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Ingredients for Life
I don’t consider myself to be a baker, but when I get in the mood, I don’t mind baking.
My Mom baked a lot, and mostly by memory, so as the youngest in the house, I got to help with some of the baking, and yes I got to clean the bowl out and lick the beaters.
With certain recipes, the ingredients had to be added in a certain order.
Today, we are going to look at certain attributes or ingredients that we need to add to our lives that will keep us from being unfruitful and unproductive.
Let’s read our Scripture today
Add to your faith
Other meanings can be supplement or support.
When we take supplements, it’s to give us vitamins and minerals that might be lacking.
Just as a multi-vitamin brings health to our bodies, these virtues will bring health to us spiritually.
Just as we make choices to take supplements, let’s choose to add these ingredients to our lives.
Add to your faith…Goodness
Goodness = Moral Excellence
Moral excellence was a virtue that the ancient Greek philosophers sought after.
There isn’t much doubt that when Peter was speaking of these virtues, he used words that made sense to his audience.
There can be no moral excellence that has any lasting value outside of a relationship with Jesus Christ.
We are called to reflect Jesus in this world.
My prayer is that we will become more and more like Jesus.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Sometimes I see a dirty face, or bed head.
there are times that I see myself with a nice dress shirt and a tie, but when we get below the surface, my prayer is that we will see a reflection, or mirror image of Christ.
It’s Christ in you the hope of glory.
(Col 1:27)
The word Peter used is only used in two other places in the New Testament.
One is 2 Peter 1:3 and the second is:
You’ve probably heard the saying, “You are what you eat.”
Do we become what we think about?
We live in a very stressful world.
If we allow them to, our thoughts can run wild, but as we take every thought captive and make it be subject to Christ.
Instead of letting our thoughts control us, let’s give the Holy Spirit His rightful place, and let Him lead and guide us into all truth.
And to goodness, knowledge
Moral excellence should lead us to knowing God more intimately.
Knowledge comes from the Greek word
gnosis
An Agnostic is somebody who isn’t an atheist but is someone who doesn’t know if there is a God.
here gnosis is that knowledge that leads to wisdom and discernment that enables believers to live godly lives
Paul’s prayer for the Philippian church was this in
My prayer for each of us is that we would know Christ and the power of His resurrection.
My prayer is that we would grow in His gtrace and His knowledge.
May God reveal to us what really matters.
Our lives can be so filled with activities.
It can be so filled possessions, and when we look back, we can ask ourselves what was the point?
Solomon was the 3rd king of Israel.
He was known as a man of great wisdom, and yet near the end of his life, these were his words.
Aren’t you glad today that we can find everything that we need in Christ.
Let’s store up treasures in Heaven.
When Jesus is all you have, you will find out that He was all your really needed.
And to knowledge, self-control
Self-control refers to mastery over sinful human desires in every aspect of life.
Self-control is a much longed for virtue.
Many people find themselves going from one diet to the next, while others try to quit smoking or some other habit.
Others make resolutions to start going to the gym or to exercise more and all too soon for many the resolution is broken.
The difference between self-effort and self-control is that, self-control is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit does an inward work, where self-effort can only change the outside.
An example is Alcoholic’s Anonymous.
My Mom’s oldest brother was 35 years sober.
Praise the Lord that he had a support group to walk with him.
Outwardly he didn’t drink, but he still claimed that he was an alcoholic.
Alcoholic’s Anonymous has done a lot of good for a lot of people, but only the Holy Spirit can change us from the inside out.
Adding self-control to knowledge is not a place where we can boast.
It’s God the Holy Spirit who changes us as we submit our will to His.
And to self-control, perseverance
Another word for perseverance is patient endurance.
I used to have more endurance when I was daily doing physical work.
Many of us need to go for walks and exercise so that we can build up endurance.
Last fall I told you about when Josh and I were running around the track.
I timed Josh and then I “ran” around the track.
The plan was to run 400 metres.
I hadn’t ran around a track since High School.
I hadn’t been working on endurance.
I hadn’t played soccer, baseball, or football for years, and was definitely OUT of shape.
After about 200 metres, I was really feeling it.
After I finally finished, Josh said to me, “It’s okay Dad, when I started running I had to stop too!”
Josh has built up his endurance by running.
He has built up his endurance by enduring, persevering even when he doesn’t feel like doing it.
Let’s make this practical.
Let’s ask ourselves these questions:
Do I run with purpose in every step?
When life gets hard, and I feel like quitting, do I still run anyways?
When I’m tired and I don’t feel like praying or reading my Bible, do I push through and grow in my relationship with God regardless?
When I feel lazy on a Sunday morning, I don’t feel like showering, and getting out of my PJ’s, do I go tow church anyways?
There might be times that we don’t feel like we are getting anything out of church, maybe we are distracted, maybe we don’t like the music, maybe there is something else going on that is just too important, etc.
I want to look at it a little differently.
Maybe you are the answer to somebody else’s prayers.
They are going through a hard time and have been asking God to help them.
You decide, “I think I want to go to church today.”
Maybe it’s your smile, a kind word, or you feel that you need to pray for that person.
As you persevered, God used you to make a difference in somebody’s life.
Don’t give up!
Don’t quit!
And to perseverance, godliness
Simply put, godliness is “living a life that is like God.”
Schreiner, T. R. (2003).
1, 2 Peter, Jude (Vol.
37, p. 300).
Broadman & Holman Publishers.
1, 2 Peter, Jude (2.
Pursue a Godly Life Diligently (1:5–7))
or “living the kind of life that pleases God.”
When we go outside of these 4 walls, we become representatives of Jesus Christ.
We have the promise that we have been given everything that we need for a godly life in Christ Jesus and yet we are called to be like Jesus.
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