Grace- God’s Unlimited Provision!
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. 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: 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 evil desire. 2 Peter 1:2-4
Introduction
The church has a little understanding of the finish work of Jesus Christ. It’s like having undeveloped resources and never using them. It’s like the church lives mentality of poverty and ignorance and doesn’t understand there’s a setting upon tremendous riches and resources.
Our lives should reflect a very substance of being of our Father God. If we could truly harness what the above scripture is talking about, we would walk in the creative ability granted to us. His miracle working power that was manifested in Jesus has been important to us.
Notice carefully that the scripture says He (Father God) has granted unto us all things that pertain to this life and godliness, and we have become partakers of his very nature. This nature is called the Eternal Life, and Jesus said I have come, that you might have life and life abundantly, but the church is that walking in abundant life.
The Creativity of the Recreated Born-Again Human Spirit
Everything that we have received in the New Birth is by FAITH. Scripture stated in Heb. 11:1-3 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
Heb. 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
[ And] Without faith no one can please God. [ For; Because] Anyone who comes to God must believe that He ·is real [exists] and that he rewards those who ·truly want to find [earnestly/sincerely seek] Him. (Expanded Bible).
So, as born-again men and women, we must understand that God ‘s creative nature has imported to us. The heathen does not have that. So, with the advent of Christianity, and preaching the word of God, and I must say the true word of God, not religion, brings about God ‘s creative power as it is believed in Faith.
Many alleged Christians want to substitute Reason and or Education in trying to understand the born-again creativity that Father God has imparted unto us. I am not against education but I understand fully that we understand Father God and His word by our inner man, our spirit man.
You and I must understand that Father God has given us a great privilege and task to with together with Him.
John 15:5, “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.
Working together with him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.” 2 Cor. 6:1
2 Cor. 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!”
God has imported his grace all of His resources for us to use with the contact of our physical and mental attributes. To humanity five senses are required. I miss amount of knowledge, but that knowledge is no value without the wisdom of God and how do use it. There’s a scripture says Christ has become wisdom to us Through this knowledge. What is God doing in us? He’s thinking of us, illuminating on spirits, illuminating our minds, renewing them, so that they become responsive to his indwelling presence. Every person who is receive the nature and life of Father God has given us the right to use those in His service.
We have been looking at the things of God through called reasoning, and because we’re relying on our five senses and secular education, we miss a lot of the secrets and wisdom of God. The Holy Ghost reveals to our newly re-created born-again spirits and we begin to understand and see the workings of God. We need to recognize the God-given abilities that you have. Every person who has been born again have received the nature and life of the Lord God, and his divine prerogatives that amaze us.
Exact Knowledge
The following scripture I have prayed for many throughout the years for their spiritual growth. This prayer by the Apostle Paul for the church is very important so that we follow this advice and model to pray for different individuals.
For this reason, also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the (exact or perfect) knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance (steadfastness) and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In Him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col. 1:9-14
The Greek word used here by Paul is “Epignosis” means the perfect, exact, and complete knowledge and wisdom provided by Father God toward us. The word light in Greek means a new type of metal efficiency and understanding that ordinary unregenerated minds do not comprehend.
Eph. 1:18, “I pray that the eyes of your heart (our inner man) may be enlightened so that you may know (have the complete knowledge and wisdom) what the hope of His calling is, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints”.
In 1 John 1:5, “…God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.” Darkness is a spiritual nature that manifests itself in the physical and psychological realm. Everything that is physiological and psychological has its roots in the spiritual. This darkness can and does overwhelm and overpower people. When we walk according to the light provided to us by the Word of God God’s grace, His provision, His ability, guides us as we surrender to Him.
The Inward Man
Eph. 3:16, “That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inward man.”
This inward mentioned that Paul is speaking about is our spirit man. God will strengthen us according to his ability and build us up as we strengthen our spiritual his word.
Father God, as we are recreated, we are born again, but we are going to be built up and completed through His Word. He will build His Word into our inner man as we surrender to him. As we surrender to him will become more like him.
John 1:3, “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
The life that is within Jesus is the life of Father God. And His life is our light, our ability, our wisdom. The Holy Ghost Himself becomes our tutor, leading us from strength to strength, success to success, from our human frailty to His strength within us. From our failures into his victories. His God, taking over, building Himself into us until we can say with Paul it is no longer that I live, but Christ who lives within me. Galatians 2:20.
Progressive Sanctification-Divine Ability Utilized
Very few Christians have taken advantage of John 14:26, 6. “But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name; he will teach you all things, and bring to remembrance all that I have said onto you.” What has He brought to our remembrance is that Word of God that we have hidden in our hearts.
What all things that He is going to teach us. All things mean all things. Whatever endeavor that the Lord God put you in, you will shine and his glory as you respond to the things that the Holy Ghost is teaching you. He is our teacher. He is our guide. He takes the realm of uncertainty to absolute certainty. It is not only the reality of Christ, but the reality of all that surrounds us, the great world in which we walk and live in and more and have our being. It’s an ability that we have never utilized. It is mental and spiritual strength. And Ephesians 3: 20 says, “now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly above all that we ask or think according to His ability that work is within us. His grace, His ability, works in us as we work with Him. Grace. Is God’s unending resources. All that we lack we have in Jesus. We are complete in Him.
Rom. 12:1-2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. 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: 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 evil desire. 2 Peter 1:2-4
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