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The peace of God has different elements: 1) It is perfect well-being, 2) All necessary good, 3) All spiritual prosperity, 4) Freedom from fears, and 5) Freedom from agitating passions and moral conflicts. Well now, if you have perfect well-being, you've got everything. You are completely spiritually prosperous, you are free from any kind of fear. Anything that agitates your passion, and that you have no conflicts whatsoever with, you ought to be in peace.

Knowledge from God is not natural knowledge. Natural knowledge comes from your experience, natural knowledge comes from what you learned in school. Natural knowledge comes from what your physical senses have gathered through what you have heard, and tasted, and touched, and felt, and smelled. Natural knowledge is fallible. It can be transmitted with error. And it certainly can be received with error. You can be wrong in how you transmit it, you can be wrong in how you receive it. But on the other hand, revelation knowledge cannot be transmitted in error and it cannot be received in error. Revelation knowledge comes from the Holy Spirit. And revelation knowledge, that knowledge revealed by God is transmitted to your spirit, your spirit can't receive it in error either. Your spirit is a safe guide, glory to God.

Now you need to understand what a divine power of God is. It was the divine power of God that performed the most miraculous act ever in humankind. And that was the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Satan did everything he could to keep Jesus from being raised from the dead. Satan himself, every demon power, all of the forces of darkness were brought against trying to keep Jesus from being raised from the dead and the Bible told us that God had to face the hardest thing he ever did. I mean there is no struggle between God and Satan. It is the forces of darkness, and the force of light is with you. Light is stronger than darkness and God blinked his eye and the enemy was defeated.

His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain in the life and godly living. So that means there is nothing you need in this earth that his divine power has not already provided. And there is nothing out here strong enough to stop his divine power. So if you can believe it, you can receive it, and there is nothing the devil or anybody else, or anything else can do about it. It isn't your power. It's His power. But he used his power to get to you, to get you what you need.

Well the word of God says that His divine power has given unto us all things that are pertaining to life and godliness through. Now, even though he has done all of that, whether or not we are going to get it manifested in our lives depends on something that happens here - because the divine power has provided everything for us.

You have been redeemed from the corruption in the world. You have been redeemed from the curse of the law, poverty, sickness, and spiritual death. Why? Jesus has set you free. And he has given you promises in the word of God that if received, if you understand them in the realm of the spirit and not just up here with your gray matter, but praise God you see the light of the revelation of any promise of God, you will escape from the corruption that is in the world. By these promises you might be partakers of the divine nature.

Having to escape the corruption that is in the world through lust and beside this. Giving all diligence. So if it said give diligence, then we would know, we know that diligence is just the opposite of laziness and we know that diligence requires effort. But it says given all diligence. So, as I lay this foundation, we need to understand that what he is talking about here is crucial to our getting to the place at the end of Verse 10. You shall never fall. Now the Amplified translation it says at the end of Verse 10, "you shall never stumble or fall." Not only will you not fall down, you won't even stub your toe. Glory to God. But in order to do that, he said now give it all diligence.

He knows he is talking to faith people. First of all, faith is obviously extremely important, but it is not all you need. God said we can't receive the promises, we can escape the corruption that is in the world without it, we can't receive revelation without doing these things, and I want you to understand here that the understood subject of this is you do this. It is not God saying, "Well I am going to do this for you." God said, "Now you do this and this is what will happen." Hallelujah! How many know that all the promises of God are conditional? God will promise you "X" and you will receive "X," if you do what he says. If you are willing and obedient. One, the willingness is an attitude. The obedience is the doing part. So you are willing to do the right thing and you also do the right thing.

A lot of times people will be willing to do the right thing, but then they won't get up off their hind end and do the right thing. Isaiah 1:18 says, "If you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land." He said and besides this, giving all diligence add to your faith, virtue. Now virtue means moral goodness and moral excellence. He said add morality to your faith. He said you can be a big time faith man, big time faith woman, and you can lose out on all the things that are available unto you, because you don't have any morality.

Everybody has messed up one time or another. So all of us live in glass houses. So there is no sense in picking up boulders and throwing them through other people's glass. Mind your business and just pray for somebody else. Thank God for mercy and pray that long suffering will be given to them. Praise the Lord. Well he said, add moral goodness, add moral excellence to your faith. If you are going to be a big time faith man or you are going to be a big time faith woman, you are going to walk in the Word of God. God expects you to walk this way. He says and to virtue, add knowledge. Now the Greek word here for knowledge is different than the one we have been reading all along. All the other words we saw for knowledge was "epicnosis," which means exact, complete, full knowledge, which is revelation knowledge. We know if it is exact, it is revelation.

If God says you are delivered, then act like you are delivered. It may not look like you are delivered, yet it didn't look like Paul was delivered, but spiritual intelligence will tell you, even though it may not look like it. I heard from God and that is all I need. I need to act like it. And he sat down and gave God thanks and began to eat the food and everybody else was looking at him. And when he had thus spoken, he gave thanks to God in the presence of them all when he had broken the bread and he began to eat, then were they all of good cheer and they also took some meat. I mean by watching Paul, it gave the rest of them hope and by watching you who walk in spiritual intelligence, it will give those who don't know what you know, hope. They were all delivered. It happened just like he said. Now some folks were in danger of losing their lives, jumping overboard, ending it all, but the hope that came through all of them, because what they saw with Paul, caused everybody to stay in the ship, praise God.

Get your fill with the Holy Ghost, you will have power from on high. Now self-control is vital, that is one of the reasons why fasting is important. Once again it is a demonstrator of self-control. When you can stand there and look at that plate of your favorite food and you say, "I am not going to eat you today and I am going to spend my time in the Word of God and that is what I am going to eat today," and you walk away from that and you do what you said, you are all right. But some folks can't get past Dairy Queen. You know there were people crying this week because it is now starting to turn cold. And they are getting ready to close those places up. They drive by there and everybody says, "Stop, it's a Dairy Queen, you must indulge." When your spirit says, "No, You are thirty pounds overweight." The body says yes, the spirit says no. And then you say, skip the spirit. We will repent later. Well, the bottom line is whether or not you never stumble or fall or you become one who becomes destroyed.

Patience means steadfastness. It means endurance. It means perseverance. That means that an individual, once they get into something, once they get in the Word of God, they can't be blown off and they are going to fight, even if they get knocked down they are going to get back up. They are going to stay in the fight and not quit.

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Keith Butler
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Keith Butler has been an ordained minister since 1974. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds diplomas from Canada Christian College and Rhema Bible Training Center. He serves in ministry with the support of his lovely wife, Pastor Deborah L. Butler, and their children: Pastor Andre Butler (granddaughters Alexis, Angela, and April), Pastor MiChelle Ferguson and husband Pastor Lee (grandson Lucas), and Minister Kristina Jenkins and husband Pastor Joel (grandsons Andrew and Austin, and granddaughter Alyssa).
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