PT-2 “Their Sacrilege” (2 Peter 2:1-c)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/21/2025 8:40 PM

My Worship Time                                                                            Focus: PT-2 “Their Sacrilege”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                 Reference: (2 Peter 2:1-c)

            Message of the verses:  “even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.”

            This evening I want to continue looking at this 3^rd part of 2 Peter 2:1c, a verse that has a lot of commentary in it from MacArthur’s commentary and so I will plan to be in it for a few days.  Yesterday we looked at a number of Greek words that MacArthur explained for us, and I think that we will not have to do that for a little while, but just go into this verse with the help of John MacArthur explain some more things about it. 

            Let us begin by looking at the phrase who bought them and write some information about it.  These words fit Peter’s analogy perfectly as he is alluding to the master of the house who would be the one to purchase slaves and put them in charge of different household tasks, which certainly was important during this time period.  Now because they were now regarded as the master’s personal property, they owed their complete allegiance to him.  Now before I go on I want to remind you that Paul speaks of our Lord Jesus Christ as a slave, Let us look at Philippians 2:5-9a “5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also,

God highly exalted Him.” The Greek word for “bond-servant” is doulos, and the meaning of that word is as follows from my Greek/English dictionary

“1) a slave, bondman, man of servile condition

1a) a slave

1b) metaph., one who gives himself up to another’s will, those whose service is used by Christ in extending and advancing his cause among men

1c) devoted to another to the disregard of one’s own interests

2) a servant, attendant

            Now that we got that out of the way some may be shocked at the meaning of this word which describes the second person of the God-head, Jesus Christ, but that is what He was and this shows us how much He loves us to become a slave so the we can be saved and then become slaves for the Savior.  Let us now move on: While false teachers maintain that they are part of Christ’s household, they deny such professions through their actions—refusing to become servants under His authority.  MacArthur explains “Bought (agorazo) means ‘to purchase,’ or ‘to redeem out of the marketplace,’ and in this context is parallel to Deuteronomy 32:5-6 (cf. Zeph. 1:4-6).”  Now let us look at these verses in order:

5 “They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation. 6 “Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

 

4 “So I will stretch out My hand against Judah And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, And the names of the idolatrous priests along with the priests. 5  "And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven, And those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom, 6  And those who have turned back from following the LORD, And those who have not sought the LORD or inquired of Him."

 

            “The false teachers of Peter’s day claimed Christ as their Redeemer; yet they refused to accept His sovereign lordship, thus revealing their true character as unregenerate enemies of biblical truth.” 

 

            Now John MacArthur explains that “many take this statement the Master who bought them to mean that Christ actually has purchased redemption in full for all people, even for false teachers.  It is commonly thought that Christ died to pay in full the penalty for everyone’s sins, whether they ever believe or not.  The popular notion is that God loves everyone, wants everyone saved so Christ died for everyone.

 

            “This means His death was a potential sacrifice or atonement that becomes an actual atonement when a sinner repents and believes the gospel.  Evangelism, according to this vies is convicting sinners to receive what has already been done for them.  All can believe and be saved if they will, since no one is excluded in the atonement.

 

            “This viewpoint, if taken to its logical conclusion, has hell full of people whose salvation was purchased by Christ on the cross.  Therefore the lake of fire is filled with those damned people whose sin Christ fully atoned for by bearing their punishment under God’s wrath.

 

            “Heaven will be populated by people who had the same atonement provided for them, but they are there because they received it.  Christ, in this view, died on the cross for the damned in hell the same as He did for the redeemed in heaven.  The only difference between the redeemed’s fate and that of the damned is the sinner’s choice.”

 

            Now there is much more of this to quote from MacArthur’s commentary on this subject and so Lord willing, we will do it in tomorrow evening SD, Lord willing.

 

11/21/2025 9:13 PM