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BE DILIGENT TO BE HOLY UNTO HIS COMING!
LORD’S DAY, JUNE 28
2 Peter 3:11-14
1 Thessalonians 3:13
 
“… that ye may be blameless
in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
 
BE DILIGENT TO BE HOLY UNTO HIS COMING!
 
Peter’s emphasis in this passage is “what manner of persons” (2 Pet 3:11) we ought to be in the light of Jesus’ impending return. In 2 Peter 3:11, he urged: “seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved … ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness.” Living for the glory and pleasure of this world is not worth it, as all that are in the world will soon be dissolved.
 
We are a people of a better world. Here, we are “strangers and pilgrims” (1 Pet 2:11). We have to be different. It is our “holy conversation and godliness” (2 Pet 3:11) that make us different from the people of this world. In 2 Peter 3:12, Peter admonished us that since “the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,” we should be “looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.” We must be heavenly minded, instead of earthly minded. Instead of being concerned about laying up treasures on earth, we must be zealous about our treasures in heaven.
 
We shall see calamities abounding year after year. We should not be too sorrowful. When we see this earth steadily running into chaos, we must “look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2 Pet 3:13). Our hope and our passion for His presence must increase. Then we shall be “found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless” (2 Pet 3:14). If we do not walk in the light of the promise of new heaven, there will be serious spiritual setbacks in our lives.
 
When the Lord returns, how will He find us? Concerning the apostates, we are told that “spots they are and blemishes” (2 Pet 2:13). But we who have the hope of our Lord’s return must be “without spot, and blameless” (2 Pet 3:14).
 
THOUGHT: “Signs of the times are everywhere,
                     For the Lord is coming in the air;
                     Keep your eyes upon the eastern sky,
                     Lift up your head, redemption draweth nigh.”
PRAYER: “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev 22:20).

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