Knysna Baptist Church An Effective New Year Making

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An Effective New Year Making every effort 2 Peter 1: 5 -11

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Everything we need for life and godliness FAITH DIVINE NATURE ALL WE NEED Knysna Baptist Church

Everything we need for life and godliness n We are now accountable! DIVINE NATURE ALL WE NEED Knysna Baptist Church

Everything we need for life and godliness We are now accountable! n Eph 5: 18, Eph 4: 30, 1 Thes 5: 19 n DIVINE NATURE ALL WE NEED Knysna Baptist Church

2 Peter 1: 5 -11 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self -control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. Knysna Baptist Church

2 Peter 1: 5 -11 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. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. Knysna Baptist Church

2 Peter 1: 5 -11 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Knysna Baptist Church

Resolutions are Good!. . . but: why must we “make every effort”? Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective Knysna Baptist Church

2 Peter 1: 5 -9 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self -control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. Knysna Baptist Church

2 Peter 1: 5 -9 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. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective Whatever God has supplied can be wasted and leave us ineffective. n It is possible for at least a time to be a fruitless and useless Christian n Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective The cause: (v 9) But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. n Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective The cause: Forgotten: [He] gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. n Titus 2: 14 Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective The cause: Forgotten: whoever sins is a slave of sin…if the Son sets you free you will be free indeed [John 8: 34] n Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective n The cause: Forgotten: Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective The cause: Forgotten (v 9) n The remedy: v 5 -8 n q Remember and Respond Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective The cause: Forgotten (v 9) n The remedy: v 5 -8 n Remember and Respond q “Make every effort…Add to your faith” q “In increasing measure” q Knysna Baptist Church

1. To keep yourself from being ineffective 1. Remember your freedom (Rom 7) 2. 3. Identify where you lack (v 5 -7) Resolve to be like Christ (Rom 8: 29) Knysna Baptist Church

2. To make your calling and election sure Knysna Baptist Church

2 Peter 1: 10 -11 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Knysna Baptist Church

2. To make your calling and election sure Luke 6: 44 “each tree is known by its own fruit” n Knysna Baptist Church

2. To make your calling and election sure John 15 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing” n Knysna Baptist Church