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In 2 Peter 2 we are studying the dangersdangers to the church of false teachersfalse teachers,

And theirtheir judgment and damnation.

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They can readily deceivedeceive and pullpull away the unsaved, who are considering Christianityconsidering Christianity.

They can also deceive, for a timefor a time, those who are saved but double-mindeddouble-minded.

They don't fully have their

mind made up to serve the Lord.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allureallure (entice and entrap) through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness (filthy vices), those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

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To denyTo deny the sinfulness and destructiveness of sin is to deny God's Worddeny God's Word.

Such a message appeals onlyonly to those who are ruledruled by the lusts of the flesh.

19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servantsservants (slaves) of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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So many today speak of Christianity as a life of bondage to rulesbondage to rules.

They advocateadvocate a life of licentiousnesslicentiousness, wherein people live live

without ruleswithout rules.They claimclaim to be free, but are, in truthin truth, in a terrible bondageterrible bondage to sin.

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Tiger Woods thought he was living free, but

it wrecked his life.

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"the extent to which he can recover -- seems to me to depend on his faith. He's said to be a Buddhist; I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, 'Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.'"

Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday

January 3

Is the answer.

The world calls it a sickness or addiction, as ifas if it can't be helped.

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God calls it slavery to sin, and He offersHe offers the only true deliveranceonly true deliverance:

The PowerPower of His Holy Spirit to live live freefree from the power of sinpower of sin.

The Shed BloodShed Blood of Jesus Christ will wash awaywash away our sins and make us fitfit for

The Presence of GodThe Presence of God.

20 For if after theythey have escaped the pollutions of the world through the Knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, theythey are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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"They" know ofknow of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

But "they" do not know Himknow Him as Savior and Lord.

Acts 26 28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, AlmostAlmost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

Perhaps they have even started attending churchattending church, and cleaned upcleaned up some of their filthy vices.

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Unless and until they receive receive JesusJesus as Savior and Lord of

their lives,

It won't lastIt won't last.John 14 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Command-ment delivered unto them.

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For those who have heardheard the Gospel and have knownknown that it is true,

And yetAnd yet have rejected Jesusrejected Jesus as Savior and Lord --

Their eternal judgment and damnation is more severemore severe than those who have never

heard.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

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They have never truly become sons and daughters of The Most High God.

Peter is speaking of naturenature.

We can change our waysour ways for a time.

But only Godonly God can change our nature.

God has provided the Waythe Way that all menall men may be savedsaved from sin and from hell.

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John 3 16-17 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.