Welcome to Day 2424 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Day 2424 – A Fruitful Faith – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 07/14/2024 Exhortation to Spiritual Maturity – A Fruitful Faith 2 Peter 1:1-11 Last week, we learned how to be victorious over our enemy, the devil, which requires that we: Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are. Today’s passage is 2 Peter 1:1-11, on page 1893 of your Pew Bibles. 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 10 Therefore, my brothers and sisters,[a] make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Having matured in his faith and reached the end of his life, Peter wanted to leave a written legacy addressing some of the young church's most pressing concerns. In the last days of his life, he wrote this rapid-fire, urgent reminder to warn against false doctrine and moral compromise. And because the Holy Spirit inspired his writing, his final words are as timely today as they were for believers in the first century. Peter’s second letter was written around AD 66, about one year before the aging apostle's execution. Peter knew his time on this earth was nearing its end and that he would die before the Lord returned (2 Pet. 1:14). Brief but powerful, 2 Peter serves as his last written words to the church and a permanent testament of Peter's practical teachings. The first section of Peter's letter provides straightforward counsel on how to keep from...