Msg #1920 On Eight Blocks of Faith

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

A working model of what the Apostle Peter advised, “Giving all diligence, add to your faith...” (2Peter1:5-) is found in how a mason adds layers of bricks into a wall. Each new brick must be supported by two bricks and as the mason adds the first brick to the seventh layer there needs to be eight foundation bricks in place at the base. Now add one new brick in each layer until a second top brick is added. When a person adds to their faith they have a saving faith to begin with and they begin building a life for Christ. Continuing in the Word adds faith, virtue, and knowledge. Struggles of life and trials of faith adds temperance, patience, and godliness. Peter's prescribed brotherly kindness is added with maturity, towards the top of our construction.

Some people are so stuck on themselves they never see others. Some talk incessantly until they say, “Well that's enough about me, what do you think of me?” Spiritual leadership is not dictating to others it is ministering to others. Once a believer has, with maturity, added to their faith the first five things, they can add brotherly kindness, that temperament which delights in contributing to the happiness of others, which is exercised cheerfully in gratifying their wishes, supplying their wants or alleviating their distresses. Noah Webster says, “Kindness ever accompanies love”, and 2Peter 1:7 says the seventh layer added to our faith, resting on that kindness, is to be “Charity.”

These seven things need added to your faith, built one upon the other. “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... for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall” (vr.8,10).

An Essay for week #20 May 19, 2019

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