And so we're waiting for the presence of Jesus Christ, which will be the glory of the eternal

day of God, which will be the jewel of the new heavens and the new earth.

And if our life is right, we have no shame because we have no unconfessed and repeated sin,

then we can eagerly anticipate the coming of Jesus Christ.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

The Puritan, Matthew Henry, said that anyone would be alarmed if he knew he had only

a month to live, and yet people are careless, even though no one knows if he'll live another day.

Of course, you can't be sure how long you're going to live. What's more, you don't know when

Christ will return either. That demands a different approach to day-to-day

life. A perspective the rest of the world doesn't embrace, you might call it expectant living.

On today's broadcast, John MacArthur will show you why living in expectancy of the Lord's

return is crucial to living the way God desires. It's part of John's study titled

Where in the World is History Headed? And with that lesson now, here is John MacArthur.

2 Peter Chapter 3. We're looking at the last section of this epistle, verses 11 through 18.

Peter has unfolded divine revelation in this great epistle for the purpose of safeguarding the church from the incessant

onslaught of false teachers.

Chapter 1, he gave us some very important instruction about how to make sure that we're in a right relationship

with God. Then in chapter two, he described the characteristics of false teachers, and then in

chapter three, he has been refuting their main error. In whatever assembly, Peter was directing his attention. Obviously, these false

teachers were attacking the second coming. So in the first ten verses of chapter three,

Peter has done a masterful job of refuting those who deny the second coming of Jesus Christ.

So chapter one really laid a foundation by talking about our own relationship to the living God and making sure it is as it ought to be. Chapter 2 gave us a very clear insight into what to look for as we assess those who offer themselves as true teachers but

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