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The Patience of God

• 2 Peter 39,15

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The Patience of God
Introduction

• 1. Life and salvation depend on Gods patience.
• The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as
  some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward
  us, not willing that any should perish but that
  all should come to repentanceand consider that
  the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation (2
  Peter 39,15)

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The Patience of God
Introduction

1. Life and salvation depend on Gods patience.
2. Gods patience reflects His strong desire to save
   us, thus making Calvinism false.
3. The more we understand Gods patience, the more
   we want to love and serve Him!

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The Patience of God

• Remember Gods word (31,2)
• Know the certainty of Gods judgment (33-10)
• Be prepared for the Day of Judgment (311-18)

1. 2 Peter 3Chapter on Gods patience

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The Patience of God

• Remember Gods Word

• Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle
  (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by
  way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the
  words which were spoken before by the holy
  prophets, and of the commandment of us, the
  apostles of the Lord and Savior. (31,2)

Old and New Testaments Inspired Prophets and
Apostles Remember Inspired Word
Restoration Plea!
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The Patience of God

• Know the Certainty of Gods Judgment

• Knowing this first that scoffers will come in
  the last days, walking according to their own
  lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His
  coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all
  things continue as they were from the beginning
  of creation. (33,4)

Scoff at the judgment Pursue Sinful lusts,
Ease Conscience
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The Patience of God
Know the Certainty of Gods Judgment

• For this they willfully forget that by the word
  of God the heavens were of old, and the earth
  standing out of water and in the water, by which
  the world that then existed perished, being
  flooded with water. (35,6)

Willful Ignorance God Created God
Judged The Flood
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The Patience of God

• But the heavens and the earth which are now
  preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire
  until the day of judgment and perdition of
  ungodly men. (37)

Know the Certainty of Gods Judgment
God Will Judge Again Perdition of ungodly men!
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The Patience of God
Know the Certainty of Gods Judgment

• But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that
  with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and
  a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not
  slack concerning His promise, as some count
  slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not
  willing that any should perish but that all
  should come to repentance. (38,9)

Time Not a Limit to God. His Patience Delays
Judgment Why? He Seeks our Salvation.
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The Patience of God
Know the Certainty of Gods Judgment

• But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
  the night, in which the heavens will pass away
  with a great noise, and the elements will melt
  with fervent heat both the earth and the works
  that are in it will be burned up. (310)

Judgment Day Certain Time Unknown Total
Destruction
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The Patience of God

• Why man recoils at the idea of judgment
• We and our loved ones have sinned
• Hell is horrible and horrifying
• God is just too loving

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The Patience of God

• Modern theories deny eternal hell.
• Jehovah Witness Verse 10 means wicked world
  govt. Earth to be purified.
• Max KingSpirit of Prophecy (pg.131) Heaven and
  earth mean old Jewish system to end in A.D. 70.

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The Patience of God

• Be Prepared for Judgment Day

• Therefore, since all these things will be
  dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be
  in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and
  hastening the coming of the day of God, because
  of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on
  fire, and the elements will melt with fervent
  heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise,
  look for new heavens and a new earth in which
  righteousness dwells. (311-13)

Live Holy and Godly Gods Home Is Our Home!
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The Patience of God
Be Prepared for Judgment Day

• Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these
  things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace,
  without spot and blameless and consider that the
  longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--as also
  our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom
  given to him, has written to you. (314,15)

A Pure Life Means Peace with God. Trust Gods
Patience Paul Wrote Inspired Scripture
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The Patience of God

• As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
  these things, in which are some things hard to
  understand, which untaught and unstable people
  twist to their own destruction, as they do also
  the rest of the Scriptures. (316)

Be Prepared for Judgment Day
Peter and Paul Taught the Same Doctrine False
Teachers Twist and Deceive
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The Patience of God

• You therefore, beloved, since you know this
  beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your
  own steadfastness, being led away with the error
  of the wicked but grow in the grace and
  knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
  Him be the glory both now and forever. (317,18)

Be Prepared for Judgment Day
Beware of Falling Theres Danger of
Apostasy Spiritual Growth Makes Us Steadfast
Real Security
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The Patience of God

• God sustains the world until Judgment, while
  scoffers trample His patience! (33-7)
• Mock sin
• Mock the Bible
• Christ and His church
• The willingly ignorant dont want to know
• Deny God and His place in the world

• Gods Patience and the World in Rebellion

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The Patience of God

• God Sustains the World Until Judgment!

• Children endangered by rampant immorality
• Physical and sexual abuse
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Homosexuals adopt children
• Newborns infected with AIDS virus
• 1.5 million abortions each year

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Crack babies frequently have trouble keeping
down their food. Given to spasms, trembling, and
muscular rigidity,
they resist cuddling by arching their backs.
In pediatric intensive units
around the country, they fill the night air with
their inconsolable cat cries, a distinctive
high-pitched whine that conveys who knows what
inexpressible misery. (Nobodys
Children, Time, 11-9-8991-92
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The Patience of God
God Sustains the World Until Judgment!

• Princeton University Bioethics Professor Peter
  Singer (1999-
• Atheist evolutionist
• Justify abortion, infanticide, euthanasia of
  disabled infants.Killing a defective infant is
  not morally equivalent to killing a person.
  Sometimes it is not wrong at all. (Practical
  Ethics, pp.175-217)

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The Patience of God

• God Is Patient While the Gospel Is Preached!

• Wants repentance and salvation for all men. (39)
• God patiently opens doorswe must go preach!
• As in Noahs day, Patience will be followed by
  judgment!
• He preached and built the ark for 120 years.(1
  Peter 318-21 2 Peter 25)

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The Patience of God

• God Is Patient While Christians Grow

• Must grow stronger to overcome Satan. (2 Peter
  317,18)
• Gods people must give all diligence to grow in
  Him. (2 Peter 15-11)
• Must remain steadfast (1
  Corinthians 1558)

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The Patience of God

• Christians Must Grow!

• But also for this very reason, giving all
  diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue
  knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to
  self-control perseverance, to perseverance
  godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and
  to brotherly kindness love. (2 Peter
  15-7)

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The Patience of God
Christians Must Grow!

• For if these things are yours and abound, you
  will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the
  knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who
  lacks these things is shortsighted, even to
  blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed
  from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even
  more diligent to make your call and election
  sure, for if you do these things you will never
  stumble for so an entrance will be supplied to
  you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of
  our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter
  18-11)

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The Patience of God

• Great Security in Gods Character and Patience!

• The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as
  some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward
  us, not willing that any should perish but that
  all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 39)

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The Patience of God

• Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out
  of temptations and to reserve the unjust under
  punishment for the day of judgment.
  (2 Peter 29)

Great Security in Gods Character and Patience!
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The Patience of God
Great Security in Gods Character and Patience!

• But if we walk in the light as He is in the
  light, we have fellowship with one another, and
  the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
  from all sin. (1 John 17)

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The Patience of God
Great Security in Gods Character and Patience!

• Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly
  abundantly above all that we ask or think,
  according to the power that works in us.
  (Ephesians 320)

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The Patience of God
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech
you to walk worthy of the calling with which you
were called, with all lowliness and gentleness,
with longsuffering, bearing with one another in
love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit
in the bond of peace. (Ephesians 41-3)

• God Is Patient With Us We Must Be Patient With
  Others!

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The Patience of God

• Patience With Each Other in All Relationships!

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by
whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and
evil speaking be put away from you, with all
malice. And be kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God
in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 430-32)
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Concluding Thoughts

• Where would we be without Gods patience?
• Are we using the time Gods patience gives us
  wisely?
• Sadly, we can run out Gods patience!
• Rejection and rebellion will put our souls in
  harms way.
• Do not take this risk