False Teachers Are Dangerous
Notes from Ky Martin's sermon on Sunday, September 21, 2025.
Sermon text: 2 Peter 2:10b-16
These False Teachers Were:
What happens to false teachers?
God’s judgment in effect gives people what they have been asking for… Sinful people acting like animals will be treated like animals. People who harm others will find harm coming on them. -Paul Gardner
False teachers are dangerous
If you see that man (or woman), stay away.
In an age when tolerance is virtually the new religion, and anything that seems to the world to lack tolerance is regarded as ‘fundamentalism’ (the new ‘dirty word’ of the post-modern age), we need to hear how an apostle regarded such people. -Paul Gardner
It’s okay to long for justice
Even among non-Christians there is a difference between being a decent human being and being a dirty, rotten scoundrel. - Kevin DeYoung
Discipleship Questions:
Sermon text: 2 Peter 2:10b-16
These False Teachers Were:
Denying God’s Judgment
Teaching Sensuality
Greedy
What happens to false teachers?
They’ll be caught and destroyed.
Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.Their wrongs will come back on them.
CSB: “They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done”God’s judgment in effect gives people what they have been asking for… Sinful people acting like animals will be treated like animals. People who harm others will find harm coming on them. -Paul Gardner
False teachers are dangerous
If you see that man (or woman), stay away.
In an age when tolerance is virtually the new religion, and anything that seems to the world to lack tolerance is regarded as ‘fundamentalism’ (the new ‘dirty word’ of the post-modern age), we need to hear how an apostle regarded such people. -Paul Gardner
It’s okay to long for justice
Even among non-Christians there is a difference between being a decent human being and being a dirty, rotten scoundrel. - Kevin DeYoung
Discipleship Questions:
- Read 2 Peter 2:14-16. Ask: What would you think if one of your pastors used those words to describe false teachers?
- Why does Peter use such strong language?
- What will happen to false teachers according to this passage?
- Is all sin equally bad?
- Is it wrong for Christians to desire for evil doers to be punished on this earth?
- How can we desire justice to evil doers while also longing for people to believe in Jesus?
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