CHRISTIAN
CHARACTER CLINIC
2
Peter 1:5-7
CHRISTIAN CHARACTER CLINIC
WEEK #4 – INTIMATELY HIS! - KNOWLEDGE
2 Peter 1:5 - And
beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
knowledge;
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Why should we know our husband, wife, or other best
friend well?
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How should we go about accomplishing this?
Knowledge should come forth out of virtue (moral excellence). This knowledge of God should be an intimate
knowledge.
KNOW HIS GRACE
1 John 5:13 - These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
2 Corinthians 8:9 - For
ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
KNOW HIM
Philippians 3:8-10 - Yea
doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, [9] And be found in him, not
having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through
the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: [10] That I
may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Ephesians 1:17 - That
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 4:13 - Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
Christ:
2 Corinthians 10:5 - Casting
down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge
of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Peter 1:2 -
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2 Peter 3:18 - But
grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
KNOW HIS WORD
Psalm 119:125 - I
am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
Proverbs 1:2 - To
know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
John 8:31-32 - Then
said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then
are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free.
KNOW HIS WILL
Romans 15:14 - And
I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of
goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Colossians 1:9 - For
this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Psalm 143:8 - Cause
me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me
to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
KNOW HIS HELP
Psalm 9:10 - And
they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Psalm 20:6 - Now
know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy
heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Psalm 46:10 - Be
still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I
will be exalted in the earth.
KNOW HIS HOPE
Psalm 39:4 - Lord,
make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I
may know how frail I am.
2 Timothy 1:12 - For
the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep
that which I have committed unto him against that day.
2 Corinthians 5:1 - For
we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we
have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
KNOW HIS POWER
Psalm 83:18 - That
men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high
over all the earth.
Psalm 100:3 - Know
ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
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