and a peace that endureth. Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide. Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow. Blessings, all mine. The greatest blessings, pardon for sin.

All right, go back with me now to 2 Peter 3. 2 Peter 3. Read with me again. The first verse, this second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you, in both epistles, that is, I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. Remember Peter said, you purified your mind, your heart, your soul, and obeying the truth. You're clean. But he, is writing this, the Lord had Simon Peter write this to remind us, to remember some things.

Look at chapter one, verse 12. He said, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them. I'm gonna keep reminding you. Verse 12, I might be negligent to put you in remembrance. Verse 13, I think it fitting as long as I'm in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance and knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle. This is his dying word. Verse 15, moreover, I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

The Lord had him write these things to remind us, to remember something, and to keep these things in mind. You know, a great reason for our troubles and our misery is our memory or lack of it. We're slow to learn, aren't we? And quick to forget. Or someone once said, cleverly said, too soon, old, too late, smart. That's true, isn't it?

The Word of God is written to the people of God, the children of God. Chapter 1 of 2 Peter, look at it, chapter 1. In verse one, he says, Simon Peter, a servant, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. This is written to God's people, those that are born of God. They're called the children of God. And like children, We need to be constantly reminded, don't we? Constantly reminded. Same thing. Children have these things about them. Their attention span is so short in them. They're easily distracted. Are you? We're all guilty, huh? Our attention span is so short, like children, our memories are so short.

The thing is, when we're real young, that memory's short, and then we get a little more memory later on, and then the older we get, we go right back to being children again. Forgetting thing. But we're exhorted, and exhorted to remember these things. The very last thing Peter says in this epistle is, grow in grace. in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. So God's word is to God's people. This is written to God's people, all right? Not the world, not the world. He calls him beloved four times. Four times in this third chapter, he's writing to God's people, the beloved of God, the chosen of God, the elect of God. They're beloved to one another, to Simon Peter.

Now let me say this, we need to remember, we need to remember, we need to be constantly reminded of God's word, God's precious promises to us, exceedingly precious promises. We need to be constantly reminded of God's work, his works and his work, his great work. That's Psalm 90, I keep telling us to read that over and over and over, Psalm 90, Psalm 91.

And he says in that Psalm, Moses, let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children. The work of salvation, the work of God, the work of Christ on Calvary's tree. We need to be constantly reminding them. That's my job, to preach Christ.

We need the warnings in scripture, full of warnings. I've quoted my pastor so many times, the scriptures are full of promises lest we despair, warnings lest we presume. The Old Testament is full of them. The Old Testament is a reminder of what God did, what all God did for the children of Israel.

The story of the children of Israel is Genesis and Exodus, and then after that, well, Numbers and Deuteronomy, but after that, it's a reminder. of how God chose them and loved them and revealed himself to them and what all he did for them and fed them and all the psalms. You know how many psalms speak of all the wonderful works of God? Throughout the, I kept, I looked up how many times he tells us to remember, to remember, remember. So many times. And he says, don't forget. Don't forget his works. Don't forget the pit from which you're digging. He tells them, remember that you were in bondage. He says that four or five times.

Paul said that in Ephesians. Remember, you were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. Enemies by your own will. Don't forget. Don't forget. If you forget, the gospel will not be sweet to you. Forgetting where you came from. Forgetting what God did for you. Take these things for granted. We need to be reminded, don't we?

Psalm 78. Go back there. Psalm 78. If you didn't read it, read it. Let's look at a few of these verses. Psalm 78. reminded to be mindful of these things, think on these things all the time. And let me say this before I go any further. Our salvation doesn't depend on us remembering anything. Our salvation depends on our God remembering us.

All right, if you've read Psalm 106 and 107 and all of it, they forget, they forget, they forget, they forget, but God remembered. Don't you love Psalm 106, where it says that many times that they provoke him, nevertheless, he regarded their affliction, he heard their cry, he remembered for them, his covenant. I preached a message one time on what we can't remember, God can't forget, that is covenant. And what we can't forget, our sin, as ever before, God can't remember. He says, there's sins and iniquity, I remember no more. The only thing God can't remember, that's amazing, that we forget. But God cannot forget his people. I cannot forget his covenant.

John, in Psalm 78, verse one, give ear, O my people, to my law, and cloud your ears to the words of my mouth. That's what Isaiah wrote. That's what they all, hear and your souls will live. Listen, don't let the, Hebrews is a summary of the whole Old Testament. Was it chapter three? He said, don't let these things slip. Today is the day of salvation. The word has been preached. Don't let these things slip. Under us, the gospel's preached to them, it's preached to us, don't let these things slip. Let's not sleep as do others.

Verse seven and eight, he said that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandment. It might not be as their fathers, stubborn, rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart right, whose heart and spirit was not steadfast with God. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to miss out, do you? Verse 10, they kept not the covenant. Verse 11, they forgot his works and his wonders. They forgot that he'd showed them. Look at verse 17. They sinned more and more, provoking the most high in the wilderness. All through the Psalms is this, the same story. Like Ephesians 2, you that were dead, enemies and all that, but God. Look at verse 22, they believed not in God, they trusted not in His salvation. Verse 32, for all this they sinned still, they believed not in His wondrous work. Verse 34, when He slew them, then they sought Him. They returned and inquired early, and then they remembered when God slew them, when God chastened them. Nevertheless, they did flatter him, verse 36. They flattered him with their mouth. Have you ever sung these songs with your lips only? Have you ever prayed prayers with your lips only and your heart was far from? That's flattering, God.

But look at this, verse eight, nevertheless. That's Psalm 106. It says in verse 38, that's it, 38. Verse 38, but he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity, destroyed them not, yet many a time turned his anger away, did not stir up all his wrath, for he remembered they were just. passes away and cometh not again. Isn't that wonderful? So our salvation, brothers and sisters, is not dependent on us remembering, but on God remembering us. I say that for our comfort.

But here's what he says, you will remember. This is Ezekiel 36, he says, you will remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own time. That's a good thing to remember. God won't let us forget.

Now, the children of Israel had lapses of memory, many of them, and the Lord reminded them, but some of them turned back. Says that over and over again, they turn back. And so the Lord reminds us, Hebrews 10, go to Hebrews 10. Don't turn back, don't turn back. Look at Hebrews chapter 10, a reminder. As said, the whole book of Hebrews is a remembrance of what all God did for the Hebrews, the children of God, of Israel, And in Hebrews 10, look at verse 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. He is faithful, that promise. And was it Peter that said we have many exceeding precious promises, whereby exceedingly precious promises, whereby you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that's in the world through lust. Verse 20.

Four, let us consider one another, provoke unto love the good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as a matter of some ill, but exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the day approaching. We're gonna hear Peter say, hastening the coming of our Lord. In verse 26, if we sin willfully, what does that mean? It means departing from the living God. It means turning back. There's no sacrifice. Verse 27, a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation. What Peter writes about, we shall devour the adversary. But look at verse 36. Now you have need of patience. After you've done the will of God, you might receive the promise for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith. Faith in God, faith in Christ. But if any man draw back, my soul shall not, shall have no pleasure in them.

But, and boy, here's what I hope for you and me, that we're not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Now go to 2 Peter. Let's just go down through these verses, okay? So he's reminding us, and all through the Old Testament and our Lord Himself. And His Sermon on the Mount, and His Matthew 24 and 25, it reminds us.

But look, all right, look at it with me. Let's just go down through these verses. This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you. In both epistles, I wanna stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, that you may be mindful, thinking of, The words which were spoken before by the holy prophets.

What words did the holy prophets speak? What did the prophets write about? What did the prophets preach, huh? Christ said, they are they which testify of me, didn't he? Through him give all the prophets witness. All the prophets spoke of Christ, didn't they? The Christ who would come.

Well, did he come? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. As the last verses in Malachi, to you that look for him and fear his name, those that met together and feared his name and spoke of these things often one or to another, shall a son of righteousness appear with healing in his wings? And he has, he did, didn't he? He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

He did, didn't he? He did that. Just like God, just like the prophet's promise, he came. He lived. He saved his people. He went to the cross, shed his precious blood, put away their sin. That's the covenant that God made, the promise God made concerning all of his people that were in Christ, their sins and iniquity. I'll remember no more.

Why? Because Christ put them away by the sacrifice of himself. Remember that. Don't ever forget that. Then our Lord say, this do in what? Remembrance of me.

But then again, as I said, we are like that thief on the cross. Here's what I hope, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. But don't let me forget. Don't let me turn back. If I forget, and I go on, if it's not just a lapse of memory, not just a bad state I get in, and I depart from the living God, I turn back. There's no overman. That's serious.

So don't let me forget. I want you to be mindful of what God has promised us in Christ. Don't forget. Mindful, thinking on, set your affection on things above. And the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord Jesus, the Lord and Savior.

What commandment? Singular. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Trust him. That's the commandment. God commandeth all men everywhere to repent and believe.

All right, verse three. Now though this first, keep this in mind. Keep this in mind. There shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts. These are the very last of the last days. It's so clear, isn't it? It's so clear.

What do you call it? A crusade that the Jehovah Witnesses to disprove the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, you know, they've got a sign up out there on 220 now that says this, nothing in scriptures says, nothing in scripture gives a sign of the coming of Christ.

Now, our Lord did say, and even on adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. That's what he said, but no sign shall be given except what? The sign of the prophet Jonas, what's that? That's Christ's crucifixion. But he gives his people signs. His people, he said, you know these things, you see these things.

When you see all these things, lift you up your head. The disciples came and asked him, Lord, what's the sign of your coming? He preached Matthew 24 and Matthew 25. Didn't he? When you see all these things, He's at the door. This thing's not gonna be like a thief in the night to us, is it? That's what you read in 1 Thessalonians 5.

We're not in darkness as others, that he should come and we're not looking for him. Oh no, we're waiting on him. You see those clouds in the sky? That's the dust of his feet. He's stirring. Uh-huh. He's coming with clouds.

When it thunders, he's speaking to us, isn't he? What's he saying? I have both glorified my name and will glorify it again. When the lightning strikes, what's that? The reminder. He's going to be like the lightning that strikes from the east wind. Oh, many things. The trees remind us of him. Yeah.

But the scoffers and these mockers, mockers. You know, God is not mocked. Men mock and it's religion's fault. The fault is False religion, they've made a mockery of God. God loves you and Jesus died for you. Has a wonderful plan for your life. Won't you let him be God? What a weak and worthless God that is. And the whole world's laughing at that God. And this Jesus is standing out in the rain wanting in your heart. The whole world's mocking and scoffing and laughing. This is all a bunch of, an old Jewish fable and a bunch of wives fables and tales and ain't nothing to it. They're laughing at God, but God's not mad. I read in Psalm 2 where it says, God laughs. I read in Proverbs 2, he'll laugh. He said, I will mock when your fear come in. Didn't he say that?

No. Men may think they're mocking God, they're making a mockery of God, but it doesn't change God, doesn't change the truth, doesn't change God's people the way, what we believe in. It makes us mad. And God, he that sits in the heavens, laughs. He said, I've set my king on my holy hillside. Now you better kiss the sun, lest he be angry. Serve the Lord with fear and trembling. God's people do. The world mocks and laughs, walking after their own lust. That describes the whole world, people. That's what John said. The whole world has nothing in it but lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh. They cry to life.

Now know this, he said, that they mock and scoff, say, where's the promise? Verse four, where's the promise of his coming? Since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. And this they willingly are ignorant of, Peter said. Willingly ignorant, suppress the truth. That's Romans one, isn't it? They hold the truth in unrighteousness. They suppress it, suppress the facts. Science falsely so-called. suppress the fact, religion suppresses the truth. They hold it in unrighteousness. They won't say what God's word said, but twist it, corrupt it. They're willingly ignorant, willingly ignorant.

That by the word of God, the heaven, this is creation, the word of God, by his word, he created all things, by the word of his power, didn't it? standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was was overflowed with water and perished. The willingly ignorant of creation don't want a creator, so they make up things, make up evolution. Don't want a God, so they make up these things. Don't want someone that owns them or someone that controls them. The willingly ignorant. They don't want to believe, they do not believe in a holy and righteous God, a just God who will by no means clear the guilty and will punish sin and is going to destroy this world by fire. They don't believe that. They don't believe in the flood. They don't believe that that happened. They believe that's an old Jewish fable. It's just an allegory. It really didn't happen. That's what the modern man believed. You know it's so, don't you? Do you believe? Our Lord spoke of Noah, Peter spoke of Noah more than anybody else, all through the scripture. Noah was a preacher of righteousness.

At the dinner, a few of us the other night, a young man, religious young man, came up and sat down and we talked to him a little bit. And I was talking to him about how the false gospel's out there and there's few that are preaching it. And he knew me, he'd heard me preach many times on the radio. And we got to talking about Noah. I said that the whole world rejected the truth and there were only eight people. He said, you really believe there's only eight? I said, it says that two times, three times, four times. He said, well, sometimes that means, a number means more. Rest, the scripture twisted. Eight souls saved by water, that's what the scripture said. Noah and his family, nobody else. Is that right?

Well, the willingly ignorant, The heavens, verse seven, the same heavens and earth which are now by the same word kept in store are reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. And the whole world laughs about fire and brimstone, these fire and brimstone preachers. You know who first said that? Jesus Christ. The whole world is calling Jesus Christ a liar. And we believe him, don't we? We believe him.

Now here's the wonderful thing. It says that everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation. Yes, by the grace of God. Isn't God good? Isn't he good? His tender mercies are over all his work. The rain falls on the just as well as the unjust. If God's in heaven, let him strike me by lightning. And it doesn't happen. See? God is not subject to time. He's on his own schedule. God doesn't listen to the taunts of worms. Do you? What if you're walking through your yard and a worm says, hey you, I don't believe you. You don't own this place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was not trying to make anybody believe. It's a wonder, it's a miracle, it's great mercy and grace that He causes anybody to believe, any of these rebellious worms.

What was I going to read? Oh, Genesis 8. Our Lord promised this, while the earth remaineth, seed time, harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not see. God put a bow, a rainbow in the clouds as a token of his covenant, not to destroy the world by flood ever again. Isn't God good to everybody? He's so good. He's so good, but fire's gonna fall. And I don't relish this, I don't look forward to it, I'm not trying to, I don't want anybody to go to hell, but they are, and God's gonna do it. I don't want to preach with that attitude at all, sending everybody to hell, no, I won't pray for them. But the fact remains, this is no cunningly devised fable. This is fact, and the Lord Jesus Christ said it, and he told his disciples to write it and to preach it and me.

So, verse eight, beloved, beloved. Four times he says beloved, and it's important that you know who he's writing to, especially because of verse nine. You know how many people quote verse nine? God's not willing to issue parents. Like all the scriptures, they take it completely out of context. It's not to them. It's not talking about the world.

Beloved, don't you love the buts in scripture? But God. But beloved, don't you be ignorant. We're not, are we? Of this one thing that one day is with the Lord is a thousand years, a thousand years is one day. God, the wheels of God's providence and God's sovereign purpose and all that move, but they move slowly. So slowly we can't discern it. Damn it. Thousands of years have come and gone. How many? Six. Not billions, 6,000 of years. I mean, God is not subject to his own time.

And like I said, what's that verse? Because sentence against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Scripture said, Ecclesiastes 8, 11. because sentence against an evil work is not speedily executed. There, lightening and instrument. Therefore, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. See, there's no God, no right, no wrong, no consequences, no sin, no judgment, no nothing.

The last verse in Judges, listen to this. In Judges, you remember, there's no king. There was no king in Judges. It was so bad one time a woman was raped, Deborah. Things were so bad that the only person who had any sin was a woman named Deborah. And the very last verse in the book of Judges says, because there was no king in Israel, no sovereign, no ruler, every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And doesn't that describe the day we live in? That the sovereign God, this holy God, is not being preached on the pulpit. The whole problem is blamed on this pulpit. Not this pulpit, but those pulpits out there. They don't preach a sovereign, holy, and righteous God. They don't preach Christ, reigning, ruling king on the throne, His work, His will, Him, salvation. They preach man. They are of the world, they speak of the world, and the world love to hear it, and they flock to hear them all.

All right, beloved, don't be ignorant of this one thing. Today is a thousand years, a thousand years is a day. The Lord is not slack, verse nine, concerning his promise. He's coming. All his promises, none of his promises, he's not slack. He keeps his promise. We sang that hymn to him, a great is thy faithfulness. He keeps his promise. There was a group years ago of men that got together. They were all so unfaithful, they decided to have a group together. They called it Promise Keepers. As if they'd all get together and bond together and get religion and make promises that they'd all be more faithful. It didn't work. I don't think that's around anymore, the promise keeper. You hear that? Promise keeper. There's one great promise keeper. It's our Lord. He's true to his promise. He's not slack concerning his promise.

That is, he's putting it off, as some men count slack men, but he's long suffering to us work. Who is he writing to? Beloved. Us. Us, not them. Us. Them, not them, us. Long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repent it. Not willing that any of us should perish. Aren't you glad? You say, I'm confused, preacher. You tell us not to go away, not to forsake, you know, not to turn back and forsake God, and yet he won't forsake us. Which is it? God wrote this, I didn't. I'm just repeating what he said. Why don't we question that? You're not confused, are you? You know if he doesn't save you, you won't be saved. You know if he leaves you alone, you'll leave. Yes, you will. What's confusing about that? We need reminding, don't we? Here's the thing, if God keeps reminding you, and you don't forget completely, and you don't turn away and leave, then you are one of his. You are one of his. If not, you're not. Does that make sense? Sure does.

So he's not. .. Slack concerning slackness is when some men count slackness as long suffering to us Not willing that any of us should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Look at verse 15, I love this. The account that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation. We've got some people that we have a burden for, that the Lord will save their souls, don't we? Our children, our grandchildren, these men pray in the study every time we meet for our children and our grandchildren, don't we? We have a burden for them that the Lord will save them before it's ever too late.

This is not a fable. This is not, we're not making this thing up. This is not just religion. This is the truth. And we have a concern and today is a day of salvation. The time is sure and we're redeeming the time. How's that? By preaching the truth. This is desperate. But the long suffering of the Lord, here's the thing. If the Lord had come in 1973 when I was at the height of my rebellion, 74, I'd be in hell right now. And the 70s were bad. The 60s and 70s were bad. You older people thought, boy, it can't get any worse than this, didn't you? The 60s and 70s. Well, it has, hasn't it?

Now, you need to account. That God's long suffering is salvation. He put up with me a long time. He put up with some of you a lot longer than that, didn't he? Isn't God good? And we don't presume upon his mercy. We beg him to save before it's too late. Today's the day of salvation. He keeps saying it, today, today, today, today. That's why we're so burdened for our children. He'd listen, listen, listen. Well, if it's God's will, they'll hear. That's true, but there's no, may there be no tomorrow. Right? This is urgent. This is why Peter kept saying, I'm gonna have, I want to remind you. I'll keep reminding you, remind you. Verse nine, that all should come to repentance. It's the goodness of God that leads us to repentance and long suffering.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, not for God's people, but for the rest. What's a thief do? Steals. Comes to kill and steal. What's the coming of our Lord gonna take away? Everything everybody lived for, gone. That's what he said. Which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, the elements melt with a fervent heat, the earth and the works therein, gone, burned up. Everything that people live for, what are we living for? What matters, really? What on earth matters? Would you tell me? Besides this? Burn that, boom, like that. Work all your life, boom.

Seeing then, verse 11, all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Holy and godly means just thinking on things above, mindful of God's word. Conversation is life. Christ is our life. That's Colossians, isn't it? Christ, our life, looking for. Verse 12, I love this. Looking for. And hastening unto the coming of the day of God. Looking for. Looking for his coming. You be like men, he said, that wait for their Lord.

I love that story I've told you before of a man who was in England who had some business to do in London, and he took his young son with him and told him to set him off at a shop there in town. And he said, you wait on me, I'll be back. I've got some business to attend to. Well, the man got busy, and he kept busy, and he forgot that son. And all of a sudden, he remembered. See, it happens to anybody. He remembered. You ever done that? My parents forgot me, and I was the fourth, and they forgot me. I was at church, lying asleep. I was about two years old, three years old, on the pew. And they went home, locked the door, turned the lights out, and went home. They said they forgot me. I believe them.

One time, Walter Groover, they were going to, Betty, they went to some village, Pueblo, to have services. And Betty went on before him and said, Walter, don't forget the baby's bottle and diaper bag. Don't forget the baby's bottle and diaper bag. Don't forget, don't forget. Well, Walter came out there, and they're there, and Betty said, did you get the baby's diaper and bottle? And he said, I sure did. She said, where's the baby? He forgot the baby.

It can happen. Why did I say all that? Because looking for, because that man came back, and he found that boy. right where he told him to stay. He said, son, I was worried about you. I was worried about you. And he said, well, father, he told me to wait here on you. He never moved. He stayed right there.

Be not moved away from the hope of God. Be waiting on our Lord Jesus Christ. Okay? That's what we're doing together right now. Come to hear his word. Him to meet with us and to worship Him, what we're gonna be doing in glory, perfectly. And hasting the coming of our Lord.

What's that mean? Well, have you ever had someplace you wanted to be, you wanted to go like a vacation or somebody you wanted to see and you were looking forward to it? And the more you think about it, the more you look forward to it, the nearer it seemed. Is that not right? The nearer it seemed, well, the scripture says in Revelation 1, he said, I come, lo, I come. In the volume of the book, it's written to me, lo, I come. And in the last chapter, he says, I come quickly. And you know what God's people say? Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Come quickly. Come.

Hasting, the coming of the day of God. The more we meet together, The more his gospel means to us, the more real and near his presence is, and the nearer his coming seems, isn't it? Doesn't it? The heavens will be on fire. He repeats it again. Verse 12. Elements melt with a fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Does that appeal to you? Oh my, we're like Lot in Sodom, aren't we? Vexed. Not only with what's around us, but what's in us. We want the Lord to be merciful to us and lay hold of us and take us out of this place, don't we? Us and our children.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing you look for such things, be diligent, be diligent. You know what Paul wrote in Hebrews 12, looking unto Jesus, the author of the finisher. And he went on to say, looking diligently, looking for him and looking to him. See that you be found of him in peace without spot and blameless.

How are you going to be found of God without spot and blameless and at peace with God? How? That's right. Paul said, I want to be found in him, not having my own righteousness. It's full of spots. And now unto him is able to present us Paul. Now count verse 15, that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation, as our beloved brother Paul, brother Paul in his wisdom wrote unto you in all his epistles. You see that? This is repeated over and over again. Remind us of these same things. Speaking in those things, some things hard to be understood. The unlearning, unstable rest and twist, their own destruction.

We don't do that, do we? No, no, no, I don't do that. These preachers don't do that. Brother David, Brother Gabe, these men don't do that. The 2 Corinthians 2, 17, no, as of God, in the sight of God, we preach Christ. We don't twist the scriptures. We don't.

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, you know these things, then why repeat them silent? Because slow to learn and quick to forget. Do you need to remind you of these things? We all get caught up. We all get caught up and taken up in this world. We do.

So beware, lest you be led away with the error of the wicked. That's what our Lord told us to pray. Lead us not in temptation, deliver us from the evil one, the wicked one. And you fall from your own steadfastness.

Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Where does faith come? By hearing. So does growth. desire the sincere milk of the word that you may what? Grow their mind.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. What do you say to that? Amen. Now that means you agree with all this. Amen. It means that's the way it is. Do you believe that? That means it can't be changed. Amen. Amen.

Okay, stand with me.