Please read one chapter of 2 Peter for the next three days.
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Book of 2 Peter Challenge
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Book of 2 Peter Challenge
Pasteur Etzer Altidor
· 9 years ago
Hello:
Book of 2 Peter Challenge – Day 29 – 2 Peter 1 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
For 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;
7 and to godliness, mutual affection;
and to mutual affection, love.
8 For 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. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. (2 Peter 1:5-9)
Apostle Peter started with the fact that every Christian has been given the measure of faith. Here, we are not asked to add to our faith as if to make our faith bigger. It is not necessary. We don’t have to complain about our lack of faith or the lack of faith that we think exist in our churches. It is not what is needed. All we need is to encourage ourselves and everyone around us to use the faith that is already in us.
We must use our faith in the Lord so that we can progressively develop into the likeness of Christ. Christ paid for our sins in Calvary, we are no longer under the bondage of sins. That is why the word of God encourages us to see ourselves as new creation in Christ. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!(2 Cor. 5:17)
When we look that the progression in verses 5 to 7, we see that it leads ultimately to love. God is love, and this is what we are called to. Everyone human being starts in love and will end in love.
May the Lord richly bless you?
Pasteur Etzer Altidor
· 9 years ago
Hello:
Book of 2 Peter Challenge – Day 30 – 2 Peter 2 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,[a] putting them in chains of darkness[b] to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh[c] and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; (2 Peter 2:4-10)
I highly recommend the book "The Purpose And Power Of Authority" by Myles Munroe to anyone who is contemplating a position of leadership in the church, the body of Christ. In that book, Dr. Munroe shows that it is only when we willingly submit to true authority that we can use our own personal authority.
We are warned in 2 Peter 2 to be adopt an attitude of humility in everything we do. God is love as the Bible tells us, but we must never forget that God is the righteous judge of the whole universe that he created. God id sovereign and every human being owe him love, respect and obedience.
In a world that has forgotten that God is devouring fire, we must live our lives in a way that reveals God’s total attributes to humanity. God is love, but God is also just. People must be told about the love of God, but they must also be warned about the wrath of God. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27)”
May the Lord richly bless you!
Pasteur Etzer Altidor
· 9 years ago
Hello:
We have reached the end of the Book of 2 Peter Challenge, tomorrow August 1st, we start the Book of Romans Challenge.
Book of 2 Peter Challenge – Day 31 – 2 Peter 3 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,[a] not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies[b] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.[c] (2 Peter 3:8-10)
Every time people doubt the truth of the Bible sooner or later they realize that the Bible is far beyond human understanding. Before the discovery of atomic energy, many scientists used to doubt the soundness of 2 Peter 3:10. They could not fathom the source of so much energy that would cause “the heavenly bodies to be burned up and dissolved. “
But now everybody knows how much energy can be released by one atomic bomb. Enough energy to destroy whole cities at once. However, mankind will not destroy God’s creation, God will judge the world and subsequently establish his everlasting kingdom here on earth. What must we do? We need to prepare ourselves through repentance by accepting the gift of eternal life provided for us in Christ Jesus.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21
May the Lord richly bless you!
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