You Have Everything You Need

See, it’s these promises, that through them it says you may become partakers of the divine nature. Think about that phrase. This is just loaded, isn’t it? Four verses. And it’s saying, “partakers of the divine nature.” Through the promise, we can become partakers of the divine nature. When you and I are born, we’re just born with a human nature. We’re just flesh and blood, and then somehow through these promises, because these Words aren’t ordinary Words, through these great promises, we can actually be partakers, not just in our flesh and blood nature, human nature, he says you can be a partaker. The word is “koinōnos”. It’s a fellowship. Somehow, this isn’t just a human body. It’s a weird though that I’m a partaker of the divine nature, that somehow God is in me now, and somehow He’s empowered me, and He and I have the koinennia, this fellowship, this partaking of one another, like we’re joined together. See, this wasn’t true when I was born. This wasn’t true through all my life. This became true when I understood His divine promises, His precious promises, and I got it, and I believed it. And I believed in this exchange that could take place, that He would take my sin, and I would take on His righteousness. And then I would take His Spirit, and I’d become partakers of this divine nature. And that’s a great promise. And it says it’s through that that I escape the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. So because of that, I can escape. Is this what you want? Is this what you long for more than anything else, this fellowship, this partaking of the divine nature? Because this is what the people in the Bible wanted. Remember, like Moses said, ‘God, if You don’t go with us…I want Your presence with us…’ that was the idea in Exodus 33. He goes, ‘If You don’t go with us, I don’t want to go…’ Because the greatest blessing I could have is to have God with me. God with us. That was the beauty of Christ coming to the Earth. It was like, ‘Wow, God is with us? That’s insane!’ But some of us have gotten bored of that promise. It’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I know. God lives inside of me. I’m a temple of the Holy Spirit…’ What is that? This is insane. I’m partaking with God, and God is not just next to me, but He’s actually inside of me, and there’s a fellowship, there’s a mending, there’s a union with God. A partaker of the divine nature having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of the sinful desire. And because we’re partakers of God, we can escape the corruption of this world. See, what His Spirit allows us to do is live in another world. You ever see a person get trapped by sin? It’s like a whirlpool, isn’t it, like a vortex? You get deeper and deeper and deeper in it, and you’re just going, ‘I can’t get out.’ This is the corruption he’s talking about of our sinful desire. You know how you take that first drink, and it’s like, that little buzz, that feels good. Everything is better now. And you take another one and another one, then pretty soon, you get addicted. And pretty soon, you’re this alcoholic, and you just feel like you got sucked so far down in this whirlpool, you’re going, ‘How can I get back out of here?’ You smoke a little pot, and it’s like, ‘Wow, life is so much easier.’ And you get sucked in deeper and deeper, and you’re this addict now. It’s like, ‘How do I get out of there?’ Lust. You start looking at her and her and her, and then this one Web site and this other Web site. And then, pretty soon, it’s like, ‘I can’t get out.’ You get in this relationship, and it goes further and further and further, and the longer you stay in it, you just get sucked in. And pretty soon, you just feel trapped. And that’s the corruption of this sinful world, is yeah, it looks really good at first. I can do this, and it will make me look better. And you caught up and absorbed in the arrogance and this look you’ve got to have, and everything sucks you in down further and further and further. And the Bible says that somehow by the partaking of the divine nature, we can escape all of that. And that’s why we’re here in this room. It’s because God granted that to some of us. And He put that power in us, and the more we knew we knew Him, the more were able to escape. I’m not saying it’s not without effort because the next verse says make every effort. But we’ll get to that next week. I just want you to understand that God doesn’t want you to live that way. He doesn’t want His kids in bondage, trapped, feeling like they can’t get out. But it starts with you believing in these promises of God that He’s given you everything you need, and that there’s no temptation that will ever overcome you that you can’t handle. He’ll always give you a way of escape. The things you’re dealing with, other people have dealt with it to you, and they made it out by His divine power.