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 7-21-2019 Weekly Message

The contemplation of the week: Psalm 8: 1-9

Text: II Peter 3:1-14

Word Title: The pure Christian is able to overcome scoffers and scientist

     Anyone who realizes the truth in the last Epistle of Apostle Peter before he died will be able to rebuke and correct scoffers and  scientists with the doctrine in the Word of God if they want to listen to it.

         They do not know what is beyond death, and they have invented for mankind by using the energies in the material world God   created, and received the Nobel Prizes and are honored by millions of people, but they do not know where those energies came from .

          Apostle Peter said that he wanted  remind of their pure thoughts of God they had received from God, when they were born again by the Holy Spirit, to be  new creature being cleansed from all filth. Peter wanted to remind them of their thoughts in order to know that, in their pure thoughts, people’s words and ideas, not the Word of God, came in and contaminated their pure thoughts.

         That’s right! The children of God, whose thoughts have been cleansed by the blood of Christ Jesus, must keep their minds from the pollution of the world, and always fill their hearts with the pure Word of God. King David testified of how pure the word of God was:

” The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times..” (Psalm 12: 6)

        Apostle Peter said that in the Old Testament times, the holy Prophets  preached and to remind them of the commandments Jesus Christ gave directly to Christ’s apostles. In other words, the words God had spoken through the prophets and the words they have been given  through the apostles were the message that Christ will come back and judge the world.

        But in the last days, those who ridiculed came to warn them that they would ridicule the words spoken through the prophets and apostles and do according to their lusts.

        They ridiculed that they would lie to fill their lusts, knowing the promise of Jesus Christ coming again. What they lie is that they lie that the heaven and earth created by God are still there from the time of creation.

         But they intentionally forget that the heavens were from the old by the word of God, that the earth was out of the water, and that it was in the water, and that the former world would  was overthrown by water.

         Apostle Peter testifies that a great deal of time has passed between Genesis 1: 1 and 2.

“ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.“ (Genesis 1: 1) No one knows when God’s beginning was. It may be hundreds of millions of years ago, as archeologists claim.

      The Bible says that after God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, the earth was rendered void and void by judgment. “ And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.“ (Gen. 1: 2)

           But the present earth is preserved by the same word, and Apostle Peter is witnessing that it has been kept in fire for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. In the time of Noah, the earth was in the flood for 150 days, but the land at that time was not the former world, but it was belong to the earth of the present world.

         When the land that was in the water of the deep came out of the depths into the outer space, God began to recreate it in this earth, starting with  light. In the words God said to Adam, ” replenish the earth“:

“ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.‘” (Genesis 1:28)

         Apostle Peter testified of what will happen on the Day of the Lord, the day of the Last Judgment:

“ 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.” (2 Peter 3:10)

          Heaven and earth were created by His word and that He will burn the heavens and the earth with the same word.  Apostle Paul testified about who the Creator God speaks in the Bible:

” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: “(Colossians 1: 15-16)

            God, who created all things by His Word, is holding all things in His Word of Power “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, ……”(Hebrews 1: 3)

            But when He speak  again, the Bible says that all that he created will stand and disappear:

“ And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. “(Isaiah 34:4)

          Scientists have long studied the things God created and discovered many things that have made the world has been taking many benefits from them. But they do not know how heaven and earth came about, and they lay a plausible scientific theory on their hypotheses. They have discovered that God created heaven and earth as energies that consist of many elements. They have discovered that the bodies of all human beings are made up of molecules composed of various elements. In all of creatures we have found that the material system is in existence as the quantum, electrons and neutrons are balanced. They also discovered that a huge explosive force was created by artificially breaking the balance. One of the most representative of these is the atomic bomb.

          When God created all things, He created the various components, the Elements, by the Word and created them to be visible as energy. But if God has been enduring a thousand years as one day, and then God speaks again, the molecules of all things will instantly become unbalanced so that the heaven and the earth will explode and be burned with fire. Scientists cannot even imagine this tremendous power of God.

        Also, when God’s word stops the heart of man, all the components of the cell will disappear and become a handful of dust. But when we believe and act on all the words  given to us, we have a tremendous work of creation in our lives. Therefore, God’s will for us in Christ Jesus is only to be obedient to rejoice and prayer and give thanks always. .

          When the heavens and the earth is melting, God will create a new heaven and earth for us.  Apostle Peter still testifies to us:

” Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what mannerof persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. “(2 Peter 3: 11-14 ) Amen! Hallelujah!