ye who have forgotten ye where clean

2Pe 1:2-11 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through 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 the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But 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 ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall; or "sin", as the Latin Vulgate version rendered it. all men at some time or other fall in this sense of the word, this does in no way imply a final and total fall from grace. for though they fall, they shall rise again by faith and repentance, through the grace and power of Christ, who is able to keep them from falling: also, while they were exercising the graces within the text, and doing those duties, they will not fall; for these are the means of final perseverance.

perseverance also implied here in Ephesians,
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

the earnest (down payment) of our inheritance being the Holy Ghost, meaning he lives within us keeping us until he comes for us or we go to him hence, "the redemption of the purchased possession". the Christian being the purchased possession a purchase made with his own blood.

now, lest we forget the awful case the man is in while he is not performing these graces let us look again to the text as it reads, "he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins". the blind fall in the ditch, they are bankrupt, they have to beg for money just to eat (this may have been true in the new testament days for the blind man as apposed to today, but the spiritual application applies in any time period) and can not prosper in any way. they have forgotten, forgotten they where clean of the former sins. forgotten what God has done in them, they have gone a whoring after strange God's.

Psa 44:20 -21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

he shall search it out, for though we may forget. the LORD forgettest not! let us then praise he who does not forget us, he who has grace enough to forgive us. who goes past just forgiving to actively seeking his sheep and calling them, though they forget him from time to time.

finally, let us think on this; " Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure"
diligence will make our election sure, diligence in what? how do we make our election sure?

" giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity".

a check list of sorts, can your election be sure? it can, but we must give diligence to these things. it would be a worth while study to find out the biblical meaning of each one of these words... don't ya think.