grace – God-Markers (2 Peter 2:4-11)
The stories of God in your life should be used as
What is a God-Marker in your life?
4For if…9then the Lord…
Verses 4 - 10 are one sentence in the ancient text.
“If” is a First-Class conditional sentence. It is followed by a presumed truth that leads to a reality.
4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)— —2 Peter 2:4-8
In each scenario…
Evil is rampant.
God’s people are living within the rampant evil.
9Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, —2 Peter 2:9
God knows how to move His people
God knows how deal with the
10He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at supernatural beings without so much as trembling. 11But the angels, who are far greater in power and strength, do not dare to bring from the Lord a charge of blasphemy against those supernatural beings. —2 Peter 2:11
We are
We have