ADD TO YOUR FAITH- GODLINESS

Text: 2 Peter 1:3-11

Intro: As we continue with our theme today we will look to build our next pillar. So far we have been reminded that that the foundation in which we are build upon is Christ and that through Him we can be unmovable.

Proverbs 9:1 KJV 1900

Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her seven pillars:

With each addition to our faith we are adding a pillar that eventually will leave us with a 7 pillared house of wisdom.

I want to remind us that it is easy to be distracted, just ask those Haggai day.

Haggai 1:5–6 KJV 1900

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; Ye eat, but ye have not enough; Ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; Ye clothe you, but there is none warm; And he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Haggai’s message comes to the people 16 years after they laid the foundation.

• The result of patience – Rom 5:3-4; Job 42:5-6;

Ps 119:71

• The counterpart: “ungodly” – 2 Sam 22:1-7

• Those that hate God – 2 Chr 19:2

• Job 16:11; Ps 1:1-6

• The connection: righteous and godly

• Ps 4:1-5; 73:12

Pillar 5 - Godliness

• Godliness in contrast to ungodliness as a

Christian responsibility

• 2 Cor 1:12; 1 Tim 1:4

• Heb 12:28-29; 1 Tim 2:10

• Jude 1:15-18

Pillar 5 - Godliness

• Godliness is God’s nature being manifest

in your flesh

• 1 Tim 3:16

• Matt 5:14-16; 1 Pet 2:9-10

• 2 Cor 11:1-2

• 2 Pet 1:4

Pillar 5 - Godliness

• How to build godliness

• Job 11:15 – for then shalt thou lift up thy face

without spot

• 2 Pet 3:11-14; 1 John 2:29

• How we know we have godliness

• James 3:17 – full of mercy and good fruits

Pillar 5 - Godliness

• Our character will change

• Ps 86:15

• Persecution is coming

• John 15:18

• 2 Tim 3:12

• 2 Pet 2:9

• Acts 7:60