1. Impossibility of You Falling Away
2 Peter 1:8-11

2. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:8-11

3. Peter and Apostasy

4. Peter and Apostasy
Peter knew about apostasy, personally

5. Peter and Apostasy Peter knew about apostasy, personally
1 Peter 2:1 – Christians can be ungodly

6. Peter and Apostasy Peter knew about apostasy, personally
1 Peter 2:1 – Christians can be ungodly
1 Peter 4:3 – They can fail to stop sinning

7. Peter and Apostasy Peter knew about apostasy, personally
1 Peter 2:1 – Christians can be ungodly
1 Peter 4:3 – They can fail to stop sinning
2 Peter 2:20 – They can be bound again

8. Peter and Apostasy Peter knew about apostasy, personally
1 Peter 2:1 – Christians can be ungodly
1 Peter 4:3 – They can fail to stop sinning
2 Peter 2:20 – They can be bound again
2 Peter 2:21 – Better to never be saved!

9. Peter shows how to NEVER fall away
Peter and Apostasy
Peter knew about apostasy, personally
1 Peter 2:1 – Christians can be ungodly
1 Peter 4:3 – They can fail to stop sinning
2 Peter 2:20 – They can be bound again
2 Peter 2:21 – Better to never be saved!
Peter shows how to NEVER fall away

10. “If” and “then” statements

11. “If” and “then” statements
Parents make them

12. “If” and “then” statements
Parents make them
Teachers make them

13. “If” and “then” statements
Parents make them
Teachers make them
Employers make them

14. “If” and “then” statements
Parents make them
Teachers make them
Employers make them
Government makes them

15. “If” and “then” statements
Parents make them
Teachers make them
Employers make them
Government makes them
Mates make them, sometimes

16. “If” and “then” statements
Parents make them
Teachers make them
Employers make them
Government makes them
Mates make them, sometimes
God makes them – 2 Pet. 1:8-11

17. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11

18. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
These things are yours

19. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 These things are yours
If they abound in you

20. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 These things are yours
If they abound in you
If you give even more diligence

21. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
These things are yours
If they abound in you
If you give even more diligence
The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11

22. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
These things are yours
If they abound in you
If you give even more diligence
The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
You will not be barren

23. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
These things are yours
If they abound in you
If you give even more diligence
The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
You will not be barren
You will not be unfruitful

24. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
These things are yours
If they abound in you
If you give even more diligence
The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
You will not be barren
You will not be unfruitful
You will never stumble

25. The “If” of 2 Peter 5:8-11 The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
These things are yours
If they abound in you
If you give even more diligence
The “then” of 2 Peter 5:8-11
You will not be barren
You will not be unfruitful
You will never stumble
You will have abundant entrance

26. What Things Must Abound?

27. What Things Must Abound?
Faith

28. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue

29. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge

30. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self control

31. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self control
Perseverance

32. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self control
Perseverance
Godliness

33. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self control
Perseverance
Godliness
Brotherly kindness

34. What Things Must Abound?
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self control
Perseverance
Godliness
Brotherly kindness
Love (agape)

35. Path to an Abundant Entrance
Believe John 8:24
Repent Acts 17:30
Confess Faith Rom. 10:9
Be Baptized Mark 16:16
Added to His church, His body, His kingdom
Be Faithful Rev. 2:10