Text: 2 Peter 1:5-8

Topic: Growth in Christian Virtue.

Thesis: Believers must work out

their own salvation.

Title: Climbing
the Christian Construct,
Step One-Faith
 Two of the great themes of the
ages are ______________.
This is represented in the following
quotations by the same author.
Regarding ____: “Our pleasant
vices are made the whip to scourge
us.” And _____: “A heart
unspotted is not easily daunted.”
Shakespeare
 Two of the great themes of the
ages are vice and virtue.
This is represented in the following
quotations by the same author.
Regarding vice: “Our pleasant vices
are made the whip to scourge us.”
And virtue: “A heart
unspotted is not easily daunted.”
Shakespeare
 “For this very reason, you must
make every effort to support your
_________________, and
______________________,”
(2 Peter 1:5 NRSV)
 “For this very reason, you must
make every effort to support your
faith with goodness, and
goodness with knowledge,”
(2 Peter 1:5 NRSV)
 According to Peter, the Apostle,
the path begins with faith, and climbs
upward toward heaven.

“For by grace you have been

saved through faith, and this is not
your own doing; it is the gift of God--”

(Ephesians 2:8 NRSV)

You have been saved…
1. ________
You have been saved…
1. Out Of…
…sins you may have been sinning.

“Come to a sober and right mind,

and ___________; for some people
have no knowledge of God. I say this
to your shame.”

(1 Co 15:34 NRSV)
You have been saved…
1. Out Of…
…sins you may have been sinning.

“Come to a sober and right mind,

and sin no more; for some people
have no knowledge of God. I say this
to your shame.”

(1 Co 15:34 NRSV)
 “…for though they knew God,
they did not honor him as God or
give thanks to him, but they
became futile in their thinking,
and their senseless minds were
darkened.”
(Romans 1:21 NRSV)
You have been saved…
2. ______
 You have been saved…
2. From…
“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who
hears my word and believes him who
sent me has eternal life, and does not
come under judgment, but has
_____________________.

(John 5:24 NRSV)

 You have been saved…
2. From…
“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who
hears my word and believes him who
sent me has eternal life, and does not
come under judgment, but has
passed from death to life.

(John 5:24 NRSV)

“He has rescued us
_______________________ and
transferred us into the kingdom of his
beloved Son,”
(Col 1:13 NRSV)
“He has rescued us
from the power of darkness and
transferred us into the kingdom of his
beloved Son,”
(Col 1:13 NRSV)
 Kingdom Point:
Whether good or evil, right or
wrong, saintly or sinful, we are
____________________
_________.
 Kingdom Point:
Whether good or evil, right or
wrong, saintly or sinful, we are
we are responsible for our
behavior.
 “20 And he said, "It is what comes
out of a person that defiles. 21 For it
is from within, from the _____
_____, that evil intentions come:
fornication, theft, murder, 22 adultery,
avarice, wickedness, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, slander, pride,
folly. 23 All these evil things come
from within, and they defile a
person."” (Mark 7:20-23 NRSV)
 “20 And he said, "It is what comes
out of a person that defiles. 21 For it
is from within, from the human
heart, that evil intentions come:
fornication, theft, murder, 22 adultery,
avarice, wickedness, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, slander, pride,
folly. 23 All these evil things come
from within, and they defile a
person."” (Mark 7:20-23 NRSV)
and
3. _____
and
3. For…
“These proclaim Christ out of
love, knowing that I have been put
here for _____________________;”

(Php 1:16 NRSV)

and
3. For…
“These proclaim Christ out of
love, knowing that I have been put
here for the defense of the gospel;”

(Php 1:16 NRSV)

 “Like good stewards of the
manifold grace of God, ________
_______ with whatever gift each of
you has received.”
(1 Peter 4:10 NRSV)
 “Like good stewards of the
manifold grace of God, serve one
another with whatever gift each of
you has received.”
(1 Peter 4:10 NRSV)
WORSHIP,
_____________,
____________,
_______________ and
_____________.
WORSHIP,
FELLOWSHIP,
____________,
_______________ and
_____________.
WORSHIP,
FELLOWSHIP,
DISCIPLESHIP,
_______________ and
_____________.
WORSHIP,
FELLOWSHIP,
DISCIPLESHIP,
MINISTRY and
_____________.
WORSHIP,
FELLOWSHIP,
DISCIPLESHIP,
MINISTRY and
EVANGELISM.
Vice is a _________ of so frightful mien,
As to be ______ needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then _________.

Alexander Pope
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope