That hymn to the world sounds
real formal and real staid, you know, real solemn, and it is. But for those who know it, it's
wonderful. And Martin Luther, We owe a great
debt to that man who stood alone in his day. You have a Bible
because the Lord used that man and the Lord gave him such strength
and courage and who fought with devils, literally, and wrote
that hymn. And if you ever, when you have
and when you do feel like you've been assaulted and are being
assaulted, That means a lot to you, doesn't it? And these hymns,
the world doesn't know or care for, but we do. I love that hymn. I love that hymn. Mindy and I
were watching some movie the other night, and there was an
old-fashioned congregation, Presbyterian singing. What's my favorite song? What's my favorite song? No. Huh? No. At any rate, everything
I sing in my favorite song, I'll never forget it. At any rate. What? No. I love that one too. Forget it.
I did. But they were singing it. And
they made it sound so old-fashioned and so just morose. And I know the people who watched
that movie thought that's what old-fashioned, ignorant, religious
people sing. And, Be Thou My Vision. That's what it was. I loved that
hymn. And they were singing that and
singing it real formal because they didn't know it. And I just
thought they made that out to be something undesirable. The world doesn't know these
hymns. We're going to continue to sing them. We love them. 2 Peter 3. 2 Peter chapter 3. The subject of this chapter is
our Lord's return, the end of the world. We've looked at this
quite often. We looked at it not too long
ago. Do you remember? The title was,
What They Say and What We Know. Remember that? That was just
not too long ago. We looked at this a couple of
years at the most. What they say. They say. But what we know. And we need to look at this quite
often because the Apostle Peter told us to. He said, I want you
to keep this in mind. Always be mindful of these things.
Look at verse 1 and 2. He said, Beloved, I write unto
you in both the 1st and 2nd epistles, stir up your pure minds by way
of remembrance, that you may be mindful. Remember. Back in chapter 1, look at verse
12. He says, I will not be negligent
to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know
them. and be established in the present truth, yea, I think it's
fitting as long as I'm in this tabernacle to stir you up by
putting you in remembrance. Verse 15, and I will endeavor
you may be able after my death to have these things always in
remembrance. So, you see, we need to keep
this in mind. Our Lord's imminent and certain
and soon return. Very soon. The Lord himself told
us, when you see all these things, know that he's at the door. You
can discern the sign of the times. Paul said it's not needful to
write that unto you. You ought to be able to know,
and we do. And everything points to his imminent and soon return. So he writes this to stir up
our mind. may remember. And as time goes
on and as things do continue, things do continue according
to God's good providence and His mercy. The Lord is so merciful. And as we're going to see, His
long-suffering is salvation. But men don't take that into
account. We do, don't we? And the Lord may be not returning
for the sake of one of our own. Save them. Why? I hope that's
so. But as time goes on and Christ
does not come and iniquity abounds, and boy, you don't see how it
could get worse, do you? Well, that's what he said. Perilous
times. Dangerous. Awful times. Judgment. Isaiah 59. We just read that, didn't we,
Ron, the other day. It says judgments turn way backward,
completely backward. Romans 1, you know, is such a
picture of these days, reprobate times. And look down at verse
17. He says at the end here that,
Beloved, you know these things, beware. That's why he's writing
this, to remind us and for us to beware lest we be also led
away with the error of the wicked. The error of the wicked one,
that is, the deceitful one. The God of this world who deceives
the people of this world. He's been deceiving the people
of this world since Eve, hasn't He? And He uses the deceitfulness of
sin, the deceitfulness of riches. So He says, beware. What's our
defense? We just sang it. We just sang
it, didn't we? God, our fortress, our refuge,
and His Word. His Word. How do we remember? And then the last verse says,
grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. How? How do we remember? How do we keep these things in
mind? Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Remember that? Let the Word of
God, the Word of God is how, you know, these things, hide
thy Word, write thy Word on the tables of my heart. These words be in us. We won't
be deceived. We're not in darkness as others. And how do you grow in grace
and the knowledge of our Lord? Desire the sincere milk of the
Word that you might grow thereby. The more you read it, the more
you hear it, The more convinced you are of who Christ is, the
more certain His return is, the more you see things unfolding. His Word. The Word spoken, He
said, by the prophets and the apostles. That's all the Word
of God. This is a day when very few people
are mindful of or even consider this to be God's Word, right?
We're in the day that he told young Timothy they will turn
away their ears from the truth unto fable, and call into question all of
this book as merely a fable, don't they? Beginning with creation,
and we're going to look at that. But we know, he says in chapter
1, look at chapter 1, verse 19, He says, we have this sure word
of prophecy, whereunto ye do well to take heed as unto a light
that shineth in a dark place. This world is in darkness and
ignorance. Scripture says, a grope for the
wall. But if the day dawns and the
day star ariseth in your heart, verse 20, we know this, that
no prophecy There's not one word in this book that's of any man's
personal opinion or interpretation. You know that, don't you? You
believe that, don't you? Verse 21, the prophecy came not
in old time by the will of man, but holy men, men chosen of God,
men taught of God, led of God, spake as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost. So you know that. You know that. Alright, this is written to the
Beloved, isn't it? The Beloved. It says that four
times in chapter 3 alone. Beloved, Beloved, Beloved, Beloved.
The Beloved. Those whom He said have obtained
like precious faith. They've obtained it. Not attained
it. Obtained it. Given to them. That's who this
is written to. Believers. So I'm not going to
argue tonight about, I'm not going to try to prove God or
creation or the flood or anything. We're just going to declare what
it says here. We know this thing. Let the potsherds strive. We're
not going to argue with them. We're going to just declare it.
He says, I want to stir up your pure mind. That means those who
are true believers, sincere believers, those who believe salvation by
pure grace, purely by Christ. I want you to remember. And as
we said, the best way to remember is to keep thinking about it,
to keep hearing it over and over again. That you might be mindful,
verse 2, of the words of the prophets, the words of the apostles.
That's the whole word of God. Knowing this first, verse 3.
Know this first. Keep this in mind. That there
shall come in the last days scoffers. walking after their own lusts,
that is, for their own evil desires and deceitful motives, verse 4. And they'll
be saying, where is the promise of His coming? Where is this
Jesus? You say He's coming? Well, since the fathers fell
asleep, or the Jewish fathers, all things continue as they were
from the beginning of creation. Where is it? Everything continues. And they mock. They mock. And
there's more mockery now than ever. They mocked Noah, didn't
they? They mocked all believers in
every age, but now, since there are more people on the earth
than ever before, there's more mockery. And since religion,
false religion, is so widespread, it's the religion of this world,
false religion. And I blame it on false religion,
the mockery. They've made a mockery of God.
They've made a mockery of God's Word. They've made a mockery
of God's Son so that everyone is scoffing at it, laughing at
it. But God is not mocked, the Scripture
says. In fact, Psalm 2 says, He that
sitteth in the heavens laughs. They may try to mock God. Alright, the two things he says
that the natural man is willingly ignorant of. The root word of
ignorant is what? Ignore. Willingly ignore or choose
to not believe. I reject this hands down. That's what men say. Science, falsely so called. Didn't Paul tell young Timothy,
avoid opposition of science, don't get into it. It's falsely
so called. Science means the study of truth.
They're not after the truth. They're in it for money. And
so they're going to report whatever makes them money. Whatever the
people want to say, want to hear. But this is what science and
the natural man willingly ignores and rejects. Verses 5 and 6.
They willingly ignore and reject that the heavens and the earth,
standing out of the water, in the water, that they were by
the Word of God created. That in the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth. How? Spoke it into existence. Made things that are out of nothing.
They reject that dumb thing. And it is universally accepted.
Evolution. Isn't it? You know it is. I mean,
it is universally accepted. And anyone, and even so-called
Christianity today is trying to accept some kind of creation,
evolution, aren't they? Well, I reject that. Thumbs down,
don't you? Thumbs down. Reject it. And we're
not going to argue with it. Let them argue with it. God has
blinded their mind. professing themselves to be wise
or become utter fools. It takes more faith. You have
to be a blooming idiot to believe evolution. You do. You have to
be a blooming idiot. It takes more faith to believe
what scientists are purporting today than it does what God says.
And God proves it. The heavens declare His glory.
The firmament show His handiwork. Day after day, your thumbprint
reveals God. A snowflake. Anything. Everything. My, my, who maketh us to differ?
Well, and they're willingly ignorant of this. They reject that the
world, verse 6, that then was, was overflowed with water. That's
the flood. In spite of all the evidence.
And there are mountains of evidence. Literally. Mountains. The oldest. I said I wasn't going
to prove it. I'm not going to. I'm not going
to get into that. Not going to get into it. But they thumbs
down reject that. Why? Why do they reject creation
and the flood? Why? Because if there's a God
that created all things, He owns everything. And cannot He do
with His own what He will? You do. If you make something,
you have the sovereign right to do with that whatever you
will, and nobody can say anything about it. That's God. That's
where you begin. That's where it all begins. That's
where apostasy begins. Reject that. And then the flood
is a clear story of God's judgment against sin. That God is angry
with the wicked. That God will punish sin. Hates
it. That means He's the judge. He's
the holy judge. And He will by no means clear
the guilty. The soul that sinneth will surely die. That's absolute
proof that God will judge sin. So they have to reject that.
And so what do you have? If you reject God, you reject
judgment, you reject a creator, an owner, a judge. What you fast
approach then is an amoral society or society with no morals whatsoever. There's no right and no wrong.
And haven't we just about entered that state? I saw in the rolling
up paper, did you see it? One big headline that says gay
marriage is inevitable. It is inevitable. It is. It's going to be universally
accepted, because Romans 1 says so, doesn't it? We don't accept
it, but we just understand that it's coming. Why? Because God
has left them alone. Left them alone. No right, no
wrong, because there's no God. Right? The last verse in the
Judges says, Every man did that which was right in his own eye.
There was no king in Israel. So every man did that which was
right in his own eye. And you can say that about the
United States of America and the whole world. So that's where we are, aren't
we? Be assured that we are in the very last of the last day.
As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man
be." The whole world, the Lord said He looked down and the whole
earth had corrupted His way. And isn't that now? You cannot
find a society on earth that hasn't corrupted His way. Sad, real sad. What was the world like? Our
Lord told us about it in Luke 17. It says, as in the days of
Noah, they were marrying and giving in marriage. As in the
days of Lot, they were buying and selling and building and
so forth. And those things aren't evil, but meaning that they were
prosperous time and didn't give God a thought. God blessed them.
God fed them, clothed them, did all these things. But Romans
1 says they weren't thankful, did not acknowledge God. God
was not in all their thoughts, so God gave them over. Changed
the glory of God, worshiped and served the creature rather than
the Creator, who is God blessed forever, and God gave them over. And that's where we are. Don't
be ignorant of that. Keep that in mind. Every generation has thought
that the Lord was coming, but it's never been like it is now.
We thought the 60s was bad, didn't we? The 70s? It's worse. It's
worse. Didn't think it could be. It's
worse. It's worse. All right, look at verse 7. He
says, the heavens, and by that same word, by the same God, the
heavens and the earth are now kept in store, reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment and perdition. or damnation or
ruin or destruction of ungodly men. That is, men and women who
don't give God a thought. God has reserved this world. It's facing fire and judgment. You know, there's nothing that
the world scoffs at more than to talk about fire and brimstone,
is there? Huh? For a preacher to stand up and
preach fire and brimstone. You know who that was that said
that? Jesus Christ, in Luke 17. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
one that said that. That He rained fire and brimstone.
Call Him a fool, will you? And we need to approach people
in that way. Let me say this, I need to say
it with a tear in my eye, but we need to approach people in
that way that you mock, you're mocking the Lord Jesus Christ.
You're rejecting God here. You're not rejecting me or John
Calvin or even John the Baptist. You're rejecting Jesus Christ.
He's the one that preached fire and brimstone. It's not an old
fable. It's not a foolish, old, ignorant,
itinerant preacher standing on the street corner. It's the Lord
Jesus Christ that said that. He's the one that talked about
that. Fire and brimstone reserved unto
fire. Verse 8, verse 8, Beloved, don't
be ignorant of this one thing. Beloved, that one day is with
the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The world is ignorant of that, aren't they? Men are subject
to time. Human beings are subject to time,
aren't we? We live according to time. We
think something's taking too much time, taking too long. We're not enough time. We're
subject to time. God is not subject to time. And we can't even understand
that. We can't enter into that. There
is no time with God. When describing himself, what
does he say? I am. Not I was, not I shall be. I
am. Known unto God are all his works
from the beginning of the world. I can't describe that. I can't
understand that, can you? We're creatures of time. We don't
know what 60 seconds from now is going to hold. We can't plan
or really purpose anything. Ten seconds from now it might
be over. We don't know. Not God. It's all been done. It's all
already taken place. That's what he's saying there,
that with the Lord a thousand years is as one day. And he said
one day with the Lord is a thousand years. He is so wisely and magnificently
ordered and purposed everything in the universe. And time is
nothing. What if the Lord did spend a
thousand years making something? Making something so intricate
and complex, you know, spend a thousand years. But it's still
nothing to Him. Our technology, you know, has
greatly improved or leaps and bounds in just fifty or a hundred
years. Well, a thousand years, one day
spent the equivalent maybe of a thousand years in the ordering
and the purpose of one day. That's how you can know that
all things work together and every particle of dust in the
sunbeam, he's ordered where it will go. That's our God. Men say, I don't
believe that. So be it. I do, don't you? And verse 9,
he says, the Lord is not slack concerning His promises. Some
men count slackness. He's promised. And he's talking
about the promise of His coming. Where's the promise of His coming?
Lord, I love 1 and 2 Peter, don't you? Oh, my. He says in this
beginning of 2 Peter, He's given us many exceeding great and precious
promises that by these we might escape. God has promised us eternal
life. God who cannot lie has promised
us eternal life in His Son. And you can trust Him for that.
Just rest right there, okay? God can't lie. Would you trust
someone who cannot lie, who never has and cannot? Then do it. He that believeth, hath life.
Rest right there. God has promised His Holy Spirit,
hasn't He? He said, I won't leave you comfortless.
Christ said, I'll send my Spirit. The earnest of His Spirit. And
we have Him. Those who preach Christ, believe
Christ, they have the Spirit of Christ. And they're taught. Christ's return. He promised
it. He said, Heaven and earth will
pass away, but not one word of mine shall fail. He said, I'm
coming quickly. Lo, I come quickly, he said. He can't lie. He's coming. How
many times in the Scripture does it say that? Verse 10, the day
of the Lord will come. Remember that? Paul said, When
the trump shall sound, and it shall sound. He keeps reiterating
that. Believe it, because the world
is scoffing at it. 2000, remember when the year
2000 rolled around? Everybody remembers it. Y2K. Even unbelievers were shaking
a little bit. They wouldn't admit it. They wouldn't admit it. But when the next morning rolled
around, there was a collective sigh of relief. You could hear
it. See? See, there ain't nothing to it.
Well, ten years has rolled by, eleven years, twelve years. They're
really scoffing now. Twelve years? What's twelve years?
Is our calendar right? Oh, come on. I know they missed a day somewhere
because the sun stopped. Well, man doesn't have a clue
what time it is. Man, oh man, don't have a clue.
Well, where am I? Verse 9. The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise. He's promised that Christ will
return. And some men can't slacken us.
And you know He says this to us to remember that time is of
no essence to God, that known unto God are all His works from
the beginning, that God has predestined and ordered all things for our
comfort, that we might not be unsettled by Christ not coming yet. We want
Him to come. And as people begin to scoff
and laugh and say, He's not coming, don't let anything they say bother
you. That's why we keep looking to
His Word, believing Him. But it's kind of like this. When our Lord was here, nothing
bothered Him, didn't it? Nothing bothered Him. You read
a book, and I often do this, I read books over and over again.
Some books I've read several times. And if you know the end from the beginning, If you know
the end from the beginning, even if that book contains many heartaches
and sorrows and troubles and turmoil and disasters and traumas
and all of that, if you know the end from the beginning, you
can read it through without being too upset. Can't you? Well, folks, we do have the end. We do have the end. And we need
to read that every now and then, Steve. We need to go right to
the end and read it. Keep reminding ourselves, this
is the end. It's good. It's real good. Christ called himself the end.
I am the beginning and the end. Alpha and Omega. I am. That I
am. And nothing would bother us if
we would keep these things in mind. Keep the end. Know the
end. You know why things take place, you bring about the end,
you know the outcome, and you know it's all good, and it might
make you smile a little bit more, a little more comfortable even
in these trials. So we need to keep reading the
end from the beginning. But the Lord is not slack, it
says in verse 9, concerning His promise that some men count slackness.
See, He's not coming. Not on your schedule, he's not.
No man knows. He's told us that many times.
And you've got all these fools out there telling people it's
going to be in 1984, George Orwell said. Or 2001, 2003. Any man that says
that is an obvious false prophet. But people fall for it. You know
better than that, don't you? Because our Lord plainly said
that no man knows the day or the hour. We know the general
seasons and what seems to precede His soon return, but
we don't know the day and the hour. And it's a good thing,
isn't it? It's a good thing. We all procrastinate. And so we're to be looking as
if He were coming tonight. Right? Tonight. Well, and he
might. But he's long-suffering. Verse
9. There's no verse in the Bible that men pervert more than this
one right here. 2 Peter 3, 9. I always bring
it up. That woman on the radio wrote me and quoted this to me.
I didn't answer her. The Lord is not slack concerning
his promise, as some men count slackness, but he's long-suffering
to who? Who does he write him to? The Beloved. Us. He's talking
about them. They say it. But we know. He's
long-suffering to us. You've got them, you've got us.
You've got the unbelieving world, and you've got us. Our Lord said
they, speaking of us, are not of this world. Well, he's long-suffering
to us-ward. Now look at verse 15. You need to account. Keep this
in mind. The longsuffering of our Lord
is salvation. Had the Lord come to this earth
in 1973, I would have been damned. But He waited to be gracious
to me. His longsuffering is salvation. He bears long with the world
for His elect sake. He bears long with us in our
sin. for the fullness of time when
he's going to reveal his Son to us. Amen. He puts up with
us a long time. Bears long, waiting for the fullness
of the Gentile, waiting for his purpose in all things to be fulfilled. Long-suffering, not willing that
any of his people should perish, any of us should perish, but
that all should come to repentance. And so God gave them all to the
Lord Jesus Christ, who said, I give unto them eternal life,
and they shall never perish. That's why they'll all come,
because the Shepherd calls them. And they come. And God works
with all things according to His will. And if He's not willing,
it won't happen. So verse 10, the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the night. As a thief in the night. in which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise." Then talk about
a big bang theory. It's going to be a big bang all
right. That trumpet is what it is, trumpet
sound. And the elements shall melt with
a fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein
shall be burned up. Everything in this earth burned
up. Think about that. Every one of us have worked hard,
haven't we, for many years and accumulated a lot of things.
Burned up. That's why it says, what manner
of persons we ought to be, to dwell on and pursue after and
be taken up with and in love with things that are going to
be burned up. Gone. In a moment. Burned up. My grandparents,
my dad's parents, lived in Tecumseh, Georgia when I was just a boy.
I had a little farm down there. Right beside the General Store. Uncle Lawrence's General Store.
We'd go in there. It was a potbelly stove and a
nail keg and the men played checkers on it and sat on the front porch,
honestly. And there were mason jars everywhere.
But oh, I remember that farm so well with such vivid, wonderful
memories. My fondest memories were Tea
Country, Georgia, that farm. They lived right across the street
from a sawmill and there was a pond there we swam in. They're
just wonderful memories. I had some cattle and we befriended
those. They were pets to us and so forth.
And my grandparents were on Social Security at the time. And one
day, I don't know where they were. Where were they? They came
home. Their house was burned to the
ground. They did not have any insurance.
None. All that they worked for, gone. He had to move to Ashland. And
it took years for him to recover then. He lived in a little bitty
house, a little poor house. They were well taken care of
by the Lord, but all gone. Our Lord said, all the works,
all the architecture, art, works of art, science, music, knowledge,
technology, houses, lands, attainments, everything man works for are
nothing. Boy, that ought to put things
in perspective, shouldn't it? Holy conversation, he says there. We ought to be in all holy conversation. That's not some fake, phony religious
talk, you know. That's not what that's talking
about. It's just talking about having your affection set on
things above. Colossians 3, right? Where Christ
said it. Like Hebrews 11. If they had
been mindful of that city from which they came, they might have
gone back. But they look for a better one, a city whose builder
and maker is God, which has foundations. They will never perish. Heavenly
things, things that wax not old, where moths and thieves and rust
can't corrupt. That's what he says. Things that
are higher. Things that are nobler. Eternity.
Eternal things. The things that are seen are
temporal. We ought to look at everything in light of eternity,
shouldn't we? Ought to. And God's people do
for the most part, but that's why this is written. To remind
us. To keep reminding us. I need reminding more than anybody.
We all get led away with the error of the wicked, don't we?
The wicked one. Look at this. Look at this. He tried to tempt
our Lord with these things, didn't he? They found nothing in him. I don't want anything in me either. Lord, remove these idols. Verse
12, looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of
God wherein the heavens on fire shall be dissolved. How do you
haste His coming? Look forward to His coming. Hastening His coming. Well, the
more we think on His coming, the more we talk about it, the
more we meet together, and exhort one another so much more as you
see the day approaching. We're all thinking about it,
and it makes it nearer, doesn't it? It makes it more real, and
it makes it nearer. There have been times we've met
together when we thought, the Lord's coming tonight. Remember
that? There was a New Year's Eve service.
Several people said, we thought He was coming tonight. Well,
there will come a time when He does, and I believe it will be
when God's people meet together. I really do. Just like they were
standing out there watching him go, they said, he shall so come
in like mares. You've seen him go. When his
people are looking for him. Meeting together, praying, calling on
him. In a moment, twinkling of an eye. And we're going to be
like Enoch, Nancy. We're going to be singing and
all of a sudden wake up in glory. Our voice is perfect. The dew
of youth on our brow. That's true. That's not fable.
That's not a Kundalini-devised fable. That's the truth as it
is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he says, Beloved, verse 14,
he looked for these things, so be diligent. Remember, Peter's
the one that said, give diligence to make your calling and election
sure. That means watchful. That means always about these
things, always doing this. Why do we meet together? We're
watching together, exhorting one another. We're giving diligence. We're trying to make sure, am
I one of his? Am I one of the called? Am I
one of the elect? I believe I am. I hope so. Well,
whoever the elect is, he keeps calling. He keeps calling. If
you keep coming, you're one of the called. So we give diligence. To be found of him in peace,
that doesn't mean just peaceable. That means in Christ. without
spot and blaming. Who is going to be found wholly
unblameable and unreprovable in God's sight? Who? Those in
Christ. So that's where you want to be,
in Him. Account the long-suffering of
our Lord as salvation. Paul spoke of this, he said.
His wisdom, he gave this in his writings, all of them, in all
of his epistles. He spoke of our Lord's return, His resurrection
and His return. Because everything depends Everything
we believe depends upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Our salvation depends
on that He came and He died for our sin. Our salvation depends
on the fact that He rose from the grave for our justification.
And our final, eternal salvation depends on Him coming back to
receive us and take us home. Well, He did. I mean, He did
die. And He did rise. And He is seated. And He is coming again. He said,
if it were not so, I would have told you. And I come to receive
you to myself, he said. And so Paul wrote of this in
every epistle. And unlearned and unstable men
and women, twist and corrupt, he said, we're not as many that
rest or corrupt the Scripture. To their own destruction and
those who hear them. Verse 17, Beloved, you know these
things, seeing you know these things before. Beware, lest ye
also be led away with the error of the wicked. There's another,
but it's in Hebrews, it said, Diligence take heed, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from
the living God. There's been some people leave,
haven't there? There's been some people we know that thought,
loved the Lord and left. And it can happen, can't it? How do you know someone really
knows this saying, really knows and loves the Lord. They keep
believing. They continue in the faith. And
faith cometh by hearing. Beware. Beloved, beware. Grow
in grace. Grow in grace. Oh, He's the God
of all grace. We need it. It comes through
His Word. I hear Him. We need the grace
of We need the grace of faith. We need the grace of perseverance.
We need the grace of wisdom. We need His grace. And this is
how it comes. It doesn't come any other way.
And the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. To know Him is to love Him. To
know Him is to trust Him. The more you hear of Him, the
more you hear Him preach, the more you read about Him, the
more you call on Him, the more you commune with Him, the greater
your faith and trust, the greater your peace, the greater your
comfort. It's so, because everything we believe is Him. The resurrection? He said, I am the resurrection. It's not an event, it's a person.
To Him be glory both now and forever. What do you say to that?
Amen. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus. Alright, you're dismissed.