As to his death, which cannot be far off, he knows that it will come swiftly at the last, and his chief fear is lest it should come upon him before he has left on record these words of warning and exhortation (2Peter 1:13-15). Growth is to be done by effort, and the fact that it is a command teaches us this, that we are not to take this one metaphor as if it exhausted the whole of the facts of the case in reference to Christian progress.You would never think of telling a child to grow any more than you would think of telling a plant to grow, but Peter does tell Christian men and women to grow. Another person is put in circumstances by God's providence where he needs perpetual nerve and perpetual enterprise. My text begins with a "but," and that throws us back to what goes before. At the very same moment there stands upon the roof another man, and about him are those three thousand statues carved and standing in their several niches and pinnacles; and everything looks like the bristling frost-work in a forest of icicles; and far above and far on every side swell the lines of beauty. You who are despondent can grow up into the condition of hopefulness. His magnet draws those things and no others.4. (6) Sloth. The Holy Spirit is promised only to them who ask Him.5. What does 2 Peter 3:18 mean? I do not think God cares much about government, or much about this benevolence. 1. The first is the ease with which this growing can be accomplished when we heartily incline to it. Now to be ready does not mean having an assemblage of great thoughts in the mind. Is there any man that can take the reed of his understanding and lay it along the line of God's latitude and longitude as if he were measurable as a city? One of the most powerful influences, aside from those which I have mentioned, for the shaping of our conceptions and the development of our knowledge of God, is the necessity or the attempt to employ the Divine nature in the rescue and education of our fellow-men. Because they are not plants, but men with wills, which can resist, and can either further or hinder their progress. âHeaven and earth shall pass away, butâ âthe day of Godâ âshall not pass away.â. You who are weak in the structure of your virtue can be braced with the bands of everlasting power. This view should lead persons to study and consider what their condition is whether they have any living influential conception of God. ; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words, Knowing (the act), i.e., (by implication) knowledge, Supreme in authority, i.e., (as noun) controller; by implication, Master (as a respectful title), Jesus (i.e., Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites, Anointed, i.e., the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus, The reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative, Glory (as very apparent), in a wide application (literal or figurative, objective or subjective), "now" (as adverb of date, a transition or emphasis); also as noun or adjective present or immediate, To or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc. Resting by a firm faith on the omnipotence, the unerring wisdom, the infinite love of God, the heart will bravely face the blinding storm of life, heroically grapple with its mysteries, and hush its doubts and fears with the inspiring whisper, "The Father reigneth."(W. A GRATEFUL THANKSGIVING, WITH A MOST SUGGESTIVE TERMINATION: "To Him be glory both now and for ever. His conception of the Divine nature will begin to enlarge and fill out in every direction if only there is a real, active, earnest moral life going on within him. 1. We must begin where he began, by curbing the hasty passions of the heart, by continuous efforts to return good for evil, and then, by striving, to grow in his grace, we will be in a position to grow in knowledge of him. And so does our conception of God grow abroad, multiplying its branches, and sub-dividing them into infinite twigs, but they all cohere in the unity of the original idea of conception. His conception of the Divine nature will begin to enlarge and fill out in every direction if only there is a real, active, earnest moral life going on within him. 6. (3) A more plain discerning and full persuasion that He was foreordained to be a Redeemer. Resting by a firm faith on the omnipotence, the unerring wisdom, the infinite love of God, the heart will bravely face the blinding storm of life, heroically grapple with its mysteries, and hush its doubts and fears with the inspiring whisper, "The Father reigneth."(W. He has a Calvinistic conception of God which is overwhelming to him, and to every other man who is organised just as he is. We are to pursue with a passion the intimate and personal relationship to which we have privileged access, as we confess our faults to our Father and keep our eyes on our God and Saviour Jesus Christ - our all in all. The theme suggests it. In rain and dew the tree receives those influences without which neither beauty nor fruitfulness can exist. He is all music, and all blossom, and all beauty as I conceive Him." TO SPECIFY SOME OF THE EVIDENCES THAT THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST ARE GROWING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM.1. Resting by a firm faith on the omnipotence, the unerring wisdom, the infinite love of God, the heart will bravely face the blinding storm of life, heroically grapple with its mysteries, and hush its doubts and fears with the inspiring whisper, "The Father reigneth."(W. God knows our abilities and our inabilities, our dispositions and indispositions, the moral outflow and the moral recoil, and, knowing all, He says, "Grow in grace."I. God's lights are streaming, and His vital airs are breathing forth, and every prayerful spirit will catch a double measure of those heavenly gifts and treasures as they come.II. Is He your Companion? I recognise that God has given me powers and virtues as well as the opportunity to exercise them, and that, therefore, He means me to use them for some purpose. Now, for a moment, look at another thought, viz., the obligation.It is a command, that is to say, the will is involved. (2) Growth in knowledge and grace will happily tend to remove darkness and doubts from the minds of Christians. THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR GROWING IN BOTH THESE RESPECTS.1. A SENSE OF INSUFFICIENCY IS AN INDISPENSABLE PREREQUISITE TO GROWTH IN GRACE.II. They should grow in the knowledge of the Person of Christ.2. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. This is the natural result of having a clear view of God. To us, so easily provoked, so hasty to resent, so strong in speech "not seasoned with salt," that person is a mystery. Is He your Friend? How roomy and how full of men that live next to the dirt! They are my brothers, though I may be deficient in interpreting the Divine nature through this quality. 1. Divine revelation, by its influence on the understanding, the heart, the will, and the conscience of man, in every condition of life, promotes the Christian's growth in holiness, in comfort, and in usefulness.2. The first characteristic of growth that we would notice is its silence. Harmony is made by different parts, and not by the repetition of the same sounds and tones.(H. The more we know, the more of mystery there is to us, the more Christ-like we are, the more sensitive we become to the desolation which sin has wrought in this beautiful world of ours. 10. Because God has afforded a variety of helps to promote it.2. It keeps us young when physical strength decays. Here are four men — one before the structure, one behind it, one on the roof, and one in the interior I and each of them, as he gives his account of the Milan Cathedral, speaks of that which made the strongest impression upon his mind, and that most carried him away. The sterner, the more active elements of the Divine nature, are congenial to his want and to his experience. Look unto Jesus Himself (Colossians 2:3).6. )Christian growthW. He looks for something in his God that shall encourage him. The next story is dressed in velvet and carved wood, and here are they that dwell in their affections, and are brought together by the sympathy of a common gentleness and kindness, but on the lower levels of life.
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