“Experience, Learn, Grow and Watch Out!”

2 Peter

        I. Back to the Word

1. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring __________ of God (1 Pet 1:22)

2. Like newborn babies, crave spiritual milk, so that by it you may _______  ___ in your salvation, now that you have ____________ that the Lord is good (1 Pet 2:2-3)

3. Always prepare to give an ____________ to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have (1 Pet 3:15)

4. Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, ____________  _____________ and with the _____________  ___________, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ was pointing (1 Pet 1:10)

II. Have Knowledge

1. Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the _______________ of God and of Jesus our Lord (2 Pet 1:2)

2. So I will always ____________ you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body (2 Pet 1:12-13)

3. I want you to ____________ the ____________ spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles (2 Pet 3:2)

III. Be on Your Guard

1. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from ___________ as they were carried along by the ___________  ___________ (2 Pet 1:20-21)

2. Just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ___________ and ___________ people _____________, as they do other Scriptures, to their own destruction (2 Pet 3:16-17)

IV. Grow

1. Therefore, dear friends, since you already __________ this, ____  ____  __________  __________ so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position. But ____________ in the ____________ and ____________________ of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Pet 3:18)

V. Discern

1. Don’t go overboard

2. Always test

VI. Recent Trend of Potential Dangers

1. Unhealthy Craving for the supernatural

2. New apostolic movement

3. Ultra-Calvinism

4. Works-oriented Gospel