EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/27/2025 11:55 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Their Sensuality”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: (2 Peter 2:2b)
Message of the verses: their sensuality
Sensuality is really a strong word referring to habitual sexual immorality and unrestrained, debauched conduct. Peter uses the plural for the noun (aselgeiais). He emphasizes that the false teachers’ sexual lewdness came in many forms and many extremes. Now because they had rejected the lordship of Christ, their lives were characterized by unrestrained indulgence and lawlessness (cf. Matt. 23:28; 2 Thess. 2:7; and 1 John 3:4) which we will now look at.
“28 “So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”
“7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.”
“4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.”
They intentionally refused to place any restraints on their fleshly desires or their sexual escapades. Their decadent behavior caused Jude caused Jude to compare their sins with those of Sodom and Gomorrah:
4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ…7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Peter certainly agreed with Jude’s assessment of the false teachers, as is seen later in this chapter of his epistle (2:7, 10, 14-14, 18-19, 22). Unmitigated sensuality is a distinguishing mark of these spiritual counterfeits. A teacher may claim to be God’s spokesman, but if his life is characterized by corruption, lust, and immorality, it proves that he is actually a fraud.
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