2 Peter 1 - Introduction

Outline Of Chapter One:

Introduction: 2 Peter 1:1-2

Our Privileges: 2 Peter 1:3

The Ingredients Of Spiritual Growth: 2 Peter 1:5-11

Truth Demands Repetition: 2 Peter 1:12-15

Truth: Supported By Eyewitness Testimony: 2 Peter 1:16-18

Truth: Supported By The Prophets: 2 Peter 1:19-21

Introductory Comments:

‘In the latter part of the apostolic age many false teachers arose…To stop the mouths of the false teachers, who were now gone abroad among the churches, and to prevent the faithful from being seduced by them, and to establish them in the belief in the things which the Lord Himself had taught---delivered by the apostles-Peter wrote his second epistle. This letter is addressed to those who have obtained the “same kind” or “like-precious” faith with the writer, v. 1, and that they may be assured of the correctness of the gospel and its God-given source, thereby being the more strongly established in its belief and not easily moved from it by false teachers..' (Oberst p. 258)

‘Fakes are. nuisance. Fake artists make fools of collectors, fake financiers embezzle millions at the expense of honest investors, fake scientists inflate their own reputations by riding on the back of other people's hard research. In some other area of life, though, fakes, are not merely. nuisance but actually poses. serious threat…Such…con-men are the reason Peter wrote this letter. They not only prey on people's wallets or good nature; ultimately they can wreck our eternal destiny, since. false gospel tells lies about God.' (Lucas/Green p. 28)

Commentary On Chapter 2 Peter 1:1-11: