How To Know You Are Saved | Pr Matthew Chang

You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message

will light up your team. Today. We're gonna do a bit of study.

I'm gonna do a series on Second Peter. Okay, I'm gonna do

cover Second Peter chapter one. I'm not gonna cover the old entire chapter.

I'm gonna cover the first few parts. It's a very interesting series, a

very short series on each about three chapters. He has a lot to do

about what they called it, false teachers. Who how many of you like

to learn about false teachers? Okay, it's very prevalent, not just false

teachers. We're gonna learn a lot about what they encountered during the Apostle Peter's

time is actually very much encountered in what we have right now in the present

generation. Okay, oh right, turn with me to Second Peter chapter one.

Okay, I'm gonna read a couple of verses here, and then after

that hours start into some introductions. Okay, So Sycomeda. Chapter one,

Verse one says, here Simon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus

Christ, to those who are obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness

of God and Savior Jesus Christ. Okay, then I'm going to move on.

It says, yeah, grace and peace be multiplied to you in the

knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as his divine power has given,

has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the

knowledge of Him who call us buying, glory and virtue, by which have

been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you may be

partakers of the divine nature. Okay. I want you to underline these two

parts here are great and precious promises, and then the other part will be

partakers of the divine nature. Okay. And then the last part says that

having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lass. Okay. Now,

when you read through like that, it will just fly past you feel

it's like, you know, you're just on a highway. You know.

Peter like you know, I don't know why he likes to write in super

long sentences. You know, he doesn't put a full stop. He just

said he will put like ass and he'll put like through. He'll put a

buy a wig that through continue on and on endless in a sentence, you

know. But I will shortly summarize why he speaks their way, why he

puts such an address. Now, Peter at this time knows that he's going

to die. Okay, he's very likely in a prison, and he mentions

later in the chapter there that he will die, and he knows how it's

going to die. He's going to be crucified, and he knows his time

is short. But Peter, and this time is no longer the young Peter.

Imagine if you can imagine yourself twenty years down the road, how would

you look like forty down the road? How many of you like to look

at that? How would you be in forty years time, older, wiser,

I don't know, somewhere retiring. I don't know what would you be

like in forty years. Well, Peter here is in a different place.

He's going to get crucified, totally different environment. But he is not just

another disciple. He is now an elder, and elder means a leader of

the church, gain the one who leads. He's a pastor, he's a

missionary, he's a teacher, and also a prisoner, prisoner to you know,

to the government, but also now also a prisoner to the Lord,

prisoner being being indebted to the Lord. And now he's at this stage here

he sees a lot of different things, but he also sees the danger,

and he sees three dangers. There is actually actively invading the church. And

this church that he's speaking to has three main false teachers, are three main

teachings. They are coming from the false teachers, and they are stirring up

the church like no other, giving a lot of spitting up the congregation.

A lot of people are being deceived, a lot of immoralities, sexual immoralities,

immoralities are being practices being practice, a lot of cultish behavior being done

inside the church as well, and it doesn't look like anything like the church

that you know that Jesus christis envisioned, and he has envisioned as well,

so a lot of these things are happening. You must understand that this is

very scary because during their age is the age of the apostles. The apostles

basically they walk around and then when they preach and deed missions, science and

wonders followed them. Okay, it's like very normal to see a pastor and

then to see the higher by the way, you know, he's healed somebody.

Oh, by the way, he just raised somebody from the dead,

and the dead feller comes from stage and speak them. I don't know how

what kind of fear you will have in your life right now, you have

a different helt of fear. Now different, I'm like tear really you know

bottom that here he's like way much higher there. And when wherever he walks,

science and wonders follow them. There is literally a fear of God that

comes into the city when the apostles come to the city. Even right,

this is a really scared one to know. Okay, but even in you

know, when science and wonders follow him, there are still so many deceptions.

They actually enforced teaching income and what are these three false teaching? So

that I'm going to share with you so that when you read through Second Peter

you will have a bit of context. Okay, why he why he talks

about these things? The first thing, the false the first teaching that invaded

the church was there they don't believe that Jesus is Lord and king. Okay,

funny, isn't it. Christians were supposed to follow Jesus Christ as a

Lord and savior. But yeah, there is a group that are coming out

and teaching Jesus is not King and Lord. They started to doubt whether the

Apostles actually saw Jesus rise from the dead. They start to think that Jesus

made it up. And no, Jesus, Peter and the whole disciples made

this grand, big conspiracy theory. You know, like the book you know,

by this guy Dan Brown, you know about what was the Ready remembered

by Tom Hanks. Man, Jesus didn't die, he know, he rose,

you know, he somehow survived it, and he you know, he

left to France and leave a quiet life, you know, with something with

Mary and sometime we are there or call some messed up stuff and hear I

mean right, No, the Romans, you know, they didn't you know,

weren't there to guard their place, all sorts of thing. No,

and that this theory has been thrown around by many people, even a different

religion as well. I had actually debated, you know, you can go

online, you can check it out. Their many debates whether Jesus actually died.

Now, they first doubted that Jesus rose from the dead. There after

they couldn't prove that. Then they said Jesus never time Okay, So the

Romans introduced a punishment system that did not effectively kill a person. Interesting,

the most tortuous thing, but yet did not kill. How would that look

like for the empire? You know what I mean? Right, it's kind

of interesting. You made it public somewhere, but yeah, the person didn't

die. Okay, you know, maybe you should I go back to the

original way. Okay. So so they they don't believe. They start to

doubt Peter's testimony, the apostle testimony. And when you doubt that all the

letters were the apostles sent to all the churches, because you must understand there

are many writings. Paul was writing, Peter was writing, Matthew was writing,

Luke was writing, James was writing. Okay, and sold about the

churches. Some people say I follow Paul. Some people say I followed Peter.

I followed Matthew. H you got different people for allow different people.

Now these people also do that. Oh I followed this pastor, I followed

this. I don't allow Malaysian want. I only follow you as pastors,

US pastors Scamore or nineteen a US pastor. I are old school already must

follow Australia Australia. I want the pastor drift the youth pastor dress very good

one and uncle biceps and all tight t shirts one and you know the headstyle

or a cool one and ah some of them okay, also with tattoo one

and earrings are so okay? Ah they want more eyes. Hey, I

followed this past I followed these church one because their music is so anointed.

You know, see how people are so flaky, isn't it. But the

time people were following different apostles as well, follow the teaching for allow these

teaching follow these things, but they are understanding there actually all the apostles who

perform great wonders, who actually have signs that followed them all taught the same

thing. Okay, they're all taught the same thing. So because of that

they started having this second false teaching. And why it is that false teaching?

They start to say that in Christian there is total freedom. Okay,

they are total freedom is saying that there is nothing. What that means that

if you've seen right now, there is no judgment. Okay, you can

do whatever you want right now. Go it saved you is in it.

So there's grace. Hey, why why you say that because Paul wrote that

about that. So the people who were in Peter's church were reading Paul's and

said that there is freedom. We don't have to live a holy life anymore.

We just go and they not do whatever we are and then after that,

God Jesus Blood will watch everything clean. Sounds very appealing, isn't it.

It sounds like one and are sounds like children are trying to abuse the

laws of their parents. Gave me right, but there did you say?

Can watch one video? Right? Yeah? And men half an hour?

Yeah, one video, but this one is two and a half hour.

I can watch right. They missed the message you gave me right. They

abuse and pervert the message. Okay, of another apostle. They gave me

right. Christ brought you freedom so that you don't have to go back to

your old ways. But now you are using your freedom to go back to

endouge in your old ways. It's like you're vomited and you you just had

a very bad diarrhea. Do you want to go back to your bad diarrhea?

No? One right, you don't want to go back to your own

vomit. They literally people was talking about going back to their own vomiting.

You don't go bad. You want to move home. You want to eat

clean, you want to eat healthy, you want to leave a good lifestyle.

Gemmin right, because now you are renewed. But people were using their

freedom to indulge in their own sinful nature. They are not converted. They

are converted India speech, but not converted India mine, gemin right. They

say the right thing. They say a conversion, but in their minds are

not converted. Gem In right. There still want they're still desires so much.

Okay, So so the first thing, they don't believe that Jesus is

Lord and king. The second thing, they believe in freedom without consequences.

Okay. The third one, what did they believe it? The third one

they believe that there is no reckoning. Reckoning means what there is no judgment,

There is no consequence. Okay, I talked about freedom. But they

don't believe that there is this final day when the Lord comes and all of

us will be held accountable for every word that we speak and every deed that

we do. You know what I'm saying. There is no final recooning.

So they say, when is the Lord coming? When is the Lord coming?

Twenty thirty fifty sixty years ready, Jesus has not say he's come.

He's not your come. You get me right? And now also we are

how many how many years where they passed more than two thousand years? Ready?

So do you stop believing? Do you, sa Bilian that Jesus will

not come? Well, you might think that a Jesus taking a long time.

But you look at the world right now, why is happening to the

world. Do you think the world is better option with all the nonsense that's

happening, with all the degradations that is happening. You want to choose the

will. But Peter talks about saying, these people think that there is no

reckoning. They are leaving. So when they don't have the proper fear of

the Lord or understanding of truth, they let their lifestyle go out of the

window. You must understand that their lifestyle at that timer, it's not just

their personal choice. Now, their lifestyle at that time is very heavily influenced

by their culture. Okay, Greek culture, Roman culture, Hellenistic culture.

Not just one god, multiple gods. Multiple gods means multiple types of beliefs

and practices are means that you can do whatever you want one or not.

You're just doing a one or two religion, many religions, you know.

And one of the many religions they have is the worship of different gods,

and one of them it's actually the god of Diana. Who have you heard

that before her? About the Goddess of Dinah, wonder woman, a princess

Diana. Okay, no, okay, if you go to Roma, you

won't see Princess Dinah in the dead one another the last or truth doesn't look

like their wine. Okay, far from there. Okay. The Goddess of

Dina is the goddess of not superpower. Goddess of Dinah is the goddess of

futility. Did you realize that it's a goddess of fertility, Fertility for your

crops, fertility for your family. And so they believe in sexual practices,

immoral practices in public. You means that it's like everywhere you go to MBPG

to get a license, you want to buy a house, you want to

pay your summons, you want to buy food. They are Diana worshippers everywhere.

One you know, you know what I mean? A Dina worshippers everywhere

so it was normal for them. Okay. And so people, you see,

all these things are trying to enter into the church, you know,

GA mean right, as trying to enter into the church. Our way of

life versus versus the way of Christ, the way of life versus the way

of Christ is coming in. Okay. And so because of that, Peter

starts by saying that you have obtained okay. He says here a precious faith,

okay, and faith that this faith is a gift. What does this

faith means? That of all these pressures and all these practices by the world,

we choose to believe in Christ. Once you experience Christ, his freedom,

his love, you can never step back because it's so real. You

get mean, right, it's just so real. You hurt the word and

you believe and this faith God has given to you. Now, I mentioned

to you earlier that I ask you to underline two parts here. Okay.

It says here that by the grace of God that we have been given great

and precious promises. Isn't it? God has given us great and precious promises?

Why is that important? You see, when we believe in Christ,

right, we don't just stay where we are. We gotta continue moving forward.

Okay, it's like being safer. If I give you progression, it's

like level one enough. But based on the false teaching that people have,

I'm safe ready, ma, graze has already been given to me. This

is the ultimate level I've achieved. I don't need to do anything already.

I just leave whatever I want, see whatever I want, and God's blood

will wash over me. He came in right, But Peter says, it's

no. You are called for what for growth? For continuous growth? You

get me right? Continuous people like to grow. People have gardens, people

go for a gym, People play game, and they play game as so

they also had to grow one. They don't stay there one. You get

me right? They progress true whatever you want. They're not. I say

that because there are a lot of teens here and they're like, yeah,

my son would love that. Actually, anything you do, you want to

grow one. You want to gain experience, you to grow and because of

that, and because of that, you want to see what's next and what

God has given us to grow? Why is the thing that? Why is

the resources God has given us to grow? Promises? What do you mean

by promises? Why is promises so important? Okay. Why is God's promises

is important? You have believed, but to grow you need God's promises.

Now, how many of you like money? Everybody likes money? Now there

you still have carry a wallet? Oh you are scared? Right now?

I say if it's a tree, question, isn't it pastor just talk about

false teaching? You know you're ask me these questions in a way they do

you like money or not it's a it's a trap? Or no, it's

not a trap. Okay? Do you see? Uh? Probably like five

years ago we hardly use a mobile phone to pay one. So amazing how

much things have changed in just a few years ago. We use papers in

it cash cash like okay, paper is so juveern now okay use cash?

Okay, use cash or gay? How many of you like fifty dollars?

Oh I'm taking it? I'm taking it? Another notchure? Do? Okay?

Make you fly? Okay? All right? See yeah? What does

money actually represent? What does money actually represent? If I take this fifty

ring in and I go to Australia to some random feller and then give him

this much or to use it to buy something, maybe a buy a meal,

will he accept it? Immediately maybe, but most likely not enson here.

But then if I bring you as dollar, would the guy want why

US dollar? You ask dollar, molation dollar? What makes them more valuable

than others? You can say currency conversion? But you think about it the

essence of money. If next time, if I'll teach you guys, make

sure a bit about the history of money, how printed money came about.

You would think the printed money came out from society. No, the first

printed money came from the Mongolian society. Who it will happen it could implement

it because of a big empire. Money basically represents what seeah, it's not

made of fifty dollars worth of value, not this money, but it represents

what promise. Before money was called cash, it was used to be called

what promissory note? Have you heard that term? Before promisory note? They

used to have promissory notes for what? For trade? British India time.

Remember they have promissory notes when you go why do they need a promissory note?

Because you can't be carrying your goal, your chicken, and your cow,

your house around with you. Hey, I carve out this part of

the cow for you. You can't do that you gave me a right.

So instead they need to carry around a form of a promise. Okay,

what the dead promise me? And who promise? Who makes a promise?

Here? Who is it me? I'm not making a promise, I just

carry the promise. The one making the promise is the government. Means that

wherever I take in Malaysia, when I pass it over, you receive a

promise from the government that is worth fifty ring it you get me in right.

So everyone in Malaysia is transacting, operating, leaving their lives based on

the promise that Bank Lagara will guarantee it. You're saying, no, that's

why you put your money in the bank, isn't it because there's a guarantee,

isn't it When we talk about you as when the bank guarantee fails,

the whole banking system called lamps, you know. So when you have money,

it's a guarantee, you know, and you earn enough, you earn

one month already, and the company pays you money, they give you see

a bank account there. Why is that it's a guarantee that you will be

fulfilled. You get me in right. So it's a promise. So but

when I carry Malaysian government promise to an Australian country, they will look at

you. I got my own country's promise. Why will should I use your

country's promises? But I look at you as on want. I want to

know why because their their view different countries promises with different value. I don't

like relations. Currency are always dropping. You know last time three ring?

Get down at four point four right now? While you as do those want

are very good, so they value other people's promises better. Now, now

you take it to our own lives as a Christian life, whose promises are

you really operating on? On the promises of the world or the promises of

God? Does it make sense? Now? You know why you need promises

every day? You don't realize that you live on promises. You study university

and why there's a promise that you will get a job, and to get

a job you will be able to earn and you support yourself. You support

yourself. Your parents want to keep sending your money. Whit parents do that

there's a promise, future promise you don't see. You continue to walk the

path. You get me right, you walk the path. You may be

just like, oh, I don't see the promise. So I rather go

and enjoy my life. Right now, that's a promise that you know,

will you will find for a human purpose meaning satisfaction and there and there you

will have a fulfill like that's a promise or so, but it is that

promise longer lasting? Oh no, ye me right. So everything in life

is works on promises. But God instead saves you from the world into his

marvelous life and he gives you his currency, his promises, so that you'll

be sanctified with the promises of God and you will know to walk and to

walk. The world will offer you one currency, but then God gives you

another one. You say, I choose gods. You choose gods. I

choose gods. You will realize that when you go to heaven, all the

money you earn you go up there. There is no currency exchange counter there.

It's all the billions and billions equals zero. You get me right,

You cannot comport. Okay. So the promises of God's are very important.

Okay, everybody, Okay, so far so we have given a faith,

we are given promises so that we can grow. Now, the third thing

I want to talk about is that God Peter talks about very interesting here.

He talks about calling us to partake of God's divine nature. Wow, such

an interesting quote. Have you how many of you have tried inviting people to

come to church before? Okay, what do you say to them? Hey,

would you like to join our Sunday's service? You know, we have

refreshments, we have a good message where ship you can enjoy as well and

join us for our fellowship. Imagine that you swapped this out with what Peter

is saying, Hey, would you like to come to church and be a

partaker of God's divine nature? Sounds culticius, It sounds a cult. By

the way, you know what, it's a cult. Actually, we're actually

what we're covering is actually cult. False teaching is basically talking about courts.

Know what's a cult? Talking about religions them. But Colt has a big

sports specific meaning. Cult means deviation from what is established, or people might

use the word orthodox. Okay, orthodox means established tradition. Cald means deviation

from what was established. Okay, deviation okay, deviation from tradition, deviation

from the foundation. So there are denominations in the Christianity. We don't call

all of them with they are deviations, but not all of them are cults.

And you don't seem to call cut like that. But from basic fundamental

the pillars that we believe. In the fundamentals, we believe that God is

tree in one. If you believe that, no, Jesus is a second

tier God, Holy Spirit is another tier of God. Oh my goodness,

okay, and then there is a cult. Ready. Some cults believe that

there is not God the Father, there's God the Mother. You know I'm

talking about extremiously true. Some people will say that Jesus is not the God

incarnate. I am Jesus, God incarnate. My world is law. You

must follow me. Give you all your money to me, sell to me

and our world by your eternal happiness. You know. So people will do

this thing. So these are what deviations from what the things they are established,

Okay, deviation from the things they established. So God has given us

what huh, his faith revelation. God has given us promises. Okay,

and these are things so that we are we won't sway to the cultish behavior

or courtish teaching. But it must understand that it doesn't mean you don't need

to go and enter into a cultdown to become a cult like, to have

a cud like behavior. Now even in churches right now, they are cultish

thinking. That's how cuds start. Want to know where they are right now,

and this is happening inside the time right as well. Doesn't mean you

have to start one you are. You just have to be inside there.

You just deviate in your thinking and your belief, you know, from what

was established and given by Jesus Christ, and you already started to have a

coltish behavior. That is why many churches have problems. It's not easy,

you know, they're always wolves. That comes in with cowtish thinking. That's

why Jesus Peter is dealing with these toime of things as well. People who

don't believe that Jesus is Lord. People who believe that total freedom means you

can do anything, even sinning Scottish thinking. That means that they believes that

there is no final judgment. No, you can do whatever you want.

No, these are coltish behaviors happened there but Paul, but Peter calls people

the disciples that the church people to disinteresting to be partakers of God's divine nature.

What does he mean by that? So weird? Are you saying that

God is calling me to become like a Marvel superhero? I can be here,

there, everywhere el at once. Let me tell you, you know,

partakers of God's divine nature. That's not what he means. Okay,

what is? Let me ask you then, what is God's divine nature?

What is God's divine nature that was displayed on the cross. More of all

things that God, our heavenly Father, wants you to know about him,

the nature about him? What does he want you to know? His love?

When God chose to die on the cross, the one thing that he

wants you to know more than anything else. God can be here, there,

everywhere. No, oh, this thing here. But the one thing

that He wants you to know and to partake in is his love and to

ender. And this is why why he talks about love. Histate you became

a Christian, you experience God's love just level one. God gives your promises,

but he shows you also the final stage what you're supposed to be,

the final growth or level that you're supposed to be. And why is that

to finally arrive? Add love, You gave me a right to finally arrive

at love. Jesus came, he lived, and he died to show us

his most powerful define nature, his love, his love that saves us.

He gave me right, that was what he's called. That's why we gotta

grow. We gotta grow in spiritualize so that we can be that perfect love.

So there's a goal for us. So when you became a Christian,

that is a purpose for you to continue growing. That is why when people

be said, you're called to become a particle of God's love. But look

at all the rest of the people, they're just still continuing sinning. They

don't want to love, They want to swindle, you, want to have

sexual immoralities. They are not in their path. You know, I mean

right, that's complete false teaching. Okay, now I know, I got

ten minutes here, I got a quicken a bit here. Okay, all

right, everybody, Okay, so far, okay. So the gis of

it. You are called to grow. Okay, you are called to grow.

Let's move on to verse five. Okay, I'm going to cover five

five more verses then we move on. But also for this very reason,

giving all diligence, okay, add to your faith, virtue virtue, knowledge

to knowledge, self control to self control, perseverance to perseverance, godliness to

godliness, brotherly kindness to the brotherly kindness. While was the last one?

Love? Does it now all complete? The message complained? Now? What

does it? Peter says? Here he's says that now that you know you

are called the parting of God's divine nature. Okay, because for this very

reason you need to give all diligience. What does it mean? To give

all diligience means? Why? Means you gotta make every effort. Okay,

you gotta make every effort. It's like you're studying for studying to pass your

air levels, to enter into universities. Okay, you know you've got there's

one shot to really make a difference in your life and for your family.

For the rest of it, you gotta what it says that you've gotta make

every effort right now. So because the opposite is that, oh, I've

been saved, I give up my effort. I relax, Peter says,

No, you've been says to give all your effort, not your least effort.

A clagens. Are I'm being saved? Then? Goodness? Why past?

Paul say that because if you read they on in the second Peter's right,

he will say that not everybody at the end of the day and during

the end of day sa will run the race or arrive at the finishing line

the same way. Some people will run strong and they enter with a grand

entrance, cheering people will be cheering up. Some people they just they were

like delaying and dealaying, and they saw the doors because they will run and

run and run, and they just barely jumped over and the door just closed

and shaved behind them. They were like, whoa, there's just a groog

of people. And the third group of people are the ones they didn't make

it at all. Yeah, I mean right. That is why he says

that you gotta run. You gotta make every effort, don't so that you

make sure that you not just accord, that you really make it all the

way to the finishing line. God has given you every source. God is

faithful, But you got to run, okay, to reach towards the end

there. So for this reason, giving all diligence, giving all effort,

what did he say, don't just get safe. You got to add virtue,

knowledge, self control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love.

Okay, because of time, I'm not going to go in through every one

of them here because in verse eight, what did he say for if these

things are yours, if you, if you proceed to have inherited all these

things, to demonstrate all these things, to display all these things when you

were young, when you were all it means what and you and you're abounded

with it, You will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our

Lord Jesus Christ. Means that if you know you have all these things,

you know the Lord, because I told you already. What happens is that

time there were many false teachers, isn't it? So what did what did

they come to do? Peter is not here, He's in jail. Okay,

Paul is not here, he's somewhere else is going to die as well.

And they start to come around into the church telling is telling people I

know the Lord, I have a deep work. I have a very strong

work with God. I know or I've been to China before. I know

I have been to us before. I know the Lord. You can I

mean right, some people will come out I know the Lord. So the

whole church is flood with people who knows the Lord, and everybody in the

church, and the people in the church that starts to to like to gang

up in a group up ready. It's like you know in schools, huh,

people on the day they haddle together. I followed this. I followed

that this guy from Greek one very good, one, this one from Roman

one very very good. You know, people haddle up together and based on

to form an identity of superiority. They said one, no the Lord,

this one, no the Lord, this one, no Lord. We've got

people from Bangsa, We've gone from home clan, we got from PJ.

You know, I say, hey, these people like certainly dressed a certain

kind, eat a certain kind of food, you know, a certain kind

one and a you know, still have that stereotype you on pa. Peter

is saying, all these people have the wrong criteria of determining who knows the

Lord? I tell you who knows the Lord? You do all these things,

all these seven things, and you have final love that loves not just

love you. It's called the acap love, you know, the love from

the Father, unconditional love. You know, if you have that love and

you're abounding it, you get to boast. I don't care where you come

from. I don't care you came from Paul. I don't care you came

from Peter. But if you display all these things, you get to post

you know the Lord. So when he does that, everybody is put to

silence. That is what Peter is trying to do. You don't get to

boast. That doesn't matter whether you're surfing. Worship ministry doesn't when you're surfing

XTV doesn't X kids or whatever, doesn't mean you're a pastor. You serve

for the longest time. If you like all these qualities, you don't know

the Lord. So in a way, I'm gonna when I summarize this match

it. What does it mean? How do you know you are saved?

How do you know that you are safe? People? You're not safer just

by saying a prayer. You know great, you know the Lord, you

experience God. But there's just the beginning. You know, You've got to

make every effort because I tell you, once you get safe, the devil

is gonna put his eyes on you. You know the world is putting on

you. The pressure is like I got saved, but persecution is coming everywhere

You have a target on you, you know, but it's worth running.

And God has given you every race, get every grace, every promises to

get you to the very end. Okay. In verse nine year he says

that for he who lacks these things is shortsighted. All these people who claim

I know the Lord, I know the Lord, but they do none of

these things. These people are shortsighted, even too blind, and has forgotten

that he was cleansed from his own sin. Okay, therefore, brethren,

be even more diligent to make your call and election. Sure, what did

I just say just now? How do you know you are saved? Peter

is saying here again, be even more diligent to make your call an election.

Sure I got saved when I was eighteen years old. I tell you

how many times in my life I asked before am I Christian? And there

is not a bad thing? You know? That is not a bad thing?

People say, Oh no, you gotta know the word. You gotta

be hungry. You gotta make sure that you know, you know, you

know, you know what it is in your conviction of your heart, because

sets your life, you know, I mean right, it's your life.

I've asked many times am i the Lord? Am I doing the things that

ought to be? You know what? That what that representation? Or when

you question either you are really safe or either you're not. If you are

in your question means that God has put that fear in you. And that's

a godly fear you ought to have. So you will always re examine your

life. You can mean right, you always re examine your life. Okay,

sorry, yeah, therefore be even more died to make your core election

sure, for if you do these things, you will never stumble for soul

and entrance. Okay, if you make all God be to say that for

so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our

Lord. And say with Jesus Christ these things what you could make every effort,

because at the end of the road, when you enter this, when

you enter through this door, there will be what an entrance supplied abundantly.

It doesn't mean that the door will be open being you know what it means

that it's actually talking about Greek culture. It's like the Olympics, when you

open up suddenly you can enter the coliseum and the colisseum, whatever the stage

is. You enter into it. The crowds will be cheering. Is what

we call the abandoned entrance. There's an abundance of cheer. Wow, done

well, don Timothy, well do ches? What your Oh the Alicia?

You made it, You kept on to it, and it's worth it.

You finally realized worth it. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this

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