Confirm Your Calling & Election

Perseverance on SermonAudio · Nov 1, 2026 · 58m

This sermon examines the list of virtues in 2 Peter 1:5-7, arguing that diligent pursuit of holiness is essential for confirming one's calling and election. The central message contrasts self-reliant moral striving with a grace-empowered life that begins with God's divine power and ends in eternal glory. It identifies spiritual stagnation as a form of nearsightedness caused by forgetting the definitive cleansing already received through Christ. The preacher emphasizes that progressive sanctification is fueled by remembering God's past acts of grace, which provides the assurance that believers…