Sermon Series: 2 Peter 1974

The Life Of Faith

Date: March 10th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 1:1-4  |  Topics: Faith, Justification, Life, Obedience, Worship

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: thContinue Reading


The Seven Christian Graces

Date: March 17th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9  |  Topics: Christian Life, Christianity, Faith, Growth, Love, Virtue, maturity

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged fContinue Reading


Revelation and Inspiration

Date: May 5th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 1:16-21  |  Topics: Inspiration, Prophecy, Revelation

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heeContinue Reading


Fallen Angels and Men

Date: June 9th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 2:4-9  |  Topics: Angels, Fallen, Hell, Rebellion, Satan

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conContinue Reading


The Promised Coming

Date: June 16th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 3:1-4  |  Topics: Death, Eschatology, Judgment, Parousia, Second Advent, Second Coming

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginningContinue Reading


The World On Fire

Date: June 30th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 3:5-13  |  Topics: Assurance, Destruction, End Times, Eschatology, Fear, Fire, History, Judgment, Nature, New Creation

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand yearsContinue Reading


Lest Any Perish

Date: July 14th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 3:9  |  Topics: Death, End Times, Eschatology, Judgment, Patience, Repentance

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.