Make every effort to add to your faith these seven things, and in this precise sequence, if you wish to experience all of God’s exceedingly great and precious promises, culminating in your expression of the Divine Nature. To your faith add virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love. Adding these things in this sequence is what it means to practice your faith. The benefits of doing so are exponential because you were made in God’s image and to express His nature; “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
And yet, there is one thing that will shipwreck everything! If you don’t truly comprehend your new identity in Christ and all that it entails, you are bound to gravitate to your old identity. If you don’t consistently embrace your new saintly nature, you will be repeatedly tempted to express your old sinful nature. In other words, your old nature, which should be dead and buried, is resuscitated. Reenergized by your own willful desires, your dead nature resurrects, and your new identity in Christ fades into the background of your daily life, as if you never really received one. Don’t let that happen to you! You’ve spent enough of your past doing the will of the pagans. It’s time to lay aside all the heaviness that comes with sin and to release all the iniquity which, in the past, clung so closely to you. Now, run the race that is set before you with steadfast, unwavering endurance, and get ready to experience the only victory that never perishes.
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