Of Grace and Knowledge
2 Peter 3:18a
- Grow in Grace
- Must train ourselves to see God’s grace
- Must realize our dependence on God’s grace
- Growing in grace ensures the rejection of legalism
- Failing to growing in grace gives rise to lawlessness (antinomianism)
- Grow in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
Grow in His Word
- Biblical literacy is decreasing
- 2 Timothy 2:15
- Grow in His ways Imitating the ways of Jesus is a mandate for the church
- Ephesians 5:1-2
- We are called on to exceed the works of Christ
- John 14:12
- Why It Matters
- Scripture is an intentional gift from God
- 2 Timothy 3:16
- Believes are a work in progress
- Philippians 1:6
- Our goal each day as saints is to look more like Jesus today than I did yesterday.
- We are only truly a work in progress if there is visible progress in our spiritual development