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Faith

Peter Walked Back to the Boat | Matthew 14:22-32

by Alan Sharpe October 11, 2022

Let other disciples sit in the boat, observing the action. You belong out on the water with your Savior, doing the impossible.

by Alan Sharpe October 11, 2022

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And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
Matthew 14:32

Listen to enough sermons about Peter walking on the water to Jesus and you will hear a familiar refrain. Peter sank into the water because he took his eyes off Jesus. Peter sank into the water because he was afraid. Peter sank into the water because he saw that the wind was boisterous. Peter started sinking beneath the waves because he lacked faith, and doubted.

All of these observations are valid. Peter was afraid. He did start to sink because of unbelief. And he did do the correct thing in crying out, “Lord, save me!” But the lesson doesn’t end there. Most preachers focus on Peter’s sinking. They fail to mention what happened next.

Read of the account in Matthew 14 and you discover that, when Peter and Jesus got back into the boat, the wind stopped. But how did Peter and Jesus get from where they were on the sea back to the boat? T

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Quiz

Quiz: 2 Peter 1:3

by Alan Sharpe September 6, 2022

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
2 Peter 1:3

Questions

Who has given to us all things?
What is the purpose of these things that God has given us?
What accompanies these things?
Are these “all things that pertain to life and godliness,” ours automatically at conversion?
How do we avail ourselves of this divine power and these enablements?
Has God made available to you all that you need to live a godly life?
Do you need to look anywhere other than the Bible, or to anyone other than Christ, for the divine power you need to abstain from porn and masturbation?

Answers

God.
The purpose of these things that God has given us is life and godliness.
God’s divine power.
No.

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Prevention

Don’t Ask God for What He Has Already Given | 2 Peter 1:3

by Alan Sharpe June 23, 2022

God promises that the divine power you need to resist porn and masturbation is already yours for the taking. You just have to take it.

by Alan Sharpe June 23, 2022

Don't Ask God for What He Has Already Given | 2 Peter 1:3

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
2 Peter 1:3

You are guilty of it. I am guilty of it. In the midst of our struggle with sexual sin, we cry out to God, begging Him to give us strength to forsake our sin. We beseech God to give us power to overcome sexual temptation. We pray repeatedly, week in and week out, for God to deliver us from sexual urges. The problem is, He already has. We keep asking God to give us something that He has already given us.

This is the conclusion that you and I must draw from what Peter tells us. After all, if God “has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,” why do we need to ask Him for anything else that pertains to life and godliness? We don’t. If God has already given to us all the divine power, all the resources, and every other thing we need to live a life that’s free of pornography and free of masturbat

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Judgment

How Long Can You Tread Water? | 2 Peter 2:9

by Alan Sharpe June 22, 2022

Noah is proof that God knows how to deliver you out of your sexual temptations (and how to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment).

by Alan Sharpe June 22, 2022

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
2 Peter 2:9

I don’t suppose you wake up each morning thinking about Noah, but maybe you should. After all, if you have a chronic problem with looking at pornography and masturbating, you do well to remember some lessons from the time of The Flood.

The first lesson is that Noah lived among a generation that Peter in his letter calls “ungodly” (2 Peter 2:5). As far as God was concerned, “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). And yet Noah, living among such wicked people and faced with all manner of temptations, found grace in the sight of the Lord.

Another lesson from Noah’s life is that God punished the wicked but delivered Noah and his immediate family. God brought a catastrophic flood upo

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Prevention

How to Quit Porn Biblically

by Alan Sharpe April 19, 2022

Pornography is a sin issue. And sin issues require biblical remedies. If you want to learn how to quit porn, learn what the Bible says on the topic. Then obey what you read.

by Alan Sharpe April 19, 2022

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