25-0321_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN (PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S DIVINE NATURE)
2Pe 1:1 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:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 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.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
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*THERE'S NOT A PERSON IN HERE THAT LOVES GOD, BUT WHAT WANTS TO BECOME
MORE LIKE CHRIST.
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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.
*AND HERE HE'S GOING TO SHOW US HOW THAT
THROUGH THESE PROMISES WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S DIVINE NATURE.
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8-2 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...
*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.
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9-2 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.
*…WE MUST BE PARTAKERS OF HIS DIVINE
NATURE…EACH ONE OF US ARE TRYING TO GROW INTO THE STATURE OF GOD…TAKE THAT SAME
KEY TO UNLOCK THE WAY TO BECOME A VIRTUOUS CHRISTIAN IN THE STATURE OF GOD
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11-3 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.
11-5 Last Sunday night I preached on,
"The Key." And the key is faith. The faith
holds the key, and the key is the Scripture, and Christ is the Door.
See? So faith takes the little hinges of the Scripture
and unlocks the glories and good of God out to His people. See? So if faith holds the key that unlocks Christ to the people,
unlocks it, reveals it.
So today we're going to try to take that same key to unlock the way to become a virtuous Christian in the stature of God, that--and be a living Tabernacle of--for the living God to dwell in.
*GOD REVEALS HIMSELF IN THREE WAYS… THROUGH THE DEATH OF THAT BODY HE SANCTIFIED A CHURCH THAT HE CAN
DWELL IN.
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Remember, God reveals Himself in three ways. First time He revealed Himself in a Pillar of Fire. That was called the Fatherhood. Then that same God made manifested in Jesus Christ, which He built a body, made this body. Thirdly, through the death of that body He sanctified a church that He can dwell in. It was God above us, God with us, God in us: the same God.
*WE BECOME INTO THE DIVINE NATURE OF GOD;
THEN WE BECOME A DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD.
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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.
*THE CHURCH IS NOW SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING
THE PLACE OF CHRIST, CARRYING ON HIS MINISTRY.
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14-1 Jesus said, "At that day you'll
know that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, I in you, and you in
Me." See? Know how that God is in His church.
The church is now supposed to be taking the place of Christ, carrying on His ministry. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet you shall see Me for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." There it is: carrying on His work.
*GOD DWELLS IN THE STATUE OF A MAN,
REFLECTING HIMSELF INTO THAT BEING: PERFECT WORSHIP, GOD IN US, BEING HIS
TABERNACLE, GOD MANIFESTING.
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14-3 Now, God... Or the Bible said
here that Stephen spoke of Solomon building a temple; and the most High don't
dwell in temples made with hands. "For heaven's My throne, and earth is My
footstool." And, "Where is the place of My rest, but a body has Thou
prepared Me." Amen. There you
are. "A body
hast Thou prepared Me."
God dwells in the statue of a man, reflecting Himself into that being: perfect worship, God in us, being His Tabernacle, God manifesting. Oh, how we could stay on that till you'd almost suffocate in here from heat.
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