RHBC 345: False Teachers Beware

2. FALSE TEACHERS BEWARE
2 Peter 2:10b-22

3. I. Peter Describes the Depravity of
False Teachers

4. • They infiltrate the church by stealth
(2:1)

5. • They come in secret (2:1)

6. • They deny the work of sovereign
Jesus (2:1)

7. • They blaspheme the sacred truth
(2:2)

8. • They are seized by greed (2:3, 14)

9. • They use spurious phrases that sound
like truth. (2:3)

10. • They seek to satisfy their flesh (2:10)

11. • They are presumptuous and self-
willed (2:10)

12. • They do not want to submit to
anyone’s authority (2:10, 11)

13. • They exhibit peace on the outside but
are like savage beasts on the inside
(2:12)

14. • They reveal more evil than good in
their speaking (2:12)

15. • They are self confident yet ignorant
(2:12)

16. • They shamelessly love to deceive
others (2:13)

17. • They are full of seduction desiring
adultery (2:14)

18. • They cannot cease from sinning (2:14)

19. • They prey on unstable new believers
(2:14)

20. • They intentionally speak lies (2:15)

21. • They are out for monetary success
(2:15)

22. • They talk a lot but say nothing
(2:16, 18)

23. • They make grandiose promises but
never deliver (2:17)

24. • They use alluring thoughts to appeal
to sexual desires (2:18)

25. • They make promises of freedom
while they are slaves to sin (2:19)

26. II. Peter Describes the Doom of False
Teachers

27. • False Teachers will be judged (2:11)

28. • False Teachers will experience a swift
and terrible end (2:1d)

29. • False Teachers will be caught and
destroyed like wild beasts (2:12c)

30. • False Teachers will face Divine Wrath
(2:3b)

31. • False Teachers will reap all that they
have sowed (2:13a)

32. • False Teachers will be Consigned to
the Blackest Darkness (2:17c)

33. “False teachers present a false gospel,
filled with false promises that give
unstable people false hope.”
--Dr. Deron Cobb