2 Peter 1:2-4 “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, (3) 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, (4) by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
In the previous section we mentioned that when every saint is given the gift of faith they are each given the same measure of faith. We also mentioned that the measure of faith given is more than enough for every saint to be able to fulfil God’s requirement that the just live by faith. In other words, every saint has more than sufficient faith available to them to appropriate for themselves every promise of God that is recorded in scripture. In the above quoted passage of scripture the apostle Peter teaches us that the saints become partakers of God’s divine nature through the promises of God. So how does God do that? Peter answers that question for us in this same passage when he tells us that God’s divine power gives us all things that pertain to life and godliness. We have already established in the previous section that we access God’s power through the exercising of our faith. And so very clearly the scriptures teach us that every saint is able to partake of God’s divine nature because every saint has the faith necessary to release God’s power and thus appropriate every promise of God for their lives.
Michael E.B. Maher
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