Growing In Grace – Know God (2 Peter 2:12-17)

Know The

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. —Shin Tzu

¹³They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. ¹⁵They have forsaken the right way and gone astray… —2 Peter 2:13-15

Did you catch everything the evil possesses?

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Know the evil but don’t be

by it.

⁸Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. —Philippians 4:8

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Know

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¹²But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, ¹³and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime…¹⁵following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet. —2 Peter 2:12-13, 15-16

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Know God and be

by Him.

²⁸Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. ²⁹For our God is a consuming fire. —Hebrews 12:28-29

We must give God everything because He IS our everything.

¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. —2 Peter 2:17

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We will never feel at home here.
We will never get used to it.
We need something more than what the world can offer.