Living a Christian Life and Church Life under the Government of God for the Economy of God - 6

Message Title: Partakers of the Divine Nature and the Development of the Divine Life and the Divine Nature for a Rich Entrance into the Eternal Kingdom

we need the Lord to lead us and train us to be the partakers. 

I. As those who have received equally precious faith, we, the believers in Christ, should be partakers of the divine nature

2 Peter 1:4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.

as the children of God, we possess the life and nature of God. therefore, a believers has the right to partake of, to enjoy, the nature of God. A partaker of the divine nature is one who enjoys the divine nature and participates in the divine nature. To partake of the divine nature is to enjoy what God is; to be a partaker of the divine nature is to be a partaker of riches, the elements, and the constituents of God's being. 

II. We need to experience the development of the divine life and the divine nature contained in the divine seed that has been sown into us so that we may have a rich entrance into the eternal kingdom 

2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted faith equally precious as ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

we have been allotted the wonderful equally precious faith, and this faith is an all-inclusive seed. in the four Gospels, the Lord gave the parable, in which He described Himself as a sower going out to sow the seed. this seed is the Lord Himself, which is also mentioned here as the equally precious faith given to us. all the divine riches are in this seed, but we must be diligent to develop them; to grow to maturity is to develop what we already have. 

in our enjoyment of the divine nature, we need to let the divine seed of the allotted faith develop into its consummation in the divine and nobler love. when we partake of the divine nature to the uttermost, we are filled with God as love, and we become persons of love, even love itself. in the apostle John's writing, John clearly told us that God is love. so while we are letting this divine seed to develop within us, we are becoming filled with God who is love, which also makes us love itself. 

we should be diligent to pursue the growth and development of the divine life and divine nature for a rich entrance into the eternal kingdom.