Saturday, October 10, 2015

Be encouraged. 10/10/15


Day 281


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https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Col.2 

Colossians 2

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 5 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Alive in Christ

6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities[b] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.[c]

Let No One Disqualify You

16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,[d] puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

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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