But would you join me in a word of prayer? Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord.

What a privilege, Lord, and what a blessing to be here every Sunday, Lord, and Thursday

and to be in your house under your teaching, Lord. Would you speak to us this morning as you have

something that will bless us, Lord? So open our ears to hear, Lord, in our eyes to see.

We ask this in your mighty name. Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Good morning and welcome. You

can be seated. So glad you're here. I want to welcome those of you online. We're so glad that

you're joining with us as well. Sunday mornings we're

going through the Bible verse by verse. We're currently in 2nd Peter, actually almost done

with 2nd Peter. I'm going to kind of miss Peter a little bit, kind of gotten to know him

and as of late, yeah. Anyway anyway this is the last chapter our text

today is going to be verses 11 through 14 so now that I've asked you to sit I'm going to ask you

to stand again you don't have to but if you want you can follow along as I read the text beginning in verse 11.

I want to preface this real quick if you don't mind by just a way of a reminder that these are the parting words of the Apostle Peter.

This is his final letter that he writes. He knows that his days

are numbered and soon he is going to take his last breath in this life and his first breath in

eternal life. So the reason I preface it that way is because when you're on your

deathbed as it were, it gets real. You're not wasting time because you don't have time to waste

on frivolous things. You're going to get down to business. And so that's what Peter's doing

here under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It's going to get a little bit intense,

but it needs to. So you ready? All right. Verse 11. Right out of the shoot, actually. Since everything

will be destroyed in this way, what kind of

people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God

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