Sermon Tone Analysis

The Purpose of the Promises!

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2Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

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2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

3as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

28 You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways.

And it will be established for you;

So light will shine on your ways.

4by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

A few weeks ago, Holy Spirit directed me to start teaching on how the promises are God in the decrees that we speak.

As any teaching I begin researching, I’m sure this is only the beginning point and we’ll see where we end up.

For now, I want to dissect two scriptures that are the starting points of our study— and .

Today we’ll start with 2 Peter.

The phrase “exceedingly great” is “pertaining to being extremely important.”

Precious is valuable.

God has give us extremely important and valuable promises.

Promises is a greek word that has the general sense of “declaration.”

It only occurs twice and only in 2 Peter both here and in 3:13.

It's from the noun epaggello, which means "to proclaim as public announcements or decree."

Declaration by one person to another that something will or will not be done, giving the person to whom it is made the right to expect the performance of whatever has been specified.

2 Cor.

1:20

In secular situations, the declaration was sealed by some gesture like a simple handshake or solemn oath.

If a complicated promise, it was witnessed so it would stand up in court.

What I want you to note is that the PROMISE ALWAYS HAD TO BE SPOKEN and that once decreed, it was legally binding.

We’ll get into that in a bit.

First, Peter finishes his thought by saying that THROUGH THE VERY IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE PROMISES, we share in the divine nature.

The word “share” is “one who participates with another in some enterprise or matter of joint concern.”

It implies “fellowship or sharing with someone or in something.”

It’s “to have a share with someone in something which he did not have, to give a part, to impart.”

We see that Father in His kindness decreed promises that we could then use to acquire something we did not have—His nature.

HE IMPARTS HIS DIVINE NATURE THROUGH THE PROMISES!

Divine is “all that bears the stamp of a god whether by derivation or relation.”

Derive means “to come from a source or origin.”

The idea behind divine is that there are specific things peculiar to each god.

Now the idea of different gods might surprise you because we know there’s only one true God.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

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Holy Spirit is the promise of God as a whole.

5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

Fears for the Church

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Nashville: Thomas Nelson.Holy Spirit is the promise of God as a whole.

8 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

This one is Galatians is particularly important to us because even though there are different “gods” in the Ancient mindset, the so-called gods they formerly worshiped couldn’t be gods because only ONE BY NATURE IS GOD.

And He shared His nature with us by BOTH derivation and relation.

He is the source of our new nature and we are His children.

Divine nature is “just what God is like” or “how God is” or “what God is.”

To share in the very being of God is a great way to describe what Peter is saying.

WE SHARE IN THE VERY BEING OF GOD THROUGH THE PROMISES!

It can also mean “to share in what God is like.”

22 And he has taught you to let go of the lifestyle of the ancient man, the old self-life, which was corrupted by sinful and deceitful desires that spring from delusions.

23 Now it’s time to be made new by every revelation that’s been given to you.

24 And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ-within as your new life and live in union with him!

For God has re-created you all over again in his perfect righteousness, and you now belong to him in the realm of true holiness.

And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ-within as your new life and live in union with him!

For God has re-created you all over again in his perfect righteousness, and you now belong to him in the realm of true holiness.

22 And he has taught you to let go of the lifestyle of the ancient man, the old self-life, which was corrupted by sinful and deceitful desires that spring from delusions.

23 Now it’s time to be made new by every revelation that’s been given to you.

24 And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ-within as your new life and live in union with him!

For God has re-created you all over again in his perfect righteousness, and you now belong to him in the realm of true holiness.

We have be RE-CREATED all over again in his perfect righteousness (DERIVATION)!

We now belong to Him in the realm of true holiness (RELATION).

Listen to the Mirror Bible of .

Now you are free to strip off that old identity like a filthy worn-out garment.

Lust corrupted you and cheated you into wearing it.

Be renewed in your innermost mind (Ponder the truth about you, as it is displayed in Christ; begin with the fact of your co-seatedness).

This will cause you to be completely RE-PROGRAMMED in the way you think about yourself!

Immerse yourself into this God-shaped new person from above!

You are created in the image and likeness of God.

This is what true righteousness and true holiness are all about.”

For you have acquired new creation life which is continually being renewed into the likeness of the One who created you; giving you the full revelation of God.

TPT

Now I want to read to you our main text in TPT:

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4 As a result of this, he has given you magnificent promises that are beyond all price, so that through the power of these tremendous promises you can experience partnership with the divine nature, by which you have escaped the corrupt desires that are of the world.

By claiming these promises as our very own, we experience partnership with the divine nature.

And what’s even more amazing is that the word “escaped” has the idea of being ACQUITTED meaning that we have both escaped and we are acquitted of the corrupt desires that are of the world!

Now you can imagine that such glorious and complex realities needed some gesture like an OATH and witnesses in order to be legal.

God not only made an oath, He also provided witnesses.

Let’s first look at the circumstances behind the OATH.

The Oath

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13For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

14saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

God’s Infallible Purpose in Christ

15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise (here referring to Abraham receiving Isaac NOT the Holy Spirit).

16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.