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Partakers Through God’s Promises, September 27
Partakers of the Divine Nature
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.
2 Peter 1:4
Every promise that is in God’s book holds out to us the encour-
agement that we may be partakers of the divine nature. This is the
possibility—to rely upon God, to believe His Word, to work His works,
and this we can do when we lay hold of the divinity of Christ. This
possibility is worth more to us than all the riches in the world. There is
nothing on earth that can compare with it. As we lay hold of the power
thus placed within our reach, we receive a hope so strong that we can
rely wholly upon God’s promise; and laying hold of the possibilities
there are in Christ, we become the sons and daughters of God....
He who truly believes in Christ is made partaker of the divine nature,
and has power that he can appropriate under every temptation. He will
not fall under temptation or be left to defeat. In time of trial he will claim
the promises, and by these escape the corruptions that are in the world
through lust....
To make us partakers of the divine nature, heaven gave its most costly
treasure. The Son of God laid aside His royal robe and kingly crown
and came to our earth as a little child. He pledged Himself to live from
infancy to manhood a perfect life. He engaged to stand in a fallen world
as the representative of the Father. And He would die in behalf of a
lost race. What a work was this! ... I hardly know how to present these
points; they are so wonderful, wonderful....
By His life of sacrifice and death of shame He has made it possible
for us to take hold of His divinity, and to escape the corruption that is in
the world through lust.... If you are partakers of the divine nature, you
will day by day be obtaining a fitting for that life that measures with the
life of God. Day by day you will purify your trust in Jesus and follow
His example and grow into His likeness until you shall stand before Him
perfected.
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