Add to “Temperance Patience” 2 Peter 1:6                 Patience is a choice. This is another choice that Peter tells us to add. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience. Patience is the suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation, or...

Add “to Knowledge Temperance” 2 Peter 1:6                 A good synonym for Temperance is moderation.  To “temper” something means to bring it to a moderate state. In [Exodus 30:35] the Lord describes a mixture for a perfume to be used in the tabernacle and says “And thou shalt make it...

Add to Virtue Knowledge 2 Pet. 1:5             In the last lesson we studied about adding virtue to your faith. Virtue is a power to produce something manifested by voluntary obedience to truth. God wants us to get saved and then summit to be obedient to the truth. In this...

Spiritual Gifts Rom. 12:6-8 and 1 Cor.12:7-11             A Spiritual gift is just that, it is a gift. You can’t earn it any more than you can earn your salvation [Eph.2:8-9]. When you are born again you become a new creature [2 Cor.5:17]. You are baptized into the body of...

The “what measure ye mete” Principal     The Lord shows us very clearly in [Gal.6:7-8] that we reap what we sow.  We always reap the same “kind” [Gen.1:11-12] of whatsoever we have sowed. If you sow tomatoes you will reap tomatoes, not squash. In this lesson we are going...

But Lips of Knowledge Prov. 20:15 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This proverb compares the lips of knowledge to gold and rubies.  The lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.  In other words, they are more valuable than rubies and gold. Gold – Gold is highly desirable and is touted as...

  What  God wants you to lay up for the future?                                                                                            Gen. 41:46-48 God told Joseph to lay up  for the future bad years to come. We all know the story how it worked out in a way to save the nation of Israel. There are things that God...

Without Knowledge Prov. 19: 2 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO You have to learn some things – if you are all the time running around hasting with your feet you will never settle down long enough to read and study – you must take time to think, meditate and read.  It is...

The Prudent Deal with Knowledge Prov. 13:16 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO People are so anxious to get the scoop on any new story that they will speak conjecture, gossip, supposition, opinion or outright lies just to have something juicy to which people can listen – they want people to listen to...