Weekly Pursuit – Week 5 of December
Verses:
2 Pet. 1:3 “Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him who has called us…”
Excerpts:
God has given us the marvelous and mysterious divine power. God as the divine power passed through creation, redemption, and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit. The visible things of the creation came into being through God’s divine power. Redemption was also accomplished by God’s divine power. The one man Jesus could die on behalf of all men to accomplish an eternal redemption because of the divine power. Today as the life-giving Spirit, He offers Himself to us as the divine power in resurrection. When we receive the Lord Jesus, the very Triune God enters into us as life in resurrection, [which] is the divine power.
The divine power has given us all things that relate to life and godliness. Within the power of the divine life as the seed in us are all the things necessary for the growth of the divine life. In the divine power are virtues such as love, patience, humility, kindness, and long-suffering. The divine power, the power of life, includes all things needed not only for life inwardly but also for godliness outwardly.
[Another] category of great things given to us by God is the precious and exceedingly great promises. The promises are mainly related to our spiritual life. These are promises for the inner life and the outward expression of life. One such promise is in Ephesians 3:20. The Lord is going to do superabundantly above all that we ask or think for the church life, according to the inner working power that operates in us. (The Crucial Revelation of Life in the Scriptures, ch. 16)
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