The Mississippi enterprise., 1962-05-19
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
MAY 20, 1862
BY Rev. George A. Harper,
511 Avenue c.,
Greenwood, Miss.

Liz LA OT he LOnD.
Scripture Lesson - 2 Peter:
Jude Print = 2 Peter 1913;
Jude, "a, 25.
MEMORY SELECTION i
know whom | have believed.
and am persuaded that he is
able to keep that which l have
committed unto him against
that day. = e Timothy LIP.
The saint of the Lord is a I'VE
know" person. The Bible is
a I'VE know" Book. No one
will be ashamed or confounded
by believing in the Bible or
Christ. Paul was a I'VE know
person and he knew Whom he
believed. He believed the
Christ Whom he first perSe-
cuted, Who met him on The
road to Damascus, Who re-
vealed Himself to him as the
Jesus Whom he prosecuted,
Who saved him and called him
into the ministry, was the Son
of God. Paul also was fully
persuaded that Christ was
able to keep him, because He
had delivered him from sin
and kept him in all his trials.
Paul had committed himself
into the keeping of Christ and
he was assured that Christ
would keep him even unto the
day when He will appear to
cCnsummate salvation, reSur-
rect all saints and land them
in their spirits and bodies in
heaven What Christ did for
Paul He is able to do for all
who commit themselves into
the keeping of Christ.
GOD AND MANS RECK-
OIING OF TIME:
False teachers were a temp
tation and a snare to the
Christians to whom the writer
addresses himself in this let
ter. Their doctrines were
false and their Interpretation
of the ancient Scripture were
in error. They were teachers
of heresy and not the truths
of God. These teachers were
in error about 'the coming OF
our Lord to judgment" Be.
cause the Lord seemed to de.
lay His coming because the
promise of His coming had
not yet been fulfilled, these
teachers scoffed at maintain
ing our belief in the coming
of the Day of the Lord.
The apostles use of the
word beloved" in addressing
his readers, shows that he felt
closely bound to them in per
Secution and in misunder
standing the Lords promise tc
return. Using his apostolic
freedom to quote the Scrip
lures as he deemed necessary
Peter declared, "One day is
with the Lord as a thousand
years" e Peter 3::8). Then he
added an additional thought
which gave apostolic interpre
tation to the Psalm being quo
ted, land thousand years as
one day."
In our present age, which is
characterized by nuclear en-
ergy and space travel, some
men lose sight of the contrast
which the Apostle Peter
stressed almost two thousand
years ago. Time moves or
without our approval. 1t is ar
external reality, which is MOI
limited by us, and which points
to an external universe. We
cannot be independent o1
time. Moreover, time is abso
lutte; we cannot turn it back
Time is that aspect of the uni
verse of which persons are
most acutely aware. Time
Wnlch guarantees activity Oh
process, is revealed or ex
pressed through sctivity. HUI
man activity does not create
time but creates new uses o.
it. The world at large is in
conceivable without Space anf
time. The Creator has gIori
Ously commissioned us to ou]
freedom in single system ft
time and space; for we thinl
in time and we breathe ane
move in space.
THE DAY OF THE LORD
WHY JESUS HAST NOT RE
TURNED:
Peters explanation for the
delay of the promised return
OF Jesus emphasizes the con