Scoffers are nothing new (2 Peter 3:1-3) || Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional and Prayer

Hey there my friends welcome back to the morning mindset. Have you ever had someone

scoff at your belief in Jesus Christ? I mean like they just look at you like

you're the stupidest person in the world. Don't you know better? Friends,

scoffers are nothing new. We're going to hear that today in 2nd Peter chapter 3

so listen or how we are to think about those who scoff against our faith.

We'll be looking at that in just a moment so get out your Bibles and get out your

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Now before we dig into 2nd Peter chapter 3 I would invite you to pray with me.

Our God we are grateful that you've given us your word and that you tell us about

practical things like how to think and how to deal with those who scoff about our

faith. We ask you to give us wisdom through what we read today in Jesus name. Amen.

Alright 2nd Peter 3 verses 1 through 3. Peter's kind of starting a new section

in his letter to these people and he says this is now the 2nd letter that I'm

writing to you beloved. In both of them I'm stirring up your sincere mind by way

of reminder that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the

commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. Knowing this first of

all that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing following their own

sinful desires. Now let's pause for a moment just walk through this it's very

interesting. Peter says first of all he's writing to remind them of things.

Okay we always need to remind us don't we? That's part of why we go back to the

scriptures day by day to read them is because we need to remind us one person has

said we human beings leak you know the things that are in us that need to stay in as they

leak out and so we need these reminders. He says what should you remember?

Well remember the predictions of the holy prophets so the prophecies that pointed to

Jesus as the Messiah and the commandments of the Lord that came through the

apostles. So in other words remember the teaching of the apostles remember

what the New Testament teaches about Jesus in the way of Christianity and he said

remember that scoffers will come and they're going to scoff you know scoffers

they scoff and they're doing so here's something we really need to pay attention

to following their own sinful desires. Now Peter's revealing something very

important for us to understand here when people scoff against your faith okay

they may act like they have intellectual reasons for it or they have logical

objections and things like that and some of that may be true there may be things

that don't make sense to them but really what's under the surface is there

something about faith in Jesus that rubs them wrong that is confronting

something they don't want to have to relinquish to his lordship you see

there's something in their life sin or sinful desire that they recognize in

light of who Jesus is and what he might claim of them as Lord that they may

have to give up those things. And Peter wants us to know that that's

what's going on in the background in their own hearts so that we don't get

discouraged at their obstinance or at their determination or even at the

arguments they bring up we can know there is a spiritual battle going on and we

need to fight it with spiritual means like prayer and like dependence on the

spiritual spirit we've got help us to have compassion on those who scoff

about our faith because they are blinded their victims of an enemy who is

bent on them not seeing the truth so help us to help them through not being

discouraged through not turning away and through not forgetting what is going

on in their own hearts as they battle against sin even though they don't know it

Lord Jesus be glorified in these conversations we have with those who scoff

against our faith enable us to be a loving and compassionate and patient witness

for you.

One of my greatest desires for the morning mindset is that those of you who

listen who are not sure if you are a believer in Jesus Christ or not will

become sure friends you can know for sure.

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