Adding to Your Faith "grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord"

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Adding to Your Faith "grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord" 2 Peter 3:18 Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5-11

Faith Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 Faith Faith is the foundation of Christianity: Heb. 11:6; Lk. 18:8 Faith in God is demeaned on many fronts by our society: Gen. 15:1 Faith leads us to do God’s will: 2 Cor. 5:17; Jas. 2:26 Our faith must grow! 2 Thess. 1:3; 2 Pet. 1:9 Primary source of growth comes from studying God’s Word: Rom. 10:17

1. Virtue Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 1. Virtue Virtue is moral excellence, moral courage; doing what’s right because it’s the right thing to do! 1 Thess. 5:22; Eph. 5:11-13 The world wants us to sacrifice our virtue on the altar of political correctness: Eph. 5:11-13; 4:4 The Bible describes some believers who lacked virtue: Jn. 12:42-43 Despite the criticism and persecution it brings; you’ll never regret being virtuous! Matt. 5:10-12, 44

2. Knowledge Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 2. Knowledge Many Christians are not strong in the faith and lack moral courage because they lack knowledge: Hos. 4:6; Heb. 5:11-14; Eph. 4:14 We must “desire the sincere milk of the word” to grow spiritually: 1 Pet. 2:2 We must gain gnosis and epignosis: 2 Pet. 1:5, 8 Acquiring knowledge requires study: 2 Tim. 2:15; 2 Pet. 3:18; Acts 20:32; 1 Pet. 1:4-5

Adding to Your Faith 3. Temperance “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 3. Temperance Temperance is simply self-control: Acts 24:25; 2 Pet. 1:6 We must focus our energy at all times on exer-cising self-control: Jas. 1:14; 4:7-8 Even Paul had to focus in order to maintain self-control: 1 Cor. 9:24-27 God does not remove temptation, but provides “the way of escape”: 1 Cor. 10:13

4. Patience Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 4. Patience Patience deals w/more than our temper: Rom. 5:3-4 We need patience to face all life throws at us: Jas. 1:2-4; 5:11 Never grow impatient due to trials: Trust God, He cares: Jas. 1:13; 1 Cor. 10:13; Psa. 56:8 Put things in the proper perspective: 2 Cor. 4:16ff God uses adversity for our good: Rom. 5:4; 1 Pet. 1:7 To “inherit the promises” we must heed God’s admonitions about patience: Heb. 12:1-2; Jas. 5:7-8

5. Godliness Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 5. Godliness Godliness is piety and respect for God as exhibited in our daily life (Recall WWJD?). We must never look to society for our values: Jn. 8:31-32 Wrong is always wrong! Rev. 21:8; 1 Cor. 6:18; Heb. 13:4; 1 Pet. 2:13-15; Acts 5:29 We must always consider “what manner of persons ought you to be”: 2 Pet. 3:11

6. Brotherly kindness Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 6. Brotherly kindness Brotherly kindness is simply loving and being kind to one another: 1 Pet. 1:22 We should feel a deep nearness and kinship for one another: Eph. 2:19; 2 Pet. 1:1; Eph. 4:1-3 Our love must be expressed in kindness and consideration for others: Eph. 4:32; Phil. 2:3-4; Rom. 12:10 We must get to really know one another, associate with one another: Rom. 12:13

7. Love Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 7. Love Charity is love (phileo, eros, agape); how are we to love? Jn. 13:34; Rom. 5:6-8; 1 Cor. 13:1-7 What are we to love? God: Matt. 22:37 Our neighbor: Matt. 22:39; Lk. 10:27ff Our spouse & children: Eph. 5:25; Titus 2:4 Our enemies: Matt. 5:44 “love one another”: Jn. 13:34-35; +12 others! Agape is a must! Col. 2:2; 3:14; 1 Jn. 4:8-11

Conclusion Adding to Your Faith “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…” 2 Pet. 1:5 Conclusion Any benefits to growing? YES! 2 Pet. 1:8-11 Salvation is more than believing and being baptized! God does His part and we must do our part! Have you been adding these things to your faith? 2 Pet. 1:9