Many say there is no participation in Salvation, and yet, instruction exists for our benefit, as we, yet facing battles in the world, strive to become more like our LORD, and reach our destination! There IS TRUTH in that FAITH alone in CHRIST JESUS SAVES, yet this is the foundation on which HIS KINGDOM is built, as HIS own take their place in the ranks of the HOLY realm, existing IN HIS WILL, forever, and forever! We are being BROUGHT INTO our REALITY which is entirely contrary to the ways of the world, and so, we are, bit by bit, learning, growing, developing, and otherwise taking ON our TRUTH, body, mind, heart, and spirit, despite that we yet journey this Earth! The wrongdoer's will NOT inherit THE KINGDOM; HE HAS made it clear throughout THE WORD (1 CORINTHIANS 6; GALATIANS 5; along with references from EXODUS, all the way through)! Of course, even the diligent will struggle, but that they are WILLING to step INTO TRUTH separates them from the world, AND invokes THE HOLY SPIRIT'S works in us, which PERFECTS us, though it IS a process!!!
KNOWLEDGE IS KEY TO surviving the snares of this plane; of the enemy; without it we are as lost as can be, and FAITH, along with FAITHFULNESS cannot be realized without it! Thus, we eagerly devour THE WORD, that it, not only nourishes us, but sustains us! TOO, we take ON HIS instructions, and APPLY them to our existence, from thought, to action, to reaction! BEING a Child of *GOD* IS PROACTIVE, and DOES exemplify HIM IN US FOR all to notice, and to bear witness to, FOR HIS GLORY OVER the enemy, as well as to inspire, then guide others TO HIM! In this knowledge we find ALL the tools we need to maintain, WORTHILY of our HIGH CALLING!!!
*GODLINESS* IS that which causes us to SHINE OF HIM! *GODLINESS* though not yet perfected IS THE TRUTH that HE IS OUR LORD, and DOES DWELL within us, hence, among us!!!
1+++Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2+++Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
3+++seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
4+++For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
5+++Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
6+++and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
7+++and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
8+++For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9+++For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
10+++Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;
11+++for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.
Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the sight of God. Faith worketh godliness, and produces effects which no other grace in the soul can do.
In Christ all fullness dwells, and pardon, peace, grace, and knowledge, and new principles, are thus given through the Holy Spirit. The promises to those who are partakers of a Divine nature, will cause us to inquire whether we are really renewed in the spirit of our minds; let us turn all these promises into prayers for the transforming and purifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
The believer must add knowledge to his virtue, increasing acquaintance with the whole truth and will of God. We must add temperance to knowledge; moderation about worldly things; and add to temperance, patience, or cheerful submission to the will of God.
Those who are diligent in the work of religion, shall have a triumphant entrance into that everlasting kingdom where Christ reigns, and they shall reign with him for ever and ever; and it is in the practice of every good work that we are to expect entrance to heaven.
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