Skip to main content

Sunday Sermon!!!

Greetings Everyone!! It's Sunday again! Praise the Lord! I hope that this message blesses you as much as it blessed me while writing it. And, as always, May God richly bless you today!! H Trent!!

“What Does Our Future Really Hold?”
Scripture: 2 Peter 3:1-9

Introduction:
Did you know that it is the end of the world as we know it? You see, in the spectrum of world faiths the Bible gives a unique appreciation of the future; the passage of time is meaningful and directed, we are going somewhere. The Christian message is not just about having Jesus in your heart, or even a message about going to heaven when you die. It is a message about a new heaven and a new earth which in one shattering future event will replace this old and corrupt world we are in now. When people say, “What is the world coming too?” I like to respond that the world as we know it is coming to and end my friends. If you have your Bible, please turn with me to 2 Peter chapter 3 starting at verse 1 and let’s find out what our future really holds:

1. The Relationship Between God and History (v5-6).
Here Peter refers to Noah’s flood. Folks, God does act in History. He is not someone who has set the whole show in motion and then has retired like some kind of cosmic clock maker. God is passionately concerned about the world He has made, and He is concerned with our place within it. Yes, He meets us daily with blessings, causing the sun to shine on the just and the unjust, but He will also meet us in judicial discipline just as He did in Noah’s day. Friends, if we ignore our Creator and live our own selfish lives, like some of us do, God will eventually hand us over to the logical consequences of ignoring Him as our society is starting to show us today. Take a look around us and you will see most folks wrapped up in selfish and political ambitions. When you say good-bye to God, you can say good-bye to social stability. If God is working in history then it makes perfect sense that He will guide it to one grand conclusion with one final and climactic scene before the curtain comes down. Will He come again? You can bet your life on it!

2. The Relationship between God and Time (v8).
Time can only be measured in an arena where change can take place. Our bodies grow old, our cars wear out, our buildings fall down. But what if we lived in eternity? What would our time look like from that perspective? Such a being would see everything within one moment, the end from the beginning. Nothing would take Him by surprise. God is not thwarted by anything we might do. God is the Eternal One! So, whether or not it is five seconds or five millennia, from the standpoint of His plans it is all the same to Him. Does two thousand years seem like a long time to you? Well, it is a mere blink in the eye of eternity as far as God is concerned. Don’t be fooled into falsely thinking that just because Jesus has not returned yet that He will never return. As Peter states in verse 10, the day will come like a thief in the night. Jesus’ coming is imminent, it could happen at any moment. God expects us to be ready to meet Him at anytime.

3. God’s Relationship With Us (v9).
How do I know that God passionately loves us and does not want us to perish? For the Bible tells me so! When we have offended God by the sins we have committed, our spirit, our conscience tells us that. How do I know? Some two thousand years ago the God of history came into history as a baby. The God Who is so passionately committed to us became one of us, going to a lonely cross, and taking upon Himself the judgment which is rightly yours and mine. So, He the Judge was judged in your place and mine. He took the punishment which was yours and mine. And then He was raised from the dead, and He now reigns in the glory of heaven, and He is going to come back and claim the world and His people for His own.

Conclusion:
Either we live in a cold impersonal universe with no meaning, or what the Bible teaches us is true: the universe is the work of a glorious, loving Author, whose signature is written in the heavens He has made. This Divine Author--this Word--has declared that we matter and that the whole history is moving toward a dramatic climax. Are you ready? Do you long for meaning and direction in your life? Do you desperately desire to get back in touch with the One who made you, who loves you, and who is patient with you? Well, you can, you know. And the way you do it is to come to Christ turning away from sin and the things of this world, confessing and repenting and receiving from Him, the gift of life.

Pastor Harold Trent.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

We Are Royal Priests!!!

If you are a Christian, you are a priest, chosen by God. As members of the royal priesthood we have constant access to the King. If there is ever a need in our life, we don't have to find an intermediary or enlist another priest in order to gain a hearing from the King. Our position as royal priests allows us direct access. This privilege describes our position as a priest. "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." 1 Peter 2:9. We need to also understand that priests also have a function. It is the responsibility of a priest to work within a priesthood. Scripture does not promote the practice of individual priests, each with a separate ministry. Priests are supposed to function together. (Lev. 9:1). An unbiblical sense of individualism can isolate us from functioning within God's royal priesthood as He intend...

Thinking About Calling Down Fire!?!

James and John were refered to as "the Sons of Thunder" in the Bible. When they discovered a Samaritan village that would not receive Jesus, they were fully prepared to call down fire to consume the entire community. "And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?" Luke 9:54. Maybe they felt that through such a show of power, the gospel message might be enhanced. The two brothers were willing to sacrifice the lives of the village in order to further the cause of the gospel. However, Jesus rebuked them! Later, the apostles heard that Samaria had responded to the gospel. Guess who was commissioned to go and help them receive the Holy Spirit? None other but Peter and John! It was God's purpose that the people not be destroyed but saved! God chose not to rain down fire on the village, but to shower it with His Holy Spirit! I wonder what w...

To Give or Not To Give!

  As a society in today's world, we are taught that money is everything.  We will spend 3/4 of our lives amassing money and things to make us comfortable for the last part of our lives. The Bible teaches us that, "Money is the root of all kinds of evil." 1 Timothy 6:10 NKJV.  It does not say that money it's self is evil, but that it can lead to evil. There is nothing wrong with having vast amounts of money, the question is, where is the heart in great fortune?  Where is the heart with little fortune? Today I want us to visit a passage of scripture that deals with fortune and where the heart is:   "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings.   You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation.   Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the LORD of hosts, "If I will not open for you ...