<“Lessons on God’s Justice” II Peter 2:3b-6, 9b
Click Above to Listen!
A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
I. PROMISE OF GODS JUSTICE
A. DISGRACEFUL DESTINY
II Pet 2:3b Their condemnation from long ago is not idle;
1. CERTAIN VERDICT (Lk 17:29-32; Jn 3:18, 36)
2. DELAYED FINAL PUNISHMENT (Col 3:25 Job 34:12)
B. DELAYED, BUT GOD IS AWAKE
II Pet 2:3c their executioner is not asleep. For . . .
1. DESTRUCTION (Matt. 25:46)
2. PERSONIFICATION
II. PICTURES OF GOD’S JUSTICE
A. JUSTICE FOR UNBRIDLED DEFIANCE
II Pet 2:4 since God didn’t show leniency to sinning angels, but [consigned them] to the abyss, condemned to a gloomy pit to be guarded until the Judgment;
1. SIN OF FALLEN ANGELS (Is 14:12-14; Ezek 28:11-19; Rev 12:3, 7-9; Gen 6:1-4; Jude 6)
2. PUNISHMENT (Gen 1:26; Eph 6:12)
B. JUSTICE FOR UNBRIDLED DEPRAVITY
II Pet 2:5a/c since He didn’t spare the primeval world . . . when He inflicted a flood on the world of the unrighteous;
1. SIN OF THE PRE-NOAHIC WORLD (Gen 6:3, 5-7)
2. PUNISHMENT
C. JUSTICE FOR UNBRIDLED DEVIANCE
II Pet 2:6 since He sentenced them to devastation by incinerating the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example of what is going to happen to the unrighteous;
1. SIN OF SODOM/GOMORRAH (Gen. 13:10; 18:20; 19:1-38; Ezek 16:49-50)
2. PUNISHMENT (Jude 7; Lk 10:10-12)
III. PRESENCE OF GODS JUSTICE
A. WAITING NOW
II Pet 2:9b and to guard the unrighteous for punishment
1. NO DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-3; 21-23; Rom 2:5)
2. IMPRISONED (Rev 3:10; Rom 8:7; Lk 16:19-24; Rev 20:12-13)
B. THE DAY IS COMING!
II Pet 2:9c on the Day of Judgment.
1. ULTIMATE JUSTICE (Heb 9:27; II Cor 5:10; Acts 17:30-31; I Cor 6:9; Joel 2:1)
2. JESUS THE JUDGE (John 5:22-29; Rev 20:14-15; Deut 32:4)