Last time we talked about the proponents of fruitfulness: Supplementing and Exercising your faith. Now we will deal with the traps of unfruitfulness. 2 Pet 1:8-15 – The big idea is fruitfulness. God wants our lives to be fruitful and for us to enjoy our salvation. 1:8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they »
Intro to 2nd Peter: Date: Peter probably wrote this letter from Rome not long before his martyrdom, sometime during a.d. 64–67. Purpose & Background: Peter writes this brief, final reminder to the churches so that his readers will by God’s grace live a life that is pleasing to God. In doing so, Peter must also combat the »
Most of us have heard at some point in our lives that Christianity is a religion of dos and don’ts. You need to act a certain way, read the Bible, pray, do good, watch goofy Christian TV (to clarify, not all of it is goofy, just most), etc. This is usually said and spun negatively »
We do not do certain things or act in certain ways in order to please God. He is pleased with us because of Christ. Nothing I could even do in my flesh could please/apease a holy, infinite, perfect God! We pursue godliness first of all because the Holy Spirit, at the point of salvation, created »