{"id":4645,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/would-you-have-believed\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:42","slug":"would-you-have-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/would-you-have-believed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Would You Have Believed?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in 2 Peter series.  Skepticism about Second Coming.  2 Peter 3:1-9<\/p>\n<p>                           ========================<br \/>\n                           Would YOU Have Believed?<br \/>\n                           ========================<\/p>\n<p>     I. How real was Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>    II. Our thinking needs to be stimulated.                        3:1<\/p>\n<p>   III. Last-day scoffers.                                          3:3<br \/>\n         A. Skeptism is nothing new.<br \/>\n         B. The Second Coming is not made up by Fundamentalists.<br \/>\n         C. Uniformitarianism &#8211; nothing changes.                    3:3<\/p>\n<p>    IV. God did it before, he&#8217;ll do it again.                       3:5<br \/>\n         A. Sudden Creation of heaven and earth.<br \/>\n         B. Sudden flood of the earth.                              3:6<br \/>\n         C. Future, sudden burning of earth.                        3:7<\/p>\n<p>     V. When will it finally happen?                             Psalm 90:4<\/p>\n<p>    VI. God&#8217;s purpose in waiting.                                   3:9<br \/>\n         A. God is patient, not slow.<br \/>\n         B. God is loving.<br \/>\n         C. We don&#8217;t get what we deserve, unless we turn down God.<br \/>\n         D. Be ready, for the end is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in 2 Peter series. Skepticism about Second Coming. 2 Peter 3:1-9 ======================== Would YOU Have Believed? ======================== I. How real was Christmas? II. Our thinking needs to be stimulated. 3:1 III. Last-day scoffers. 3:3 A. Skeptism is nothing new. B. The Second Coming is not made up by Fundamentalists. C. Uniformitarianism &#8211; nothing changes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,4050,147,1809,3048],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}