Man Must Partake of the Divine Nature | Ep. 194

You can believe big promises about God and still look in the mirror and think, “It does not look like it.” That honest tension sits right at the center of Hebrews 2: Scripture says all things will be brought under redeemed humanity, yet “we do not yet see” it. So where does faith land when life feels ordinary, weak, or stuck? We land where Hebrews lands: “But we see Jesus.” 

We start with Psalm 119 and a gut-check about appetite. If God’s Word is “sweeter than honey,” what does it mean when we do not crave it anymore? From there we walk through Hebrews 2 and Psalm 8, then connect the dots to Galatians and Romans where adoption becomes real: the Spirit of God in us crying “Abba, Father,” bearing witness that we are children and heirs. Not just forgiven, but brought into the family and made joint heirs with Christ. 

Then we slow down on what Jesus actually did to make that possible. He was made lower than angels, tasted death for everyone, and paid our debt as propitiation by His blood. He also took on flesh and blood as a kinsman redeemer, felt pain and rejection, and became a merciful high priest who understands temptation without sinning. Finally, we tackle why we keep falling and where real victory comes from: not willpower alone, but becoming “partakers of the divine nature” through the Holy Spirit, escaping corruption and lust by yielding to God’s life within us. 

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A Vision Of Purpose

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The vision received was that of blood cells traveling throughout the body, supplying the much-needed oxygen and other nutrients to the differing members of the body to fulfill their purpose. Once the blood cells are spent, they must return back to the heart to be refilled before being sent out again and fulfill their purpose. And every time he taught on Sundays, he would always start out with psalms. It's like he'd have a teaching, and like half of it was always Psalms. Some Psalms chapter, and then he'd go into his teaching. It was very interesting

When God's Word Tastes Sweet

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how he did that. And so I want to start with Psalms, but I'm not going to start with a whole uh teaching on Psalms, but I want to kind of consider this particular verse in the scriptures. It's in Psalm 119 verses 103. I'm not going to read verses, just one verse. It says, How sweet are your words to my taste? Sweeter than honey to my mouth. I don't know about y'all, but I love honey. I put it in my oatmeal, I put it in different things that I enjoy to eat, and it's it's sweet, obviously. It's sweet, but I read that today, or I thought about that today, and I started to think if there's a person that doesn't hear God's or or that hears God's word and it's not honey to him, it's not sweet to him. It's kind of a sign of where they're at in the relationship with the Lord. Because the word should be sweet. It should be, it should be something that you thirst for, and you just kinda can't wait to get it in to you. Kind of like children with candy. They just love the candy. Give me the sugar, give me the sugar. And and the word of God should be like that to us. It should be something that we just we we crave it. And if we're not craving it, it might be a sign that there's something off, there's something maybe not right in your relationship that really needs to be rectified. Because I I've run into people, um, you know, saints, uh, Christians, and and they they describe their their their experience, their journey, their testimony, and and for some reason they they don't talk about the the insatiableness of the word. And and for me, and maybe it's because it's the type of person I am, but there was a time in my life, very early on, when God got a hold of my heart, that I was just insatiable. I just had to, I was reading daily, regularly, weekly, regularly. I mean, I just couldn't get enough of it. And then I I come into contact with some saints and brothers and sisters, and they don't ever seem to have even had that type of thing. And I read this verse and I thought about that. There should be that time in our life where where the word is just it, we just so crave it, we're so desperate for his word because it's so sweet to us. And

Hebrews 2 And The World To Come

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so I put that out there because I want to teach from Hebrews 2 again. If you were with me with us last week, I went through four verses of Hebrews chapter 2, and I told uh Pastor Joe, I think I'm getting so much, I think I need to do this in two parts because I don't think I can finish it. Well, I could finish it in one night, but you guys would be really, really tired. And we know you work the next day, and I don't want to do that to you. But we're gonna go back to Hebrews chapter 2, we're gonna start in verse 5. And the author said, For he has not put the world to come of which we speak in subjection to angels. So the world that is to come, it's been described in different scriptures as the new heaven and the new earth. The world that is to come is not the angels that are going to rule. It's not made for them, it's not prepared for them. And so we continue reading in verse 6 through 8. But one testified in a certain place, saying, What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you take care of him? You have made him a little lower than the angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. I don't know if you know where that scripture was quoted from, but it was quoted from King David. The Spirit of God, through the author of Hebrews, which many believe to be Paul. I'm not arguing that, that's not really the point, but the Spirit of God is repeating what he prophesied through King David, and King David recorded that in Psalms chapter 8, verse 4 through 6. Now, most scholars and people of God will say that this prophecy that we just read is concerning Jesus Christ. I don't know what you believe, I don't know if you've even thought about it. I would say I generally agree. But I believe that there's more than that. I believe there's much more than that, than that that scripture that was quoted in Hebrews 2, 6 through 8, that came from King David in Psalms 8, 4 through 6. I believe it's so much more than just Jesus. And so I want to kind of share that today.

Psalm 8 And Human Destiny

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So I want to go back to where the scripture came from. It came from Psalms chapter 8. So if you have your Bible with you and you've taken good notes, let's all turn to Psalms chapter 8. I'm gonna try to go slower because we don't have our, you know, our video system with the scriptures pulling it up. So I'm gonna kind of wait until you get there. But Psalms chapter 8, 3 through 9 is the context of where the scriptures came from. And David wrote this psalm, and David was just pondering, he was meditating with the Lord, he was thinking about things, and and and and he came to a point where he was he said, When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, the stars, the things that you have ordained, he he reflects in his heart. David says, What is man that you're mindful of him? Out of all the things that you've created, the sun, the moon, the stars, the glories of this and that and the other, and all of creation. David pauses and asks, Why are you concerned with man? Why do you think about man? And and why do you why why the son of man that you would visit him? Because by then there's been testimony, testimony, testimony after testimony that God came and visited man. Moses came in the burning bush, Noah, all of the patriarchs before David, he had come to visit them and speak with them and talk with them and commune with them and fellowship with them. Even so much to call Abraham my friend. Why? David is asking, why are you why do you want this relationship with man? For you you made man a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands, and you put all things under his feet. What all things? He continues, he said, Well, you put all the sheep, all the oxen, all the beasts of the fields, the birds of the airs, the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the sea. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth. So he's meditating in his heart. Why is God so concerned with man? Why has he given man this glory, this honor, and made him to have dominion over all this earth, all of this creation? He's given it to man. We know that from the from the very beginning, from the book of Genesis. Man was given dominion over all the earth. And so David is just thinking and pondering that. You gave us dominion over the sheep and the oxen and the beasts of the field and the birds of the airs and the fish of the sea. Why? See, I read that scripture, and since I went back to what David was thinking and pondering, David wasn't thinking and pondering upon the Messiah. He wasn't thinking or pondering about Jesus Christ. He was thinking about why does man, I mean, why is God so concerned with man? Why has he given man all of this that he just named? I don't know about you, but I I all of us make up mankind. And so the question it's about the question is, is it is it about Jesus Christ? Well, in a sense, in a prophetic sense, yes, but in a context sense, David was thinking about man, humanity, you, me. He was thinking about us and all the brothers and sisters in Christ. And so I began, I began to question and think of, well, we did you not know?

Sons And Heirs With Christ

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Have you not heard the scriptures that were in Galatians where it says, and if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. I considered and thought about, but there was more to that because he says in Galatians 4, 6 through 7, and he says, Because you are sons, this is Paul writing to the Galatians, and because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father. And if you were here in our last teaching, that was one of the emphasis that I had. The first one was listen to my son, and the second one is receive my spirit. And so I come back to that because this is still a part of Hebrews. In Galatians, Paul says, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your heart, crying out, Abba Father, therefore you are no longer a slave, you're no longer a servant, but you're a son. You're in the family. You're not just someone who works for the Lord like a hireling, you're family to him. And then he says, and if you're a son, then this word comes in again. Then you're an heir of God through Christ. So he said in Galatians 3, heirs according to the promise. He says in Galatians 4, heir of God through Christ. And then he says in Romans 8, he says it to another group of people. He says it to the to the brothers and sisters in Rome. He said, the Spirit Himself in Romans 8, 16 through 17, bears witness with our spirit that we are what? The children of God. The spirit is in us crying out, Baba Father, but it's bearing witness to us that we are children of God. And if we're children, it says there, then heirs. There it is again. We're heirs of God. And it says joint heirs with Christ. Joint heirs with Christ. So remember that scripture, most people agree that that was prophetic. It was concerning Jesus Christ. But you go back to the context of what David spoke in, when David was ruminating and meditating on the thus, it was about mankind. But yet when I read the scriptures concerning the children of God who have received the Spirit of God, who are crying out, Abba Father, they are heirs, not just heirs of God, but heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together. He says to his spiritual son Titus, Paul said to him, You've been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. So this word heirs comes to mind as I think about we are heirs of God. We are children of God, but we are also heirs with Christ. And the next verse that I bring up is in Hebrews, back to Hebrews chapter 1, the very chapter before where we're focused on, which is chapter 2. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who will inherit salvation? That word in other translations was heirs of salvation. So I want you to consider that yes, yes, it definitely is prophetic concerning Jesus Christ, but it is also prophetic concerning you. It also speaks of humanity, but not just humanity in general, not just humanity in total. It speaks about the man that has come into new covenant with our God. He's being crowned with glory, he's being crowned with honor, he's being made to reign over all creation with all things put under his feet. Now, where did I get that? Well, if you go back to David, that's what David said, God did with man. But if I go back to Hebrews, the focus of Hebrews was not so much man, it was actually Jesus. So this word that we're reading in Hebrews chapter 2 has to do with Jesus, but it also has to do with man, and it's a picture of the destiny of the risen man who puts his trust in God. His destiny will be the same destiny as Christ. That's why we're heirs with Christ. You ever heard of the word of God that says God calls those things that do not exist as though they already were. That comes from Romans chapter 4, 17. God declares things that are not as though they already were. Boom. And there it was. So I want you to consider. John the apostle said in 1 John 3 and 2, Beloved, now we are the children of God. And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. But there's a paradox there. It says, now we are the children of God, but it has not yet been revealed. That's why when some of us look at each other, or we look at our neighbors in our community, we look at our fellow workers at work, what do we see? Do we see spiritual beings? No. We see fallen man. That's what we see. Because we see carnally. But Paul, excuse me, not Paul, but John the apostle said, Now we are children of God. He's speaking to those that had already been born again according to the gospel of the kingdom that I spoke of last time I came here. The gospel of the kingdom. When you obey the gospel of the kingdom, you repent, you get baptized in Jesus' name, and you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, which has just been spoken about. Where we receive the Holy Spirit and we cry out, Abba Father, where we receive the Holy Spirit and He bears witness with our spirit that we are what? Children of God. It's now, but it's not yet seen, it's not yet revealed, it's not yet manifested, it doesn't look like it. I'm growing old. Every day I'm growing old. Every day I'm getting more hairs. Every day I might be shrinking in stature and in size. It doesn't look like I'm a child of God. Child of God is supposed to look like that, but it says, nevertheless, now we are the children of God. Why? Because we've received the Spirit of God. It's when you receive the Spirit of God, it is the spirit of adoption where we cry, Ah my father, and he adopts us, not just as a hireling, but into his family. We are his children, we are his sons. And so when I go back to Hebrews, it says this idea here at the end of Hebrews 2.8. When it said, You have put all these under his feet, it said, For in that he put all in subjection under him, meaning man, he put it all under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But listen to those last few words. But now we do not yet see all things under him. But it says clearly, even though all these things are put under him and under his feet, we do not yet see all things put under him. Well, that's kind of what John was saying, now we are the children of God, but it has not yet revealed what we shall be. It doesn't look like it, but nevertheless it's true that we are the children of God. So then my question is, well, what do we see? If we don't see that man has actually this manifestation that all things are put on earth, we don't see that. What do we see? We'll read the next verse of Hebrews chapter 2, verse 9.

We See Jesus In The Gap

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It says, But we see Jesus. All of this that we're talking about when Hebrews said this about man, about man, crown, glory, and honor, all of this. Man, it doesn't look like it. Well, you know what we do see? We do see Jesus who was made. Oh, wait, so he was made. Jesus was made a little lower than the angels. Why? What was the purpose? Just keep reading. For the suffering of death, he was crowned with glory and honor that he, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. So our God took it upon himself to make himself a little lower than the angels. Why? Why would he do such a thing? Because he had to suffer death. And in doing so, he was he was crowned with glory and honor. He needed to taste death for everyone. Why we said last week, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. He loved us so that the only way to redeem the children of God that he loved was to make himself a little lower than the angels. I'm just gonna continue using their words, and we'll see this more fleshed out. But he did that for a purpose. He had to taste death for everyone. It said in other, in other words, Paul said to the Romans. Whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood. Propitiation means you're paying the penalty. You're paying the penalty that was due for somebody else. Propitiation. And it was by his blood. So when we exercise our faith, it says through faith to demonstrate his righteousness because in his forbearance, this is all in Romans 3, 25 and 26, because in his forbearance, God had passed over the sins that were previously committed to demonstrate at the present time his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has placed his faith in Jesus. Jesus paid our penalty. The wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, who paid the penalty of our death, so that we might have a second chance and become an heir of God. But in being an heir of God, you have to understand you being an heir with Christ. So what Christ went through and what Christ attained or was made to attain, we now have access to that possibility for our future, for our destiny. It says in 1 John 2, 2, he himself is the propitiation, the payment for our sins, but not for ours only. It says for the whole world. He paid the penalty for the sins of the whole world. Not just you, not just me, not just those that have received the gift of the Holy Ghost, not just those that have put their faith in Christ Jesus. That's what makes his love so overwhelming, so incomprehensible, because he knew who was going to choose him, he knew who was going to come to him, and yet he died not just for them, he died for all of those that he knew were going to reject him anyway. What love? What manner of love is this? That he would die for you knowing that you're gonna reject him anyway. Wow. That's love. That's love. It's easy to love someone that you know is gonna love you back. It's easy to pray for someone that you know that loves you. It's easy to forgive someone that you know is gonna treat you nicely, but it's altogether entirely different when you talk about a love that loves those that reject, that persecute, that that rebel, that that are stiff-necked, hard-hearted, and yet he still died for them. He gave them an opportunity, regardless of what he knew they were going to decide anyway. He could have just flat out condemned them and say, Oh, why bother? No, he loved his creation too much.

Love That Pays Our Debt

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Let's go back to Hebrews 2 verse 10. It was fitting for him, for whom all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons to glory. It was fitting for him to do what he did and become the captain of thy salvation, being made perfect through the sufferings that he went through. And then it says in verse 2.11, which is very similar to what it said in Romans 3, 25 to 26, when he said that he might be the just and the justifier of the one that puts his faith in Jesus. So it says in verse 2.11, for both he who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified. He's the just and the justifier. He's the one who sanctifies, he's the sanctifier, and he sanctified all his people so that they would be one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call us brethren, not servants, not hirelings. It is a family. It's not that he treats us as family, he wants us to understand that we have been drawn into his family. We are his family, we are his body, we are his church.

Kinsman Redeemer Defeats Death

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We read furthermore in verse 14: inasmuch then as children have become or have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared in the same the children of God that he desires, they partook of flesh and blood. And in order for him to redeem flesh and blood, he became flesh and blood. It's what's known in the Old Testament scriptures as kinsman redeemer. A kinsman redeemer, that means a relative. He wasn't just God on the throne, omnipotent, omniscient, all-powerful, almighty. He disrobed himself of all of that and became just like you and me to rescue you and me. It says he himself likewise shared in the same, shared in the same of what? Flesh and blood. That through death he might destroy him who had power of death, that is the devil, and release those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Our God did an incredible thing, incredible thing. He took it upon himself, he took the responsibility upon himself to redeem his own beloved, and to do it, he had to partake of flesh and blood. This invisible God, this invisible spirit, had to come in flesh and blood, manifest himself just like you and I. In order to rescue us, in order to redeem us, he took upon himself the responsibility to destroy him that had power over death, the devil. He didn't send anybody else to do that. He did it himself. It says in 1 John 3:8, for this purpose the Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. That was the purpose to destroy the works of the devil, to rescue his beloved. It notices, the author here notices as he's he's writing all of this, he notices that this world to come that we started with has not been given to the angels. Even though the angels are above man in a sense, because he said he man was made a little lower than the angels, so there's some some sort of kind of hierarchy. But if the angels were above us, the world to come is not for them. And then it says here in verse 16, for indeed he doesn't give aid to the angels. Who does he give aid to? He gives aid to the seed of Abraham. Back to man again. Now, specifically not just man, but he's giving aid to the seed of Abraham. In order to be the seed of Abraham, you have to walk in the steps of Abraham. You gotta walk in the faith of Abraham. And the faith of Abraham was, as I said counsel of times, Abraham heard the word and he obeyed. And those were the steps that those who are of the seed of Abraham, they also walk in the same. They hear the Lord and they obey. When it says all things, it means all things. He had to be knight like unto his brethren. He sweated, he tired, he ate, he drank. I'm pretty sure he went to the bathroom just like anybody else. When it says all things, it means all things. He was just like all of us. He cried, he shed tears, just like we all have done. He grew in stature, just like we all did. He grew in wisdom, he grew in favor with God and man. He was like us, it says, in all things he was made like unto his brethren.

A High Priest Who Understands

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And so if you skip, just skip a two chapters over to Hebrews 4:15, it says, we don't have a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. It says, but was in all points tempted as we are. We don't have this high priest up in heaven that just can't understand what we go through as man, as fallen man. Our weaknesses, I mean, we were fasting and praying for 21 days. How many of you have gone through weaknesses in your flesh? It don't take much. You don't eat one day, and you are you're already feeling, man, I'm weak. And that's the reality of it. We in the flesh are weak. It doesn't take much to knock us off a rocker, and that should humble us. Because then we start realizing, man, when I eat and when I exercise, I'm full of energy, I can I can take on the world. But but if you take away my food for one day and I'm weak, I'm feeling it. The stomach's growling and my head's hurting, and I'm just I don't I don't feel this energetic. And then you realize, well, I'm on, I'm not all that really. Because it didn't take much to knock me off my rock. But in all points, he was tempted like we are, yet without sin. He's not, you know, some of our forefathers in this country, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, there were no Az deists. They believed in a God, but they believed that God just created everything, and then he just went away. And he just he just let it all happen and just went away and did whatever else he wanted to do, and he just left it all as to ourselves. This high priest that we have in heaven, he understands us. He understands exactly what we go through in this life, what we struggle with in this life, because he was made in all points like unto his brethren, in all things like unto his brethren. So he can understand how we're tempted and how we struggle, but yet he was without sin. It says in Philippians 2:7, he made himself, he did it to himself, he made himself of no reputation, he took upon himself the form of a servant, because when you bring yourself down, like God being all omnipotent, and you bring yourself down, which yeah, that's like a servant, and it says he was made in the likeness of men. He did that to himself, he made himself of no reputation, he made himself in the likeness of men. Why? It explains in Hebrews that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people. He's a God that intimately, intimately, is that word, intimately understands what you go through, what I go through, and and and the different things that we think and and the different things that we struggle with and our and our weaknesses, you know, because he lived the life partaking of in flesh and blood, yet without sin. But he understands it because he lived it himself. So it says in Hebrews 2.18, for in that he himself suffered. He suffered. Hear me well, he was God manifested in the flesh. 1 Timothy 3:16. But yet, being in the flesh, partaking of flesh and blood, he still suffered. He still felt pain. You think he was just this omnipotent person taking the whips in his back that ripped his back off with the cat of nine tails as they ripped it to him and as they stuck the nails on his hands and in his feet and nailed him to a cross? You think he just didn't feel anything? He felt it all, just like you and I would have felt it if that would have happened to us. We step and we kick our toe in this thing, and we're like, ow! And that was just kicking our toe. It wasn't a cat of nine tails, it wasn't a crown of thorns crushed into your head, crushed into your scalp, causing you to bleed and get into your skull. He felt all of that. He felt the rejection when Peter rejected him and denied him three times. He felt the sting when all of his disciples ran on that night that he was taken. He felt that he felt the pain that Lazarus' sisters went through when they had lost Lazarus. He felt all of that. He understands what we experience in this life. And for that reason, he is able to aid those who are tempted. He is able to help us overcome. He is able to help us and be comforted, even though we might have a loss of a loved one, of a relative. He is able to comfort us because he had lost loved ones and people in his life. He experienced it himself. It's easily assumed that Joseph and Mary raised him. But did you ever hear about Joseph after they came back from Egypt? For all I know, he may have died. I don't know. But we only hear about Mary.

Why We Fall And He Doesn't

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In James 1, 13 and 14 it says this Let no man say when he is tempted that I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted with evil, and neither tempts he any man. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and entice. Why is it that God is unable to be tempted? It's because it's literally not in his nature. It's not in his nature to do anything sinful, wicked, evil at all. It's not in his nature. Why is everyone in this room? Why is everyone in this room a sinner? Because it's in your nature. It's in my nature. It's in my nature to sin, to lie, to conceal, to do all the things that we know are sinful. It's in my nature to do those things, but it's not in his nature. So he can't sin. It's not in his nature. That's why when he manifested in the flesh, even though he was in the flesh, it's not in his nature to sin. So he never did. It's who he is. Who we are is fallen. So we yeah, yeah, we fall. But he doesn't tempt man, and he cannot be tempted with evil. It says in the scriptures, he is light, right? And in him there is no darkness at all. At all. Because it's not in his nature. Man is tempted. His fallen nature entices him. It tempts him to be drawn away, to satisfy himself in his own pleasures. And it's because of his own lust that he falls. It's because of his own lust that he's drawn away. But yet Jesus, having been made in all points and in all things like unto his brethren, and yet without sin, he is now able to aid. He is now able to help. He is now able to relieve. How so? How is he able to assist me? When? When is he able to assist me? Because that really is always the question. You always got to figure out what God is able to do, what is he capable of doing, and then how can I grab a hold of that? How can I appropriate that for myself? How so and when? Acts chapter 17, 27 to 29. So that they should seek the Lord, it says, in the hope that they might grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live, we move, we have our being. As also some of our own poets have said, for we are also his offspring. Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine nature is not like gold or silver or stone or something to be shaped by art or man's devising. You see, it's the divine nature that we need to partake of because it's in his nature not to sin. It's in his nature to be righteous, to be holy, to be pure in anything he does, in anything that he says and declares. It's in him. That's his nature. So if I want victory over my lust, over my temptations, that I'm drawn away, I gotta tap into this divine

Partaking Of The Divine Nature

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nature. Because the divine nature won't do that. So now consider 2 Peter verse 1, 2 through 4. It says, Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of our G and of Jesus our Lord. And then three, as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partaker. Of the divine nature. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, you want to escape this temptations and this falling that we've stumbled on since we were born, you got to tap into the divine nature. It's by through the divine nature, it says here, his divine power has given to us all the things that pertain to life and to godliness through the knowledge of him, these exceedingly great and precious promises, and through these, all of these that we just said, you may be partakers of the divine nature, which is why it's so, so it cannot be questioned, it cannot be argued, the vital importance of receiving the Spirit of God. When you receive the Spirit of God, you tap into the divine nature. The divine nature is now resident in you, now desiring to live its life through you. But we can't do it on our own. We fail every single time we try to overcome the temptations and the lust on our own. We've got to tap into the divine nature. We've got to yield to the Spirit of God. We've got to surrender. We've got to surrender to the Spirit of God. This is how we will escape the corruption through the world, through the lust. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. We tap into the divine nature to overcome these things. And for those of you that have received the gift through the Holy Spirit, you probably understand this more than most. And for those of you who have it, I'm praying and hoping that you hear this word and it will spark in you a desire to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Because maybe you don't understand this or not, and that's okay. But the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit is Jesus. Jesus is your answer. Jesus is your answer to all things that pertain to this life. Every question you may think you have, every obstacle you think you've got to overcome, every temptation and lust that you want to not do is the answer to overcoming. The answer and victory is found in Jesus. And Jesus has promised to pour out his spirit upon all flesh. So if you call upon him with an open heart and you desire him, he's gonna fulfill his promise to you and give you his Holy Spirit. And we spoke about highly last week. Why was it so important to receive the Spirit? Because when you receive the Spirit of God, He's gonna take that stony heart of flesh out of yours. He's gonna give you a new heart of flesh, he's gonna give you a new spirit, and his spirit is gonna dwell in you to cause you to make you do the things that are right in his sight, to keep his just judgments that all the Old Testament saints could not do because they kept having to have a high priest go up every year for their sins, but he is gonna do it in you, he is gonna work it in you by his spirit. Without his spirit, you can do nothing. So when we partake of the divine nature of the spirit that now indwells us, he enables us to escape the corruption that is in the world for us. All of that makes sense.

Final Charge And How To Respond

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Does anybody have any questions? That's okay. I gave you a lot. So I'm gonna ask you to meditate on that word. And if there's anything that's lacking in you in regards to anything, hey, just bring it before the Lord. Talk to Pastor Joe if you have any questions. Catch me on the side if you need to ask any questions. But my emphasis here tonight, and I hope you hear me well, is that your answer is in the divine nature. If you tap into the Spirit of God, you will overcome all things that pertain to this life. And you have a high priest who understands your struggle, who understands the doubts that you have in your mind and the weaknesses that are in your flesh. And I don't just mean flesh, I mean like carnally in your soul, the weaknesses of insecurities that you may have. He understands all of it, and he is ready and willing to relieve you and to aid you and to strengthen you and to assist you and to uphold you with his righteous right hand so that you can be seated in heavenly places with him as an heir of Christ, because whatever Jesus went through, overcame, you are an heir of the same. He was crowned with glory and honor. You can be crowned with glory and honor, and he's gonna have all things put under his feet, even though it might not look like it now, and the same will happen with you. All things will be put under your feet. And that's just sh that that's just expressing how you can overcome. When things are under your feet, it means you're on top, you're above it. It's not dragging you down.

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