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I. THE GREATNESS OF DIVINE GRACE. "His Divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness." The reference here is to our Saviour Jesus Christ.

1. Grace comes by Divine power. It is no angelic effort or human invention. Its wisdom is Divine omniscience. Its power is Divine omnipotence. Its activity is Divine omnipresence. Its resources infinite. Its love the eternal love of God:

2. It supplies every real need. Life is the state and godliness the activity. In the gift of the Holy Spirit every possible want of the soul is met.

II. THE METHOD OF DIVINE GRACE. It comes through the knowledge of Him that calleth us by His own glory and virtue. In knowledge is the spring of life. Our actions are governed by our volitions, our volitions by our emotions, our emotions by our knowledge or belief. Thoughts of Christ's love set our hearts all aglow with love to Him, and that love becomes the spring of a new and holy life.

III. THE CONSOLATION OF DIVINE GRACE. "Exceeding great and precious promises."

IV. THE GLORY OF DIVINE GRACE. That through these ye may become partakers of the Divine nature.

V. THE FOE OF DIVINE GRACE. The corruption that is in the world by lust. There are two great spiritual cities: in the one there is corruption by lust, in the other life by godliness. The Divine new life is in peril in the poisoned air, that life which to the believer is infinitely more precious than all besides.

(The Freeman.)

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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:

WEB: seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;