09/27/2023
"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. But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night..."(2 Pe. 3:8-10).
Here is the main point: Jesus is coming again. No matter what the world thinks, says, does or doesn't believe, Jesus is coming again to judge the world and to bring the completeness of His salvation to all who believe, obey, and follow Him.
*This promise has been foretold through the ages by holy prophets of old, the Apostles, and Jesus Himself (1 Pe. 3:2)
*As His coming draws near scoffers will come, walking in their own lusts, and mocking, "Where is the promise of His coming?" (3:3-4)
*These scoffers and mockers "willfully forget" God created everything by the power of His Word and judged sin in Noah's day by the flood, and the power of God's Word preserves creation until His promise of judgment and salvation is fulfilled (3:5-7)
*God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and be saved (3:9). God is a good and gracious God who loves everyone and offers everyone the choice of salvation or to "perish" in eternal judgment.
*The day of the LORD, the return of Jesus, will come like a thief in the night (3:10) "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the last trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (I Cor 15:52)
Back to the main point, Jesus is coming again. It could be at any second. Are you ready. Believe, repent, follow and obey Jesus and you will be!
Come and worship with us a Morning Sun Cumberland Presbyterian Church where the whole council of God is preached, where you will be loved, and where Jesus is LORD!
Bro. Keith Harwell, Pastor.