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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Second Peter, chapter 1, verses 12 to 21, as Peter begins to sense in his spirit that his time for

departing this life is drawing near. And therefore, he begins to share the biggest burden of his

heart. And the biggest burden of his heart for the Church of Jesus Christ,

not that the Church be financially well endowed, not that Church of Jesus Christ be merely socially

accepted in society, or that the church members are popular, or that the church members are accommodating well to the

pressure of the secular humanism, or that the church members are happy.

But that the church of Jesus Christ and the church members are armed with the truth,

that the church members are not being misled by fake gospels, by fake news,

and that the church members are not taken in by these falsehoods,

that the church members do not fall victims of this false biblical interpretation, that the church members do not

believe this popular lies. And so in verse 12, all the way to 15, Peter is saying that as long as he has

breath, as long as he's living in this body, which he calls a tent,

he will never tire from proclaiming the truth, that he will not get bored or be dissuaded

from repeating the truth. Why? Because as a Jew who knew his Old Testament

only too well, he knows what a fickle memory his people have. And you need only to read

Exodus and numbers and Deuteronomy. Every time they face a problem, they forgot the truth of God.

How prone they were to want to please their flesh instead of the God who delivered them.

How easily they wanted to go back to Egypt after all that God has done for them.

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