Colossians

Colossians: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4-

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1:1 Paul, an apostle, that is, one sent of Christ Jesus through the desire of God, along with Brother Timothy, 2 to the devoted ones in Colossae and the faithful brothers and sisters inside of Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

3 We give thanks and speak good grace to the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, in praying always for you, 4 for we have heard of your faith inside of Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the devoted ones, 5 through the hope being stored up for you inside the heavens, which you heard of before inside the word of truth, the gospel, 6 which is present in you. Just as in all the world the gospel is bearing fruit and increasing, so it is doing the same in you, from the day you heard and acknowledged the grace of God inside of truth. 7 You learned the same gospel from Epaphras the beloved, our fellow bond-servant, who is faithful on our behalf, a servant of Christ, the one who also declared to us your love inside of Spirit.

• 9 Because of this we also, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the acknowledgement of His desire [a] inside of all wisdom and spiritual understanding, • 10 to walk worthily of the Lord into all desire to please in every good work, bringing forth fruit and increasing in the acknowledgement of God. • 11 For you are empowered with all power according to His glorious sustaining might, into all perseverance and longsuffering with joy. • 12 You give thanks and speak good grace to the Father, the One who made you sufficient into the portion of the inheritance of the devoted ones inside of the light. • 13 He has rescued us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, inside of whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

• 15 He, the Son, is the image, the appearance to creation, of the invisible God and the firstborn of all creation [b). 16 Because inside of Him all things were created, both inside of the heavens and upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or lord-ships, primaries or authorities; all things have been created through Him and into Him. • 17 And He is before as the source of all things, and inside of Him all things are connected together. • 18 He is the head of the Body, the Church, as well as the Source, the firstborn out from the dead, so that inside of all, He might hold preeminence.

• 19 For inside of Him all the fulness [of God the Father] was pleased to dwell, 20 and through Him to reconcile all completely into Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross, through Him, whether things upon the earth or things inside of the heavens. • 21 And you, once being alienated and hostile in mind inside of evil deeds, now, however, He has completely reconciled you 22 inside of the body of His flesh through death, placing you beside and with Himself devoted, unblemished, and blameless inside His presence, 23 if indeed you continue in faith, established and firm, and not be moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard; the gospel which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

• 24 Now, I rejoice in sufferings for your sake, and I am filling up that which is lacking of the travailing pressures of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His Body, which is the Church ©, 25 of which I became a servant, • according to the stewardship of God having been given me into you, to make the Word of God full and complete. 26 The mystery which has been hidden and concealed from the ages and from the generations, has now, however, been made clear and visible to His devoted ones, • 27 to whom God desires to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery, this SECRET, among the ethnic peoples, which is Christ inside of you, the hope of glory [d]. • 28 We preach Christ, admonishing everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we might present every person perfect and complete inside of Christ. 29 Into this also I labor, contending according to His energeia energeoing in power inside of me.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Covenant: Paul is writing out from and towards the fact that, as believers, Christ Jesus is inside of us as all that He is (see Colossians 1:27). The Covenant, our connection with God, is the Jesus who dwells in our hearts. God’s desire is that Jesus be proven faithful and True as every Word that He speaks. Jesus accomplishes that desire by making us to be just like Himself. Our part is to acknowledge that God speaks the Truth. • Definition: We are one Spirit with the Lord (see 1 Corinthians 6:17). Spiritual understanding is the knowing given to us by the Spirit, that Jesus’ words are Spirit and Life (see John 6:63). • Kingdom: We live and walk out from the Jesus inside of us, inside the same relationship with the Father that He knows. “Good works” are found inside of loving one another, and our fruit is the knowledge of God, God acknowledged by all. • Life: We are sustained every moment by Jesus’ power-filled Word (see Hebrews 1:3). This power empowering us, this sustaining might, is not of us (see 2 Corinthians 4:7), but of the Jesus who dwells in us. Our suffering is joy shared with Him. • Kingdom: Giving thanks, the Eucharist, is our return to the Father. We are empowered into speaking good grace, into giving thanks inside of and for the sake of all things. Light is honesty. God did not make us to be sufficient in ourselves, but the Father is our sufficiency and our inheritance. • Definition: Just as light is honesty, so darkness is dishonesty, hating human weakness, and refusing help. Dishonesty then wields authority over those who will not see Jesus. • Kingdom: Our transfer into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son is absolute and finished. We are inside of Christ Jesus, all that we are in all that He is. In Romans, Paul fully established our redemption, the removal of all disconnection from God, • Definition: We never impose external ideas on the words describing God through Jesus. Image means God-made-known. All things are being brought forth out from God’s thoughts, inside of the Jesus inside of us. “Firstborn” means we are made by His pattern. “Firstborn” does not sever between God and creation; rather, it describes the flow, the Covenant, as Jesus makes us to be as He is inside of God. • Definition: The Jesus who is inside of us is God-speaking, that is, the Source of every created thing. Even more than that, Jesus as the Covenant is the Connection that binds believers in Jesus together as His Body, which is the Church, the fulness of Christ who fills all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23). The Jesus inside connects us together as brethren. • Ruling Verse 10: All the fulness of God dwells inside the Jesus who lives in our hearts. We live inside of God inside of Him. • Ruling Verse 9: God is inside of Christ inside of us reconciling the world to Himself (see 2 Corinthians 5:19). We now share that same ministry of reconciliation with Jesus. • Ruling Verse 6: Jesus alone, through the Blood of His Cross, carries us into the Father, into full reconciliation with God. We never imagine that we will “cleave to” God of ourselves. And here inside of God, Jesus has already placed us with Himself with no consciousness of any disconnection or “sin.” • Ruling Verse 7: We are part of Christ in all as we are convinced through faith that we are part of Christ. We stand upon firm, the Word God speaks, regardless. • Ruling Verses 8 & 9: By this we know Love, in that Jesus set forth His soul for us. And we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters (1 John 3:16). Jesus has turned us around; Jesus is the Heart we share with God. We offer our dying bodies as a living offering to the Father (see Romans 12:2), that all our difficulty and sorrow might be His intercession for the sake of our brethren, that they might know the Gospel of Life as well. • Covenant: We are redeemed. God continuously declares us to be justly innocent inside of Himself. Jesus alone removes our sins from us (see Hebrews 1:3). Jesus alone connects us with the Father. There is a “repentance” practiced by some that is weeping over sin in the flesh in hostile refusal to acknowledge Jesus inside of the believer. The flesh is not “for sin,” but for God. And in the Blood Covenant by which the Father and we walk together, all pressure and all difficulty serve only as our intercession, God with us for the sake of others. • Covenant: Jesus Himself, now dwelling inside our hearts, and written there as every Gospel Word fulfilled (see Ephesians 3:17 & 2 Corinthians 3:3), is the Secret of our Life with God, the Way through whom God accomplishes His Purpose and desire in every moment and circumstance of our lives. • Life: Life is knowing the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into us (see John 17:3). Christ Jesus inside of us, now our very and only Life, is HOW we share life with God our Father every moment. This is the mystery of God; this is the Father’s Life; this Jesus inside of us is our LIFE as well. • Kingdom: The Kingdom, the outward Goal of the Gospel, includes every individual KNOWING completion inside of Christ. • Definition: Energeia is the Life Force by which God lives, active and dynamic. Every part of our Christian labor comes out from this Energeia, this Spirit energeoing inside of us. • Ruling Verse 5: We do not save ourselves; we do not “seek” God; we do not cease from sin; we do not “please” God. We cannot know God except that Jesus comes to us first. Passover was one moment’s time, followed instantly by the feast of unleavened bread. Our acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus as sufficient for us was one moment’s time, followed instantly by Jesus entering into union with us, connecting us with the Father. ~ One unlimited sacrifice for sins forever (Hebrews 10:12). ~ Every part of the Christian life, all good works, all return to the Father, all loving one another as the Church together, comes only out from Jesus Himself in Person living in intimate fellowship inside of each one of us. There is no other Gospel; there is no other Salvation; there is no other connection with God; there is no other Life.	a. The Greek word thelema was used to mean “desire.” It speaks of God as desire, not as “the controller.” We acknowledge His desire. b. This is prototokos, the same as in Romans 8:29. it means Jesus as the first one of our kind, the Word and thus the pattern out from which all things are created. It is a word that must be paired with John’s monogenes, for God’s One Seed-Kind is the pattern of all things coming through Him. c. See 1 John 3:16 and Romans 8:26. d. From this verse, Colossians 1:27, I obtain the phrase “the Jesus Secret,” an alternate wording of the mystery of Christ inside of us.

Gospel Comments

Notes

• Covenant: Paul is writing out from and towards the fact that, as believers, Christ Jesus is inside of us as all that He is (see Colossians 1:27). The Covenant, our connection with God, is the Jesus who dwells in our hearts. God’s desire is that Jesus be proven faithful and True as every Word that He speaks. Jesus accomplishes that desire by making us to be just like Himself. Our part is to acknowledge that God speaks the Truth.

• Definition: We are one Spirit with the Lord (see 1 Corinthians 6:17). Spiritual understanding is the knowing given to us by the Spirit, that Jesus’ words are Spirit and Life (see John 6:63).

• Kingdom: We live and walk out from the Jesus inside of us, inside the same relationship with the Father that He knows. “Good works” are found inside of loving one another, and our fruit is the knowledge of God, God acknowledged by all.

• Life: We are sustained every moment by Jesus’ power-filled Word (see Hebrews 1:3). This power empowering us, this sustaining might, is not of us (see 2 Corinthians 4:7), but of the Jesus who dwells in us. Our suffering is joy shared with Him.

• Kingdom: Giving thanks, the Eucharist, is our return to the Father. We are empowered into speaking good grace, into giving thanks inside of and for the sake of all things. Light is honesty. God did not make us to be sufficient in ourselves, but the Father is our sufficiency and our inheritance.

• Definition: Just as light is honesty, so darkness is dishonesty, hating human weakness, and refusing help. Dishonesty then wields authority over those who will not see Jesus.

• Kingdom: Our transfer into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son is absolute and finished. We are inside of Christ Jesus, all that we are in all that He is. In Romans, Paul fully established our redemption, the removal of all disconnection from God,

• Definition: We never impose external ideas on the words describing God through Jesus. Image means God-made-known. All things are being brought forth out from God’s thoughts, inside of the Jesus inside of us. “Firstborn” means we are made by His pattern. “Firstborn” does not sever between God and creation; rather, it describes the flow, the Covenant, as Jesus makes us to be as He is inside of God.

• Definition: The Jesus who is inside of us is God-speaking, that is, the Source of every created thing. Even more than that, Jesus as the Covenant is the Connection that binds believers in Jesus together as His Body, which is the Church, the fulness of Christ who fills all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23). The Jesus inside connects us together as brethren.

• Ruling Verse 10: All the fulness of God dwells inside the Jesus who lives in our hearts. We live inside of God inside of Him.

• Ruling Verse 9: God is inside of Christ inside of us reconciling the world to Himself (see 2 Corinthians 5:19). We now share that same ministry of reconciliation with Jesus.

• Ruling Verse 6: Jesus alone, through the Blood of His Cross, carries us into the Father, into full reconciliation with God. We never imagine that we will “cleave to” God of ourselves. And here inside of God, Jesus has already placed us with Himself with no consciousness of any disconnection or “sin.”

• Ruling Verse 7: We are part of Christ in all as we are convinced through faith that we are part of Christ. We stand upon firm, the Word God speaks, regardless.

• Ruling Verses 8 & 9: By this we know Love, in that Jesus set forth His soul for us. And we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters (1 John 3:16). Jesus has turned us around; Jesus is the Heart we share with God. We offer our dying bodies as a living offering to the Father (see Romans 12:2), that all our difficulty and sorrow might be His intercession for the sake of our brethren, that they might know the Gospel of Life as well.

• Covenant: We are redeemed. God continuously declares us to be justly innocent inside of Himself. Jesus alone removes our sins from us (see Hebrews 1:3). Jesus alone connects us with the Father. There is a “repentance” practiced by some that is weeping over sin in the flesh in hostile refusal to acknowledge Jesus inside of the believer. The flesh is not “for sin,” but for God. And in the Blood Covenant by which the Father and we walk together, all pressure and all difficulty serve only as our intercession, God with us for the sake of others.

• Covenant: Jesus Himself, now dwelling inside our hearts, and written there as every Gospel Word fulfilled (see Ephesians 3:17 & 2 Corinthians 3:3), is the Secret of our Life with God, the Way through whom God accomplishes His Purpose and desire in every moment and circumstance of our lives.

• Life: Life is knowing the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into us (see John 17:3). Christ Jesus inside of us, now our very and only Life, is HOW we share life with God our Father every moment. This is the mystery of God; this is the Father’s Life; this Jesus inside of us is our LIFE as well.

• Kingdom: The Kingdom, the outward Goal of the Gospel, includes every individual KNOWING completion inside of Christ.

• Definition: Energeia is the Life Force by which God lives, active and dynamic. Every part of our Christian labor comes out from this Energeia, this Spirit energeoing inside of us.

• Ruling Verse 5: We do not save ourselves; we do not “seek” God; we do not cease from sin; we do not “please” God. We cannot know God except that Jesus comes to us first. Passover was one moment’s time, followed instantly by the feast of unleavened bread. Our acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus as sufficient for us was one moment’s time, followed instantly by Jesus entering into union with us, connecting us with the Father. ~ One unlimited sacrifice for sins forever (Hebrews 10:12). ~ Every part of the Christian life, all good works, all return to the Father, all loving one another as the Church together, comes only out from Jesus Himself in Person living in intimate fellowship inside of each one of us. There is no other Gospel; there is no other Salvation; there is no other connection with God; there is no other Life.

a. The Greek word thelema was used to mean “desire.” It speaks of God as desire, not as “the controller.” We acknowledge His desire.

b. This is prototokos, the same as in Romans 8:29. it means Jesus as the first one of our kind, the Word and thus the pattern out from which all things are created. It is a word that must be paired with John’s monogenes, for God’s One Seed-Kind is the pattern of all things coming through Him.

c. See 1 John 3:16 and Romans 8:26.

d. From this verse, Colossians 1:27, I obtain the phrase “the Jesus Secret,” an alternate wording of the mystery of Christ inside of us.

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