Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. - 2 Peter 1:12-13
Very likely in prison, even as he writes this letter, Peter knows he’s about to die. And he uses whatever life he has left to say, ‘I know you know this stuff. But I will not be negligent to put you in remembrance of it until you are established in it.’
If you are a Sunday school teacher, parent, elder, or anyone else who wants to be used in service, this is a huge point, for the key to ministry is putting people in remembrance of things they already know. You see, because our minds have been affected by sin, we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget. Therefore, your job as a dad, my job as a pastor is to say the same things over and over and over until those in our charge are established in them.
It’s not how much you know that counts, gang. It’s how well you know what you know. What matters is how well you understand the basic truths and how deep they sink into the soil of your soul.
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