And our last few encouragement calls, I hope you've been listening and loving and learning
and growing and just being encouraged.
We've been looking through 2 Peter chapter 1 beginning with verse 3 and the last time
we ended up with the end of verse 7.
So beginning in verse 8 today and it says for or because if you possess these qualities
and let's look again at what the qualities were, faith at goodness, knowledge, the knowledge
at self-control, self-control, perseverance, perseverance, godliness, the godliness mutual
affection and to mutual affection, love.
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measures, now these are like meters and if
they just keep going up as you are walking out your faith in Christ, if you keep adding
these things and adding them by increments even, they will keep you from being ineffective,
sometimes when you can't get done what you're supposed to get done and unproductive and
that's when you can't produce what you're supposed to produce in your knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
It's one thing to know about Jesus, it's another thing to know Jesus and it's another thing
to know Jesus and have our knowing of Jesus equal productivity and effectiveness and here
Peter is telling us how to do those things.
To add these characteristics, make a mental note of these verses, 2 Peter chapter 1 beginning
in verse 3 and we've now reached through verse 8 and it tells you how to be productive and
effective in your knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want to say God bless you today.
I want to say we can do this.
God has made us able to have the divine nature and to walk out following Him despite our
own desires and the corrupt nature we once had.