"Faithfulness" (2 Peter 1:8)

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/25/2025 7:32 PM

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  “Spiritual Growth Brings Practical Results”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                      Reference: 2 Peter 1:8-11

            Message of the verses:  “8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Why the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (AKJV)

 

            I mentioned that I may go back to Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary to look at what he has to say, and that is what I am doing, but John MacArthur’s commentaries over lab with Dr. Wiersbe’s, and so I will go back and look at verses 8-11 from Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary.  I will begin with a short introduction to these verses and then cover what is in verse 8 which he entitles “Fruitfulness” (v. 8), I have used the AKJV of the Bible as mentioned that Dr. Wiersbe always uses the KJV.

 

            “How can the believer be certain that he is growing spiritually?  Peter gave three evidences of true spiritual growth.”  This is his short introduction to these verses and we will only go over verse eight this evening.

 

“Faithfulness”

 

 

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

            Dr Wiersbe writes “Christian character is an end in itself, but it is also a means to an end.  The more we become like Jesus, the more the Spirit can use us in witness and service.  The believer who is not growing is idle (‘barren’) and unfruitful.  His knowledge of Jesus Christ is producing nothing practical in his life.  The word translated ‘idle’ also means ‘ineffective.’  The people who fail to grow usually fail in everything else.”  I believe that at what is called the “Judgment Seat of Christ,” found in 2 Cor. 5:10 “10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”  “10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD." 12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God” (Rom. 14:10-12).  This will happen after the Rapture of the church, and will go on in heaven during the time when the Tribulation is going on, on earth.

 

            “Some of the most effective Christians I have known are people without dramatic talents and special abilities, or even exciting personalities; yet God has used them in a marvelous way.  Why?  Because they are becoming more and more like Jesus Christ.  They have the kind of character and conduct that God can trust with blessing.  They are fruitful because they are growing in their Christian experience.

 

            “These beautiful qualities of character do exist ‘within us’ because we possess the divine increase and produce fruit in and through our lives.”

 

            Lord will we will look at verse 9 in tomorrow evenings SD which Dr. Wiersbe entitles “Vision.”

10/25/2025 8:07 PM