Harbor Church West O‘ahu

know what's what's most troubling about them is verses 20 through 22. It says they have some knowledge. They have knowledge of Jesus. They know that he is lord, that he's the sovereign, that he's the one who deserves their submission, that he deserves to be their master. And they know they know that he is savior in Christ, that Jesus is the promised messiah, the one who would deliver his people from their sins. Peter says that they even escaped the world's impurity, and yet as demonstrated by their actions, they refused to submit to him. These false teachers in many ways look like believers. They look like believers, but in reality, they're not. While they have knowledge, they don't have the obedience of faith. And the most shocking thing, like I mentioned earlier, is this. It would have been better for them to have never known the way of righteousness than to turn back from it.