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2 Peter 3:14-16 • Spotless & Blameless

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
"Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."
    —2 Peter 3:14-16 (NASB)

So what is the apostle Peter's advice on how to live in expectation of Christ's imminent return? That we should be found "spotless and blameless", biblical terms most often used to describe an acute disassociation with sin. He doesn't tell us to buy a white robe and go stand on a hill, he doesn't advocate building and stocking a bunker, he doesn't even encourage us to seek the signs confirming all that the prophetic Word of God has promised will happen. No, we're called to live in the Last Days exactly the same way we're supposed to live each and every ordinary day of our life: in faithfulness to His Word, forsaking all sin.
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2 Peter 3:8-9 • Not Slow, But Patient

Friday, July 22nd, 2011
"But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance."
    —2 Peter 3:8-9 (NASB)

So…I've entered one of the stores belonging to a very famous chain specializing in Christian products. Standing at the front of the reasonably large book section, I can see quite a few displays and tables and bookcases. It's obvious that one of the most popular topics—especially in the Christian fiction genre—is the Last Days. Why is it that the displays, artwork, etc. all seem to create a visual excitement for the Last Days? Nothing to my eye comes close to Joel's description:
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2 Peter 3:3-4 • Mockers Will Come

Thursday, July 21st, 2011
"Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.'"
    —2 Peter 3:3-4 (NASB)

Jesus Himself likens the Last Days to the way things were in Noah's day. (Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27) One of the many similarities is that it's a time when the majority are "following after their own lusts", forsaking the Word and ways of God in favor of their own desires. Although "lusts" is often used in connection with sexual immorality, it really encompasses anything one gives into such as power, wealth, or position. If we truly believed Christ's return was imminent, we'd live like it, forsaking our own desires for His alone. Playing down any emphasis on His return is actually the expression of wanting to live how we want instead of how we should.
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2 Peter 2:7-10a • Sexual Politics Matters

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
"and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority."
    —2 Peter 2:7-10a (NASB)

In a day and age when those who go to church are statistically indistinguishable from those who don't when it comes to nearly every sexually related issue from divorce to homosexuality to sex outside marriage, I know from the outset how unreceptive most will find someone's stance rooted in "old fashioned values" where these things are concerned. We can point to the state of the current church being rooted in the erosion of the teaching of the Bible, its embracing secular production values, or even forsaking the Gospel in the name of becoming "seeker sensitive", but I think it ultimately goes back to the erosion of marriage. Throughout the whole of Scripture, a good spiritual relationship is compared to a monogamous heterosexual relationship. When that value ceases to exist in real life, all the rest of the reasons for unfaithfulness in the church take root.
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2 Peter 2:7-9 • The Torment of the Righteous Soul

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
"and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,"
    —2 Peter 2:7-9 (NASB)

Does it bother you at all that the divorce rate among those that attend church is virtually the same as those that don't? Is it of any concern that the values for sexual morality are now basically the same within the church as without? Does it matter that activities at churches—even Sunday School—are trending downward so that we can spend "quality time" elsewhere? I could go on, but the real question comes down to, "Do you feel like Lot?"
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2 Peter 1:5-8 • Useless or Useful?

Monday, July 18th, 2011
"Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
    —2 Peter 1:6-8 (NASB)

Let's start from the end. The possibility is suggested that someone can be rendered useless and unfruitful "in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ". It's not that they don't have knowledge, it just doesn't result in producing anything. How does this occur in someone?
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2 Peter 1:1-3 • A Faith the Same Kind as Ours

Sunday, July 17th, 2011
"Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence."
    —2 Peter 1:1-3 (NASB)

If Peter were alive and writing this for the first time today, in most corners of the world, even the so-called "Christian" corners, Peter would be accused of inciting hate speech and promoting division. He addresses this message "To those who have received a fatih of the same kind as ours" and specifically designates that it doesn't simply come from God, but through Jesus Christ. Once again the Word of God is at odds with those who put forth the false teaching that we're all worshiping the same God, just in a slightly different manner.
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