Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
Ministers must be remembrancers: they put God's people in mind of His precepts and doctrines so they will do them. You may know the truth and be established in it, yet you need to be reminded, lest you forget and fail to act. A sluggish pastor makes a sluggish flock.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 1:12-15
Peter calls his death an exodus, a going out of this world of wickedness and bondage into rest and happiness, like Israel leaving Egypt for Canaan. He means to leave these truths written down so they may refresh your memory when he is gone; though dead, he yet speaks through what he writes.
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Peter leaves a permanent record precisely because he holds these truths to be of immense value and will not let the church forget them. Death itself is not ceasing to be, but a journey out of this world to another abode, and that changes how we ought to prepare for it.
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