Paying Attention

Grace Church Waco

SERMONS

Paying Attention

Advent 2023

December 3, 2023 • Drake Osborn • 2 Peter 1

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**Due to an error, the first section of this sermon is missing from the recording. See the manuscript for the whole sermon.**

2 Peter 1 // Advent is a time of preparation for Jesus' second coming as we look to his first. To prepare, we must pay careful attention to the Word of God, which through the power of promise can develop our imagination to know and participate in the holiness and happiness of Jesus. //

While You Wait

December 24, 2023 • Dave Becker • 2 Peter 3:14–18

2 Peter 3:14-18 // Peter's second epistle has been teaching us to wait well for the second advent of Christ. While we do, we must learn to be diligent, remember, keep our feet, and grow up.

The Day of the Lord

December 17, 2023 • Ray Carter • 2 Peter 3:1–13

2 Peter 3:1-13 // Peter leads us to remember what God has done while we anticipate what he has promised to do. We look forward with confidence that God will fulfill all of his promises because he always has. People scoff, but we wait for the promise of his coming. The day of the Lord will come with judgement for the unrepentant, and it will come with purification of the creation. Right now we live in flesh corrupted by sin in a world corrupted by sin, but we wait patiently for that day with our minds set on the new earth where there will be no sin.

Waterless Springs

December 10, 2023 • Dave Becker • 2 Peter 2

2 Peter 2 // In the second chapter of 2 Peter, the apostle warns the church that as sure as there were false prophets in the past there are false teachers among them in the present. As disciples who are faithful to Christ and who anticipate the return of the Lord we can prepare for the second advent by being aware of and avoiding false teachers, by steadying our souls and grounding our freedom in Christ, and by trusting the rescue of the Lord and looking to his coming.