This is the Truth Network. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Welcome to my light. To the Wednesday in the Word podcast, equipping our leaders of this great weekly Bible study held at Dario, our wonderful, gracious host. all across North Carolina.
This is to equip, encourage, and guide you as you prepare to teach the word and guide the discussion. At each location each week, and we continue our journey now through the book of Daniel. Here we are with today's special guest, Dr. Sam War. 2 Peter chapter 2, verses 1 through 11.
Welcome, welcome, Dr. Sam Horn. We're jumping right in. We left off with Holy men of God. Bringing God's holy word, God supernaturally inspired His Word, God breathed through human instruments.
Dr. Horn, we come up against The Evil, the darkness, whenever there's light, whenever God's word, the seed of God's word is spreading, darkness shows its ugly face, and Peter exposes the underbelly. of the false prophets. As we pivot to chapter 2 in 2 Peter, what are your initial thoughts, Dr. Sam Horn?
And thank you, brother, for being a part of this great outreach. You know, I'm just stunned as I come to 2 Peter because it's like a book. That was written 2,000 years ago, but it could have been written last week. Because it speaks so directly. Happening in the world around us, not just in our own country, but all around the world.
And I think if you go back in time and you drop in in any century, whether it's 100 years ago, 500 years ago. or 2,000 years ago, you're going to find the same warnings that Peter gives here. would be the warnings that are timely for that. Time and that era, wherever you drop in for the people of God.
So I. As difficult as 2 Peter is. It's an amazing book because the greatest. The greatest defense against error is truth. And so understanding the truth.
And recognizing the presence and the reality and the danger of error. is an important component of godly Christian living. And in a culture where truth has been sold in the marketplace. In a culture where acceptance is more important. than adherence to the truth.
In a culture where We value the words of love, expressions of love, saying we love. all men versus Actually, loving God and loving men with the truth of God. Second Peter is like a lighthouse, it just stands there and beams out this. unchanging cruise. That we can anchor our soul to.
So I'm excited about what we're doing here in 2 Peter.
Well, I'm going to jump right into a review of what's happened. And then, of course, we'll do a preview of this text, particularly the first 11 verses of chapter 2. Dr. Horn. These the leader notes I send out, I open with a very sobering.
call an analogy. And I do I pose a question, you know, what are these three What do these three or four folks have in common? A sweet old man passing out beads in the airport? A. A well-dressed, nice-looking elderly couple.
passing out what looks like scripture cards in the park. A smooth talking a suited up man on television speaking prosperity, and two well-groomed young men knocking on your door, holding what looks like to be a Bible or another holy book.
Well They all have in common. Look look little let's go back to uh What was it, Little Red Riding Hood? The big bad wolf. He didn't He didn't dress up as the big bad wolf. He put on granny's clothes.
So he could, he could, or you know, Little Red Riding Hood, rather, you know, so he could. you know, he could seduce and ultimately consume her. And that's what They all have in common. Peter. He doesn't take it lightly and he doesn't just uh give him a gentle Rebuke, but like.
Elijah before him and like the Lord Who discipled him, Jesus Christ? He drops the hammer on these guys in chapter 2, 1 through 11. It takes us into some deep things. It goes back into these demonic strata of different levels of demons and fallen angels. We talk about Lot will encounter.
Uh holy Noah. It will get into the judgment on these menacing dark lords. Dr. Horn, before we jump into these 11 verses, where have we come from? I mean, Peter.
Takes us into a Mount Everest in chapter one of God's just his divine power has given us all these things, and we're adding to our faith and. This revelation of God. We summarized the end, the last passage. As a holy remembrance and then a heavenly revelation. But, Dr.
Horne, Give us the setup by way of review leading into chapter two before we jump into these 11 verses as a preview. No, that's good, Stu. Let's start with. Way back at the beginning of chapter one, we meet a group of people. who have been given a salvation that is equally precious, equally valuable, equally genuine as the one Peter had.
Yeah. And so Peter is writing to people who are genuine believers. And they have been given immense promises by the God of grace. that are designed to help them navigate life. In a way that is going to make the name of Jesus famous.
So, in order to do that, they have to in they they have to build into their life The qualities that fill God. In other words, they need to be partakers of the divine nature. And we talked about that. It doesn't mean that you're little gods running around exercising authority over creation, da da da. It means that the qualities that make God God, the communicable attributes of God, his love.
His mercy, his holiness, those communicable attributes of God. That fills him need to also fill us, which is why Peter says: be diligent, with all diligence, add to your faith. And then he lists out seven qualities. that will actually make us like God in terms of these communicable attributes. And he says now if you'll do this.
then you won't be stumbling around in moral darkness. But instead, you'll be living in such a way that when your boat, your life, sails into the harbor of of eternity you're going to enter with an abundant entrance And the way that's going to happen is, I'm going to remind you consistently. A truth found in God's word. And the truth in God's word is authoritative. It didn't come by private interpretation.
So pay attention. to what the word of God has to say about Jesus. Pay attention to what God has said to you in the Old Testament, what He has confirmed to you in the New Testament. about the coming of Jesus. He came to deliver you from sin.
And he is coming to deliver you from judgment.
So, those are the two big ideas. that you find by the time you're at the end of chapter one. You have been brought into this conversation, and Peter is saying. You go to the word of God, you hang on to that word with all of your might. And the thing you want to really hang on to is the coming of Jesus.
He came to deliver you from sin. So don't go back to it. And he is coming, will come again to deliver you from the judgment that he's going to bring on the entire earth.
So, live in light of his coming.
So, those are the two big ideas. Now, in chapter two, we find out. why he's giving those particular ideas. You know, he's preparing the reader for a real and present danger that's already in their midst.
So, and that's where we go into chapter two. You know, Dr. Horn, it's interesting. That There's this mountaintop experience that is really amplified by Peter when he talks about: hey, these aren't cunningly devised fables or myths. We were eyewitnesses.
We were ear witnesses. We saw the Lord. We saw Jesus Christ peel back his humanity and we looked into his glory. We saw Moses and Elijah. We heard his voice.
We heard the voice of God. And it's fascinating that in, you know, that's in Luke 9. That Mount of Transfiguration is also in Mark 9 and then in Matthew 17. They came down from that mountain. We have it in the scripture.
And the very next thing in the gospel narrative. Jesus and those disciples encounter the other disciples who are trying their darndest to cast out this stubborn demon. And they're getting nowhere. And but Jesus Christ comes down from that mountain. And they walk right into the ugliness of the dark side, and it's interesting that.
You know, of course, that's the famous passage. This only can come out by, you know, by prayer and fasting.
Well, it's interesting that. We come down from the mountain of 2 Peter chapter 1. Right into the valley of demons and evil, and Sodom and Gomorrah, and these false teachers. Who like their you know, four bears before them. Are spreading malicious lies and deception, and they're the ultimate counterfeiters.
So that is a That just hit me as a thought, you know, that the power of being in Christ's presence, but when you have truth, prevailing and truth revealed. It doesn't take but a second for the enemy to come in and try to rain down on that and to. Counterfeit it and to lead many astray.
So, Dr. Horn, you got 11 verses. How do we break them down? I mean, Peter comes right out with this warning. He says, for this reason and such, right out of the gate.
Can you give us a structure for these 11 verses? And kind of helping our teachers, helping pastors who listen to this kind of teach this section of scripture. uh looking ahead now as we uh as we preview the coming week.
Well, so I think the first thing you do is you look at the first part of the of the chapter the first three verses And Peter comes right in, and he says to the people he's been talking to.
Now the real danger. that you're going to face is not the pressure from outside. The danger is actually in your midst. It's coming from inside the camp, inside the body of Christ. There are going to be people, just like there were in the people of God in the Old Testament.
It's interesting. In verse one, there were false prophets. Who rose up among the people. The word people there in verse one of chapter two is a reference. to Old Testament Israel, God's chosen nation.
God's chosen nation had been granted great promises. They had the promises of Abraham. They had promises that had been made to David. They had immense promises. And they had the law of God.
They had the word of God revealed to them. Moses brought the Torah of God down from the mountain. He inscripturated five books for them. The prophets. Had brought written revelation to the people: Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, the minor prophets.
And so, as you look at this Old Testament nation, they were the people of God who had been given the promises of God, and they had also possessed the word of God.
Well, that's exactly true of the New Testament believers, they are the people of God. They have promises that God has made to them, and they possess the word of God. And so Peter says, now go back to that first group. And let me remind you of what happened to them. There were false prophets who came up in their midst.
And they were very successful at deceiving that nation. They denied the master who bought them. They brought upon themselves immense destruction. And sadly, many followed them. Many people in Israel followed these false prophets.
And the big thing the false prophets were actually saying. What they were convincing and what they were deceiving the people about was simply this. When God spoke to you, he didn't mean what he said about sin. You don't need to worry about sin. God's really not that concerned about it.
And this stuff that that these sort of Uh, radical voices in your midst are talking about this judgment that is coming. You don't need to worry about the judgment, God is never going to bring the judgment.
So take, for example, in Isaiah's day when Isaiah was warning. The Israelites in Jerusalem that God was about to bring devastating judgment. on the city of Jerusalem for the sins of idolatry that had been going on for centuries. There were false prophets inside Jerusalem who were mocking Jeremiah and say that guy, every time he opens his mouth, he talks about fear and trembling. And God is never going to let the Babylonians come in here.
This is his holy city. We have his holy temple. God is never going to let pagan idolaters come in and do the things that Jeremiah is warning us about.
So don't pay attention to that radical right-ditch voice over there. And this is simply what happened in Old Testament Israel, right? And so, what happens in this section is you're warned about that reality in verses one through three. And then two things happen in the text. God says to his people through the pen of Peter, I want you to remember, I know how to judge sin.
And I've judged it three times already. If you think I'm soft on sin, if you think I don't care about your sinning, Let me remind you of the judgment I brought on angels when they sinned. Let me remind you about the judgment I brought on the entire world when their sin came up before me. And let me remind you of the judgment I brought on five cities in the Old Testament.
So, let me remind you of my commitment to judge sin when it goes on in an unrepentant form in the life of people, especially in the life of my people.
So, that's the first thing. And then, the second thing is: let me also remind you that I have the ability to deliver my people. And he's going to give two examples. He's going to talk about Noah being delivered. And he's going to talk about lot being delivered.
And then you come to the end of the section. And you find out. In verse nine, this is the text: the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials. and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment. Until the day of judgment, especially those who indulge in the lusts of defiling passions.
and despising authority. And then the rest of the chapter is going to unpack what those kinds of people are like. But in this first half, that's what's going on. He's going to talk to you about the false teachers. And what they are actually teaching, the error.
And then he's gonna tell you: I can, I judged in the past, and I will judge in the future. And I will judge now if I have to. and i also know how to deliver i know how to deliver a man named noah And I know how to deliver. Amending And so that's sort of the pathway I would use as I was looking at this text. And Dr.
Horton, one thing I've really come to appreciate about you is as a friend in conversation and in your pulpit ministry, especially, you don't ever shy away from the tough text. And some theologians would say this passage of scripture has a whole lot of tough stuff in it. Maybe hard to interpret. You know, you've got this anti-diluvian age, this pre- You know, Noahic judgment. You've got these Nephilim.
You've got these. Demagogues are these demon goggs, these giants in the earth. And you've got all this thing. It's interesting you have a reference. You know, the brush, the broad brush is swept by Peter over both.
The The immorality, which looks like you know, heterosexual either fornication or adultery. With these giants coming and getting, or these fallen angels being involved with. With the women of Earth, you have that, and then you have the homosexuality. Of Sodom and Gomorrah. also referenced, you know, in this passage in the judgment.
How can, let me ask you this: how can, as either pastors to teach this that are listening to this podcast or our Wednesday in the Word leaders, Men and women preparing to lead their groups. How can they Go through this without chasing rabbits, but also without dodging and avoiding. These tough topics that come up. And we don't want to, there's certain hills we don't want to die on, but we certainly don't want to. Sidestep or avoid any scripture because all scripture is God-breathed.
So, you know, people say, well, John 3:16, yes.
Well, what about 2 Peter chapter 2, where you get into these. These other Deeper and even potentially tricky things that we don't want to chase rabbits on.
So, how do you help us navigate through these? these uh more complexities if you would without getting stuck.
So let me go back to an even bigger issue that you raised, and that is, you know, what is my responsibility as a leader? Number one, I need to know what God has said. Number two, I need to do the best I can to live it out in my life. And then I need to, as a teacher of the word. I need to represent God accurately.
And I need to make sure. I'm not creating the impression that God isn't. What he says he is, or he isn't caring about what he says he cares about.
So I've got to address hard topics in the pulpit.
Now, I can't run week after week after week on little rabbit trails, like you were saying, but when they come up in the text, like they do here. I don't get to just be silent because it's controversial. Or because, man, if I say this, man, I'm going to have all kinds of people ticked at me. I've got to make sure when I come to a text like this, I understand two big things. And big thing number one.
is God sent his son into the world. not to condemn the world. But that the world through him might be saved. That's John 3:16 and 17.
So, what is it that the world needs to be saved from? What is it that is so devastating that God's own son had to come and die on a cross? And the answer is sin.
So, if I'm really going to represent why God sent Jesus. Into the world, not to condemn it, but to save it. I have to help people understand your sin is a big deal. It's not a minor mistake. Your immorality, your homosexuality, your lesbianism, your.
Your whatever you've decided morally to do, your transgenderism, your Your same-sex attraction, whatever is going on in your life that you've made sort of a peace with. Because God is a God of love, and we really need to be a God of love, and all of these things. Whatever you've made peace with, you need to understand when God sent his son into the world, he came to make war on that.
so that he didn't have to condemn you. In other words, God sent Jesus. To release you and redeem you from the sins. that the false teachers in chapter two are actually promoting. as acceptable behavior and even desirable behavior.
in the people of God. And that's why Peter says they are denying. The master. It's interesting. He doesn't say they're denying Jesus or they're designing the Lord or they're denying God.
They're denying the master, the one who has authority to speak. About the moral and ethical conduct of the church and of his believers, his people, there are people who are coming in and saying, you don't have to listen to that. I know God said this, but It's okay to have an idol over here. I know God said. Only worship him and stay away from the Baals and the Astaroths, but you know what?
We live in a culture where there's a lot of people. Who kind of believed that, and you know, our family kind of intermarried there, and so we do have these little statutes in our homes, and sometimes we just out of respect, you know, and so we've made a subtle peace with idols.
Well, in our day, what are the idols we've made a subtle peace with? And so Peter is going really strong at this. And then in verse two, he talks about their sensuality.
So it's not just idolatry that's going on here, it's an idolatry that results in sensuality. And we're going to find out later in the chapter what it looks like. It looks like fornication and adultery and sexual immorality.
Well, if you stop and think about it, that's rampant in our culture today. And Peter doesn't shy away from it. Right. He actually goes at it and he goes at it because With these sins. Are rampant in our life and they're open, and nobody seems to care about it.
Then the way of God is blasphemed because of those people.
So, let me give you an example. Yesterday, I was reading in my news feed about a United Methodist minister. who stood up and announced to his congregation that he is now a woman. And there was no shame in that. There was no, like, you know, I need to step away, and I just, you know, I'm not living according to the scriptures.
And I but I've decided to go this route. There was this celebration. of I now am Finally, who I am, and I'm going to announce it to everybody. And the church was supposed to celebrate that. And you're sitting here looking at the clear text of scripture.
both in the old and the new testament that prohibit that. And here is a teacher, a pastor. who's supposed to handle the word of God for that congregation. basically getting up and saying it really doesn't matter what this antiquated book has said This is actually the best way to live. And this is pleasing God.
This is what makes me happy. And I feel so. affirmed and and off we go and you're sitting there going how in the world did that happen in the United Methodist Church. And you can go down the line. That denomination split.
a year ago because of A debate among its leaders. This is not like the laymen who didn't go to Bible college, these are the pastors. Who lead that denomination, who basically have set aside the sin of homosexuality as long as it's in a committed marriage. And they're saying that's actually good. That's actually commendable.
And as a denomination, we want to advocate for that.
Well, somewhere that sensuality, that immorality, that wickedness got into that denomination. And now it is being actually proposed. and pushed by the leaders of that denomination. And we can go on and on. I mean, this is not like stuff that you have to dig around in the hidden closets of.
denominational. This is out. All you have to do is get on your browser and it's there.
So we are living in a 2 Peter 2 world. Yeah, it's interesting. The enemy comes in. Wherever there's truth, wherever there's wheat, he sows the tares among the wheat, and he does it. by attacking the authority of God's word.
Hath not God said And he does it through a simulation where he He changes God's word. He twists God's word. Satan could quote God's word prolifically. He did it in the wilderness when he tempted Jesus, but he twisted it. And he and he used it in a blasphemous way.
And that's what you mentioned that they're not a church, they're just some organization because they don't stand on the bedrock foundation of the word of God that Peter established in 2 Peter chapter 1 toward the end there, 19 through 21. In those verses, Dr. Horne. You have Two real attacks of the enemy, the two main things, I believe, he undermines the authority of God's word, or he twists it or tries to assimilate, sprinkle in some lies within it. And then the second thing is, he undermines the atonement.
He undermines the person and work of Jesus Christ. And there's that little reference, deny the despot or deny the master. which is what very you know, what you you mentioned, that word Lord is master, who bought them. There's an undermining of Christ's redemption. There's an undermining of the cross.
Where the Muslims don't even have a cross narrative. They've removed that from history. You know, they're they're they're because they know That if there is a cross, then they're sinners and they need a savior, and that Jesus is more than just a prophet. And so, but that's what all these false teachers, and that's what These pseudo False prophets all across the church are doing, attacking the word of God, attacking his authority. which which means we need to be ever more diligent.
To stir up that holy remembrance like Peter does in our text last week, you know, at the end of 2 Peter chapter 2. One, where he says, I want to stir this remembrance. Peter says, I'm going to be deceased. I'm going to be gone. I'm going to, this tent, I'm putting it off, man.
I'm going to be face to face with the Lord of glory, who I was face to face with on the Mount of Glory earlier on. He says, but I've got to stir up a holy remembrance, so you guys are locked in. and your feet are upon the rock. And, you know, these condemnations, and listen, hell will be hotter for those. that pull people into hell.
and that use spiritual Accolades, anecdotes, and spiritual underpinnings to do so. Hell will be hotter for these false prophets. Jesus was harder on them than any other sort. And so were Peter, so were Paul, Titus, Jude, excoriate them. Dr.
Horn, Matthew 18, you're better off to have a millstone tied around your neck, Jesus says, than to leave these little ones and these. These wolves in sheep's clothing that are standing at the broad gate saying, Come in this way, it's easy, broad is the way. That leads to destruction. Come on in here. There is a damnation.
There's a damnable, these are damnable heresies, and there's a damnation. awaiting them in hell. that is is it's sobering. I mean, this should break our heart. This shouldn't put us on a high horse saying, oh, we're better than you.
We got the truth. You don't. You're a bunch of liars. And or even to mock them In their different ways, but rather it should break our heart and it should cause us, shouldn't it cause us to plead for them to repent? And to and to be sure that we absolutely preach the truth, recommending a remembering.
1 Corinthians 6, where Paul, when he lists all the horrible sins of homosexuality, immorality, adultery, murder, all these things, he said, such Or some of you. Correct. You were, but you were bought, you were purchased.
So we got to remember. We all have a propensity or a potential in our sin to go awry, were it not for the grace of Almighty God.
Well, comment on that and then take us out with a good prayer, brother. This is so good. I think that's important because we're going to find out later that. that they're false teachers who are sort of teaching that. But then there are believers who are being swept up in that.
And they're being swept up, and the river that is sweeping them up is carrying them right back into some of those same sins out of which they were purchased. And that's another, that's what we're going to get to when we get into the second half of the chapter. But let me just say this: they deny the Lord of truth, right?
So you talked about denying the atonement, but they also deny the way of truth, the life of truth. And that's why it is so powerful in this text when God says, Let me remind you of these three groups. I mean think about the fallen angels it doesn't matter How how powerful? and how high they were, what their rank. and what their position was.
God says it doesn't matter. Who you think you are, I judge the angels that were in my presence when they rebelled. Think about the world in Noah's Day. It doesn't matter how many were doing this, the whole world. Was engaged in this.
And so, you know, surely God's not going to judge everybody. Look at how pervasive this is. This many people can't be wrong. And God says to Peter, you make sure you tell them that it doesn't matter how widespread or how popular or how pervasive this is, I judge the world in Noah's day. And then he talks about the fact.
That he said, I turned over. I overturned Sodom and Gomorrah. for their regular repeated and rampant disregard of my truth. When I talk to them about marriage, and when I talk to them about morality, and when I talk to them about my plan for human sexuality, and when they overturn that. and they just lived repeated, rampant, immoral lives.
I overturned them. That's sort of the play on words. And that's exactly what's going on in our day. You mentioned you started off with these people. Like, what do these people have in common?
Well, all of them would have nice things to say about Jesus. Right, the guy in the airport. uh would actually have a nice thing to say about jesus The two guys at your door who come holding a Bible, talking to you about would you like to have a Bible study on how to have a better family or how to be, you know, how to have more family unity or et cetera, they're going to have nice things to say about Jesus. The Muslims are going to have nice things to say about Jesus. But when you put your finger On the fact that Jesus wasn't just a good teacher or a moral example or a prophet, he was actually the second member of the Trinity, the Son of the living God.
That's when every one of those people that you mentioned are going to stand up and say no. And they're going to use a bunch of words. carefully crafted to try to push you off that position. They don't care if you love Jesus. They don't care if you like Jesus.
They don't care if you think he's a great prophet. Who's got a lot of good things to say and some great teaching about, you know, loving your neighbor as yourself and was a good moral example. But the minute, You recognize or they recognize that you believe that he's the son of God who came to deliver people from sin and error. And they need to repent. and come and embrace him as the second member of the Trinity, as the Lord of heaven, and as the Lord of their life, you will actually have a battle on your hands with those nice people that you meet at the airport or who show up at your door.
Because that is the error. that they are pushing. Or when you find religious teachers who believe it's okay for two men to be married. Or for two women to be married, or for somebody to have a same-sex relationship. Uh, that is sort of blessed by the legalities of marriage, and you start saying that's an abomination to God, the minute you start talking that way, they will bring all of their verbal guns against you.
That's exactly what is being warned about here. And so that's why Peter says: remember Noah. Noah for 120 years as he built the ark? Stood and testified to the righteousness of God. He preached, Peter says, righteousness.
to that generation. for 120 years. And at the end of all of that time, who was the one that was delivered and who were the people who were judged? And we know the answer to that. Here is a lot.
And he lives in the midst of all of that. Moral filth. And the text says here, he tortured, he distressed his soul. He put it under distress by living in the midst of all of this. immorality And yet, God delivered him on the strength of Abraham's prayers.
And I really think that's the picture of the church. We have people in the church. who are like Noah and they are just in their small corner. like you're doing and I'm doing and many hundreds and thousands of others were just standing up and saying, Jesus is who he said he is. He is the Lord of heaven.
He is the Lord of earth. He is the Lord of our lives. And he had things to say about marriage, and we're going to obey that. He had things to say about human sexuality, and we're going to abide by that. We're going to live.
And when we don't, we're going to repent. And so you have those people and then you have lots who pretty much live in the midst of all of it and lose their family in the process. And they've exposed their souls to so much damage, but somebody has been praying for them.
Somebody has been reaching out to them and there's an Uncle Abraham in their life somewhere. who's been praying. There's a mom. who is who goes to bed every night and before she falls asleep she prays for her son who's living in the midst of all of this iniquity and doesn't seem to be that concerned about it. Or there's a dad who is praying.
There's an aunt. There's a grandmother. There's a pastor. There's a youth pastor. And God knows how to hear those prayers and answer them.
So, one application that I think we can make out of this passage is: who are the Abrahams? in the world. We know who the Noahs are because they're standing up and talking. We know who the lots are because we can see them. We're related to them.
But who are the Abrahams? who are coming to God and saying, God, spare. Spare, spare, you know, Noah is praying for the world of his day. And there are Abrahams praying for the lots in their life. And God knows how to deliver Lot.
That was a painful deliverance. But it was a deliverance. And we read something in this text: Lot had a soul that had been made righteous.
So Lot was a genuine follower of God. But he was a follower of God who got swept away in the air and God delivered him. And that's what we need to pray as we lead these Bible studies, as we read this text. that God would raise up Noah's. And that God would rescue lots.
And that's what I want to pray as we end today. Lord, I thank you for the text before us. And Lord, we have dealt with it. uh on a high level over a short period of time there's so much here But Lord, we do know there are false teachers. who deny you and who deny the way of truth.
And there are Noah's. who you are raising up. to speak truth. to that world. And so, Lord, help us to put tools into their hands and truth into their heart and courage into their bones.
so that when they speak and They are ridiculed and mocked as Noah was, that they would stand and that one day you would vindicate them. And then, Lord, we also know that there are lots, there are people, there are believers. who have been genuinely saved, who've been swept away. with all of these words that have been uttered about how it's okay to be in a homosexual marriage and how it's okay to have a homosexual pastor and all of these other errors that are being foisted on them and they don't know what to do and they're in the midst of all of that. And Lord, there's a grandmother praying.
There's a pastor praying. There's a youth pastor praying. There's an uncle praying. There's an uncle Abraham somewhere praying for them. Lord, you know how to deliver them.
And rescue them, and we pray that you will. Thank you, Dr. Horace. In Jesus' name, thank you for joining us for this Wednesday in the Word podcast. Learn more at wedintheword.com.
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