Adding Up

Name: Adding Up
Uploaded: 2026-10-04T10:00:00-04:00
Channel: Various Speakers

Various Speakers · October 4, 2026 · 10:00 AM service

A visiting pastor from Quebec preaches from 2 Peter 1, teaching that salvation is the beginning of the Christian life and that believers must diligently add virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity to their faith, each building on the one before. He shares how God answered his prayer for gas, food, and an insurance payment in a single day, and asks every hearer whether they are assured that their sins are forgiven through Christ's death and resurrection rather than their own good works. He stresses that this growth comes only by God's help through prayer, and that it keeps believers from being idle and unfruitful in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 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.”2 Peter 1:4-9 (KJV)