1. Sunday Sermon
1st March 2015

2. Luke 22

3. Luke 22:31
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

4. 1st Peter Fire of Rome blamed on Christians
Intense persecution in Roman Empire
Faith refined like gold

5. 2nd Peter To the disciples in Asia Minor
Written around AD67, about 3 years after the first letter
Issue: False Teaching creeping into church

6. Maturing Our Faith
2 Peter 1 & 2

7. 1) Grow in Your Knowledge of God

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

9. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:1-4
3His 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. 4Through 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.

10. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:1-4
3His 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. 4Through 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.

11. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:1-4
3His 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. 4Through 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.

12. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:5-7
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self- control; and to self- control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.

13. Faith
Goodness
Knowledge
Self-Control
Perseverance
Godliness
Mutual Affection
LOVE
Goodness
Knowledge
Self-Control
Perseverance
Godliness
Mutual Affection
LOVE
FAITH

14. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:5-7
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self- control; and to self- control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.

15. Grow in your Knowledge of God
To add
translated from Greek Word ‘epichorēgeō’
means ‘To supply generously’

16. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:5-7 [AMP]
For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge, and in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self- control, and in [exercising] self- control [develop] steadfastness, and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness, and in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love.

17. FAITH Mutual Affection Godliness Perseverance LOVE Self-Control
Goodness
Knowledge

19. Mutual Affection
Godliness
Perseverance
LOVE
FAITH
Self-Control
Goodness
Knowledge

20. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:10-15
10Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. 13I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, 14because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things

21. Grow in your Knowledge of God 2 Peter 1:10-15
10Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. 13I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, 14because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things

22. 2) Don’t Throw It All Away!

23. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away 2 Peter 2:1-3
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them —bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

24. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away Early False Teaching:
Corrupted View of Jesus
Sentimental View of God’s Grace

25. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away 2 Peter 2:4-10
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;

26. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away 2 Peter 2:4-10
6if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

27. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away 2 Peter 2:4-10
9if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.

29. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away 2 Peter 2:15
15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

30. Balaam Tempted by riches from Moab King Balak to curse Israelites.
Saved by a talking donkey !?!
God forbid him to curse but instead bless Israelites.
In the end, he taught the Moabites to introduce sexual immorality to the Israelites

31. 2) Don’t Throw it All Away 2 Peter 2:20-22
20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22Of them the proverbs are true:“A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

33. 1) Grow in Your Knowledge of God 2) Don’t Throw It All Away!