You share in the divine nature of God (2 Peter 1:1–15)

By the way, if you don't know Christ as your savior, the bible compels you that you must repent of your sin and accept Christ as your savior. And for those of us who have, it's not good enough just to say I went to church or I listened online or I went to Sunday school. You also have to live it out. [00:55:40] (21 seconds)  #RepentAndLiveItOut

Christian, I believe in eternal security, but I believe a lot of Christians that are eternally secure lack the assurance of their salvation because you're not growing. You stop getting to know god, and we need to continue in that process of knowing god because when we don't, we're gonna lose that assurance of salvation. We're gonna forget that we were cleansed from those former sins. [01:03:33] (29 seconds)  #GrowForAssurance

Peter's at the end of his life. And his heart cry is this. It's like his his dying breath. It it and by the way, it's my heart for you. It's my heart for my family, for my wife, for myself that throughout our lives, we would stay committed to god and grow in our relationship to him. Is there is there any greater thing? I mean, you could say, well, I want you to get a job and have kids and be successful and have a lot of money but when all is said and done, here's what I want. I want you to know Christ. I want you to grow in him. [01:08:35] (39 seconds)  #KnowChristAboveAll

You cannot know god without knowing his word. And so the primary resource for us is god's word. Yes, we can learn from people. We can learn about the righteousness of god from creation but the primary resource and the only place you can learn about the work of Jesus Christ and about salvation is in the word of god. [00:56:57] (21 seconds)  #KnowGodThroughScripture

And as we live our lives, we need to live in such a fashion that we're adding to our faith. All of these elements that would reflect the divine nature of god. Listen. I know you can't do it in your own power. We depend on the holy spirit of god and the word of god in this journey, but we are to take action steps to to ensure that we are acting in line with the very nature of god. [01:01:07] (27 seconds)  #FaithPlusAction

First of all, he was a slave. He willingly submitted himself as a servant to god, to Jesus Christ. He wanted to live his whole life serving god. I hope that's your desire. I hope that you wanna spend your time, your energy, and resources on glorifying God. He identified himself as a servant of God and also as an apostle. [00:41:08] (24 seconds)  #LifeOfService

It says here that he he's writing to people who have obtained a faith equal to theirs. A faith equal to the apostles. We're all saved the same way. Right? Is salvation by faith alone in the shed blood of Jesus Christ? That god does a work on our behalf through the word of god, through the holy spirit of god, and we each respond in faith accepting Christ as our savior becoming a child of god. [00:44:37] (28 seconds)  #SavedByFaithAlone

Have you ever thought of that? Of Christ's divine nature that we can participate with that. Now we don't become god, but we become more like Jesus throughout our lives. We need to become partakers of his divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that's in the world because of sinful desire. We have competing philosophies. One is our own way, the world, the philosophies of the world, and one is god's way. [00:50:52] (31 seconds)  #PartakersOfHisNature