Casey Barnes - March 27, 2022
Not Slow, but Patient
As Christians, we believe that Jesus is coming back. But what is taking so long? In this sermon, we unpack God's patient grace to us in the waiting, and the importance of making a decision for Christ while there is still time. ABOUT THIS SERIES: The Apostle Peter wrote the epistle (letter), we know as Second Peter, to an unspecified group of believers or churches, in the last years of his life. He is an older, wiser man at this point and speaks with an air of humility, much in contrast to the brash Peter we see in the Gospels. He has seen over the course of his lifetime how his own strength and wisdom have routinely come up short and he has learned that he has nothing to claim or to give, apart from Jesus. As he prepares for the horrific death that Jesus himself prophesied years earlier, he writes this letter as an exhortation to the church, reminding them (and us) to turn our back on all that is false, in and around us, and to pursue a true, deep, lasting knowledge of Jesus with all that we have.
Scripture References: 2 Peter 3:8-10
