Forewarned is Forearmed

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Well, if you will turn with me to 2nd Peter Glorious privilege it is every time to open this book is a gift from God 2nd
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Peter as you know 1st Peter as pastor has been faithfully laboring this past year 1st
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Peter was persecution coming from on the outside 2nd person 2nd Peter is persecution coming from the inside.
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So you'll see in both of these epistles This a beloved apostle that once denied our beloved
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Lord has been restored and he's exhorting us To stay alert and he's arousing us to be reminded of this truth because even the pure and sincere in mind
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Can have bad memory. I'll say that again even the pure and sincere in mind
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Can have a bad memory So if you will take what take your
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Bibles this morning we're gonna look a 2nd
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Peter chapter 3 verses 1 through 7, but I'm gonna read in the context verses 1 through 9
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Beloved I now write to you this second epistle in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder
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That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken By the
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Holy Prophets and the commandment of us the Apostles of the Lord and Savior Knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days
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Walking according to their own lusts and saying where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation creation for this they willfully forget
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That by the Word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water
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By which the world that then existed perished being flooded with water But the heavens and the earth
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Which are now preserved by the same word a reserve for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
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But beloved do not forget this one thing that with the Lord one day is a thousand years
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And a thousand years as one day The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count slackness
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But as long -suffering Towards us not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance
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Amen as the introduction this topic of this introduction is called delays delays
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Just recently my wife and I went we went on a vacation to Fort Lauderdale and on our trip back
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We were flying out of that Airport there and our flight was delayed two hours
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Well next thing we know we see everyone coming back off of a plane Sitting down and there was panic chaos.
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Everybody was in a frenzy People were murmuring yelling and I just took the time to just be still and read
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And just start praying As I was looking all around us, you know people were saying they should give us free drinks, you know meaning probably more than well,
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I think this man and his context was saying alcoholic beverages and Everybody was saying yes
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But uh nevertheless He looked around and I thought you know
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America is considered the wealthiest country and you know, we're in a hurry
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Always seem to be in a hurry get on the road his day people run you over always in a hurry always in a hurry
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What is the hurry for about? So as I want to introduce this this text and frame this text
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I believe each year we see that we're waiting less and less
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For example, let's bring some things Traveling now we can travel as things once took months.
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We can be there in hours Think about this when you used to be able to write postcards now can be done in an instant message
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Meals, which we took time two or three hours to cook going to the market getting fresh food fresh produce
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You should see my mom do it now can be Express cook one put push of a button
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But not even that now it can be even meal prep throughout the week and brought to your door You don't have to do even push a button
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Not even that let's go a little bit further. How about we dabble into our finances?
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While wait and save money we can just take a piece of plastic swipe it How about let's go to the greatest common grace that God has given man marriage
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If I get married we can just enjoy the pleasures of sex, but I'll get married More and more we see the tides of this world.
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It's not coming in. It's going out and it's going out Rapidly fast in a hurry
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So as you see waiting confronts all of us in some form or fashion it confronts us
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Because ultimately God's timing is not our time Men do not enjoy waiting for anyone anything and including
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God himself This whole text right here that I just read is about the second coming of the
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Lord. Yes Jesus is gonna Restore the glory unto his name. He's gonna make he's gonna make all things, right?
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But the redeemed of the of the church beloved if you look at throughout history, you know Noah he was mocked
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It took a hundred years before the flood. He waited We saw Abraham and Sarah waited 25 years for the birth of Isaac and the promises that God would give him a son
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How about Moses? Waiting all his life. He was prohibited to go in the promised land, but hundreds of years later
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Those would go in and inhabit the land But God's promises are never late
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They're never late But there are mockers which
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Peter is trying to say be on guard And what Peter's gonna do
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Beloved what he's gonna show us to be reminded. He's gonna show you their leaky logic their leaky logic
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Because only God's Word is truth and can hold Yes leaky logic what he's gonna show you is their lifestyle they're unholy and in their creed
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They're gonna have a form of religion. They're gonna say all keywords your father's They're gonna use all keywords of religious genre.
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They're not ignorant of the things of God They know the Word of God and that's why they're mockers because mocking is a deliberate sin
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So persecution affliction suffering and waiting on the second coming of Christ can either cause one or two things it can cause growth
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Or it can cause bitterness Your response will determine the result so if you will
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Let's look at I'm gonna try to frame this Peter's trying to get our attention and he's going what
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Peter's trying to do here There's three arguments. I'm gonna look we're gonna look at verses 1 & 2 3 & 4 and then 5 6 & 7 so in verse there's gonna be three arguments that Peter's trying to show us the
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Credibility he's going to try to ground the credibility of the second coming of Christ And it's going to come through three arguments the first argument remember these three
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R's The first one is remember God's Word in verses 1 through 2 The second argument is going to be in 3 & 4 it's going to be the ridicule of the scoffers and Then third it's going to be the rebuke of scoffers in verses 5 through 7
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So these are the three arguments that we're gonna try to cover this morning by God's help there's a lot that I want to share with y 'all and So if you will, let's look at verses 1 & 2 the first argument was this beloved epistle this
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Apostle Peter He's not typically known as the the Apostle of love
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This is more or less John, but here's a salty fisherman that has been changed And he says beloved
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I now write to you this second epistle in both Which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder that you may be mindful of the words which are spoken before by holy the holy prophets in the commandment of us the
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Apostles of The Lord and Savior let's stop right there If you will flip with me back to I want this word beloved.
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I want you to read this for yourself Because he's speaking to you. He's speaking to you this morning. Those have totally rested in Jesus Christ this if you will turn with me to Deuteronomy three chapters back from where we read this morning
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Deuteronomy chapter 7 and I want you to hear this is what God thinks of the word beloved
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This is what the word beloved means it's a chosen people by God You are be loved by God, this is my beloved son whom
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I'm well pleased starting in verse 6 This is who you are For you are a holy people to the
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Lord your God This is just dripping. It makes you want to fall down the
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Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for himself a special treasure a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of this earth
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The Lord did not set his love on you or choose you or chose you because You were made in the not because you are more in number than any other people for you were least of all the peoples
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But because the Lord loves you the Lord loves you And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers
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The Lord has brought you out of them with a mighty hand and Redeemed you from the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt Therefore know the
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Lord your God. He is God the faithful God who keeps his covenant and mercy for a thousand generations
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With those who love him and keep his commandments. Let's stop right there That's what the word beloved means
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Peter is saying. I love you, and you but in your loved of God But God especially more than men because if every man on this planet is angry at you and God's please
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You're good Like we just said this morning. I always remember that verse psalm 711 because that's where you get gas and it's flammable
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So just remember it's a good way to remember scripture But nevertheless this morning look what he says beloved.
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I'm not right to you. Do you see that the tone of this? He's like beloved. I write to you the second epistle in Both of which
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I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder It's almost like he's just writing the beginning of the introduction of this epistle
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But in life, sometimes we have fire drills in life. We have we go from important to urgent It's almost like something was more urgent than what he was trying to stir up their minds and it was
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She and there was wolves in sheep's clothing and that needed to be addressed And that's love
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So now he's getting speaking directly to the beloved not longer no longer to I hate to say this
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I'm gonna go ahead and say it incarnate devils They're incarnate devils. They're in the flesh acting like the devil their father like father like son
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Beloved I now write you this second epistle on both of which I stir up your pure minds
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Isn't that interesting doesn't that just grab you pure minds? It makes you almost feel like you got a mirror pointing back at your own heart saying am
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I pure? Am I really pure? If that searchlight goes on but that word really pure means really sincere and serious serious
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Pure sincere and serious so what I This to stir up your pure minds
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I started really digging into that word stir up and Pastor you guys will probably really enjoy this since you like make fires
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And I see those pictures are nice and cozy But when a fire starts to go out you prod it
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To make the embers stir a flame that you can have a bigger fire
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So what he's saying is simply fan into flame What the
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Lord has taught you fan in the flame that gift that you've been given the mystery of heaven Fan it into flame if you need somebody else to help prod you do it
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Keep a blaze that gift so like I said anyone knows how to tend a campfire
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Knows that stirring or glowing embers can die like I already said a pure and sincere mind can also
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Have a bad memory can also lapse can Get distracted So that's what the
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Apostle Peter here is doing He's prodding us like a fire a fire gives off two things light and heat light and heat light and heat
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We naturally go grow cold and we all need to be stirred to develop the gift that the
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Spirit of God has given each one of us That we walk and not bring a dishonor to his name
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So, how do we cooperate with the Holy Spirit to stir up ourselves in one another
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I just Some things I started to study is of course godly discipline buffer our bodies
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Don't quench what quenches the fire what quenches the fire sin going nearness to what quenches the fire
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Avoid every appearance of evil Yes, so also meditating and asking questions stir yourselves up to holiness
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Not neglect not neglecting the Spirit of God, but allowing him to thrive in us as a flame
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This this morning if you continue look pure minds by the way of reminder really
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Reminding is like a picture frame Being reminded is the picture frame in this whole these two epistles.
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He's trying to remind us that Stay focused. There's greater. There's a greater day coming.
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There's a great the great day is coming The great so that you may be mindful mindful the words which are spoken by the
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Holy Prophets notice He says the Holy Prophets. We just I want to share this with you.
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There's no more false prophets There's only false teachers That are counterfeits of the false prophets
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They always duplicate and replicate the things of God they're always imitators So there's no more false prophets those utterances a people say they hear it's gibberish
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It's foolishness Really, they're walking in in the sensual desires of their flesh because they have rebelled willfully against the things of God So they're only giving over now to sensual desires of the flesh
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So if you will I want to get to the heart of the matter and I want to take this garb off of these scoffers
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It says the Holy Prophets the Holy Prophets MacArthur I really like how he breaks down this
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From Genesis to Revelation discusses the foundational characteristics of true prophecy
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True prophecy, I'm gonna give you four ways that you can test true prophecies
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Number one, they're always verbal always verbal Because it's the very words of God Notice this it's never an impulse or feeling on an experience that needs interpretation
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True part prophecy is always accurate and precise Number two is always testable.
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It's either true or false Deuteronomy says that when it was tested it was it was condemned and input to death.
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They were put to death So it's always Verbal, it's always testable and it's always error -free
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Error -free means it's utterly unaffected by no matter how much the human is involved in it
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Because God is using that person as a vessel. So it's error -free
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True prophecy is always error -free and it's always authoritative So it's always verbal it's always testable always error -free and it's always divine authority authoritative
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So that's how we can test the prophecies but beloved. I want you to always remember this. There is no more false prophets
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There's only false teachers that are still teaching the damnable heresies of these false prophets They they're passing a baton
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And it's a false one It's cotton candy that will rot your teeth out And it's not sustainable meat
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Christ said those that eat of my flesh and drink of my blood That means his incarnation and his death
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That's what we're to feast upon the life and the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior So thinking is more than a mental process or an ascent
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True thinking involves the ability to discern what is truth from error
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And then apply it So, where does this come from? Where does this discernment come from?
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That's why Paul Tells us in Ephesians 4 18. It says they had their darkening their understanding
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They're darkening. They're walking in darkness Because there's no fear of God before their eyes
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The fear of God God gives his children discernment to discern what is truth from error Because the
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Spirit of God is the power generator. It gives us the ability to receive And then believe the truth
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So what is this the commandment right here in verse 2 it says that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the
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Holy Prophets and the commandments of us the Apostles and the Lord is the
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Apostles of the Lord and Savior Beloved I believe this is all the inerrant. This is all 66 books the
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Church of God Some people will say I just credit the Old Testament That this is saying all the
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Holy Prophets New Testament and all of them Everything and even the
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Apostles is saying the law and the gospel It's all in there. It's all
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God's Word So the central command is the gospel.
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I believe what Peter is getting to here I believe comes from Matthew 48, which is part of our Lord's Sermon on the
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Mount be ye perfect Therefore as your Heavenly Father is perfect.
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That's the command. I believe that they're aiming at So that's the first argument that we see
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There's a big difference gonna be between the form and fire that we're talking about coming up here There's a big difference between form and fire
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So knowing look at verse 3 here comes the second argument the ridicule from scoffers
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Ridicule is simply put disrespect a Creature To disrespect its creator
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Not only is this I believe aims at your fate, but this is ultimately at the hope of your fate
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Which is God's gonna come back Jesus is coming back. He first came humbly, but he's second returning with all the armies of heaven
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First three knowing this first It's not a it's not a list that Peter's trying to say But he's trying to say knowing this first is this is very vital and at the top
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You need to be able to identify these people mark them out that scoffers will come in the last days the last days is from The resurrection of Christ until now as many people.
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I'm sure you believe we're in the last of the last days Because it says in the last days people will be lovers of themselves and in the sewer pipe flows from there
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That is the sewer pipe that all other vices will flow from is the love of self
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And you'll see this in their own lifestyle and Peters were exposing their leaky lifestyle and their leaky logic
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Because bad doctrine ultimately will always lead to living unholy
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Always as a man thinks in his heart. So is he? Verse 3 knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days walking according to their own lust.
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I Believe this is lust gone wild lust gone wild no restraint
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Eat drink be merry. They want the finest things the luxurious things This is where their heart is and I want you to I want to reveal their hearts if you will
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Let's go to Psalm 119 And I want to get to the heart of what God exposes their heart not by what their mouth says, but let's get to their heart
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Psalm 119 verse 70
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Psalm 119 Psalm 119
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Verse 70 you ready? Their heart is as fat as grease
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Yes, their heart is fat is grease, but I delight in your law Let's dig let's stop right there for a second.
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What is fat is grease? What is this? Do you know if you took a pen and you poked a pig in the side?
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He will not fill it till it hit his muscular tissue Because the fatness makes you insensible to the admonitions of God He's talking about the heart so what are the symptoms of this fatty heart you ready
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What are the symptoms of this fatty heart? There's four of them. Number one is pride
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Number one symptom of this fatty heart is pride Number two, they hate the
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Word of God If they hate the Word of God, then they hate the people of God and it and its messengers.
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He will not be liked Never has never will be oil and water don't mix number four
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They're always ready to lie. It lies on their tongue and you know, you probably have people in your family
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Everyone that this is exposing them Friends co -workers, they're always ready to lie and it doesn't matter about what?
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It it just as a passing of breath can look at you like my wife was telling me
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She has this funny video that where this kid has been in the cookie I've been in the cake and he eats his big blue cake and the father says did you eat that cake?
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She got blue cake all on his face and just bowl face. Oh Just no and blue icing is all over its kids face and it just naturally says no
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But you know And lastly the symptom is fatal this fatty heart is a fatal
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Thing So the question is God doesn't desire any of these people anyone even the scoffers.
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He doesn't desire them to perish So what is it repent? repent
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Creating me a clean heart so if you look at this as Spurgeon said in the treasure treasure of David.
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He said number one that you see this fatty heart It's a fatty Degeneration of the heart and on the second end of this it says but I delight in your law
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This is a thorough regeneration of the heart so number one you have a
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Degeneration of the heart then you have a thorough regeneration of the heart, but I delight in your law
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So, of course, you know Sin is a down downward spiral This fat is grease is only sensual indulgence
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Growing insensible course grumbling as Sin did
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Solomon it binded him and grinding him and it ultimately blinded him It makes you stupid in our natural sense.
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We were all once golfers Not verbally saying it but Satan his damnable doctor and is always telling us surely you won't die
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That still teaching is still prevalent today surely you won't die still going on today
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But God says in Hebrews it's appointed unto man to die that we all have an appointment day
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It's appointed unto man to die then comes the judgment So that's why this beloved if you flip flip back with me to second
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Peter So that was their hearts as fat as grease and that's their symptoms of their heart always remember this
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Scoffers indeed demonstrate that they are apostates in word and indeed in word and indeed if you will
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Before I go any further. I believe that Peter has in mind. I must read again.
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This is ridicule From the scoffers in verse 3 and 4 knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days walking according to their own lusts and saying
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Where's the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep and they all continue as they were from the beginning of creation so in verse 1 we see
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Peter saying remember remember the truth But knowing this that scoffers will come in the last days walking according their own lusts and notice they ask a question
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They ask a question. This is not a sincere question This is a question of ridicule
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You know our beloved disciples even our disciples in Matthew 24 Came to Jesus and said when will the end of times come?
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That was a different motive They're asking when notice they're asking where?
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That's key They're asking where not when
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Where is something that you see when is in time time is not visible If you will flip with me to Matthew 24 and this is what
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I believe Peter has in mind that he's gleaning from Because all of these epistles are only commentary to Jesus's sermons
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Matthew 24 Let's hear from the master himself Our friend our advocate our mediator our life our food the love of our life
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The light of our life the bright morning star of our life our God our Shepherd our rock our bulwark
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Let's hear from him Matthew chapter 24 starting at verse 3 now as he sat on the
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Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately saying tell us when these things will be and What will be the sign of your coming at the end of age?
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This is a this is please uh Tune in your ears and Jesus answered and said to them take heed
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That no one deceives you take heed They're gonna play upon the own deceptions of your own heart
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For many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and would deceive many And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars and see that that you're not trouble for all these things must come to pass
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But the end is not yet For nation will rise against nation
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Kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines Pestilences earthquakes in various places and these are the beginning of sorrows
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Then they would deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and will and you
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Will be hated by all nations from a namesake and when then many
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Will be offended will betray one another and will hate one another Then many prophets will rise up and deceive many
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And because lawlessness will abound the love of many will grow cold. That's what
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Peter's trying to keep us from doing He's trying to keep us from growing cold He's trying to keep us from becoming
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Like Laodicea like lukewarm He's trying to keep us from that because the pure and sincere mind can still have a bad memory
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From growing cold, but he noticed this this is key, but This is key, but he who endures to the end shall be saved and the gospel and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached all the world as a witness to all the nations and Then the end will come.
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I believe this is where this is where Peter's leaning from The scoffers will come in the last days if you flip back verse 3 knowing that scoffers will come in the last days
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We've already seen that their heart is fat as grease Is it full of pride and all they live for is the central desires of the flesh?
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But because they cast out all the restraints and all the common graces that God has given them because they know the
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Word of God Yet they have denied it Not denied it, but died denied him
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It's a person as the Arminian says I found it no no no he found you it's not a it is he found you so getting in verse 4
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Notice what they're saying where is this promise of his coming? For since the father's fell asleep notice.
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They use all the right genre Religious genre, it's accurate and things continue as they were from beginning of creation
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If you look at this If you'll look at this they say where is the promise of his coming?
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Arrogantly these scoffers are denying the judgment day will come because if you're living comfortably in sin you have to change
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And that a God and a judge even exist So arrogantly these scoffers deny even if they can go back to the beginning of creation
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Notice they go to Genesis Notice where they go The very first word in the
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Bible in the beginning God it all starts with God and it all ends with God So notice these scoffers are not interested like I mentioned in the wind they're interested in the where Does this sound very familiar?
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Has God said indeed? Has God said indeed? same questions they get these questions from Their father whom they're under his dominion very cunning very very cunning
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Hint they doubt the truth Notice they say where not when so it's the validity of the truth of God.
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They play fast and loose with God's Word It's right there where Where just like the
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Jewish people did before before the exile cursed is the man who trust in man? Jeremiah 17 9 tells us
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Again this question is not of innocence or request for information But as it is blatantly a proud unbelief in their own heart.
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They have become resolved to do evil Because they love sin Malachi says you have wearied him
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By asking by saying all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them
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Where is the justice of God? Jeremiah 17 15 where is the justice of God?
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How dare a man a creature called God to his bar? How can this be?
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That is insane. You're senseless You're sensual Shameful, and you're seriously stupid
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That's what sin does to you they're basing these questions upon a perverse unbelief in the
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Unchanging nature of the world and notice how Peter answers them if you're gonna go to the beginning let's go to the beginning
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Let's go there. I'll take you there Okay, God created the heavens and the earth with the word he sustains it with his word, and he destroyed it with a word
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Nothing's changed. They're still finding seashells on the Grand Canyon floor up top on the rim John MacArthur said they're all around he's found them in his backyard
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But not to get into What's that? Anthropology, but uh we'll stay to the
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Word of God, but it's by God's Word So they try to go to the existence of God even as evolutionists.
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This is called the term is Unitarianism uniformitarianism or something like that where they believe everything never changes its uniform These trees tell us there's change
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It's change, and it's coming a great change. He sustained it with his word He destroyed it with his word, and he's gonna bring the same way the heavens will open and It will be destroyed with fire by word
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You remember he says if you will look at uh they notice this in verse 5 for the for this they willfully forget
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They willfully forget. That's a little bit of sarcasm, but it's like They willfully forget. It's like You play fast and loose and want to pick and choose of what you want to remember and what you don't want to remember
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But by the Word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water
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I wish the world that then Existed perished being flooded with water
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So if you will I guess I've already started in verse 5 through 7 This is the rebuke of the scoffers and Peter answers their question for this
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They willfully forget that by the Word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water
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By which the world that was then existed perished being flooded with water
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But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word are
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Reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly So Peter answers his opponents by reminding them that they deliberately forget two vital facts the flood in the destruction of this world, so In closing, so this is where I want to I want you to So here it is
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So in closing if you will remember this as in Paul says in Galatians Galatians 6 9
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And let us not be weary and well -doing For in due season we shall reap if we faint not
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It is a pity to faint just when time is coming to reap So keep on sowing keep on sowing and keep on sowing we are debtors to infinite mercy
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Really faintness and growing weary. So there's a temptation there to grow weary and that's what
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Jesus said Stay here pray That you do not fall asleep pray that you enter not into temptation
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Blowed as I have grown more by God's grace Prayer is hard work
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Prayer is really true ministry because out of that relationship. You're so showing your dependence upon God When your prayerlessness is your end of entered
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Independence from God when your prayerlessness your independence from God is manifesting itself
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So the question we ask
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How do we take heed? How do we not fall into this? lukewarmness of heart
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Are you saying remember what the beloved? Peter said right here. We love it.
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I now write to you this second epistle. I Stir up your pure minds by way of reminder by way of reminder
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So this morning God's promises are not slack and all his promises are yes, and amen so when
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God hasn't Through your fervent prayers through even prayer You haven't been even he's he's preparing that mercy so that your praise will be that much greater to him
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So when he holds back Delivering you from either persecution or temptation or from slander and sometimes we won't
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God to vindicate sometimes we desire to God to You know You probably have sense in your own walk as being foreigners here some days you feel like you can take a rock and slay
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Goliath and some days you feel like Elijah you want to run and hide from Jezebel Or be even like David for instance and foam in the mouth and act like an insane man
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Don't you feel the fickleness of your own? Faintness in your own weakness, but beloved remember this in our weaknesses.
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His strength is made perfect So he's saying bring them to me and I will perfect you my strength will be made perfected
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And that is such a liberating thing because the world tells you the exact opposite Is that you're the victor all strength and all the answers lies within yourself if you look to self you'll perish forever