Good morning my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. I have a question for you.

Do you realize, do you recognize the fact that you as a believer in Jesus Christ have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

That is the truth we're looking at today in 2 Peter Chapter 1. I encourage you, get your

mind prepared right now. Take a deep breath, push aside all the stress and the

strain and the emotion that might be cropping up,

and stop for a moment to focus with me on the truth of God so that we can get our minds

aligned with it for today. We are looking at 2 Peter Chapter 1

verse number 4 where Peter writes, God has granted to us his precious and very

great promises so that through them you may become

partakers of the divine nature having escaped from the corruption that is in the

world because of simple desires. Now when you read

the scriptures pay attention to the verb tenses now I know we're going back to

high school grammar here but I apologize for that language and things like verb tenses are things we have to learn to pay attention to when we read the scriptures.

Because it really impacts the way we listen and the way that we learn

and the way we understand what is going on in a passage. You see when Peter says

having escaped he's talking about something that's already done, something that happened in the past.

So he's saying, by being one who is placed into Jesus Christ.

In other words, a Christian, we have received this reality that we have escaped from the corruption

that's in the world because of sinful desire.

So think of that word escape.

Imagine some big bad nasty boogie man was chasing you down

and you had an opportunity and you took it and you escaped somehow.

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