The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
May 23, 2010
Pastor Dana Johnson
"...make your call
and election sure."
-2 Peter
1:10
Therefore, brethren, be even more
diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do
these things you will never stumble.
1. Review:
a. Call-- The
work of the Holy Spirit to convict of sin, to enlighten
in the knowledge of Christ's redemption, and to influence
the will to trust in Christ alone for salvation.
b. Election-- The
predetermined selection of specific individuals to
salvation, not due to any merit of their own, but due to
God's own purposes and free grace.
2. The brethren are
instructed to make their call and election sure.
a. It does
not mean that the call and election are ultimately
dependent on our performance. Salvation is not by
works.
b. It is referring
to the security of our salvation. That security is in the
purpose and power of God.
1
Peter 1:1-5 - Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the
pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2elect
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in
sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and
peace be multiplied. 3Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His
abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled
and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
5who are kept by the power of God through
faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last
time.
c. Instead, it
refers to our own personal assurance of God's call and
election.
3. A child of God who
is struggling with a lack of assurance is described in the
following way:
2
Peter 1:9 - For he who lacks these things is shortsighted,
even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed
from his old sins.
a.
He is
shortsighted.
b. He has forgotten
he was cleansed from his old sins.
4. In order to
strengthen our own assurance of God's call and election it
is our responsibility to add to our faith godly habits of
life.
2
Peter 1:5-7 - But also for this very reason, giving all
diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
6to knowledge self-control, to self-control
perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7to
godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness
love.
a. God has
given us the faith to get started and everything we
need.
2
Peter 1:1-4 - Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of
Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious
faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior
Jesus Christ: 2Grace and peace be multiplied
to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
3as His divine power has given to us all
things that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
4by which have been given to us exceedingly
great and precious promises, that through these you may
be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.
b. These
characteristics are the works and the fruit that we know
are the result of salvation.
2
Peter 1:8 - For if these things are yours and abound, you
will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-10 - For by grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift
of God, 9not of works, lest anyone should
boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.
Colossians 1:5-6 - Because of the hope which is laid up
for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word
of the truth of the gospel, 6which has come to
you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing
forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you
heard and knew the grace of God in truth.
c. We are
instructed to be very diligent about this.
2
Peter 1: 8, 10 - For if these things are yours and
abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
10Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent
to make your call and election sure, for if you do these
things you will never stumble.
5. The believer whose
life is filled with the works and fruits of
grace:
a. will not
stumble into doubt and forgetfulness.
2
Peter 1:10 -
Therefore,
brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and
election sure, for if you do these things you will never
stumble.
b. will receive an
abundant welcome into Christ's kingdom.
2
Peter 1:11 - For so an entrance will be supplied to you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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