Aspects and Characteristics of Multiplying Grace

 

Aspects and Characteristics of Multiplying Grace

1 Pet 1:2 "Grace to you and peace be multiplied"

2 Pet 1:2 "Grace to you and peace be multiplied through the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord"

2 Pet 1:2-3 "Through the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord...His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness"

 

Aspects of Multiplying Grace	Detailed Description	Related Verses and Explanation
Growth Process	1. Starting with a small measure of God at regeneration 2. Increasing through years 3. Reaching maturity in divine life	• Col 2:19 "Holding fast to the Head, from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God" • 2 Pet 3:18 "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" • John 1:16-17 "Of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ" • John 1:16 "Of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace" • Eph 4:13 "Until we all arrive...at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" • Eph 4:15-16 "Holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ" • Col 2:19 "From whom all the Body...grows with the growth of God"
Growth Method	1. In daily life 2. In full knowledge of God 3. In full knowledge of the Lord Jesus 4. Grace multiplying repeatedly
Grace Characteristics	1. Unlimited (as God is unlimited) 2. Measurable (having weight in believers) 3. Progressive (increasing step by step)
Key Elements	1. Time factor (through years) 2. Knowledge factor (knowing God and Lord) 3. Life factor (daily life experience)
Practical Results	1. God's measure increasing in believers 2. Believers having weight by God's measure 3. Reaching maturity in divine life
Multiplication Principles	1. From quantitative increase (God's measure) 2. To qualitative elevation (life maturity) 3. As an ongoing process

 

Conclusion:

1.      Each aspect of multiplying grace has biblical foundation

2.      These aspects are interrelated and progressive

3.      From initial regeneration to final maturity is a complete process

4.      Each aspect requires our active cooperation and experience

 

*Please refer to the 2024 International Thanksgiving Conference

Message Five: Grace in Peter's Epistles - Living the Christian and Church Life under God's Government for God's Economy