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Sermon: Precious & Magnificent Moments – Confirm Your Election
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: II Peter 1:5-11
Duration: 25:34
Size: 11.7 MB

Precious & Magnificent Moments
Confirm Your Election
II Peter 1:5-11

Our goal is: life and godliness, the source of strength to become godly is divine power, and the activating connection between the goal of godliness and the source of divine power is knowing and trusting the promises of God.

I. The Logic of Godliness

Since God has given power for godliness, strive to become godly!

True Christians do not stop pursuing growth in grace. They go on. They advance.

II. Don’t Float, Swim Hard

We must strive even to stand still, the tide of temptation is so strong.

If the knowledge of God’s glorious promises does not spur us on to strive against the tide, then we will be barren and fruitless and drift to our destruction.

III. The Consequence of Not Swimming

The problem with the person who does not strive toward all the fruit of faith is that he is blind in two directions, the future and the past.

The assumption is that the whole world lies under the righteous judgment of God because of sin. But because of His great mercy, God ordained that a people for his own be saved by grace.

IV. Sanctification and Assurance

The confirmation of your election is your progress in sanctification.

Therefore, the Word of God warns us against being lazy in our faith and drifting away from Jesus Christ our only hope.

Next Week
Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty
II Peter 1:12-19

Sermon: Precious & Magnificent Moments – Liberating Promises
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: II Peter 1:1-4
Duration: 30:04
Size: 13.7 MB

Precious & Magnificent Moments
Liberating Promises
II Peter 1:1-4

I believe that if we saturate our minds and hearts with the glory and excellence of God in the Scriptures, there will one day come an explosion at Richmond Community Church:

I. Peter: Servant and Apostle

But Peter is not eager to flaunt this authority. “Apostle” comes second, not first.

What is most important in anyone’s life is their faith, and on that score Peter is on a level plane with the church.

Peter does have authority, but he bends over backward to meet them as a brother and serve them, rather than lord it over them.

II. Peter’s Greeting

He pictures grace and peace as something that comes to us from God.

If you want to enjoy God’s peace and be the aroma of his grace in the world, your knowledge of him has to grow.

A. The Goal – Life and Godliness

First, Peter is aiming at two things: eternal life and godliness; moral and spiritual transformation now, and hope for life in the age to come.

The hope of life and the way of godliness stand or fall together.

B. The Source – Divine Power

Second, the way of godliness and the hope of eternal life do not lie within our own power to produce or attain.

The Christian faith is not merely a set of doctrines to be accepted. It is a power to be experienced.

God’s grace is a free power that works in us for our good.

C. The Means – Knowledge of God

The knowledge that leads to life and godliness is said to be the knowledge of God’s precious and very great promises.

Very practically, I think this means we must day-by-day go to the Word of God and search for great promises.

III. Conclusion

We can sum up these first four verses of II Peter with four words: power, promises, practice, and prospect.

God’s divine power (v. 3) flows into our lives when we know (v. 2) and trust (v. 1) his precious and very great promises (v. 4). And this power flowing through these promises produces practice of godliness (v. 3) and the prospect of life eternal (v. 3).

Next Week
Confirm Your Election
II Peter 1:5-11