Rob’s Blob

clipped from robertcoss.com “For as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble.” – 2 Peter 1:10 Assurance of salvation lets us enjoy earthly blessings. It is encouraging that scriptural assurance results in specific, practical blessings in the Christian life. Here are six I’d like to share with you today. Assurance makes you [...]

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clipped from robertcoss.com “Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.” – [...]

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 clipped from robertcoss.com “For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.” – 2 Peter 1:9 If you don’t practice spiritual virtues now, you’ll forget their significance later. Physical nearsightedness and mental amnesia both are unwanted conditions. Nearsightedness (myopia) causes people’s eyes to focus the parallel [...]

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 clipped from robertcoss.com “For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – 2 Peter 1:8 If you are a Christian, your life will produce spiritual fruit. If you want to enjoy assurance of salvation in all its richness, [...]

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clipped from robertcoss.com “. . . And in your brotherly kindness, Christian love.” – 2 Peter 1:7 Sacrificial love proves genuine faith. Classical Greek had three common terms for love. As we saw yesterday, phileo (philadelphia) is the love of give and take, best expressed in friendship. Eros is the love that takes—one loves another [...]

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clipped from robertcoss.com “And in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance . . .” – 2 Peter 1:6 Personal self-control demonstrates the certainty of your salvation. In Peter’s day, the word translated “self-control” was used to describe athletes. The successful ones abstained from sexual activity and an unhealthy diet for the sake of [...]

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This is one of the many things about Christianity that keeps me coming back for more; these prompts to use your head. Do you want to know the truth about the banking scams or bp or 911? Then screw your head on and you will soon find out. If you depend on half-truths or TV [...]

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