I'll think twice before I text Pastor Milton again. I was thinking actually earlier this week as I was getting ready for the sermon, I was thinking about the first time at Cornerstone that, I led worship. And it was a, it was a terrible week leading up to that morning. And So I'm really nervous getting ready for, for the worship time.
And Pastor Milton walks over and says, hey, man, just don't mess up. But why don't you, with, with that, why don't you open up your Bible to 2 Peter? We're gonna be in 2 Peter chapter 1. We're gonna read for the passage right now, we're gonna read through verse 11, but then we're gonna focus on 1 Peter 13 and 4.
I'm reading out of the ESV. And it says, Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence. By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises.
So that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue and virtue with knowledge and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so near-sighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins....
