Virtue Every Christians Calling Text: 2Pet 1:3 I. Virtues Product Rom 14:21-22 II. Virtues Persistence Jas 1:6-9 III. Virtues Prejudice Phil 4:8 Conclusion Col 3:3-4

1. Virtue Every Christians
Calling
Text: 2Pet 1:3
3According 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:
2Pet 1:4-5
4Whereby 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.
5And beside this,
giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Webster's 1828 Dictionary-
The radical sense is strength, from straining, stretching,
extending. This is the primary sense of Latin.

2. 1. Strength; that substance or quality of physical bodies,
by which they act and produce effects on other bodies. In
this literal and proper sense, we speak of the virtue or
virtues of plants in medicine, and the virtues of drugs.
2. Bravery valor. This was the predominant signification of
virtus among the Romans.
3. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the
abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and
conversation to the moral law.
VIRTUE is nothing but voluntary obedience to truth.
I. Virtues Product
Rom 14:21-22
21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any
thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended,
or is made weak. Virtue
22Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is
he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he
alloweth. Faith

3. If your conscience gives you liberty to do a doubtful
thing, but it would cause others to sin,
then you should not publicly do that doubtful thing.
The passage refers to the case of eating meat, and in
Corinthians it was the case of eating meat offered to
idols.
A Bag of Tools
Isn't it strange
That princes and kings,
And clowns that caper
In sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make—
Ere life is flown—
A stumbling block

4. Or a steppingstone.
A stumbling block is built by vice
A steppingstone by virtue.
II. Virtues Persistence
Jas 1:6-9
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
Prayers are hindered by holding to vice while asking
for the power of virtue.
Luke 6:17-19
17And he came down with them, and stood in the
plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great
multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem,
and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came
to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
18And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and
they were healed.
19And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for
there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Luke 8:43-46

5. 43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve
years, which had spent all her living upon physicians,
neither could be healed of any,
44Came behind him, and touched the border of his
garment: and immediately her issue of blood
stanched.
45And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied,
Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the
multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest
thou, Who touched me?
46And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I
perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Jas 1:6-9
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with
the wind and tossed.
7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
of the Lord.
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
(6
driven with the wind and tossed.)
9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
exalted:
The struggles of life are the stage on which Virtue is
displayed.

6. THE WINDS OF FATE
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the self-same winds that blow;
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
That tells them the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate
As we voyage along through life;
'Tis the set of the soul
That decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife.
III. Virtues Prejudice
Phil 4:8
8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report;
Six things approved for contemplation by the
conscience; but they must be further filtered by
two characteristics…

7. if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
these things.
Phil 4:4-5
4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
Faith
5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The
Lord is at hand.
Virtue
Prov 31:10
10Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far
above rubies.
As the bride of Christ every Christian should be a
“virtuous woman”.
Biblical evidence of Virtue:
Col 3:5-10
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the
earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

8. 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the
children of disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in
them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the
old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in
knowledge after the image of him that created him:
2Pet 1:3
3According 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:
Conclusion
Virtue is a calling that is dependent on our
participation; the reward for that participation will be
Glory.

9. Col 3:3-4
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory.
Say not the Struggle nought Availeth
BY ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
Say not:
the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Virtue or Vice it comes at a price.
Isa 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for
the reward of his hands shall be given him.

10. 1Cor 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Rev 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is
with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Virtue Every Christians Calling
Text: 2Pet 1:3
I. Virtues Product
Rom 14:21-22
II. Virtues Persistence
Jas 1:6-9
III.Virtues Prejudice
Phil 4:8
Conclusion
Col 3:3-4