Sermon
Grow Like It Matters
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
August 17, 2020 · 32 min
Summary
Peter exhorts believers to confirm their salvation through growth in virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love. These qualities evidence genuine election in Christ and prevent spiritual ineffectiveness, enabling believers to live out their calling regardless of cultural or political circumstances.
Highlights
If your faith hasn't changed you, your faith hasn't saved you.
The Holy Spirit of God is God's provision for you living the Christian life. Not your own effort, not your improvement, not your morality.
If your life is not growing in love for other people, if all the spiritual things that you and I do are not leading us to a deeper love of God and a deeper love of people, we're not really following Jesus.