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Confirm Your Calling 2 Peter 1:10 · Life For Toledo

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  We've come as far as the end of 2 Peter chapter
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  1, minus the two verses we're going to look at
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  today. And so, let's take a look. Verse 10, Therefore,
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  my brothers and sisters, make every effort to
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  confirm your calling and election. In other words,
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  let's be sure. Let's be sure we truly are Christians.
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  Let's be sure we truly are followers of the Lord.
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  If you do these things, you will never stumble,
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  and you will receive a rich welcome into the
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  eternal kingdom. of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
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  Christ. What a great chapter it's been. The love
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  of God displayed toward us, that he would, in
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  his good nature and his great glory, choose to
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  save us and help us to participate in the divine
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  nature, escaping the corruption of the world
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  caused by evil desires, that he would give access
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  to goodness, knowledge, self -control, perseverance,
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  at godliness, and out of godliness, then, mutual
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  affection, and from mutual affection. love. And
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  we can have these qualities ever increasing in
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  us. And having them, we can know where we're
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  headed and have our calling and election made
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  sure. And having that, we can know that we will
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  receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom
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  of our Lord. Oh Lord, let it be so.