Fear Psalm 27: 1-4 Verse 1 Remember who He is! “Whom shall I fear?” My Light Lk.1:79, 2:32. John 1:1-9 My salvation John 14:6, 1 Tim.2:5, Rom.8:34 My strength John 15:5 “without me ye can do nothing” Verse 2 Remember what He has done! “they stumbled...
Add “…Charity” 2 Peter 1:7 “God’s love through you” is a great definition of Charity. You must have time for God’s love to work on you, before it can work through you. Peter has charity as the last item to add to your faith. Paul writes in the great...
Add to “Godliness Brotherly Kindness” 2 Peter 1:7 What does Peter mean when he says “Brotherly Kindness”? We know that the “Brotherly” part in this context means, your brothers and sisters in Christ. He is talking about saved, born again, children of God. But, what is “kindness”? Kindness is...
Phopecy Fulfilled by Jesus Christ from Crucifixion to Resurrection Day John 13:19 Your Bible, the word of God, is made of 66 books, written by 40 authors, over several thousand years. Yet there is prophecy of a Messiah, his life, his death, and his resurrection. Jesus Christ is...
Add to “Patience Godliness” 2 Peter 1:6 What is godliness? How can one be godly? Peter tells us to add godliness in this passage. Godliness is being like God. It is more than observing a list of do’s and don’ts (although obedience is required). It is thinking His thoughts...
Add to “Temperance Patience” 2 Peter 1:6 Patience is a choice. This is another choice that Peter tells us to add. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience. Patience is the suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation, or...
Add “to Knowledge Temperance” 2 Peter 1:6 A good synonym for Temperance is moderation. To “temper” something means to bring it to a moderate state. In [Exodus 30:35] the Lord describes a mixture for a perfume to be used in the tabernacle and says “And thou shalt make it...
Add to Virtue Knowledge 2 Pet. 1:5 In the last lesson we studied about adding virtue to your faith. Virtue is a power to produce something manifested by voluntary obedience to truth. God wants us to get saved and then summit to be obedient to the truth. In this...
Add To Your Faith Virtue 2 Peter 5-7 Verse 5 starts out with “And beside this…”, Peter, in verses 1-4, has been describing the salvation that we have in Jesus Christ. So getting saved isn’t all there is to the Christian life. Some people get saved and never grow...
Spiritual Gifts Rom. 12:6-8 and 1 Cor.12:7-11 A Spiritual gift is just that, it is a gift. You can’t earn it any more than you can earn your salvation [Eph.2:8-9]. When you are born again you become a new creature [2 Cor.5:17]. You are baptized into the body of...
