We've spent four weeks now looking at the first chapter of second Peter and the main point of that first chapter I tried to argue was verse 10 which says brethren be the more zealous to confirm your call

and election for if you do this you will never fall.

In other words, Peter's main concern

is that we enjoy the certainty of our salvation.

He wants us to be established firmly, rooted, deeply, and unshakable in our faith, not blown by false doctrine or temptation. He closes the letter in Chapter 3,

verse 17 with this admonition.

Beware, lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men and lose your own

stability. So Peter is devoting this last will and testament, as it were, to make us firm and stable and unshakable in the truth and in our faith.

Now the way he goes about doing this in chapter one is by reminding us of his

precious and very great promises and then assuring us that if we cleave to these promises there will flow into our lives

divine power which enables us to escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion and to grow in godliness

and self-control and love.

And then he reminds us in chapter one also that the source of these promises is the holy scriptures.

And he tells us that these did not come by any human impulse, but that men moved by the

Holy Spirit spoke from the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

And then he says not only that, we have this prophetic word made more sure

by an eyewitness experience, namely the encounter with the Majestic Christ on the Mount of

Transfiguration.

So putting it all together in Chapter 1, what we have is something like this

God's word is confirmed

and the confirmation of that word gives confidence

to his promises or in his promises, which brings power for godliness, which in turn

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