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Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 6 | To Perseverance Add Godliness

> 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness… 2 Peter 1:5–6 (NIV) * Godliness = eusebeia * Good + Worship/devout/God-fearing * Secular life * Sacred life > For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 (NIV) Godliness is when every part of your life is sacred What needs to be made pure for God in your life?

Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 5 | To Self-Control Add Perseverance

> 22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah. c) 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” Exodus 15:22–24 (NIV) [https://ref.ly/Exod%2015.22%E2%80%9324;niv?t=biblia] > > 27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water. Exodus 15:27 (NIV) [https://ref.ly/Exod%2015.27;niv?t=biblia] > > 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance… 2 Peter 1:5-6 (NIV) [https://ref.ly/2%20Pet%201.5-6;niv?t=biblia] Perseverance = Hupomone Hupo = Under Mone = Stay Stay the right course under pressure  > 2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4 (NASB) [https://ref.ly/James%201.2-4;nasb95?t=biblia] In your walk of faith, where do you need to persevere?

Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 4 | To Knowledge Add Self-Control

> 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control… 2 Peter 1:5–6 (NIV) Self control = Egkrateia To hold, to grip, to have power over Mastery over your appetites, impulses and desires Who is your master? How does Jesus become master of your soul? * Faith * Goodness * Knowledge * Self control * Fasting  Be held close in love so as to be held accountable in love Be like Joseph > 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!” 8 But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. Genesis 39:6-10 (NIV)

Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 3 | Add Knowledge to your faith and to your goodness

> For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 1 Peter 1:5 What does make every effort mean? > The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10 (NIV) Knowledge = the facts about your faith in Jesus. Learn God’s Word so that you can live God’s Word so you can be confident you are doing God’s Will How can you make every effort to add knowledge? Get a Bible that you can understand * English Standard Version (ESV) * New American Standard Version -1995 (NASB) * New International Version (NIV) * New Living Translation (NLT) The Bible was written to be read out loud The Bible was written to be understood, but it takes work Be like Apollos > 24 Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately. Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 2 Peter 1:8-9 (NIV)

Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 2 | Bloom In Moral Excellence

What does it mean to be a "straight arrow"? In this sermon, Didi digs into 2 Peter 1:3-5 and the call to add goodness to our faith, moral excellence, nobility, and an incorruptible character. Using Daniel as our example, we explore how God's power, combined with our every effort, shapes us into people whose integrity stands out.