"as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue," 2 Peter 1:3.
Good start---His divine power. All believers have this and it empowers us for life and godliness--it just does. Without reservations or demands, we have supernatural knowledge of Jesus. As the next verses tell us empowerment of the knowledge of God is the means by which we add these attributes, abilities and changes to our daily lives.
"But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your virtue knowledge, to knowledge self control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love," 2 Peter 1: 4-7
If we believe verse 3 then these things will readily manifest in our lives. We cannot help but be the lights shining the presence of our God because this is already given to us by His divine power.
In conclusion....we change the word 'if' in verse 4 to 'since these things are yours' (ours)--there is no way they cannot manifest themselves because they are God's nature in us. Therefore these are not ours to produce by any strength we assert but because of the faithfulness of the Divine Power.
"For if these things are yours and abound you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" 2 Peter 1: 8.
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Good start---His divine power. All believers have this and it empowers us for life and godliness--it just does. Without reservations or demands, we have supernatural knowledge of Jesus. As the next verses tell us empowerment of the knowledge of God is the means by which we add these attributes, abilities and changes to our daily lives.
"But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your virtue knowledge, to knowledge self control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love," 2 Peter 1: 4-7
If we believe verse 3 then these things will readily manifest in our lives. We cannot help but be the lights shining the presence of our God because this is already given to us by His divine power.
In conclusion....we change the word 'if' in verse 4 to 'since these things are yours' (ours)--there is no way they cannot manifest themselves because they are God's nature in us. Therefore these are not ours to produce by any strength we assert but because of the faithfulness of the Divine Power.
"For if these things are yours and abound you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" 2 Peter 1: 8.
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Thank you.
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