This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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Today I'm beginning a new series of messages from 2 Peter, and I'm calling it it's never

too late for a reason, and you will become apparent as we go through the series, but I'm just

introducing it today. Second Peter is one of those epistles that seldom preached from. It is seldom quoted by preachers.

It's one of those things. And yet, it is filled with encouragement. It is filled with warnings

against subtle spiritual deceptions that seem to be invading churches all across the land today.

We're facing so much deception today. And that epistle is saying, wake up, wake up,

don't fall for the deception that the world is preaching and the false preachers are preaching.

In fact, as I began to study

the passage of fresh and look at it with fresh eyes, I am convinced that it is written for our day.

Today, my beloved friends, you know this and I know this, that discernment, discernment among

church-going folks, discernment on the part even of some of the elect.

It's so lacking that it is discouraging at time, that the spondency and the lithogy on the part

of many a church who refuse to stand up and be counted is enough to discourage us at times.

The attitude, well, is too late.

We can't do anything about it.

It's pervading our society, pervading our churches.

Beloved, it is time for the people of God to rise up,

to stand up, and stand for the truth of the gospel.

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