What does it mean that God has granted us
'everything we need for life and godliness?' Do we have everything we need for
life and godliness? 2 Peter 1:3
The Christian life begins with
saving faith, faith in the person of Jesus Christ. But when you know Jesus
Christ personally, you also experience God’s power, and this power produces
“life and godliness.” The unsaved sinner is dead (Eph 2:1–3), and only Christ can raise him from the dead
(John 5:24). When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, He
said, “Loose him, and let him go” (John 11:44). Get rid of the graveclothes!
When you are born into the
family of God by faith in Christ, you are born complete. God gives you
everything you will ever need “for life and godliness.” Nothing has to be
added! “And ye are complete in him” (Col 2:10). The false teachers claimed that they had a
“special doctrine” that would add something to the lives of Peter’s readers,
but Peter knew that nothing could be added. Just as a normal baby is born with
all the “equipment” he needs for life and only needs to grow, so the Christian
has all that is needed and only needs to grow. God never has to call
back/recall (request the return of faulty goods) any of His “models” because
something is lacking or faulty.
TLB
For as you know him better, he
will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly
good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us!
PHILLIPS
He has by his own action given
us everything that is necessary for living the truly good life, in allowing us
to know the one who has called us to him, through his own glorious goodness.
June 29 2019
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