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We've been working through 2 Peter chapter 1.

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We've gone as far as verse 8. And then Peter's

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going to throw in just a little bit of a downside,

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if you will. It says in verse 9, remember in

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verse 8, there were steps or additions that should

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be taking place in our life. traits. That goes

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all the way back to verse 5, and now in verse

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8, he said that those traits being added to our

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lives will keep us from being ineffective and

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unproductive in our knowledge of the Lord Jesus

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Christ. And now in verse 9, he says, but, it's

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a but, whoever does not have them, whoever does

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not have those traits that we went through in

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the previous verses, is nearsighted, meaning

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you can't see far, and blind, so you can't see

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in detail, you can't see correctly, forgetting,

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that they have been cleansed from their past

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sins. We have been cleansed if we know Jesus

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Christ as Lord. The Lord is the person who tells

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us what to do, and we do it. And Savior means

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the person who paid the price for our sins. We

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have been cleansed of our past sins. Having been

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cleansed of our past sins, we can't own them

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anymore. We can't continue in them now. We have

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to let them go. And as we progressively let go

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anything, anything that we are that is not God

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-honoring, anything that we do that is not God

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-honoring, we will... not be nearsighted or blind,

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but rather be able to see what God is up to,

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see what he's about, see what he's attempting

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to do, and we can be part of it. I would encourage

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you today to realize that there are those who

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are still nearsighted, even people who claim

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the name of Christ. They're nearsighted and blind,

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forgetting that they have been cleansed from

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their past sins and dwelling instead in kind

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of the ways of the world and not adding onto

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their faith the things that we talked about previously.