Hebrews
6:1 Therefore let us leave the
elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to
maturity,
not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works ……….
2Peter
1:
1 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the
righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in
the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3 His divine power has granted to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us
to his own glory and excellence,
4 by which he has granted to us his precious
and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because
of sinful desire.
Ephesians
1:
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave
him as head over all things to the church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who
fills all in all.
Ephesians
4:
11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the
evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry,
for building up the body of Christ,
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ,
14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed
to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human
cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to
grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
16 from whom the whole body, joined and held
together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working
properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
John
17:3 And this is eternal life, that they
know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
1John
5:20 And we know that the Son of God has
come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and
we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and
eternal life.
Our “growth process”, i.e. our maturing as saints, is growing in the grace
and knowledge of Him. It is not in becoming better at repenting, or becoming
better at not sinning, that is, our efforts at working toward “sinless
perfection”. It is not in becoming a better version of ourselves, thus pleasing
the Father.
Only the Son pleases the Father, and as both author and finisher of our
faith, we who have been placed in Him, i.e. His body, have a Father who is well
pleased on our behalf. (Luke 3:22; 2 Peter 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 12:1-2)
Let us stay in the Word and thereby show ourselves to be His true
“workman”. (2 Timothy 2:11-16)
2Peter 3:
17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this
beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless
people and lose your own stability.
18 But grow
in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the
glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Grow in the grace and knowledge of Him!
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