When we exercise consistently, our muscles get stronger.

If we quit exercising, those same muscles will atrophy.

Our faith is similar.

Today on Truthful Life, we'll learn about the benefits of exercising your faith, about

the eternal and significant danger of neglecting it.

Alistair Begg is teaching from 2nd Peter chapter 1, we're focusing today on verses 8 through

11.

Now this material is written to those who have received these great and precious promises

to which he refers.

And as a result of that, have experienced what we might refer to as the Great Escape.

Some of us may, in thinking of the Great Escape, immediately think of Steve McQueen and some

others, and that classic old movie, and it certainly was a unique escape, but the

Great Escape, the world we'll ever see and ever a man or a woman we'll know, is the

escape from the clutches of evil and sin and Satan.

An escape which man or woman cannot buy their own endeavours effect, but an escape which

is made possible as a result of the death of the Lord Jesus on the cross.

And so to these individuals who have experienced this great escape, having trusted and believed

in Christ, and then having based their lives upon these tremendous promises of the Gospel,

he urges these individuals to make sure that their faith is not something that is static,

momentary, but rather that it is a progressive experience.

And one that is marked by the addition to their profession of faith, this list of things

which he gives to us in verses 5, 6, and 7.

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