2011-06-05: Precious & Magnificent Moments – Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty

Sermon: Precious & Magnificent Moments – Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: II Peter 1:12-19
Duration: 27:02
Size: 12.3 MB

Precious & Magnificent Moments
Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty
II Peter 1:12-19

The main point has been to urge Christians to make sure that they are truly saved.

God’s divine power has already given us all things which lead to life and godliness.

I. Peter’s Thought Process

His readers are well grounded and established in the truth.

No matter how tragic the death of a believer seems to us, God has universal perspective and does all things well.

It means that even we who know the truth and are established in it need repeated reminders of its greatness, unless we fall asleep or forget.

This letter is Peter’s last will and testament.

II. Myth Versus History

The reason Peter’s word to you is so weighty-is because it is not based on a myth but on an eyewitness account of Christ’s majesty.

If our faith is not grounded in reliable observations of historical reality, it is a “cleverly devised stories” and unworthy of acceptance.

III. The Glory of the Second Coming

Thirty years after the event the revelation of the majesty of Christ fills the mind of Peter with awe, and he wants more than anything to share the hope of that vision with us before he dies.

IV. The Lamp of the Prophetic Word

The world is covered with the darkness of sin and deceit and fear and greed.

What is the hope that lures us on to walk in the light as he is in the light, two things: dawn without and daystar within.

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