Being Comes Before Doing
Femina
Canon Press
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this episode, Nancy Wilson reflects on the opening verses of 2 Peter 1, considering the great promises God has already given His people before calling them to add virtue to their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feminate Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks so much for joining me today. A few years |
| 0:11.9 | back, I wrote a book called Virtuous, which is a Bible study on several virtues that are mentioned |
| 0:17.7 | in 2. Peter 1, 5 through 8 but before peter mentions those virtues that he says |
| 0:25.2 | we're to diligently add to our life he tells us what god has already given us so i thought we would |
| 0:33.1 | look at the first four verses of 2 peter 1 today before we do please notice that these verses have no |
| 0:40.8 | commands for us there's nothing for us to obey in them they are statements of fact things we should know |
| 0:48.8 | and believe but we should rejoice in the truth of them and believe them. |
| 1:00.6 | And then we get to the virtues and the things we're told to do. So the important thing we remember as we go through this is that knowing, believing, comes before the doing. |
| 1:09.2 | We're to be somebody first before we can do what the Bible commands. |
| 1:15.3 | All right. First one says Simon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, |
| 1:22.2 | to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. |
| 1:30.2 | It's so easy to just sort of blast over those when you're reading it. |
| 1:34.7 | But let's pause and think about it, what good words these are. |
| 1:37.9 | Simon Peter, the author of this letter to us, who have obtained precious faith, |
| 1:43.5 | what it is he's saying? So we've been given |
| 1:46.4 | something tangible, a precious, a valuable faith. We've obtained it. We did not generate it |
| 1:54.0 | ourselves, but it was given us by the righteousness of God. Let's remember, this is who we are, right? We are the ones who have |
| 2:04.5 | obtained like precious faith with us, meaning with the disciples, with Simon Peter, which is |
| 2:11.3 | amazing to think about it. Matthew Henry says this about faith. True faith is very excellent and a very great use and advantage to those who have it. |
| 2:22.9 | The just lives by faith, a truly divine spiritual life. |
| 2:28.5 | Faith procures all the necessary supports and comforts of this excellent life. |
| 2:36.5 | Faith goes to Christ and buys the wine and milk, which are the proper nourishment of the new creature. Faith buys and brings home the |
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