According to Peter, we are living in days like Noah, as our Lord said. People are marrying and giving in marriage, Noah was announcing the gospel of free salvation and the coming judgment, and then the flood came. So it is for us. We are waiting for a flood and the Savior and we’re announcing his death, resurrection, ascension, and return. Just as in Noah’s day, many mock saying, “Where is the promise of his coming?” (2 Pet 3:4) but the Lord uses the announcing of the gospel to bring his elect to new life and to true faith. In this episode we are considering 1 Peter 3:14–17. These verses, and particularly v. 15, are frequently invoked in discussions of apologetics or the defense of the Christian faith. In our late-modern context and perhaps especially in Reformed circles, where apologetics are highly valued, to speak of apologetics is to think first of a reasoned defense of the Christian faith. As sometimes happens, however, these verses are not always read in their original context. Peter thinks differently about defending the faith than we sometimes do. He is certainly concerned to give a reasoned account of the Christian faith but he is just as concerned about how we conduct ourselves before the watching pagan world.

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• R. Scott Clark, “Encouraging Lay Witnessing” in Faithful and Fruitful: Essays for Elders and Deacons, ed. William Boekestein and Steven Swets (Grand Rapids: Reformed Fellowship Inc., 2019), 247–61.
• Resources On Evangelism And Witness
• Does Acts 8 Provide a Warrant for Every Member Evangelism?
• Engaging The Culture: Beating The Secularists At Their Own Game?
• Van Til On The Perspicuity Of Natural Revelation
• Van Til, Cornelius, The Defense of the Faith. 4th ed. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P & R Publishing, 2008.
• Van Til, Cornelius. Christian Theistic Evidences. Edited by K. Scott Oliphint. Second edition, including the complete text of the original 1978 ed. Phillipsburg: P & R Publishing, 2016.
• Van Til, Cornelius, and William Edgar. Christian Apologetics. 2nd ed. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P & R Publishing, 2003.
• Van Til, Cornelius. Why I Believe in God. Philadelphia: Committee on Christian Education, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1966.