The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
2 Peter 2:9
I don’t suppose you wake up each morning thinking about Noah, but maybe you should. After all, if you have a chronic problem with looking at pornography and masturbating, you do well to remember some lessons from the time of The Flood.
The first lesson is that Noah lived among a generation that Peter in his letter calls “ungodly” (2 Peter 2:5). As far as God was concerned, “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). And yet Noah, living among such wicked people and faced with all manner of temptations, found grace in the sight of the Lord.
Another lesson from Noah’s life is that God punished the wicked but delivered Noah and his immediate family. God brought a catastrophic flood upon the earth that killed the wicked, but He delivered Noah with an ark that God ordered him to build. God gave Noah the blueprint, Noah built the boat, and the boat saved Noah and his family when the water arrived.
Another thing you and I should learn from the life of Noah is that, “The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.” God knew how to deliver Noah and his family out of temptations, and God knew how to punish the ungodly in that day of judgment. The same holds true for you and me today. God knows how to deliver us out of our temptations, sexual and otherwise. And He knows how to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. That is, God knows how to reserve the unrepentant viewer of pornography under punishment for the day of judgment. God knows how to reserve the habitual sexual sinner, the man who refuses to forsake his sin, under punishment for the day of judgment.
Peter’s point, the one that he makes in this second letter of his, is that, because God knew how to deliver Noah, He also knows how to deliver you. He knew how to punish the wicked in Noah’s day, so He knows how to do the same with the unrepentant in our day as well. God hasn’t given you blueprints for building an ark, but He has given you all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).
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