 Good morning and welcome to the course on In some of the books of the Bible, let's pray and we will get started. I'll just begin with the word of prayer Heavenly Father, we thank you once again for this opportunity Lord to discuss your word and know it in a deeper way We pray that you will breathe upon it Father God by your Holy Spirit, we pray God that you will receive the full power of Lord your word and the work of the Spirit in our lives of God Father, we sing blessings upon every single student faculty Lord the college and father even our families right now father We we commit ourselves into your hands and Jesus name we pray All right, so let's come down to the end of Second Peter chapter one, that's where we were we saw how Peter encourages the believer to Grow in the Lord he says that we can escape the corruption of the world We can be partakers of the divine nature of God because God has given us what What it takes to live a life of that kind We saw how he shows us the path of fruitfulness and maturity and he says that we need to add to our faith, you know many different many different aspects that build our character Then we went on to the fact that Peter is saying he's reminding the believers He leaves a reminder with the believers because he also had an idea God had already Confirmed to him that very soon he will be taken away And now moving forward there is a Section where he talks about you know how we must follow God and we must also heed the prophetic word of God so from verse 16 He says Don't follow coming devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we're eyewitnesses of his majesty. So what he and the other apostles have handed us Handed to us. They are by eyewitness Peter was very much with Jesus Christ and they are not Built up fables, you know, sometimes people trust and believe in non-historical Events and people but Peter says what we handed over to you is not like that There is so much evidence. We were eyewitnesses to the life of Jesus Christ and You know the fact that Jesus is the Son of God and he talks about that incident right in the Mount of Transfiguration Where they saw they saw Jesus being transformed and then you know also he he states that Once again, let me just read out for he received from God the father honor and glory when such a voice came to him from the Excellent glory. This is my beloved son in whom I am well-pleased So he has seen different things and he has also heard different things So he saw Jesus being trans transfigured. He saw a voice from heaven come, right? You know at the time of his baptism They must have seen they must have seen something unusual Experience something unusual So many different things have happened as they've walked with the Lord So he's just kind of summing up those experiences and he's saying, you know, they even heard that voice That that affirm that Jesus is the Son of God and was 18 And we heard the voice which came from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain Okay now moving on he says that we must we must Believe in the word of prophecy. So he says that the prophetic word You know, that is like he gives this Comparison like light that shines in a dark place. So that is a characteristic of The prophetic word because it brings hope, right? It brings hope and this word actually comes from God and he is also saying that you know Why is he talking about all these things? He's saying put your trust in Jesus as I witness We have seen that he's the Son of God and then he says his word is sure his word is valuable and In fact, no scripture that we have is, you know just by itself But it is inspired by the spirit of God. It is actually prophetic. All of scripture is a prophetic What is prophecy? We said the mind of God being spoken, isn't it the heart of God being communicated? So all of scripture He says is prophecy it is not of any private interpretation and we all know that prophecy does not come from man, but it comes from God and You know, even the people who wrote it down, we might say that they some were some people wrote poetry some wrote prose you know some wrote some other forms of Literary writing, but it's not from their minds But they were inspired as they were moved by the Holy Spirit He says so all of scripture is God breathed and we can put our trust in the scriptures now. Let's Continue we will move on. I'm just going to keep moving on if you have questions Please stop me and you can always ask me and now we'll go to chapter 2 and Chapter 3 we can kind of read it together because you know, it has one Theme running through it. So we'll quickly read chapter 2 chapter 3 and then I'm gonna Share the meaning of both these chapters So anyone please feel free, I think I'll let one person read chapter 2 and one person read chapter 3 second Peter chapter 2 Destructive doctrines, but there were also false prophets among the people Even as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies Even denying the Lord who bought them and bring on themselves swift destruction and many will follow their Destructive ways because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed By God justness they will exploit you with deceptive words For a long time their judgment has not been idle and their destruction does not slumber Doom of false teachers for if God did not spare the angels who sinned But cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness To be reserved for judgment and did not spare the ancient world But saved Noah one of eight people a preacher of righteousness Bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes Condemned them to destruction making them an example to those who afterward Would live ungodly and delivered righteous lot who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked For that righteous man dwelling among them Tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations And to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment and especially those Who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority They are presumptuous Self-willed they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries Whereas angels who are greater in power and might do not bring a reviling Accusation against them before the Lord Deep Previty of false teachers verse 12 But these like natural brute peace made to be caught and destroyed Speak evil of the things they do not understand and will utterly perish in their own corruption And will receive the wages of unrighteousness as those who counted pleasure to carouse in the daytime They are spots and blemishes carousing in Their own deceptions while they feast with you having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin Enticing unstable souls They have a heart trained in cautious practices and are accursed children And are accursed children They have forsaken the right way and gone astray Following the way of Balaam the son of Bior who loved the wages of unrighteousness But he was rebuked for his iniquity A dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet These are wells without water clouds carried away by a tempest For whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever Deceptions of false teachers for when they speak great swelling words of emptiness They allure through the lust of the flesh Through lewdness the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error While they promise them liberty they themselves are slaves of corruption For by whom a person is overcome by him Also, he is brought into bondage for if After they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the lord and savior jesus christ They are again entangled in them and The latter end is worse for them than the beginning for it would have Been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness Than having known it to turn from the holy commandment Delivered to them, but it has happened to them according to the true proverb A dog returns to his own vomit and a soul Having washed to her blowing in the mile Yes, amen. Thank you. Thank you. Rosalind. Thank you so much again for reading that long passage Uh, maybe what we'll do is let me quickly explain this otherwise, you know You may not remember it by the time we come back and then we discuss this So let's go through this and then we will read chapter 3. So as we can see here, this is so very Similar to the book of jude Because even jude is warning about false teachers false prophets their characteristics and how You know, they they despise authority. They live ungodly lives almost the same same You know teen so When was this written? We have to remember, you know, like peter Jude these were some of the early episodes that were written. So they were written around the same time, you know and Maybe like we can understand that there was a real problem of a false people false teachers and heresies and wrong doctrine around them and they needed to warn the people and even more Because they knew that there will come a time when they are going to leave Then all the work that has been done so far, uh, you know, if it is not protected Then what will happen? It'll be destroyed, isn't it? Uh, the the labor of all these decades the work of god The preservation of the the doctrine the teaching You know the authenticity of our faith in god Remember jude said content for the faith. So that's the spirit with which peter is writing this passage I'm gonna touch the highlights, you know in various sections of chapter two. So basically he says look, there will be False prophets false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies even denying the lord Who brought them and bring on themselves with destruction. So what he's saying is there will be Uh, you know people are rising in these categories Uh, even you know, maybe even false apostles we can say Basically those who are not true ministers of god and he says there's something About the way they do this secretly bringing in destructive heresies And and so we realize that sometimes the way heretical teaching comes in is not very obvious It may be very subtle most of it sounds wonderful, but then there are these you know sections or These these portions that are wrong so very wrong But what do false teachers and prophets do they smoothly bring it in secretly bring in destructive heresies? It says and it can go to a great extent even denying the lord Um, and you know, there's there's a lot of this happening in the world around I once came across some very weird form of teaching and doctrine You know where where someone was talking from scripture only Um, but then it there was no christ in it Like there are a lot of biblical truths that they're talking about they're talking about fasting They're talking about faith. They're talking about moving the mountain. They're talking about the spirit of god But uh, it's all about, you know, how we as people can can Use these principles But where is the honor to our lord jesus christ that that was not there jesus and the cross There was no emphasis on that and it was actually quite scary because it looks it looks so much like a church and it looks so much like you know, um I mean, I saw this on on youtube actually some of the teachings of a particular individual and it was so shocking that Everything talking about faith and prayer and fasting sounds so biblical But when you look at the whole part of what is actually happening, uh, there's no concept of salvation also over there So once when that person was asked, what do you think about salvation? He does not he says, yeah We don't need forgiveness For anything then what what does the whole doctrine about if there's no question of receiving forgiveness from the work of the cross So you see things like this are happening in the world around us And why did he talk about maturity earlier? You see the the best Way to identify Wrong teaching is through maturity when we are well versed in the word when we are strong in the lord We can quickly pick it up But if there's no maturity then identifying these things becomes quite difficult So maturity is needed these kind of people will come up He says secretly bringing things even deny the lord and uh, you know, he says that they are very influential Many will follow their destructive ways And uh, it's unfortunate that you know, they can lead people and they will exploit people with deceptive words However in the next section, you know, he is just reminding us the way jude said, uh, you know that there are consequences We in jude, he also brought up the angels who are imprisoned punished by god for for leaving their domain Uh, you know those who did not respect the authority of god And he talked about bala right who was rebellious So he gave those examples here again. We have the example of those angels in noah's time who Did not You know, they they did not stay in their position They were covetous and they desired something else and they got into sinful relationships with human beings And then you know that he also talks about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Where there was so much of sin existing But the point in the section over here is consequences So he's saying there will be consequences these false teachers may think that nothing will happen But it will happen even look at the angelic host who Engaged in sin. Where are they now? We know that some of them are like the the ones who sin They are imprisoned, but then we have other fallen angels who are what we call as demons And they will also experience the judgment of god at the right time and one one other Different not here is he mentions about lot and he says in verse seven And delivered righteous lot who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked Right and then in verse nine, he goes on to say then the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of Tentations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment So he's saying for unrighteousness. There's going to be judgment for sure It may not look like judgment is happening or coming Right and ungodly people keep propagating their teaching But it will come but for the righteous Righteous lot that's an example where god is reminding us See god knows how to deliver those somebody who's righteous and oppressed So god knows both how to judge the ungodly how to deliver the godly So we must put our trust in god And you know, that's where our faith must be And uh, you know, he goes on and talks about these false teachers and false prophets if from verse 10 He says they walk according to the flesh In the lust of uncleanness and despise authority very similar to what jude said, you know, look at their life Look at their rebellious nature Where they don't respect authority So that those are signs those are signs actually of uh, the false teachers So then how do we identify one is we need to be mature that gives us the capacity to recognize Secondly, we listen to their teaching if it is not Glorifying jesus, you know, there is error over there And look at their life. What kind of a life Do these prophets have do these um false teachers have those lives are more about Fulfilling their own lustful desires. It's not god honoring. So these are all signs of You know such such false people false leaders and we as the church We must be warned and we must warn others as well. He says they are presumptuous Self-will. What is the meaning of presumptuous? So presumptuous is when one is not Um, like Learned or one is not knowledgeable It's one thing to come from a place of knowledge Where we read the scriptures we understand and therefore we make a statement, but presumptuous is Not having knowledge just saying whatever we want whatever we I mean, it's not really backed up. It's just you know, our Our imagination and so that's presumption and he says A lot of these teachings would come that way because people are presumptuous They just make up stories. They just say whatever they feel like and he says self-willed Self-willed also again has to do with a fleshly kind of an attitude yielding to the flesh So these are characteristics and again, he says they're not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries. Remember jude said that even uh When when it came to the body of contending for the body of moses There was a manner in which you know the angels spoke and he said the lord rebuke you Right, uh, but these people have no respect for For structure order or even Authority that god himself has placed on them. So he's highlighting False teachers false prophets for us to understand how these people are so that we can identify Now moving on to a little bit more about such people So he is expanding on the fleshly kind of a lifestyle of these people And he says different things about what they end up doing. He says, um, you know They firstly they will have consequences They are like rude beasts. He says out of control When it comes to their their fleshly engaging in their fleshly lusts and they Are made to be caught and destroyed, which means they will face Consequences now. What are some things that they might do? Speak evil of the things that they do not understand So they don't have knowledge and they speak presumptuously And he says he goes on karaos in the daytime. What is karaos karaos has to do with, you know, like very, uh, loud Drinking parties that people hold. So you can imagine if somebody is partying like that in the daytime That's not the appropriate time. They don't seem to have a sense of responsibility or focus or purpose And so, you know, he he's just saying that they are all about For their own benefit doing things for their own benefit. Uh, and he says That you know, they're part of the feast Uh Own deceptions while they feast with you meaning they they love to enjoy they love to enjoy Uh, you know resources and uh even fellowship. So they are such people But then evil is a part of them next he goes on to say adultery Their eyes are full of adultery And what else do they do? They entice unstable souls So they are very deceptive Trying to catch those Among the fellowship or maybe, you know, among the the brethren who are not strong enough Because that's easy for them To catch them, uh, and and they have they they're very covetous And then he goes on to the example of balam just like jude, right? So balam was working for profit money Right willing to go against god for the sake of money. Even these people they won't have that strength of character or That determination to honor god if it means that they're going to get something they can easily change You know the the premise that they have and so such are these people Be careful about them. Be careful about them. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, right? they've they've done that and You know in the case of balam, it was so sad. Can you imagine, you know, god had to speak through a Like a donkey brought the word of god So you imagine what must be the condition of a person who's not willing to listen to god to get his attention God had to make one donkey speak to say balam. What are you doing? You know, so The the the problem here is that such individuals not only are they they Deceiving others unstable people. They're trying to grab their attention and deceive them But they are themselves deceived So when we are self deceived, you know, that is one of the biggest problems ever Because when we are self deceived and we are very convinced that we are correct We are right. We are righteous when god is Showing otherwise through his word or you know through circumstances through many other People around us, we're not willing to listen and that's dangerous because in that situation when we are self deceived Nobody can help us. Even god is not able to help Right. So these false teachers and prophets not only do they deceive others but unfortunately They are themselves are self deceived and it's like lucifer. That was the problem of lucifer, isn't it? He deceived himself that he can be greater than god and that led to his destruction They're kind of moving in that same path And we can't expect anything much from them because from verse 17 He says they are wells without water So it feels like the teaching they are bringing Has some value it will build us spiritually, but actually there's nothing in it We will never be edified spiritually, right from the false teaching or the false doctrine And he uses it's like poetic language. He says clouds carried by a tempest Right for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. So These clouds are not pleasant when there is a tempest We we're not happy about those clouds But they are like that because they'll only bring destruction and they themselves Will of course face the judgment of god and now the last section He continues to add about the deception of these false teachers and he says they speak great swelling words What kind of words he adds of emptiness So it's like you have the form But it's lacking power Which is why we need maturity to identify that And he says they allure through the lusts of the flesh through lewdness and ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error And now he speaks just like the writer of the Hebrews. Remember the writer of the Hebrews in chapter 6 He says those who have tasted Right of the things of God. We were born again. We were walking with the Lord And now if one such person falls away, it is impossible to revive that person and Peter says, you know If a person is so deceived and they go away from God, it's like saying They should have never come to God in the first place because their their Status will be worse if they come to God and then they go back Soon verse 21 he says for it would have been better For them not to have known the way of righteousness Then having known it to turn from the holy commandment Deliver to them. So it sounds like these false teachers and false Prophets They Would be among us Right the people who are believers, but who have who have Corrupted corrupted their teaching corrupted themselves now corrupting people And Peter is very unhappy about this category of ministers and he says, you know, it's better If they had never come to know God because their end state is actually worse and then he gives the example, you know Of a dog going back to its vomit or a so going back To her wallowing in the mayor Which are again a picture of you know becoming clean and then again becoming dirty And which is not useful at all. So this whole section. It's a warning and not just is it a warning but He is helping us understand the characteristics of deceptive ministers So that when we hear them when we observe them when we see the fruit of their work We can identify and you know get away from it. So Uh, that is like the highlight Of what is being spoken here and we can move to chapter three now If this yeah, if there's a question, we can take that up okay, so there is Question in the chat How can we bring out those That once received the word of God and was active in church programs and serve If that one is become rebellious now to the parents and church and gone astray What can bring them back to God? So what can bring them back to God Rosalind is of course, you know, like We know in Second Peter chapter three, we will see there's a verse that says it's Like it's not God's will for anyone to perish So as long as we are alive God wants us to come back And that option is always there. So we must hold on to that word and if you recall Hebrew 725 he saves to the utter most So the work of salvation has been completed by our Lord Jesus So on the basis of the finished work We can keep praying we can keep engaging in spiritual warfare. So that is something we can do And uh James also said, you know, it's good. It's a good thing to bring back those who have gone astray Right, so we must work on it by praying by extending love and and all of that However, uh, you know after having done all this and maybe even counseling them And speaking to them the choice is completely theirs And hopefully Their hearts will be softened and they will come back Right, so uh that much we can do now Uh, we don't know whether That person will You know, I mean because it's it's a matter of free will right? We cannot force anyone If they've gone away from God, we can spiritual aspects we can engage in practical aspects of Uh, you know finding out the reason why they are not active anymore all that so those practical things we can do But then ultimately it will be the will of that person to come back to power Or does that help proselytum? Okay, great Sure So jeffina says whereas angels who are greater in power and might Do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the lord. Does it mean angels usually tell About people to god. Is it something that happens in heaven? Okay, so jeffina. We wouldn't interpret it like that because we don't have uh other scripture like A corroborating that truth. So then how do we understand it? See it's just for us to understand that angels Though they are mighty because they carry glory The kind of glory they carry as heavenly beings. We don't have that here on earth Even though they carry glory and authority. They don't misuse it. They don't bring a reviling accusation. So that's what it means Yeah, they honor their position of authority and they honor the authority structure unnecessarily. They will not Uh, you know get out of line. That's the understanding Yeah, great. Okay. So now let's continue Uh, second Peter chapter three If someone can read through it We highlight The key key aspects second Peter chapter three Beloved I now write to you this second epistle in In both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder That you may be mindful of the words which was spoken before By the holy prophets and of the commandment of us The apostles of the lord and savior knowing this first that coffers will come in the last days Walking according to their own lust and saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep All things continue as they were from the beginning of creation For this they will fully forget that by the word of god the heavens were made Were were of old and the earth standing out of water and in the water By which the world that then existed perished being flooded with water But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word Are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men But beloved do not forget this one thing that with the lord one day is as a thousand years And a thousand years as one day the lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count slackness But is long suffering toward us not willing that any should perish But that all should come to repentance The day of the lord was ten But the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night In which the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat Both the earth and the works of that are in it will be burned up Therefore since all these things will be dissolved What manner of persons ought to ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of god because of which the heavens will be dissolved Being on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat Nevertheless be according to his promise Look for new heavens and the new earth in which righteousness dwells Therefore beloved looking forward to these things be diligent to be found by him in peace Without spot and blameless and consider that the long suffering of our lord is salvation As also our beloved brother paul according to the wisdom given to him has written to you As also in all his episodes Speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to understand Which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction As they do also the rest of the scriptures you therefore beloved since you know this beforehand Beware lest you also fall from your From from your own steadfastness Being led away with the error of the wicked But to grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord and savior jesus christ to him with the glory both now and forever Amen, thank you rosalind. Thank you once again. Uh and as we saw here we uh He continues talking about You know these people and he says that look i am reminding you right i am reminding you and uh just be Mindful of the words that were spoken to you by people of god About all these matters things that are coming up and things that will come up uh in in uh, you know the the years ahead and uh, he is Continuing regarding these uh false prophets and false teachers uses the word scoffers, you know scoffers who who kind of uh mock Uh something that others say uh, and and so they are scoffers who mock the very word of god meaning that implies that they don't have faith in the authority of god's word or the power of god's word So they may ask questions like you know, uh, when is jesus coming back? Uh, from the beginning they are saying he'll come back, but he where is he now? So they are mocking they're mocking the word of god that has been spoken and you know that that is not a good thing So along with all the other characteristics that we added now We are understanding that they're not believing in the word of god But peter is reminding us look this whole Everything the universe was created by the word and everything is being sustained by the word In verse seven he says the heavens and earth which are now preserved by the same word the way he bruised 1 3 says, you know that uh God by by the word he is sustaining the universe And the word of god is so powerful. Now. How can how can people mock the power of god's word? But these people it's as if they're sitting themselves up for the day of judgment and uh, you know, they they are continuing in in wickedness And that is so dangerous But he tells the believers he tells the believers look, it's not like god cannot Rain down justice on them right now. It's not like that Because see for god a long time is actually not a long time. So he's giving god's calculation Regarding timelines in verse eight. He says beloved do not forget this one thing that with the lord one day is as a thousand years And a thousand years is as one day. It's just to say that even a long time is like a jiffy for the lord it's quick for god and It's not like, you know, god is dragging or you know god is Not aware of such people and for some reason, you know, their judgment is not coming It's not like that. But god is faithful to the the laws that he has said god is faithful to his word He's not slack Consonning his promise, but on the other hand, we understand that he's very long suffering Now he has to let things take its time uh, and we know When we study eschatology, there is a certain manner in which we are going to see god work First we'll have the secret coming of the lord, you know, then we'll have the great tribulation Then we'll have the second coming of the lord You know following that we have the a thousand year millennial rule of christ Right, then we'll have the judgment. So there's the the way in which things have been structured God is going to take it through in that order It's not because he's slack, but right now. What is god focusing in on he's focusing in on people being saved It says in verse nine, uh, you know that But is long suffering towards us not willing that any should perish But that all should come to repentance. So how many does god want to come to repentance? All should come to repentance. So he's being patient in that sense, you know, giving us time people Use the word we are living in a period of grace Yeah, that's true. God is just waiting for people to change for lives to turn around but then finally, you know Once things begin to take place He's talking about the period when god is going to dissolve all things We know that the bible talks about the new heavens the new earth If we go back to uh, the book of hebrus when we learn we said god will roll up the heavens as a cloak He's able to do that. You know, it's like you just roll up some, uh curtain For god, it's like that. He's just going to roll it up. He's going to dissolve things are going to melt Melt away and then you know the newness of god the new heavens the new earth. There is a reference over here That will be formed in which righteousness dwells. You know at that point all this wickedness that we see you know up until Then god is going to You know completely destroy it And also we know about the judgment of satan and his demons how they will be Thrown into the bottomless pit. So judgment would have been completed at that point and you know god The dwelling of god's people in new heavens and the new earth All of that will take place And so in view of how powerful the word of god is and how true he is to his word He's just reminding the believer when evil things happen when we see false preachers and teachers are not somewhere we get disturbed We think god, why are you not doing anything? But he's just reminding the believer don't worry god is true to his word whatever he said it will happen So how should we be how should we be in in the midst of that? He tells the believer You look forward to these things that god is going to do And you know you be you be without spot and blameless and you know you be strong in the lord And that's what he's he's calling the believer to do and he makes a reference to brother paul Over here. Thankfully by now, you know, they've understood that even he is an apostle and he is a honored apostle among the other apostles people like peter who walked with jesus And he is actually applauding and commending The learnedness of paul where you know, look at peter being one of those mighty apostles. He's so humble he's saying You know consider that the long suffering of our lord is salvation as also Beloved brother paul according to the wisdom given to him has written to you and he says verse 16 as also in all his epistles speaking in them Of these one second Huh think these things in which are some things hard to understand. So that is peter's uh acknowledgement He's saying paul is so knowledgeable That even peter is saying, you know, some things are so difficult for us to understand the way paul puts it Because he received revelation from god And you know that really shows the kind of relationship that apostles had among themselves Honoring one another Honoring the grace of god upon other ministers of god. So he's saying you know paul so brilliant The revelation that he received that some things are even hard to understand But what is the what becomes a challenge with those hard to understand matters is Again, he refers back to these Uh, you know ungodly ministers and he says look they twist these mysterious matters because people are looking for answers regarding these matters So what do these men do or you know women do? They twist it to their own benefit and he says their own destruction Right as they twist the rest of scripture And he adds to their description and he says They are untaught unstable untaught unstable meaning They don't have Uh proper knowledge of the scriptures or they've not worked towards it to gain proper knowledge of the scriptures And he also says unstable meaning there are issues of character. There are issues of Um, you know when it comes to sincerity of worshiping the lord. So those are the Uh characteristics of those people and they twist scripture especially The mysterious things that paul talks about because many of the things that he has written are so Amazing and then again he goes on to remind the believer to just be steadfast So i'm going to read through verses 17 and 18 With which we finish. So he says you therefore beloved since you know this beforehand Beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness being led away with the error of the wicked But grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord and savior Jesus christ to him be the glory both now and forever amen. So he two things one is We are steadfast Don't lose that second is keep growing Right and uh ultimately all honor All glory is of our lord. So That is the final exaltation in the chapter Three of second veto. So if there's anything that we want to discuss We can Bring that up Okay, but I would encourage us to uh again go back and In personal study to also refer, you know to uh tools like e-sword and Uh look up commentaries what we've recommended is david kozik's enduring word Because with the positive of time we have managed to complete the portions that we have been given But i'm sure we can dwell on this for you know, double the time triple the time and still get so much more out of it So I encourage us to please do that. We've only managed to cover Uh keeping in line with the scope of you know, what we have in this course, but yeah This is not the end. Even though this is the end, uh, you know, please do take time to keep studying these books Over and over again and uh, surely it'll it'll keep speaking to us Right. So with that we will close and uh, thank you everyone is really wonderful journey with all of all of you And I know this is the graduating batch. So three years, right three years And yeah, god bless you all and really looking forward to Keeping in touch and seeing what the lord does in each of your lives. So let's close off with the word of prayer and just pray and speak of blessing Abba father we thank you lord lord truly it is your grace lord By which lord we have come thus far and lord it is you lord was enabled each one of us to to journey in the courses and lord Uh, thank you lord for each and every student in this class Father we pray may your spirit Bring the word alive in their hearts in their lives Oh god and thank you for each one lord as a minister of of the the gospel Thank you that lord you you will stir up the grace and the gifts of god Upon their lives and god that every single one of them lord will be a mover and a shaker A father filled with the holy spirit lord Extending the kingdom of god and father bringing glory and honor to your name lord We pray that you will continue to empower them continue to strengthen them lord continue to comfort them lord so that lord they they will Not not be weary But press forward lord passionately father to to live for the for the honor and glory of your name father I speak blessings uh upon every single student father god in this course We give you all the praise we give you all the honor in Jesus name. We pray amen Amen So thank you class. Uh, I'm just going to end this class