Tag: 2nd Peter 2:20-22
Don’t turn back!
Scripture reading for October 20th: Jeremiah 47, 48, 49, Psalm 80, 2nd Peter 2
Key Scriptures: 2nd Peter 2:20-22 “For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.””
Peter knows that his time of departure through execution is near. He warns those in the church concerning apostasy. Apostasy is turning back from following Jesus Christ after repentance and a decision to follow Him. Peter warns that it will be worse in the final judgment and in the time before for those that do that. It will be like eating vomit after having a banquet or wallowing again in the mire after being cleansed. Don’t turn back to the world’s slop and filth!
Psalm 80:17-18 “But let your hand be on the Man of Your right hand, the Son of Man whom you have made strong for Yourself! Then we shall not turn back from You; give us life, and we will call upon Your Name!”
Faith confession and prayer: Lord Jesus, with Your help and intercession for me, I will never turn back from following You. I have had enough slop and mire in the world!
Jeremiah 48:26 “Make him (Moab) drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.”
Don’t go back to the world!
Scripture reading for November 16th: 2nd Peter 2
Key Scriptures for over-comers: 2nd Peter 2:20-22 “If the have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.””
Peter warned believers against entanglement in the world that was being promoted by some false teachers working in the church to deceive. By going back to the world, those who had been saved and knew Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior could place themselves in a worse situation than they were before salvation. Willful sin after knowing truth is a dangerous thing. The deception of assuming salvation and living in known sin leaves no room for repentance! Their state is worse than when they were ignorant.
Observations for over-comers: If we return to our old way of life before salvation we place our eternal souls in grave danger! “(There are) . .those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth”. (Proverbs 30:12)