Christian Character Qualities
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Español)
RESUMEN: The passage in Second Peter 1 teaches us about participating in the divine nature and how we can add qualities to our Christian character. We must put all diligence and effort to add virtues such as faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, pity, brotherly affection, and love to our profile. We must have an insatiable appetite for perfection and know what constitutes perfection. There is a tension between what God gives and what we cooperate to receive. We cannot be content with just having faith, we must also add other virtues and qualities of the Christian life to have a complete profile. Virtue refers to moral excellence, perfection, Christian character, and solid behavior. We must strive to have an excellent character that leads to a solid reputation.
In this passage, the author discusses the importance of adding virtues to one's faith. Virtue refers to a solid character and behavior, while knowledge refers to the knowledge of God's truth. Self-control is crucial in controlling one's passions and personal defects, while perseverance is the ability to persist through trials and difficulties. Finally, mercy refers to total dedication and consecration to God. The author emphasizes the importance of knowing the Bible and growing as a Christian through trials and challenges.
In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of Christian virtues such as faith, virtue, self-control, patience, piety, brotherly affection, and love. He explains that these virtues are essential for living a Christian life and that they should be pursued with diligence. The speaker also highlights the significance of love as the supreme value among these virtues. He encourages the audience to ask God for help in developing these qualities and to strive for a higher level of consecration to God. The speaker ends the sermon with a prayer for healing, blessing, and adornment with the character of Jesus.
In this passage, the author discusses the importance of adding virtues to one's faith. Virtue refers to a solid character and behavior, while knowledge refers to the knowledge of God's truth. Self-control is crucial in controlling one's passions and personal defects, while perseverance is the ability to persist through trials and difficulties. Finally, mercy refers to total dedication and consecration to God. The author emphasizes the importance of knowing the Bible and growing as a Christian through trials and challenges.
In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of Christian virtues such as faith, virtue, self-control, patience, piety, brotherly affection, and love. He explains that these virtues are essential for living a Christian life and that they should be pursued with diligence. The speaker also highlights the significance of love as the supreme value among these virtues. He encourages the audience to ask God for help in developing these qualities and to strive for a higher level of consecration to God. The speaker ends the sermon with a prayer for healing, blessing, and adornment with the character of Jesus.
Many times one begins a series of sermons and weeks go by and continuity is lost. But I decided to finish this sustained meditation that has included several sermons on the theme of participating in the divine nature, how to be integral members of the beauty of God, of the divine character, of the divine nature. Because we can participate in that beauty of God's character.
And in Second Peter, chapter 1, we have some ideas that teach us about that. You will remember that there in that passage, Second Peter, 1, beginning with verse 3, the Apostle Peter states and enumerates a series of qualities that make up the Christian profile and that the Bible calls us to aspire and pursue these qualities in our personality. , our constitution, our spiritual nature. And this is a list that instead of making us feel inadequate, that oh, that's too much for me, should encourage us, spur us on towards spiritual greatness, towards spiritual excellence. And I'm going to try to squeeze a lot of material in a short time. But let me read this passage from Second Peter, chapter 1, beginning with verse 3. It says:
And in Second Peter, chapter 1, we have some ideas that teach us about that. You will remember that there in that passage, Second Peter, 1, beginning with verse 3, the Apostle Peter states and enumerates a series of qualities that make up the Christian profile and that the Bible calls us to aspire and pursue these qualities in our personality. , our constitution, our spiritual nature. And this is a list that instead of making us feel inadequate, that oh, that's too much for me, should encourage us, spur us on towards spiritual greatness, towards spiritual excellence. And I'm going to try to squeeze a lot of material in a short time. But let me read this passage from Second Peter, chapter 1, beginning with verse 3. It says:
