colossians-1:19-20

THE MUTUAL GAIN OF CHRIST AND CHRISTIANS IN THEIR LIFE AND DEATH. Occasioned By The Death Of The Reverend Joseph Stennet, D. D. Preached February 26, 1758. PHILIPPIANS 1:21. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is Gain. THIS epistle, of which the words of my text are a part, was written by the ap... Read More

The Will of God for You By Paris Reidhead* “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That” and again it’s that little causative ‘in order that’ or ... Read More

As we come to this letter to the Colossians, by way of laying a foundation we will read some verses from the matchless first chapter. "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritu... Read More

Reading: Genesis 28:10-12,19; John 1:47; Genesis 31:13; 35:1,6,7; I Corinthians 1:20; 2:14. We have been considering the sevenfold operation of life as represented for us in the book of Genesis by seven persons. In our previous meditation, we arrived at the sixth, namely, Jacob, and it is with that ... Read More

"If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one" Luke 22:36. Later on Jesus said to those same disciples, "Put your sword back into its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword" (Matthew 26:52). There must be a good explanation for the Lord's earlier command that His disciples... Read More

"In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in him ye are made full" (Col. 2:9-10). "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" (Col. 1:18). "Who is the head of all principality and ... Read More

I would ask you to turn to God's picture book, the Old Testament, in two places: "And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue" (Exodus 28:31). "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and tha... Read More

Reading: Colossians 1:9-29. The clause in the thirteenth verse very largely represents what has been laid on my heart for this time: "The Son of his love"; then that which follows, the position which He occupies according to the will of the Father - "He is before all things, and in him all things co... Read More

After having read this chapter of John, we should immediately add Hebrews 13:20: "Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that w... Read More

We concluded our last chapter with the words: "The last movement before 'I come quickly' MUST be a Christ-movement." If this book of "the Revelation" is finality, then it is - in that very connection - the book of the fullness and finality of Jesus Christ. Above we have used the word 'consummation',... Read More