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LONGSUFFERING & REPENTANCE – PART 2 Pine Grove Church of Christ – 08/15/10

Longsuffering & Repentance  II Peter 3:9 –  “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

Longsuffering & Repentance  Days of Noah

Days of Noah  Genesis 6:5-15 –  (5) “wickedness of man was great in the earth”  (6) “the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart”  (7) “So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth”  (8) “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord”

Days of Noah  I Peter 3:20 –  “when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water”

Longsuffering & Repentance  Days of Noah  Nineveh & Jonah

Nineveh & Jonah  Jonah 1:1-2  (2) “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

Nineveh & Jonah  Jonah 3:1-4  (2) “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it the message I tell you”  (3) “So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord”  (4) “Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown”

Nineveh & Jonah  Jonah 3:5-10 –  (5) So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth”  (10) Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.”

Nineveh & Jonah  Jonah 4:1-2 –  (2) “for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm”

Longsuffering & Repentance  Days of Noah  Nineveh & Jonah  Judah & Zephaniah

Judah & Zephaniah  Zephaniah 1:2 –  (2) “I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land, say the Lord”

Judah & Zephaniah  Zephaniah 1:14-18 –  (14) “The great day of the Lord is near; It is near and hastens quickly”  (15) “wrath, trouble, distress, devastation, desolation, darkness, gloominess, clouds, and thick darkness”  (17) “I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord”

Judah & Zephaniah  Zephaniah 2:1-3 –  (2) “BEFORE the decree is issued, or the day passes like chaff, BEFORE the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, BEFORE the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!”  (3) “SEEK the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice, SEEK righteousness, SEEK humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger”

Longsuffering & Repentance  Days of Noah  Nineveh & Jonah  Judah & Zephaniah  Paul

Paul  I Timothy 1:12-16 –  (13) “I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man”  (15) “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief”  (16) “However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life”

Paul  Acts 26:9-11 –  (9) “I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth”  (10) “many of the saints I shut up in prison…, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them”  (11) “I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.”

Conclusion  II Peter 3:9-11 –  (9) “but is longsuffering toward us, not willing any should perish but that all should come to repentance”  (10) “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night”  (11) “what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness”

Conclusion  What a great God that we serve.  A God that is longsuffering, desiring that we be saved.  Yet, we must be willing to repent.  Changing our lives to reflect Christ  STOP sinning & START living for God

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