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February 26
ADD TO...
by Ray Prinzing
"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.
and beside this, giving all diligence, and to ...." (2 Peter 1:4-5).
Add to your faith
virtue...knowledge...temperance...patience...godliness...brotherly
kindness...charity.
In Genesis 37:3 we read
that Joseph ha a "coat of many colours." We find a
literal Hebrew translation actually gives many pieces." That each
piece was also of a different colour would add to the splendor of
the garment, but the underlying truth is that it took many pieces to
make up the whole new coat. One piece was not sufficient to
cover Joseph, much of his body would have been left exposed and
naked, so piece was added to piece until there was enough to fully
cover him.
The glorious truth of
salvation through faith is not enough to meet all the need of the
hour. Truths of sanctification will not fully cover either.
Blessed revelation of the infilling of the Spirit with gifts and
graces added is also beautiful. And thus ever onward, adding
truth upon truth, until the new man, the "hidden man of the
heart" shall be fully clothed with a new coat.
"Besides this, giving
all diligence, ADD TO" ...all of the attributes of His divine
character being wrought in us. Made partakers of the DIVINE
NATURE. Great and precious promises which are given, and then
experimentally worked into us until we are possessors, not just
"professors." "For if these things be in you, and abound, they
make that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:8) ADDING TO, until
we abound. There is an abundance in Him, and the more we
"grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ," then "an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord." (2 Peter
1:11). What vast horizons are placed before those who go on to
perfection!
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