Proceeding Toward Heaven

Progressing Toward Heaven

Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / Dec 14, 2025
Series: The Hope of Heaven

Text: 2 Peter 3:10–18

Introduction

• Heavenly thinking shapes earthly living (1 Peter 1:13).

H-E-A-V-E-N

H — Heeding to Our

• Holiness is being set apart (2 Peter 3:11).

• Godliness requires discipline (1 Timothy 4:7–8).

• Purity motivated by Christ’s return (1 Corinthians 1:8; Colossians 3:4–5).

E — Earnest About Our

• Believers are called to diligence (2 Peter 3:14).

• Pressing forward in the Christian life (Philippians 3:13–14).

“In reading about the lives of great men, I
found that the first victory they won was
over themselves. Self-discipline, with all
of them, came first.” – Harry Truman

A — Attentive to His

• Scoffers question Christ’s return (2 Peter 3:3–4).

• God’s timing differs from ours (2 Peter 3:8).

• Believers are to:

  • Wait for Christ (Philippians 3:20).

  • Watch for His coming (Titus 2:13).

  • Love His appearing (2 Timothy 4:8)

• “I must keep alive in myself the desire for
  my true country which I shall not find
  until after my death. I must never let it get
  snowed under or turned aside. I must
  make it the main object of life to press on
  to that other country and help as many as
  I can do the very same.” – C.S. LEWIS

V — Visionary Toward His

• God delays judgment out of mercy (2 Peter 3:15, 2 Peter 3:9).

• Believers are witnesses for Christ (Acts 1:8).

E — Established in Our

• Warning against false teaching (2 Peter 3:16–17).

N — Nourishing in Our

• Spiritual growth is continual (2 Peter 3:18).

Ways Spiritual Growth Comes

1. Growth comes through the of

2. Growth comes through the of

3. Growth comes through the of the

And let us consider one another to
provoke unto love and to good works: not
forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but
exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching. – Hebrews 10:24-25

“If you have read history, you will find
that the Christians who did most for the
present world were those who thought
most of the next world. It is since
Christians have largely ceased to think of
the other world that they have become so
ineffective in this world.” – C.S. LEWIS