WAITING IN PEACE
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2 PETER 3:11-14
2 PETER 3:11-14
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
1- OUR CHARACTER AS WE WAIT
1- OUR CHARACTER AS WE WAIT
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
2 Peter and Jude: An Introduction and Commentary g. The Ethical Implications of the Second Coming (3:11–14)
It leads to hedonism: ‘I was nothing; I am nothing; so thou who art still alive, eat, drink, and be merry.’ It leads to apathy: ‘Once I had no existence; now I have none. I am not aware of it. It does not concern me.’ It leads, finally, to despair: ‘ “Charidas, what is below?” “Deep darkness.” “But what of the paths upward?” “All a lie” … “Then we are lost.” ’ Barclay concludes, rightly, that without the truth, embodied in the second coming doctrine, that life is going somewhere, there is nothing left to live for.
2- WAITING ON A PROMISE
2- WAITING ON A PROMISE
13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
THE PROMISE THAT ISAIAH TELLS US ABOUT
22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your offspring and your name remain.
THE PROMISE THAT REVELATION CONFIRMS
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
A PLACE WHERE NE EVIL EXIST.
27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
3- PURSUE HOLINESS WHILE WE WAIT
3- PURSUE HOLINESS WHILE WE WAIT
14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.