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Who Called us by HIS own Glory and Excellence
The Apostle Peter shared some Powerful Truth about the IMPARTATION of GOD’S GLORY in our lives as we came to believe in Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. Let’s read what he wrote;
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; (2 Peter 1:2 NAS)
Seeing that 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. (2 Peter 1:3 NAS)
Pausing here for a moment, we read that Peter made it clear to us that GOD had given us everything pertaining to LIFE AND GODLINESS—(that is, we have everything we need to live a godly lifestyle as a Christian on earth in the Kingdom of God, RIGHT NOW!!!) How… You may ask???
THROUGH THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM (JESUS) WHO CALLED US BY HIS OWN GLORY AND EXCELLENCE (2 Peter 1:3b NAS). Peter said, that through the true knowledge of Jesus who Called us by HIS own Glory and Excellence—we can be able to tap into the LIFE and GODLINESS GOD wants us to experience.
This means when we come to clear Revelation and Understanding of the True Knowledge of Jesus we can access the LIFE AND GODLINESS, our Heavenly Father desires to grant us. Then experience the Measure of GLORY and EXCELLENCE available to us as believers.
Peter’s HOW TO!!!
Peter did not leave us hanging to bust our brains in trying to figure it out. Peter gave us more info into tapping into this LIFE and GODLINESS. Peter continued to write;
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. (2 Peter 1:4 NAS)
It’s by God’s Promises found in HIS Word that we may share in the Blessings we can have in the Divine Nature HE made available to us. God’s Word contains over 8,000 Promises that we can learn and come to believe in so we can access the Divine Nature God desires us to practically live by on the earth. So we can escape the moral decay, corruption, and the greed and lust to do evil that we see around us.
Believing God’s Promises my Testimony
To explain this point better, allow me to give you a quick testimony from one of my previous articles, “From Faith to Faith”, written 7-11-2014. I was a Christian for about a week in January 1992. My Christian brother, Junito challenged me to put away my weapon and trust God for Divine Protection from my 8 enemies—that Junito was aware that I had. And to believe the Promise of God in Isaiah 54:17 KJV; Where Isaiah wrote, No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; I told Junito, hey man, I don’t have faith like you. I have 8 known enemies that can hurt or kill me any given moment.
Junito continued to insist that I trust the Promises of God for Divine Protection. That night I couldn’t concentrate, write, read, or listen to music or workout. The conversation continued to play over and over in my mind until I gave in. Then I Prayed to God to forgive me for not trusting HIS Word to believe HIM for Divine Protection. I made a half-step of faith. And decided not to carry any weapons to defend myself from my enemies. Then in 3 months all my enemies were gone! Praise God!!! God demonstrated to me HIS POWER and GLORY.
As for me, I tapped into the LIFE and GODLINESS that God wanted me to experience. And I did so by relying on HIS PRECIOUS PROMISES OF DIVINE PROTECTION. And this allowed me to escape the corruption and moral decay of Violence. Do you see how this works?
Peter explained it this way in the next verse; (I’m going to outline it so it can make more sense to us).
* Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith… (v. 5)
* Supply moral excellence… (v. 5)
* And in your moral excellence, knowledge, (v. 5)
* And in your knowledge, self-control, (v. 6)
* And in your self-control, perseverance, (v. 6)
* And in your perseverance, godliness, (v.6) (2 Peter 1:5-6 NAS)
Pausing here for a moment, Peter is breaking down the steps that are required to tapping into the LIFE and GODLINESS we can experience by believing and trusting the Precious Promises of God. Each step is what I experienced when I was challenged to believe God for Divine Protection from my enemies.
However, this is the process for believing the Precious Promises of God in every area of our walk of faith. Because if we take a closer look at the steps that are outlined here that Peter spoke about, we see that by;
1. Applying Diligence in our faith we can increase our faith by hearing the Word of God. (Romans 10:17 NKJV) In the area we are trying to gain TRUTH. Be it for Protection, Healing, Financial Blessings, etc. We need a Promise to believe in, in order to start believing the Precious Promise.
2. Supplying Moral excellence (this is, God’s Word that will tell us to do it God’s way—the moral or right way of doing things.)
3. Then we acquire the Knowledge of God’s way on doing things.
4. Which will create in us self-control where we won’t lose it and kill or hurt or retaliate against anyone. And be at Peace (which is perfect well-being, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts in our minds about our present situation.)
5. Then as we continue to behave ourselves—perseverance kicks in to be committed to do the will of God and be consistent in our application of faith.
6. Then we tap into the LIFE and GODLINESS that Peter mentioned.
Peter continued to give us more insight of developing Glory and Virtue (Excellence).
* And in your godliness, brotherly kindness, (v. 7)
* And in your brotherly kindness, love. (v. 7)
* For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (v. 8) (2 Peter 1:7-8 NAS)
So, in order to experience the LIFE and GODLINESS God made available to us we need to begin with HIS Precious Promises that will instruct us to do things HIS way. As a result, we will go through a 9 step process of developing Virtue, then can we remain useful and productive for the Kingdom of God on earth. Amen. This is our Calling to developing Glory and Virtue (Excellence).
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