Notes + Questions: True or False

CG Questions:

1. If you have not done so or not in a few years, share your Jesus story with the CG.
2. Share some evidence of God’s grace in your life throughout the years. How does that make you think about God and His faithfulness?
3. How can you grow in remembrance and gratitude?

I. Remember!

***How are you doing remembering?***

• Do you remember the way God saved you?
• Do you remember the grace of God to you?
• Do you remember the favor God has given you?
• Do you remember the sins God has forgiven you?
• Do you ever ponder where you would be if not for God’s grace?

***v.12 Therefore I intend always to remind you…***

a. Peter reminds them: 2 Peter 1:12-15
b. Paul reminds them: Philippians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 2 Timothy 2:8,14
c. Jude and John remind them: Jude 5; 1 John 2:21
d. Israel was to remember: Sabbath - Deuteronomy 5:15; Festivals - Deuteronomy 16:3


II. God’s Trustworthy Promises:

Eyewitnesses…

Two Witnesses:
1. New Testament Apostles - v. 17-18
2. Old Testament Prophets - v.19-21

**Promises made - Promises kept: **

• Jesus would be born of a virgin - Isaiah 7:14
• Jesus would be born in Bethlehem - Micah 5:2
• Jesus would live a sinless life - Isaiah 53:9
• Jesus family would flee to Egypt - Hosea 11:1
• Jesus would enter the temple - Malachi 3:1
• Jesus would do miracles - Isaiah 35:5-6
• Jesus would enter Jerusalem on a donkey - Zechariah 9:9
• Jesus would be betrayed by a friend - Psalm 41;9
• For 30 pieces of silver - Zechariah 11:12-13
• Jesus would be tortured - Isaiah 50:6
• Jesus clothing would be gambled for - Psalm 22:18
• Jesus would die with sinners - Isaiah 53:12
• Jesus would be laid in a rich man’s tomb - Isaiah 53:9
• Jesus would rise from the grave - Psalm 16:10


—> Everything God has promised about the first coming of Jesus has happened exactly as promised; therefore, everything that has promised regarding the second coming will happen exactly as promised!


III. Beware of False Teachers:
(more on this in the coming 2 weeks)

5 Marks of False Teachers:
2 Peter 2:1-3

• Unorthodox Teaching
• Questionable Morality
• Great Popularity
• Hinderance to Evangelism
• Suspect Motives

But, God is not mocked - their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.