2 Peter 1:10

3. And for diligence to secure our election and heavenly entrance, 2 Peter 1:10-11.

10. Give diligence In ceaseless effort, because of what has just been urged, and of the promised glorious result.

Your calling To faith and holiness.

Election To a place in the spiritual Israel.

Sure Firm, secure, a proven fact. The reason assigned is, if ye do these things, ye shall never fall; and, as St. Peter could not employ an unmeaning hypothesis, it follows, if ye do not these things, ye surely will fall. The calling and election are both God’s work. The calling precedes the election, both in the text and in order of fact. These brethren had been called; they were also elect, (1 Peter 1:1,) and elected on their acceptance of the call. The apostle’s object was not, as some theologians suppose, to show how they might themselves assuredly know that they were truly called and elected, but to teach them how to maintain their already accomplished calling and election to the end. They might fall; in which case the election would become null, and their rejection of God would be followed by his rejection of them from his elect people. The absurdity of a fall from something they had never had, is a conception of a later date.