Here he says, add to your faith knowledge, a knowledge that will bring wisdom, insight, and

discernment into our lives.

This is a knowledge where you are coming to understand how to live your life better

than you've lived it in the past. If you are a believer in Christ, you're on your way to heaven,

but between that day and this, your mission is to live your life on earth in a way that brings

honor to heaven. Hello, and thanks for stopping by for today's

Destin for Victory, where we feature the preaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard. Well,

for several days now, you've been shown how to live your life in such a way your Christian faith

is evident to everyone around you. And as you'll see today, that's a job made easier when you

devote yourself to the pursuit of godly wisdom.

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podcast at Spotify or wherever you enjoy your podcast. Now let's listen closely to

Pastor Paul's Destin for Victory Message, Prove it.

2 Peter chapter 1. Let's look at verses 5 through 11 for this very reason make every effort to add to your

faith goodness and to goodness knowledge and to knowledge self-control and to self-control

and to self-control perseverance and to perseverance godliness and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these

qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in

your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and

blind and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. Therefore, my brothers,

be all the more eager to make your calling an election sure. For if you do these things,

you will never fall and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our

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