Partakers of divine nature

Quite unexpectedly, we had a guest speaker on 14th January, 2008 night meeting. Dr.Sini J Mathew, who was the main resource person in Andhra state ICPF camp, gave the message today.

He talked about the topic "Divine nature".

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" 2 Peter 1:4

What dose it mean?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect Mathew 5:48

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows
James 1:17

How we can become partakers of divine nature?

1. Escape from the corruption in the world due to the evil desires

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" 2 Peter 1:4

Every thing in our life that takes more priority than God's supremacy and glory are evil desires. We need to be very careful in setting our priorities.

When the jewish boys were taken as slaves to Babel, God blessed them there. They became rulers of provinces there. But still their heart beats for Jerusalem
Psalm 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.

2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,

3 for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD
while in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.

7 Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
"Tear it down," they cried,
"tear it down to its foundations!"

8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is he who repays you
for what you have done to us-

9 he who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.

We should not give rest to our feet and sleep to our eyes, till this nation comes to know the saving grace of Christ.

2. Never love world or the things that are in the world
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him ... 1 John 2:15-17

3. Fix our eyes for the eternal things and not on the temperory worldly things
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

4. Transformed by renewing of your mind
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will Romans 12:2

5. Never be in friendship with the world
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God
James 4:4