What Scoffers Miss

Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, last week we saw a warning against scoffers and a challenge to know Christ as Lord and Savior rather than to live according to our own desires. This week, Peter provides more information on the scoffers, and more information on Christ as Lord and Savior. The scoffers are people who justify themselves by overlooking the role of water and the word in creation and the flood. Christ, though, is the one who created and judged by water and the word, and who will judge by His word and fire on judgment day. Once again, the text poses to us the question of who we're going to trust. Is it going to be Christ, or the scoffers?