DIVINE
NATURE POSITION.OF.A.BELIEVER.IN.CHRIST_
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Look at it, bruised, wounded, tore, opened up His side with a Roman
spear in order that by the Holy Spirit we could be baptized into His
body, partakers of His Divine nature. You get it? Then you become a
partaker, after coming into His body, a partaker of His Divine nature:
Christ's nature in you. How can you cheat, steal, lie, backslide,
proselyte, everything else with the Divine nature of Christ in you?
It's impossible. Let that soak just a few minutes, 'cause it's
right...?... If you be a partaker in Christ, then you become a new
creature; old things have passed away, and all things have become new.
All of our warrings, and fussings, and stewings, and arguings, and
pampers, and all these things pass away. You see it? What
is the fruit of the Spirit? We've planted it on church membership, upon
shouting, upon demonstrations of our works. But the fruit of the Spirit
is first love, love Who? Then is when you love those who are unlovable.
That's the Spirit of Christ. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness,
meekness, gentleness, patience, there's the fruit of the Spirit. So no
matter what church you belong to, what you have done... STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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That's the way it is with Christ. See, we've got to be so in love with
Him till when we ask for something, and He doesn't give it to us, that
doesn't shake us a bit. See, see? Why? And the only way you can do that
is become partakers of His Divine nature. Then you'll understand the
reason He can't give it to you: partakers of His Divine Nature. And look
here: "having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust": escaped it. See who it is to? It's to the church. Them who
are in Christ has been exalted above these things, not be exalted
himself, but Christ brought him up. II
PETER 1:4 4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust. GREEK
LEXICON -- STRONG'S NUMBER 2305 Click
here to view all verses that use this Greek word. 2305
theiotes {thi-ot'-ace} qeiovthß from 2304; TDNT -- 3:65,322; n f AV
-- Godhead (1) 1)
divinity, divine nature RECONCILIATION.THROUGH.FELLOWSHIP_
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I think today, that great men has swept this nation back and forth, Jack
Schullers, Billy Grahams, many others has went over, and over, and over,
and over through the nation, and go right back the same year, and find
the same group that he preached to just as far deluded in sin as they
ever was. Because man can't save you, when man can only make an altar
call, but it's your individual--or personal faith and trust in God to
plunge beneath the Blood, and to be filled with His Spirit, and by
become a partakers of the Divine, not a partaker of the church, a
partaker of the Divine. The Divine nature changing your own vile
nature into a nature that loves God, who believes every Word that He
said is the truth, and accepting it as your own personal gift from God. STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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Now, let that soak real deep now. Not preaching this morning; we're just
teaching this lesson. Divine Nature... Let me read that 4th verse
again now, so you won't miss it: Whereby
we are given... Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises: that by these... (these promises)... we might be partakers of
the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust. See,
the world--we've escaped that now. He's addressing this to the church.
That's why we're here this morning is to find out what is the way; what
is God's requirements? There's not a person in here that loves God, but
what wants to become more like Christ. Now, its laid out here. Every
Christian... I'm an old veteran. Look at Brother and Sister Kidd here;
they're probably oldest in the building. But if I'd ask them, "What
is your hearts' desire?" It'd be: "Closer to God." When
you learn of Christ, there's something about Him that's so loving, you
just try to get right into Him. STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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Now, these people are--are... Peter is saying here how that we must be partakers
of His Divine nature. Now, each one of us are trying to grow into
the stature of God. Now,
after we get through with the Seven Seals, then at that time of the
sounding of the Seven Seals, or the loosening... 'Course, we know what a
Seal is; it's to loose a ministry, to loose Seven Seals. And we'll see
that right on the chart. It's loosening a message, something that's
sealed up. FUTURE.HOME_
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Now, the Divine Architect has designed a new City where He will live
with His Bride, just to Her touch. No wonder the apostle said, "Eye
has not seen; ear has not heard, or neither has it ever entered the
heart of man..." Let's see if we can probe into it just for a
moment; see what it's going to look like. The Divine Architect has
designed this for His beloved. See? Oh, what a place it must be when
Divine nature, a Divine Architect has a-designed it for a Divine
attribute that's been Divinely predestinated by a Divine God, Who--Who
is the Author of Divine Life. GREEK
LEXICON -- STRONG'S NUMBER 1504 Click
here to view all verses that use this Greek word. 1504
eikon {i-kone'} eijkwvn from 1503; TDNT -- 2:381,203; n f AV
-- image (23) 1)
an image, figure, likeness 1a)
an image of the things (the heavenly things); used of the moral likeness
of renewed men to God; the image of the Son of God, into which true
Christians are transformed, is likeness not only to the heavenly body,
but also to the most holy and blessed state of mind, which Christ
possesses. 1b)
the image of one; one in whom the likeness of any one is seen; applied
to man on account of his power of command; to Christ on account of his divine
nature and absolute moral excellence. STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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Excuse this expression: I told my wife here not long ago that she--both
getting old, and I said to her--I said, "Do you love me like you
used to?" She
said, "I certainly do." And
I said, "You know, I love you so much till I would like to take you
and pull you inside of me, so we could just be really be one." Boy,
now that... Multiply that by a hundred million, and then you'll find out
how that the believer who falls in love with Christ wants to get into
Him, because it's a love. And here He's going to show us how that
through these promises we might be partakers of Christ's Divine nature.
These mortal bodies, how that we can be partakers... APPROACH.TO.GOD_
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He wants us to. If the earthly parents wants us to do well, what about
our heavenly Parent the Lord Jesus? He has to correct us. And the
Scripture says, "If we cannot stand chastisement, or a whipping,
child-correction, then we become illegitimate children and not the
children of God." See? If
you're really born again, get it now, if you're really born again,
there's nothing can separate you from God. That's right. "Neither
starvation, perils, trials, suffering, death, nothing can separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus." You
say, "Well, I started to be a Christian one time. Everything begin
going this way, and that way, and I thought, 'My, I was better off the
other way.'" You never did come to God, brother. If you ever really
come to God, and got a taste of the heavenly gifts of God, partakers of His
Divine nature, why, you could no more become a sinner again,
unbeliever, than a stalk of corn could become a cocklebur. That's right. UNITY.ONE.GOD.ONE.CHURCH_
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There is so many people today who says that the Holy Spirit is not real
today. While tens of thousands of them, and millions, are saying it's
not so, there's that many enjoying the blessings of It. Mostly are poor
people, people who's been dejected and rejected by the world, people
who's been throwed out of churches because that they believed God to be
God; but they have been filled with His Spirit. They are one in purpose;
they're one in heart. Who are those people? Methodists, Baptists,
Presbyterian, Catholic, Jehovah Witness, orthodox Jew, all together,
they become one. Not one to a creed, not one to a denomination, that's
the working of the Devil through intellectual conceptions, but the
working of the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of God in you. And God sets on
the throne of your heart in His control room, controlling your emotions,
and controlling your powers, controlling your conceptions, and making
you one with Him in fellowship and in love. And God fills you with love.
He fills you with power. He fills you with the Spirit. He fills you
with His own Divine Nature, and He changes your carnal nature into His
Nature. Then, in this, you become a new creation in Christ. STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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So now, let us read now I Peter--II Peter, rather, the 1st chapter,
portion of it. Simon
Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have
obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ: I
like the way that's stated right there, because my whole subject this
morning is based on faith. See? Let me read that again; listen close. Simon
Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have
obtained like precious faith... through the righteousness of God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ: Notice:
He is saying, "I have obtained this faith, and I'm addressing this
to them that has obtained the like precious faith." I want... It's
not to the outside world; this is to the church (See?), those that are
in Christ. Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
through--of Jesus Christ our Lord, According
as his divine power hath given unto us all things... (His divine power
now has given unto us all things.)... that pertain unto life...
godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and
virtue: Whereby
are we given unto--given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these... (these promises)... we might be partakers of the Divine
nature,... STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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Peter said, "And because you have escaped the corruption of the
world through the lust of money, and lust of big times, and pleasure,
and the eating, and drinking, and lust that we have, you've escaped
that; and now you're built up in to a lively house. I'm addressing that
to the church," he said. There you are. Did you read it? Did you
get it? Did you hear it when we read it back here? In II Peter, just
listen what he says here; how beautiful that's wrote in here, how he--he
addresses it. All right listen to him now as he speaks. All right. Peter--Simon
Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have
obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ: ...
peace be--be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
through Jesus Christ our Lord, According
as--as his Divine power has given unto us all things... (Who's going to
inherit the earth and all things? Sure pertaineth... Yeah, all
right.)... that pertaineth unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that has called us to glory unto glory: Whereby
are we given to the exceeding great precious promises: that by these ye
might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the
corruption... (Listen to that.)... that is in the world through lust. STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_
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Now, in the... Now, a tabernacle it's of course a place where we go to
rest Now... get freshness, and so forth, like resting from sleep, or so
forth. Now, Hebrews 10 and the 5th verse, Paul brings it in. Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith Sacrifice... (That's Christ.)...
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared
me: What
is a tabernacle now? A body, God tabernacling in a body. God once up
high, when He come down on the mountain, even if a bullock or cow
touched the mountain, he must be killed. God's holy. Last
evening, when those angels covered their faces, holy Seraphims with holy
faces, don't even know what sin means, and they have to cover their face
in the Presence of God, cover their feet in humility. Now,
holy God could not condone sin. So nothing could touch the mountain
where God was. Then God was made flesh and dwelt among us in the form of
Jesus Christ His Son, His creation. Then that Son gave His life, and the
Blood cell of God was broken that the Life might come out of the Blood
to us. Through that Blood we are cleansed. And now our blood, our life,
which came by living through sexual desire brought our life in the
world; the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us, changes our nature by
sending upon us the Holy Spirit; then we become into the Divine
nature of God; then we become a dwelling place for God. 254-3
SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7 If
there was ever a time of denominational zeal it was at this tragic time.
The words of Comenius describe much of this era. Comenius wrote the
"ONE THING NEEDFUL." He compares the world to the labyrinth,
and shows that the way out is by leaving what is needless, and choosing
the one thing needful--Christ. The great number of teachers, he says is
the reason of the multitudes of sects, for which we shall soon have no
names left. Each church reckons itself as the true one, or at least as
the purest, truest part of it, while among themselves they persecute
each other with the bitterest hatred. No reconciliation is to be hoped
for between them; they meet enmity with irreconcilable enmity. Out of
the Bible they forge their different creeds; these are their fortresses
and bulwarks behind which they entrench themselves and resist all
attacks. I will not say that these confessions of faith--for we can
admit in most cases that they are so--are bad in themselves. They become
so, however, in that they feed the fire of enmity; only by putting them
away altogether would it be possible to set to work on healing the
wounds of the Church. "To this labyrinth of sects and various
confessions another belongs; the love of disputation... What is attained
by it? Has a single learned strife ever been settled? Never. Their
number has only been increased. Satan is the greatest sophist; he has
never been overcome in a strife of words... In Divine service the words
of men are usually heard more than the Word of God. Each one chatters as
he pleases, or kills time by learned disquisitions and disproving the
views of others. Of the new birth and how a man must be changed into the
likeness of Christ to become partaker of the Divine Nature (II Peter
1:4), scarcely anything is said. Of the power of the keys, the Church
has almost lost the power of binding, only the power of loosing
remains... The sacraments, given as symbols of unity, of love, and of
our life in Christ, have been made the occasion of bitterest conflict, a
cause of mutual hatred, a centre of sectarianism... In short,
Christendom has become a labyrinth. The faith has been split into a
thousand little parts and you are made a heretic if there is one of them
you do not accept... What can help? Only the one thing needful, return
to Christ, looking to Christ as the only Leader, and walking in
His footsteps, setting aside all other ways until we all reach the goal,
and have come to the unity of the faith (Ephesians 4:13). As the
heavenly Master built everything on the ground of the Scriptures so
should we leave all particularities of our special confessions and be
satisfied with the revealed Word of God which belongs to us all. With
the Bible in our hand we should cry: I believe what God has revealed in
this Book; I will obediently keep His commands; I hope for that which He
has promised. Christians, give ear! There is only one life, but Death
comes to us in a thousand forms. There is only one Christ, but a
thousand Antichrists... So thou knowest, O Christendom, what is the one
thing needful. Either thou turnest back to Christ or thou goest to
destruction like the Antichrist. If thou art wise and wilt live, follow
the Leader of Life. |