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PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE Premise: Jesus has rescued us from the original corruption of sin. Not only that our sins would be forgiven, but also to restore us back to the original version of God’s intention for us to live in the quality of Divine life (Zoe). Jesus did this by becoming one with our humanity. He was tempted in all ways, yet with out sinning, His victory was defeat over death, hell, and the grave. His bodily resurrection and His ascension has positioned and empowered us to again to be partakers of the divine nature. God originally designed humanity to walk with Him in the reality of a divine nature that governs the carnal nature. Experiencing the Divine nature is diligently walking by faith and adding to it a moral excellence. Our intimate knowledge of God empowers us to exercise self-control, perseverance, godliness, and brotherly kindness which reveals God's manifest love and brings heaven to earth.

PARTAKERS OF DIVINE NATURE

The Goal of Faith is the "Same Kind as Ours" God’s provision: His righteousness, His divine power, His glory and excellence, His Promises (His to give and ours to receive) God’s Agenda: That we have true knowledge of Him in Jesus Christ. (All the promises of God are yes and Amen in Jesus.) God’s Purposes: That we can be partakers of the divine nature. (The Nature of the Godhead) God's relational Love: Peri -Choresis” (The Dance) Divine intimacy between the persons of the Godhead.

Gen 3 (13 -14a-15) Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The *serpent *deceived me, and I ate.” 14 a The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this… 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; *He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.” *Deception was the original sin. *Serpent was the original sinner. *Jesus is the original answer. 1Jn 3(8) The one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy (unravel) the works of the devil.

Carnal Lust was the original problem. “ Having escaped the corruption that is in the *world by lust. ” Gen. 3 (6) When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. 1John 2(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, (bios) is not from the Father, but is from the *world. --*Kosmos Deception of Lust > enticement to act >conception of sin > consequence is death. James 1(13-15) Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

Corruption was the consequence of sin. Gen 2(17) But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. God did not say the day you eat from the tree: "I will kill you.'' It was: ''You shall surely *die.'' To cease living (within) the original version of creation. Jn 3(16b) For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not *perish, (not live in eternal corruption) Apollumi: A strengthened form of ollumi, signifies "to destroy utterly;", "to perish." The idea is not extinction but ruin, loss, not of being, but of well-being --Vines God drove Adam & Eve from the garden for Love.

Gal 2(20) “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.'' Romans 6(5-6) For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; "If we walk in the Spirit we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." Sin is walking in our carnal nature independent of God's nature. Jesus's nature is connected both to our human nature and the Godhead's nature. Connecting to Jesus through Holy Spirit is what governs our carnal nature for the purposes of God. "Becoming by grace what God is by nature." Athanasius's doctrine of Theosis

Moral health is a sign of Kingdom growth. 2Peter1(5-9) Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6 and in your knowledge, self- control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, 7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. The ability to add these things is proof you believe you have been cleansed from the enemies ability to deceive you! 2Peter 3(18) but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen

Partakers of the Divine nature are to be "re-takers" of what the First Adam lost and what the last Adam won. Jesus's work of redemption for our salvation from sin was not to "re-cover" (to hide us) from God's anger, but to "re- store"(abide with) us to live in victory and be vessels of honor used for God's glory and purposes. Grace is that very empowerment. We are not to use our carnality for the serpent's purposes, which lead to deception(rebellion, sin, and finally death), but rather for God's Kingdom to be manifested upon the earth. Christ in us is the hope of glory which "re -establishes" our humanity to subdue the earth and be fruitful for God's purposes by which we were originally created. John 17(21) “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are *One. ( *Divinity working through humanity)