2 Peter 2:1—“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

1.        __________ __________, run, but are not sent.

2.       T          F   There are false prophets in the world today.

3.       T     F   There is no difference between a false prophet and a false teacher.

4.       __________ __________ are errors in the fundamental doctrines of the Gospel.

5.    Damnable heresies lead to __________ destruction both those that __________ and __________ them, and those that __________ and __________ them.

6.       T      F   The elect of God may be deceived finally and totally by damnable heresies.

7.      “Swift destruction” for false prophets may mean __________ as well as __________ damnation.

2 Peter 2:2—“And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”

8.      The road both of error and wickedness is a broad one, in which many walk; and a __________ is __________ proof of the __________ of a __________ or of the principles of men, nor to be followed.

9.      T      F   Heretical teachings results in the truth being spoken of evil.

2 Peter 2:3—“And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

10.    False teachers are covetous in that they seek either to gain __________ __________  or __________ __________.

11.     T          F   False teachers new words and phrases are always to be suspected and guarded against.

12.    False teachers deal with the __________ of their followers, draw them, and sell them to __________.

13.    From the creation of the world, God has __________ the end of false teachers.

14.   The __________ __________ of false teachers does not lie dormant, but in a little time will be stirred up, and fall with dreadful weight on such sinners.

2 Peter 2:4—“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”

15.    T          F   The Devil and his angels were once good.

16.    The sin of the devil and his angels is that they did not abide in the __________.

17.    The devil and his angels could not __________  the salvation of man.

18.    The heresies of men, respecting the person and office of Christ, are styled __________ of __________.

19.    False teachers must expect the same __________ as the devil and his angels.

20.   T          F   God provided a Savior for the devil and his angels.

21.    The devil and his angels (as will false teachers) were “cast down;” with great __________, __________, __________, and __________, never to be raised and restored again.

2 Peter 2:5—“And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;”

22.   The true preacher of righteousness shall be __________ as was Noah; but, the false teacher will be __________ even as was the world by the flood.

23.   False teachers and their followers must not build upon their __________, or hope to be __________ from just __________ on that account.

2 Peter 2:6—“And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;”

24.   The punishment of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrha was an ensample of wicked conduct, showing what must expected, and was a representation of those everlasting burnings, which such sinners, as a __________ __________ for their burning __________, shall be cast into.

25.   Sodom and Gomorrha is an example of __________ punishment.

2 Peter 2:7—“And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:”

26.   Lot was justified by the __________ of Christ __________ to him.

27.   T          F   For the righteous, the sins of others are not a burden.

2 Peter 2:8—“(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)”

28.   T          F   The righteous may live among the wicked and not learn from them.

29.    The wicked actions of the ungodly is a form of __________ for the righteous.

2 Peter 2:9—“Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:”

30.   The mercy of God shall deliver the godly __________ and __________.

31.    __________ and __________, try the graces, particularly the faith and patience of the godly.

32.   “The unjust” are designed, persons without __________.

33.   The unrighteousness shall be judged with __________ and complete __________.

2 Peter 2:10—“But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.”

34.   T          F   The sin of homosexuality is unnatural and hated of God.

35.   To despise government is to despise the __________.

36.   One that is concerned with their dogmas and opinions, with their high sense and profound judgment, is __________ -__________.

2 Peter 2:11—“Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.” 

37.   __________ are guardians to particular men, and encamp about the saints.

38.   T          F   It is the office of angels to bring before the Lord such injustices as they might determine; to bring to the mind of the Lord the sins of man.

2 Peter 2:12—“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;” 

39.   “Natural brute beasts” are of such character that they are sunk below their own __________.

40.   Being corrupt, “natural brute beasts, are given up to __________ __________, and a __________ __________, call good evil, and evil good, and do things that are not __________, and which even brute beasts do not.

41.    “Natural brute beasts” __________ __________ to condemnation and ruin.

42.   Heretical men do not truly know and understand the __________.

43.   Moral __________, __________ and __________ lusts, are the cause of everlasting __________ and __________, and are righteously __________ of God.

2 Peter 2:13—“And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;”

44.   For those mentioned in 2 Peter 1:12, due __________, both in body and soul, for all their injustice to God and men; will be a just __________ of reward.

45.   Such men bring __________ and __________ upon the ways, __________, and interest of Christ.

46.   They take __________ pleasure and pastime, and not only __________ in their own sins, but in those of others.

2 Peter 2:14—“Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:”

47.   The two “sin brokers” of the body are the __________ and the __________.

48.   __________ is also, having a lewd and infamous woman always in mind and sight, continually looking at her and lusting after her.

49.   T          F   The holy blessed God does not account an evil thought for an action, to them that are in the faith of God.

50.   Sinners are __________ to their lusts.

51.   “Unstable souls are tossed to and fro with every wind of __________, not being __________  in Christ, nor __________  in the faith.

52.   An immoderate love of __________, a covetous desire after it, is the __________ of all evil, the bane of religion, and __________ of heresy, and is a vice which has always prevailed among __________ __________.

53.   “Cursed children,” inwardly, and from their hearts, curse the __________ followers of Christ, and their __________.

2 Peter 2:15—“Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;”

54.   The “right way” is the way of the __________ or the way of __________.

55.   “The way of Balaam,” is the path of __________, __________, and __________.

56.   The “wages of unrighteousness” is the result of __________ unrighteous things.

2 Peter 2:16—“But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.” 

57.   It is madness (as was Balaam) in any to oppose God in his __________, __________, __________, and __________.

58.  The “natural brute beast” (false teacher speaking lies) is compared to the __________ __________ of Balaam.

2 Peter 2:17—“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.”

59.   Although the false teacher may “look deep” in his thoughts, he is a __________ __________.

60.   Where heresy prevails in the churches it is a day of __________ and __________.

61.    False teachers are high in their own __________  and __________.

62.   The  sins of false teachers will lead them into utter __________ and their punishment is __________ for them.

2 Peter 2:18—“When they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”

63.   An empty boast of knowledge and learning concerning the marvelous things of God, is __________.

64.   By the carnal lusts and liberties, lasciviousness and wantonness, of which false teachers indulged, they allure, ensnared, and draw by them many into wicked __________ and __________.

2 Peter 2:19—“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” 

65.   T          F   False teachers promise Christian liberty.

66.   The “snare” of the false teacher is the promise of __________.

67.   These very preachers, that promised liberty to others, were the __________ of sin; they were under the __________ and __________ of sin.

68.   The followers of false teachers are in __________ to him, and his false doctrines.

69.   When a man is wholly under the dominion of sin, it __________ in his mortal body, and he __________ it in the lusts of it, and __________ his members instruments of unrighteousness.

2 Peter 2:20—“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.” 

70.   False teachers are __________ of the grace of God.

71.    Persons may have a form of __________, and yet be dead in __________ and __________.

72.   False teachers have but a __________ knowledge of Christ, or a __________ of knowledge of him. .

73.   False teachers are __________ in and __________ by the pollutions of the world.

74.   The __________ and __________, of the false teacher is a relapse into sin and immorality, which makes their case worse than it was at first.

2 Peter 2:21—“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 commandment delivered unto them.” 

75.   T          F   These false teachers had a notional, not experimental knowledge of righteousness.

76.   Having a notional knowledge, they turned to their __________ lusts.

77.   The “holy commandment” is the __________  from whence they turned.

2 Peter 2:22—“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.”

78.   False teachers are compared to __________ and __________.

79.   False teachers are in an __________ and __________ state and condition, it being impossible they should be otherwise, unless their natures were __________ and __________.

80.   Such apostates return to what they were before, to their former __________ and __________.