Month: October 2016

  2 Peter 3:16 There are some things in them (Paul’s Letters) that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction… I identify with Peter’s sentiment when he says that some of Paul’s words are hard to understand. There is a lot about the bible and God that I do…
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2 Peter 3:10-12 …The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved…Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,…
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2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not patient. I want what I want and I want it now. When…
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2 Peter 3:8 …With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. When I was a kid (and sometimes still as a near-grown-up) I would literally make my head hurt trying to comprehend eternity. How could God not have a beginning? How could there not be an…
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  2 Peter 2:3 …Scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. In the late 80s, I had a sweatshirt that had a look-a-like Guess logo on it with the inscription, I Don’t Guess, I Know, followed by some bible verse. I cringe now, but at the time, I…
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2 Peter 2:22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit…” Our dog gets carsick. He is a puker. If he does not throw up in the car, he throws up as soon as he gets out. Then, in an act that is inconceivable to us, he…
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2 Peter 2:20,21 If, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness… I…
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2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. Functional brain imaging has shown how repeated use of a drug (in an addict) actually damages and shuts down the part of the brain that normally inhibits destructive behavior. As it…
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2 Peter 2:1,2 …There will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies … And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. Not long ago, while engaged in a conversation with another individual in recovery, I was given this advice. Scott, you…
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2 Peter 1:5-10 Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love… for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. I find passages like this frustrating. It…
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