There is no need for Christians to go through life without having peace and rest in God.
Colossians
3:15b
"…to
the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful."
See
here it is again, the Body of Christ, counted in the “one” of
2Corinthians 5:14-15, which all believers of Paul’s Gospel are a
part of. The same ones that Jesus spoke of in John's synoptic gospel
in chapter 10 verses 16 and 27. With these verses there is one over looked
which is verse 26 which states this: “But
you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto
you.” This
also agrees with what was stated earlier dealing with the word from
Jeremiah 4
:14
and 18. Many have pointed a finger of displeasure and quite frankly
disapproval of me because I with a few others proclaim a selective
and limited or restrictive Gospel based on our understanding of God
and His Word. I see the entry into God's kingdom as a very narrow
passage through which many are not willing to pass for many reasons.
But the chief reason to me is just plan ignorance of God and His Word
because there is no knowledge of Him to be found in them. For
knoweldge leads to love and love leads to clean and clear fellowship
in trust which brings about worship in spirit and truth.
Moving
on to the two words “one” and “all”, now here is another one
of those missed opertunities in the word “But”
here used and here means, taken from Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
“NOTWITHSTAND'ING,
the participle of withstand, with not prefixed, and signifying not
opposing; nevertheless. It retains in all cases its participial
signification. For example, "I
will surely rend the knigdom from you, and will give it to your
servant; notwithstanding, in your days I will not do it, for David
your father's sake."
1 Ki 11. In this passage there is an ellipsis of that, after
notwithstanding. That refers to the former part of the sentence, “I
will rend the kingdom from you;
notwithstanding that (declaration or determination,) in
your days I will not do it.”
In this and in all cases, notwithstanding, either with or without
that or this, constitutes the case absolute or independent. The
reason that other sheep will not become the LORD'S is because they
are not given to Him by the Father, as being part of the “But”
or in our case not being part of the “all”. And
now you know why I claim a selective Gospel message with the intent
of bring people to a true and accurate knowledge of both God and
Christ Jesus as they are indeed One. For the Spirit of Truth is my LORD as He is to be the LORD of all true Christ-like-ones or Christ-ones.
Colossians
3:16a
"Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;…"
I’ve
got to take you back to chapter 1. I could take you also to
Ephesians, but I’ll make it easy on you, so just turn back a page
in Colossians to 1:9. This is Paul’s prayer on behalf of the Colossi
believers.
Colossians
1:9-10
"For
this cause we also, since the day we heard it, (that they had
become believers) do not cease to pray for you, and to desire
that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom
and spiritual understanding:"
To
be able to search the Scriptures and dig these things out, and put
them into daily practice, because how many times have I said,
"Christianity is the most practical thing on earth." And I
mean that. Christianity is what makes people a good citizen.
Christianity is what makes a person a good neighbor. Christianity
makes a person a good parent. Christianity makes a person a good
teenager, Christianity is what makes an honest person a good and true
businessman. So all the way through Christianity is so practical.
It’s not pie in the sky, or some foolishness over there, but just
simple practical everyday living. And that’s what God is looking
for. How is this reached by us? Through a working active knowledge and spiritual relationship in
Christ Jesus and our New Life in Him and He through us in all wisdom and spiritual understanding with thanksgiving.
Colossians
1:10
"That
ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, (we don’t
have to be like sandpaper to people who are around us. However they
must also realize that we’re different than the world) being
fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;"
Oh
listen, when I realized how ignorant that I was, I also realized how
ignorant so many so-called “Christians” are. And how it must
grieve the heart of God and His Holy Spirit that they haven’t
learned of Him. After all it took me and mine over 40 years of deep
frustration before I had a change of mindset too. Remember ignorance
is not a lack of brain power, that has nothing to do with it.
Ignorance is a lack of teaching or training in righteousness. Now
that may be of our own free will, some don’t want to be taught, but
many times it’s just simply they’ve never thought about it. But
to be willingly ignorant of what the Scripture says, means that you
simply don’t want to learn, so remember that. The old tired
attitude of, it was good for grandpa and dad and it is therefore good
for me, does not fly any longer.
Or
to study Israel as the bases of our knowledge flies in the face of
God, because with it comes all those ceremonies, rites, rituals,
customs and traditions and holidays including Sabbaths, the old
standards that are now set aside. Why? Because they all pointed
towards the day of the Lord, Christ Jesus as their fulfilment and
consummation. People with this mindset will remain
in darkness which is sin. They remain the people who make light of
Christ because of the darkness of their hearts. God wants us all
to increase in the Knowledge of His Word and Himself. To
do so requires our willingness to set aside all other forms of mans
religion with all of it imposed standards, doctrines, ordinances, and
traditions. He, God in Jesus, died our death to free us from deaths grip in mans
religion. Saul of Tarsus who became Paul because he to died to his
fromer way in mans religion, a Jew, as a Pharisee's Pharisee is our example
of this.
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