Intro … “Participating in the Divine Nature” and “Escaping the World’s

Corruption” is what we are doing and what we want to continue to do.

The Apostle Peter says that the way we do that is to ‘Add to ourselves’

the Second Divine Perfections that he identifies in his Second Epistle.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(39)

Today I would have you consider with me Divine Perfection Six – the sixth of seven. DIVINE PERFECTION SIX …“PHILADELPHIA” which is translated ‘BROTHERLY KINDNESS’ … Put simply …“philadelphia” is “AFFECTION based on CONNECTION”.

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Intro … “Escaping Corruption’ … That could be the title of this little ‘Series within a Series’ that we are presently enjoying. How indeed can we (as Peter puts it) ‘Escape the Corruption that is in this world due to evil desires’ and actually ‘Participate in the Divine Nature’ itself?

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(37)

Intro … This morning we come to what might be the most important of the Seven Divine Perfections Peter identifies as necessary ‘additions’to our Faith as Christians.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(37)

Today I would continue our investigation of the Seven Divine Perfections that can help us ‘Escape the Corruption’ with which our fallen sinful world is filled.

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This morning, I would like you to join with me in the energetic pursuitof a very particular piece of knowledge – specifically the answer to …

TODAY’S KEY QUESTION …

(A question that is raised with regularity in our world today) WHY do such HORRIBLE things HAPPEN in this world … Horrible TRAGEDIES of nature and Horrible ACTIONS of men? And the inevitable follow-up question: Why doesn’t GOD do SOMETHING – especially if He is LOVING and KIND like you Christians SAY He is?

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(36)

Intro … Last week we encountered a fascinating passage in 2 Peter. I called it one of the most ‘triumphant’ in the Scripture: Second Peter chapter one verses three through seven … Read it over and over during these next few weeks! In that section of Scripture, we discovered what I called last week … AN EXCITING REALITY … “His divine POWER has given us EVERYTHING we NEED for life and godliness …”

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Intro … Today on this Anniversary Sunday of Sonlife Community Church, we come to one of the most ‘Triumphant Scriptures’ found anywhere in the Bible. It’s Second Peter Chapter one, Verses three and four.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(32)

Intro … We transition from First Peter to Second Peter. Peter’s second letter to the churches was written, most Biblical Scholars believe, only a year or so after his first. Today I would focus your attention upon the first two verses of chapter one … upon what I have called “A GLORIOUS GREETING.”

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(31)

Intro … Today we come to the closing three verses of 1 Peter. Apparently, these words were written by Peter in his own hand as opposed to the hand of his secretary, Silas. The Apostle Paul did the same in some of the letters he wrote. You could say that the formal letter ended with those benedictory words in verse eleven that we considered last week:

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