The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Peter 1:2-4, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”

I thought you might be helped with a brief outline of Peter’s Second Letter.

I. Believers Can Overcome Moral Corruption (1:1-21).

1. Exhortation to Moral Excellence (1:1-11)

2. Reminder of Christ’s Moral Excellence (1:12-21)

II. Believers Can Overcome Doctrinal Corruption (2:1-22).

1. Doctrinal Corruption Comes from False Teachers (2:1)

2. Note well the Ways of False Teachers (2:2-22)

III. Believers Can Be Steadfast in Their Christian Lives (3:1-18).

Notice that Grace and Peace highlight the letter’s salutation. (That’s a good way to commence any communication, as it is warm and friendly in addition to being spiritual.) Peter notes, too, that both qualities (Grace and Peace) can be multiplied. And that multiplication comes in porportion to our knowledge of God and the LORD Jesus. Where do we get that but from the Bible?

When you think some sin has just about ruined your life or that your life is headed in that direction, Peter reminds us that “His divine power” is ever present to reproduce His Life qualities in us. God never abandons His own people! But we become “His people” by repenting of sin and believing in Jesus as our LORD and Savior!

The LORD’s “precious and magnificent promises” have been granted to us for so that we might be the recipients of His “divine nature” and escape the “corruption that is in the world.” In other words, God plays no part in our sinfulness. Yet sometimes, He allows the consequences of our sin to bring us down so that we might remember that He saved us for a higher purpose.

In sum, everything we need to be all that the LORD intends us to be, we already have. We just haven’t tapped into it all yet. He is being patient with our impatience, waiting for us to get it all together. Time is racing by! We had best utilize the time we have to become what He wants! One day, we will be required to give an account of what we did with all He has given us. Are you ready?

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”