Sunday, September 7, 2014

If you lack these things you are spiritually blind.

2Pe 1:1-21  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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TRUTH.

 'And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. '

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Give ALL diligence.
ADD to your FAITH- VIRTUE.
ADD to VIRTUE-KNOWLEDGE.
ADD to KNOWLEDGE-TEMPERANCE.
ADD to TEMPERANCE-PATIENCE.
ADD to PATIENCE-GODLINESS.
ADD to GODLINESS-BROTHERLY KINDNESS.
ADD to BROTHERLY KINDNESS-CHARITY.

Do you have faith?
Do you have virtue?
Do you have knowledge?
Do you have temperance?
Do you have patience.
Do you have godliness?
Do you have brotherly kindness?
Do you have charity?

If we LACK these things we are BLIND and cannot see afar off, and have forgotten that we have been purged from our old sins.

Daily we must lay down our old life as we daily must ask for forgiveness, seeking to be purged from our old sins. 

It's no secret that we have sins that we are partial to, presumptuous sins. And these sins must be laid at the feet of our Savior. We must seek the Holy Spirit's power to overcome through our LORD.

We are told what makes us Spiritually blind, having no faith, no virtue, no knowledge, no temperance, no patience, no godliness, no brotherly kindness, and no charity. 

Like the Pharisees who could not see their own spiritual blindness, we can suffer the same fate. We have to open our hearts, our minds to the Holy Spirit who can give us these things. We have to recognize our NEED, realize our state of blindness, of being poor, of being naked. No one who believes they see will comprehend their blindness. Our sight needs to be God's sight, spiritual sight.


Please Lord, Please heavenly Father, please...help us to see!  Forgive us!  Forgive us. In the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, forgive us.

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