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Text: 2 Peter 3:3-13 (NIV)
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3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
4They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?
Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
6By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
11Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?
You ought to live holy and godly lives 12as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.
That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
13But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
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*Introduction: *Time is contained between its beginning and its end.
! I. Time’s Passage Demands Explanation.
!! A. Its regular passage questions time’s beginning.
The initial act of eliminating our Creator God from our thinking is so immoral and unethical in itself as to render the following concern with ethical fine points quite absurd.
It's as if students were to murder the teacher and then sit down to have serious discussions about proper manners in the classroom.
-- Steven J. Keillor in Prisoners of Hope.
Christianity Today, Vol.
37, no. 1.
!! B. Its regular passage questions our temptations.
There are two big lies that Satan has been perpetrating ever since the Garden of Eden.
The first is that God is mean, vindictive, a spoilsport whose main role in life is to keep us from being fulfilled and happy--when we step out of bounds, he takes delight in making us pay.
The second lie is that God really doesn't care what we do--probably doesn't know.
And if he does, his business is to forgive us.
He'll always forgive no matter what, so it really doesn't make much difference how we live and what we believe.
-- B. Clayton Bell, "Many Happy Returns," Preaching Today, Tape No. 135.
!! C. Its regular passage questions time’s end.
-- This is the song that never ends
It goes on and on my friend
! II.
Time’s Patience Desires Examination
!! A. Patience allows probation.
The story is told of a farmer in a Midwestern state who had a strong disdain for "religious" things.
As he plowed his field on Sunday morning, he would shake his fist at the church people who passed by on their way to worship.
October came and the farmer had his finest crop ever--the best in the entire county.
When the harvest was complete, he placed an advertisement in the local paper which belittled the Christians for their faith in God.
Near the end of his diatribe he wrote, "Faith in God must not mean much if someone like me can prosper."
The response from the Christians in the community was quiet and polite.
In the next edition of the town paper, a small ad appeared.
... It read simply, "God doesn't always settle His accounts in October."
-- William E. Brown in Making Sense of Your Faith.
Christianity Today, Vol.
33, no.
11.
!! B. Patience allows repentance.
TOPIC: Repentance
SUBTOPIC: Its Value
TITLE: The Most Precious Thing
I read a story, a long time ago, having in it a moral that pleased
me.
It represented our heavenly Father as telling a man, if he would
bring up to the gate of heaven the most precious thing that could be
found in this world, it would gain his admittance into heaven.
"Then I am sure of heaven," he said.
"I know what the most precious
thing in the world is."
He went to a mint where the best specimens of gold could be found,
and obtaining the purest piece possible, flew up to the gates of
pearl, sure that heaven would be opened to him, but found the gates
closed and bolted against him.
He was told that was not the most
precious thing; that their streets are paved with gold, as it were
transparent glass.
He came again.
This time he obtained the most exquisitely beautiful
specimen of jewelry; nothing richer or more beautiful on earth of its
kind.
He carried this up, but found the door still shut against him.
He was told that no one used jewelry there.
It was really of no value
in heaven.
He must go again.
This time he was walking on the beach, under the shade of beautiful
trees, thinking over what that most precious thing could be, when his
attention was attracted to a beautiful little child lying on the grass
under the shade of these trees, with its innocent face upturned
towards heaven, in a sweet sleep.
Just then a robber came to this
little child, and stood over it for a moment, apparently in deep
thoughtfulness, gazing on its innocent face, the child unconscious of
any danger.
The robber, reviewing his own life in his guilt and
wickedness, and contrasting it with the innocence of that little
child, drew a deep sigh of regret and sorrow over his life of sin,
when a tear of penitence dropped from his eye.
The man in search of
earth's most precious thing, caught this tear, and flew up to heaven's
gate with it, when he found the gates thrown wide open to him, with a
hearty welcome from the heavenly ones, saying:
"Yes, you have brought the most precious thing that can be found on
earth the Tear of Repentance."
So, dear friend, if your bosom sighs over a life of sin, and the
tear of penitence moistens your cheeks, do not wipe it away, or bide
it, but let it dry on your face, for no earthly jewelry could so adorn
your person.
-- A. B. Earle, From: "Incidents Used ... In His
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