Man crab walk God's world for thousands of years!
A. Let the world know this assuredly!
God wants all people ever lived on the world to be saved in the Lord Jesus Christ!
1. God wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim.2:4
2. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
3. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Matt.23:37
4. We beseech you!
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God
in vain. For he says: In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped
you. I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation. 2 Cor.6:1-2
5. We warned you!
a. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; Heb.2:3
b. You shall have no other gods before me. Ex.20:3
c. If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Deu.8:19
B. But we know what happen in reality!
1. Man invented religions made many other gods to worship and bow down to them!
2. Jesus prayed all his believers to be perfectly united in one church of Christ! Jn.17:20-23
3. Yes, God warn the world: Denomination is warped, sinful and self-condemned! Ti.3:10-11
4. Jesus built the church! Matt.16:18
5. Man planted denomination churches, set themselves up against the church of Christ!
Man tramples Christ under foot, insulted the Holy Spirit and the blood of Christ!
6. As I can see in our present reality, God can’t do a thing about all these!
7. God has declared, now is the time for salvation!
But they all have personal reasons not to be saved at the moment!
8. God declares: Now is the time for salvation! 2 Cor.6:1-2, Matt.22:8-14
9. But people all over the world have their personal reasons, not to be saved right now!
C. Apostle Peter has answer from God! 2 Peter 3:1-10
1. 2Pe 3:1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them
I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;
2Pe 3:2 that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,
and the commandments of the Lord and Savior through your apostles:
2Pe 3:3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old,
and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
2Pe 3:6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
(Read Gen.1:1-2 and Genesis chapter 6 and chapter 7 then you will know God destroyed the world twice with water!)
2Pe 3:7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire,
being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:8 But forget not this one thing, beloved,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness;
but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,
and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2. The king said: The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy.
Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good:
and the wedding was filled with guests.
But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment.
And he said unto him, Friend, how came thou in hither not having a wedding-garment?
And he was speechless.
Then the king said to the servants,
Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness;
there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
For many are called, but few chosen. Please come right now let us be one of these chosen few!
3. Please come be one of the chosen few, now! God said: Now is the time for salvation!
May the Lord bless you and keep you always! Preach this on August 10, 2014.