In The Knowledge Of God

2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

3. as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

4. by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Much is said here in this section of Scripture but I would like to point out something that I think is important. God’s Word is not haphazard about the way it is written. When a phrase or word is repeated, it is for emphasis. We see that here in this section of Scripture; in the knowledge of God, and through the knowledge of Him. There is emphasis given here so we should not take what is being said lightly. It is significant enough for the Holy Spirit, through the Apostle Peter to repeat it for our sakes. It goes on to say that by this knowledge we have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by which we have escaped the corruption that is in world through lust.

This Scripture is talking about revelation knowledge and by this we receive the promises of God.

I would like to take the time to define knowledge at this point.

W. E. Vines Greek dictionary says knowledge is understanding, the opposite of which would be ignorance. Nave’s topical Bible Dictionary says of knowledge. -Knowledge, a divine gift. So we can see that this is not just talking about the kind of knowledge you get in a book. The Holy Spirit reveals it; it is the only way we can get it.

Through this divine revelation knowledge grace and peace is multiplied to us. Not just given to us but multiplied to us. I have found this to be true in my own faith walk, God doesn’t just give, He exponentially multiplies unto us. That’s the kind of God we serve.

I love His kind of math.

When we take the effort to seek after Him and spend time in His Word seeking His direction, and walking in His Precepts, or we could say acting on His Word, He reveals or manifests Himself to us. When we are faithful in this we are given the peace and assurance we need to see a situation through.

John 14: 21. "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.’’

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?’’

23. Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

We also have grace multiplied unto us. I think of grace among other things as the God given ability to fulfill His divine will. The very first time we are given grace is when we get saved.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

We know that it is God’s will for all men to get saved and come to repentance don’t we?

(2Pt: 3:9).

If we could get saved without grace God would not have had to give it to us would He?

This may sound like an obvious question but without God’s grace we could not even get born again. Without grace we could not fulfill His divine will in any area of our life.

Romans 10:13 for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

In other words in order to get saved we have to hear the word of God. We received this knowledge by the Holy Spirit through God’s Word. If Satan could have stopped us from getting born again don’t you think he would have done so? He could not stop the fulfilling of God’s promise to us to get born again any more than he can stop any of God’s promises from coming to pass once we have received His revealed knowledge and act on what we have received. That’s what grace is for. Glory to God. We were given the grace to take this first step of faith and fulfill the will of God by getting born again. When we receive more knowledge in other areas of God’s will, we will get the grace to fulfill that as well. He never leaves us hanging. He always gives us the ability or enables us to fulfill His purpose and will for our lives. Fulfilling His purpose and will is another way of saying fulfilling the revealed knowledge we are given.