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Standing in the Evil Day

Take to yourselves what God provides: Truth. Righteousness. The gospel of peace. Faith. Salvation. Prayer for all the saints.

The Yoke of Bondage

True Christians are distinguished as those who are brought out of error by exposure to the truth.

Escaping the Pollutions of the World

Peter had noticed that some people had come to church in order to escape the worst of the corrupt culture around them, and in order to better themselves.

Come out From Among Them

The Lord delivers his people from error. Whereas fake Christians repeatedly and ultimately fail to repent and reform.

Drawing Away Disciples

You must beware of false doctrines and of those that teach them. Do not think that God takes sinful doctrines any less seriously than he does sinful deeds.

Treading Under Foot the Son of God

We know well that “The Lord shall judge his people,” and that “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

If Ye Endure Chastening

Whether or not we become aware of the correlation between sin and chastisement, we have sins to repent of.

If They Shall Fall Away

Those who bear the distinguishing mark of the true Christian cannot fall away from their Saviour. They have “better things” than those who do.

Lest I Should Be a Castaway

True Christians are—or should be—distinguished by their faith, humility, repentance and good works. This must include “works meet for repentance.”

Them He Also Glorified

Paul uses the word “glorified” in its past tense, describing each of these things as having already happened, according to God’s eternal decree.

They Shall Never Perish

The Lord Jesus Christ affirms that he gives to his sheep “eternal life; and they shall never perish.” Nothing could be clearer.

Make Your Calling and Election Sure

What we must all do, according to the apostle Peter, is make sure that we are true Christians.

Add to Your Faith: Brotherly Kindness and Charity

Above all, there is the greatest commandment in the law, with which the apostle Peter culminates his seven marks of grace.

Add to Your Faith: Temperance, Patience, and Godliness

The truly Christian life grows more and more to be a godly, Christ-like life.

Add to Your Faith: Knowledge

What does this say about your own conversion, if you refuse to study in order to obey the moral law as a Christian?

Add to Your Faith: Virtue

The apostle Paul commands us to add virtue to our faith. In other words, moral excellence.

To Will and to Do

God does not convert a soul and then leave him or her to grow, or bear fruit, or obey him, in their own strength.

Walk After the Spirit

Our heart’s desire now is to study the Bible God in order to learn how to live the Christian life.

Walk in Newness of Life

True Christians have no mere “empty profession.” If we have been born again, there will be accumulating evidence of this fact.

Work out Your Own Salvation

You are “freed from sin” already, says the apostle. So, it is now possible for you to choose not to sin.