Peter Warns All Believers Against False Teachers Within and Exhorts Us to be Steadfast Volume 10

Making our Calling and Election Sure (to ourselves & to the world 🗺) Part 7 2 Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. KJV  Note: NKJV=New King 👑James Version The Apostle Peter in concluding his declaration to those early persecuted believers 'in Christ' and to us who have believed in Christ through their word (John 17:20) now gives the reason for his exhorting them and us to be diligent in making our calling and election sure to ourselves and that is by these words he wrote that would be the result of so doing, "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:11). Our entrance into Christ Kingdom from His perspective is already done and dusted, however, for us we cannot expect to have what our Lord Jesus wants for us and that is to be calm, confident, and courageous at our physical death unless we are diligent, for the Apostle knows that this will only reign and rule in our souls if we have been diligent in cultivating the graces given to us at our Heavenly birth as we finish our race strong as the Apostle Paul declared with these words concerning himself, "But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the Gospel of the grace of God." (Acts 20:24) (NKJV). In the two verses before Acts 20:24 Paul knew that continual persecution spiritual (from demons/devils) and physical (from demons/devils working through human beings) would come his way, yet none of those things could move him from the mission given him by Christ Jesus our Lord. This likewise is my declaration, desire, and determination to finish the work which my Lord Jesus Christ has given me to do. I have been led through the entire New Testament from Romans to this point I am now in 2 Peter verse by verse by the Holy Spirit to write Bible Study/Commentary and it is my design and desire to get through the end of Jude if it be the will of God for me to complete. The Apostle Peter wants us to go into our Heavenly Eternal home in victory as John Wesley said, "Ye shall go in full triumph to glory." We can get a taste or a glimpse of the Glory of God/Abba down here as we cultivate godliness and self-control and love and perseverance and courage/virtue, etc. We must come to fully realize and believe what our Lord Jesus said to the devil 👿when he tried to get Him to turn stones into bread or food to satisfy His physical hunger and Christ Jesus our Lord quoted His own words of, "But He answered and said, 'It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" (Matthew 4:4) (NKJV). It is the Word of God that sustains us, supplies us, and strengthens us always. In 2 Peter 1:11 the Apostle Peter in describing our entrance into our Heavenly home used the English word 'abundantly' which is translated by the Greek word plousiōs which means copiously/extravagantly: - abundantly, richly. When we see our Lord Jesus Christ after our physical death we want to be joyously looking upon Him for the first time with great love 😍and adoration, not hanging our heads in shame because we have finished our race weakly and not strong. Let each of us seek to finish strong as the brother Nu Tone says in his tilted Christian Rap song "Finish Strong" ! Here is what the Expositor's Bible Commentary had to say of 2 Peter 1:11, "For thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In his first words in this passage the Apostle exhorted the believers to supply something, as it were, of their own towards their spiritual advancement; but when the demand was fully understood, behold God had made ready the means for doing everything which was asked for! Within the precious faith which He bestowed was enfolded the potentiality of every other grace. There they lay, as seeds in a seed-plot. All that men were bidden to do was to give them culture. Then God’s Spirit would operate as the generous sunshine, and cause each hidden power to unfold itself in its time and bloom into beauty and strength. In this verse the Divine assistance is more clearly promised. What men bestow shall be returned unto them manifold. Do your diligence, says the Apostle, and there shall be supplied unto you from the rich stores of God all that can help you forward in your heavenward journey. The kingdom of God shall begin for you while you are passing through this present life. For it can be set up within you. It has been prepared from all eternity in heaven, and will be enjoyed in full fruition when this life is ended. But it is a state, and not a place. The entrance thereto is opened here. The believer is beckoned into it; and with enraptured soul he enjoys through faith a foretaste of the things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor heart of man conceived, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him. Over those joys Christ is King, but He is also the door; and those who enter through Him shall go in and out, and shall surely find pasture, even life for evermore." If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...