Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Make Sure You Got A Ticket To The Show

Everybody wants to go to the show right? You know the show; the best act in town, the act that nobody wants to miss for fear that they will miss out on the coolest event ever and have to listen to everybody talk about how unbelievable it was? The show! You have to have a ticket to get in, you can't just show up and expect to get in those gates, there are only a certain amount of seats set-up and they are only for the people who received a ticket. You don't want to miss out do you?

Petey Pete (Simon Peter) our favorite denying disciple lays it down for believers in his 2nd epistle. He lists eight (some say seven because they count faith as already attained) things people need to make sure their lives aren't unfruitful and by doing this we will know that we have a ticket to "the show".

2 Peter 1:5-8 "... add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perserverance, to perserverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:10 " Therefore brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble."

Man; I want to make my election sure, I don't want to have to ever doubt whether I'm going to make it or not. I was talking with Brian Manfred recently and we talked about the idea that if our lives ended today would we be going to heaven or hell? We should know how to answer that question, God wants us to know whether or not we have a ticket to the show. We can't let the flesh and enemy fill us with doubt, if we do feel doubt remember the gospel and this epistle from Peter. Peter tells us plain and simple how we can make our election a certainty, go to your bible and read the scripture (seven things to add to your faith). Election is we choose Jesus and become God's elect to live in eternity in heaven. If we are certain that there is a seat waiting in the theatre with our name on it, a ticket to the show, people will see that and want to know what we have. That is producing fruit, we should be living and breathing this stuff. Let's make sure we make our election a certainty and receive the ticket of eternity.

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