Equipped: Quality Assurance

This message unpacks Peter’s teaching in 2 Peter 1:3–11 about assurance in the life of the believer. Assurance is not wishful thinking—it is knowing, with confidence, that we are saved and secure in Christ. Peter points us to the fruit of our lives: when faith is growing and producing qualities such as virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love, they confirm our calling and guard us from becoming ineffective or unfruitful. But lacking them reveals a dangerous forgetfulness of what Christ has done. Through diligence and growth, we can stand firm in trials, experience peace in storms, and walk with the assurance that we are children of God.