Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.

In college, I had a few pass-fail classes. These are classes you didn't get a traditional grade in but instead were either graded as a

pass or a fail. So the goal or at least my goal was to do the least amount of work

possible that would earn me a passing grade. When you know you're going to get a traditional

grade that applies to your GPA then it sharpens your focus you work harder you pay attention you do the homework

But when you know that your grade really isn't going to matter it's really not going to

count against your GPA well you get a little lazy when you think about the

return of Jesus and that you one day will have to stand before him and give an account of your life.

Well, it makes you take your faith more seriously.

You see, if you don't ever think that Jesus will return, if you don't think you'll ever have to stand

before him, it's hard to be serious and sober about living for him.

2.3 is all about the return of Jesus. In this chapter Peter tells us that Jesus will

return, why it's taking him so long to return, and how we should live until he returns.

So let's just dive in in verse three. Peter writes,

Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come,

scoffing and following their own evil desires.

They will say, where is this coming? he promised.

Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.

Peter says that there will be scoffers who deny that Jesus will return.

They say that God is kind of like the boy who cried Wolf.

Remember the boy that kept saying a wolf had come to attack the sheep

...