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Introduction:
Do you think you have enough?
To answer that question, you might respond with, “enough for what?”
As people we are natural hoarders.
There is a television show that chronicles the lives of people with extreme hoarding problems.
They have somehow come to feel that they need more stuff.
Some people are terrified that they are going to run out of something.
For example, my wife’s grandmother has as much sugar on hand as a grocery store has.
She buys it every time she shops.
You may not be an extreme hoarder, but we all have at least one item that we are hoarders with and we worry that we might run out.
Will what we have be enough.
We can be that way with God as well.
We can feel like we need something more to make us holy like Christ.
We need one more class, or one more program.
Churches can fall into this trap and feel that they need the Word of God AND something else.
We counsel people and feel that the Word of God might not be enough so we try to supplement it with psychology.
We think our preaching won’t be entertaining to people if we stick to the Bible, so we feel the need to add a lot of pop-psycho-babel to the sermon as well.
We have to get to the point were we realize that Christ is enough.
He is enough for everything we need.
We also have to realize that He calls us to a life of holiness.
He calls us to look like Christ.
He doesn’t leave us at the decision to follow Christ, but actually expects us to follow Jesus and become like Him.
1. God gives us what we need for life and godliness (v.3)
In verse 3, Peter tells us that by God’s power we are given everything we will ever need for life an godliness.
Life and godliness - what do these two things mean?
Life = the gospel, salvation
Godliness = sanctification, our walk with Jesus
When we hear the word “sanctification” think sanctuary.
A sanctuary is a holy place set aside for us to commune with and worship God.
You have heard preachers say often that the church building isn’t the sanctuary, but you are.
The Bible tells us this in .
We are a temple, but maybe you don’t feel so much like a temple?
Here are a few questions we should ask ourselves?
What do you feel that you need to do to be made right with God?
Do you feel like things are right between you and God? Have you ever been having a tough go with someone that you were close to and you just knew that things weren’t right with the person?
What do you do?
You often will avoid them!
That’s what Adam and Eve did in .
They hid from God after they had sinned against Him.
For some of you today, you may be hiding from God.
You may not be right with Him.
Adam and Eve tried to make themselves right with God by covering up, but it didn’t work.
It took God providing a covering for them through a sacrifice.
Jesus is that sacrifice for us.
Because of His sacrifice, we are covered by His blood and accepted and made right with God.
2. Do you find yourself struggling to be good enough for Jesus?
3. God’s power has given us what we need for godliness.
What does this mean for your life?
2. Godliness comes through knowing Jesus (vv.
3-4)
So, if God has given us what we need for life and godliness, then it might be expected that we are supposed to be godly.
But how?
Peter tells us that it only comes from knowing Jesus.
He knew Jesus and it changed His life.
4. How can you know Jesus?
In the world we live in today where we don’t walk with Jesus and talk with Him like we would another human, how can we know Jesus?
How can we be around Him?
Here are a couple of ways:
* Talk with Him in prayer.
* Read what God has said to us in the Bible.
* Spend time with His body on earth, the church.
Verse 3 also tells us what we are called to.
Look again at verse 3.
5. What has God called us to according to verse 3?
We are called to His glory and excellence.
We will talk about God’s glory in just a minute, but let’s look at His excellence first.
Everything God does is excellent.
Have you ever thought about that?
If we are to share in His excellence, what does that mean for you?
Do you give God your best in everything you do?
Do you do everything you do with your best effort.? People don’t seem to really care about this anymore, but we should.
We should strive to share in the glory and excellence of God’s calling.
3. God shares His nature with the godly (v.4)
The promise for us is that God desires to share His nature with us.
Think about this for a minute.
What is God like?
How would you describe God?
Would you say that He is love?
Would you say that He is kind?
Would you say that He is good?
Would you say that He is patient and long-suffering?
Would you say that He is powerful and sufficient for what you need?
God is all of these things and more.
What’s more, God wants to share Himself and who He is with you?
He wants you to be made into the likeness of Christ.
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However, Satan wants anything but for you to become like God.
Look with me for a moment back in .
Let’s look at verses 1-5:
Satan accused God of being jealous and trying to keep Adam and Eve from becoming like Him.
Satan said that God didn’t want them to share in His godliness and that’s why He forbade them from eating from the tree.
Now, this was obviously a lie and let to the fall of mankind, but notice that God has been trying to draw us to Himself ever since in a relationship with Jesus where we can become like Christ.
When we become like Christ, we share the nature of God.
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What does it mean to have a nature like God’s?
Having a nature like God doesn’t mean we become little gods.
This is a misconception that Mormonism teaches.
In Mormonism, we are told that God, who is called Elohim, was once a man that became a God and had all of us as celestial children.
If we will obey him and marry in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, we can also become gods and have our own universe and our own celestial children.
Folks, this is heresy and it isn’t Christian.
This passage is not saying that we become gods, it is actually talking about the fact that we become partakers of the body of Christ.
Let’s read what Paul writes in .
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