The Lord Knows How to Rescue

2 Peter 2

…the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment…

A. THE LORD KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH UNGODLY PEOPLE

1.  Who are these people?  [1.20-2.1]

2.  What are they like? 

    a.  Bad doctrine  [1]

    b.  Bad behavior  [2]

    c.  Bad motives  [3]

3.  What will happen to them? 

    a.  Swift destruction  [1b, 3b, 9b, 12]

    b.  Illustrations

        1)  angels who sinned  [4]
        2)  sinful men and women prior to the flood  [5]
        3)  cities of Sodom and Gomorrah  [6]

B. THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO RESCUE THE GODLY

1.  Look at what happened to Noah
    Gen 6;  Heb 11.7;  1 Pet 3.18-20

2.  Look at what happened to Lot
    Gen 19

C. THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO RESCUE YOU

John Olson