The Apostle Peter clearly was not concerned about being

politically correct when he warned the early church about the danger of false

teachers. Today on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg examines Peter's warning and

asks the question, do you have the courage to be a biblical Christian in today's

world?

The whole theme of second Peter is essentially a warning. It's a warning on the part

of Peter, as he says in chapter 2 verse 1, about false teachers who are introducing

destructive heresies. And this false teaching and destructive heresy obviously

was prevalent in the immediate context to which Peter wrote historically. But in the

wonderful way in which the Bible speaks to every passing generation, we discover

albeit with sadness that the kind of nonsense that was pervasive at the time of

the writing of this letter is something that is known to us even today. And what

he seems to be addressing is a mixture of skepticism and immorality. And they were

skeptical about the notion of the return of Jesus, they were skeptical about the

notion of the judgment of God. And when that begins to creep in to the mindset of

men and women, then moral laxity and immorality will almost inevitably follow.

And Peter is addressing that. Our last study closed with the picture of

judgment and its inevitability, the essential nature of righteousness and also

of the keeping power of God as we look to the future. We tried to finish last time

on that note. God rescuing verse 9, godly men from trials and holding the

unrighteous for the day of judgment while continuing their punishment. The

reminder that God is sovereign and in control of all of these things. And as he

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