Divine Power
2
Peter 1.4 NIV
“His
divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through
our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.“
God's
divine power. I see Power that is intentionally redemptive. Divine
most times is literally translated as Triune, acknowledging Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, the very nature of God as a three corded rope
with unparalleled strength. Divine power is seen in Jesus answer to
question of what is the greatest commandment.
“love
the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself”
A
command or commandment is a verbal expression of a power's intent.
Jesus answer to the teachers of the law, who asked him what the
greatest commandment is, showed the intent of the authority he
carried as a mature heir of the Kingdom. This is what I expect my
followers to be an then to do....
When
Jesus came of age and was baptized by John the Forerunner the Holy
Spirit took physical form and came to him and Father's voice was
heard from heaven. This is of great significance. Triune God had a
degree of separation from Himself for over 30 earth years as the Son
lived in human form, as the Pascal lamb of God. At the very moment of
the Son's baptism Triune reunited with himself in the earth
space/time continuum. The full Triune inserted into His creation.....
The Father chose to manifest all of Trinity for these precious
moments in earth. Moments that when compared to the eternity of
Triune's existence are less than a wink of an eye in length.
In
genesis, Triune's fullness spoke and in six days those words created
the entire world we are still trying to understand. Now, as Jesus is
baptized and comes up out of the Jordan, Triune is present with
physical manifestation and speaks as Triune again. The whole of
creation is about to be shifted. The very course of humankind's
existence is about to be defined for eternity. What are the most
significant words that Triune utters since the formation of the
world? What are the words that carry the very same creative power
that the Genesis creation words carried?
“You
are my son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
The
axis of our universe shifted by these words. A verbal, creative
statement expressing Triune's heart. Father is well pleased with his
son.
These
words that may not have a lot of significance in our culture. But, in
alignment with the culture that the Son was immersed in, these words
carried great significance!
As
a Hebrew child, Jesus would have been Bar-mitzvah at age 13, then at
30 he could become a full heir as the first born son. First born son
also is translated as “only begotton son”. A Hebrew father's
public declaration of “this is my son in whom I am well pleased”
is a declaration of full sonship and fully an heir of their
father. It is a declaration of relational continuance of promise.
That is the creative power of this declaration at Jesus baptism. The
shift of the kingdom through “only begotton sonship” to full
inheritance of the mature son. He inherited the kingdom, he began his
priestly ministry of becoming the full Pascal lamb who would bear the
sins of all mankind through to the cross and lay claim for all
mankind the kingdom for those who choose to follow the Son. That's
the Divine Power of 2 Peter 1.3!
Through
that power we have been given everything we need for life and
Godliness through our knowledge of Him. Even our knowledge is
relational. It is through the experienced knowledge of him. It is not
through a knowledge that is just academic. That’s why it is our
knowledge if him, “who called us by his own glory and goodness”.
Walking with him in his calling that he has for me and you is walking
in and experiencing his glory and goodness.
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