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A thinking today of 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4. 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4.

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We looked at verse 3 last time. And verse 3 ends with, by His own glory and

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goodness. Then verse 4 it says, through these He has given us His very great and

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precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the Divine nature,

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having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. I guess we

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got to work this verse backwards a little bit to understand it really

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clearly. Where it says, corruption in the world caused by evil desires, we're

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talking about the things that men want, the things that men do that do not honor

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God, that are in contrast to the goodness of God. God has a plan for each one of

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us and He's trying to make us out to be the best version of ourselves, far above

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anything we could hope, dream, or imagine. But the world settles in at a place of

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corruption and that all arises out of their evil desires. Remember that God had

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called us by His own glory and goodness and through these now He has given us

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this absolutely wonderful set of promises of what He's going to do in us,

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what He's going to accomplish in the long run. And even that all of the bad

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things that we are going through will work out for our good eventually, if only

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in that we will be able to comfort others with the comfort that we are

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comforted. Basically, through these great promises we can participate in the

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Divine nature. God is so good to make us over when we're willing into His image,

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into the image of Christ and the image of God. Praise the Lord, we're on our way.