2 Peter 1:3 Interlude (feat. Ryan Fullerton)

Look at verses three and four
 He starts off by saying
 "His divine power granted to us all things that pertain to life and Godliness"
 What he's telling us is that God's power
 The power that made this world
 The power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead
 This power has moved into your life and granted us
 All things that pertain to life and Godliness
 Paraphrase
 Everything you need to be Godly, God gave you by his power
 How? through the knowledge of him
 Now this is an amazing thing
 What this means is that the main thing we need to be Godly is to know God
 You don't need different circumstances in your life in order to grow in Godliness
 You don't need new family or new people in your life in order to grow in Godliness
 You don't need new roommates to grow in Godliness
 You don't need a new personality to grow in Godliness,
 You don't need a new past
 What you need is you need to know God
 You see that, he says "He has given us everything for life and Godliness
 Through the knowledge of Him"
 Look at verse two
 Peter says "May grace and peace be multiplied to you
 In the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord"
 How do you get more grace and more peace?
 How do you live a Godly Life?
 You live a Godly life by knowing God
 The reason people don't live Godly lives is because they don't know God
 Romans Chapter one has this list of totally immoral things that people do:
 Gossip, hating their parents, all kinds of sexual immorality
 And he says "why did this happen"
 Because they did not see fit to honor God,
 They rejected the knowledge of God
 They suppressed the truth of God and of righteousness
 And when you put down God as an idea
 When you cover up God as a person
 When you destroy the knowledge of God
 You're always gonna get ungodly lives
 As sure as Day follows Night
 But when someone comes to know God you will always get a Godly life
 Because knowing God changes you
 And what Peter is here telling us here is that
 We got everything we need for life and Godliness, because we know Him
 He has lit up our hearts
 He's giving us the new birth and now we see him as beautiful
 Before you're born again you can't even see the Kingdom of God
 Once you're born again, the very things that look foolish to the world:
 The cross, A dying Savior