Doom and Deliverance

          Doom and Deliverance             

   II Peter 2:4-10

I.   The Doom of the Ungodly (verses 4-6)

II.  The Deliverance of the Righteous (verses 5, 7-8)

 III. God is in Control (verse 9)

"We are to “love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us” (Matt. 5:44). But we can love so unreservedly precisely because we know that “it is God's to avenge; He will repay” (Rom. 12:19). God has told us not to worry about seeking vengeance, about righting every wrong—he will take care of that. Love for the unrighteous and satisfaction in God’s judgment of the unrighteous go hand in hand in Scripture. Peter’s reminder of God’s judgment of the ungodly should therefore give us satisfaction in the ultimate rightness of this world at the same time as it provides the foundation for a sacrificial love of sinners." ~ Douglas Moo