We've been looking through 2 Peter 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 adds goodness. Knowledge. Knowledge
adds self -control. Self -control, perseverance.
Perseverance, godliness. To 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. We keep adding these things
and adding them by increments even. They will
keep you from being ineffective. Ineffective
is 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 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