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Team Tuesday - February 17, 2015

2/17/2015

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Dear Brethren,
In our last lesson we studied the importance of abiding in Jesus, the vine, abiding in His word and abiding in His love. Our identity with divinity is our Father’s will.


Faith in a New Identity Bears Much Fruit
When God changed Abram’s name to “Father of Many Nations,” He changed Abram’s identity. See Genesis 17:5.

One year later, Isaac was born! When we were born from above, we became a new creation in Christ Jesus, a Christ-ian. Abiding in who Jesus says we are, in Him, will produce much fruit for the Kingdom of God.

Today’s Lesson:
The Just Shall Live by His Faith  2 Peter 1: 1-11

In the Apostle Peter’s second letter addressed to people who have obtained like precious faith, the Holy Spirit reveals that through God’s precious promises we are partakers of the divine nature and His divine power. This is how we escape the corruption that is in the world through lust and greed, by having faith projects!  See 2 Peter 1:1-4.
 
Bearing Fruit That Remains:
The Ball is in Your Court

Do you know how to never stumble?
It’s terrible to see someone who is older stumble and fall down, perhaps even breaking a shoulder or a hip.

What about a stumble “in the spirit?”

Peter continues to teach The Church how to overcome in verses 5-11. He explains how the hidden qualities of the heart must accompany outward actions. Faith resides and brings stability in our heart, but there are other spiritual attributes that we are to add to our faith:
“But also for this very reason,
  • giving all diligence,
  • add to your faith virtue,
  • to virtue knowledge,
  • to knowledge self-control,
  • to self-control perseverance,
  • to perseverance godliness,
  • to godliness brotherly kindness,
  • and to brotherly kindness love.

“For if these things are yours and abound,
  • you will be neither barren
  • nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • For he who lacks these things is shortsighted,
  • even to blindness,
  • and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

“Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent
  • to make your call and election sure,
  • for if you do these things you will never stumble;
  • for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly
  • into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 

Adding and Subtracting
Remember when you were in school and learned how to add?
Sometimes the teacher would demonstrate by giving a visual example to the students,  showing two items and then adding two more items. Two plus two equals four, four plus four equals eight, and so on.

That’s what Peter is telling us to do in 2 Peter 1:5-11.  ADD!


  1. Add to your faith: virtue (moral excellence, moral energy)
  2. Add to your virtue: knowledge (knowledge of God and spiritual things)
  3. Add to your knowledge: self control (govern and restrict the dictates of the flesh)
  4. Add to self control: perseverance (never give up)
  5. Add to your perseverance: godliness (Jesus is always our example)
  6. Add to your godliness: brotherly kindness (affection)
  7. Add to brotherly kindness: love (Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

What does this add up to?
INCREASE! FRUITFULNESS! SPIRITUAL STRENGTH AND STABILITY! MATURITY! MULTIPLICATION!

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord...”
2 Peter 1:2   Praise God!

The Opposite
Do you remember when your teacher taught you to subtract?

The teacher might have shown ten items on the table and when ten items were subtracted, nothing was left. I remember my teacher using the words, “Take away.”
  • Subtract love from: brotherly kindness
  • Subtract brotherly kindness from: godliness
  • Subtract godliness from: perseverance
  • Subtract perseverance from: self control
  • Subtract self control from: knowledge
  • Subtract knowledge from: virtue
  • Subtract virtue from: faith
Subtract the great and precious promises, subtract partaking of the divine nature, subtract escaping the corruption of the world through lust, subtract the knowledge of Him, His glory and His virtue, subtract His divine power to receive all things that pertain to life and godliness, subtract grace and peace being multiplied. Wow…

What does all this equal?
This has the consequence of a Christian whose life is barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, being shortsighted, even to blindness, forgetting that he was cleansed from his old sins. (vs. 8)

Is this why some turn to drinking and carousing?  Luke 21:34

What’s the bottom line?
“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:22

How can this happen to a born again Christian?
They let go of their daily intimate time with the Lord.
They gave up their personal study time and fellowship in the Word of God. (How can you discern a lie if you don’t know the truth that is in God’s Word?)
They let their prayer time go.
They forgot to be doers of the Word.

Peter reveals that these Christians began to listen to false teachers and false doctrine.

“For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.” 2 Peter 2:20

Subtracting The Word of God
The enemy is the thief and he is after the Word.
If he can steal the Word from you he will endeavor to replace it with subtle lies and deception. Remember the tactic he used in the garden with Eve?

Good Ground Bears Fruit!
How?

 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” John 15:7

“But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” Mark 4:20


Good Ground Can Become Thorny Ground.
Watch Out!

“Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word,
  • and the cares of this world,
  • the deceitfulness of riches,
  • and the desires for other things
  • entering in choke the word,
  • and it becomes unfruitful.” Mark 4:18-19

NO WORD, NO FRUIT!
For people who are called into God’s Army of Pray-ers, no word means prayer becomes weak and feeble.

Staying in the center of Father’s will has become increasingly important in our generation.

RELATIONSHIPS:
Adding and Subtracting
Edified or Deflated?

We always endeavor to walk in love with others, but not everyone should be allowed into our close intimate circle of fellowship. See 2 Corinthians 6:11-18.

Remember, Jesus only took Peter, James, and John up on a high mountain, apart from all the others. They saw Him transfigured and then Elijah and Moses appeared to them. 
Mark 9:2 -4

Take an Inventory
1.   Make a list of things and people that edify your walk with the Lord. Think about what adds peace and joy to you. What adds strength to your spirit man? Ask the Holy Spirit to help you with this.

2.   Make a list of things or people in your life that are subtracting LIFE from you. Think about your habits and activities. Are they adding to or subtracting from your “walk in the spirit?” What are you watching and listening to? Philippians 4: 8 can help to define good boundaries.

When making decisions ask, “Will this add to my walk with Jesus?”

Life in 2015
You and I have a responsibility before the Lord:
“Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:10-11

Beloved, when you prosper, I prosper. When we all prosper, we do the greater works!
“Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.” Romans 15:2
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PRAYER WITH PURPOSE:
YOUR COUNTIES NEED YOUR PRAYERS!

For the love of: 
The Church   The Lost   Elected Leaders (Love your enemies…)

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The Importance of Watching!
“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

“For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 21:34






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"As iron sharpens iron,
so one person
sharpens another."
Proverbs 27:17
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Team Tuesday - February 3, 2015

2/3/2015

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"You did not choose Me,
but I chose you
and appointed you
that you should go and bear fruit ..."
John 15:16
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2015—Year of God’s Abundant Favor and Mercy
If you missed the last lesson, scroll down and study God's good word to us.

Dear Saints who are called to pray for your counties, let’s look again at the word of the Lord:

“These days you’re coming into are glorious beyond description.
Abide in Me
Abide in My Word
Abide in My love for you.
Love cancels out the plans of the devil and his cohorts. Love abiding is the most powerful force on earth. Love empowers your faith to work and move.”

Abide in Me
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” John 15:4

Abide in My Word
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” John 15:7

Abide in My Love
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” John 15:10

What does it mean to abide?
Remain, live, dwell, stay, reside

How do we do this when we’re SO busy with life these days?
When you know that your life is at stake if you don’t eat food and drink water, you make the time.

For Believers who are interceding for their counties, effectual prayer will not take place without staying connected to the vine. Make the early morning choice to live your day with the Lord. Practice His presence all day long as you would a close companion. Meditate on the scripture He has given you.

UNDERSTANDING THE DIVINE CONNECTION OF THE VINE
  • “Grace and peace be multiplied to you
  • in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
  • as His divine power has given to us all things
  • that pertain to life and godliness,
  • through the knowledge of Him
  • who called us by glory and virtue,
  • by which have been given to us
  • exceedingly great and precious promises,
  • that through these
  • you may be partakers of the divine nature,
  • having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” 2 Peter 1:2-4

Divine Power
His divine power is the power of God the Father, to whom belongs eternal power. He is almighty and can do all things; El-Shaddai, YHWH, the One who mightily nourishes, satisfies, and protects; our All-Sufficient Sustainer; the all bountiful One who abundantly blesses with all manner of blessings. He is absolute power!

Partakers of the Divine Nature
What is the divine nature? How did we get it?
“… having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever…” 1 Peter 1:23
“who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13

Your identity with divinity pleases God.
Example: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Philippians 4:13


Transformation: Becoming One with the Eternal God
Our divine nature came through the divine Word of God.
That nature is on the inside of us, in our spirit man. The divine nature came as a result of hearing and obeying the message of salvation and receiving Jesus as our Lord and Savior. It has nothing to do with our good religious works.

The divine nature within you came because of our Savior’s sacrifice. It is His nature, the eternal Word of God that caused us to become a new creation in Christ Jesus. Old things passed away, all things are new… in the spirit. See 2 Corinthians 5:17

The Divine Nature
The Who I Am in Christ Scriptures is a list of the divine nature, the “new you” and what you have been given.

Here are a few of those scriptures:
I am holy and without blame before Him in love…Ephesians 1:4
I am redeemed from the curse of the law…Galatians 3:13
I am sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise…Ephesians 1:13
I am qualified to share in His inheritance…Colossians 1:12
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus…2 Corinthians 5:21
I am complete in Him…Colossians 2:10

Although the divine nature is within us, our mind must be renewed often with God’s Word so that we do not become depleted and begin to conform to the influence of the world again. Jesus said His words are spirit and life to us. They are medicine to all our flesh. The Word of God is systemic, carrying nourishment, just as the vine brings life to the branches.

The “Who I Am in Christ Scriptures” can and should be used against the fiery darts, the lies of the wicked one, who is the accuser of the brethren.

Example: Lies that attack your godly self esteem or confidence can easily be deflated with the truth: “I am complete in Him!” Jesus used scripture when dealing with the enemy in the wilderness. See Luke 4:1-13. Resist the enemy and he will flee from you because you have the might of the all-powerful One within you.

Purpose!
Your reason for living is enveloped in the divine nature. Just as Jesus was born with a purpose to fulfill, your new birth certificate declares your citizenship is in Heaven and that you now have an assignment as an Ambassador for Christ. Read 2 Corinthians 5:14-21.

Divine Connection: Being Fruitful and Productive in the Vine
We have the divine right to enjoy all the benefits God has provided for us. This is not only pleasing to us, but pleasing to God as well.

If you missed the last lesson, scroll down and study God’s good word to us.

As we abide in the vine every day, the fruit of the spirit will dominate the lusts of the flesh bringing us contentment. The divine nature and divine power will bear fruit naturally, for us and for others also. Read Galatians 5:16-26

God’s divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him, exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these we may partake of the divine nature and escape the corruption of the world.

DIVINE UNITY
The divine power and the divine nature are really one, as is the vine and the branches are one.  Moses asked God, who shall I say sent me?

“I AM WHO I AM.” Exodus 3:14

This is the Almighty, the all-powerful God who created the universe, whose Spirit resides within us, divinely conjoined as one.

Our Father’s desire, even before Adam sinned in the garden, was to be one with man, to be one with His family.

  • “…just as He chose us in Him,
  • before the foundation of the world,
  • that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
  • having predestined us to adoption as sons
  • by Jesus Christ to Himself,
  • according to the good pleasure of His will
  • to the praise of the glory of His grace,
  • by which He made us acceptable in the Beloved.” Ephesians 1:4-6

What is the name of this glorious family that is united with the Eternal God?
The Glorious Church, the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ! Praise God!


“For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.”
Ephesians 5:30


Divine power! Divine nature! Divine identity!
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PRAYER WITH PURPOSE:
“Holy Brethren, forgive and love one another as I have loved you.”



Praying for our counties every week:
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH  
THE LOST  
ELECTED LEADERS

Jesus is coming soon!





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