Daily Bread

2 Peter 1:5- "And this is it also bringing in all diligence you supply in the faith virtue and with the virtue the knowledge. "

The Greek phrase "en te pistei" ("in the faith" or "by the faith"), takes this activity way beyond both the Law and human discipline. In the faith is not to be understood as "in religion" or some other concept of religious conviction. Faith is much more than these things; it is the activity of the supernatural and divine working of God's grace. Faith is how God created everything. It is how the mouths of lions were shut and how the violence of fire was quenched (Hebrews 11). Faith is how every miracle that Jesus worked by the Spirit took place (Acts 3:16; Galatians 3:5). Faith is always equated to the miracles that Jesus did throughout the gospels (Matthew 8:10, 26; 9:2, 22, 29; 14:31; 15:28; 17: 20; 21:21; Mark 11:22; Luke 17:5, 19; 18:42) The miracles which were done by those who believed on Jesus were done by the activity of faith (Acts 3:16; 6:8; 14:9; Galatians 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; James 5:15; Jude 21). These attributes of God's nature and God's people are to be supplied by faith not by human discipline.Therefore virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness and love will be supplied through the faith realm. The Greek phrase "en te pistei" is found 4 times in the New Testament as such it is in the dative form and translated "in the faith" in every case except 2 Peter 1:5 in the Authorized Version, (1 Corinthians 16:13; 2 Corinthians 13:5¹ Titus1:13; 2 Peter 1:5).

Blessings

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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