We've been working through 2nd Peter chapter 1. We've gone as far as verse
8 and then Peter's going to throw in just a little bit of a downside if you
will. It says in verse 9, remember in verse 8, there were steps or
additions that should be taking place in our life, traits, that goes all the way
back to verse 5 and now in verse 8 he said that those traits being added to
our lives will keep us from being ineffective and unproductive in our
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now in verse 9 he says, but, it's a but,
whoever does not have them, whoever does not have those traits that we went
through in the previous verses is nearsighted, meaning you can't see far and
blind, so you can't see in detail, you can't see correctly, forgetting that they
have been cleansed from their past sins. See, we have been cleansed if we know
Jesus Christ as Lord, the Lord is a person who tells us what to do and we do
it, and Savior, who means the person who paid the price for our sins, we have been
cleansed of our past sins. Having been cleansed of our past sins, we can't own
them anymore, we can't continue in them now, we have to let them go. And as we
progressively let go anything, anything that we are that is not God-honoring,
anything that we do that is not God-honoring, we will not be nearsighted
or blind, but rather be able to see what God is up to, see what he's about, see
what he's attempting to do, and we can be part of it. I would encourage you today
to realize that there are those who are still nearsighted, even people who claim
the name of Christ, they're nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been
cleansed from their past sins and dwelling instead in kind of the ways of
the world and not adding unto their faith the things that we talked about
previously. God bless you today as we walk not like...