“…Ye are gods; and all of you are children of
the most High” (Psalms 82:6)
The ancient Greek and Roman societies had
pantheons to which they often held their devotions. The Bible however tells us
of another pantheon, an assembly of gods, headed by the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Apostle Peter talked about in it 2 Peter 1:4: “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.” The phrase “partakers of the divine nature” indicates that as believers
in Christ, we’re in fraternal union with divinity! We’re comrades, associates
or fellows with divinity.
The expression “divine nature” derives from
the Greek ‘theios phusis,’
which literally means, “an association of the God-kind.” This means that if
you’re born again, you’re an associate of the God-kind; you’re in fraternity
with divinity! It means you’ve been born into God’s class, with His nature and
character in your spirit.
You’re no longer at the mercy of what life
hands down to you; rather, you can decide what you want to see because God has
placed all things under your feet (Ephesians 1:22). He has made you to sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, where you reign victoriously over
Satan, sickness, failure and death. This is Christianity!
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