“We must be deeply rooted in the truth so that we might smell the stench of false teaching and death before it brings sin and death among us…”
The Power and Coming of Our Lord (2 Peter 1:12-21)
“Peter, with his last opportunity to teach, wants you to know God is at work in you by His great power. Therefore make every effort to grow in Christlikeness. It is Peter’s hope and expectation that they would have faith in God that would propel them forward into action…This is not a myth, but it is a reality…We have been taken out of the rat race. Our life is for - and our fulfillment is in - Jesus.”
Divine Power for Growing Obedience (2 Peter 1:1-11)
“Obedience is the commanded and necessary consummation of our faith…But How? How do we obey? How has God availed his great power to us to give us all things we need for a life of godliness? Look at the passage this morning (v.3): It is through a knowledge of Him! Colossians 3 would supplement this passage and say that we are being renewed in knowledge after the image of our Creator. We must realize that partaking in life and godliness is not some mystical, secret, complicated, higher knowledge sort of process, but rather it is simply a growing and experiential knowledge of our Great God.”