2nd Peter 3.14.

Therefore beloved since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish and count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation.

So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given him speaking of this as he

does in all his letters. There are some of things in them hard to understand which the

ignorant and unstable twists to their own destruction as they

do the other scriptures.

You therefore beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of

lawless men and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.

Amen.

Well, this morning we take leave of our 10 weeks day with 2 Peter and the last text that we want

to look at together is chapter 3

versus 15 to 18.

What I'd like to do to begin is is mention six brief points that I want to focus on and then we'll look at them one at a time.

First from verse 15, we should regard the time in which we live before the Second

Coming as a time of salvation. Second, from verses 15 and 16, the Apostle Paul also taught this, and Peter puts Paul's writings in the same category as he does the inspired scriptures of the Old Testament.

Third, from verse 16, the inspiration of Paul's letters nevertheless do not mean that they are all easy to understand.

There are some hard things in them to understand.

Fourth, from verse 16, the misinterpretation of scripture can lead to destruction.

Fifth from verses 17 and 18, therefore,

guard yourself from error and from destruction

by growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus

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