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Introduction
When you pick up the Word of God, what are you reminded of?
Perhaps you are reminded of a parent or grandparent that loved this book and read to you from it.
Perhaps you remember a great preacher that influenced your life years ago from preaching its truth.
Perhaps you think of the promises it holds and how they have helped you in life’s ups and downs.
Or perhaps you have a hard time picking up God’s word because you feel it to be heavy with rules and regulations.
How you view God’s word overall will certainly influence how you think about this passage we are looking at today.
In this last chapter of 2 Peter, you will see thoughts about wholesome thinking, worldwide terror, and wonderful truth.
Listen close to these words from .
2 Peter 3:1-18
Peter immediately identifies his readers as “dear friends” or as the King James Version has it, “beloved.”
There is a term of affection here as Peter is expressing his special tenderness for readers.
He is able to express a sincere love and hearty concern for them.
How sweet it must have been for his readers to receive such a plea.
If I am to receive a letter from someone that calls me beloved or dear friend, I am going to read it with more attention than perhaps I would had those words not been there.
Parenthetically, letter writing is a lost art.
Who is the Lord bringing to your mind right now which you need to write a letter?
Peter cares for those this letter would be sent to and he desires for them to walk in fullness of the love of God.
He states that he is writing to remind them and stimulate wholesome thinking.
Wholesome Thinking
Wholesome thinking is translated from the Greek words eilikrine dianoian.
It is a phrase that was popular in the day which Peter wrote this as one used by the philosopher Plato.
Plato used the phrase to talk about pure reason and being uncontaminated by the seductive influences of the senses.
It literally means “sun-judged.”
A piece of pottery was “sun-judged” when it was held up to the sunlight in order to see any flaws or cracks.
Peter is saying to his readers that the thinking and intentions of God's people must be able to stand up under scrutiny and not be led astray by immoral desires.
He wanted to stimulate wholesome thinking.
Wholesome thinking is described here in three ways.
First, Peter demonstrates that God’s Word is True.
Too often just like to those whom Peter is writing, we are complacent about God’s word.
More than ever, we as a church need to be awakened and reminded regularly lest our enemy finds us asleep and takes advantage of our spiritual sleepiness.
God’s word is true and we must pay attention to it.
The day of the Lord is not a made up fable.
We see throughout God’s word in both the Old Testament and New how this was proclaimed.
Isaiah
Jeremiah 30:
Amos 5:18-20
Also see Joel, Zephaniah, and .
Jesus also spoke of the Day of the Lord in His sermon on the Mount of Olives.
The Word of God predicts the Day of the Lord and the appearance of scoffers who deny the word of the God.
Acts 20:
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So what is a scoffer?
A scoffer is someone who treats lightly that which ought to be taken seriously.
It is someone that mocks God and plays games with God.
Scoffers want to continue living their way and not God’s way.
They corrupt the desire of the sinful nature and appeal to lustful desires.
One writer
Theologian Warren Weirsbe wrote, “If your lifestyle contradicts the Word of God you must change either your lifestyle or change the Word of God.”
Scoffers agree that nothing cataclysmic has happened in the past, so nothing will happen in the future.
The fact of the matter is they willfully ignore the evidence.
Peter shared with us in that the Word of God is still a “light shining in a dark place.”
The Word of God can be trusted in spite of what the scoffers say.
Another area that comes from wholesome thinking is that God’s Work is Consistent.
All one has to do is look back a how the Word of God has been consistent and true over the years.
Peter cites the work of God in creation and the work of God in the flood in Noah’s day.
Peter’s argument is this: The same God that create the world through His spoken word can also intervene in His world and do whatever He desires.
This is consistent with scripture:
Psalm
Just like the old hymn, THIS IS MY FATHER’S WORLD:
It is His word that made it.
It is His word that holds it together.
It is His word that is all powerful.
The same WORD that created the world sustains the world!
We are reminded that though water destroyed the world once it will not ever again.
The next judgment according to scripture will be by fire.
We see here that there will be a WORLDWIDE TERROR.
tell about the day of the Lord and the judgement that is coming.
You may ask, “Why does there have to be a judgement?”
You see, everything in God’s creation was good according to
But man’s sin turned God’s good creation into a groaning creation.
Romans 8:
God could not permit sinful man to live in a perfect environment, so the ground had to be cursed.
Genesis 3:17
The balance of nature has been upset.
Our resources are being depleted.
Our energy supply is dwindling.
Our world is facing a crisis.
Peter is reminding us that God intervened in the past and He will intervene in the future.
But the scoffers say, “Then why the delay?”
Wholesome thinking reminds us that God’s Will in Merciful!
The scoffers are ignorant of what God has done in the past and they are also ignorant of what God is like.
They were making God in their own image while ignoring the fact that God is eternal.
He has no beginning or no end.
Man does have a beginning but according to scripture, man will live forever in heaven or hell.
Peter quotes .
One day is like a 1000 years and 1000 years is like a day.
In God’s eyes, the universe is just a few days old!
If you study scripture, you see that God is never in a hurry, but He is never late.
He could have created the world in an instant, but He chose to use 6 days.
He could have delivered Israel in a second, but He chose 80 years to train Moses.
He could have sent a Savior much sooner, but He chose to wait until according to
While God works in time, He is not limited by time.
The scoffers were mocking God and His timing.
Paul reminds us in Romans 11:33-36
But we see that God in His mercy is waiting for the Day of the Lord because the Lord’s patience means our salvation.
This is a WONDERFUL TRUTH!
Wonderful Truth
God’s delay is actually an indication that He continues to have a plan and purpose for us and He wants us all to be saved!
1 Timothy
God does not have pleasure in the death of the wicked.
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