Text this morning is found in 2 Peter, chapter 1,

I shall be reading verses 1 through 11.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith of equal

standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you

in the knowledge of God and of Jesus Our Lord.

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and

godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great

promises that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion and become partakers of the divine nature.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness and godliness with

brotherly affection and brotherly affection with love. If these things are yours and abound, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful

in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For whoever lacks these things is blind and short-sighted and has forgotten that

he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore, brethren, be the more zealous to confirm your call and election, for if you do this,

you will never fall.

So there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our

Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Last week we began our series in the second epistle of Peter and so I hope that you'll look at this first chapter with me.

Let me review in just a moment what we said last week.

Our text last week was verses one through four of 2nd Peter chapter one.

And the thing that we saw first of all was that God's divine power has been given to all

who have obtained like precious faith with the Apostle Peter and that this divine power becomes active or effective

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