The Good News: 'In God We Trust'

The Good News: 'In God We Trust'
Pastor Jay Message 7/5

2 PETER 3:3-18 (NLT)
[The Day of the Lord Is Coming]
3Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires.
4They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again?
From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”
5They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.
6Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.
7And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire.
They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.
8But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
9The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think.
No, he is being patient for your sake.
He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
10But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief.
Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.
11Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live,
12looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along.
On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.
13But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
14And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.
15And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved.
This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him— 16speaking of these things in all of his letters.
Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture.
And this will result in their destruction.


[Peter’s Final Words]
17You already know these things, dear friends.
So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. [A stern warning to not be swayed or influenced by anything or anyone that is un-holy or ungodly].

18Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen.



[MAIN REVELATORY FOCUS]:
The people who have made an open claim to adore Me and revere Me are the same ones who ignore a life of repentance and rejected the way of thorough cleansing.
The masses of professing believers in the church want My blessings but they have abandoned belonging. They have abandoned communion. They have abandoned the refining.
The people are scattered and still they want the blessing.
The people are adulterers yet still they want fresh anointing.  
The people are robbers and thieves of what belongs to Me but want prosperity.
The Gospel they want to preach is the same one they will not embrace, for we are living in the last days.
Where have My lovers gone?
They lust with their eyes, sing perverse melodies with their mouths, they burn with ungodly passions and yet their confession is to want all that is Godly.
When will they understand that the only way to a life of freedom and breakthrough is through communion with The Lamb?

Apathetic and indifferent spirituality has become the norm.
It has distanced obedience and conviction and trained many to become complacent and ignorant to the desperation I am after.

Yet this isn't the greatest opposition you are up against.
You must drive out the spirits of stubbornness, rebellion and wickedness that seek to attack the unity. It seeks to destroy what I have built and demolish the calling of My chosen ones, My people.
It is time to stand not just for truth but IN truth and drive out the spirits of witchcraft that are plaguing the church at large.
The salvation of many are at stake.
How you drive this out is by fervent and unwavering prayer, harmonious unity and a holy lifestyle with Jesus steadily at the center.

Be The Word to this world.
I am not looking for sanctimonious offerings.
I am looking for a sacrificial one.
One covered in full obedience and a sincere heart.