“Whereby are given unto us exceeding 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.”  (2 Peter1)

“Howbeit we speak among them that are made perfect…”  (1 Corinthians 2)

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to [H]is mercy [H]e saved us, the the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Which [H]e shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ out Saviour; that bering justified by [H]is grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3)

 

The titles above, I like to use when speaking to Christ-ians.  “Are you divine?”  “Are you perfect?”  “Are you self-righteous?”  I wd ask Christ-ians to raise their hands if they be divine and perfect.  It’s a trick and kind of a mean question, this I know.  No one wants to be thought arrogant. No one wants to lift up their holy hands and acknowledge divinity, perfection, or righteousness for fear of whay others may think.

Reader, You ARE divine, by partaking of God’s Nature,  Reader, You HAVE been perfected by and through Christ’s merits, works, and Life. Reader, in our own person, we are what we are: In Christ, however, God sees us as divine, perfected, and righteous based on His Son’s identifying with us and His making us a new creation in the Christ.

Reader, This is important to know, reckon, and appropriate into our mindset. This reckoning is not arrogant or heady, it is Glorifying to God as we must acknowledge the great work He has done in us.

There are four (4) pictures of this imputation in Scripture:
1. Jacob putting on a disguise and making his, almost blind, father to think he was Esau.  This speaks to God’s blindness to our sins, in term of penalty

2. Joseph’s Coat of many colours. This speaks to the varied and differing lives we live in God’s honour. God loves variety and this is seen in the many colors.

3.”Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ…”  Again we are saints in the guise of God’s Son.

4. The Whole Armour of God, that is the same as number three (3), Christ-likeness is our armour and protection….”of whom should [we] fear? of whom should we be afraid?”        “[We] will not be afraid of ten thousands of people…”  “If God be for us who can be against us?”
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Again, we are humbled by the Master’s touch, but if we do not acknowledge His Mastery and Workmanship we deny Him the great Glory of His Work; His Work that He; that He has Wrought. If we are to let our light so shine, we must reckon and know how and why God sees us as He does.

If we are to have strong confidence in the fear of the LORD, we must throw of the grave clothes and be free in our standing before God.  If we are to be bold as lions, we must acknowledge God’s Work and reckon ourselves to be righteous as the righteous are bold as the lion.

Reader,
The Scriptures speak of perfected persons, of righteous persons, of partakers of the divine nature of God, if it be not us, who be it?  Reader, Who do you say that [we are], if not the children of the Perfect, the Righteous, and the Divine Deity. Arrogance and humility can be confusing to the saintly, we are not arrogant, we are humble and humbled; we lay face down and prostate before His Holiness and Majesty and at the same time we must acknowledge the great grace of God and the new work He has wrought in us by Christ and His Holy Spirit.

Godspeed.