Sunday Morning: November 18,1998
Text: 2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack [delay] concerning his [the] promise, as some men count slackness [delay]; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
The Dead Can Not Perish
Ephesians 2:1 "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:"
John 10:10 "... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
Christ Died For All
2 Corinthians 5:15 "... he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again."
Believe And Be Saved
Acts 16:31 "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
John 10:10 "... I am come ...that they might have life, ... more abundantly."
Joint-Heirs And Glory With Christ
Romans 8:17 "And if children, ... joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."
James 2:5 "...God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?"
Abundant Life In The Kingdom
Matthew 25:34 "... Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:"
Acts 13:30,32,33 "But God raised him from the dead:".... 32. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33. God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."
Hebrews 5:5 "So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee."
Good Things To Come, Our Inheritance
Hebrews 9:11 "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, ..." {In the millenium}
The Promise Of Inheritance
Hebrews 9:15 "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that ... they which are called might receive the promise of eternal [agelasting] inheritance."
Hebrews 11:20 "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come." {Inheritance and Blessing}
Shipwreck Of The Faith
Hebrews 4:1 "Let us
therefore fear, lest, a [the, Cambridge
ms] promise being left us of entering into his rest
{better inheritance}, any of you should seem to come short of it."
Hebrews 10:1 "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, ..."
Shadow Of Good Things To Come
Exodus 3:8 "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; ..."
They Started In Faith
Hebrews 11:29 "By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned."
They Departed From The Faith
Hebrews 4:2 "For unto us was the gospel preached {of a better inheritance, kingdom of heaven}, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."
By Faith, The Sons and Daughters
Hebrews 11:29-30 "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days."
Hebrews 4:11 "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest {heavenly inheritance}, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [disobedience or absence of faith]."
Example Of The Fathers
1 Corinthians 10:1 "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;"
1 Corinthians 10:5 "But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness."
1 Corinthians 10:8-9 "Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell {perished} in one day three and twenty thousand. 9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed [perished] of serpents."
The Warning Lest Ye Perish
Deuteronomy 11:16-17 "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17. And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you."