Two Stirring Reminders (2 Peter 3:1-4)

Looking And Longing For The Day Of God (2 Peter 3:11-12)

The coming destruction of the present creation is not just a doctrine to believe—it's a call to live differently. In this expository sermon from 2 Peter 3:11–12, Pastor Jim Osman draws out the practical weight of Peter's eschatological teaching and presses it into the conscience of every believer. Peter's concluding exhortations are clear: those who genuinely believe Christ will return are marked by it. First, they are a holy people—set apart in conduct and godliness, fitted for a new creation in which only righteousness dwells. Osman unpacks what that means practically, showing that holiness is not merely a positional reality but a moral pursuit, one that grace both demands and provides. Second, they are a hastening people—those who long for and actively work toward the coming of the day of God. Osman addresses the apparent tension between divine sovereignty and human responsibility head-on. The day is fixed on God's calendar; yet Scripture calls believers to hasten it through holy living, faithful gospel proclamation, and earnest prayer. These are not contradictions—they are the two sides of the same sovereign purpose. If Christ is returning, and Peter insists He is, the only question left is: what kind of people ought we to be? ★ Support this podcast ★ [https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/]

The Patience of God (2 Peter 3:9)

Two thousand years feels like a long time to wait. Jim Osman says that's exactly the point. Continuing through 2 Peter 3, Osman tackles the mockers' challenge in verse 4: where is the promise of His coming? Peter's answer comes in two parts, and this sermon focuses on the second: God's patience. Osman walks through what that patience actually means, tracing it back through Exodus, Isaiah, and the Psalms to show that the Old Testament's "slow to anger" God and the New Testament's patient Father are the same God, not two different ones. He works carefully through the Greek behind "slow" in verse 9, distinguishing tardiness from sovereign timing, and uses Habakkuk's own wrestling with delay as a parallel. Then comes the heart of the message: who exactly is God being patient toward? Osman pushes back against a popular reading of "not willing for any to perish," arguing from context that Peter is addressing God's own people, the elect not yet gathered in, not the whole world indiscriminately. The sermon closes with four practical encouragements, including a direct word to anyone listening who has yet to repent. This episode offers a clear, doctrinally grounded answer to anyone wondering why God seems to be taking so long. ★ Support this podcast ★ [https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/]

God's Perspective on Time (2 Peter 3:8)

The mockers had a question: Where is the promise of His coming? Time had passed. Apostles had died. Nothing had changed. Pastor Jim Osman addresses that question head-on as he works through 2 Peter 3:8 — and the answer is as pointed today as it was in the first century. God does not experience time as we do. He is not encumbered by it, constrained by it, or running out of it. He meets no deadlines, feels no urgency, and is exhausted by no length of years. A literal thousand years is to Him what a single day is to us — not because time is vague or undefined, but because He is eternal and we are not. The delay in Christ's return is no evidence of a failed promise. It is simply a reflection of the unbridgeable difference between the eternal God and creatures made of dust. Drawing from Psalm 90 and Peter's deliberate use of its language, Pastor Osman traces what God's relationship to time actually means for the church — and what it does not mean. He corrects three common misuses of this verse: as an argument for long creation days in Genesis 1, as a framework for end-times chronology, and as a basis for treating the thousand years of Revelation 20 as figurative. The point stands: time has no bearing on the fulfillment of God's Word. His return remains imminent. The only question is whether we are found watching. ★ Support this podcast ★ [https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/]

The Coming Conflagration (2 Peter 3:7&10)

Climate alarmists have been predicting the end of the world for decades—and getting it entirely wrong. Pastor Jim Osman opens this exposition of 2 Peter 3:7 and 10 by showing why: they begin with the wrong assumptions. God has already revealed how this world ends, and it has nothing to do with carbon footprints or melting ice caps. Peter's answer to the false teachers who denied the return of Christ rests on three characteristics of the coming Day of the Lord. It is certain—God's Word that created the world and judged it by water is the same Word that now reserves it for fire. The present creation stands only because God wills it to stand. When that will changes, it will be instant. It is unexpected—arriving like a thief in the night. Just as the generation of Noah kept eating, drinking, and going about their lives right up until the flood came, unbelievers will be caught entirely off guard when the Son of Man returns. Believers, by contrast, are called to live in anticipation of that day, not dread of it. And it will be thorough. The heavens will pass away with a roar—a Greek word Peter chose because it captures the sound of arrows, crackling flames, and rushing water all at once. The elements themselves will be consumed. Everything will be laid bare before God, with nowhere left to hide. For the believer, this is not a day to fear. Christ has already absorbed the wrath. On the other side of judgment is a new creation—new heavens, new earth, and righteousness dwelling there forever. ★ Support this podcast ★ [https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/]

Creation and Catastrophe (2 Peter 3:5-6)

The false teachers of Peter's day had a simple argument: things have always continued as they are, so there is no reason to expect a cataclysmic divine judgment in the future. Pastor Jim Osman works through 2 Peter 3:5-6 to show how Peter dismantles that argument—not by predicting the future, but by pointing to the past. Peter's first move is to expose the nature of the false teachers' error. They are not simply uninformed. They willfully overlook what they already know. God displayed His power in creation, speaking the heavens and earth into existence by His Word alone. That same Word sustains all things in being—which means the stability of creation is not evidence that God cannot intervene, but that He has chosen not to yet. Osman draws four lessons from the creation account: God created by divine fiat, God is entirely separate from and not subject to His creation, creation exists only by His will, and Christ Himself holds all things together by the word of His power. Remove His sustaining will and everything ceases to exist. The flood then becomes the decisive counterexample. Peter points to a worldwide, catastrophic judgment that already happened—one that used the very same water present at creation. If God judged the ancient world by water, the present world is reserved for fire. The evidence of that past judgment is visible everywhere, Osman argues, for those willing to see it. For believers, there is refuge from the coming wrath—in Christ alone, who bore it fully. ★ Support this podcast ★ [https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/]