Our Conversation Is In Heaven.

Do you want direct instructions from God? Do you think He is silent, not telling you what you need to do? Read on…

2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 

STUDY.

Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 

LABOR.

ADD the following…

2Pe 1:5  …giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 

2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 

Study, labor, add… these are ACTIONS, these are INSTRUCTIONS.

2Pe 1:8  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. 

IF we ADD to our faith… virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity then we will NOT be left in the dark when it comes to KNOWING our Lord Jesus Christ!

2Pe 1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 

Oh, how incredibly easy it is to FORGET we were purged from our old sins! Especially when they slip in once again and strive to take mastery over us, and they will! Make no mistake about it, the life that was buried in the grave, the old us who died so that we could rise in the newness of life in Christ, that old life will be clawing its way back to us in desperation. The old life filled with the sins that were purged from us will do everything it can to reunite with us. We CANNOT let ourselves forget that we were purged from our old sins, that we died with Christ on the cross and were buried with Him, and rose again with Him. We need to take a good hard look at our lives and ask ourselves if we are striving against sin. You heard me STRIVING, are you STRIVING!

By definition striving means to try hard to achieve or get something, to fight in opposition to something, to compete resolutely against somebody or something.

Heb_12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

STRIVING against sin.  

We are NOT to lay down and roll over and let sin have its way in our lives! We are NOT to say, "Oh well, I can't help it, that's the way it is. I'll always be this way."  We are to FIGHT! FIGHT! Do you hear me! FIGHT! We have to FIGHT against sin! If we really take stock of our lives and this--

IF we ADD to our faith… virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity then we will NOT be left in the dark when it comes to KNOWING our Lord Jesus Christ!

--asking ourselves if we are adding to our faith, to our belief in our Lord, virtue…are you adding virtue? Knowledge, are you adding knowledge? What about temperance and patience, and godliness, and brotherly kindness and charity! Do these thing permeate your life? Would one who knows you say you are a faithful believer in Christ, that you strive against sin, that you are adding virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity to your life? Would they know that you despise the lack of these things in your life?

2Pe 1:10  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall

Did you read that?  Read it again.

YE SHALL NEVER FALL.

How will  you never fall? IF YE DO THESE THINGS.

It doesn't say you will never fall if you simple do nothing at all, adding nothing to your faith. We are told what to do! We are instructed!

2Pe 1:11  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

2Pe 1:12  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. 

We need to be established in present truth.

We long for an entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  When our Lord returns we want to be KNOWN by Him! When our Lord returns we want to be HIS, wholly His and no others! We can't let Satan worm his evil way into our lives by trying his utmost to bring us to despair. We must STRIVE towards the mark!

Php 3:12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 

Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 

Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 

Php 3:16  Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 

Php 3:17  Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 

Php 3:18  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 

Php 3:19  Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 

Php 3:20  For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 

Php 3:21  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.