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We've been working through 2nd Peter chapter 1. We've gone as far as verse

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8 and then Peter's going to throw in just a little bit of a downside if you

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will. It says in verse 9, remember in verse 8, there were steps or

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additions that should be taking place in our life, traits, that goes all the way

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back to verse 5 and now in verse 8 he said that those traits being added to

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our lives will keep us from being ineffective and unproductive in our

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knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now in verse 9 he says, but, it's a but,

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whoever does not have them, whoever does not have those traits that we went

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through in the previous verses is nearsighted, meaning you can't see far and

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blind, so you can't see in detail, you can't see correctly, forgetting that they

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have been cleansed from their past sins. See, we have been cleansed if we know

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Jesus Christ as Lord, the Lord is a person who tells us what to do and we do

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it, and Savior, who means the person who paid the price for our sins, we have been

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cleansed of our past sins. Having been cleansed of our past sins, we can't own

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them anymore, we can't continue in them now, we have to let them go. And as we

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progressively let go anything, anything that we are that is not God-honoring,

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anything that we do that is not God-honoring, we will not be nearsighted

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or blind, but rather be able to see what God is up to, see what he's about, see

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what he's attempting to do, and we can be part of it. I would encourage you today

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to realize that there are those who are still nearsighted, even people who claim

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the name of Christ, they're nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been

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cleansed from their past sins and dwelling instead in kind of the ways of

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the world and not adding unto their faith the things that we talked about

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previously. God bless you today as we walk not like...