Encouragement

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Add Knowledge to Faith

2 Pet 1:5
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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The bible says...
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hos 4:6

Knowledge is described as ...
- The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
- Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
- Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
- Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

We are admonished to add knowledge to our Faith in God because the lack of knowledge makes people perish.

How is your state of having been informed or made aware of Jesus and His Word or your Intellectual understanding of God's Word in your salvation?

What is the state of you appreciating the truth or information about Jesus?

Knowledge ...gnosis..gk., means ...the act of knowing, ...knowledge, ....science,. In other words, we have to put to work our act of knowing who and what and why Jesus came into the world made by Him. It is also to Improve yourself. Apostle Paul command us to ...

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim 2:15

This act of knowing Jesus must grow and increase and to be put to work. It is knowing the facts about Jesus which is good. Only this, the act of knowing the scientific facts, will not change or affect your relationship with Jesus.

To add knowledge to our Faith, 3 other forms of knowledge in the Greek rendering which is ...ginosko ..gk, ...epiginosko ..gk, and ...epiginosis..gk., will help us to fully grow our faith in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and affect our relationship with Him.

Knowing Jesus is all about relationship and the atmosphere produced by it. Knowing Jesus is by revelation and a calling.

Add ...ginosko..gk, to faith which means ...revelation knowledge. The Spirit of God bears witness that you are His and have become one with Him. Your fellowship with the father will bring the revelation of Him to you by His Spirit.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Jn 16:13-14

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: Eph 1:17

Add ...epiginosko...gk, which means to know accurately and well, ...to recognise, ...to perceive, ...to ascertain or find out, ...to understand. This will be acheived by the search of the scriptures. Jesus said ...

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Jn 5:39

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim 2:15

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, Eph 1:18

Add ...epignosis..gk., which means ...full knowledge, ...full discernment, ... full recognition.

This will change your thoughts and affect your actions because of your full knowledge and continous relationship with Him. It is participation with the source of all knowledge with full discernment.

Apostle Peter admonishes us to Add ...epichoregeo..gk, meaning ...to furnish besides, ...fully supply, ...aid, ...contribute, ...add, ...minister, all these knowledge to your faith.

In other words, contribute and fully supply to your faith to hold on to God's Word of promise. Add knowledge to your faith and make it strong.

Faith in God is not transferable but it must arise out of each person's heart. Therefore beloved, give all diligence to add knowledge to your faith. Furnish besides to your faith because faith has its works in the knowledge of Jesus Christ to be made strong.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb 11:6

Our God Almighty has dealt to every one who is born again the measure of faith. This Faith ...pistis..gk, means ...persuation, ...moral conviction of the truthfulness of God, ...reliance upon Christ for salvation, ...constancy in such profession, ...assurance, ...belief, ...believe, ...faith, ...fidelity, has its source or rests in God and it is found in our heart.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Heb 11:1

In other words, faith is reliance on the Word of promise from God which cannot lie or change and Holding on to the truthfulness of God's Word and constancy in such profession which has its base in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Add the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ in all its aspects and apply yourself to your work, working out your own salvation with fear and trembling.


Be blessed!!!

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