LESSONS FROM THE ROCK: Part 5

DILIGENCE

April 22, 2007

“Diligent faith is demonstrated by faithful behavior.”

2 Peter 1:5-11 “In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God's promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins. So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things and you will never fall away. Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

Faithful behavior includes growing in…
Ø Goodness
Ø Knowledge
Ø Self-Control
Ø Perseverance
Ø Godliness
Ø Brotherly Affection
Ø Love

Diligence finds its motivation in Jesus.
2 Peter 3:17-18 ~I am warning you ahead of time, dear friends. Be on guard so that you will not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen.