Peter’s Counsel to Parents - Contents
- 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
Sermon
These words [2 Peter 1:1-13] should mean a great deal to us; and we should study this chapter diligently, that we may learn to practice the virtues it presents before us. If we do these things, the apostle says, we “shall never fall.” It is of great consequence to us in our spiritual experience that we have the assurance that we are treading securely and walking understandingly in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.PCP 35.4
I wish this afternoon to address particularly the parents and children. These should understand that they have solemn obligations resting upon them—the most solemn that ever rested upon mortals. Let parents take up their work and labor intelligently for the salvation of their families.PCP 36.1