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Notes for "Adding to Faith" 2Peter 1:1-15 Do we have everything we need to live the Christian life? What is it? And where did it come from or how did we get it? Note how often the word knowledge is used. Why do you think Peter kept emphasizing the importance of knowledge? And to what kind of knowledge was Peter referring? Sola Fide: Faith Alone* Faith plus nothing = salvation What is faith? Heb 11:1? Remember Dead, Demonic or Dynamic Faith? Faith needs to walked out. - story about “Who Wants to be a Superhero?” Not every test is what it appears to be. - sometimes the journey is the destination 2 Peter
1 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. 12 step program or synergistic relationship? The combined action of two or more processes is greater than the sum of each acting separately. Christianity synergism? The doctrine that individual salvation is achieved through a combination of human will and divine grace. Galatians
5:22-23 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. What how does one reap (hint) the fruit of the Spirit? Galatians 6:7-10 Sowing to the Spirit means doing those things which please God – Doing God’s will. Galatians 6 7Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8The one who sows to please the flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. James
1 2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials (hint: suffering) of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything 3 things needed for temptation: the world, the flesh, the devil Seek help to persevere:
Eusebeia - godliness
Even though God gave
1 Corinthians
10 1For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert. 11These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. *Sola gratia is one of the five solas propounded to summarize the Reformers' basic beliefs during the Protestant Reformation; it is a Latin term meaning grace alone. The emphasis was in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day. During the Reformation, Protestant leaders and theologians generally believed the Roman Catholic view of the means of salvation to be a mixture of reliance upon the grace of God, and confidence in the merits of one's own works performed in love, pejoratively called Legalism. The Reformers posited that salvation is entirely comprehended in God's gifts, (i.e. God's act of free grace) dispensed by the Holy Spirit according to the redemptive work of Jesus Christ alone. The five solas * Sola fide ("by faith alone") * Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone") * Solus Christus ("Christ alone"; sometimes Solo Christo, "by Christ alone") * Sola gratia ("by grace alone") * Soli Deo gloria ("Glory to God alone") |