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NASB | 2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has bestowed on us His precious and magnificent promises [of inexpressible value], so that by them you may escape from the immoral freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire, and become sharers of the divine nature. |
Subject: Looking for Dawn |
Bible Note: 5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. These are the qualities that render you effective, both active and with results. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Because these are the things that make you effective, if you do not have them you are blind, and unable to see far away, and you have forgotten you were cleansed from your old sins. So if you can see, seeing far away, you will have these things. What is it that you see, from far away, that causes you to have these qualities? What does this have to do with remembering that you have been purged from your sins? Is this seeing the usefulness of these qualities, the end result of this kind of life? Seeing Jesus, and how we will be like Him? Seeing how God is changing us now, to be like Him? 10 Therefore (consequently), brethren, be even more diligent (using speed and effort) to make your call (your invitation) and election (the confirmation of the choice) sure, for if you do these things (adding each one upon the last) you will never stumble; 11 for (gar - by this reason) so (in this way, in like manner) an entrance (eisodos) will be supplied (epichorgete) to you abundantly into the everlasting (eternal) kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We add these things one to another because in this same way God will add to us an abundant entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is a future tense entrance, in which we will have the full rich measure of those qualities listed above: Faith, Virtue, Knowledge, Self-Control, Perseverance, Godliness, Brotherly Love, Devoted Love. We will have total faith, able to move mountains. We will be purged of all that is evil, and filled with God’s goodness and strength. We will know even as we are known. We will have complete self-control, being no longer affected by a fallen nature. We will continue through eternity. We will have a perfect heart towards God. We will have love in our hearts for all our brothers and sisters. We will be like Jesus, Who is a servant, and will serve others in love. But God has no intention of us simply waiting until then. Because He will do it then, we must do it now. Put on the new man. Put on Christ. As we do this, adding virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly love, devoted love, we become more of who we are, who God made us as. What we have been looking at are seeing here is step-by-step instructions on how we “put on Christ.” Gal 3:27 “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Eph 4:21 “if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness!! We are to add these qualities now, because this is the way He will add them in rich abundance then. Philippians 2:12 “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” Remember the picture of the sunrise, “as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;" One day, we will experience this, as “the morning star rises in our hearts,” as the “sun of righteousness rises with healing in His wings.” One day we will see Him! We have this faith in us, as a light shining in a dark place, but as we see Him it rises, His goodness floods through us like those first rays of dawn, And we know - we know His power, and His purpose, and His majesty, And that His fire cleanses us, washing over us, purging us of all our sins. We are free from sin, we will never sin anymore, We finally actually possess our souls - having lost our life, now we've gained it, Eternity stretches out before us - we are forever free! For the God Who has done this for us, we worship Him and praise Him, Truly now with our whole hearts, joined to our entire heavenly family With love and devotion. The night is over, the day is now here, In the full light of perfection and wonder and beauty and light, As we have once and for all put on the new man, Which is created in righteousness and true holiness!!! 12 For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. |
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