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Introduction
Good evening and welcome back!
If you will, tonight start turning in your Bibles to .
Tonight we are going to look at a passage of Scripture that I know I have touched on many times in many different sermons.
But I do not believe I have ever had a sermon tied directly to this passage as a whole.
Tonight we are going to be looking at Peter’s writing about the “Day of the Lord” and some of the events that will be surrounding those times.
And we already know that we can make many comparisons to what Peter is writing about here with the way the world looks and works today.
However, I do want us to also bear in mind that we can make these same comparisons throughout human history from the time Peter wrote this onward.
It seems that as soon as the Church came into being, there were things and people coming against the Church.
When the Church was born, Satan went into overdrive attacking the Church.
And as time has went by, people have become more and more complacent about the different aspects of the “Day of the Lord,” which amazingly started taking place that very first generation of the Church.
Which is what prompts Peter to write this letter in the first place.
And his goal is to cut through that complacent attitude that bogs us down and have us focus on God and what God speaks to our heart.
And through all of this Peter asks one key question, “what kind of people ought you to be?”
Which is the same question I want us to think about and ask ourselves tonight.
Knowing what we know about God, God’s Word, God’s will, “what kind of people ought we be?”
How should we be conducting ourselves?
How should we, as Christians be living our lives?
What should be our motivation?
What should be our focus?
All these things we should be considering as we ourselves are preparing for the Day of the Lord.
So, let’s get right into it.
If you have found in your Bibles, I’d invite you to stand with me.
I will be reading verses 10-13, but we will be covering most of that chapter.
Again, this is .
Peter writes this . . . .
Scripture Focus
Scoffers Will Come (vs 3-7)
So before we get into the specifics of our focal passage, I do want to back up a bit and look at the context in which Peter writes this text.
So, backing all the way up to verse 3, Peter writes this . . .
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And this is where we get into the complacency issue.
What was going on then and now is that people had grown used to people like Peter, Paul, John, and the other disciples preaching about Christ and the importance of accepting Christ and following Christ.
They had also grown accustomed to these same disciples warning them about the Day of the Lord coming and coming quickly.
But what happened was that in the beginning these people looked and looked and looked, but Jesus never came back.
He never showed back up, never destroyed all of the Roman oppressors, never took them back home to Heaven.
So, they began to sort of tune out the preaching and the warnings.
They went back to the same old way of life and the same old way of doing things.
The newness of it all wore off and they got back to business as usual.
But also at the same time these “scoffers” came along.
These people who saw how popular the message of Jesus was and they saw it as an opportunity to make some money, gain some fame for themselves.
However, they had to have an angle.
And that angle was to provide the opposite message than the message of Jesus Christ.
They figured out that since Jesus had not come yet, they could exploit that situation and make up a story of their own.
But before they could get the people to buy into their “gospel,” they had to convince them that the disciples were frauds.
So, they began to scoff at and mock the message, calling it into question.
Pointing out what really was the long history of God warning His people, trying to give them a chance to repent.
But they spun it as it all being lies and not the gracious mercy of God.
But to this Peter offers them an explanation that really shuts them up in many ways.
He continues in his letter . . . .
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And what Peter is really doing is pointing out their inconsistency and their inability to recall the truth of what history told.
These scoffers were arguing that God has been warning since the beginning of time but never did anything.
However, they conveniently forgot the flood and the complete destruction of the world by God in that flood.
They forgot all of the warnings time and time again that eventually ended up in a world-wide flood.
They also have conveniently forgotten about all the times that God warned the nation of Israel, only to have them reject God and do things like wander in the desert for 40 years, be carried into captivity many times.
In fact they were currently under the rule of the Roman government .
But they conveniently forgot all of that.
Which also brings up a good point for us to remember as well.
Many times we have situations in which people speak against God and against God’s people.
And their argument is 100% one sided.
Well, there is always two sides to every story.
And if someone is only presenting one side, be careful.
Do your homework and figure out what facts they are leaving out.
Because we have a bad habit of conveniently leaving out the facts when they don’t suit our desires.
The Truth About Christ’s Coming (vs 8-10)
Which is really what Peter is pointing out here.
And he goes on to remind them of this fact as well . . .
2 Peter 3:8-
Another point we need to remember.
God’s concept of time is not like our concept of time.
God invented time.
God is not bound by time like we are.
God is timeless in that God transcends all time.
And we cannot really understand and comprehend how God interacts with time.
And God’s timetable is really dictated by the heart of the people.
God may spend centuries warning people.
Peter goes on . . .
2 Peter 3:
Which is exactly the point.
God is patient to the point that God, who knows everything, past, present, and future, is patiently waiting until the point that the person, the nation, the people are beyond redemption.
When the people have reach the point of no return.
When there is no hope of them getting it together.
It is not a situation where the message is a lie.
It is a situation where God is extending the full measure of his mercy and his grace onto creation.
However, that will not always be the case.
2 Peter 3:10
And we can take this truth to the bank
The day will come when all the chances will be up.
All who are going to repent have repented.
And the day of the Lord will come, and when it comes it will come like a thief.
Meaning quickly and suddenly.
Without warning.
And even though Peter is talking here about that great day of the Lord.
We can also rest assured that even if the Lord tarries for the world, there is a day coming for us all.
A day when we will all draw our last breath here and wake up on the other side.
And on that day we will all stand before the Lord.
We will all give an account of our lives.
What will that account be?
How Should We Respond (vs 11-15)
How Should We Respond (vs 11-15)
Well, it is all really determined by the choices we make here and how we live our lives here.
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