23rd December CBC 2022 With Oluwatoyin Emiola Ojo

23^rd December CBC 2022 With Oluwatoyin Emiola Ojo Taken From The Book Of 2nd Peter.

FABRICATED STORIES!

Dearly beloved it’s Simon Peter’s second letter today (3 chapters), I seem to be in a hurry to find truths and grace shared in this chapters — Let’s receive these together! Even as we continuously resist fabricated stories and wicked pastors.

2 PETER 1^1-21

He opens his letter “Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ; To those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:” v.1; Then he shares a certain kind of grace and peace that flows only through knowing God and Christ. In order words it abounds to those who know God and Christ; the knowledge must be pure and practiced.

We thereby are enabled to obtain very great and precious promises and participate in the expression of divine nature undefiled by corrupt practices whether local in occurring civilization or globalisation.

“For these very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness mutual affection and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” v.5-8;

v.9-11 — Correctly influencing our world, confirming “our calling and election. And receive a sure welcome into eternal kingdom with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (v.11)

v.12-21

Simon Peter gives an eyewitness account of our Lord Jesus Christ to strengthen the faith and commitment of believers, earnestly desirous that, after his departure the community of believers will wax stronger and stronger putting to mind his teachings (v.15), his eyewitness testimony ( read v.16-18).

He also wants us to count on the prophets (ancient writings) knowing they were not crafted by human hearts (v.21)

CHAPTER 2^1-22

FABRICATED STORIES — in ancient times there were many false prophets in the same vein there will emerge among you false teachers — many will be deceived being captivated by their fabricated stories, making the truth disputed — They will make merchandise of you — Beware. Note that their judgement speeds up!

v.4-9

THEIR JUDGEMENT IS SURE — see how sure their destruction is from the fallen angels forever undesirable to God — Cast into the dungeon of the spirit world.

Also consider: NOAH “if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness and seven others” (v.5), also the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, yet Lot was rescued (v.9). In view of this never doubt or think that God does not know or identify the righteous.

v.10-22

PETER DESCRIBES THE UNGODLY, BOLD AND ARROGANT as creatures of instinct, to be destroyed like animals.  Read some of their acts and conducts (v.13-16) — even as they seduce unstable Christians and are skilled at greed. They are 1% in with God and 99% in wickedness like Balaam the son of Bezer whom the divine rebuked through his donkey (v.15-16).  Read further on their living and condemnation as evil doers [v.17-22]

Many of them where saved through the knowledge and grace of Christ but have “turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed unto the” v.21

• “Of them the proverbs are true: ‘A dog returns to its vomit,’ and ‘A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud’.” v.22; Proverbs 20:11

CHAPTER 3^1-18

“Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.” v.1

Believers must therefore keep to heart the words of the prophets and the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ with which we are being admonished.  Bearing in mind that they will scoff at our belief in the second coming of Christ, and saying everything goes on just the same (v.3-4) — Deliberately disregarding the acts and signs seen since creation — THE WATERS AND THE WORD — have been for creation and judgement. Even that which is pending upon the world and the ungodly ( v.5-8)

“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like in thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some consider slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” v.8-9

• v.10a — “But the Lord will come like a thief in the night.” Unexpectedly— Therefore live holy and godly lives. “As you look forward to the day of God and speed it’s coming” (v.12).
• “In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells” v.13

“So then dear friends, since you are looking forward to this make every effort to be found blameless and at peace with him.” v.14

• What has been tagged slowness is actually the Lord’s patience which translates into salvation for many, seeing that he wants non to perish (see v.14-15a)

(v.15b-16) — Paul has written elaborately about these truths,

some could not comprehend, while some choose to distort “as they do the other scriptures, to their own destruction” (v.16)

v.17-18

Closing his letter, he is urging us to secure our position in Christ by guarding against heresy and error. “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.” v.18

NIGHT: 2 PETER 3^15-16

“Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.”

Many priests are operating under demonic auction — like Balaam who only hears God’s warnings a times.

©️ Oluwatoyin Emiola Ojo

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