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2 Peter 3 - The End of Time Pt. 1 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good Monday morning. As you get going with this week,
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  Speaker 1: I want us to start the week the best way possible,
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  Speaker 1: and that is by listening to God. As you organise
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  Speaker 1: your life, make sure you always leave room to listen
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  Speaker 1: to God.
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  Speaker 1: Listening to God is one of the foundational things about
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  Speaker 1: the Christian life. Otherwise you're just living the way you
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  Speaker 1: can come up with. But when you listen to God,
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  Speaker 1: He shapes your mind. He shapes your worldview. He helps
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  Speaker 1: you see life from His perspective, and that changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking this week at the 3rd chapter of the
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  Speaker 1: book of 2 Peter in the Bible, and Peter is
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  Speaker 1: writing a letter. This is what he says.
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  Speaker 1: This is now the 2nd letter that I am writing
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  Speaker 1: to you, beloved.
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  Speaker 1: In both of them I am stirring up your sincere
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  Speaker 1: mind by way of reminder that you should remember the
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  Speaker 1: predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and saviour through your apostles.
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  Speaker 1: Now before we go on to what he's reminding them of,
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  Speaker 1: just think about what he says. I'm writing to you
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  Speaker 1: to stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder.
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  Speaker 1: These people are sincere. They love God. They want to
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  Speaker 1: live with God and for God, but they still need
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  Speaker 1: to be reminded of some things. And isn't that true
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  Speaker 1: of us as well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, if you've been a Christian for some time, you've
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  Speaker 1: been to church for years, you go every week and
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  Speaker 1: hear the Bible being taught, you've got so much in
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  Speaker 1: your mind, but you need to be reminded of it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is one of the great things about God's
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  Speaker 1: word and how it plays a part in our lives
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  Speaker 1: is that, uh, you, you never get tired of hearing
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  Speaker 1: God's word.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes there are books of the Bible that I've studied
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  Speaker 1: in depth. I've taught all the way through them over
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  Speaker 1: several weeks and months in a church, and yet I
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  Speaker 1: go and hear someone else teach on one of these passages,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just full of life and meaning to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reminded and re-challenged about the things in God's word.
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  Speaker 1: And this is one of the reasons we take time
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  Speaker 1: with God every morning to open the Bible and listen
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  Speaker 1: to Him, because we need to be reminded. We need
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  Speaker 1: to have our lives reshaped. It's not enough that you
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  Speaker 1: went to Sunday school as a child or that you've
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  Speaker 1: been going to church for years. What have you heard
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  Speaker 1: from God today?
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  Speaker 1: Because the way God uses His word in our lives
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  Speaker 1: so often, even if you're just moving through day by
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  Speaker 1: day the next chapter in the Bible or reading a
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  Speaker 1: daily devotional of some kind, God works it out so
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  Speaker 1: that just the thing you need to hear is what
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  Speaker 1: comes up today.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if you've ever experienced that. Sometimes it seems like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's in collusion. The preacher on Sunday says something that
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  Speaker 1: speaks right into your situation as if he knew about it,
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  Speaker 1: and then you pick up a book, and as you
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  Speaker 1: read it, it challenges you in the same way. And
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  Speaker 1: then you hear something on the radio, and it speaks
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  Speaker 1: to that very point in your life. This is the
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  Speaker 1: way God works.
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  Speaker 1: And so today as we're talking about the way God
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  Speaker 1: uses His word in your life, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: challenge you to put in place in your daily plan
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  Speaker 1: for your life, not just tuning in at this time
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  Speaker 1: each morning, but having some time on your own with
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  Speaker 1: your Bible open in front of you, listening to God.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to remind you of things you need to hear.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.