Gracepoint Devotions

Submitted by Pastor Jonathan Lee, Gracepoint Davis 2 Peter 3:4-5 In this passage, scoffers are saying that the day of Christ’s coming to judge will not happen at all because they haven’t seen it yet.  But they are foolishly coming to this conclusion based on their narrow, limited, and personally biased perspective.  Just because one [...]

v.1 “‘Dear friends’ (lit., ‘beloved’) is repeated in vv. 8, 14, and 17 in this chapter (see also 1Pe 2:11; 4:1). ‘This is now my second letter to you.’ Does this refer to 1 Peter? Most commentators say yes. But this is not certain because (1) it has not been established that the recipients of [...]

v.1 v. 1 asserts that Christ ‘bought’ the false teachers, but this does not necessarily mean that they were saved. Salvation in the NT sense does not occur until the benefits of Christ’s work are applied to the individual by the regeneration of the Spirit and belief in the truth. In other words, Christ crucified [...]

Submitted by David Tung, Gracepoint Berkeley One thing that is really amazing is that, through his divine power, God has given us everything that we need for life and godliness and that we are able to participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.  He has really [...]

?v.1 “Peter’s right to speak authoritatively to these Christians is emphasized even more clearly in the second title, “apostle.” This word (Greek apostolos) can mean simply “messenger” and is so used occasionally in the New Testament (e.g., 2 Cor. 8:23; Phil. 2:25). But the word more often has a technical sense, denoting those men chosen [...]