STIRRED UP FOR JESUS
2 Peter 3:1-10
In the world
today people are stirred up. They are stirred up to
Violence,
stirred up to complacency or stirred up to the righteousness of
God.
The headline
news is full of people stirred up who commit violent acts.
The breaking
news is usually something tragic. All too
often there is violence
On the
streets and in our neighborhoods. Mass murders, robbery road rage,
And drive-by
shootings have become normal daily events. Some people have decided to take what
they want by force and murder. This group is stirred up by the adversary, Satan
himself.
The second
group you rarely hear from. They include most of the world.
They are complacent. They see and hear, but sit by say nothing and
do
Nothing.
This third
group are stirred up by the word of God through the working
Of the Holy
Spirit. However, they generally remain silent until something
Tragic happens
or some event that affects them personally.
Peter reminds
all believers that the job of a Christian is not one of violence,
Complacency
or silence. We have a responsibility to our Father, this
Presence
generation and future generations to act on the word of God.
STIRRED
UP TO REMEMBER THE WORD
V:3.1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto
you; in both which I stir
up your pure minds
by way of remembrance:
2 That ye
may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and
of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
A. The word stir means to awake or
arouse.
1. It is easy to have knowledge of the
Word but not be aroused to
Act on the Word.
2. It is the job of the Holy Spirit to remind us
of the Word of God
And stir us up to follow
God’s commands.
3. The first question is, are we listening?
4. The second question is, will we
submit ourselves to the guidance of
The Holy Spirit?
B. According to Peter, we are influenced
by the flesh and the Holy Spirit.
1. Peter appeals to the pure mind, the
one controlled by the Holy Spirit.
2. 2 Timothy 1:7 states that God has not
given us the spirit of fear, but power love and sound mind.
a. A mind controlled by the flesh will
not be sound for long.
b. A mind controlled by the flesh
opposes God.
C. The Word from Both the Old and New
Testaments are included in these
Verses.
a. The Old Testament is the Word
recorded by the Holy prophets.
b. The New Testament was the Words that
were recorded by the
Apostles of Jesus Christ.
D. When we study God’s, Word we should
be stirred up in the Spirit.
1. We should be convicted to be like
Jesus.
2. We should be convicted to act on God’s
commands.
3. The Word is important to our soul
salvation.
4. The Word should stir us up to act as
citizens of Heaven.
STIRRED UP
TO KNOW FALSE TEACHERS
V.3 Knowing
this first, that there shall come in the last day's scoffers, walking after
their own lusts,
4 And
saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this
they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of
old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
A. It is apparent that we are in the
last days.
1. The Lord has described the conditions
of the last days in detail.
2. 2 Timothy 3:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in
the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers
of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing
to do with them.
B. Peter also describes a falling away
of the Church pretenders.
1. The word scoffer refers to false
teachers.
2. Notice verse 5 of Peter, “They are willingly ignorant of the Word of
God.”
3. Scoffers read the Word but have no
conviction of the Word
Because they lack the
Holy Spirit.
4. Only believers can receive the Word
of God
5. To be ignorant of the Word of God is
to neglect the study of
Word and to willfully
disobey God’s commands.
C. Peter reminds us of the power of God
in the creation and the destruction of mankind in the flood.
1. The earth was created in water and man
was destroyed by the waters of
The flood.
2. God is in control of His creation and
will deal with sin according to
His divine Will.
D. We need to be careful of what
preachers we listen to.
1. Not every so-called church preaches
the entirety of God’s Word.
2. Any preacher who preaches acceptance
of what God hates is a
False teacher.
3. The Church is a community of have been.
4. We have been everything that God
hates.
5. When we accepted Jesus as Lord and
Savior we were changed
To love what God loves
and hate what God hates.
Peter
reminds us to STIR UP God’s commands.
6. If we don’t STIR UP the love of God, we will begin to
look
Like the world.
STIRRED
UP TO REMEMBER THE PENALTY OF SIN
V:6 Whereby
the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the
heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store,
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly
men.
A. Notice it was by God’s Mercy that He left
intact the earth he created
During the flood but saved Noah and his family who were obedient to God,
to replenish the earth with a new generation of families.
1. God gave man another chance to meet
the Jesus of our salvation.
2. It was by God Mercy that He didn’t
destroy all evidence of the
Generations of Adam and
Eve.
B. God kept a remnant of Adam and Eve to
fulfill the promise made
In the Garden of Eve of a Savior Genesis 3:16.
1. God’s Sovereignty included the sin of
man, the destruction of
Man by the flood, and the
restart in righteous of a new generation of man.
2. It is the mercy of God to allow us to
review the history of the destruction of man by the flood.
3. With the knowledge of the flood, we
can conceive with fear the destruction of this Current generation of
ungodliness by fire.
STIRRED
UP TO REMEMBER THE TOLERANCE OF GOD
V:8. But,
beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord
is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance.
Have you
ever wondered why God allows bad folk to continue to
Exist and profit
from all kinds of evil?
1. Ever wondered why bad things continue
to happen to good people
As a result of evil men?
2. God gives us several reasons.
3. God’s promise of a judgment of this
evil world is still in force.
4. God is not in your time frame. He
does not measure time
By your standards,
5. What God said He will do, He will do.
6. God will not destroy the earth until everyone
He gave to Jesus
Has received salvation.
John 6:39-40
And this is the will of
him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise
them up at the last day. 40 For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to
the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at
the last day."
7. There are some given to Jesus who has
not been
born.
8. God is tolerant of our sinfulness
until He brings about a change.
A. God has a plan for the destruction of
this earth and all evil.
1. The current Heaven is corrupt because
of the sin of Satan.
2. The current heaven will pass away and
a new heaven will
Replace it.
3. All the elements of this current
earth will be dissolved by fire
And new earth will
replace it
B. We know we are in the “end times”,
just before Jesus return for
His Church.
1. We don’t have a date when will come
but we know is near.
2.
Matthew 24:36
"No one knows about
that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the
Father.
3. We must remember that a thousand
years is as a day to the
Lord.
STIRRED
UP TO GET READY FOR HEAVEN
2 Peter
3:10
But the
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
A. Life on earth has an end.
Matthew 24:42-44
"Therefore keep watch,
because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand
this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was
coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken
into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour
when you do not expect him.”
B. 2 Peter 1:13-14
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you
up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our
Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
1. It is the job of the preacher to remind
you that your time on earth is
Temporary.
2. The preacher should stir you up to
live a life worthy of the praise
Of God.
3. There is no promise of tomorrow for
you.
a. All you have is this moment to get
ready for the Lord’s call
To heaven.
b. Romans 12:1
12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
C. 2 Timothy 1:6
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou
stir up the gift of God,
which is in thee
by the putting on of my hands.
1. While we are still in this life we
are commanded to use God’s
Time wisely
2. It is the job of the preacher to make
you uncomfortable with your
Service.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he
purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3. God does not want us to become
complacent with our service to Him.
4. We have but one goal and that is to
glorify God with our works.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
IN SUMMARY
WE ARE STIRRED UP TO
REMEMBER THE WORD
STIRRED UP TO KNOW
FALSE TEACHERS
STIRRED UP TO APPRECIATE
THE TOLERANCE OF GOD
STIRRED UP TO REMEMBER
THE PENALITY OF SIN
STIRRED UP TO GET
READY FOR HEAVEN
STIR UP THE GIFT IN
YOU
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst. Pastor Of
Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
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