The fact that we're waiting for the coming of Christ doesn't give us license to sit around and do nothing.

We're not to put our pajamas on and sit on the roof till he gets here.

We're to be involved in the ministry of reconciliation.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

A man once asked his pastor, can you tell me when the end of the world will come?

No, the pastor replied, but I can tell you how to be so prepared for it that you need not be afraid if it came tonight. That answer gets right to the heart of John MacArthur's focus today

on Grace to You. He's taking the mystery out of the future, helping you to look to coming events

with confidence and joy, and John calls this

series, where in the world is history headed? So now take your Bible, if you're able, and follow

along as John begins today's lesson. Second Peter chapter three, we're looking at the section

from verse 11 down through verse 18 under the title

living in anticipation of Christ's return.

We've been asking the question since we have throughout this third chapter been dealing

with the return of Christ.

The question, what does it mean to us as Christians that Jesus is coming?

Peter has been talking about the arrival of the day of the Lord. We noted for you that following the day of the Lord is another great day called the day of God,

also in verse 18 called the day of eternity. We as believers are not necessarily anticipating the day of the Lord,

that's a judgment. We are anticipating the day of God. That's the eternal day, the day

of the new heavens and the new earth. We are joyously anticipating entering into God's

glorious eternal creation.

We are longing for that.

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