READ: 2 Peter 3:11-18

To know Christ is returning, what kind of people should you be? - 1 John 3:2-3

- 2 Peter 3:11-13 - “Since all these (verse 10) things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, (aims and acts of devotion) 12 waiting for (look forward to) and hastening (earnestly desire) the coming of the day of God, (see below) because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies (elements from which all things come) will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new (superier to the old) heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” (Isaiah 65:17, 66:22; John 14:1-3)

• Matthew 24:29-31; Mark 13:24-27 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3; Romans 2:5 ; Philippians 1:6; John 6:38-40 ; 2 Timothy 4:8

We are continually reminded of Christ's return, and that there will continue to be those who reject the truth of His return, until that Great Day. - 2 Peter 3:3-4

- 2 Peter 3:14-16 - “Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, (Christ and the new heavens and new earth) be diligent to be found by him (recognized with the same character) without spot or blemish, and at peace. (assurance of salvation) 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, (2 Peter 3:8-9) 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 (untaught) and unstable twist (pervert, to distort the limbs on a rack) to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.”

You are to grow in the knowledge of Christ, firm in the faith, and settled in your minds of the truth of Christ and His Gospel. - Ephesians 4:13-14

- 2 Peter 3:17-18 - “You therefore, beloved, (agapetos: dearly Loved one) knowing this beforehand, take care (Guard, protect) that you are not carried away (seduce) with the error (delusion) of lawless (unrestrained) people and lose (forfeit) your own stability. (settled frame of mind) 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.