We Escape the Corruption in the World and Enjoy the Riches of the Divine Nature

We enjoy the riches of the divine nature through God’s precious and exceedingly great promises, and we partake of the divine nature by first escaping the corruption which is in the world by lust so that we may enjoy the riches of God’s being and become His expression. Amen!

What a blessing it is for us to be able to partake of the riches of God’s being and be partakers of the divine nature! Hallelujah!

We believers in Christ are those who have believed into the Lord Jesus and have received Him as life.

Christ is our life; in this life, the divine life we received by regeneration, there is the divine nature.

On the one hand, we need to enjoy and experience Christ as life; on the other hand, we need to be partakers of the divine nature.

Every life has a particular nature; as the life grows, it shapes and conforms that person or being to the nature in that life.

The nature of a cat, however, has particular characteristics and habits, and every cat has the nature of a cat, behaving like a cat, in a spontaneous way.

The human nature also is very particular, and no matter where someone grows up the human nature in that person causes him to become a human being.

Similarly, at the time of our regeneration, we have received the divine life, and in this life, there is the divine nature.

Peter tells us in 1 Pet. 1:4 that we have become partakers of the divine nature.

The divine nature is what God is in His nature; it refers to what God is, that is, the riches, the elements, and the constituents of God’s being.

When we read the Bible we see what God is and who God is.

We may be amazed and impressed with His love, His kindness, His compassion, His righteousness, and His holiness.

When we receive the divine life through regeneration, the divine nature also comes into us, and we daily partake of the divine nature.

We need to daily partake of the riches of God’s being by coming to the Lord’s word with the exercise of our spirit.

When we exercise our spirit and read, pray, sing, and muse on God’s word, we enjoy the riches of what God is.

Then, throughout the day, we can live according to the divine nature.

We believers in Christ cannot deny that we have another life besides our human life, and we have another nature with its inclinations and preferences besides our human nature.

May we daily partake of the divine nature and may we also live according to the divine nature so that we may express God.

Enjoy the Riches of the Divine Nature through God’s Precious and Exceedingly Great Promises to be Constituted with God

God has called us by His own glory and virtue, and He has given us the precious and exceedingly great promises so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:3-4).

May we see that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and virtue. Hallelujah!

How do we enjoy the riches of the divine nature? Knowing that we are partakers of the divine nature, how do we partake of and enjoy the riches of the divine nature?

It is by means of the promises of God. We enjoy the riches of the divine nature through God’s precious and exceedingly great promises. Wow!

God didn’t just give us promises; He gave us His precious and exceedingly great promises.

As believers in Christ, we realize that we cannot keep ourselves in the Lord’s way nor can we make it on our own; so God gave us His promises.

His promises are contained in His word.

By means of His precious and exceedingly great promises, we enjoy the riches of the divine nature to be constituted with what God is. Amen!

God knows our need for assurance, encouragement, and strength, so He gives us His precious and exceedingly great promises.

For example, one of these promises is Matt. 28:20, that is, that the Lord is with us until the consummation of the age.

No matter where we are and what is going on around us, the Lord promised to be with us.

He is in us and He is with us.

No matter what’s happening to us, how much suffering we are in, and how much pain we have through all the trials and tribulations, the Lord is with us. What a precious promise!

Another promise is in 2 Cor. 12:9; we may have a thorn in the flesh, a weakness that we cannot get rid of and the Lord would not remove, so the Lord gives us His sufficient grace.

His grace is sufficient for us. In our weaknesses and in our sufferings we can enjoy the Lord’s sufficient grace.

He not only gives us grace; He gives us His sufficient grace. His grace is sufficient for us.

We have enough grace to meet our needs. We can therefore boast in our weakness so that the power of Christ might tabernacle over us. What a promise!

We can reach the goal of God’s glory and virtue only by means of the precious and exceedingly great promises of God.

We need to know God’s promises, pray over them, sing them, speak them, and claim them.

We need to muse on His promises and ask the Lord to fulfil them in our life.

We do not know what lies ahead of us, so we come to the Lord to enjoy His precious and exceedingly great promises.

By enjoying His precious and exceedingly great promises, we become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).

As we pray-read the word of God and claim the promises of God, we partake of the divine nature in our organic union with the Lord. Amen!

We are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17), having an organic union with Him; in this organic union we can partake of the riches of the divine nature and enjoy them.

In Acts 2 and 3 we see Peter and the other disciples partaking of the divine nature.

They were filled with the Lord to such an extent that those around them saw the expression of God in them.

They were constituted with the riches of the divine nature to the point that they were shining forth God.

As we enjoy the riches of the divine nature in our personal relationship with the Lord and also in the church life with the saints, we are constituted with Him and we express Him. Others will see Him in us!

When they see us, they will see Christ, for Christ constitutes our being, and all the elements of what God is are in us to the extent that they fill us and are expressed through us. Praise the Lord!

Thank You, Lord, for calling us by Your own glory and virtue! We come to You in Your word to enjoy and partake of the precious and exceedingly great promises of God! Hallelujah, God gives us His precious and exceedingly great promises in His word for us to read, know, stand on, claim, proclaim, sing, and enjoy! We say Amen to Your word! We take Your promises and stand on them. Thank You, dear Lord, for being with us all the days until the consummation of this age. Thank You for being the sufficient grace for us to enjoy today even in our suffering and weaknesses. Oh Lord, may we enjoy Your sufficient grace today in our suffering. May we partake of Your riches in spirit as we come to touch You. Fill us with all Your riches. Constitute us with the riches of God’s being until we simply overflow with God and express God! Amen, Lord, make us Your expression today by our enjoying and partaking of the riches of the divine nature!

Escape the Corruption which is in the World by Lust and Partake of the riches of God’s Being to Express God

On the positive side, we need to partake of the riches of the divine nature. On the negative side, there’s a condition to being a partaker of the divine nature: we need to escape the corruption which is in the world by lust (2 Pet. 1:4).

The more we esacape the corruption which is in the world by lust, the more we partake of the riches of the divine nature.

We need to live in the cycle of escaping and partaking and of partaking and escaping.

As we partake of the riches of the divine nature, we spontaneously escape the corruption which is in the world by lust.

As we seek to escape corruption, we have an increased appetite to partake of the divine nature. We partake to escape and we escape to partake.

Actually, this cycle should be so rapid and strong that it should be difficult for us to take in any corruption in the world.

As we enjoy the Lord with the riches of the divine nature in His word, the divine nature within us strengthens us to stay away from the corruption in the world.

The more we stay away from the corruption in the world, the more we enjoy the riches of the divine nature.

This is the experience of God’s economy – partaking to escape and escaping to partake.

In 2 Pet. 1:1-4 we see a full picture of our enjoyment of God’s economy.

No matter what our age is, we need to escape the corruption which is in the world by lust and we need to partake of the riches of the divine nature.

If we enjoy God and partake of the riches of His being, we will be constituted with the divine nature, becoming the same as God in life and nature but not in the Godhead and expressing Him in all that we are and do. Amen!

Many Christians want to follow Jesus and live the same kind of life that He lived, and they try their best to imitate the Lord, know His words, and follow Him in their daily living.

However, the way to live the same kind of life as Jesus did is simply to escape the corruption in the world and partake of the riches of the divine nature.

The more we enjoy the Lord in His word, the more we partake of what God is in His being, and we are saturated with God. We express what we are constituted with.

We express the food that we eat. We manifest what we put in and what is slowly deposited in our being.

If we eat the news and entertainment, when we meet others, we will speak a lot about these things.

If sports is what we eat every day, if our being is focused on the scores of the games or the latest transfers and news, this is what will come out of us when we meet others.

But if we partake of the riches of the divine nature and seek to be saturated with God, we will have something of the riches of Christ to minister to others.

When we read and pray over the word of God, exercising our spirit to contact the Lord and pray God’s promises back to Him, we partake of what God is (Eph. 6:17-18; John 6:63; John 6:57; Col. 3:16).

We enjoy and partake of His righteousness, holiness, kindness, love, and compassion.

These attributes become ours by our enjoying what He is. Then, when we meet others, they will see Christ living in us.

We do not deliberately try to imitate Christ nor do we tame our tongue so we speak only what He spoke; rather, we have a spontaneous living of Christ, for we live according to the divine nature that constitutes us.

If we meet someone, we will see and sense whether they have been enjoying the riches of the divine nature.

We simply sense that he has been partaking of something of God, and there’s something of the divine nature constituted into his being.

May we escape the corruption which is in the world by lust and may we partake of the riches of the divine nature in spirit so that we may express God, having His divine nature constitute us and saturate us.

Lord Jesus, we want to escape the corruption which is in the world by lust and partake of the divine nature! Hallelujah, we can escape to partake and we partake of God’s nature to escape the corruption in the world! Oh Lord, today we choose to turn to our spirit! We choose to spend time with You in Your word so that we may be constituted with the riches of the divine nature. Thank You, Lord, for being in us as our life and person. We turn to You. We contact You. We want to remain in the organic union with You. May the riches of God’s being be infused into us to saturate us and constitute us. Amen, Lord, we simply want to remain here, in the organic union with You, partaking of and enjoying all that You are! May we partake of Your righteousness, holiness, glory, kindness, love, and compassion. Make us the same as You are. May we partake of the riches of the divine nature until we are constituted and filled with what God is so that we may express God!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Peter, msg. 5, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living a Christian Life and Church Life under the Government of God for the Economy of God (2024 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 6, Partakers of the Divine Nature and the Development of the Divine Life and the Divine Nature for a Rich Entrance into the Eternal Kingdom.
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