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The Big Picture
1. Four weeks teaching this passage to the summer interns
we took an in depth look at 8 attributes described in 2 Peter 1:1-11
In that I almost wish that I had one more week to give the “over view” message.
I felt we were looking at all the trees in the forest, and never got a chance to admire the landscape.
Photograpy: Life is comprised of moments
Photograph: focus.
you can get beautiful pictures focusing on the image on front of you and blurring the background.
or the opposite is true.
neither one is better than the other, and both are needed to produce the beauty of the image.
It depends on what you are trying to look at in that moment.
Our lives are comprised of different moments, and often our prospective on the situation determine how we go through these situations.
Or what we are focusing on will determine the picture we are going to get. and that will produce our emotions and actions, and how we handle the situation.
some moments in our lives we can be faced with choice and Defining moments.
Character building moments
some moments are easier than others
2. I want us to keep some thoughts in focus as we look at what Peter does in these first eleven verses.:
create a picture for a Godly life, and how to comprise what we call the “Christian Life”.
the composition of these 8 attributes and their order are not accidental, but a way to get a complete picture.
But Why? What is the reason we are to focus on these attributes this way?
Why are they build one upon another.
This question is answered with in these 11 verses.
elaborate on: promises, partakers , Escaped from corruption (liberty)
Vs. 5 starts out with “make every effort.
we are christians.
It is our “lifestyle” to do so.
this is written to the saints of God, or as Peter writes, “:a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ”
It is not written to the unbeliever.
the other reason we are to focus on these attributes this way.
2: peter 1:
so we are established in the truth that we have
to stir us up by way of reminder
to stur us up in a w
so we may not fail .
v10
think about it, how many people do you know who have fallen to the way side.
over the years I have seen a few people become built up in the body of Christ and then fall to the way side for many reasons.
many of these people could be seen to have fallen in one or more of these attributes.
So as we go through this passage together.
keep this in your mind.
the big picture of it all.
try to keep everything in this image in focus, even though we will be looking at some things individually.
Remember why we are looking at this.
we have ben given promises and we have escaped the corruption of this world, so we need to make every effort to hold these 8 attributes so we don’t fail.
essentially, these 8 things that will help you to endure to the End.
The bible says that “He who endures to the end shall be saved”
not he who prays this prayer, not he who says the right thing, not he who wears a tie to church.
but he who endures until the end.
similar to the fruits of the spirit.
or some of the fruits fall in to these 8 attributes.
(Keep in the back of your head)
The 8 attributes and how they fit together.
We have already talked about the big picture lets look at these 8 attributes and see how they go together.
What is Faith?
Definition:
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Faith FAITH (πίστις, pistis).
Reliance upon and trust in God; a central emphasis of Christianity.
or as we know it: The moral conviction of the truthfulness of God
Why would Peter start with Faith?
(v.5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue,)
The Substance: The Glue.
The Substance: The Glue.
It holds everything together.
Without it everything becomes irrelevant.
Why would Peter start with Faith
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Without Faith it is impossible to please God.
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Without Faith it is impossible to truly believe in God.
Reliance upon and trust in God
The moral conviction of the truthfulness of God
Faith is the substance of all things hoped for and the evidence of the things not seen.
Faith is the glue that bonds everything together.
we know that without faith it is impossible to please God
Our Salvation rests upon the principles of faith
Faith produces action.
By the grace of God we have been saved, though our faith in Jesus Christ.
It is not our own doing, because we in our selves cannot produce any action to save ourselves.
the actions of the law, or the works of the law cannot save us.
no animal sacrifice
no washing of the hands.
it is only through our faith in Jesus Christ.
Faith produces action.
Eph 2
Our faith should produce action.
We were created for good works.
and we should walk in them.
our faith should produce good works.
Good works apart from faith, are not counted as faith.
What I mean by that the atheist Philanthropist cannot do enough good actions, or help to “save humanity” and stand before God, and then be saved because of those good actions.
What is Virtue?
Definition:
“Moral goodness” or Moral excellence
Morality does not require Faith
Faith in Christ will produce moral living
We are to be a morally excellent people and walk out our Faith in Christ virtuously.
What is Virtue
What is Virtue?
Definition :
The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Volumes 1–5 Virtue:In its ordinary modern meaning of “moral goodness” it occurs
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