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2 Peter chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Second Peter chapter 3. Let us pray.
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  Our Father, our King, our Lord and our boss, our everything.
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  Father, we love you. We love you with every ounce of
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  our being. We love you, Father, so much.
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  Speak to us today. Speak to us loudly and boldly
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  and mightily. Speak to us in that still small
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  voice. God, stir within us something
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  that has never been realized in our lives.
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  God, let us see you correctly and rightly.
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  God, we want to see you in all of your glory.
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  Let the train of your robe fill this temple.
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  God, as we look upon you, Lord, I pray that we will see you in
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  all of your fullness, see you in your glory, and we honor you.
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  King Jesus, you are our everything.
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  You are our very being. You're the breath in our lungs.
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  You are closer than the skin on our body.
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  You are greater than anything that we have ever even thought
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  about. You're greater than our
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  intellect. You're greater than our finite
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  minds. You're greater than any thing
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  that we have ever placed our eyes or mind upon.
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  So we fix our entire self upon You.
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  We fix our entire being upon you, God.
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  We want to know you. We want to be known by You.
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  We want to serve You. We want to go out and do the
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  things that you have called us to.
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  We want, Father, to please You. We want you, God, more than we
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  want another day, more than we want our very life, more than we
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  want pleasures, more than we want anything that this world
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  has to offer. God, seek us, search us.
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  God, purge us from anything that is not of you and from you, God.
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  I pray that our entire lives will be lived towards you.
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  God yielded towards you, pulsating towards the light.
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  God, I pray that we can walk in the light.
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  I pray that we can have the fellowship with you.
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  I pray God that you'll be near to us.
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  I pray that we will be one with you.
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  God, I pray that you'll help us to abide.
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  Help us to love our neighbors, Lord as ourselves.
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  God, I pray that you'll supernaturally fill us today.
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  Cleanse this temple, Father. Pull out any dross and
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  impurities. Pull out any cancer, God.
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  Pull out any disease, God. I pray that you'll pull out any
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  sin. Lord, I pray that we will not be
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  those who say one thing and do another.
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  God, I pray against hypocrisy and duplicity.
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  Lord, I pray that we will be authentic.
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  Father, I pray that we'll genuinely love you and love
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  people. God, I pray that we'll not be
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  those who are in it for money or power.
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  God, I pray that we will not be those who are teaching false
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  this. Lord, give us sound doctrine,
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  sound theology. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you'll help us. Lord, help us to be those
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  difference makers. Help us to be those peacemakers.
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  Help us to be the ministers of reconciliation.
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  God, help us to be light in this Dark World, to be salt in this
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  bland world. For you are worthy to be praised
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  and honored and glorified in the highest.
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  God, I pray that our prayers will be incensed unto your holy
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  nostrils. God, stir us up with zeal today
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  for your house consume us. God, eat us up with your
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  holiness, Father, for we are yours and we are your lay down
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  lovers and we serve you, King Jesus, and we love you.
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  God Almighty Holy Spirit, fill us today.
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  Maranatha, come, come, Lord, come.
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  The Spirit and the bride says, come, we worship you in spirit
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  and truth. I decrease as you increase.
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  King Jesus, it's all about you, the same yesterday, today, and
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  forever. You are holy, you are worthy,
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  you are honorable, and it's in your holy and precious name that
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  I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. This second epistle, beloved, I
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  now write unto you in both, which I stir up your pure minds
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  by way of remembrance. So Peter here wants to stir us
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  up into remembrance of what Jesus Christ has said to him and
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  what he wants us to know. These are God's words breathed
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  upon these pages, alive and active, and they're reading you
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  as you try to read them, friends.
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  And he wants to stir us up to this purity of minds and then
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  put us in remembrance of what is to come.
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  We have come to a holy mount today.
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  We have come to some eschatology, these prophecies
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  that have yet to come into fruition, but they were written
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  for us, for us to know what we should expect and be looking for
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  friends. These are not just words on a
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  page to feel good, to help us get through this life.
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  These are God's words and He wants us to know that they are
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  reliable and trustworthy and true.
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  And just as if all the other prophecies that came true in
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  Jesus day and that we're fulfilled, the prophecies that
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  we're about to read of will come true and be fulfilled to the
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  exact degree to the last letter. These words are for us to know
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  what will not might, but what will happen in the last days.
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  And it has been the last days since Jesus Christ left this
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  earth. So how much more is it the last
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  days today, verse 2 that you might that you may be mindful of
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  the words which were spoken before the holy prophets and of
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  the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior.
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  So the Old Testament and the New Testament confirm each other.
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  They are not at odds with each other.
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  You need to know that from Genesis to Malachi everything
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  pointed to Jesus Christ and then from Acts all the way to
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  Revelation everything points back to Jesus Christ.
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  The Gospels are the hinge point of the entire Bible and all of
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  it confirms each other. There is a scarlet thread that
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  is interwoven from Genesis to Revelation, and His name is
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  Jesus Christ. And Peter actually got to see
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  him and meet Him and be with Him, and walk with Him and dine
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  with Him, and Sup with Him in the flesh.
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  And one day we will too, if we continue on in the faith.
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  Verse 3. Knowing this first, that there
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  shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own
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  lusts. He gives us why these scoffers
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  are here and why they exist. The scoffers exist because they
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  have chosen the lusts of this earth.
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  They're not really waiting. They're not really eager.
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  They don't really want Jesus Christ to return because they
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  love this world. They love the lust of this
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  world. They love the mammon, they love
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  the pleasure and the pleasantries.
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  They love the things of this world, friends, and they're not
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  eager for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  They don't look up and see their redemption drawing near, even
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  though it is they refuse to see it.
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  They think that it just goes on and on and on as it always has,
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  because deep down they don't really look forward to His
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  coming for and saying where is the promise of his coming for?
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  Since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
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  from the beginning of the creation.
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  So this is the error, friends. They think that things just keep
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  on going as they always have. They don't actually live in
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  light of eternity. They're not actually thinking
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  that today could be the day that He returns.
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  They don't think that this is the generation that could see
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  the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  They don't live on purpose. They don't live meaningful
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  lives. They're floating and drifting
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  through life. They're making it all about the
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  things that it's not. They are making it about
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  retirement, 4O1K. They're making it about their
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  bank account, their multiple houses.
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  They're making it about all of the events and all of the
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  festivals. They're making it about the
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  things that Jesus told us not to.
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  If we truly believed that today could be the day that He comes
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  back, how would we live our lives?
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  What would we say? Who would we call and make
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  things right with? Who would we tell about the Lord
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  Jesus Christ and what He's done in our lives?
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  And whatever the answers to those things are, that's how we
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  live our lives for the rest of our lives.
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  For however many days you have left on this earth. 5 For this
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  they willingly are ignorant of that.
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  By the word of God, the heavens were of old, and the earth
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  standing out of the water and in the water.
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  So you need to understand what he's saying here.
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  In Noah's day it had never rained on this earth, and only
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  the springs had come up out of the earth to water the
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  vegetation. And here Noah had to step out in
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  faith and there were many scoffers and mockers and those
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  who took light of it all and thought that Noah was a madman.
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  And there will be many who say the same about a blood bought
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  born again believer who loves Jesus Christ more than they love
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  their own life. And here he's saying that we
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  should not air as they did in the days before Noah. 6 Where?
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  By the world that then was being overflowed with water perished.
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  That's what happened, friends, when Noah, his three sons and
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  their wives all got into the ark and the animals came in pairs
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  and God shut the door, it started to rain.
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  And for 40 days and for 40 nights, the entire globe was
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  deluged in water and drowned, Every single person and all the
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  animals that were not on that ark.
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  But the ark floated, this massive box floated.
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  No rudder, no sail, only God holding it up above the waters
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  as all the world was drowned. Friends 7 But the heavens and
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  the earth, which are now by the same word, are kept in store,
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  reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition of
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  ungodly men. So there's coming a second
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  judgment upon the earth, this judgment of fire, this
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  destruction by fire. And perhaps this is volcanic
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  eruptions. Perhaps this is atomic bombs.
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  Perhaps this is fire and brimstone.
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  Perhaps this is however God designs it for the entire globe,
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  every square inch of the entire world, to be purged and
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  purified. And if you study the magma after
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  a volcanic eruption, it is the most fertile soil on planet
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  earth and life springs up from it.
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  We need to know that Jesus said the heaven and earth shall pass
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  away, but not one of his words. And behold, he makes all things
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  new. All of the toxic sludge, all of
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  the pollution, the ozone layer in it, all that we are fighting,
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  this Green Deal that we all are striving towards, only God can
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  bring about and perform. He told us multiple places in
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  His Word that the earth will wear out like a piece of
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  clothing, friends. And it is.
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  And He will renew it and He will bring it back brand new.
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  A new heaven and a new earth. Friends 8 But beloved, be not
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  ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord. 1000
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  years and 1000 years is 1 day. So time is irrelevant to God.
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  He lives outside of time. He created time for us to live
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  within friends, but He himself is not bound by time.
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  And this is the one aspect that we struggle with the most when
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  it comes to understanding God and when it comes to
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  understanding His plans is everything in our lives is based
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  off of time. We want to know the beginning,
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  we want to know the end, we want to know all of what is contained
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  in the middle, and we don't understand how God is outside of
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  time. He is the Alpha, He is the
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  Omega. He is the beginning, He is the
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  end, He is all of it, all wrapped up into Himself.
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  He is the starting point and the ending point.
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  He is eternal and we are not. We can be immortal, but we do
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  not understand the eternal aspect of God.
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  And here we're going to find out why God seems to be slow and
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  slack it His second coming. But what if He would have came
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  before you ever gave your life to Him?
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  What a tragedy that would have been.
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  But beloved, verse 9, the Lord is not slack concerning His
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  promise, as some men count slackness, but his
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  long-suffering to us were not willing that any should perish,
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  but that all should come to repentance.
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  He's giving us more time to repent, to make it right to come
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  to Him to be saved. Friends, He doesn't want you to
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  be eternally separated from Him, and that is why he's dragging
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  his feet. And it's been the end time, it's
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  been the last days since Jesus ascended to the right hand of
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  God. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
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  night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with the great
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  noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the
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  earth also, and the works that are in it shall be burned up.
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  So you need to understand there is a second destruction that is
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  reserved for fire, and the fire is going to purge and purify all
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  of the impurities of this globe. And we ourselves, the righteous,
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  will be judged at the Bema seat, where we will suffer loss for
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  anything that we did that was for self or for vanity.
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  But we press towards receiving rewards from him that are
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  imperishable. The crown of life.
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  Friends 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
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  what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation
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  and godliness, if you think about it all, And what is the
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  meaning to it all? If you think about what's the
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  end of it all? How different should our lives
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  look than what they do? When we're making it all about
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  self and about a career, we're making it about building our own
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  Kingdom on this earth, and we want a nice, cushy, comfortable
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  life here. And we like the idea of not
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  going to hell and being in heaven.
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  But if we truly understood what the plan of God is, and it will
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  not be thwarted, then we should live sold out lives to Him,
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  willing to go anywhere, willing to say whatever He wants us to
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  say, willing to lay down our own lives for Him, if we truly
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  understood what was at stake. 12 Looking for and hasting unto the
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  coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on
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  fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with
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  fervent heat. He's telling us over and over
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  and over again that there is the second destruction by fire, and
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  He's telling us to look up and see that our redemption is
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  drawing near. We can see the leaves on the fig
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  tree, and we can know that summer is near.
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  We know that He's coming like a thief in the night, and that no
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  one knows that day or the hour except for God Almighty.
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  And Jesus stands ready to judge. 13 Nevertheless, we, according
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  to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein
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  dwells righteousness. This is New Jerusalem coming
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  down to a purified, pure world that has been made new.
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  And sitting upon the earth, and for us to be with Him forever
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  and ever, where only righteousness dwells, and there
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  is no evil. Friends, there is no person
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  there that should not be there. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing
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  that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be
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  found of Him in peace, without spot and blameless.
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  That is what we're called to, friends.
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  He wants us to live peaceably. He wants us to be blameless.
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  He wants us, friends, to not live in sin.
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  He wants fellowship with us, 15 and to count that the
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  long-suffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved
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  brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, has
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  written to you. So all of the church doctrine
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  was entrusted to Paul. And Peter here gives him a nod
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  of reverence and a nod of respect.
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  And he's actually showing you that the words of the apostle
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  Paul are God breathed, God inspired, what a beautiful
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  brotherhood we serve. And he's saying that this
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  long-suffering of God equals our salvation. 16 As also in all his
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  epistles, speaking in them of these things in which are some
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  things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned
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  and unstable, wrestle, as they do also the other Scriptures,
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  unto their own destruction. This is a picture of somebody
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  who just loves to be contentious, somebody who just
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  loves to stir the pot, somebody who just loves to call every
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  little thing that you say into question.
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  And they want to question all of your little doctrines that you
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  try to go out and teach. And they want to try to make you
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  into a fool, and they want to try to pick you apart.
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  And it is not from God, friends. This brotherhood that we have
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  love covers a multitude of sins, friends.
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  And there is sins, friends, that people commit knowingly.
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  And then there are sins that they commit unknowingly,
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  friends. And it is not profitable for us
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  to try to pick people apart and try to hang on their every word,
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  and to make them out to be fools.
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  That is not from God. And it is to their own
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  destruction, these people who love to be divisive. 17 You
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  therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before,
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  beware, bless you also being LED away with the error of the
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  wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
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  Be wise, be warned, beware. Friends, He put these words in
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  here on purpose. We cannot gloss over them or
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  pretend that they're not there, or just willingly be ignorant of
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  them and not actually meditate upon them and ask God what do
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  they mean? And ask the Holy Spirit to help
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  us to understand the words that are written in His eternal book.
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  We'll end on 18. But grow in grace and in the
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  knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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  To Him be glory both now and forever.
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  Amen. That's the calling, friends.
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  That's the mandate, friends, to grow, to mature, to continue in
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  the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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  We don't just enter in to the saving knowledge of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ and stay baby Christians, for the rest of our
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  life. And there are many who were
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  there, and they'll enter into heaven as they escaped out of a
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  fire. But for those of us who put our
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  nose to the grinder, who refuse to live lukewarm lives, there's
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  a crown that's awaiting for you. And Jesus Christ is worthy of
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  all your attention and adoration and affection.
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  And then we don't get to just live however we want to live.
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  Count the cost. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. Praying for you.
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  Love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.