1. Salvation and Security
2 Peter 1:1-4

2. 2 Peter 1:1-4 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

3. 2 Peter 1:1-4
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

4. A Guide to Godly Disputation by John Newton
Dear Sir, 1. As to your opponent, I wish that before you set pen to paper against him, and during the whole time you are preparing your answer, you may commend him by earnest prayer to the Lord’s teaching and blessing. This practice will have a direct tendency to conciliate your heart to love and pity him; and such a disposition will have a good influence upon every page you write.

5. A Guide to Godly Disputation by John Newton
If you account him as a BELIEVER, though greatly mistaken in the subject of debate between you, the words of David to Joab concerning Absalom, are very applicable: "Deal gently with him for my sake." The Lord loves him and bears with him; therefore you must not despise him, or treat him harshly! The Lord bears with you likewise, and expects that you should show tenderness to others—from a sense of the much forgiveness you need yourself. In a little while you will meet in heaven—he will then be dearer to you than the nearest friend you have upon earth is to you now! Anticipate that period in your thoughts, and though you may find it necessary to oppose his errors, view him personally as a kindred soul, with whom you are to be happy in Christ forever.

6. A Guide to Godly Disputation by John Newton
But if you look upon him as an UNCONVERTED person, in a state of enmity against God and his grace (a supposition which, without good evidence, you should be very unwilling to admit), he is a more proper object of your compassion than of your anger! Alas! "He knows not what he does!" But you know who has made you to differ from him. If God, in his sovereign pleasure, had so appointed, you might have been as he is now; and he, instead of you, might have been set for the defense of the gospel! You were both equally blind by nature. If you attend to this, you will not reproach or hate him, because the Lord has been pleased to open your eyes—and not his!

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8. Charles Spurgeon
“The hearing of the gospel involves the hearer in responsibility. It is a great privilege to hear the Gospel. You might smile and think there is nothing very great in it. The damned in hell know. Oh, what would they give if they could hear the gospel now? If they could come back and entertain but the shadow of a hope that they might escape from the wrath to come? The saved in heaven estimate this privilege at a high rate, for having obtained salvation, through the preaching of this gospel, they can never cease to bless their God for calling them by His word of truth. O that you knew it! On your dying beds the listening to a gospel sermon will seem another thing than it seems now”.

9. Jesus is God and Savior
Is 43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
Is 45:21 There is no God else beside Me; a just a God and a savior; there is none beside me.
Is 60:16 You shall now that I the Lord am thy savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.

10. John Owen
“Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God as the worst of His enemies we shall never flee to Him for refuge.”

11. Charles Spurgeon
“My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.”

12. God’s Generosity
Exodus 34:6 6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.
Lamentations 3:22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases his mercies never come to an end.
Ephesians 1:3 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Psalm 121 I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.