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Ultimately, we look ahead to the Savior. In verse eight he does that he directs her attention missing but beloved, do not forget this one thing with the Lord one day is as a thousand years thousand years as one day simply to say seems to us a long time is really a short time ago. God doesn't see time like we do is not limited to our timetable today on connect with Skip Heitzig Skip shares what signs you can look for as you wait for Christ's return. Now we want to tell you about a resource that will spur you on in your own faith journey as you explore the inspiring stories of women in the Bible you know. Proverbs 3102 passage that describes the ideal Christian woman in life. To be honest ideal can be as intimidating as it is inspiring. Here Skip Heitzig with more can I just tell you it's exhausting to just read that letter law. However, women could you ever do that. Let me say first of all, you can't do that in a day is not giving the 24 hour description of the virtuous wife. This is a woman over time. Get to know some of the most incredible women in the Bible and in history to inspiring resources.

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Do you store your mind up in the mornings I made a practice over the last many years since I've been a believer to wake up in the morning and one of the first activities after brushing my teeth and those kind of things is to open up the Bible and read a section and meditate on the pray about it and work my way through the text of the whole Bible to stir up my mind now since the second coming is one person every 30 verses make sure that you read at least 30 versus a day.

How's that get that thought reignited back in your brain and your heart. So in verse one. He says I want to stir up your pure minds. The notice in verse choices.

Be mindful so you get the idea that is trying to engage our mind. Let me make a suggestion that you engage or stir up your mind enough to actually memorize Scripture, but all of it, but some of it key versus nothing will help you in your spiritual formation like memorizing verses of Scripture that can be called to mind. Later on when you need them most all of us know about Martin Luther, the great reformer and a great one who wrote about justification by faith.

What most of us don't know is that he did mess much of his work from pure memory of the Scripture that when he was early on in the monastery and Augustinian monastery get a mentor yacht. Johan stop its who taught him to memorize whole books of the New Testament so that later on he could call them up from memory and write about the great doctrines of faith, justification by faith. So look back at the Scriptures let your minds be stirred by what the prophets wrote and what Jesus said what the apostles recorded second look around at scoffers. Verse three knowing this first door preeminently. Not chronologically, but as a matter of importance.

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. It's interesting that when you look at the prophets who spoke about the worldwide reign of the Messiah.

They predicted they also predicted the scoffers or they record the modern day markers in their day. In responding to what they wrote or spoke so in Isaiah chapter 5 Jeremiah chapter 17 Ezekiel chapter 12 Malachi chapter 2 it also includes the response of the unbelieving world in terms of mocking were scoffing now a scoffer is someone who treats lightly. What should be taken seriously. You had it happen to you if you ever try to share your faith at all. You have encountered scoffers. You tell them about the veracity of Scripture or Jesus Christ wanting to come into your life for the Bible says this in will get everything from June intimidating line of questions like you're not fundamentalist.

Are you you don't believe in that book literally do you you're not close minded nonthinking idiot are you all of that language is meant to intimidate you. That's mocking scoffing language is the language of the scoffer when I was a boy I had a friend and I am I even hesitate to use the word but he had become a good friend. He was the boy. Your mother warned you about my mother did and I didn't pay any attention to her. His name is Richard Wilhite.

Richard was a liar. He was a thief was a drug user and seller and buyer and many many other things. He was also the base player in my band as a kid, we became friends and we did lots of bad things together and then I became a Christian. So one of the first things I did was try to find where he was living. I got a hold of him and called him on the phone told him the gospel and he scoffed. He mocked, he hung up the phone.

I called him back. He listened a little more carefully. I thought he was interested he hung up the phone again.

I called him back 1/3 time he did not even pick up the phone next day in the newspaper I read that he was arrested for half $1 million worth of heroin a sale that he participated in was in jail now know where he was. I just heard that he gotten out of jail.

Some years later and as soon as he was out was shot in the head and killed by someone from those drug deals years before and and that haunted me that really bothered me for obvious reasons. I knew him once as a friend. I wonder why did he and why do others scoff and Moloch can take lightly. What should be treated seriously and I found my answer in this verse, verse three tells you why. Knowing this first, the scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts. In other words, they want to continue living for their temporary pleasures and anything that would speak of the judgment of God and hold them accountable for their immoral behavior they want to write it out of the script. That's why that's her motive. What is the basis of the scoffers. What is the basis of their belief verse four tells you what it is hers.

Their philosophy and saying notices its" where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. What are they saying or saying that we live in a close naturalistic system and events just move along steadily without any kind of cataclysmic event or punctuated event from heaven is a belief system known as uniform at Terry and his him. I don't care if you ever remember the word but you want to know what it means that it is it is the prevalent philosophy and has been the last hundred years in Western culture uniform at Terry and is him. Things are moving steadily and slowly without punctuated cataclysm. They always have been and they always will be. Now here's why this is a fallacious and wrong view of the world because it it has a person who measures all of history, which they haven't lived through. They've only lived through a tiny little slice of time there willing to make a judgment on all of history based on what they only have observed all things continue Jesus is coming back because you never really did come back. That's like saying I'll never die because I've never died back years ago in the 19th century there was a British lawyer and geologist who was very very influential and he was one of the first ones to articulate this uniform at Terry and his and believe his name was Eric Lyle. He wrote a book called the principles of geology and he impacted a great number of researchers one very special one named Charles Darwin who read his book was moved by his book and even brought that book with them to the Galapagos Islands when he made his famous research that led to the theory of evolution. I remember my first day in integrated zoology when my professor spent an hour speaking about uniform at Terry and is him and knocking special creation. He basically said that history maintains an uninterrupted flow of steady events over a long evolution there are no cataclysms to which Peter would say, and you got that wrong you got that wrong on two counts number one creation and number two the great flood. Those are the two examples that Peter uses here the creation of the earth. That's a pretty cataclysmic event where God interrupted the flow of things and then the great flood in which he destroyed the world by the way, I don't have a lot of time to get into this, but there is a growing number of geologist today who have abandoned uniform at Terry and his him and believe now in historical catastrophism. They say that the data available shows that there is great evidence of catastrophe. We live in a volatile universe. Now, I do believe that there is general uniformity in the world. There are predictable patterns that exist around us and not simply evidence of God's providential care but also the biblical worldview is that we live in an open system and God because he's God can has and will do what he wants when he wants to do it and just because you and your little observable lifetime has seen a steady flow of events doesn't mean it's always been that way, nor will it continue that way.

That's his argument and he in verse five.

Interestingly, writes about the creation account in a single verse.

It's enough to look at at least four they notice will fully forget remember ever they want to push this stuff aside for their own immoral behavior for the they will fully forget that by the word of God the heavens were of old, but all this get here, God spoke it. God said it, God said, let there be this and there was that they willfully forget the by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth.

Now this is interesting standing out of water and in the water by which the world that then existed parish being flooded with water. In other words, what Peter is saying is that God shaped the earth between two areas of watery mass.

It's the creation account from Genesis were on day two we separated the waters above from the waters beneath each of the waters above and developed a water canopy of vapor canopy around the earth, the waters below on the earth were indices in the rivers in underground reservoirs and lakes, etc. today post flood, the earth is still 4/5 water.

This point is that water was a huge part of the original creation and it became part of the original destruction. In verse six, by which the world that then existed parish being flooded with water. By the way the word flooded here. Listen to what it is.

In Greek caught occludes Joe was at someone cataclysm so exactly what it is.

It was a punctuated event will God interrupted the flow of history with a great cataclysm, a deluge and a people of catastrophe. I've always believed that the flood helps explain a variety of things that otherwise would be inexplicable in the natural universe.

For example, the presence of inland seas.

The great inland seas that exist in China and India, and in this country we have in this country.

The great basin.

It's called, which encompasses almost the entire state of Nevada part of Southern California, Southern Oregon. I parts of great parts of Utah, etc. that great basin Lake Bonneville evidences that it was once this huge massive inland sea and shoreline evidence is still in existence. The only thing that is left is that little thing called the great Salt Lake that's the remnants of also the flood explains the evidence of forests that have been compressed by water layers of water laden deposits that have formed coal in every place on earth.

Even in the North Pole and in the South.

Then there's the fossil record is important.

If I were to tell you a cultural belief in your backyard and and then say how long would it take for you to get a fossil. You'd see what else are you crazy, you get a fossil by throwing a leaf in your backyard you get a fossil of the earth opened up and the leaf got sucked in and slammed against it. If I cataclysm happened.

Then, over time, you would have fossilization but not just by on interrupted nothingness. But there's the fossil record see life that is been found atop and between layers of coal fossils of the whales in Michigan. Fossilized sharks found in Ohio fossilized fish found in Wyoming get this 7000 feet above sea level. How they swim up there.

Then there are fossils that are out of order. You have trees that are found extending through several different strata layers supposedly lay down over millions and millions and millions of years. So I do have a tree growing through all of them and there's the great slab of sediment near agate Springs, Nebraska bones of some 9000 different animals that have been tossed and crushed violently and buried by water and dirt.

Peter said it happened, but there are people who are willingly milking.

James is ignorant, willingly ignorant, while Roger uses a everyone's ignorant just on different subjects. It's interesting how Jesus said, as it was in the days of no law, so it will also be at the coming of the Son of Man. You think they mocked Noah building about you know where he got the ball right in inland Iraq. So there's a guy building a big big big boat in Iraq and are going fly. It would be sort of like somebody putting a yacht factory in Rio Rancho you'd say I don't get it.

What even to do with those yachts are not using their so we look back at the Scriptures we look around at the scoffers, but ultimately we look ahead to the Savior. And in verse eight he does that he directs her attention missing 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 simply to say, what seems to us a long time is really a short time, the God, the reason he does.

This is because he knows that people like us even would be saying why is it taken so long for Jesus to return why the delay know they were asking that 2000 years ago were asking that on steroids today.

2000 years have passed since then and he still not back and were still hoping and were still waiting and it almost sounds like yeah maybe these uniform at Terry and Esther right. Why is it taken so long.

First of all, God counts things differently seem like a long time.

It's been two days to God buys me of the story of the little boy who was praying and he closed his eyes.

He said Lord somewhere in your Bible it says that a thousand years is like a data you and it also says in your Bible that you own the cattle on a thousand hills. What which means like a million billion dollars is like one dollar to you and then he prayed Lord can I just have one time in the Lord spoken with the sure just minute why the delay, the answer is found in verse nine, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. That's the reason you want to see as many people save as possible. God is tell you I'm glad he waited 2000 years because otherwise I wouldn't of been around to enjoy his salvation. So I'm glad the God is merciful.

We gotta know that Scott is punctual income yet but he will come look at verse 10 but the day of the Lord will come.

It will come.

Scoffers may scoff doubters may doubt unbelievers will ignore Jesus Christ is coming again is coming again. I want to do this to and in one word really has something to do with all of us here that's back in verse nine, is the word long-suffering look at it again.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise to be right on time is time as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us toward you, toward me, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

I would tell you about the word long-suffering as we closed one of the great words of the Scripture, long-suffering is the word in the original language Mac Pro still may all it's a compound word is from sticking two words together Mac Pro which means big large macro not micro macro and the words to the mall which means to burn or literally great anger. So literally the word long-suffering means large great anger and what it means in reference to God is that God has an amazing capacity to store well deserved anger and distorted up in the stored up in the sword up until he finally spells it out in judgment. He is an amazing capacity to wait in the way and to hear scoffers scoff every generation to let bad things happen every year.

One day he will act. But until then he's long-suffering. The fact that you and I can even have the opportunity to discuss it shows the kind of patients God has for us. There was a young college student who had a conversation with his uncle Joe and uncle Joe said so what do you when you get out of college.

He said then I'm in a get a good job.

Uncle Joe's is good thinking then what will then I'm in a launch my career and I'm to get married.

It's good planning. You said, get married, you have a family that's right, then what said uncle Joe, then the student said I'm going to mass my fortune raise my family and eventually I'm to retire and by home on the country live it up sounds very inviting. Said uncle Joe then would you do, well I do know uncle Joe. By the time I'm to be pretty old. I suppose on the die and surely you will set as uncle Joe and then what you see this young college student had only thought about the next few years hadn't really thought about the end of the line and especially the end of the line meeting the Lord himself and what he will say why is this important because until we start believing the reality of the other side. That's when we'll start behaving differently on the side. The reason we don't behave differently on the site is because we don't believe the reality of that side. We do, then we will the day of the Lord will come. Now I'm not looking for the day of the Lord I'm looking for the Lord of the day I is a believer looking for the return of the Lord to take us away to take us in the glory by death or by rapturous my blessed hope. The Bible says, and there is a word I'd like to resurrect recent save in the early Jesus movement days. It's a Bible word. It's the word Marinol.

It's the word that early Christians would say to each other, sort of, is a code word they would say hallelujah Marinol thought Marinol things the Lord is coming soon, so shall we try that to one another.

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