Are Scoffers Willingly Ignorant?

© 2018 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

We live in a society that rejects God and scoffs at His righteous requirements.  Though wicked people may even have “religious” views of one sort or another, the Psalmist summarizes their thoughts as follows:

“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” (Psalms  10:4)

The apostle Peter prophesied that in the last days Scoffers would come.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:” (2 Peter 3:3‑6).

Brothers and sisters in Christ:  The scoffers are here in force!  At first we may feel discouraged that we face such a formidable foe.  When we preach Christ, scoffers accuse us of preaching a fairy tale of “pie in the sky by and by.”  When we speak of Christ’s return to take His saved people to Himself, they scoff some more.  As in the Scripture, above, they challenge us with questions like “where is the promise of His coming?”  However, notice in this Scripture that the wicked were destroyed.  God’s people were protected.

The real news is that God the Son, our crucified and risen Savior, is powerful and can change even scoffers.  The Apostle Paul wrote to such previous scoffers.

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9‑11)

Christians:  This year rescue perishing scoffers with this message:

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” (Acts 16:31)

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