Study questions

Life-Study of 2 Peter

1. The Divine Provision (1)

  1. What does it mean for faith to be our "allotted" portion in 2 Peter 1:1?
  2. Why does 2 Peter 1:1 say that the righteousness is of both "our God and Savior"? How is the righteousness of the law different from the righteousness of Christ in your experience?

2. The Divine Provision (2)

  1. Using the illustration of the camera with a scenery, explain how faith is the substantiation of the substance of the truth.
  2. What is the divine power in 2 Peter 1:3 and how does it grant "to us all things which relate to life and godliness"?

3. The Divine Provision (3)

  1. What is the faith that God has allotted to us? How is it equal to the New Testament inheritance?
  2. By what way can we enjoy the divine nature?

4. The Divine Provision (4)

  1. How may we experience the multiplication of grace?
  2. What is this divine that has granted us all things that relate to life and godliness? How is the power in 2 Peter 1:3 related to Ephesians 1:19-23?

5. The Divine Provision (5)

  1. What word in 1:3 indicates that the gaining of full knowledge of HIm is a process? What is best way to enjoy the divine “scenery” of this process?
  2. Use 1:4 to counteract the common belief that we are called to heaven; if not heaven, to what? How can we ever acheive that goal?

6. The Divine Provision (6)

  1. Using the word “constitute” from 1:8, explain the difference between developing our Christian virtues and growing the divine seed.
  2. What is the kingdom in 1:11 and how should we behave according to the previous verses to enter into it?

7. The Divine Provision (7)

  1. Why is it necessary to have a full knowledge of the processed God to experience the development described in 2 Peter 1:5-7?
  2. What does it mean to love the saints with a noble, agape love?

8. The Divine Provision (8)

  1. How did Peter use the shining of the divine truth to inoculate against the heresy in the apostasy?
  2. What is the function and source of the prophetic word in 2 Peter 1:19?

9. The Divine Government (1)

  1. What was the evil work of the false teachers at Peter's time? Include a definition of heresy in your answer.)
  2. What is the way of the truth and how will God deal with the false teachers who revile this truth?

10. The Divine Government (2)

  1. What is the straight way and the way of righteousness?
  2. Why is there the need for us to fight for the deeper truths?

11. The Divine Government (3)

  1. What are the heretical mockers mocking in the last days? What caused them to mock in this way?
  2. According to 2 Peter 3, why does the Lord “delay”? What is the Lord’s heart set on?

12. The Divine Government (4)

  1. Why does Peter say "the day of the Lord will come as a thief" in 2 Peter 3:10? What is the significance of the Greek word for "coming" in 2 Peter 3:4?
  2. Using this message, the scriptures, and the diagram on page 111, when is the Lord's coming?

13. The Divine Government (5)

  1. In 3:16 Peter equates his ministry and the writings of Paul, both about "these things." Using this message (and footnote 2), pick your top two verses in 1 and 2 Peter for "these things" for each of its four perspectives on God's economy, and practice speaking that point of view.
  2. Using the closing charge of these two books in 3:18, expound on the nature and way to live righteously under God's government.
  1. What does it mean for faith to be our "allotted" portion in 2 Peter 1:1?
  2. Why does 2 Peter 1:1 say that the righteousness is of both "our God and Savior"? How is the righteousness of the law different from the righteousness of Christ in your experience?
  1. Using the illustration of the camera with a scenery, explain how faith is the substantiation of the substance of the truth.
  2. What is the divine power in 2 Peter 1:3 and how does it grant "to us all things which relate to life and godliness"?
  1. What is the faith that God has allotted to us? How is it equal to the New Testament inheritance?
  2. By what way can we enjoy the divine nature?
  1. How may we experience the multiplication of grace?
  2. What is this divine that has granted us all things that relate to life and godliness? How is the power in 2 Peter 1:3 related to Ephesians 1:19-23?
  1. What word in 1:3 indicates that the gaining of full knowledge of HIm is a process? What is best way to enjoy the divine “scenery” of this process?
  2. Use 1:4 to counteract the common belief that we are called to heaven; if not heaven, to what? How can we ever acheive that goal?
  1. Using the word “constitute” from 1:8, explain the difference between developing our Christian virtues and growing the divine seed.
  2. What is the kingdom in 1:11 and how should we behave according to the previous verses to enter into it?
  1. Why is it necessary to have a full knowledge of the processed God to experience the development described in 2 Peter 1:5-7?
  2. What does it mean to love the saints with a noble, agape love?
  1. How did Peter use the shining of the divine truth to inoculate against the heresy in the apostasy?
  2. What is the function and source of the prophetic word in 2 Peter 1:19?
  1. What was the evil work of the false teachers at Peter's time? Include a definition of heresy in your answer.)
  2. What is the way of the truth and how will God deal with the false teachers who revile this truth?
  1. What is the straight way and the way of righteousness?
  2. Why is there the need for us to fight for the deeper truths?
  1. What are the heretical mockers mocking in the last days? What caused them to mock in this way?
  2. According to 2 Peter 3, why does the Lord “delay”? What is the Lord’s heart set on?
  1. Why does Peter say "the day of the Lord will come as a thief" in 2 Peter 3:10? What is the significance of the Greek word for "coming" in 2 Peter 3:4?
  2. Using this message, the scriptures, and the diagram on page 111, when is the Lord's coming?
  1. In 3:16 Peter equates his ministry and the writings of Paul, both about "these things." Using this message (and footnote 2), pick your top two verses in 1 and 2 Peter for "these things" for each of its four perspectives on God's economy, and practice speaking that point of view.
  2. Using the closing charge of these two books in 3:18, expound on the nature and way to live righteously under God's government.