“DIVINE PROMISES and DIVINE PRINCIPLES”
Bishop James C. Hash, Sr.
BEYOND YOUR OWN STRENGTH THE CHRIST EMPOWERED LIFE
“DIVINE PROMISES and DIVINE PRINCIPLES”
A Divine God, with Divine plans, given to a Divine spirit-man with a divine spirit-mind.
· Agents of Divine Omnipotence (Colossians 1:27). The Mystery of Godliness.
· God’s representatives in the earth. We are born of the Spiritand nothing but the WORD and the Spirit of God can feed that spiritual life.
· We must live in it, feed in it, walk in it, talk in it, sleep in it, and meditate on it until it becomes our life.
· We must always be in the Holy Ghost.
2 Corinthians 3:18...KJV But WE ALL, WITH OPEN FACE BEHOLDING AS IN A GLASS THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE CHANGED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, EVEN AS BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD.
2 Corinthians 3:18...AMP And WE ALL, WITH UNVEILED FACE, CONTINUALLY SEEING AS IN A MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE PROGRESSIVELY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO HIS IMAGE FROM (one degree of) GLORY TO (even more) GLORY, WHICH COMES FROM THE LORD, (who is) THE SPIRIT.
· God has come to change us into His same Image, into the same Power, through His WORD and the Spirit.
· Step into God’s Divine Glory and Divine Virtue.
2 Peter 1:3-4...KJV ACCORDING AS HIS DIVINE POWER HATH GIVEN UNTO US ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE AND GODLINESS, THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM THAT HATH CALLED US TO GLORY AND VIRTUE:
4 WHEREBY ARE GIVEN UNTO US EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES: THAT BY THESE YE MIGHT BE PARTKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION THAT IS IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST
· “...EXCEEDING GREAT and PRECIOUS PROMISES...”
· Divine Promises, Divine Principles.
· PARTKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE...
John 1:1-4...KJV IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, and THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, and THE WORD WAS GOD.
2 THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD.
3 ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; and WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE.
4 IN HIM WAS LIFE; and THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN.
· “...THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, and THE WORD WAS GOD.”
· God’s Word is Divine. It (the WORD) brings us into Divine Glory and Divine Virtue.
· Our greatest enemy to this Divine life is a carnal mind (Romans 8:7).
1 John 4:17...KJV Herein IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.
· Jesus always lives in the present tense.
· We, believers, must come “NOW” to the place of the present tense.
· Living in the “NOW” of your existence instead of living in the future.
NOW is NOW!
Living in a “NOW” power, a “NOW” God, a “NOW” heaven, a “NOW” glory, a “NOW” virtue, a “NOW” faith, a “NOW” believing, a “NOW” healing, a “NOW” deliverance, and a “NOW” blessing.
1 John 3:1-2...KJV Behold, WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD: THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWETH US NOT, BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT.
2 BELOVED, “NOW” ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, and IT DOTH 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.
Ephesians 2:13, 18-19...KJV But “NOW” IN CHRIST JESUS YE WHO SOMETIMES WERE FAR OFF ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
18 For THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER.
19 “NOW” THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, but FELLOW-CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, and of THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.
Ephesians 3:14-16 KJV For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 OF WHOM THE WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED,
16 THAT HE WOULD GRANT YOU, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY, TO BE STRENGTHENED WITH MIGHT BY HIS SPIRIT IN THE INNER MAN;
2 Corinthians 6:1-2...KJV We then, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM, BESEECH YOU ALSO THAT YE RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN.
2 (FOR HE SAITH, I HAVE HEARD THEE IN A TIME ACCEPTED, and IN THE DAY OF SALVATION HAVE I SUCCOURED THEE: BEHOLD, “NOW” IS THE ACCEPTED TIME; BEHOLD, “NOW” IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.)
· “...“NOW” IS THE ACCEPTED TIME...”
· “...“NOW” IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.”
Hebrews 10:38-39...KJV “NOW” THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: but IF ANY MANY DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
39 But WE ARE NOT OF THEM WHO DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION; BUT OF THEM THAT BELIEVE TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL.
· “NOW” THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH...
· ...IF ANY MANY DRAW BACK...
· MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM
Hebrews 11:1, 6...KJV “NOW” FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, the EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
6 But WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM: for HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS, and THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM.
· “NOW” FAITH IS... Faith is “NOW.”
· WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM.
· HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS.
BEYOND YOUR OWN STRENGTH THE CHRIST EMPOWERED LIFE
“DIVINE PROMISES and DIVINE PRINCIPLES”