Sermon Tone Analysis

Knowledge & Self-control

TEXT:

2 Peter 1:5 (KJV)

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2 Peter 1:5 (HCSB)

5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

2 Peter 1:5 (NLT2)

5 In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises.

Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge,

2 Peter 1:5 (ESV)

5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,

2 Peter 1:5 (MSG)

5 So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding,

INTRO:

Faith

Add to your Faith Virtue

Add to Your Virtue, Knowledge

Years ago I heard the phrase “I may be stupid, but I ain’t dumb.

It almost sounds like the same thing.

In scripture the word knowledge is used in a couple different ways

The knowledge found here in 2 Peter 1:5, and a worldly knowledge are not the same.

Greek word for knowledge is gnōsis

THE WORD MEANS...

Knowledge; to know God better; practical intelligence; practical knowledge; practical insight.

Practical Application

It means knowing what to do in every situation and doing it; it is practical, day-to-day knowledge that sees situations and knows how to handle them.

It is seeing the trials and temptations of life and knowing what to do with them and doing it.

Remember the charge: we must add a knowledge of God to our faith.

We must give diligent attention to the situations of life and figure out how to conquer them.

SERMON:

Knowledge

Can become an hindrance

Source Of Temptation

(First we want delve into a little history.

Genesis 2:15-17 (ESV)

15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

(Genesis 3:5-6 (ESV)

5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Tends To Presumption

Genesis 3:22-23 (ESV)

22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil.

Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Adds To The Burden Of Life

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (ESV)

18 For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (MSG)

18 Much learning earns you much trouble.

The more you know, the more you hurt.

Exhausting To Pursue

Ecclesiastes 12:12 (ESV)

12 My son, beware of anything beyond these.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 12:12 (MSG)

12 But regarding anything beyond this, dear friend, go easy.

There's no end to the publishing of books, and constant study wears you out so you're no good for anything else.

Daniel 12:4 (ESV)

4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end.

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

In one of Adrian Rogers Sermons.

You know in the Bible says in the last days knowledge shall increase, and, friend, we're seeing it.

We are amazed at what is happening, what comes out of the imagination of man.

And we're being told today what man can imagine, man can achieve.

I read recently that there are 3,000 pages of new stuff printed every second, ha, ha, 3,000 pages.

One thousand books in America are published every day.

You will never read them all.

And, the Bible says in the last days knowledge shall increase and men shall rush to and fro.

Well, folks, we are seeing that.

As a matter of fact, let man's accumulated knowledge from creation to 1845 be measured in inches.

All of that knowledge from creation to 1845 would be on our scale just one inch.

But from 1845 to 1945 it would have grown to be three inches.

But from 1945 to 1975 it would be as tall as the Washington Monument.

And from 1975 to the present it would be out of sight.

We are drowning in an ocean of facts.

But the Bible speaks of those who are ever learning and not coming to the knowledge of truth.

America today needs truth.

And you can see this because where is, where are facts taking us?

Where does mere intellectual knowledge take us?

Today we see more suicide, more broken homes, more drug abuse, more illness, more heartache than ever before, and yet we have facts.

You see, facts are like a recipe; truth is the meal.

And we've not learned truth.

Artificial intelligence

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans.

“U.S. intelligence shows that China has even conducted human testing on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities,” Ratcliffe wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.

“There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing’s pursuit of power.”

Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours

By: David Russell Schilling | April 19th, 2013

Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century.

By end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years.

Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth.

For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months.

But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.

According to IBM, the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.

Result In Pride

(i) 1 Corinthians 8:1 (ESV)

1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.”

This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.