Being Found Holy, Not Just Good

Pastor Joaquin

2 Peter 3:14-18

2 Peter 3:14-18

14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Caught cheating in sports legacies are gone

Actors caught and cancelled 

CEOs let go

Church leaders dismissed

Everyone involved suffers

Found without spot or blemish v. 14

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect Matt 5:48

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord Heb 12:14

Sinning always hurts someone else. We are trying to grow in love not to hurt anyone else. One flesh, flesh of my flesh, all one body.

STDs or STD

Sin transmitted diseases 

or

Save the date

What kind of std do you want?

Raising the bar

Without spot or blemish

Patient for his return

Not carried away by lawless people

Maintain your stability

Grow in the grace and knowledge of JC

When I choose to starve the beast, it becomes weaker and is more easily defeated. Starve your sinful nature and feed your holy nature. Every choice leads to feeding one or the other. We have to choose what we eat, watch, listen to, and fill our free time with.

Ephesians 4:28

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Keep your hands busy 

Work out

Learn guitar 

Bible crosswords and word searches

Reading more Christian material

Serve people, food, cleaning, prayer

Worship time 

Songs of how much you love Jesus (married couples don’t listen to songs about having affairs) Christian K-pop groups. (BTS isn’t making you more like Christ) Karaoke videos to feel closer, Hike with worship music 

Write out then pray over list of

who you want to be 

what you want to stop doing

What you want to do more of

How close you want to be to Jesus

Being spotless and without blemish

I love what you love 

I act like you act

I feel like you feel

I help like you help 

I forgive like you forgive

I sacrifice like you sacrifice

Psalm 37:1-11

1  Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! 

2    For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. 

3    Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 

4    Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 

5    Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. 

6    He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. 

7    Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! 

8    Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. 

9    For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. 

10    In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there. 

11    But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.