Do You Love This World Or The One To Come?

The children of God are not to fall in love with this world and this world will be destroyed by God. Peter tells us we should be looking for a new heaven and a new earth and warns us:

• "continuously be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of lawless people. Otherwise, you mayi fall from your secure position." 

As for myself, I take this very seriously! I do not want any part in falling from my secure position.  There is a famine of  teachers who warn this generation. When was the last time you heard a message on what Peter says? Why then do you waste your time listening to teachers who are tickling your and your family's ears? Sure, you can find a teacher to explain away the warnings, but you do that at your own peril. God wrote to children. Not Doctors and Theologians. Do not stop meeting with a believers you can fellowship with. 

Remember, the teacher you listen to and do not know intimately how they live, has around a 50% chance of being addicted to pornography and the percentage of those who deceive and tickle ears is much, much greater than that. Get into the scriptures. Do not trust man. I was raised in Calvinism and learned very, very much of the scriptures, but I was taught God chose a people and the rest were predestined to hell. In verse 9 below, the Holy Spirit tells us God does not want anyone to perish. I am not picking on Calvinists. All denominations have dangerous doctrines. Get into the scriptures and believe what is written, even when you do not understand it. You can trust God!

Be Ready for the Day of the Lord

1Dear friends, this is now the second of two lettersa I am writing to you, in which I have been trying to stimulate your pure minds by reminding you 2to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior spokenb through your apostles.

3First of all you must understand this: 

• In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule usc 4by saying, “What happened to the Messiah’sd promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died,e everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation.” 
• 5But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God’s word out of water and with water, 6by which the world at that time was deluged with water and destroyed. 7Now by that same word, the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire and are being kept for the day when ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

8Don’t forget this fact, dear friends:

• With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day. 9The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. 
• He does not want anyone to perish, but wantsf everyone to repent. 10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that dayg the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.

11Since everything will be destroyed in this way,

• think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be 12as you look forward to and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved and the elements will melt with fire. 13But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

14So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, 

• make every effort to have the Lordh find you at peace and without spot or fault. 15Think of our Lord’s patience as facilitating salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him. 16He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.

17And so, dear friends, 

• since you already know these things, continuously be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of lawless people. Otherwise, you mayi fall from your secure position. 18Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah.j Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.k

 

I do not like crosses depicting Jesus on the cross, but this song is priceless!