I am continuing on with Peter’s final letter. Today he gives a message that we miss all.to often. We think of this world and our bodies as unimportant.

Wrong. This world matters

2 PETER 3:11-18
11Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, 12waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire? 13But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.
14Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish; 15and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures. 17You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability. 18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Asimple point to begin with. Peter endorsed Paul. The do vision between Jesus and Paul is false. We have therefore got to take Paul’s teaching seriously.

The second point is that we are Christ’ s witnesses. Not the clergy, but all Christians. What we do reflects on Christ.

Thus do good and avoid even the appearance of evil, as Christ would. This will offend the religious and self righteous. Christ offended them.

For the duty we took on when God chose us was to reflect him. Our lives should be a witness and offend those of this world. If they do not, we need to return to Christ. While there is time.

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