The Servants of Corruption 2 Pet. 2:19 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO
Today, we find people touting all kinds of liberties both in society and in church. These are basically liberties to sin. The people flaunting their liberty to commit these sins want you to think that they are free to do whatever they want. What they don’t know and what you need to know is that they are not free. They are the servants of corruption.
The servants of corruption are:
Living in error – 2 Pet 2:18. They think they are right but they are wrong. This is the error of the wicked, 2 Pet 3:17. And they are misled by a spirit of error, 1 Jn 4:6. They are the ones who call good evil and evil good, Is 5:20. But they are wrong. As in the time of the Judges, “every man did that which was right in his own eyes”, Jud 17:6.
Overcome by their lusts – 2 Pet 2:19. We who are saved and living for the Lord have lusts in us but we are not overcome by them. By the presence of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the grace of God in us we overcome these lusts, 1 Jn 4:4, 5:4. We must be temperate and keep the body in subjection, 1 Cor 9:25-27. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. The servants of corruption have nothing in them to control their lusts and so they give in and are overcome by them.
In bondage to sin – 2 Pet 2:19. A chain has been slipped over their ankles. A snare has them captive, 2 Tim 2:26. And they don’t even realize it, Jn 8:32-36. Jesus is the only one who can release them and they don’t want anything to do with Jesus, 2 Pet 2:20; Rom 1:28. Consequently, the servants are in bondage to sin.
Entangled in the pollutions of the world – 2 Pet 2:20. The best the world can produce is polluted compared to the purity and holiness of the Lord. In the Old Testament, the priests couldn’t even offer on an altar whose stones had been cut by men for it would be polluted, Ex 20:25. People who live in polluted areas just get used to the pollution. If you ever get away from the pollution for a while to enjoy fresh air, you can really tell how polluted your city is when you return. The trouble with the servants of corruption is that they can’t get away from it; they are entangled.
Turned away from the holy commandment – 2 Pet 2:21. Showing them what the Bible says about their sin isn’t going to turn them until they turn toward the Holy Bible, read the commandments for themselves and believe them. If they would ever believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Pet 2:20, they would be saved and made free, Jn 8:36.
Wallowing in the mire – 2 Pet 2:22. Pigs are much happier in the mud than they are on the clean, dry ground. Likewise, the servants of corruption like the filth, the vomit, 2 Pet 2:22, of their defiled lives. We who are saved can’t stand the filth in which they live.
Conclusion: the servants of corruption will reap corruption, Gal 6:8, and an eternity in the lake of fire if they do not repent and free themselves from the bondage of their sins, Prov 5:22-23.