Characteristics of Rebellion
Rebellion is more than a decision. It’s a spiritual condition. In the second part of this sermon, Dr. Rocky Ramsey teaches the next set of traits Peter lists, exposing the deep moral and spiritual consequences of living apart from God’s authority.
The rebellious are judged, unashamed, sensual, seductive, greedy, and disobedient. They walk in darkness, the realm Satan rules. In contrast, God’s children walk in light because light is God’s very nature, His domain, and our destiny in Him.
Are you walking toward the light or drifting into the shadows? Repentance means stepping out of darkness and into the transforming light of Christ.
“...and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.
But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you, having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children; forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.”