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start a brand new book at the Bible. This is my favorite thing. This is what I

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for him. Alright so we're gonna open a brand new book at the Bible today we're

in second Peter New Testament and we looked at first Peter we just finished it

last week and it's gonna take us four weeks to go through second Peter. Peter

is the leader of the disciples hand selected by Jesus and in his first letter he

told them and us in chapter one you're suffering various trials so think of all

the trials that we're all going through financial economic spiritual

relational personal emotional. By chapter four of first Peter he peered into

the future and he was prophesying saying what is coming is fiery trials meaning

it's gonna get worse before it gets better it's gonna be harder before it gets

easier and then a bit of time lapses and then he writes second Peter because

the future that he peered into and prophesied now has come to pass it's gotten

really bad it went from bad to really bad here's what I'm telling you it's

gonna get worse that's what I'm telling you and I tell you that not to scare you

but to prepare you and what they were dealing with is very similar to what we

are dealing with and that is that they were part of the Roman Empire which was

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