Message Notes

SATURDAY MORNING 16 JULY 2022
SESSION # 2

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

2 Peter 1:5-7

1. “For this very reason” 2 Peter 1:5

a) The place of “reason”

b) The reason

i) Promises of God

ii) Power of God

iii) Potential of being a man of God

2. “Giving all diligence “ 2 Peter 1:5

a) The lack of diligence

b) The need for “all diligence”

3. Adding to our Faith-Life

a) Faith

b) Virtue

c) Knowledge

d) Self-control

e) Perseverance

f) Godliness

g) Brotherly kindness

h) Love 2 Peter 1:5-7

4. Practical and Vital Assessment

a) Comprehension of these 8 Qualities

b) Checking if these things are in our life

c) Cultivating them diligently

5. Comparison

a) The 8 Beatitudes Matthew 5:3-10

b) The 8 Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22-23

WHAT IF THESE THINGS ARE PRESENT IN OUR LIFE?

“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither ]barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

2 Peter 1:8

1. If they are ours

a) Understood

b) Internalised

2. If they abound

a) They are a part of our new Divine nature

b) They can abound

3. Results:

a) Not barren

b) Not unfruitful

c) The knowledge of God would not be in vain

WHAT IF THESE THINGS ARE MISSING IN OUR LIFE?

“For he who lacks these things is short-sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.”

2 Peter 1:9

1. If we lack these things

2. We are short-sighted

3. We are virtually blind

4. We have forgotten we are cleansed from our old sins!