Good morning everyone. Today is 25th of April, Thursday morning. And today Mark is going to be reading for us in 2 Peter chapter 1. And I just want to point out some things in this chapter that I have noticed. In the first verse Peter says that We have obtained like precious faith. We've obtained, in other words, it's been given to us. It's not something we drum up of ourselves. He's the author and finisher of our faith. Also in the third verse it says that He has given us His divine power hath given unto us all things. His divine power has given unto us all things. We're just boasting that it has been given to us. He also says that there's a lot of people that have followed cunningly devised fables. says, but yet we made unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and eyewitnesses of his majesty. See the contrast between those that are commoting cunningly devised fables? You know one of the cunningly devised fables is free will. But Peter here says in contrast to these cunningly devised fables, We made known unto thee the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and eyewitnesses of his majesty. He received from the God the Father honor and glory. He says that no prophecy of the scripture is any private interpretation. There's nothing in the will of man or in man himself to have the knowledge of God as revealed to us through the Holy Spirit. I had a person recently say, how can you proclaim that God predestines all things? How can a person then be saved if God predestines? Well, here in the last verse he says, Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but the holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. That's what I told this fellow. I said, you know, a man is born again by the Spirit of God. He must be born again. Not by the will of men, he says. Not by the will of man. So I'm going to turn this over to Mark and have him read this. You know, I've often said that one thing that the atheists, the agnostics, the Roman Catholics, and the Arminians can all agree upon is the free will of man, which is a lie. 2 Peter chapter 1. Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that obtain like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as this divine power hath given us through us all things that pertain to the life and God of us. the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped corruption as in the world through lust. Besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to God in this brotherly kindness, the brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be of you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. He that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore, the rather brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you shall never fall. So an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Wherefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it be as long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me. Moreover, I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in my remembrance. For we have not followed cunniling the vice fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. For I witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory when there came such a voice to him from the extra glory. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. This voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with Him in the Holy Mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, no prophecy of the Scriptures of any private interpretation. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but by the Holy Ghost.