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Significant Lessons from Second Letters
Last words.
Good words.
Don’t you wish Peter would say, “Above all else, remember this…!”?
The last message of the last chapter of the last letter Peter wrote.
Don’t Burn the House Down
Alyssa came up to visit last weekend.
Brought food, football game, hang out time.
She has bought a fire pit, had friends over, and complained that the bundle of wood she bought only lasted 1.5 hrs.
And, she said she’d like to start having fires inside in her fireplace.
So, dad moment.
Lessons on fires.
You’re buying a bundle of soft wood, pine.
Cost at $12/ bundle is probably about $600/cord.
So, take whatever your want from my stack
Hard wood.
Hard to start.
Burn for hours.
Next, make sure the flue is open.
Smoke in the house is bad.
These 2 things are important.
Cost of wood, smoke in the house.
But, what’s the most important thing?
Don’t burn down the house!
Why? B/C you might die.
It’s a rental, you’ve got insurance, it’s still bad to lose everything.
If you survive, you’ll have to find a new place to live and buy all new stuff.
W/ that in mind, don’t burn pine in your fireplace.
Why? Resin builds up in the chimney and can catch on fire.
Mary and Barry Wright’s story.
When you clean out the ashes, use an ash can w/ a lid.
Don’t set the can on anything flammable.
On concrete.
In gravel or sand.
Not near pine needles or dead palm fronds.
Lid on so the wind won’t blow embers.
Wait at least 48 hours, dump them into a plastic trash bag.
If there’s still an ember it will melt the bag before you put it in your trash.
Outdoor fire pit.
My hard wood will burn and smolder for 4 hours.
Dowse it w/ water.
Don’t leave it smoldering.
Outdoor fire pit.
My hard wood will burn and smolder for 4 hours.
Dowse it w/ water.
Don’t leave it smoldering.
The big problems come when we run out of patience, waiting for the embers to go completely out.
Don’t leave any embers burning and go inside.
Don’t.
B/C, you might burn down the house.
Don’t.
B/C, you might burn down the house.
Or, if you lose patience wanting a fire indoors and just burn the pine you can buy at the grocery store.
Why?
Or, if you lose patience waiting to deal w/ ashes.
Use the ash can, store it in the right place, wait until all the embers are out.
Why? B/C if you lose patience, you might burn down the house.
About 3 years ago, on a cool Sunday afternoon in the fall, I was doing my chores, taking out the trash.
As soon as I walked out I could smell it.
There is a distinct difference between the smell of firewood burning in the fireplace, pine needles burning in a burn barrel, and a house burning.
I looked for the black smoke.
Saw it.
I’m the chaplain so I hustled down to see if I could help the owners while our fire fighters worked the fire.
Their house was gone in the matter of minutes.
Their vehicle was packed and ready to head down to the valley for work on Monday.
In their haste, they had cleaned out their fireplace, put the ashes in a plastic bucket and left them on the wood deck to cool.
A short time later, the wife looked out and saw the flames.
The deck was fully involved.
There are important lessons, no smoke in the house and the cost of firewood.
This is the most important when building fires around the house.
Don’t burn down the house.
There are important lessons for us while we wait for Jesus to return or for us to go to Him.
What’s most important while we wait?
As we wrap up 2 Peter, he gets to his bottom line and what is most important for us to remember.
Wait.
Wait patiently.
Wait actively.
Typically, we don’t wait well.
We get into trouble when we lose patience and stop waiting and try to make something happen.
Or, we give up entirely, thinking it’s not going to happen anyway.
God hasn’t forgotten.
He hasn’t reneged on His promise.
Patience and persistence are positives for all of us.
Christians may be losing patience w/ Jesus waiting for his return.
Jesus is being patient so more people can be saved.
Jesus is being patient so more people can be saved.
We need t/b patient, and persistent in how we live our lives, b/c there’s a new PL waiting for us.
Peter’s message in ch.3:
Don’t burn down the house.
Live a holy and godly life, making good decisions, so nothing you’re involved in burns up.
God is going to burn down the house when Jesus returns.
But, when He does it, He’ll have a new place for us to live ready for us to move into right away.
Patience and persistence are positives for all of us.
This is the most important thing.
Above everything else, remember this!
Why did Peter write this letter, and the first one?
Stimulate Wholesome Thinking
He wrote both letters to stimulate us, think thru what’s true and what we believe about it.
Wholesome thinking.
A sincere thought process that a strong belief system is built on.
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