God Can Rescue You

4For 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; 5And 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; 6And 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; 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: -2 Peter 2:4-9 (KJV)

Do you sometimes feel like you are the only Christian around? Do you feel totally surrounded by people who don't care about God and live life their way? If so, you're not alone. In 2 Peter 2, Peter is warning his readers about false teachers who will be around them. He is warning them about their false teachings, how they are really only looking for themselves. I want to focus our reading on verses 4-9 because Peter provides for us examples of those who are God's own who were surrounded by those who don't know (or care about) God, and how God provided for them.

He starts out with Noah. We all know the story of Noah and the ark. Verse 5 says, "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;" The world was corrupt during the time of Noah. I am certain that as Noah was building the ark, he took ridicule and scorning. Yet, among the heathens that he lived with, God saved Noah and his family.

Look at verse 6-8, "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; 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)" Sodom and Gomorrah were cities filled with evil and wickedness. Lot was found righteous. God rescued Him.

Verse  says, "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" God knows how to rescue you as well. God knows His own. If God would come down and destroy your town, would you be rescued and delivered, or would you be punished? Next time you feel crushed by evil surrounding you, take heart. God was with Noah when He rescued him and his family. God was with Lot when he rescued him before destroying the city. God will rescue you as well. Think About It.