9/22/2023 0 Comments Not willing that any should perish![]() Many who are not familiar with this verse often ask, “What is God waiting for why doesn’t He come back?” The simple answer is that He is “not willing that any should perish” so He is extending Himself. ![]() Our heavenly Father has a long fuse and endures all kinds of provocation from His children without anger. ![]() The word longsuffering here contains the idea of a person who is extraordinarily patient and can go for a long time before erupting in anger. Amen.2 Peter 3:9: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” August 16th, 2022 by Pastor Ed in devotional ( Zephaniah 1:7-18 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)ġ0But 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.ġ1 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,ġ2Looking 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?ġ3Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.ġ4Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.ġ5And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ġ6As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.ġ7Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.ġ8But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. ![]() ![]() ( Genesis 3:1-7 Genesis 7:1-5 Romans 5:12-21)ġThis second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:ĢThat ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:ģKnowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,ĤAnd saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.ĥFor this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:ĦWhereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:ħBut the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.ĨBut, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.ĩThe Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ![]()
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