The Symphony of Faith

Because you have God's divine power, friends, don't just let that float by. Don't just let the reasoning that we are to work things out here, float on by the same God whose power spoke the universe into existence. We ought to be kinda certain to sit up, sit back and go, yeah, that's right. Out of nothing, God said, let there be light. And he formed the heavens and the earth and all that we know and more. [00:06:11] (37 seconds)  #EmbraceDivinePower

And so this patron would say, I wanna see a performance. Here's the cash for the performance. I'm gonna fund the whole thing. Now you go out, you hire the best singers, the best instrumentalists, the best actors and actresses, and you put on a performance. The money's there. You just get to be the recipient and go put on the performance so that it would be magnificent. Now here's the connection with the gospel of Jesus Christ. You're the choir director of your life, if you will. Right? I I don't mean to say that you're in charge of as much as you might want to think you're in charge of, but there are things you are rightly called to direct in your life. [00:12:09] (46 seconds)  #FundedForFruit

It doesn't matter how much theology you know, if you can't or if you won't, control your temper or your tongue or your lust. If you can quote Romans but you don't stop clicking or tapping on the website, You've got knowledge, but you don't have self control. And Peter says, we need to add to our knowledge self control. And then to our self control, we need to add steadfastness. [00:31:31] (31 seconds)  #KnowledgePlusSelfControl

But it doesn't mean we're not called to work. And so Peter says, now it's time to get to work. Today in our message, which I've called the symphony of faith, we're gonna see that grace is not opposed to effort. Grace is opposed to earning. Grace is not opposed to effort. [00:03:47] (23 seconds)  #GraceRequiresEffort

And with great urgency. That's the second phrase. For this reason, make every effort. Make every effort. This original language phrase here in the Greek, spude implies haste, speed, intentionality, intensity. It's not just a hobby. It's not something that you do when you have spare time. Growing your relationship with the Lord is priority one for your life. This is an emergency response kind of intensity. [00:08:36] (35 seconds)  #MakeEveryEffort

Not trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, but with the ways that God has supplied for you to grow. You're to you're to grow. Not perfectly, but you're seek to seeking to get after it. Right? The Holy Spirit provides the wind. We've got to hoist the sails in our relationship with the Lord. There's a metaphor we're gonna look at here that has to do with supplementing your faith and the kind of third phrase in verse five that we wanna look at. For this reason, make every effort to what? Supplement your faith. [00:10:52] (34 seconds)  #UrgentSpiritualGrowth

Now we hear that phrase get to work and it conjure it might conjure up all kinds of things like, what am I working for? What am I working to earn? And so that's where we need to stop. We're not working to earn anything, but we are working to build, to be diligent, to build upon the foundation that God has given us in faith through Christ, knowing that everything we need for the work we're called to do is provided. [00:03:22] (26 seconds)  #HoistTheSailsOfFaith

But effort is an attitude of attitude of gratitude, an attitude of worship filled striving that keeps the main thing the main thing, realizing that God has given me everything that I need. He's provided the bank account is full. He's provided everything that we need. And so my responsibility as one who's been a a a an undeserving recipient of all of this is to put it to work, to steward the resources that God has given. And so Peter gives a pretty strong mandate here. And brothers and sisters, we need to hear this with all of the force that is behind it. [00:04:35] (39 seconds)  #SupplementYourFaith