2 nd Peter 1:5~15 Message #3 Pat Shaughnessy, Teacher Hear Pat s Messages on

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1 2 nd Peter 1:5~15 Message #3 Pat Shaughnessy, Teacher Hear Pat s Messages on 1) The Bible is with paradoxes. a) A paradox is a seemingly absurd or statement, even if actually well-founded. b) God does it all and yet we have a in living the Christian life. c) Remember, our position is one thing but our is another. d) The basic ingredient in the Christian life is. i) We got into the Christian life by... ii) And Paul says the just shall by faith iii) So, we by faith and we live each day by. e) And now, it is to that of faith that Peter says to 7 things, 7 or characteristics. 2) First, add or bring alongside of your faith: excellence. a) To begin with he is saying that we have some in our walk with the Lord. b) Peter says fill your mind and heart with things that are or morally excellent. 3) The next thing he mentions here is knowledge. Page 1 of 5

2 a) Add to your moral excellence. b) We are to to our faith excellence of applied in wisdom. 4) Next, s c. a) That is another thing we need to add to our in Christ. b) The word here is the kind of discipline that comes from the Holy Spirit. c) This is a life that is under the control of the Holy Spirit and not by this world through. 5) The 4 th principle here is the virtue of emotional. a) In other words,. b) The idea of the word used here for the word perseverance also carries the idea of bearing up under a. c) It means persevering with against all odds. 6) Here is the 5 th virtue: or Godly. a) Paul wrote in 1 st Timothy 6 that godliness with contentment is g g. b) If there was nothing else you in this life but to be a godly or a godly you would be a man or a woman after own heart. 7) The next virtue is kindness. a) If you are a godly man or woman then you are and loving to others. Page 2 of 5

3 b) Phileo and Adelphos are the Greek words we get for the city of Philadelphia, the city of b l. 8) Finally, the virtue of love. a) Not loving when it is. b) Love is there no matter what the other person, or is, or should be in your way of. c) We are responsible to add all those things to our. 9) All of this brings us to the we face. a) The problem we face two things. b) Without these qualities being added to our lives we become spiritually. c) Without these we become barren, useless, ineffective, unproductive and unfruitful. d) Our lives have no effect, no influence for Christ on! e) Why not? Because we are not taking the importance of Peter s to in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 nd Peter 3:18). f) But Peter mentions problem if we live our lives without these things, we become spiritually. 10) Now why does Peter say these things, what is the. a) The purpose of Peter s admonition is to us in our relationship to the Lord. b) And that we give evidence to the world of a life by these virtues or qualities. Page 3 of 5

4 c) So, Peter writes these things in order to enable us to keep from. d) Peter is very concerned here about what is going to happen to believers in the last. e) He is very concerned about understanding how to from falling and the importance of in the faith. f) Beginning in vs. 12 to the end of the chapter, Peter deals with the subject of the that we should listen to. g) A lot of has resulted from hearing all those messages from so many sources. h) The voice we need to hear is not the voice of f t, it is the voice of the Lord. i) Peter is talking about how we should live in the las days so we don t in our walk with Christ. j) One of the we have as human beings, and particularly as we grow older in these is that we. k) The closer we move toward the of the Church and the more critical and comes the deception, the more important it is to be in what we listen to and watch. l) This world system which the God of the Bible Is working feverishly to the minds of the of the last days to a certain way. 11) We have today in the Church the that those who are the experts at solving mental, emotional, and behavioral problems are and. a) The truth is that nothing has done more to undermine the truth of the of the Word of God than the introduction into the Page 4 of 5

5 of the last days of the voice of the pseudo-science of. b) Peter is saying as does Psalm 19 and Psalm 119 that the Word of God is to restore the man. c) Here is the big problem: The whole basis or of modern psychological counseling is that we need to understand and learn to love and raise our level of - esteem in order to our problems. d) God doesn t want us to have more understanding of. e) In fact, He doesn t want us to think about at all! f) Let me tell you the voice of modern psychology is so well received today, by some believers. g) Here it is: We have an of our depravity and an of human ability to solve our problems. h) The major need of mankind is not to focus on, it is to focus on God! i) We had better be careful what we listen to. j) So, we ve made the point. We had better be what voice we are listening to. k) Or, we may wind up like the people Paul warns about in Romans 16: l) Remember, Peter is writing to believers, encouraging them and us, so we won t in our with the Lord. Page 5 of 5