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And our last few encouragement calls, I hope you've been listening and loving and learning

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and growing and just being encouraged.

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We've been looking through 2 Peter chapter 1 beginning with verse 3 and the last time

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we ended up with the end of verse 7.

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So beginning in verse 8 today and it says for or because if you possess these qualities

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and let's look again at what the qualities were, faith at goodness, knowledge, the knowledge

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at self-control, self-control, perseverance, perseverance, godliness, the godliness mutual

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affection and to mutual affection, love.

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For if you possess these qualities in increasing measures, now these are like meters and if

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they just keep going up as you are walking out your faith in Christ, if you keep adding

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these things and adding them by increments even, they will keep you from being ineffective,

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sometimes when you can't get done what you're supposed to get done and unproductive and

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that's when you can't produce what you're supposed to produce in your knowledge of our

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Lord Jesus Christ.

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It's one thing to know about Jesus, it's another thing to know Jesus and it's another thing

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to know Jesus and have our knowing of Jesus equal productivity and effectiveness and here

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Peter is telling us how to do those things.

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To add these characteristics, make a mental note of these verses, 2 Peter chapter 1 beginning

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in verse 3 and we've now reached through verse 8 and it tells you how to be productive and

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effective in your knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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I want to say God bless you today.

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I want to say we can do this.

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God has made us able to have the divine nature and to walk out following Him despite our

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own desires and the corrupt nature we once had.