Power Power for Life and Godliness

Power

Power for Life and Godliness

You have been personally called by God and

He has elected you to serve an eternal term 

His divine power is waiting for you

Just like the gold He put in the ground at creation everything

You need for life and godliness has already been provided,

You just have to go get it

Power for Life and Godliness

If you can’t get excited about 2 Peter,

Chapter 1, you better check your pulse.

Think about these 3 words…

“His divine power”

I can’t tell you how many times

I think about His divine power.

Every time I short circuit,

I become overwhelmed.

I may be standing on the ocean beach watching a sun set

or lying on the ground looking into the starry sky.

 

I marvel at the endurance of His creation.

I may be reading the scriptures and see the

consistence of His truth throughout all generations.

The power of His wisdom how it not only

made Solomon wise, but helps me, too.

As I walk through a cemetery the reality that thousands of

lives like mine stopped here, but Jesus is not in a tomb.

When I think of His divine power I realize after a life

of searching to know God I do not know Him at all.

I am sure that when I get to heaven…

I will not recognize God because my

knowledge of Him is so small.

“His divine power”

What does it do for you?

“Has given us everything we

need for life and godliness.”

“Everything”…

For life, He gives us the air to

breath and the ability to breathe it.

 Every day the earth is mined, it has

been mined from the beginning.

In Genesis 1, we read Eden was full of

gold and other precious materials.

Plants still produce fruit to eat.

You and I still have the ability to make

a living from the earth, even get rich.

Not only does His divine power

give us “life” but “godliness”.

Without God you have no moral compass.

There is a way that seems right to a man,

but in the end it leads to death.

Proverbs 16:25

The godliness has never hurt anyone.

 The godliness keeps our life from trouble.

There is wreckage everywhere

caused by a lack of godliness.

Think of all those who willingly suffered hardship,

even died because God’s divine power gave

them hope beyond this life, a life eternal.

The only way to receive this divine

power is through a knowledge of Jesus.

Jesus is calling all of us by His glory and

goodness to receive God’s divine power.

Countless promises are given to us so

we can participate in the divine nature.

Corruption and evil are overcome by His divine power.

Peter gives us some good advice to

receiving more of God’s divine power.

“…make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

2 Peter 2: 5-8

Did you catch verse 8…

“For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure,

 they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive”

As much as I hate being ineffective and unproductive, Peter

is talking about more than effectiveness in your labor.

Peter says…

  

“They will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive

 in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

There is a lot of books and internet helps.

Knowledge is everywhere but without the…

“Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ”

All else is just short term survival.

Peter tells us…

“For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

2 Peter 1:10,11

WOW!!! So make sure you get all God has called you to.

Your place He has elected for you.

You have been personally called by God and

He has elected you to serve an eternal term.

 

His divine power is waiting for you.

Just like the gold He put in the ground at creation

everything you need for life and godliness has

already been provided, you just have to go get it.

Scripture Reading

2 Peter 1:3-11 NIV

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.