Koinonia And Holiness

But here tonight, I want to preach part eight of this series. My message is koinonia and holiness. Last week, in part seven, we dealt with koinonia and sin, looking at how scripture shows that you can be koinonia in fellowship, partaker, or joined to sin.

Our false teachers, false doctrines, false systems are some specific thing within the church. And so there's a koinonia with sin that we're warned in scripture to separate from. But here tonight, to balance this, we're going to deal with koinonia and holiness.

And this is, you only preach a message like last week to get you to this message. This is it, but you need to be aware. You need to separate yourself.

Not be in koinonia or a partaker or a participant in sin or sinful things, but you're to be separated. And let me just say koinonia with holiness. So reading from 2 Peter chapter one, and this message, as, do you know, as I began to study, I went, I'm sure I've taught on this.

I'm sure. And then I try to think and try to look some things up and went, no, maybe it's just because I go into things in my own time. And then near the end of preparing the message, it suddenly clicked with me that I'd preached it only three months ago.

These days, I forget easy. It used to be, I could tell you where every book on the shelf was in my library, where every message is, what number it was in the series. I used to be able to do that, but just with the intensity of things, I can't do it the same way, but it's only three months ago that we preached the series on the promises of God and part four in it was holiness and the promises of God.

And I preach from the same verses on this specific same verses on the promises of God and the holiness of God. But here tonight, I want to deal with koinonia and holiness from the exact same verse. So we're dealing with the same verses.

But at that stage, I was dealing in the context of the promises of God. Tonight, I'm dealing with it in the context of koinonia. And I'm glad I didn't remember until I finished the message.

So I couldn't go and look and have that affect me. And so I just came to the scripture afresh, going through it, praying over it. I don't have points in this message.

I'm just working through the text, though there's plenty of points, believe me, a hundred plus points, but no official points. You can make your own points, but let's read here tonight from second Peter chapter two and verse one, Simon, Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our savior, Jesus Christ, grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord, according as his divine power has given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Let's pray together.

Father, we thank you for the word of God. We thank you for such great, precious promises that you've filled the scripture with. You've given us so many promises of your commitment.

You've literally revealed your divine sovereign commitment, your covenant to commitment in the promises of scripture to make us holy, to sanctify us, to purify us, to make your name holy within us, to give us power, nor God to inherit the promises of God. Father, you've given us promise after promise after promise of what you'll do within us, and nor God yet time and time and time again. We look to ourself.

We look to our own will. We look to our own resilience. We look to our own experience.

We look to our own ability time and time again. We look to our ability to perform the holiness of God, and yet you have given us countless promises, undertaking an obligation that if we believe you, if we pray, if we lay hold of the promises of God, if we stand in the light of these promises, we would realize that you've given us all power, almighty power, sovereign power, nor God that we might be empowered to live a Christlike life. And Father, tonight I pray that you'd stir up faith in the hearts of God again, like that previous messages on the promises of God.

Will you do it tonight, oh God? Take our eyes off ourselves, off each other, and nor God set them at the man of your right hand. Let our eyes have an open vision. My God, let our faith arise and ascend into the very temple of God, into the very dwelling place of God, that we might see what great a salvation that you brought us into.

Father, will you save tonight, nor God save some soul by the power of God and the blood of Jesus. Lord God, lay hold of individual lives, nor God sanctify saints that are wrestling with sin in their own nature, nor God those that have grown weary in the Roman seven battle, nor God wrestling and fighting with that old man, nor God the Adamic nature. Father, we ask that you'd encourage them, nor God you'd inspire them, oh God, you'd stir their hearts tonight.

In Jesus' mighty name, blessed be your name. Amen. Just again, that scripture, verse four, it says there that ye might be partakers of the divine nature, that ye might, listen to this, be koinonia of the divine nature.

This scripture is vital in our series on koinonia, koinonia with God the Father, koinonia with God the Son, koinonia with the Holy Spirit, koinonia in the church with your brothers and sisters, koinonia in the gospel, koinonia separating out from sin. But listen to me, there's a scripture here in 2 Peter chapter one that talks about this koinonia of the divine nature, to be a partaker, a participant, to share in, to receive from, to literally have fellowship in, communion, experience the divine nature of God. So this thing called koinonia, you can have it with the divine nature of God.

You're to be a partaker of the divine nature. Every real Christian is a partaker of the divine nature of God, the character of God, who God is. You don't only worship who he is, but you partake of his nature.

You experience it. You enter into it. It enters into you.

You share in that nature. It's not only that God is divinely sovereign, but do you know what? The Bible is very clear that we're to have koinonia with this divine nature. We're to have an experience of it, a real intimate, impactful experience of the divine nature of God.

And that's what we're going to deal with tonight. And we're going to look at what this divine nature is, what it looks like for you to partake or have koinonia of that nature. What does it look for the divine nature of God to manifest in you? How does that happen? How do you get the same divine nature functioning in God actually to function in you? This may seem like a very strange thing, and yet it's so biblical.

I believe there's many scriptures we brush over. We miss, we don't preach, we don't meditate on, we don't draw the benefit out of. You know, very shortly, I cannot wait until my entire garden is invaded by bees.

Every year I watch them, I can almost set my watch to them coming. I watch the plants, the different flowers beginning to spring forth, and then I watch this army of bees coming in to suck out the nectar from all of these flowers. The guy some years ago, he won the champion honey of Ireland just one mile from my garden.

I believe it was my garden contributed. It was all my flowers, all my plants. But saints, listen to me.

We are partakers in the divine nature of God. We are to draw on the divine characteristics. Listen, the holiness of God.

Our message is holiness, personal purity of heart, mind, spirit, action, deed, the Christian being holy. You can actually have it, but if you're looking to yourself and you've got your eyes on yourself, and you're saying, I'm trying harder, and I'm failing, and my experience, and I'm wrestling, and I'm going to do better, you're going to get very frustrated. Because holiness, the individual holy character of a Christian, of their talk, their conversation, was never meant to be them producing it.

It was meant to be partaken of the divine nature of God. It was meant to be the power of God actually ministering it to you. And yet, time after time, we get our eyes on ourselves, and we look to ourselves, and then we either pretend or put a mask up, or we begin to just push through at a very low ebb of carnality.

But God never meant it to be that way. It was never meant to be you producing this, any more than salvation. Who here would dare to say they saved themselves, or they keep themselves saved? Who would dare? Who would dare say they done it by their own will? They delivered themselves from drink, and drugs, and sexual immorality, and atheism, and hundreds of other things.

Who would dare say, I done it by my will. I chose to do it. You wouldn't say that.

You'd go, Christ came in His power. There was a powerful miracle of Jesus Christ that saved me and delivered me. But why is it with sanctification then? Like the Galatians, you did walk well.

You did walk by faith and grace. Who hindered you that you stopped walking, and the ability to obey God? You know what? You moved out of grace, and now you're trying to be sanctified, and do the right thing, and obey God, and become holy by your own ability. Saints, you need to be very careful.

And I'm telling you, there's power in this, if you hear what I'm going to say tonight. Here in our text, 2 Peter chapter 1, cognity and holiness. From verse 1 to verse 4, we have the issue of salvation.

Then from verse 5 to verse 11, we have the issue of sanctification. What is sanctification? It is salvation begun. What is salvation? It is that sovereign, mighty work of the Spirit of God to save you and bring you out of the world.

Look at verse 1 to 4 with me, concerning this issue of salvation that lays the backdrop for us moving forward into sanctification, or moving into being partakers of the divine nature of God, or having koinonia with his holiness. Verse 1, Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. Just notice what comes first, servant, not apostle, of Jesus Christ.

To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God. Now stop there and look at that. Like precious faith.

It means that we all share the exact same faith. If you're born again, your faith is the same as my faith. When it says we have obtained like precious faith, you didn't just have faith, you obtained faith.

If you have faith in God, you obtained it, you received it, it came to you, someone granted it onto you. Faith is not something that you create to believe in God, or you create this faith in God that you know God is real, or that you're born again. Oh no, faith comes as a gift from God.

It is a sovereign act. It is a sovereign gift of God. It's the gift of God.

You don't work up faith. You don't do faith and then get saved. Faith is actually something.

You wouldn't believe in God if it didn't come from him. All you do is receive it. You receive a gift.

You can reject a gift, but you can receive it. And so it says unto them, he's writing this chapter, this letter, this book, he's writing it on to those that have obtained like precious faith. He's actually saying that we all have that same faith, that we all received it from God.

Nobody had a greater faith than anyone else. Because you know what? If it is a gift, if it is from God, you can boost in it. It's not that you had strong faith and I had a lesser faith.

All of us had the same faith to be born again. And I'll tell you what's more, it's the same faith as the apostles, as Peter writing this. When he says we have obtained like precious faith, we have.

Peter said we have. All the churches, all the Christians, every Christian, whether Peter or whether you, it is the exact same faith. Now I understand there's all teaching in the Bible concerning faith being strong, faith growing, faith can be a gift as one of the nine supernatural gifts.

That's something very different. But faith can be cultivated. Faith can be hindered.

We understand that. But never forget we have received the same faith, the only kind of faith. It is like precious faith.

And notice what he calls it, like precious faith, the exact same kind of faith. And it's very, very precious. It's very costly.

If you have faith tonight, it is so costly. It means more than anything in this city you can imagine. And notice how it comes.

It says you have it, you've obtained it. How did you obtain this faith? How did this faith come to you? It says with us through the righteousness of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. So how do you end up with this faith? Do you work it up? Do you work hard for it? Is it because you deserved it or you're wiser or you made the right decision? It says you've obtained it through the righteousness of God and Jesus Christ.

Now notice it's the one person whose righteousness it is. God's righteousness is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Some people say, oh the Bible, Romans only talks about God's righteousness, not the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

That's not true. This is saying the same righteousness of God is the same righteousness of Jesus Christ. And notice it's through this righteousness of God and our savior who saved us, delivered us, changed us.

It is through his righteousness, not your righteousness, not our righteousness. It is through his righteousness that you obtained this faith. Can you imagine this? It's through his righteousness, his perfection, his keeping all the commandments of God.

See, I believe in the imputed righteousness of God according to the book of Romans. Adam's sin was imputed to you as a sinner. You became guilty of his one act of sin, not his sin, Adam's sin.

But also it says in like manner we have received the righteousness of God as a gift through Jesus Christ. Do you know Christ provided perfect righteousness, not you. Christ, it is through his free gift of his righteousness.

How would you get saved otherwise? How would you believe otherwise? Since so many fall away, so many depart because they're looking at themselves. Take your eyes off your savior. You didn't save yourself.

You didn't come looking for him. It's not through your righteousness. It's not your faith that you worked up.

You have obtained, you have received, and when you realize this, you don't mishandle it or casually go, oh, I can do anything with this. Oh no. You walk with the fear of God.

You walk in awe of him, of what he's done. This amazing miracle of God that we have obtained like faith. And then in verse two it says, grace and peace be multiplied unto you.

Don't you want that tonight? Are you sitting here saying, I want the grace of God multiplied, not addition, multiplication. I want the grace and peace of God to be multiplied unto me. Do you want the peace of God? Now I didn't say peace with God, but the peace of God.

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you. How are you going to attain unto that? Have you been trying to seek after and find the peace of God? Oh, I need the peace of God. Oh, I need more grace.

Oh, how am I going to get this? Well, he says here again, may it be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ our Lord. In other words, through that knowledge, that knowledge is the key to get grace and peace multiplied to you. I mean, poured out on you.

How do you get the grace and the peace of God multiplied? You're in search of peace of soul. I need the peace that guards my mind. I need the grace of God because the grace of God is the ability of God.

How do you get this? Through the knowledge of God, through the righteousness of God, verse one, verse two, through the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. Are you starting to get the picture here? When it talks about Jesus Christ being our savior, it means he saved us from our enemies. He delivered us.

It's all about salvation. Salvation is God delivering you from your enemies. And you know what? Through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, peace and grace gets multiplied to you.

Not through trying to work it up or grasp it. It's through the knowledge of him and experience of knowing who he is, of his character, of his nature, of his person, of his attributes. That's how the peace and the grace get manifest to you.

And so it says here that through the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, we have a savior. We have a deliverer. This is what the born again experience says.

It is deliverance. He saved you by his own power. And you have this faith and it's through the righteousness of God and through this knowledge of God.

You know what I like to call this? The great escape. This is the great escape. I'm going to preach that sometime.

That's going to be my title on the born again experience. The great escape. Or maybe we need to go and preach it in the open air.

That's what a believer's testimony is. The great escape. Look at verse three.

According as his divine power. Oh, this gets better. According as his divine power has given onto us all things.

Saints, how do you even compute this in your natural mind and thinking? According. He's telling you how this functions. So you've got your eyes on yourself.

I'll try harder. I'll make a decision. Lord, I promise.

I'm going to try and I'll set the alarm an hour earlier. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this.

I'm going to do this. And we take our eyes off the Lord. Everything's on us and you.

I can't do it. And then you think it's for some super saint and you think it's for them over there or other people. And then you begin to think you're a hypocrite or you turn in yourself or you begin to pretend.

Saints, your eyes are on yourself. Your eyes are on yourself. That's why Israel for 40 years turned back to the wilderness.

They had the promise, the covenant, and the Lord said, go in, possess the land. It shares all of its shares. I give it to you.

My power will give it to you. Go in and possess it. And they went, uh, no.

We saw the giants. We saw the walls. We saw the cities.

We saw the armies. No, we'll go back into the wilderness 40 years. You know what? 40 years later, they are children, a new generation go in and possess the land.

Not because there are more or greater or anything. They have the same covenant, the same promises, all the same provisions, the same promise of power, no different, but unbelief was the issue. Saints, you can get stuck in a place where your eyes are in yourself and you draw back and you walk in a wilderness 40 years.

There, there is a breach of promise then. In other words, the promise, just the pause button goes and goes, okay, I'll wait in the next ones to come along. I don't want to do that since I don't want this church to do this.

In verse three, according as his divine power has given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. Where are you looking for your godliness yourself? He actually says in verse three that by his power, by his divine power, according to his divine power, he has given. Do you notice all these verses are give, give, give, give.

You obtain, you receive, you enjoy, you have multiplied. But saints, you need to see the right focus. You need to believe the word of God.

You need to stir up and mix faith with the word of God. Tonight as I preach, set yourself to say, I'm going to believe the word of God. Help me, Lord.

Help me, Lord, to believe the word of God, not to be looking at myself paralyzed. Of course you'd be paralyzed. It was never meant to be you.

That's law. You go and do it. You do better.

You accomplish this. You go and bring it about. That's law.

Saints, the grace of God was meant to come to accomplish this. And it says he's given you divine power and has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. He has given everything that is in connection with godliness.

Anything in this subject of holiness, godliness, living right, doing right, changing our lives, God has given it all. You're there trying to work it up. You're there trying to seek after it.

He says, I have provided it all. And you know what's more than that? I've provided my divine power that you can enter into it. It's not your power.

It's my power. I have given my divine power, not only my divine nature, but my divine power. And I've given all things that pertain unto life.

That word life is zooey life. The Greek word zooey. It's not a normal life.

It's not a casual life or a carnal life. It's a full abundant life. That's what zooey life is.

It's a fullness of life. It is real life. It is spiritual life.

And so he says he's given all things that pertains on the spiritual life and godliness. Godliness we're gonna come to just shortly so I won't say much on it. Are you getting the picture here? All I'm giving you is the context of the verse of where we are going to in verse four.

Now let me bring you to verse four and our message here tonight which is so so important concerning koinonia and holiness. It says whereby, let me read it, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature. Oh feast on it saints.

Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Let's break this down for a moment. Where by are given unto us.

The word whereby means by these things what he's just said. You have obtained faith like precious faith through the righteousness of God and you're having the grace and the peace of God multiplied to you through the knowledge of who God is. He's given his divine power to you that you and he's provided everything pertaining to godliness.

Then he says whereby are by all of these things are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises. So out of this storehouse, out of this resource of God, what has God done? Whereby or in the context of what he's just said, out of all that he has just said, he's given you everything to bring you into holiness saints. He's given you everything, everything that it's going to take to make you holy but your eyes are on yourself.

If you're not walking in holiness or you're not getting a victory over something, I tell you it's not God's lack and it's not a lack of God's provision or his promises. It's because you're not getting this and I speak to myself. I'm telling you I'm in a wrestle and a battle in my life.

I want to tell you and there's certain things that I'm going. I'm looking for a victory. I'm looking to overcome.

This is not God's will but the problem isn't him. The problem is here. We get stuck.

We get our eyes on ourself and so he says whereby these exceeding great and precious promises. Now we're going to see how you get into this. How does all of this work out? How do you get drawn in? By exceeding great and precious promises.

He's filled this Bible with promises. What is a promise? We dealt with this a few months ago. You need to go back and listen to that message again and series again.

It'll encourage you. What is a promise? It is a statement of something clearly stated with the intention of the person doing it themselves. Do you hear what I'm saying? We don't even know what a promise is.

We talk about promises, promises, promises all the time. Do you know the word promise means that person has made an obligation, undertaken the responsibility to do something. In the Greek it's a spontaneous sovereign choice to do something themselves.

In other words it's not a response to you. It's a choice, a decision. It's not even you asking.

They are actually making promises and this is God. God has made promises and then each of those promises is a commitment. See how we miss it? We just go oh great he's going to do it.

We lose the benefit. Use our wrestling discouraged, oppressed, downcast whenever there's hundreds of promises for that specific thing. You need to get back to what we used to do 30, 40 years ago.

Write out all the scriptures, have them on your fridge or your mirrors you're shaving or in the cars you're driving. Used to go into Christians houses 30, 40 years ago. Scriptures everywhere.

All these verses everywhere. Now we've moved beyond that. We don't saturate ourselves with the word of God anymore but I tell you the answers in those promises because you know what? They're going to take the eyes off you.

God has made promises concerning your holiness, your renewal, your sanctification, your words, your mind, your thoughts, your attitudes, your walk, your lifestyle, your future. He has made promises. If you're a Christian saved by the grace of God and look in these verses he's saying I provided the power.

I provided everything. I died for you. I provided the righteousness of my son to die for you and so you begin to see in this concerning the salvation of God and the power of God.

God has given you all of these precious promises. When he says exceeding great promises that's one word exceeding great. That means the very greatest promises that are the very greatest.

Saints he's just promised his divine power to help you in this. Not your power, his divine power. He's just said he's provided everything to make you godly.

Everything. And so the promises of God here they are very great. There's nothing greater.

He also calls them precious. That means valuable, costly, esteemed and Peter likes the word precious. Just before this as we read in chapter 1 verse 1 it's precious faith.

Here it is precious promises. In 1 Peter chapter 119 it's precious blood. In 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 4 and verse 6 it's the precious stone.

Christ being the precious stone. In 1 Peter chapter 2 and 7 it's speaking specifically of Christ and he that is Christ is precious. And so Peter likes this word precious.

These are costly things. These are things you could never buy. You could never earn.

You could never deserve these things. These are the most precious precious things that you can ever imagine. And listen it says in this verse concerning these promises look in the middle of verse 4 and precious promises that by these by these promises you might you might be partakers of the divine nature.

Do you see how this works? You become a partaker a koinonia. How do you get koinonia in the divine nature of God? How do you get to share in the divine holiness of God, the character of God, the attributes of God? How do they become yours in koinonia? Through the promises. Since the promises hundreds thousands of promises are God's pathway to bring you in or should I say bring the divine nature into you.

How do you partake? How do you experience koinonia? How do you get koinonia with the divine nature, the holiness, the character of God, the characteristics of God, the lifestyle of God? How do you make it yours? Through the promises of God. That's how this actually happens. That by these when he says that by these by the promises he means this is the goal, the purpose of giving them.

This is their aim. This is their use. This is why God gives promises.

Imagine hundreds thousands of promises and you never use them to bring you into holiness. All the time you're trying to make yourself holy. You're trying to live holy.

You're trying to mature in Christ but yet you neglect the promises they are given. God's obligation in promises are actually there for you to stir faith, to raise up your heart, to make you not get discouraged, not despondent, not turning aside, not turning back, not saying it's hopeless, not saying what's the point but actually to stir a heart in you saying I'm not going to go out and walk in a wilderness for the year. Saints are you going to walk the rest of your days in a wilderness in circles going nowhere.

You know they never fought glass out there. They never had giants out there. They never had walled cities to conquer out there.

No enemies. Just themselves. Just themselves.

Their own nature. They're going to walk 40 years and die in a wilderness. You'll never enter into God's plan for you and there's Christians who are walking in the wilderness but I want to tell you there's a better way.

There's a better way. You can go in through the promises of God. You can say but he promised.

Why don't we go and do it? He promised. Did he not say? Has he not said? Oh I can't fight chance. I can't take cities.

What are we going to do with the walls of Jericho? Are we going to break them down? No no no no. I'm going to get you to walk around them seven times. You're going to keep your big mouth shut.

You're not allowed to speak to each other. You know you go look how big the walls are. We'll never get the walls down.

Can you imagine all Israel walking around going this is impossible. Look at the height. We'll never do this.

You know that's why God said keep your mouth shut. None of you are allowed to speak. Keep it shut.

Stop. Nothing. Don't want to hear.

Don't speak to me. I feel like saying that to some people. God actually done that and they took the city of Jericho.

They took every bit of land by the promises of God. Not their own power. Not their own strength.

Not their willpower. They were looking to the covenant of God. Has he not said? Will he not do? Can we not trust him? And it says that he's given all these with a purpose that we might be partakers of the divine nature.

Now look at this for a second. This is so important what we're dealing with. That we might be.

Underline that word or make a note about this. Might be is one word. It's used 672 times in the New Testament and it's genomai.

Where we get the word gene from? Genomai. And it basically means to become. Birthed forth into existence.

Come into existence. To begin to be or a new beginning. It's used of childbirth.

So this word might be. Genomai could mean being birthed into existence. But look what he's talking about.

He's talking about you. You're given these promises that you might be a partaker. Koinonia of the divine nature of God.

Saints, this is an introduction that you might be birthed into a whole new lifestyle where you just enjoy the koinonia through the koinonia of God. Through this koinonia you experience the divine nature of God. Saints, why not lay hold of this tonight? God's given you promises.

He's given you his power. He says I will do it in you. If only you can trust me.

If only you believe me. If only you get your eyes off yourself and repent and turn from your own wicked ways and rend your heart. I'll give you all the power.

I'll perform all the promises of God in you. And look it says that you might be a partaker. That you might be birthed into an experience of koinonia of the divine nature of God.

That this might become a reality. An experience that you might be a koinonia. A share.

What does it mean? A share. A partner. It means to be commonly shared.

What are you sharing? His divine nature. His divine nature. This isn't a myth.

This isn't heresy. This is the word of God. That he might share.

It means to be closely connected with his divine nature. To be in association with his divine nature. To participate or to receive from him.

To enjoy fellowship together. Or to share the same nature. Attribute.

Lifestyle. Way of doing things. It says in Hebrews chapter 2 14 using the word koinonia.

Listen to what it says. For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. Koinonia.

Now it's talking about children of physical mothers and fathers. Think about you parents here. Or if you're children.

You have koinonia the flesh of your parents. So he says for as much then as the children are partakers or koinonia of flesh and blood. If you're in this relationship to parents.

Either the children or the parents. You have a koinonia. Your children have partaken of your flesh and blood.

What your children did in taking your flesh and blood. They're different people in you. Different personalities.

But they have your flesh and blood. I just look at Christy and Rose and I go who looks like who? But you know these kids belong to this family. Sorry Grace.

And as I look around. I look at Paul. I look at Victoria.

I look at these kids. You begin to go. These are partakers.

They're individuals. They're their own personality. But they have partaken of the actual flesh and blood of those two parents.

They're partakers. They're their own person. But they've partaken.

Do you begin to get the picture? Now what the rest of the verse in Hebrew says is. He also. Jesus himself likewise took part of the same.

So he koinoniaed flesh and blood of the human race. So you begin to see what koinonia is with the divine nature. See it's the reverse of what Christ done was come down and he took flesh and blood from man and took it himself.

A human body in a very real way. Oh he's different from man. He's distinct but he's taken our flesh.

He's taken our humanity. And as God manifests in the flesh. He has now clothed himself in human nature.

But you know in this verse it's actually got the reverse. That we born of sinful Adam have been brought into something. We're actually reaching up and taking the divine nature.

Oh our physical bodies don't change at this point. But it's an inward nature. Your face stays the same.

Your hair color stays the same. Your nose stays the same. But it's the inward nature.

What Christ done in reverse. He reached out and took human nature. We're reaching out and taking the divine nature.

Since this was something that was never in you. That you did not have. That was not a part of your life.

And yet scripture so clearly says. It also says in Hebrews 12 verse 10 that we might be partakers of his holiness. This is a teaching of scripture that we might be a partaker not only of his righteousness which is salvation.

Righteousness is a free gift. But that we might be partakers of the holiness of God or the character of God. So what does this look like then? I'm enjoying this.

Are you enjoying this? I'm glad for the word of God. I needed to preach to myself tonight. Hope you didn't.

If you thought I was preaching to you. I'm not. I'm preaching to myself.

I'm preaching myself out of a pit. Out of a hole. Out of a gloom.

I needed this. Thank you Lord. And so you see that we're partakers of this divine nature.

And then it goes further. And I'm going to show you what this divine nature is. Because what does it look like then? It says that in the text.

I'm going to show you what it looks like. But listen. It goes on to say having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

When it says having escaped it means this is something that's already happened. It's about your salvation. So who is it who's partaken of this divine nature? It's those that have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Those who have made a total break away from the world. And in fact the Greek word it means to run away. They shunned.

They fled for their life. So those who have escaped the corruption that is in the world. Those that have run from the world for their life.

The corruption. What was the corruption in the world? It says the lust. What is the corruption in the world? Because the world.

What do you mean there's something evil in this world? Or worldliness is wrong? We mean the lust in the world. That's the corruption in the world. The word corruption means to shrivel, wither, decay, ruin, destroy, to perish.

It's talking about decomposing. A slow continual process of destruction. That's what's in our world.

It's the lust driven world all around us. And you know what it's saying? It's talking about those who have escaped. It's the Aorist tense in the Greek.

It means a past, finished, completed work. You've escaped. You're not trying to escape if you're born again.

You've escaped. You're to be brought into this partaking of the divine nature. But reckon salvation a reality.

You've received of the righteousness of God. You've been separated from this lust that's in the world. And remember the word world there.

It's what we preached on the other week. It's the word cosmos. The cosmos.

Not talking about the universe. Not talking about the makeup. It's talking about the world.

All that you see and around you. Talking about the value system that excludes God and the world. The world without God.

It's worldliness. Remember I said worldliness used to be the great enemy of the church. When I was growing up, everyone treated worldliness, even the sound of it, the look of it, the smack of it, the smell of it, they treated it as an enemy.

No longer. Most of my Christian life, the world is a friend. A misunderstood friend.

But I want to tell you the world's an enemy. It's destructive. Sin is an enemy of you.

But God has made provision. You know in salvation, we escaped, you escaped. Remember the day that you got saved.

That's why you walked away from heroin. You walked away from your drugs. You went and got your hair cut.

No one told you to do that. There's a thousand things have gone on. All these things at salvation.

And then you go, what a miracle. Look what God done. All the glory to God.

Jesus done this. He delivered me. I never could have done this.

Then we get into the Christian walk and go, isn't this hard? And you start looking to yourself. I've got to do this. I've got to work this out.

I've got to accomplish this. How am I going to do this? You've just fallen into the air of the Galatians. You need to get back on track again.

And I'm telling you, this message points you in the right direction. That was the corruption that was in the world through lust. 1 John 2, 15 says, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.

If any man loved the world, the love of the father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the father, but is of the world. Okay, what is this divine nature? With this, I close.

What is the divine nature? And don't get settled down for the door. I've got seven points and two more pages in this. What does it look like for you to be a partaker of the divine nature? What does it look like? Some mystical experience? We're going to look at this.

The text actually tells us exactly what someone who partakes, who has koinonia of the divine nature, experiences the sharing. God's saying, I want to share my divine nature with you, koinonia. I want to give you, I want you to have it.

I want you to enter into it. We're partners in this. I'm bringing you into, like Christ took your human nature.

I want you to be a participant in the divine nature in your daily Christian life. I don't want you looking at yourself. I don't want you throwing in the towel.

I don't want you walking back out into the wilderness to a 40 year walk of death. I don't want that. Here in the verses following from verse five, we have seven spiritual qualities that you are to add to faith.

See, now he's about to explain what divine nature looks like. This is the divine nature. These seven things are the divine nature of God.

They're actually attributes of God. They're his nature, God's nature. But through the promises, he wants you to partake or have koinonia of them.

And you're going to see in these seven, there is an order. It's not just a list. Each of these has a knock on effect.

In other words, they're interconnected. They're progressive. They're linked together.

They are connected and they affect one another. If you have one, it's going to affect these other things. There's a whole process here.

So let's just look at this. Verse five, and it says, and beside this, and beside this, what? There's more. Yes.

Yes. I can't take any more. And there's more.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and the virtue, knowledge, et cetera. So notice what he says here. And beside this, alongside this.

So look at everything he said. Do not embark on this journey without what we've just said. You'll get yourself in trouble.

If you embark in trying to have these seven things function in your life or putting them into action in your life, without them being beside what we said, God's power, God's divine nature, his promises, his obligation, his willingness, his desire, his salvation. If we don't do it beside that, you're going to go wrong here. You're going to get in real trouble.

You'll hit a brick wall. You'll go over a cliff edge. You'll go crazy.

You'll actually think this is impossible. So it's got to be beside this. Never leave the provision of God, the power of God, the promises of God, the character of God.

It's his character. What is holiness? You're going to see. It says giving all diligence.

Now this word, look at the context. He gives his power, his provision. Now he's asking for something.

Saints, we never preach one or the other. Oh, it's all God. We never preach that.

Neither do we preach. It's all you. We never preach that.

But if we deny one of these, we have destroyed this. If we forget or minimize God's power, you can't do this. You cannot do this.

Or if we neglect your diligence, oh, it's all God, God, God, his grace. Get on with it. Don't worry about diligence.

That's why you get unholy people in the church who claim the grace of God, and they don't even look like a Christian. I met Christians evangelizing the street who curse, who let them out there, who let them out there, should never be there. And so the scripture always has a balance.

But here, your diligence is only after all of this, in the light of it all. But he does ask for your diligence, your diligence. If you don't add your diligence, you're going to get this all wrong.

What does diligence mean? It means to give a major speed, haste, and attention. It means to give your eager observation, your earnest effort to work at it. Oh, that's works.

No, it's not. It's a command of scripture. It's the grace of God.

It's the power of God. It's the evidence of being born again. If you're born again, give all diligence.

In other words, set yourself to it tonight. Be in a rush to it. Be quick.

Don't delay. Don't let this message be lost tonight. Go home, get on your knees, and wrestle with God.

Make it a reality. Start today. Give diligence.

Don't be lazy. Don't be negligent. Apply yourself.

Move forward. Press forward and say, I am going to walk into this. I'm going to work this out.

And so he says, give diligence to add. And if you're going to add to your faith, and see, faith isn't one of the seven things. Faith is salvation.

That's the beginning point. You're going to add to faith. It's not faith being added.

You have that. You're saved. You believe.

Remember, that's precious like faith. That was the gift of God granted to you. Now give diligence to add these seven things to them.

You've got to add to them. The word add there means to furnish, supply, contribute. It means to bring in on this.

Give diligence to add to your faith. See, you can't add faith that's supernatural. It is sovereign.

It is so out of this world. No one can save themself. But a part of this holiness now is to give diligence.

If you want koinonia, if you want the divine nature of God, then give diligence. You give the diligence. He gives the attribute.

Oh, I've got to give diligence. I've got to create and add to faith. No, you give diligence, but He brings it.

It's not your diligence creates this. It's actually as you give diligence, as you set yourself, as you move forward. It's like the Red Sea.

Begin to march, and it'll open up. Stretch out your rod. Oh no, I'll wait for it.

Let's say it begins moving, then I'll stick my rod out quickly. I'll go 50-50. You know, brilliant bettors, they don't know who's going to win.

50-50. Forget what they call that. I'm not a better.

Hope you're not. I've never betted in my life. Bet it on Jesus, and He wins every time.

And so it says, add to your faith virtue and the virtue knowledge. Look at this first beginning of this whole seven-point process in verse five. Faith, you don't add your faith.

What is faith? It's trust, confidence, leaning, a belief in God, a confidence in Him. Sometimes I can't even work out why I trust Him. How could I have trusted Him during these two years? How could I have? Absolutely.

When everything is devastated, but one thing, I trust Him. I have faith in Him. Since that's not of my own self, that's a supernatural work that we have faith.

But notice it says, add to your faith virtue. Virtue is the first thing. What do you add to faith? Virtue.

This is how you become a koinonia of the divine nature. You give diligence to add to your faith virtue, and in that process, God grants His virtue, His divine nature. Virtue is His nature.

The word means manliness, to have courage. It means to be excellent, fulfilling your purpose. This is the first thing you're to add to faith.

Some of you is already discouraged. I'm talking about being excellent, adding to faith, excellence, fulfilling your purpose, just being a Christian. It's the basic moral goodness of a believer.

It's the ability to fulfill what you're meant to be. The word also means praiseworthy, to manifest who you are or to impress others that they praise you and commend you. You know this word virtue, what it's really saying is add to your faith.

Add to your faith. Give diligence. Be quick.

Be urgent. Be determined to add to your faith this virtue, which all this is a basic Christian life. I don't lie.

I don't lie. I don't curse when I stub my foot. If you can't even do that, you're not even being better than a sinner on the streets.

If you can't even be a basic Christian that someone in your workplace goes, oh, they're a believer. Oh, they may not think you're a great evangelist or, I don't know, a Paul the Apostle or Peter or a John, but they just look at you and say, they're different. There's something about them.

Why don't you curse like me? Why don't you get drunk like me? Why don't you swear? Why don't you get angry like we all are? Why aren't you ripping people apart behind their back? I'm just a Christian. Do you know what? When you give diligence to add virtue to your faith, do you know what happens? You become a koinonia of the divine nature of God. It's not your nature.

It's not you being virtuous. This is the character of God, the nature of God. It becomes a part of you.

Like Christ took flesh, you reach out and take divine nature. I'm adding virtue. I want to be a virtuous Christian, an obvious Christian, a simple Christian, a real Christian, a manifest Christian.

I want to add this to me. The second thing is knowledge. Add to virtue knowledge.

Now this word knowledge is the Greek word gnosis. See how virtue leads to knowledge. If you're a basic Christian with basic morality, you go in pursuit of knowledge.

If you have virtue, if you're changed, a changed life, the virtue of the nature of God, you actually go pursuing knowledge. But this isn't any knowledge. This is the knowledge of God's divine nature.

This is the knowledge that is spiritual. It's not human knowledge. It's not human thinking.

It's the Greek word gnosis. It is actually what is true, factual, real, biblical concerning God, concerning Christ, concerning sin, God's attitude towards sin. This is what knowledge is.

So suddenly you start to think, when I was a sinner, I didn't think that was wrong. I actually thought it was very moral doing that. Now as a Christian, I'm partaking.

I'm adding to virtue knowledge. And as I add, if that virtue is going to grow, it needs more knowledge. Virtue, right lifestyle ought to lead you to knowledge.

Give me more facts. Show me more. I desire to know how to be virtuous.

So it goes pursuing knowledge. And so you add knowledge or gnosis. It is true.

It is the truth. The truth of God will set you free. You know, there's sins you can be bound by as a young Christian or habits.

You're smoking or they change it for, what's that didgeridoo? Vaping. So you've got all the people vaping. What's the difference? I can't understand.

Excuse me. I'm not embarrassing. Okay.

I'm just saying, I wanted to say this for ages about all of you, but I can't understand how someone can be delivered from drink and drugs and sexual immorality and cursing, but not from a vape. I don't get it. Okay.

Okay. I've said my bit there. Just shelf that.

I don't get it. It puzzles me. It makes me laugh.

I don't get it. All those other things were worse than this little thing. But somehow in your mind, you get into a battle and suddenly you're trying to do it.

No, you can't do it. Yeah. God done the other things.

No, you're this little thing. I'm struggling with it. I can't get free of it.

You walked away from all of this. I don't get it. Someone tell me afterwards.

But notice what has happened in the world. A group sooner rose in the second century called the Gnostics. The word Gnosis, knowledge, they stole it from the Greek language.

And that was secret, mystical knowledge. It was out there somewhere, just out there. Now listen, the word Gnosis means knowledge, the knowledge of God, receiving fact, receiving truth about sin, about holiness, about lifestyle.

Whereas their Gnosis was mystical. You couldn't tie it down. All of them wrote different books.

The real history of Judas, the book of Thomas. They wrote all of these in the second century. All of a sudden, I had a revelation on Thomas.

You didn't even meet Thomas. You don't know who Thomas was or Judas. You're a heretic.

There's no way to test it. Since we have a lot in the church who have taken Gnosis knowledge and made it mystical experience, they turned a personal experience of truth into a mystical experience of emotion. And it should never be.

It says in 1 Corinthians 8 and 1, now it's touching things offered onto idols. We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up.

But charity, edifice, talking about charity or love as far as knowledge. When you're operating in love, the knowledge edifies. But if you don't have that, the knowledge you have just makes you proud and arrogant.

So I'm not talking about the Gnosis that puffs you up. Oh, I know this. I know that.

I think you should do this. Why aren't they doing this? I have seen people in the church and this church, they have criticized people for something that they do far worse. It puffs up.

Merely having knowledge makes you proud, arrogant, and many other things. Then in verse 6, it goes further with another three. And to knowledge temperance.

So add to knowledge. The more knowledge you have about holiness, the character of God, knowledge makes you move forward. And you want to add to knowledge temperance.

What's the word temperance? It means self-control. So you get knowledge about God's character, about sin, about holiness. You're receiving knowledge, facts, truth.

And so you want to move forward into self-control, self-restraint, self-denial. This word temperance comes from a root word meaning strength, power, dominion, vigor. Do you get it? You want to move from knowledge into a place of temperance where you control.

It's talking about the inward life, your passions, your desires, your thoughts, your emotions. And so you want to add to knowledge. You're reading the Bible.

You're reading the promises. You're reading the commands of God. And that knowledge brings you to temperance where you want self-control over your thoughts, over your lusts, over your own desires and passions.

It means to be strong in something. It means to have inward strength. It is strength over your emotions and passions.

It means to master and control yourself. See how all this is a growth, a process of partaking of the divine nature, of being a koinonia in the divine nature of you, of God actually imparting divine nature. So he's granting unto you virtue and knowledge, his knowledge of his divine nature.

His temperance is being granted onto you. This actually means self-rule. You know, the Irish were great fighters for self-rule.

All through the century, we want self-rule. I wish we had it in the church. I want self-rule.

I want to rule myself. I want to rule over my passions. But the sad fact is so many can't even rule themself.

They want to rule others. It is ruling the inward nature. And you need to be a partaker of the divine nature to do that.

The divine nature coming in will subdue that old nature. Number five, patience. Add to temperance.

So here you are controlling yourself. Now he says, add to temperance patience. So you're controlling your thoughts, your emotions, your passions, your lusts.

Now add to that patience. Patience is to do with outward things. The word patience means to joyfully stay in your place, to stay in the position where you're put, to uphold under many troubles, great pressure, and a lot of opposition.

It means you're under fire, but you keep your place. Now I'm a Christian. I'm staying here.

It means to bear. Making your stand as a Christian, you're going to face a lot of hassle. Fine.

I'm not moving. I'm staying as a Christian, staying in my place. I'm not moving.

And I'm keeping the joy of God. I'm going to endure. Do you know this isn't the inward battle over our passions, but the outward battle.

Add to temperance, patience. And you know what? The divine nature is coming in all of this. Now the patience of God, the ability to rejoice.

What Christ done for the joy set before him. He didn't enjoy suffering. He didn't enjoy pain or ridicule or rejection or scorning or mocking or laughter.

He didn't enjoy that. But for the joy set before him, there was joy on the cross. Here's Christ and his divinity with his divine nature.

He has patience. He is joyfully enduring the cross, staying in his place. If you be the son of God, why don't you come down off the cross? He said, I could call for 10,000 angels.

Why didn't they? He stayed there. Men mocking. Can you imagine your God that created the universe, created the planet, everything, every molecules held together by your power.

And they're mocking you. They're laughing. They're spitting in your face.

They've stuck a spear in your side and yet you do nothing. You're patient. Since this attribute can be in us, but it's not us working it up and say, I'm trying not to be angry.

I'm trying to be patient. No, it's showing diligence to add to temperance and then it comes. Add to patience godliness.

Godliness means likeness to God. God likeness, reverence, loyalty. It says in 1 Timothy 4 and 7, but refuse profane and old fables and exercise thyself rather onto godliness.

You need to exercise. Some of you I need to watch what I say. Some of you need to go to the gym big time.

I don't mean physically. I mean spiritually. Exercise thyself rather to godliness.

Give diligence. Don't be listening to profane old wives fables. Exercise yourself rather onto godliness.

Add godliness. God like nature, reverence, loyalty for bodily exercise profiteth little. He didn't say nothing.

He said little, but godliness is profitable onto all things. Having promise of the life that now is and that which is to come. Then look at verse 7. Unto godliness, brotherly kindness and the brotherly kindness charity.

So the sixth thing is brotherly kindness. It's the Greek word Philadelphia. Add to godliness or god likeness, reverence, loyalty, add brotherly kindness.

Do you know why he says this? It's not the same. Godliness is not the same as brotherly kindness. Do you know why he adds this? If you're godly, add brotherly kindness.

Because some people in the church have thought they're godly. I'm doing this. I'm doing this.

I'm doing this. And they're not very loving to the words their brothers and sisters. They think they're godly.

They'll say, I'm godly. I'm holy. But they don't love their brother.

They don't love their sister. But they claim to be godly, spiritual, but they show no love. That's why you've got to add to godliness Philadelphia.

It means filio, affection, warmth. Oh, it's not just some spiritual. Well, I love everyone.

This is an agape love. That comes next. Notice the order of all of this.

It says add to godliness, brotherly kindness. That means affection, warmth. And the New Testament says greet one another with a kiss.

Now, I know we don't generally do that. Some countries, that is common. But that is a greeting.

That is a warmth. That is an acknowledgment. That is a sharing together, caring about one another.

It's a brotherly friendship, affection. I go to church, but I don't need to love people. Then you're a sinner.

You don't know anything of the nature of God. Because real godliness, when it's in place, you add to it brotherly kindness. It is not just a spiritual invisible agape.

It is actually very visible. It's an affection. It's smiling at one another, hugging one another, greeting one another.

But seventh and lastly, add to brotherly kindness, charity. The word charity, and I love it, is love in action. It's the word agape.

It's a supernatural love, not a natural love. It's God's love. Now, hear me again.

God is love. This has been a koinonia of the divine nature, of the character of God. It is the love of God, supernatural love of God, actually coming into you and manifesting.

But notice you add it to brotherly kindness. You add it to that natural affection, that warm affection. There's something deeper than brotherly love.

And we could stop short of brotherly love, but there's something deeper. Charity is love in action. 1 Corinthians 13.

Remember at all the weddings, they read it. It's never meant to be confined to weddings. 1 Corinthians 13 gives 13 ways to identify God's love through you in action.

It's charity in action. It is agape love in action. It has its source in God.

It is God's nature being manifest. And I'm not going to go through it. We've preached entire messages on that before.

But it has 13 marks of what love looks like. And he goes through and says, this is what it's like. This is what it's like.

This is what it's like. Saints, you've just been given seven things here that you are to show diligence. You are to show effort.

You are to be quick to add. I want to add this. I want to add this.

I want to add this. I want this to be in my Christian life. I don't want to just stop.

I've seen Christians, they're strong in faith, but not strong in love. They're strong in knowledge, but they have no patience. Don't stop there.

If you're strong in an area, keep going, keep going. Add to your faith these seven things. And saints, these verses are actually the manifestation or simply how you get koinonia of the divine nature of God.

Let me close and I'll just read these scriptures. There are enough in themselves. Listen to what the apostle says right at the end of this.

For if these things be in you, these seven things, and abound, they're meant to grow, growing, abounding. We've thrown those words out. We're just trying to get it to function.

We don't even go to abounding. They make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. If these seven things be in you, the divine nature, if you're a koinonia of the divine nature, you will never be barren in your knowledge of Jesus and you'll never be unfruitful.

Never, ever, ever. Utterly impossible. Verse nine.

But he that lacketh these things, he that lacketh these things, do a test here tonight as we close. Either you have them in you operating or you lack them, one or the other. If you lack the seven things that I've just said tonight, he that lacketh these is blind, spiritually blind.

You can't see and you cannot see afar off. But he's not talking distance or into the future. Listen to what he says because he tells you what he's talking about.

So this blindness is that you can't see long distance. And then he says, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. You're blind.

What do I mean you're blind? You actually can't see Calvary. You've lost the ability to look back to the cross. Show me someone who doesn't live wholly in the church, doesn't have these seven things in them and abounding and moving forward in these and growing in these.

And I'll show you someone who's blind, who cannot look back with eyes of faith 2000 years and see Jesus dying on the cross and them being purged from their sin. And that's the whole key. If you see that you're abounding, you're going forward.

Those who are actually wholly living, wholly growing in holiness are those who have the clearest vision of Calvary. They see the lamb of God. They see that they're being purged.

I'm not blind. If I can see Calvary, then I tell you, it's propelling me forward to a life of holiness. And if these things aren't in you and you're not growing in them and you're not showing due diligence in adding to your faith, adding to your faith, pressing on in holiness, then you cannot see Calvary.

But saints, I pray tonight by the power of God and the grace of God, that God would touch your eyes afresh, that you'd look back to Mount Calvary and catch a glimpse. He died for you. He bled for you.

He saved you. He came looking for you. He rescued you.

He delivered you. He took you by the hand. He lifted you out of the married clay.

And you know what? Because of his grace, because of his power, because of his provision, I want to show diligence. I want to add to my faith. I want to go on.

I want to be God-like, Christ-like. I want to be a koinonia. I want to have koinonia in the divine nature of God.

If you become a holy Christian, it's not your holiness. It's not you accomplishing it. It's a gift.

It's a grant. It's him imparting to you his divine nature, his character, his attributes. And there'll be power there to live like this.

There's a liberty of freedom. It's not by your works. And like Israel of old, he'll say, go in and possess the land.

I'm not looking at yourselves or the giants or the walls or the armies. You'll simply look away to him and say, okay, you said it. I can't do it.

But I believe you. I believe it. If you told me to go in, I can't do it.

But you said, wherever my foot would tread, that's mine. That's mine. I've got to fight battles.

There's real giants, real enemies. But it's him that's given us the victory and causing us to triumph through our Lord Jesus Christ. Please stand with me here tonight as we close.

Lord Jesus, praise you. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We worship you.

Let's adore him. Let's thank him. Saints of God, he deserves all the glory, all the praise, all the honor, all the majesty.

Hallelujah. Oh, let your word come with power. Father, the preacher now stands silent.

But oh God, we ask that you speak on, oh God. Speak on, Lord God, tonight. Speak on into the early hours of the morning.

Speak on in the morning time. Speak on in the day ahead and the week ahead. My God, I pray by the grace of God and the power of God.

Oh God, forgive us as a church and individuals. Forgive this preacher, oh God, for wrestling in his own power and strength. My God, we yield to the righteousness of God.

Lord God, we look away from ourself unto you. And oh God, we put faith in you tonight. Lord God, work in us both to will and to do of your own good pleasure.

You promised, you obliged yourself that you would work in us both to will and to do of your own good pleasure. You said that you would do it, oh God. You said that you would conform us to the image of Christ.

You said that you predestinated us to be conformed to the image of your son. My God, will you bring the promises of God alive again? That we might walk in holiness and purity. That we wouldn't be discouraged or downcast or turning aside.

But oh God, we get our eyes off ourself. That with renewed strength and vigor, we would pursue after this walk. That we would want to go deeper and further.

That we would want to mature in Jesus Christ. We give you all the glory and all the honor and all the praise this night in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.