2 Peter

Our “fellow elder,” Peter, preacher, and sheep under the chief Shepherd the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Peter 5:1-4) writes to us in 2 Peter his closing charges and encouragements. Christian and non-Christian alike, are familiar with the two disciples in the New Testament who were under the teaching of Christ but who fell away: Peter […]

2 Peter 3:15-16, “15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist

2 Peter 3:14, “Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.” I do not think that there is a better motivational verse for godly living than 2 Peter 3:14. The main reason I think this is due to the way that

2 Peter 3:13, “But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”   Have you ever heard of this phrase, “already but not yet?” It’s the tension that we live in as Christians… “already, but not yet.” The best way to grasp this concept is

2 Peter 3:11-12, “Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt

2 Peter 3:9-10, “9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and

2 Peter 3:8, “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Why does it seem that, from our human perspective, God is slow to work? God’s timing often does not sync with our timing. In the midst

2 Peter 3:7, “But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.” 2 Peter was written to stir up his beloved readers’ sincere mind by way of reminder (2 Pet. 3:1). After all, we are