2 Peter gives us another reason why we should not "willfully forget" God in every area of life.  In 2 Peter 3:5 we learn why God sent the flood to destroy the earth along with every man, woman and child, because, "They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command"(NLT). We also learn why they willfully forget, because they were, "following after their own lusts".  And because they did these things God, except Noah and his family, utterly killed every human being on planet earth including women and small children.

        These people lived a lot longer than we did today, by several hundred of years.  Which means their intellect was most likely much greater than ours.  But what did these gifted people do with their longs lives and higher intellect, they being carried off by their lust, "willfully forgot" God, the most important reality in all the Universe.  These people knew there was a God, but due to their lust and choosing to forget God, soon pushed God so far out of reason that they "Mocked"(2 Pet 3:3) the idea of God.

Introduction: