- Introduction to 2 Peter 1
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- Divine strength imparted
- Faith, the first round. Round two: Virtue
- Example of Joseph
- Belief and patience
- Round three: Knowledge—Benefits from associating with Christ
- Round four: Temperance
- Importance of healthful diet
- Round five: Patience
- Peace in the home
- Round six: Godliness Beauty of religion in the home
- Round seven: Brotherly kindness—the example of Enoch Earthly home fits for heaven
- Round eight: Love
- Heaven brought nearer
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- Christian life a constant warfare
- Plan of addition and multiplication
- Add virtue
- A high standard to attain
- To represent the Father
- A knowledge beyond expression
- Conditional promises
- Temperance in appetite
- Self-denial a virtue
- Brain nerve-power to resist temptation
- Disposition of a Christian
- Challenge to parents
- Arbitrary authority to be avoided
- Mothers to keep a cheerful countenance
- Missionary work to begin at home
- Speech to be sanctified
- Negligence to children to be confessed
- Example of the Israelites
- Only election in Scripture
- Timbers in character-building
- Kindness and patience
- Home to be heaven on earth
- Life-insurance policy
- Parable of the talents
- One talent
- The talent of means
- Parable of the fig tree
- Economy to be practiced
- Criticism and fault-finding to cease
- Conversion
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- Ladder of Christian progress
- Virtue
- Knowledge a safeguard against temptation
- None need fail to reach perfection
- No possibility of failure for the one who follows this plan
- Privileges of being believers
- Prophecy a safe guide in times of peril
- World conditions prior to Christ's second coming
- Peter's imprisonment in Rome
- The death of Peter
Only election in Scripture
“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.” This is the only election that is spoken of in the Bible. Your election is dependent on your course of action. If you will to make your election sure, you can do so; if you will to make it uncertain by sinning while professing to be righteous, you can do so. You can become angry, you can be dishonest in trade, you can in other respects follow the course of the ungodly. But will it pay? I ask you, Will it pay? Will you not determine to make your calling and election sure, and not only for yourself, but for your children? Will you not strive to bind up your children with Christ?PCP 30.1
If you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, you will never fall; “for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” This promise is an eternal life-insurance policy, and it is offered to every one of us.PCP 30.2
The apostle continues: “Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.“PCP 30.3