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The Perfect man is the person who both the character and integrity of the Lord Jesus Christ in addition to God's perfect love, which is agape love.


Development of SANCTIFICATION:  Based on 2 Peter 1:2-11

Foundation of Sanctification is MORAL EXCELLENCE

Seven steps toward Sanctification in addition to further instruction found in the context:  Importance of giving all diligence in all seven steps.

  1.  Add to precious faith; virtue or Moral Excellence. (2 Peter 1:5
  2.  Add to moral excellence; Knowledge-intimate knowledge of God. (2 Peter 1:5)
  3.  Add to Knowledge; Self-Control.  (2 Peter 1:6)
  4.  Add to Self-control; Perseverance. (2 Peter 1:6)
  5.  Add to Perservance; Godliness. (2 Peter 1:6)
  6.  Add to Godliness; Brotherly kindness (2 Peter 1:7)
  7.  Add to Brotherly kindness; Love-Agape: Perfect love. (2 Peter 1:7)

Subtracted from Sanctification:  2 Peter 1:9-11.

1.  Barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1: 9-11)

    (a)  If you lack these things you are short-sighted even to spiritual blindness.

 (b)  This person has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

   

Abounding in Sanctification:  2 Peter 1:10-11

1.   Be even more diligent to make your calling and election SURE.  If you do these things

      (a)  You WILL NEVER STUMBLE.

      (b)   Abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

    Best Tool for Sanctification that Peter speaks about in this section of Scripture:

1.  Peter says: “…I will not be negligent to remind you always of these thing.”  (2 Peter 1:12).

2.  Peter says: “Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a REMINDER of these things after my decease.” (2 Peter 1:15).

3.  Peter is referring to the word of God that the Lord is inspiring him to recorded in written form.

4.  Peter testifies that he was a eyewitness of the Majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ. AND he heard a voice came to him from heaven as the Father spoke and glorified His beloved Son. (2 Peter 1:16-18)

5.  Peter says “…and so we have the prophetic word CONFIRMED, which you do well to heed.” Also, he says “…knowing this first, that no prophesy of Scriptures is of any private interpretation, for prophesy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

“SANCTIFY them by your TRUTH.  Your word is TRUTH.  (John 17:17)


Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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