Adding To Faith
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1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
God desires that all of His children become beautiful productive witnesses of Christ’s power.
A star shining brightly
not everyone will be a shining light for The Lord
Diligence - giving all
We are eternal beings briefly inhabiting these bodies on earth
the day you were saved God began a great work but wants to continue a growing process
by diligence, God wants us to add to our Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Temperance
Patience
Godliness
Brotherly kindness
Charity
This isn't just a one time event
It’s a constant adding, a constant abounding, a overflowing that is seen and experienced
Lacking - God didn't call us to just be an average believer
Cant see past today - there is forever
Our witness for God increases as we obey God
God wants us to grow and impact more people
We are to become more effective in communicating spiritual truth
Everyone of us
Communicate truth to your children
coworkers
family
friends
clients
God is building a life message in you and desiring that message to be communicated through you
God is seeking those who will seek Him
Seeking God with great diligence
Spiritual apathy will lead to spiritual death
we don’t want to be lazy when it comes to spiritual things
if you are not paddling forward spiritually you are going backward
Virtue - moral excellence and purity of heart
Matthew 5:8 (KJV 1900)
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
They will see God doing things an influencing
Knowledge - God wants to add knowledge
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
To know God is not knowing about Him academically
This means God’s knowledge
Giving yourself over to learn of Him
Spiritually and supernaturally taught by The Spirit Of God
What is the Spirit of God teaching you right now ?
Is your walk with God so fresh that you are learning lessons from God right now
How much do you want to know about God
The Holy Spirit had to teach you about your need of Salvation
God want you on a pursuit to know Him
God wants you to know Him, see Him, hear Him
God want you to have relationship experiences with Him
Do you hear God when you read your Bible
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Do you hear His lessons
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
There are things you cant see with your natural man - they are spiritual
God is preparing things for you to experience Him
God said there is spiritual wisdom available to us
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
It’s available by His Spirit
It’s revelation in your personal life - get a journal and write what God reveals
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
God will teach you and freely give you
I like reading books but God talks to me and He wants to reveal things to you
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
We are to be speaking the things we have been taught by the Spirit
Family
coworkers
I tell my wife and children many of the things the Lord shows me
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
What is God teaching you
If you rely on just our
God is talking to all of His children constantly, are we listening
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
know
God open the eyes of my understanding
18 Open thou mine eyes, That I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Deepen your spiritual life - Ask God to help you deepen your spiritual life
Let others hear what God has taught you
Listen to what God is teaching someone else
Walk in the light of God’s word
If you're not walking in the light of the word you are not walking in God’s blessing
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
God will renew your mind underneath His knowledge
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
The battle is in the mind
are you willing to commit to walking in the light of scripture
are you willing to let that light shine on your conduct in such a way that you will change your actions and thoughts to mimic it’s mandates?
What you learn hear isn't enough for you to have a full supply of the knowledge of God
You can be saved and not know God
We need to know how much we need God and how much we need His knowledge
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
You need to teach others about God
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Effectually worketh - to be active, efficient: - do, (be) effectual (fervent), be mighty in, shew forth self, work (effectually in).
What Scripture is acting in that way in your life right now...
Touching every part of you - changing you
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Learn of me
When will christians put away the baby things
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Study something all the way through
What biblical subject are you learning?
Salvation
The Holy Spirit
Wisdom
Study more and more
The biblically illiterate mind is a mind easily enslaved by the cares of this world, the lies of Satan, and the dictates of the flesh.
Do you have a desire to Know Him.
When a child of God desires to know Him, God manifests Himself to that child of God - Spiritual apathy is a deadly foe to all spiritual growth and knowledge of God
How do you know God and learn more about God
The best learning I’ve recieved has come from teaching
As you teach, you learn
Become a learner, become a teacher
“More about Jesus would i Know”
Do you want more?
God, Teach me More!
Diligence, adding more
I want more!
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Some say i want more money
fame
physical strength
Paul’s answer was that he had gone through all the requirements of Judaism, but had found it absolutely unsatisfactory and inefficient to subdue the sin of his soul.
But in Christ he had found everything he needed. What had been valuable to him now seemed but dirt and mire. He had found the pearl of great price, and was only too glad to sacrifice all else to purchase and keep it, as the crown of complete victory.
That we might know Him
the excelling knowledge of God
That I may know Him
Resurrection - I want to know that power
Suffering - I want to know that fellowship
His death - I want to know that conforming
The people that know God - others know that they know
The child that knows God - others know
When you think about God, what do you think about Him?
how majestic
how powerful
how Glorious
how much do you know him
We must give time to know Him
A disciple is a learner that is disciplined
What have you done to add to your faith
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
If you don’t come to know Him before adversity comes you’ll leave Him
you cannot endure adversity without knowing Him
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
How can we say we know Him and want to be like the world?
How can we say we know Him but I really want to live a life in sin?
Could it be that we just know about Him?
Could it be that we know about Him but are not known of Him
I wonder if the weakness of Christianity today comes from the fact that those that profess Christ really don’t know Him...
I think there are those that are saved, but really don’t know Him
Frail, defeated, powerless Christianity is because we dont know HIm
Unanswered prayer - could it be we don’t know to whom we’re praying
My children never have a problem asking me for anything
32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Not an academic knowledge a supernatural knowledge causing us to be able to do exploits.
Eyes of our understanding being enlightened
Open our eyes
Temperance
Patience
Godliness
Brotherly kindness
Charity