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! Text: \\ /2 Peter 1:1 through 2 Peter 1:11 (NIV)/ \\ 1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
2Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
10Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure.
For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
*Introduction:*
   A man was walking along a narrow path, not paying much attention to where he was going.
Suddenly he slipped over the edge of a cliff.
As he fell, he grabbed a branch growing from the side of the cliff.
Realizing that he couldn't hang on for long, he called for help.
Man: Is anybody up there?
Voice: Yes, I'm here!
Man: Who's that?
Voice: The Lord.
Man: Lord, help me!
Voice: Do you trust me?
Man: I trust you completely, Lord.
Voice: Good.
Let go of the branch.
Man: What??? Voice: I said, "Let go of the branch."
Man: [After a long pause] Is anybody else up there?
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!
I.        The Conception of Faith is the Provision of God.
!! A.      A Promised Gift
~*~*~*Many people tell me that they would like to be saved, but they
just don't have enough faith.
Sometimes, I will reply, "You must
take God at his word, you must believe what God has said!
And
sometimes they look at me with the most amazed look and say,
"Well, I'm trying to believe."
What an insult to God!  Trying to
believe God.
God has spoken and they say, "I am trying to
believe."
Why I am a frail, mortal man, but if I told you
something concerning something that I know and you replied,
"That's interesting and I'm trying to believe you," I would be
insulted!
I would reply, "Sir, you insult me.
Do you think I am
lying to you?
What do you mean by saying you are trying to
believe me?"  God has spoken in His word and He expects us to
receive His testimony.
That is all there is to faith, it is
believing what God has said.
- Ironside
     - Commentary on John, p. 130.
!! B.      A Powerful Gift
~*~*~*   Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible.
Faith begins where man's power ends.
-- George Muller, orphanage founder, 19th century.
Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 2.
 
~*~*~*   In May 1995, Randy Reid, a 34-year-old construction worker, was welding on top of a nearly completed water tower outside Chicago.
According to writer Melissa Ramsdell, Reid unhooked his safety gear to reach for some pipes when a metal cage slipped and bumped the scaffolding he stood on.
The scaffolding tipped, and Reid lost his balance.
He fell 110 feet, landing face down on a pile of dirt, just missing rocks and construction debris.
A fellow worker called 911.
When paramedics arrived, they found Reid conscious, moving, and complaining of a sore back.
Apparently the fall didn't cost Reid his sense of humor.
As paramedics carried him on a backboard to the ambulance, Reid had one request: "Don't drop me." (Doctors later said Reid came away from the accident with just a bruised lung.)
Sometimes we resemble that construction worker.
God protects us from harm in a 110-foot fall, but we're still nervous about three-foot heights.
The God who saved us from hell and death can protect us from the smaller dangers we face this week.
-- Greg Asimakoupoulos, Naperville, Illinois.
Leadership, Vol.
16, no. 4.
!! C.      A Purposeful Gift
~*~*~*  Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or a beggar his rags.
-- Thomas Brooks.
Leadership, Vol.
16, no.
1.
 
! II.
The Cooperation of Faith is the Practice of Man.
~*~*~*   When Hudson Taylor, the famous missionary, first went to China, it was in a sailing vessel.
Very close to the shore of cannibal islands the ship was becalmed, and it was slowly drifting shoreward unable to go about and the savages were eagerly anticipating a feast.
The captain came to Mr. Taylor and besought him to pray for the help of God.
"I will," said Taylor, "provided you set your sails to catch the breeze."
The captain declined to make himself a laughing stock by unfurling in a dead calm.
Taylor said, "I will not undertake to pray
for the vessel unless you will prepare the sails."
And it was done.
While engaged in prayer, there was a knock at the door of his stateroom.
"Who is there?"
The captain's voice responded, "Are you still praying for wind?" "Yes," "Well," said the captain, "you'd better stop  praying, for we have more wind than we can manage."
And sure enough, when but a hundred yards away the cannibals were cheated
out of their human prey.
--Oriental Missionary Standard
 
                ~*~*~*   Obedience is the Only path that leads to the glory of God.
Not
obedience instead of faith, nor obedience to supply the shortcomings
of faith, but faith's obedience.
-- Anon.
!! A.      An External Cooperation
~*~*~*   Two little girls were on their way to school one morning.
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