More 2018 Reflection Notes:
*REFLECTIVE EXPERIENCE/ INTIMATEENCOUNTER THAT COMES FROM SEEKING GOD
On Saturday May 19th (2018) I was taking my daughter down to her basketball tournament in the Pittsburgh area. After awhile, especially on the way back I began to realize that I was becoming very sensitive in my awareness with images of the Cross. It seemed like everywhere I looked, I noticed the shape of the Cross. I went home and reflected on this and began to seek God about what He was saying to me.
Sunday morning I got up and began to read some of my devotionals and God brought this verse to my attention.
Col. 2:13-15
“13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”• If you are in Christ, everything that is against you He openly and publicly shamed them and has won our victory on the Cross… “Devil if you want to remember something, you remember that… Church if you want to talk about something, you talk about that. Declare it, Decree it, Discuss, and believe it, because until we do, we will not walk in the victory that WE have!!!.
*Crucial Subjects Mentioned and Versus (Col.1):
• Crucial for Faith, Fruitfulness, Hope, Love for God, The Brethren, and the World (1:3-8)
• It reminds us of His love, causes us to pray, teaches us to be patient and longsuffering, gives us joy even in tough situations, it gives us understanding of our inheritance in Him, It has and can bring redemption, forgiveness, salvation, deliverance from darkness, and change & transformation to our lives in Him (1:9-14)
Col. 1:15-20
“15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Person and work of Christ 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.”
*REFLECTION COMEBACK: God did not hide Christ’s Victory for Us, So We Must Declare It!
QUICK OUTLINE: Remembrance For Going Forward
God Wants:
1. Our Hearts to Be Comforted (Col. 2:1-4)
2. All Faith Stabilized In Christ Alone (Col. 2:5-8)
3. Us to know we are Complete In Him Alone (Col. 2:9-15)
4. Us to be Connected to the Head (Col. 2:16-23)
LESSON TEXT (COLOSSIANS 2)
Gods Wants:
Col. 2:1-4
1. Your Hearts To Be Comforted.
A. In Unified Love (comeback)• Background of Christians (comeback)
B. In Full Assurance of Understanding (comeback)
Col. 2:1-4
“1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; 2 that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
*SPEAKING OUT OF ENCOUNTERS AND EXPERIENCES (Authenticity with God winning someone’s heart/swept off my feet)
Before we get to “the together” (vs 2) part hear this for this week.
Ephesians 3
“16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to COMPREHEND with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 and to know the love of Christ, which passethknowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”
COMPREHEND
Word: katalambanw
Pronounce: kat-al-am-ban’-o
Strongs Number: G2638
Orig: from 2596 and 2983; to take eagerly, i.e. seize, possess, etc. (literally or figuratively):–apprehend, attain, come upon, comprehend, find, obtain, perceive, (over-)take. G2596
Use: TDNT-4:9,495 Verb
1) to lay hold of
1a) to lay hold of so as to make one’s own, to obtain, attain to, to make one’s own, to take into one’s self, appropriate
1b) to seize upon, take possession of
Love: “from the pages of scripture, from the sound of the preacher, love messages must shift to intimate (personal experiential knowledge of God’s love) encounters and experiences with God before they become impactful expressions sowed into the (other) peoples’ lives”
1 John 4:18-20
“18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us.20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that lovethnot his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”
Romans 5:5
“the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
*SHED/ ABROAD
Word: ekcew
Pronounce: ek-kheh‘-o
Orig: or (by variation) ekchuno ek-khoo’-no, from 1537 and cheo (to pour); to pour forth; figuratively, to bestow:–gush (pour) out, run greedily (out), shed (abroad, forth), spill. G153
Remember: Learn & Return to our first love (Christ), then we will be able to love with God’s kind of love!
Extra Note Study Outline:
LESSON TEXT/ OUTLINE (COLOSSIANS 2)
Gods Wants:
Col. 2:1-4
1. Your Hearts To Be Comforted.
A. In Unified Love.
B. In Full Assurance of Understanding
*Col. 2:5-8
2. Our Faith Stabilize In Christ Alone.
A. If you started (received) wit h Christ (evangelistic)(vs6).
B. To Stabilize (steadfastness) our faith in Christ (vs.5).
C. Stay In Him As We Live Out Life (walk/tread all around ) (vs. 6). *Beware (VS. 8)
*Col. 2:9-15
3. For Us To Know We Are Complete In Him Alone (vs.10).
A. Through Circumcision with Him (vs 11).
B. By the Cross (death, burial, and resurrection) (vs. 12-14). *”We Got Victory and Our Enemies No It.” “We Got To Know It It and Walk In It”
*Col. 2:16-23
4. Connected to Christ The Head ( VS 19)
To be ran all around by all kinds of traditions, philosophies, and ordinances is to be unstable in faith in Christ, unaware of all God has for us, spiritually mislead, not displaying His victory, and having Christ formed in us, but some other entity through the teachings of men and through whatever is influencing them.
*We got to get free of spiritual rules that disconnect us from Christ and from experiencing all the benefits of the hidden treasures God wants us to know we have.
*Galatians 3
God is forming His Son In Us and we can live and minister in victory, through Christ, By His Spirit, Together!!!!!
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