“…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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