Jude (Program #6) – The Basic Structure of the Epistles of Peter and Jude (2)

The epistles of 1 and 2 Peter and Jude have occupied us now for the past nine weeks on this program. And today we conclude the life study of these three short but very significant books in the divine record. But not with the systematic or academically summary but rather by following the spiritual thread that links these three books. Though they are separated in the canon scripture by the three epistles of John in their subject and basic structure they bear a striking similarity and easily warrant being considered as a group.

All three were written against the back drop of the degradation and decline of the church, a time of apostasy. And therefore all three can be considered as an inoculation against the heresies that were damaging the testimony of the church at that time. Yet they also shared a basic structure that is one hundred percent positive and absolutely in concert with the central focus of the entire New Testament. And that is that we would all be brought into the real enjoyment of the Triune God. In order that through His operation in us we would be transformed that we would be built up into His spiritual habitation so that He could indwell us and that we would express Him for eternity.

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2 Peter (Program #8) – The Divine Government (1)

The apostle Peter had a strong reaction to the apostasy that were spreading into the church near the end of his life.   In fact he wrote his two epistles largely as an inoculation against the heretical teachings that were gradually corrupting the  faith of the saints.  Especially regarding the matter of the Lord’s second coming in glory.

In 2 Peter, he first gives an eye-witness account of seeing the Lord Jesus revealed in glory as a foreshadow of His promise return .   Then he points the believers to the word of God, specifically the Old Testament prophecies concerning Christ, as he says in chapter 1:19 “and we have the prophetic word made more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;”   But after these two strong encouragements he goes on to speak of the coming judgment of the righteous God especially on those false teachers who were defiling the saints and leading them astray.

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2 Timothy (Program #7) – The Antidote of the Inoculation

God has provided an antidote against the decline of the church. Right after the apostle Paul discusses the worsening of the church’s decline in 2 Timothy 3:1-13, he then immediately follows with the wonderful, heavenly, divine, spiritual and rich antidote.  That is the subject of our life study radio program today.

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2 Timothy (Program #6) – The Antidote of the Inoculation

At the end of the apostle Paul’s life, he wrote 2 Timothy, the last of his 14 New Testament epistles.  The subject of 2 Timothy is : the inoculation against the decline of the church.  The Holy Spirit through Paul gave us the antidote of this inoculation in chapter 3 to fight against the downward trend of the church and that’s where we’ve arrived in our life study today.

And our focal point today is the word of God, the antidote of the divine inoculation against the decline of the church.

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