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*God's Turn*
*I/I Peter 3:10-13/*
 
Sometimes when you look around at our world and you see the things which are taking place in our world, it makes you believe that Satan is having a heyday.
I remember reading about the night before the crucifixion of our Lord.
Jesus made this statement, /"This is your hour and the power of darkness."
/In many ways, this does seem to be Satan's day.
It seems like he's getting the upper hand.
But whenever I begin to think that way, I am reminded of a story I heard.
A man stopped by a ball field one day and a bunch of little boys were out playing ball.
He asked one of the little boys on the side, "Son, what's the score?"
He said, "They're ahead 36 to nothing."
The man said, "My goodness, you must be terribly discouraged."
He said, "Oh, no.
My team hasn't batted yet."
You may think it is Satan's day right now, but God's going to have His day.
He's coming up to bat one of these days.
Chapter 3, verse 10, talks about the Day of the Lord.
In verse 12 it talks about the Day of God.
God's day, the Day of the Lord.
In one sense of the word, we could say that you and I are living in man's day.
It is man's day of opportunity.
Second Corinthians 6:2, says, /"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the days of salvation."
/This is man's day.
This is man's day of opportunity.
God gives you, right now, the opportunity to invite Jesus Christ into your heart and into your life as your personal Savior.
It is man's day of opportunity.
When man's day comes to an end, there is another day.
You will notice that it says in this same chapter, verse 7, the Day of Judgment.
It is man's day, a day of opportunity.
Yet the Bible says that it is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment.
The Day of Judgment is going to come one of these days.
The opportunity will be over, and you'll stand before God and you will give an account for what you did with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then God is going to have His day.
The day of the Lord is going to come.
That's really the substance of what these verses are talking about.
These verses are absolutely phenomenal verses.
They are unbelievable verses.
When you read what they say and the predictions which they make, it is amazing what God revealed to a simple fisherman named Simon Peter.
*I.
The Creation.*
He talks about the day of the Lord.
He talks about the day of God in relationship to several areas.
For instance, you will notice in verses 10 and 11 that he talks about the day of God and the creation.
In verses 10 and 11 he talks about the day of the Lord will come and what the coming of the Lord is going to do in terms of our creation.
He says in verse 10, /"But the day of the Lord will come."/
*/The day of the Lord is sure.
/*The way the words are arranged in the Greek text, it puts special emphasis to say, /"The day of the Lord will surely come."
/There is no doubt about it.
The Lord is going to come again.
The Lord has delayed His coming in order to give people an opportunity to be saved.
But just as sure as our day is here, the Bible says that the day of the Lord will surely come.
It's going to be sure.
Then we are told that */the day of the Lord is going be very sudden/*.
In fact, he uses a figure of speech in verse 10.
He says/, "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night."/
We know that Tim LaHaye wrote a series of books around this whole theme here.
This same picture is used by the Lord Jesus.
Jesus used the same illustration in Matthew 24:43.
He said, /"But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up."/
Thieves come unannounced.
Thieves come unexpectedly.
You don't know when they are coming.
They come without warning.
Paul used the same illustration in I Thessalonians 5:2.
He said, /"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."/
Nowadays, thieves don't wait until the night.
They break in during the day time as well.
But they do not call you ahead of time and say, "I want you to know that I'm your local neighborhood thief, and I'm going to be breaking into your house today."
That's not the way it works.
John talked about this same thing in Revelation 16:15.
He said, /"Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."/
He comes as a thief.
The coming of the Lord will come surely.
The coming of the Lord is going to come suddenly.
He is going to come unexpectedly without warning.
He is going to come as a thief.
That's why you shouldn't take any chance on receiving Christ as your Savior because He's going to come when people least expect it and when people are least prepared.
That's when the Lord is going to come.
But He's also going to come not only surely, and not only suddenly, but */He's going to come very significantly/*.
You will notice in verses 10 and 11 that he talks about what the coming of the Lord is going to mean in terms of our creation, in terms of the world in which we live.
The language here is quite graphic.
He says that the Lord will come as a thief in the night and then he says, /"The heavens shall pass away with a great noise."/
The word "pass away" means it is going to disintegrate.
It is going to dissolve.
He said that it is going to be with a great noise.
The word there is a word that carries the idea of hissing, like the hissing of a snake.
Or it's a word that is a picture of crackling, like the crackling of a forest fire, like the whizzing of an arrow, like the screaming of a whip.
It is going to come with a great sound, with a huge conflagration and a great sound.
One of the going theories today of the creation of the universe is the Big Bang theory.
Astronomers have gone back as far as they are able to go, and they have expostulated that the world began with a big bang.
The positive thing about that is that they have come to recognize that there was a beginning.
There was something that brought the world into existence.
They say that it is a big bang.
But they are actually looking in the wrong direction.
The big bang didn't start the creation.
The big bang is going to end the creation.
The Bible says that the heavens are going to be dissolved with a great noise.
There will be a big bang, a thunderous sound.
He says in verse 10, /"And the elements shall melt with fervent heat."/
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