An Escape

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.” 2 Peter 1v4 (AMP)

God’s great and precious promises enable us to escape the moral decay that is in the world because of covetousness … When we become believers, in Christ we become new creatures (2 Corinthians 5v17), and He gives us His Spirit, and He begins to change us from the inside out, our desires, wants, and gives us continuous victory over the flesh as we continue to submit to His Spirit and let His Word change us (Romans 12v2). Because of His promises to us, we also keep ourselves. For instance, 1 John 3v2-4, 9 (NLT) says “Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure…Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.” Through His Word, we become acquainted with His ways, and gain wisdom and understanding as to what to do when we are in situations that beckon to us to conform to the ways of the world. Finally, we have the great promise of His Spirit, who is even now dwelling in us and is with us (John 14v17), and by whom we can live a victorious Christian life. Romans 8v13 (AMP) telling us “For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.”

Supplementary Text

“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6v9-11 (NIV)

Prayer

Our heavenly Father, we thank You so much because through Your precious and exceedingly great promises You have made a way for us to escape the corruption in this world. Glory be to Your name forevermore, in Jesus name, amen. May You be glorified in and through us now and always in Jesus name, amen.