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General Outlines of the Second Epistle of Peter

 
The Effects of the Knowledge of the Lord 
1.    Grace and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of the Lord (1:2);
2.    Be given all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of the Lord (1:3);
3.    Be fruitful in the knowledge of the Lord and be supplied abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of God (1:8
11);
4.    The knowledge of the Lord delivers believers from the pollutions of the world (2:20);
5.    Believers get hope because of the knowledge of the Lord’s promise and thus become diligent to be found by Him in peace (3:13-14);
 
Growth 
1.    Grow in grace (3:18):
a.  Grace be multiplied (1:2);
b.  Things that pertain to life and godliness are abundant (1:3-8);
c.  The call and election are sure and believers will never stumble (1:10);
d.  Be diligent to be without spot and blameless (3:14);
2.    Grow in knowledge (3:18);
a.  Add to … knowledge (1:6);
b.  Be fruitful in the knowledge of the Lord (1:8);
c.  Be established in the present truth (1:12);
d.  Stir up the pure minds (3:1);

 

The World

1.    The history of the world:

a.    Which was created by the word of God (3:5);

b.    Which was once destroyed because of corruption (3:6);

c.    The present world is preserved by the same word until the day of judgment (3:7);

2.    The present condition of the world:

a.    Corruption that is in the world through lust (1:4);

b.    Ungodliness (2:5-6);

c.    Lawless deeds and pollution (2:8 20);

3.    The end of the world:

a.    Which will be judged and dissolved on fire (3:7 10-12);

b.    There will be new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells (3:13).

 

Several Things

1.    Things we have to be diligent:

a.    Give all diligence and add to several things (1:5-8);

b.    Be even more diligent to do these things (1:10);

c.    Be diligent to be found by Him in peace without spot and blameless (3:14 );

2.    Things we have to be mindful of:

a.    Be often mindful of these things (1:12-15);

b.    Be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior (3:2);

3.    Things we have to be reminded:

a.    Remind believers always of these things (1:12-13);

b.    Remind believers and stir up their pure minds (3:1);

4.    Things we have to heed ---- heed the prophetic word (1:19);:

5.    Things we have to know:

a.    Knowing this first that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation (1:20);

b.    Knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days to scorn the promise of the Lord’s coming (3:3-4);

6.    Things we have not to forget:

a.    Do not forget that the heavens and the earth were created by the word of God (3:5);

b.    Do not forget this one thing that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day (3:8);

7.    Things we have to beware ---- be led away with the error of the wicked so as to fall from one’s own steadfastness (3:17):

 

Be Steadfast

1.    Make your call and election sure so that you will never stumble (1:10);

2.    Be established in the present truth (1:12);

3.    False teachers entice unstable souls (2:14);

4.    The untaught and unstable people twist the Scriptures (3:16);

5.    Beware lest you fall from your own steadfastness being led away with the error of the wicked (3:17);

 

False Teachers

1.    The names of false teachers:

a.    False prophets (2:1);

b.    False teachers (2:1);

c.    The unjust (2:9);

d.    Slaves of corruption (2:19);

e.    Scoffers (3:3);

f.     Ungodly men (3:7);

g.    The wicked (3:17);

2.    The teachings of false teachers:

a.    Be of any private interpretation (1:20);

b.    Destructive heresies (2:1);

c.    With deceptive words (2:3);

d.    Speak evil of the things they do not understand (2:12);

e.    Speak great swelling words of emptiness (2:18);

f.     Promise men liberty (2:19);

g.    Scorn the promise of the Lord’s coming (3:3-4);

h.    Error of the wicked (3:17);

3.    The hearts of false teachers:

a.    Deny the Lord who bought them (2:1);

b.    By covetousness … have a heart trained in covetous practices (2:3 14);

c.    They are presumptuous and self-willed (2:10);

d.    They carouse in their own deceptions (2:13);

e.    They love the wages of unrighteousness (2:15);

f.     They walk according to their own lusts (3:3);

g.    The wicked (3:17);

4.    The conduct of false teachers:

a.    Follow their destructive ways (2:2);

b.    Walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness (2:10);

c.    Count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime (2:13);

d.    Have eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin (2:14);

e.    Be slaves of corruption and be enslaved by the pollutions of the world (2:19-20);

f.     Be scoffers (3:3);

5.    The means of false teachers:

a.    Blaspheme the way of truth and the righteous (2:2 10-12);

b.    Entice unstable souls and the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error (2:14 18);

c.    Scorn and twist the Scriptures (3:3-4 16-17);

6.    The parables of false teachers:

a.    Like natural brute beasts (2:12);

b.    Like wells without water clouds carried by a tempest (2:9);

c.    Like dogs and sows (2:22);

7.    The ends of false teachers:

a.    Bring on themselves swift destruction (2:1 3);

b.    Be reserved under punishment for the day of judgment (2:9);

c.    The blackness of darkness forever is reserved for them (2:17);

d.    They are reserved until the day of judgment and perdition (3:7);

 

The Scriptures

1.    The source of the Scriptures:

a.    The prophets spoke the word of God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (1:19 21);

b.    The apostles recorded what they had eyewitnesses and heard (1:16-18);

c.    The apostles wrote the words according to the wisdom given to them (3:15);

2.    The constitution of the Scriptures:

a.    The words which were spoken before by the holy prophets ---- the Old Testament (3:2);

b.    The commandment of the apostles ---- the New Testament (3:2);

3.    The function of the Scriptures:

a.    As a light that shines in a dark place (1:19);

b.    As the morning star rising in our hearts (1:19);

4.    How shall we regard the Scriptures?

a.    Diligence and knowledge (1:5);

b.    Heed the prophecies (1:19);

c.    Do not turn from the holy commandment delivered to us (2:21);

d.    Be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of the apostles (3:2);

e.    Grow in knowledge (3:18);

5.    How to read the Scriptures rightly?

a.    We shall not be of any private interpretation (1:20);

b.    We shall not forget the power of the word of God (3:5-7);

c.    We shall not forget the will of God revealed in His words (3:8-9);

d.    We shall not twist the Scriptures (3:16);

e.    We shall beware the error of the wicked (3:17);

 

Two Days

1.    The day of the Lord (3:10):

a.    It is the day on which the promise of the Lord’s coming shall be fulfilled (3:4 9);

b.    It is the day on which we see the Lord (3:14);

2.    The day of God (3:12):

a.    It is the day on which the unjust are judged (2:9);

b.    It is the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men (3:7);

c.    It is the day on which the old heavens and old earth will be dissolved by fire (3:10-12);

d.    It is the day on which the new heavens and new earth are revealed (3:13);

 

── Caleb HuangChristian Digest Bible Commentary Series

   Translated by Mary Zhou