SNT 1261 Partakers of Divine Nature
Christian believers should recognize that we share fully of divine nature. We are a new creation of God, joint-heirs with Christ who has redeemed us and given us eternal life. 2Co 4:18; 1Co 2:14; 2Pe 1:4, 3; Col 1:27; 1Jo 3:1, 2; Jam 2:23; Gal 4:1, 2 Gal 4:3-7; Col 1:11-15; Rom 6:11-14; 8:16, 17; Joh 5:24; 1Co 7:14; 2Co 5:17; Phi 2:13; Rom 8:28-32; (Rom 10:9) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Partakers of Divine Nature Victor Paul Wierwille – Sunday Night Teaching Transcript – Thank you all. And thank you, Dorothy. Thank you, Rhoda. You may be seated, please. Take your Bibles and go to 2 Corinthians. I would very much like for you to understand and appreciate – and this applies not only to you but all of our people around the nations of the world – the greatness of the subject that I want to share with you tonight. It’s entitled: Partakers of Divine Nature. Just because you can’t feel something or you can’t explain it, does not mean something cannot be real, genuine, or experienced. My being seated at this desk and you seated out there, can you feel the air around you? No. But it must be real and genuine for we are still experiencing life and we’re still breathing. How about light? Can’t feel it and yet we’re here in this room; we can see, we can make our notes, like some of you are doing, and look at your Bibles. You know we have, from birth, been so conditioned by our five senses that we have erroneously come to believe that only what we can see, hear, smell, taste or touch is real; when in truth it is not. 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 18: 2 Corinthians 4:18: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. The man of the five senses – the natural man – no matter how intelligent, has never produced a civilization that it did not ruin; nor has it developed an educational system of philosophy and metaphysic
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the sons of God, [right now we are sons of God but]…it doth not yet appear what we shall be… Right now we are sons of God. We are not friends of God as Abraham was. That is would have been wonderful; if you’ll think of what Abraham accomplished and how God worked with him, and Abraham was just a friend of God. It says so in the book of James. Chapter 2 of James, verse 23. James 2:23: And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. We are not friends of God as Abraham was; we are what? Sons of God. And the reason this has been so hard for people to believe and to admit to is because of our sense-knowledge upbringing. Because we only believed in what we could see, hear, smell, taste or touch. And as I said at the opening, just because you can’t feel something or explain it does not mean s