The “divine nature” in my daily Bible reading is talking about the Fruit of the Spirit. In “The Trilogy” I talked about the “Other Fruit.” The “beside this” is the Fruit of the Spirit and these are the Other Fruit:
“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 lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (II Peter 1:3-21)
The Purpose of “The Trilogy” is to show the Bible is Truth. If people would be totally honest the reason people do not live by the Bible is they do not believe it is from God. People do not believe the Bible is from God because it was written by men.
Peter wrote two Books in the Bible. That is how he knows first-hand “first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” That is also how he knows “the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” Peter was talking about the Bible when he said, “more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed.”
After Jesus’ Ascension was when the Holy Ghost started operating in men:
“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight” (Acts 1:8-9)
Prior to that there were some exceptions:
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” (Luke 1:41)
The Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit inside of us. The Holy Spirit is how we are able to attain the Fruit of the Spirit and the Other Fruit. The Holy Spirit is what gives us access to “all things that pertain unto life and godliness.”
I said in my “Bible Study: Titus 1” Blog “satan’s second foothold was “Baptist in the Name of Jesus.” Because of that people considers tongues the New Birth Experience instead of the Voice of God. The Voice of God is the “New Birth Experience.” That is why God used His “voice” at Jesus’ Baptism:
“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:16-17)
It is the Voice of God not tongues that navigates us through God’s Process. It is the Voice of God not tongues that tells us who we are in Christ. It is the Voice of God not tongues that show us Truth. It is the Voice of God not tongues that corrects us. It is the Voice of God not tongues that lead His Sheep:
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” (John 10:27)
If people were totally honest they would admit they are not filled with the Holy Spirit. People not filled with the Holy Spirit have not “escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” People not filled with the Holy Spirit are not “purged from his old sins.” People not filled with the Holy Spirit do not have “the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.”
People filled with the Holy Spirit “these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” People filled with the Holy Spirit “give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.” People filled with the Holy Spirit are “established in the present truth.” People filled with the Holy Spirit are “a light that shineth in a dark place.”
People must make sure they are filled with the Holy Spirit. The Voice of God is how we know we are filled. The Voice of God is how we “have these things always in remembrance:”
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)
Not being filled with the Holy Spirit is nothing to be ashamed of. We all must start somewhere. We cannot start until we are first totally honest about where we are. We must be filled with the Holy Spirit because He is our connection to Spirit. Spirit can only connect to Spirit. The Holy Spirit is “entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Filled is our only option so never stop trying to hear the Voice of God and never forget:
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Truth is how we know false prophets. We cannot see Truth unless we have Truth in us. The Holy Spirit is that Truth in us. Then we add the Bible to the Truth in us. From that we know what Truth is. From that we walk in the Fruit of the Spirit:
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:22-25)
When we have Truth in us we know the Bible is Truth. God gave His Children the Holy Spirit to help us endure this life. Jesus knows this life is hard because He had to endure it too. He was in the same flesh we are in. Nothing makes God happier than:
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” (III John 1:2-4)
My daily Bible reading today confirmed this Blog:
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;” (II Peter 2:1-6)
TRUTH IS WHAT SETS US FREE.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
“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 lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (II Peter 1:3-21)
The Purpose of “The Trilogy” is to show the Bible is Truth. If people would be totally honest the reason people do not live by the Bible is they do not believe it is from God. People do not believe the Bible is from God because it was written by men.
Peter wrote two Books in the Bible. That is how he knows first-hand “first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” That is also how he knows “the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” Peter was talking about the Bible when he said, “more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed.”
After Jesus’ Ascension was when the Holy Ghost started operating in men:
“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight” (Acts 1:8-9)
Prior to that there were some exceptions:
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” (Luke 1:41)
The Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit inside of us. The Holy Spirit is how we are able to attain the Fruit of the Spirit and the Other Fruit. The Holy Spirit is what gives us access to “all things that pertain unto life and godliness.”
I said in my “Bible Study: Titus 1” Blog “satan’s second foothold was “Baptist in the Name of Jesus.” Because of that people considers tongues the New Birth Experience instead of the Voice of God. The Voice of God is the “New Birth Experience.” That is why God used His “voice” at Jesus’ Baptism:
“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:16-17)
It is the Voice of God not tongues that navigates us through God’s Process. It is the Voice of God not tongues that tells us who we are in Christ. It is the Voice of God not tongues that show us Truth. It is the Voice of God not tongues that corrects us. It is the Voice of God not tongues that lead His Sheep:
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” (John 10:27)
If people were totally honest they would admit they are not filled with the Holy Spirit. People not filled with the Holy Spirit have not “escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” People not filled with the Holy Spirit are not “purged from his old sins.” People not filled with the Holy Spirit do not have “the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.”
People filled with the Holy Spirit “these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” People filled with the Holy Spirit “give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.” People filled with the Holy Spirit are “established in the present truth.” People filled with the Holy Spirit are “a light that shineth in a dark place.”
People must make sure they are filled with the Holy Spirit. The Voice of God is how we know we are filled. The Voice of God is how we “have these things always in remembrance:”
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)
Not being filled with the Holy Spirit is nothing to be ashamed of. We all must start somewhere. We cannot start until we are first totally honest about where we are. We must be filled with the Holy Spirit because He is our connection to Spirit. Spirit can only connect to Spirit. The Holy Spirit is “entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Filled is our only option so never stop trying to hear the Voice of God and never forget:
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Truth is how we know false prophets. We cannot see Truth unless we have Truth in us. The Holy Spirit is that Truth in us. Then we add the Bible to the Truth in us. From that we know what Truth is. From that we walk in the Fruit of the Spirit:
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:22-25)
When we have Truth in us we know the Bible is Truth. God gave His Children the Holy Spirit to help us endure this life. Jesus knows this life is hard because He had to endure it too. He was in the same flesh we are in. Nothing makes God happier than:
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” (III John 1:2-4)
My daily Bible reading today confirmed this Blog:
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;” (II Peter 2:1-6)
TRUTH IS WHAT SETS US FREE.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
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