ETERNAL SECURITY ???
2 Peter 1
1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who through the righteousness
of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as
ours:
2Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Making
One's Calling and Election Sure
3 His divine power has given us everything we need
for life and godliness through
our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
The divine power through the
gospel has given us who believe everything we need for life and
godliness by the way of what we have learned about the salvation
message and Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.
4 Through these he has given us his very great and
precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the
divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by
evil desires.
Through His own glory and
goodness He has given us very great and precious promises so that
through these promises we may participate in the divine nature and
escape corruption in the world caused by evil desires of the old nature.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to
your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge,
self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance,
godliness; 7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness, love.
So to participate in that divine
nature and escape corruption we must make every effort to add to our
faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness,
brotherly kindness and love.
8 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.
If you possess these qualities
and each one increases in you, they will keep you from being
ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and
blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
But if anyone does not have
these qualities he doesn't see the truth and has forgotten that he has
been cleansed from his past sins and only adds more sin to his account.
10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your
calling and election sure. For if
you do these things, you will never fall,
Therefore rather than allowing
this to happen to you be all the more eager to make your calling and
election sure. For IF you do these things you will never fall.
11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
If you never fall you will
receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ.
This is TRUE ETERNAL
SECURITY.
