Use the below questions and thoughts for personal reflection and group discussion. A manuscript of this teaching is available HERE since it contains quotes and data for you to reference.

1. Scoffing and Its Consequences

Read 2 Peter 3:1-7. What will be the scoffer’s reasoning “in the last days” before the second coming of Christ? What do they “deliberately overlook”?

Read Romans 1:18-25. What are the consequences of denying what God has clearly made known, “namely, his eternal power and divine nature”?

2. “God Has Made It Plain”

Despite clear evidence that:

• The heavens and the earth had a beginning (Genesis 1:1) and therefore a Beginner
• God indeed “stretched out the heavens like a tent” (Psalms 104:2), as we see in the expansion of the universe
• That all things indeed will “wear out like a garment” as we see in the law of entropy (Psalms 102:26)
• That even our DNA and the genetic “code” testifies that all livings are held together by a powerful “word” (Heb 1:3)

…the increasing voice of secular “authorities” is that God is an unnecessary irrelevance at best and a dangerous fallacy at worst. Considering the heart of mankind, what is in us that desires to deny God as creator and sustainer of all things?

3. Created to Worship

As you reflect on the fact that the Lord intentionally created and sustains every molecule and every moment of your existence, what is your response?

How does God’s creative power and authority over all things affect your view of the second coming, the resurrection of the dead, and the judgment to come?

Spend some time asking God to help you worship Him as creator, rest in Him as sustainer, follow Him as ruler, and lastly, to see and be ready for opportunities to testify about Him to those who are lost.