The Divine Nature

A person who is born again receives a new nature, he is a new man, he is not the same person that he used to be and through that new nature he overcomes the world. He overcomes sin and the desires of the flesh and he is able to do the will of God.

I read the words of Peter, 2 Peter 1:3,4 “ His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of THE DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”

We have been set FREE from the power of the flesh and of sin because Jesus came to set us free from sin and the power of corruption that results through sin that lived in out bodies. Now we have become free. We have RECEIVED THE DIVINE NATURE. Every person who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and who has been born again has the divine nature.

I read further: “5Now for this very reason also, APPLYING ALL DILIGENCE, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6and in your knowledge, self-control, and in yourself-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, 7and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, Christian love. 8For IF THESE QUALITIES ARE YOURS AND ARE INCREASING, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For HE WHO LACKS THESE QUALITIES IS BLIND and SHORT-SIGHTED, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. 10Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and His choosing of you; for AS LONG AS YOU PRACTICE THESE THINGS, YOU WILL NEVER STUMBLE; 11for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.”

We need to press on into the Kingdom of God and if these qualities that Peter is talking about here are absent then we are unfruitful and then we do not have the hope of salvation. We need to APPLY OURSELVES to the DIVINE NATURE that Jesus has placed inside of us.

The proof of our faith is whether these qualities are seen in us. If these qualities are absent then we have no hope. Then the DIVINE NATURE gas not grown in us and we do not have access to the Kingdom of God. We have forsaken Jesus Christ. Is the DIVINE NATURE manifested in you and in me? Are we truly children of God?

May Jesus bless you.