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Hey there my friends welcome back to the morning mindset. Have you ever had someone
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scoff at your belief in Jesus Christ? I mean like they just look at you like
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you're the stupidest person in the world. Don't you know better? Friends,
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scoffers are nothing new. We're going to hear that today in 2nd Peter chapter 3
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so listen or how we are to think about those who scoff against our faith.
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We'll be looking at that in just a moment so get out your Bibles and get out your
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morning mindset journals. If you don't have a morning mindset journal you can find
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one by going to morningmysetmedia.com slash journal. It's just a simple tool to
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help you outline and write out your thoughts and think more deeply about the content
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you hear on the morning mindset. You should be able to find a link to the
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morning mindset journal also in the description for this episode.
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Now before we dig into 2nd Peter chapter 3 I would invite you to pray with me.
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Our God we are grateful that you've given us your word and that you tell us about
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practical things like how to think and how to deal with those who scoff about our
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faith. We ask you to give us wisdom through what we read today in Jesus name. Amen.
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Alright 2nd Peter 3 verses 1 through 3. Peter's kind of starting a new section
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in his letter to these people and he says this is now the 2nd letter that I'm
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writing to you beloved. In both of them I'm stirring up your sincere mind by way
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of reminder that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the
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commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. Knowing this first of
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all that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing following their own
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sinful desires. Now let's pause for a moment just walk through this it's very
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interesting. Peter says first of all he's writing to remind them of things.
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Okay we always need to remind us don't we? That's part of why we go back to the
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scriptures day by day to read them is because we need to remind us one person has
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said we human beings leak you know the things that are in us that need to stay in as they
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leak out and so we need these reminders. He says what should you remember?
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Well remember the predictions of the holy prophets so the prophecies that pointed to
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Jesus as the Messiah and the commandments of the Lord that came through the
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apostles. So in other words remember the teaching of the apostles remember
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what the New Testament teaches about Jesus in the way of Christianity and he said
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remember that scoffers will come and they're going to scoff you know scoffers
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they scoff and they're doing so here's something we really need to pay attention
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to following their own sinful desires. Now Peter's revealing something very
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important for us to understand here when people scoff against your faith okay
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they may act like they have intellectual reasons for it or they have logical
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objections and things like that and some of that may be true there may be things
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that don't make sense to them but really what's under the surface is there
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something about faith in Jesus that rubs them wrong that is confronting
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something they don't want to have to relinquish to his lordship you see
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there's something in their life sin or sinful desire that they recognize in
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light of who Jesus is and what he might claim of them as Lord that they may
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have to give up those things. And Peter wants us to know that that's
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what's going on in the background in their own hearts so that we don't get
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discouraged at their obstinance or at their determination or even at the
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arguments they bring up we can know there is a spiritual battle going on and we
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need to fight it with spiritual means like prayer and like dependence on the
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spiritual spirit we've got help us to have compassion on those who scoff
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about our faith because they are blinded their victims of an enemy who is
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bent on them not seeing the truth so help us to help them through not being
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discouraged through not turning away and through not forgetting what is going
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on in their own hearts as they battle against sin even though they don't know it
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Lord Jesus be glorified in these conversations we have with those who scoff
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against our faith enable us to be a loving and compassionate and patient witness
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One of my greatest desires for the morning mindset is that those of you who
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listen who are not sure if you are a believer in Jesus Christ or not will
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become sure friends you can know for sure.
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Go to morningmindsetbv.com slash meet Jesus that link is in the description
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I also want to make you aware that we've created a morning mindset journal.
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It's like a companion to the daily episodes that you can use to take notes
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write out your thoughts and even script out prayers to God as you learn through
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the content we share on the morning mindset.
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Go to morningmindsetmedia.com slash journal to get your copy.
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The theme music used in the morning mindset is entitled King's Trailer by Kevin
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