- 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
Example of Joseph
The young Christian will have severe tests and temptations. Satan will not permit you to leave his banner of darkness to march under the bloodstained banner of Prince Immanuel, without making an effort to retain you in his service. He will present every attraction to cause you to leave the narrow road that leads to eternal life; but you must stand like a faithful soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph is an example of how the youth may stand unspotted, amid the evil of the world, and add to their faith, virtue. Though a captive in a strange land, far from the restraints of home, he kept the fear of God before him, and when he was sorely tempted to indulge in evil, he exclaimed, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” The grace of God enabled him to resist the tempter. He was cast into prison, because of his steadfastness of purpose to keep the commandments of God. But prison walls could not shut out the light of Heaven's favor, nor hinder his advancement in the divine life; for “the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy.” And the Lord will be with every soul who adds the precious grace of virtue, and who fears to transgress the law of Heaven.PCP 16.3