BLIND AS A BAT
It is true that--- "He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that hath sent me, hath eternal life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 5:24 I believe it is also true that you can have faith in God's word and still be blind as a bat, if you do not make an effort to search out the promises of God. This passage below has specific ingredients on how NOT to be ineffective and unfruitful. We really have to make sure we are not just reading something and agreeing with it, but then continuing on as if we had never read it.
GIVE CAREFUL DILIGENCE TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. YOUR DEVOTION AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE LORD MUST NOT BECOME LAZY AND HALF-HEARTED...we do this in our human relationships and things crumble, fall apart, and become non-existant. And then we wonder why?
II Peter 1:5-10
"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall..." FOR IF YOU DO THESE THINGS, YE SHALL NEVER FALL!
GIVE CAREFUL DILIGENCE TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. YOUR DEVOTION AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE LORD MUST NOT BECOME LAZY AND HALF-HEARTED...we do this in our human relationships and things crumble, fall apart, and become non-existant. And then we wonder why?
II Peter 1:5-10
"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall..." FOR IF YOU DO THESE THINGS, YE SHALL NEVER FALL!
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