Friday, October 9, 2015

Always thank God. 10/9/15

Colossians 1

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2 To the saints and faithful brothers[a] in Christ at Colossae:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant.[b] He is a faithful minister of Christ on your[c] behalf 8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks[d] to the Father, who has qualified you[e] to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The Preeminence of Christ

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by[f] him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation[g] under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Paul's Ministry to the Church

24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.


Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

“I live in a fine way” October 9th

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, Raca! shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, You fool! shall be in danger of hell fire.” MATTHEW 5:21-22

The words “You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment” fit our natural mind. Our natural mind tends to think in categories and slots. It has a formed concept about our behavior according to those categories. We feel that if we do not do certain things, we are okay. So we live in this “okay” mode. We live according to general categories, which become the teachings by which we judge ourselves. But now the Lord is saying, “Formerly, you lived according to these fixed teachings, but now that you have Me, you are to live according to the feeling of life that is being reproduced in your spirit. Now that My life is being reproduced in you, you are finding that you have ambivalent feelings. Your feelings are split between your concept and My life that is rising up in you. Your concept is limited, guarded, calculating, and motivated by self-preservation. But My life is transcendent. My feelings are beyond your thought about the way to live and react to things. Your standard of judging things is far below what I am doing within you. You are satisfied with yourself because you do not kill. The category for killing has been checked off in your mind. But you are not aware that I am in you and that I am not tolerating hidden anger. You have lived by the law, but now I want to teach you to live by Me. You live in a general way. I live in a fine, detailed way.”

In Matthew 5:22 the Lord says, “But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, Raca! shall be in danger of the council.” “Raca” means empty-headed person. It is a term that expresses contempt. By this we can see how fine the Lord’s life is. He goes from anger to a form of that anger expressed toward others. Then the Lord continues by saying, “But whoever says, Moreh shall be in danger of the Gehenna of fire.” From anger to Raca to Moreh. Moreh means fool. It is an outright statement made in a very deliberate way toward a person. Just one quick remark out of our mouth does not match the transcendency of His life in us. By saying these things, the Lord reveals that His life is transcendent in its fineness.


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