Chris R. Quinlan

I feel the need to write a little something about the subject of getting drunk. I was probably seventeen the first time I got drunk. I drank three or four beers at a friends house. It was quite a memorable experience. I'm not going to describe the experience, mainly because I don't want to glorify the act. I went on to get drunk many more times in high school and college. I never really thought it was a big deal. Is it a big deal? When I first began to drink, I was spiritually confused. I honestly thought that I was a Christian because I attended church and had Christian parents. It wasn't until 1997, at age 27, that I surrendered my life to Christ and was spiritually reborn. That's when I became a Christian! Every true Christian has been born again. And if you've been born again, You KNOW IT! I could go on here to list about fifty bible verses that deal with the subject of getti...

2 Peter 2:17-22 17 These people are as useless as dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. They are doomed to blackest darkness. 18 They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception. 19 They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. 20 And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. 21 It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. 22 They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.” We definitely get the point that Peter does not have much good to say about t...

2 Peter 2:12-16 NLT 12 These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They scoff at things they do not understand, and like animals, they will be destroyed. 13 Their destruction is their reward for the harm they have done. They love to indulge in evil pleasures in broad daylight. They are a disgrace and a stain among you. They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals. 14 They commit adultery with their eyes, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lure unstable people into sin, and they are well trained in greed. They live under God’s curse. 15 They have wandered off the right road and followed the footsteps of Balaam son of Beor, who loved to earn money by doing wrong. 16 But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice. If you think the last post was harsh, Peter has only begun. Todays passage is a bit long, but it is still only about half o...

2 Peter 2:10-11 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. This verse is a continuation of the verse in the previous post. It is the second part of a very long run-on sentence that describes the qualities and behaviors of the false teachers that were on the scene in Peter's day. This article is entitled Part 1 because this where he begins to describe the false teachers. This section of scripture is not full of warm fuzzy feel-good bible quotes. Peter is just as concerned about exposing false teachers as he is comforting Christians suffering persecution. It is an extremely important subject, being mentioned in at least ten books of the bible. We should be equally concerned about this subject because there are just as many false teachers today ...

2 Peter 2:7-9 7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men 8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, Here's a quick paraphrase: "If God rescued Lot, who grieved in his heart for the unrighteousness that he saw all around him, then God will rescue the godly from their trials, and will keep His promise to punish the unrighteous at the time of judgment." It's been awhile since my last post, so we need to remember that the context here is false teachers. After we deal with that, we can then see if we can make application for ourselves regarding these verses. Remember the story of Sodom and Gomorrah? God dispatched two human-form angels to destroy these and the surrounding cities. Why? In Genes...