Be Prepared

We’re in the home stretch as we enter this 32nd week of our ‘Stand Firm’ Series. We’d spent three weeks taking a deep dive into Peter’s excursus on false teachers (cf. 2 Peter 2). But in Chapter 3, Peter turns his attention back onto his beloved friends. 2 Peter 3:8-10 reads:

8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousandyears, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise assome count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, butthat all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and thenthe heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up anddissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

Board Member of The Parish Church, Nick Parsons, joined us again to help us dive into this text. He reminded us that as followers of Jesus, we are to (eagerly) wait for Jesus’s return. We should do so with obedience, humility, faith, and wisdom.

Give the sermon text a read and a listen and we hope to see you this week at a Family Meal and/or a DNA group to dive even deeper.