{"id":3991,"date":"2021-04-06T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:41:33","slug":"increasing-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,\u00a0<sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>knowledge with self-control,\u00a0self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,\u00a0<sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>godliness with brotherly affection,\u00a0and brotherly affection with love.\u00a0<sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless\u00a0or unfruitful\u00a0in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:5-8 CSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is much that goes into living a life of faith. Our scripture today list many of the qualities we need to foster from a spiritual and from a practical standpoint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rarely, if ever, is scripture only pointing toward a life of faith. They provide a moral and practical compass for every aspect of our lives. The knowledge contained within provide us a clear picture of right actions in our relationships, our business and our personal dealings&#8230;\u201dthey will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, scripture points us ever toward Jesus, but the practical knowledge contained is fruitful in many aspects of our lives. The icing on the cake is that with both belief and faith in Christ we gain eternity too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\u00a0For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,\u00a06\u00a0knowledge with self-control,\u00a0self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,\u00a07\u00a0godliness with brotherly affection,\u00a0and brotherly affection with love.\u00a08\u00a0For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless\u00a0or unfruitful\u00a0in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}