A MESSAGE
TO ALL CHRISTIANS FROM CHRIST’S APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES Colossians 1:9-14
9 “For this reason, (because you are Christians) since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you.”
COMMENT: (Paul had never met these
Christians…he wrote and prayed from jail.)
SCRIPTURE: “We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,”
COMMENT: (Before we do anything for the Lord, even though we are saved forever, we need to be “filled with the knowledge of His will”. Many pray for the “filling of the Spirit” who neglect the written Word of God. We would expand the idea of the knowledge of His will to include “full knowledge of His will…meaning a correct understanding of future events too.)
Yet the Spirit gives wisdom and understanding through His own Word! Being filled with the Spirit and being filled with the Word, understood in wisdom, are seen as synonymous and harmonious in the Scripture and experience.
Note; there are conflicting teachings on every major and many minor points in scripture. This does not annul or make void the Biblical claim that there is a true meaning to every doctrine coming from the God of truth.
For example, Christians believe, among all the many false notions about Jesus, that He is indeed the Son of God, perfect God and perfect man. We believe the Gospel alone saves anyone against all the false claims of all religions and earthly philosophies.
Shall we then quit looking at lesser matters which the Word teaches because they are disputed? No, we shall use the same spiritual discernment in these matters as we have in the past to find a happy resolution of difficult teachings. When these issues are settled, we shall find their truth to be in harmony with the larger truths of God’s Word.)
SCRIPTURE: 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
COMMENT: The purpose of understanding and assimilating the Word of God is to feed the inner man in order to “live a life worthy of the Lord.” This message, this Word of God, this written Scripture is ALIVE and carries transforming power with it to enable true, Spirit filled, Godly living!
SCRIPTURE: “We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,”
COMMENT: (Before we do anything for the Lord, even though we are saved forever, we need to be “filled with the knowledge of His will”. Many pray for the “filling of the Spirit” who neglect the written Word of God. We would expand the idea of the knowledge of His will to include “full knowledge of His will…meaning a correct understanding of future events too.)
Yet the Spirit gives wisdom and understanding through His own Word! Being filled with the Spirit and being filled with the Word, understood in wisdom, are seen as synonymous and harmonious in the Scripture and experience.
Note; there are conflicting teachings on every major and many minor points in scripture. This does not annul or make void the Biblical claim that there is a true meaning to every doctrine coming from the God of truth.
For example, Christians believe, among all the many false notions about Jesus, that He is indeed the Son of God, perfect God and perfect man. We believe the Gospel alone saves anyone against all the false claims of all religions and earthly philosophies.
Shall we then quit looking at lesser matters which the Word teaches because they are disputed? No, we shall use the same spiritual discernment in these matters as we have in the past to find a happy resolution of difficult teachings. When these issues are settled, we shall find their truth to be in harmony with the larger truths of God’s Word.)
SCRIPTURE: 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
COMMENT: The purpose of understanding and assimilating the Word of God is to feed the inner man in order to “live a life worthy of the Lord.” This message, this Word of God, this written Scripture is ALIVE and carries transforming power with it to enable true, Spirit filled, Godly living!
Weak as we believers are, even though born again, we are
strengthened (continually as we feed on this wonderful Word) according to “His
glorious might”…the same power that broke the seal of mighty Rome to allow the resurrected
Son of God to emerge from the tomb and rise right through Satan’s territory
(Satan is the “Prince of the Power of the Air) to enter Heaven as the glorified
Son of God, victor over sin, death and Hell, alive evermore!
SCRIPTURE: 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
COMMENT: Paul reminds us again, the Christian has rejoicing rights forever, springing from a grateful heart and soul because we are QUALIFIED to go to Heaven only by the death of Christ!
SCRIPTURE: 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
COMMENT: Paul reminds us again, the Christian has rejoicing rights forever, springing from a grateful heart and soul because we are QUALIFIED to go to Heaven only by the death of Christ!
He has RESCUED us from the darkness that once dominated our
lives and brought us into a kingdom dominated by the love of Jesus! The
redemption price was paid by the blood of Jesus and is a “done deal”…our sins
are forgiven…not piecemeal as some erroneously teach, but once and for all!
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