Standing on the Promises
Tim Melton
2 Peter 1:3-4
I recently spoke with a man who believed God existed but felt that He was unknowable. There are many people who share this belief and it is common among those who do not know Christ. While that can be said of non-believers the greater tragedy is when a believer lacks an ongoing personal knowledge and experience of God’s working in their lives.
Praise God that He has prepared a way for us to experience Him in our daily lives.
In 2 Peter 1:3-4 we find two verses that speak to the opportunity for a believer to have an ongoing, meaningful relationship with God.
“3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
These words were written by Simon Peter, who had been one of Jesus’ 12 disciples and was now one of the prominent leaders of the early Christian church. If we had known him before we would have thought him an unlikely follower of Christ. He had been an impulsive, strong-spirited fisherman most of his life until he met Jesus Christ. He had seen Christ heal the blind, cleanse the leper, calm the storm, and even bring the dead back to life. He and others had lived with Jesus over a period of three years. He knew Jesus intimately. Now his life was surrendered to Jesus Christ and had been changed from the inside out by the Holy Spirit. He was a totally different person and it was all because of Jesus. It is from this knowledge of Jesus Christ that He writes to encourage other believers. Peter had observed Christ’s “divine power” externally and had been changed by Christ’s “divine power” internally.
In Peter’s day false teachers often did not acknowledge the fact that ...
Tim Melton
2 Peter 1:3-4
I recently spoke with a man who believed God existed but felt that He was unknowable. There are many people who share this belief and it is common among those who do not know Christ. While that can be said of non-believers the greater tragedy is when a believer lacks an ongoing personal knowledge and experience of God’s working in their lives.
Praise God that He has prepared a way for us to experience Him in our daily lives.
In 2 Peter 1:3-4 we find two verses that speak to the opportunity for a believer to have an ongoing, meaningful relationship with God.
“3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
These words were written by Simon Peter, who had been one of Jesus’ 12 disciples and was now one of the prominent leaders of the early Christian church. If we had known him before we would have thought him an unlikely follower of Christ. He had been an impulsive, strong-spirited fisherman most of his life until he met Jesus Christ. He had seen Christ heal the blind, cleanse the leper, calm the storm, and even bring the dead back to life. He and others had lived with Jesus over a period of three years. He knew Jesus intimately. Now his life was surrendered to Jesus Christ and had been changed from the inside out by the Holy Spirit. He was a totally different person and it was all because of Jesus. It is from this knowledge of Jesus Christ that He writes to encourage other believers. Peter had observed Christ’s “divine power” externally and had been changed by Christ’s “divine power” internally.
In Peter’s day false teachers often did not acknowledge the fact that ...
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