So I want to go to Second Peter, Second Peter Chapter 1.
Are you ready to receive the word?
Aren't you thankful for the word Hallelujah, the engrafted word
of God which is able to save our souls?
Aren't you thankful that your soul has been saved?
Your mind, your will, and your crazy emotions, they need
saving. Amen.
Hallelujah. Because if you start thinking
like this world, you're going to start looking like the world
gone crazy, right? But we don't have to look like
that. Act like that because we are
people that receive the engrafted word of God Hallelujah
renewing our mind to the word of God and what the word of God
says So tonight in second Peter chapter 1 we're going to talk
about reigning faith reigning faith Hallelujah reigning faith
and I want to stir you up concerning faith in a different
thought process you know because we have taught faith for years
but how many of you know we've got to do continually being what
hearing because faith comes from hearing and hearing from the the
word of God. It doesn't come from having
heard, but it comes from hearing Amen.
So do you know that there is a continual flow of the word come
on that we need and different areas that we need to stir
ourselves up in? But I call this reigning faith
because really actually we're going to look here in second
Peter chapter 1 and I want to actually read one through 11 in
context. And I'm going to teach tonight
because it just started flowing line upon line, precept upon
precept, OK. And we're just going to see
where the Holy Spirit takes us. But I do have notes, so don't be
concerned. But you know, y'all like me when
I don't stay on my notes because I get a little crazy.
So, but anyway, so let's read starting in verse one and
actually second Peter. You know, we just read this
around Thanksgiving. I think it was November 29th in
our Bible reading plan. And you know, that's what's so
awesome about the Word is that every time you read it,
something else jumps out. And so this jumped out and I
said, you know, this is a good, good reminder and something we
need to remind ourselves of. So Simon Peter, a bond servant
and the apostle of Jesus Christ to those who received a faith,
say a faith of the same kind of ours, by the righteousness of
our God and Savior Jesus Christ, aren't you thankful that we have
received this same type of faith?
Amen. Just as they received it, we
received it, Hallelujah. And then verse 2, grace and
peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine power, say divine power
has granted to us everything pertaining to life and
godliness, everything we've been given, divine power that's been
given, granted us to us for everything that pertains to life
and godliness. OK, camp on that verse for a
minute as I continue reading. And then it says through the
true knowledge of him who called us, didn't we talk?
He chose us. He called us by His own glory
and excellence. Verse 4 For by these He has
granted to us His precious and magnificent promises.
Aren't you thankful that He granted us His precious and
magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of
His divine nature? Hallelujah, the divine nature of
God. We are now able to partake of
that the minute we called on the name of the Lord by faith.
Come on. And we received His finished
work. Glory to God then, we now come
on, have His divine nature, His divine nature, the divine nature
of God having escaped the corruption that is in this world
by lust. Now for this very reason also
applying all diligence in your faith, in your faith, we are
going to focus on one through 4:00 tonight.
Now let's see applying all diligence in your faith supply
moral excellence, and in your moral excellence knowledge, and
in your knowledge self-control, and in yourself control
perseverance, and in your perseverance godliness, and in
your godliness brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly
brotherly kindness love. For if these qualities are yours
and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor
unfruitful in the true knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For he who lacks these qualities that have been added to their
faith. See, it's not just about faith,
no, it's about also adding some things to our faith that is
necessary for our faith to actually work and come to the
fullness of what it means to, we're going to see live by
faith, to live by faith. So he says, if for if these
qualities are yours and they are increasing, they will render you
neither useless or unfruitful in the true knowledge of the Lord
Jesus Christ. See, because again, I'm moving
over to another scripture that I don't have, but it just came up
in the Spirit. Lord, Lord, didn't we prophecy
in your name? Didn't we speak of tongues, of
angels? Do all these things come on, we
do it. We're the faith teachers.
But yet how many people are not operating in all of these other
qualities? And he says if they are in you
and are what? Increasing?
If they're increasing in you, then what will happen?
He says this, you won't be unuseful, you won't be
unfruitful. And he says this for he who
lacks these qualities is blind, short sighted, and having
forgotten what the purification from his former sins see.
All of these qualities have to do with what character.
So you can say you have faith all day long, but you could be
lacking in a lot of these qualities.
And if you're lacking in all of these qualities, your faith is
going to be rendered what, useless and unfruitful.
So what fruit are you really acting as if you're producing,
saying, yeah, I'm AI have faith. I can move mountains, I can
speak to this, I can do this, I can believe God, and yet you're
lacking all these qualities. So let's read on.
You've become blind or short sighted, haven't forgotten his
purification from former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the
more. What does he say?
Diligent to make certain about his calling and His choosing you
Hallelujah. Are you thankful He chose you
for as long as you practice these things, not practice your
confession. I believe I receive name it,
claim it, blab it, grab it. What we've you know, been called
right? Come on.
This is reality. But he says if you're diligent
to make sure certain and practice these things, you will
never stumble. Do you mean that we can walk
through this life and never stumble?
We're a sorry Sinner. We're going to sin.
You know, people have said, well, why are you acting like
you've never sinned? Or why are you acting like you
don't ever do anything wrong? Well, because I practice
qualities and if I practice qualities and add them to my
faith and supply my faith with them, then I he says you will
never stumble. Hallelujah.
That is pretty emphatic that a believer who is adding to his
faith these qualities that were just listed can be assured that
they will never stumble. Well, isn't that prideful to
think you can never make a mistake?
Well, I mean, I'm believing what the scripture says.
I mean, do I believe the word and the words that are on the
page? So he says in verse 11.
For in this way, the entrance into his eternal Kingdom of our
Lord Jesus Christ and Savior will abundantly be supplied to
you. Well, that's pretty arrogant
that you can think you can walk through this life and never make
a mistake and never stumble. Well, I can't by myself, but I
can through. Come on, the one on the inside
who strengthens me. And as long as I am adding to my
faith these qualities, then I can be assured that I will never
stumble. I didn't say it, the scripture
said it. Amen.
We will never stumble and be can be assured entrance into the
eternal Kingdom. Let's read this out of the
amplified verse 10, verse 10. I want to read out of the
amplified. I have it here.
Sorry. I have a couple of other things
I wanted to say. Therefore, believers, be all the
more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing
you. Be sure that your behavior
reflects and confirms your relationship with God.
For by doing these things, what does it say?
Actively developing these virtues, you will never stumble
in your spiritual growth and will live a life that leads
others away from sin. Hallelujah.
So if I am actually adding some things to my faith, my firm
persuasion, my confident expectation, and living by faith
that Hebrews tells us to do that the righteous what shall live by
faith. And I can do that by adding all
of this characters to my faith and I can be assured that I will
never stumble. And I actually will lead people
to a place that they won't stumble or sin.
And in that the life of Christ, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah. So I don't have to expect that
I'm going to fall into sin. And I don't have, if I'm adding
these qualities, act actively, diligently, right, adhering,
trusting, relying in the word of God and putting it to practice
in my everyday life, then I can be assured that I don't have to
stumble into something. Amen.
Hallelujah. So faith if what you know, we've
been talking about the reigning church this year and we've been
talking about us walking in the dominion that actually God gave
us as his children to walk into and reigning in some every area
of our life. Faith, this reigning faith has
to be supplied. Faith has to be supplied to you
can't just say, well, I have faith and I'm going to believe
God for this, this, this and you are not adding anything to it in
your behavior, your character, come on, all these other things.
And So what is faith? We know faith is the substance
of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
And when you're adding to your faith the supply of moral
excellent, the supply of knowledge, the supply of the
list of brotherly kindness of love, because we know we've been
taught faith doesn't work outside of what love come on, it
doesn't work. So all of these other things are
to be a supply to our faith and and listen, even that you're not
going to be able to see because you're calling those things that
what be not as though they are when you're having to walk
things out when he's speaking to you of in the Scripture about
qualities that need to adjust according to the word, you're
having to do that. What by faith, you're having to
do it by faith. You're having to make those
adjustments by faith. You're having to call those
things that be listen, we have relegated faith to just things,
houses, boats, airplanes, jets come on and and finances and God
wants us all to have more than enough for every good work right
Come on, he wants that. But I still see that there's
things that are lacking in qualities that are Christ like
and those things have to continue to be developed to
bring a supply to our faith. So, and if we're going to have
reigning faith, and I like to say that faith is divine, it's
divine. So we've all been given the
measure of faith for us to continue to develop our faith.
And all of these qualities are going to add to our faith.
All right, So let's look at a couple of things.
Listen, I want to say this because we we said that faith is
the substance of things what hoped for and the evidence of
things not seen. Is that right?
Did I say it right? Sometimes I get it backwards.
Yeah. And the thing about it is, is we
know, we know that when we are people believing God for
something, we're not going to see it immediately.
Sometimes it's a process. And it, and I'm going to say
this why? Because development of the the
character and the list of the qualities that he just listed
takes time, takes time. And so you're going to have to
be continually even calling those things.
You don't have any problem calling in finances, but you
might have a problem calling in that you can walk more and more
in depths and links and heights and love with people.
Are you calling those things? Are you calling those things?
Come on, because I'm going to tell you that ought to be the
number one thing you're calling because none of the other faith
is going to work. Amen.
And, you know, I want to say this, that faith, you know, so
many times people think, oh, yeah, I have faith.
You know, yes, I I believe there's a God.
Like when you say faith, people think, yeah, I believe there's a
God. I have faith that there's a God
and it's so obscure, you know, it's like it's out there
somewhere. Faith is like out there
somewhere. Faith is tangible.
Faith can be seen. It's supposed to come into
existence. And so therefore these qualities
then would come into existence in your life as you are walking
by faith to add. These qualities to you, Amen.
So faith can is tangible and can be seen and we can't forget that
when it comes to these other things, not just oh, can you see
the car I believed for? How about can you see that I am
a person of self-control? Can you see, come on, that I am
a person that knows how to persevere when the going gets
tough. I know how to push through.
Can you see that quality? It should be tangible in our
lives. Amen.
It should be tangible. And, and, and we know that all
of this, all of this is going to happen by faith, by faith.
These qualities that have to grow and develop and be changed
within our life. It all has to happen by faith.
And so it's the same way that we say we're believing God for this
and we're believing God for that.
Well, I'm believing God for these qualities to be developed
more and more strongly in my life.
Right? Hallelujah, glory to God.
Hallelujah. So I quoted the fact that
Hebrews 1038 says that the righteous shall what?
Live by faith. We're to live by faith and to
live by faith means that faith has to be supplied.
We know one way that it's supplied is what we already
quoted. Faith comes from hearing and
hearing from the word of God. But this is saying that our
faith can be supplied with our qualities.
Isn't that what it's saying? Let's break that down in the
Greek. In the Greek where it says that
our faith is to be supplied. Actually, I have gotten way
ahead of myself. Let's don't go there.
Let's go back up to let's look at this here, that we've
received faith, the same kind by the righteousness of God, our
Lord Jesus Christ. Let's look at verse 3, Seeing
that his divine power has granted to us everything that is
pertaining to life and godliness.
So where he says later on our faith is to be added to, what is
he saying here? The life and godliness.
This is that those qualities that are to be added to our
faith, the life and godliness. But he says here in verse three
that we have divine power and it has been granted to us.
Why is that so important that we recognize that we've been given
divine power? Because the divine power that we
have been given is the very thing that it's going to take
for us. Come on, to be able to walk in
all of these qualities that he tells us where to walk into.
So we're going to need that divine power, all right, to walk
into what it is that he is asking us to walk into.
And let me tell you what that means in the Greek divine power.
It means this absolutely everything necessary for a
dynamic spiritual life, for a dynamic spiritual life.
Come on, do we have a dynamic spiritual life in him?
It actually is the word dunamis power, divine, godly dunamis
power. And that's where the word
dynamite comes from, dunamis. So we've been given divine,
divine God power. That is dunamis or dynamite.
So we've been given this divine power by God.
That is dynamite. I could say it away and I don't
know if y'all would remember an old school, old school show
dynamite. Any of y'all know about that?
It's so funny that I'm that old. I mean, really, when I think
about it, wow, that was it really an old show.
Anyway, this is what it is. It is Dynamite power.
His power is like dynamite. What can dynamite do?
Blow up anything and everything that it needs to come on.
And it says He's granted us this power so that we can live an
absolute, come on, dynamic spiritual life.
Dynamite means it means dynamite.
It means strength. That's why the joy of the Lord
is our strength, because you know why?
We've have divine power on the inside of us.
Those that are born again, come on.
Those that are filled with the Holy Ghost, with evidence of
speaking, we have been given divine dynamite power on the
inside of us to live and be strengthened and be powerful
people in the earth. Not pitiful people, but powerful
dynamic people. Full of His power, full of His
strength. Come on, full of ability.
That's what Dunamis means, full of ability.
So that means there is nothing that I can't do.
I can what? Do all things through Christ to
what? Because I have dynamite power on
the inside of me. I have divine godly power that
enables me the ability, come on, to do anything, to walk through
anything, to push back mountains, actually to blow them
up. Come on, we got to get this if
we are going to be the reigning church, come on, those that are
taking Dominion and walking it out, we have to remember what is
all the inside And he chose us and he granted us to be able to
walk in it. Hallelujah, Dunamis power, glory
to God, strength, ability, inherent power.
It's our inheritance belongs to me.
Ephesians 120. I know I have this probably down
somewhere. What's it say?
The same power, dunamis, dynamite power that raised Jesus
from the grave. Where does it live in US?
And this is what we're talking about, reigning faith.
This power is living on the inside of us.
Hallelujah. It's residing on the inside of
us. It is his nature.
It is his ability. It's his strength, it's his
power, come on, that can flow and operate.
You know what else it is? It's miracle working power.
When you look it up in the Greek, it says miracle working
power. Miracle working power on the
inside of you. Who needs a miracle?
Come on, Miracle working power dwells on the inside of you.
Hallelujah. Miracle working power.
Power residing in you by virtue of its nature, Moral power.
So this is where this qualities come into play, moral power that
we no longer have to be people that practice sin, come on, who
stumble, who fall. No, we have moral power, and it
actually means moral excellence of soul.
So he's talking about in the mental realm, dynamite power.
Come on, for you to be able to have moral clarity, godliness,
life and God, godliness, to be able to clean your stinking
thinking up, right, wrong thinking to get it cleaned up
because there's enough power to be able to do that.
That's what dynamite power can do.
It's the power and influence. Also listen to what it says in
the Greek. That belongs to your riches and
wealth. Dynamite, power to bring in
riches and wealth. Provision, provision,
Hallelujah, resources, power resting within you and upon you.
Dynamite divine power resting and living and and and dwelling
within you. Come on, glory to God.
Think about that. Listen, we are not, we are not
pitiful people. We're not pitiful people.
We are not pitiful people. We're not broke down.
We're not beat down. We're not in a place that we
don't know what we're going to do, how we're going to overcome,
how we're going to get out of this mess.
What? No.
Come on. I have the power on the inside
of me to be able to overcome any, every situation that I can
encounter. I have enough power on the
inside if I tap into it. Come on, if you know how to tap
into it, then you'll be able to overcome it.
Now, I do want to read Ephesians chapter 119 through 23 because I
had that down. So let's read it.
It says and what is the surpassing greatness of His
power towards us who believe surpassing greatness of His
power to our us towards us who believe Hallelujah.
Or do you believe these are in accordance with His working of
strength? Here it is of His strength and
of His might, which He brought about in Christ, when He raised
him from the dead, and seated him at His right hand in
heavenly places, far above all rule, and a power, and
authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is
named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come.
And He put all things in subjection under his feet, and
gave him his head over all things.
To the what? To the church.
Are you the Church of the living God?
Hallelujah. His body, the fullness of him
who feels all and all glory to God.
So that same power, that surpassing greatness, he gave to
us, and it's there for us to walk into and to walk it out by
faith. And we will be able to do that
as long as we tap into his divine power.
And what's so awesome is, is that he gave us everything that
we need. He gave us everything that we
need so that we don't quit, we don't back down, we don't shrink
back because he said, my righteous ones don't shrink
back. We don't shrink back, we don't
pull back, we don't abandoned our faith.
Come on. We are not going to be those
that in the last days are going to apostasize from the faith.
Because see, if we are continually adding the supply
that we need, which we're going to get into to our faith, then
we can be assured we're not going to be those ones that when
I come to the earth, am I going to find faith because everyone
has apostasized, fallen what away from the faith?
How many of you know, just in the short time that you've been
a believer or maybe a long that you've seen people denounce
their relationship with the Lord?
Have you seen it with your very eyes?
I have. And what we need to say is we're
not going to be one of those because we're going to actually
add to our faith. We're going to add to our faith
these qualities so that we can be assured that we're never
going to stumble, we're never going to fall.
We're never going to shrink back.
We're never going to fall away. Come on from the faith.
But we will see. And I'm going to tell you the
reason why people have falling away from the faith is because
they never took the time to add to their faith.
Oh, yeah, they came up to an altar one day and said I, yeah,
come into my heart. And they never stayed in a
church. Come on.
Never added to their faith a foundation with qualities come
on and behaviours that actually prove, as we read in the
Amplified, that they're really a believer.
Amen. So we're here to constantly just
as Paul was. If you continue reading on in
second Peter pass verse 11, he he tells you, listen, this is
not burdensome for me. I'm writing this to remind you.
I'm reminding you these things and we remind when we minister
the word. We're reminding people of things
so that you won't. It's not a burden for us to
remind you that if we're going to have a faith that's going to
rain in these last days, we're going to have to get on adding
to these qualities, pushing a supply to our faith.
Because we've all been taught faith, but I see a lot of faith
that don't have qualities. OK, so let's go back up to
second how we're doing. Let's go back up to second
Peter. Second Peter one and and verse
30. Let me see what that says. 30,
not 30. That's not right.
Second Peter one. OK, three, sorry, it just has a
zero added to it. Three, seeing that his divine
power we talked about and broke out what that divine power
looked like has been granted to us everything pertaining to life
and godliness. What is this life and godliness?
When you look up that word life, it is literally Zoe life, Zoway,
which is what the life of God, God breathe Zoway life dwelling
on the inside of you. So not only do we see that we
have God's power that's been granted to us, we see that that
power's coming from zoway life, right?
Because nothing can flow and function outside of life.
So why? Because life is the life, what
source and the supply. And this will be important later
on in a couple more Wednesdays when we get in more to our
teaching. So zowe life is what?
The life of God, the breath of God, This is what.
Listen to what zowe life means. Absolute fullness, Absolute
absolute fullness. Does does anyone feel so full
come on of the life of God and so spiritually alive and
dynamic? Are you actually one that can
sing that you have a fire on the inside?
Come on, can't put it out. Or are you struggling to keep
the fire burning and lit and full?
Because remember, he tells us, we need to keep our lamps.
What full of oil? We don't want to be caught
without the oil. We don't want to be people that
have let our oil run dry because I'm going to tell you and the
reason why the oil runs dry is because the life is being sucked
out of you, the life of God, the source, the source of God.
And if we're not staying what connected to the vine where that
flow of nourishment and life is bringing forth come on the fresh
breath and of God, then we're going to allow the oil because
the life affects the oil and the oil affects the life because
they're working together just like the bread of life.
We can't go without the bread. We cannot go without the oil.
It it's like, Lord, were you just mocking me because he knows
that bread is my kryptonite. I'm just joking.
Oh, but when you take a fresh baked piece of bread and dip it
in some Greek, Greek, real olive oil from the Mediterranean, Oh
my, my, my, there is nothing like it, nothing like it.
Whoo, so good, so good, so good to me, man.
But yeah, absolute fullness. But that's what the bread and
oil should be doing for the life supply.
Come on to always be in a full state because he says his Zoway
life is absolute fullness. So let's close our eyes a minute
because I want you to think about this like close your eyes,
don't look around, don't write, don't listen.
I mean don't make a noise, please listen.
But just think about, can you, for those that have called on
the name of the Lord, can you go back to the day that you called
on the name of the Lord and remember where it was, what your
life was like and what happened. The moment you know that he
came, the Spirit of God right, the old man left, and the
newness of life was there and how that felt.
I believe it was like dynamite. I mean, just a surge on the
inside of you of so much peace, joy, love, freedom.
No guilt, no shame. Come on.
I mean just nothing but pure life.
So much peace, so much joy. Amen.
You were full and so excited that you had just encountered
the presence of Almighty God to come and dwell on the inside of
your heart, your spirit, and you were satisfied.
The longing, the fulfillment, everything that you were looking
for, you were finally fulfilled and satisfied.
And I'm going to tell you, we have to remember that.
We have to go back to that moment because in that moment
there was complete fullness of everything that He imparted
within you. Hallelujah, everything Zoway
life, the fullness of life that belongs to God, that's never
ending. It's eternal life and nothing
can ever feel that or replace that.
Amen. The life of God Zoway life,
absolute fullness of the life of God dwelling on the inside of
you. When you read where it's in in
the Greek where it says absolute fullness of life that belongs to
God, eternal life. Listen to what it says.
When I read it out, it says a life real and genuine, a life
active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed in the portion,
even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but
after the resurrection to be consummated by new and among
them a more perfect body and to last forever.
Eternal life was put on the inside of you, the fullness of
God Zoway life Hallelujah. And we have to remember that in
moments that listen he's given us.
He chose us to be partakers of this divine power and the
treasure. He says we've been given a
treasure in earthen vessels. And it's not just the Holy
Spirit. It's the divine power of the
life of God and the Holy Spirit that's dwelling on the inside of
us and the power of Almighty God that will help us walk out this
life of faith in the earth and be able for us to receive and
accomplish by faith everything that pertains to this life and
to living it godly and not stumbling, Not stumbling, Amen.
This is a powerful thing. We are powerful people.
We have to remember that we walk around as carriers, carriers of
a precious thing that God granted to us, and He wants us
to live and reign in this life, operating in the fullness of His
life, in the abundance of His life, in every area of our life,
every area of our life, every area, right.
We know He didn't just come being concerned about our spirit
being right with him. No, First Thessalonians 523 says
what he wants the whole spirit, soul and body to remain what?
Blameless before the coming of the Lord.
And the only way we're we can remain blameless before him.
Yeah, we've been made righteous, but how are we going to keep the
contaminations from this world from corrupting us again is by
adding these qualities to our faith.
Not just saying I'm a faith person, but actually having the
qualities to back it up and to walk it out every day.
And that when people see my life, they see those qualities
in it as I'm operating in the faith of God to produce, come
on, the Kingdom life everywhere I go, operating up underneath
the power of God, Hallelujah. And the life of God, that is my
life source. It's in my life source.
So I'm sorry if I get around people and I want to talk about
the word because it's my life source.
It's my life source. I don't want to talk about Mama
so and so and all the ailments and I don't want to talk about.
I want to talk about a result. I want to talk about an answer.
I want to talk about, come on, solving a problem that only
Christ can solve. Only Christ can solve these
problems, Amen. Nothing else in this world can
give you the answers but the word of God, the source of God,
the life of God, the power of God, Amen.
That we all need it. We all need it.
And we have to remember that we all needed him.
We still need him. We need him more today than
we've ever needed him. We need Him.
We need everything. He has everything so that we can
walk in perpetual reigning faith in the earth.