Good morning my friends. Good afternoon, good evening, whatever time of day it is. It is time for us to get our minds aligned with the truth of God. I hope you're ready to do that. We are diving in to the letter of 2 Peter found in the New Testament toward the end of the New Testament. In fact, right before

the book of revelation, two or three chapters ahead, not

chapters, pages ahead. These are small little pages of the New Testament books because they were

written as letters. This is a letter that the

apostle Peter wrote to the church in the area where he was residing at the time and

we believe that when Peter wrote this letter he was actually in prison and he was on his way

to being executed. We know historically that the Apostle Peter was executed by

Nero during Nero's reign and during the persecution that Nero exacted against the Christians of that day.

So as we begin, let's keep that in mind as part of our context of what Peter is experiencing at the time and what he's about to say is going to flow out of that

2nd Peter chapter 1 we begin Simme and Peter 2.

2. Peter,

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Now that is all we're going to look at today because there is already tons of truth packed into this section of scripture that I believe we need to

slow down and take a look at. First of all, it's interesting that Peter calls himself

Simian back to his Jewish name rather than the Greek surname that he's been given.

And he says he is a servant of Jesus Christ.

I believe this speaks to Peter's attitude about his role even though he was

appointed by Jesus to be an apostle. He did not see that as a position of

authority or something grand to be boasted about.

In fact, he saw himself simply as a servant.

Now, in those days, there were servants all over the place.

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