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God not only wants you to have Grace he
not only wants you to have peace he
wants to multiply it he wants to give
you much more than simply getting a
little more today and a little more
tomorrow Grace is all that God is free
to do for you that you do not deserve
because of what Christ has done for you
so he wants to multiply
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peace
the Apostle Peter over the next number
of
weeks wants to tell you and I how to
enter Heaven with a
celebration he calls it in verse
11 entering Heaven
abundantly entering Heaven
victoriously entering Heaven
excitedly entering Heaven
joyously not entering entering Heaven
regularly not entering Heaven
barely not entering Heaven as a
loser see everybody doesn’t go to heaven
the same
way not All God’s Children enter Heaven
the same way he’s going to take us on a
journey I call it the triumphant trip to
heaven and in this journey if you will
go on the ride with me
you and I will learn in spite of the
losses along the way and we will all
have them in spite of the
failures along the way and we will all
have our fair share of them in spite of
the things that have knocked you down
beaten you down the things you are
ashamed of the regrets that you
have he will show you and
me how to take the rest of your journey
and to arrive at the point of
destination
abundantly
victoriously
joyfully he begins his epistle in second
Peter by saying Simon Peter a bonder
servant today we will only get to the
first four
verses Simon Peter a bonder
servant a bonder servant means a
slave Peter says I am a slave of Jesus
Christ I’m not just a Christian I’m not
just a saint I’m a
slave God’s goal for every Christian is
to become a slave because every slave
has a
master so Jesus is my master and I am a
slave a slave is obligated to the
instructions and obedience to his master
he’s also an apostle a sent one to
deliver God’s message to the
people and he’s Apostle of Jesus Christ
he’s a slave and the messenger of
Christ in verse two he says I’m speaking
to all who have received the same kind
of Faith so I’m talking to all fellow
Christians right now I’m talking to the
people I’m writing to and the people in
generations to come Peter is saying to
all fellow Saints I’m
speaking by the righteousness of our God
and Savior Jesus Christ let me just
pause here he’s in his
introduction because I want you to
notice
something by the righteousness that’s in
our God and
Savior Jesus Christ by our righteousness
is in the God and savior of our God and
Savior Jesus Christ please notice Jesus
has two
titles not just savior but God
God because Jesus is God and
savior he is the god man the second
member of the Trinity our God is Triune
in nature he’s God the Father God the
son God the Holy Spirit one God composed
the three co-equal persons who are
distinct in personhood yet one in
essence the father is not the son the
son is not the spirit but the three make
up the one godhead which is why the
Bible can say God is love because he’s
always had someone to
love because he’s always lived in a
triun with the other members of the
Trinity so he says based on the
righteous standards of Jesus Christ who
is both God and savior I’m going to
speak to you
now he now wants to share Jesus as the
provider for your
journey he’s your triaa
guide he’s the one who wants to guide
you on this trip to your abundant
Glory he says Grace and peace be
multiplied to
you verse three grace and peace be
multiplied please don’t miss that word
not Grace and peace be
added Grace and peace be
multiplied
Grace Grace is God’s favor rendered to
you Grace is all that God is free to do
for you
because of what Christ has done for you
Grace is the goodness of God dispensed
to you that you do not deserve could
never repay and could not earn it is
divine favor and God says he not only
want you to have Divine favor he wants
to put it on the multiplication table of
your existence so he wants to multiply
favor and he wants to multiply peace
Grace andace peace be multiplied he
wants you to experience the calm in the
midst of the chaos that surrounds your
life Paul
says in 2 Corinthians 9:8 these words
and God is able to make all grace abound
to you so that always having all
sufficiency in everything you may have
an abundance for every good deed in
other words he’s got so much grace to
show you
you can’t use it all and when you use
what you have you’re still going to have
leftover cuz there will be an abundance
of it so God not only wants to be
favorable to you he wants to be so
favorable you can’t use it up you’re
going to need a doggy
bag because you will not be able to take
it all in Grace and peace be multiplied
to you well how does it get multiplied
notice what he says he says in the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our
lord Grace and peace gets
multiplied based on what you
know he says in the knowledge of our God
and the Lord Jesus
Christ he says Grace and
peace are going to be multiplied to
you tied to your full knowledge of God
and Jesus Christ Our Lord so let’s play
with that word for just a moment
eposis eposis has to do with knowledge
by experience not knowledge by
information
alone now you need information in order
to have
experience but you can have information
and not have experience let me say it
another way you can come to church on
Sunday and get
nosis but that doesn’t mean you’ve had
eposis that you have come into the
experiential knowledge of Jesus
Christ so when he says Grace and peace
get the multiplication sign and not
merely the static subtraction or plus
sign it comes because you and I enter
into the eposis the experiential
knowledge of
God and without that you will not
experience Grace and malti with a
multiplication sign attached to it being
multiplied in your life and
mine the more you know about him and the
more experience you have with him the
more Supernatural experience you have
from
him so let’s start off cuz we’ve only
just
begun he’s only introduced it because
he’s going to tell you how to take the
trip to heaven and arrive there
abundantly
verse verse
three
seeing that his divine
power has granted to us everything
pertaining to life and godliness through
the true knowledge of him who called us
by his own glory and Excellence so we’ve
dealt with he’s the provider he’s the
triaa guide for the trip now he’s going
to come to the provision for this
journey please notice
seeing his divine power has granted to
us
us
everything somebody say everything
everything so get
this
everything you
need to
live the Christian Life as God has
designed you to live it you already
have everything you
need to live the Christian life the way
God has designed it to be lived you all
ready have and it’s been dispensed to
you by his divine power everything for
you to be an adult Christian was in your
conversion so if you are here and you
are saved what you need to become a
spiritual adult you even have if you a
baby kid
Christian
everything unless you understand that
you already have it here’s what you and
I will
do we will go outside of it to get
it stay with me now if you don’t
understand you already have it you’ll go
outside of God to get it and when you go
outside of God to get it you’ll cancel
what you have to have it
as Colossians 2:10 says you are complete
in
Christ complete just like a a a
conceived baby has all the ingredients
that you can’t see for full life you are
complete in him so if you are a Believer
and you have
Christ you do not need to add anything
outside of what Christ demands and
expects and we’ll see those in order to
live
victoriously let me say a brief word
about this
calling this
salvation you’ve been called by his
glory and his Excellence let me say it
another way you’ve been called by his
deity and his
Humanity his glory that speaks of his
divinity his Excellence speaks of his
life on Earth his his moral perfection
you have been called by somebody who has
the nature of God and the nature of man
so he understands God above and he
understands Humanity below that’s why
the Bible says he’s touched with the
weaknesses of your infirmity he he knows
what it feels like to be
you because he became a man but he knows
what it feels like to be God because God
became a man so he can relate to God and
relate to you at the same
time
okay now how do I get how do I how do I
work this thing how do I get this thing
clicking how do I get this thing
rotating within my soul how do I get
this thing acting on my behalf verse
four for by
these his glory is Excellence he has
granted to us every
believer his precious and magnificent
promise
he hadn’t given you just
promises he says they are both precious
and
magnificent he says with these
magnificent
promises so that now here’s where it
gets here’s where it gets nasty nasty he
says we you may
become
partakers of of his divine nature having
escaped the corruption that is in the
world by lust now watch
this the way this stuff is going to
happen to me and to you because we all
need
it is because if you will operate based
on
this you will become a partaker the word
partaker means Sharer
somebody who shares something holds
something in common you will become a
partaker of the divine
nature the divine nature is the nature
of God
Divine so you will be able to let’s put
it another way piggyback on
God okay you you will become sherff
you’ll be able to piggy back on God
you’ll be able to take from him to help
you you will be a partaker a participant
in who you are with who he is you’ll be
able to steal from him and use for
you you’ll be a
sharer in the divine nature the nature
is the essence of a
thing it is the the core definition of a
thing we have human nature because we’re
people so let let me break down nature
for a
moment nature determines a number of
things about
us first of all nature determines your
appetite what you’re hungry
for when you were
saved you received the divine nature
here it is in seed
form Peter calls it in 1 Peter 1 he
calls it you receive The Incorruptible
seed he’s talking about the divine
nature you did not receive it fully
developed you received it like a
pregnant woman who
conceives she she conceives but you
don’t see the hands and the feet you
don’t see the ears and the eyes they
they’re all there cuz it’s everything is
there but it has not been formed which
is why Paul says I won’t be satisfied
till Christ is formed in you so you got
the new nature but in seed
form so if the appetite’s not right the
environment’s not right if the if the
behavior is not right that’s because the
seed has gone
undeveloped because you have the seed
but the seed must be developed in order
for the new nature to be
manifested
that’s where the world comes
in Satan uses the world stay with me
here to get us so attached to it that it
stifles the
seed he uses the lust of the flesh the
lust of the eyes the pride of life that
is the world is that system that wants
you to operate independently of God
that’s what the world is anything that
wants you to leave God out is the world
okay the appeal of the world is not just
that the world is
enjoyable it is that it is seeking to
stifle the movement of the seed because
if the world can interfere with the seed
you’ll never show the hands the feet the
ears the nose the eyes you’ll never see
the growth take
place because the seed has been stifled
by this world order that wants you to
make decisions live your life
independently of
God and if you do that if I do that when
we all do that you have to understand
that the seed has been stifled
interfered with and diminished in its
growth
potential he says watch this now he
says in verse
four having escaped the corruption that
is in the world by
lust the
world’s
strength is in its ability to create
desire lust means desire watch
this anything you do outside of God is
because you want to it’s a
desire there is an appeal there is an
appeal
now the seed of the word or the new
nature is
inside and surrounded
by your
flesh okay now I’m going to really
explain something now that if you catch
this it will be the single most
transforming thing from this standpoint
of sanctification and spiritual growth
and all of that that that you can un
understand now watch
this the seed is surrounded by the
flesh the flesh is that part of
you that desires to be satisfied
independently of God the world is the
system that appeals to the flesh Satan
is the god who controls the world so
watch this Satan controls the world the
world sends out signals to the flesh
creating desire to be satisfied
independently of God but because you
want it you desire it so you we give
into the flesh whatever area it happens
to be
now this is what you need to
understand the
flesh cannot be changed or
tamed let me say this again the
flesh
Cannot Be
Tamed because all the flesh knows how to
do is be
fleshy that’s all he can do the flesh
cannot become UNF flesh
ah but watch
this he
says and this is what a lot of people
misunderstand when the new nature you
become a partaker of it you borrow from
God for you to feed the new
nature watch this you will escape the
World by its
lust ah the word escape the corruption
corruption means garbage the garbage of
the world you will escape it that is
being driven by
desire let me tell you what it’s not
saying it is not suggesting you may lose
the
desire let me say that
again let’s
say you’ve been taking drugs for 20
years
and your flesh craves it demands it
because it’s the flesh has just gotten
so used to being satisfied with it that
the flesh says I got to have it I got to
have it I got to have it I got to have
it got to have it you go to 12-step
programs you go to this program you go
to that program and yeah you manage it
for a little while but then it shows
back up another way and you back at it
again and you go on it it it wasn’t
because you weren’t sincere it was that
you were trying to talk the flesh into
something the flesh the flesh has no
obligation to receive because because
the flesh operates that way so it sucks
up it it sucks up all that all all that
you throwing at it because because it’s
desire has been stitched into it and it
can never change
never manage it for a while but it never
changes so the desire doesn’t go
anywhere he’s not talking about your
desire he’s talking about your
action that’s why Ephesians 5 says walk
in the spirit and you will not fulfill
the desires of the flesh he didn’t say
you wouldn’t have it cuz the flesh is
the flesh so even though you may have
trained the Flesh in a certain area and
the flesh is resisting changing how it
feels the Bible says in Galatians 5 that
you will no longer feel obligated to
yield to the lust that the world keeps
throwing at you that the flesh may still
want to take your ability to say no will
grow cuz you just built up the muscle of
the new
nature you just built up spiritual
muscle and as a
result you will know that you’re growing
you get growing hands and
feet now for this reason because you got
this new nature all ready to go just
ready to go apply all
diligence you can’t always control the
desire sometimes desires come to you you
don’t want to know where it came from
you feel bad is there you you crave this
you crave
that and you wonder why why is it there
you’re getting all mad at
yourself no God’s issue is not trying to
tame that flesh he’s trying to build
muscle in the nature so that your
decisions change and that’s how you’ll
know you’re growing you will know that
you’re growing not because the flesh
doesn’t want it but because you’re no
longer doing
it the flesh no longer has decision
making
power over your
life so he’s going to tell you to give
all diligence if you really want this
new nature cuz now see this is the kind
of stuff when God becomes real see God
becomes real when you begin to
change he says give all diligence don’t
don’t play with this thing you know for
the for this weekend I didn’t have my
great-granddaughter with
me I ain’t got my great- granddaughter
with me me I’m surprised she been quiet
this whole
service cuz this is a little job this is
a job this it’s a job cuz there’s no
peace there’s no peace there no peace I
mean the girls wearing me wearing us the
death I mean every four
hours crying screaming just just
screaming few hours later yeah
yeah you know what she’s doing every
time she does that obeying
scripture 1 Peter 2:2 like a newborn
babe desire the sincere milk of the word
that you might grow she’s saying give me
some more give me some more give me some
more I don’t want to stay a baby give me
some more give me some more she is not
satisfied to stay a baby well let’s wait
a minute let’s say I go up to Church’s
Chicken cuz I know where that’s located
so let’s say I go up the Church’s
Chicken and I say I want me a a leg and
a and a wing and I come back to the baby
and I offer her a leg and a wing that is
not going to work cuz I’ve gone outside
of what she can take to try to force on
her something she can’t use and I would
have wasted my time my intentions were
good but what I did was bad because to
put that on her is to make her sick
because she is not able to receive
believe it what a lot of us do is we go
out to the world and buy its chicken and
buy its food and buy what it has to
offer try to take that and wonder why
we’re not growing cuz the new nature is
not designed to receive
it and only by feeding the new nature
will you become its partaker build the
muscle to experience the transformation
that will deliver the victory to let you
know your God is
real
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