2 Pet 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2 Pet 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
Peter
is not Going to teach some new doctrine in this Epistle, simply stir up the
saints as to that which they have already been taught.....
We
today need the same type of stirring....
I.
WE NEED STIRRED ABOUT SOCIAL DECLINE....
1.
The drinking crowd
2.
The drug culture
3.
The dress code
4.
The dancing charms
5.
The divorce courts
We
live in a sin-sick-sex-soaked-society
II.
WE NEED STIRRED ABOUT SPIRITUAL DEADNESS
Churches
are majoring on suppers socials and singings....
1.
Cold Christians....
Matt
24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
2.
Carnal Christians..
1
Cor 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1 Cor 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1 Cor 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
3.
Casual Christians..
Matt.15:18
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Matt.
12:30 (these kind fit in the world and the church)
Matt. 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
III.
WE NEED STIRRED ABOUT SINNERS DYING
1.
The rate of their dying..
-over
100 per minute
-over
6,000 per hour
-over
144,000 per day
2.
The reason for their dying....
a.
The Saints fault because.....
No
compassion, concern, commitment and therefore no
conviction power
b.
The Sinner's fault.....
They
won't come, call, or confess
3.
The remedy for their dying.....
a.
The prayers of the saints....
James
5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
b.
The Power of the Spirit...
John
6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
c.
The Professions of the Sinner..
John
1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
God
help US to put Psalms 126:5-6 into action today!
Psa 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psa 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
by
Bro. Stinnett Ballew
