Becoming Who You Should Be
In this message, Dr. Rocky Ramsey walks us through a powerful call to spiritual maturity found in 2 Peter 1:5-9. Christians aren’t called to stay the same. We’re called to grow into who God made us to be. This growth is marked by nine key characteristics: diligence, faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love.
These traits are more than ideals. They are the evidence of transformation. As we grow in these areas, we become useful and fruitful in God’s kingdom. But when we ignore them, we risk becoming blind to truth, forgetting what Jesus has done for us.
“Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.”