EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/29/2025 8:43 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Divine Power”
Bible Reading and Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:3a
Message of the verses: “3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us”
This evening we begin the first sub-point under the main point that we looked at in last evening’s SD, and as you can see we will look at 2 Peter 1:3a and make some comments on it.
I think that most true believers can understand that whatever spiritual sufficiency that we as believers have is not because of any power they possess in and of themselves, (Matt. 19:26; Rom. 9:20-21; Eph. 1:19; Phil. 3:7-11; 1 Tim. 1:12-16; Titus 3:5) but derives from His divine power, as seen in our verse this evening. Paul expressed it in this way: “to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works with us’ (Eph. 3:20). Now the power that operates in believers is of the same divine nature as that which resurrected Christ (cf. Rom. 1:4; 1 Cor. 6:14; 15:16-17; 2 Cor. 13:4; Col. 2:12). Now that power enables saints to do works that please and glorify God (cf. 1 Cor. 3:6-8; Eph. 3:7) and accomplish spiritual things they cannot even imagine, (once again let us look at Eph. 3:20, a very powerful verse: “Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,”
John MacArthur writes “His refers back to the Lord Jesus. If the personal pronoun modified God, Peter probably would not have used the descriptive word divine since deity is inherent in God’s name. His use of divine pointing to the Son underscores that Jesus is truly God (cf. John 10:30; 12:45; Phil 2:6; Col. 1:16; 2:9; Heb. 1:3) and also refutes any lingering doubt some readers may have had concerning that reality (cf. 1 John 5:20). Peter himself had been an eyewitness of Christ’s divine power (1:16; cf. Mark 5:30; Luke 4:14; 5:17).
“God’s supply of spiritual power for believers never fails. They may distance themselves from the divine source through sin, or fail to minister and use what is available, but from the moment they experience faith in Jesus Christ, God has granted His power to them. Has granted (dedoremenes) is a perfect, passive participle meaning that in the past with continuing results in the present, God permanently bestowed His power on believers.”
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