(2) Seven Power Promises To Christ Likeness

Common Sense Commentary:

"According to His divine Power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and Godliness, through the Knowledge of Him that hath Called us to His Glory and Virtue; Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious Promises; that by these ye might be Partakers of the Divine Nature..... 2Pet.1:3-4 (Please also read thru v.9). This is the same divine plan and Purpose of God I spoke of in my last blog titled (1) In His Image.

Don't miss the "divine Power" and "precious Promises" in the above verses from whence I got the title: Seven Power Promises To Christ Likeness. I list those "Power Promises" below.......

I. Power Promise (1). All Trouble and Affliction Have A Godly purpose = Christ likeness....
.... Heb.12:10 God chastens us "for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness."
..... 2Cor.4:17 "... Our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding weight of Glory (exceeding heavy honor)...." which is Christ likeness.

II. Power Promise (2). All Things Work for the Believer's Good and God's purpose= Christ likeness, "in His Image".
..... Rom.8:18 "For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose." which is Christ likeness.
..... Phil.1:6 "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." (2nd Coming "when He shall appear, we shall be like Him"1Jn.3:2). Christ likeness.

III. Power Promise (3). Every True Christian is Destined to Christ likeness = His Purpose.
..... Rom.8:29 "We are predestinated to be conformed to the image God's Son, that He (Jesus) might be the firstborn among many brethren." Jesus Christ is the "firstborn" of a new, eternal race of born again, transformed to Christ likeness, "in His Image and Likeness" faithful believers as was God our Creator's original plan and purpose for mankind. "In His Image."

IV. Power Promise (4). Christ likeness is a SPIRITUAL Metamorphosis from an ugly worm like caterpillar to a glorious and beautiful butterfly..."so to speak", lest anyone quote me as
delusional or trying to start a new religion of "Believer Butterflies". Its the best I can do with a word picture illustration honey. Anyway, here are the verses :
..... 1Cor15:49 "....as we have born the image of the earthly (physical), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." Regenerated "in His image and likeness". Christ Likeness.
..... Phil.3:21 For He "shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself." = Christ likeness, in His image, Perfectly Holy is God's Purpose for us.

V. Power Promise (5). The Miracle of the Mirror (From Glory Unto Glory) = Christ likeness.
..... 2Cor.3:18 "But we all with open face (vail gone) beholding as in a glass (mirror) the glory
of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory unto glory."= DOXA Gk.wd.
..... 1Thess.2:12 "We are called unto His glory. " = DOXA Greek Word "Glory". Christ Likeness.

VI. Power Promise (6). This is the Mystery of the Ages throughout the Old Testament. The Jew's Messiah/Christ (Gk/Heb Same word) was spoken of by Moses and the prophets but the people were blinded by a "vail"as described by the Jewish scholar who became the Apostle Paul :
..... Col.1:27 "This is the mystery which was hidden (vail) from ages past.... Christ in you the hope of Glory." "Christ IN you" is even more than "Christ like". It is the person of Christ living IN you. This is the mystery God's people Israel could not see in the O.T. prophecies of their coming Messiah/Christ . c.f. Rom.1:7, 3:17 & 2Cor.4:4. In these next verses, "Their minds were blinded.

.... 2Cor.3:13-16 "which vail is done away in Christ " and when they turn to the Lord, "The vail is taken away". Christ Likeness (Please read all these verses).

VII. Power Promise (7). God's Finished Work....Perfection. After we Christians have suffered persecution; (Jesus said, "if they hated me they will hate you"), after we have suffered tribulation; ("Tribulation worketh endurance") after a lifetime of growing in grace and struggling to live up to our name, Christian....then, finally, when we hear, "the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God", and the dead in Christ arise, God will finish us...."In His Image and after His likeness." As we are caught up into the clouds:
.... Col.3:4 "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in Glory".... Glorified, Christlike, in His Image, Perfectly Holy.
.... 1Jn.3:2-3 "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doeth not yet appear what we shall be; but we KNOW that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure."
..... Heb. 12:18 & 22-23 "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched (Sinai) but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of Just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling ..... (The Heavenly Altar Of God at the Mercy Seat of God where Christ ascended immediately at His resurrection to present His sacrifice upon the cross for our sins ). Every True Christian's Future is there around God's Throne as described above.

Pass It On. RB