Through the Bible - Isaiah 43-44, Colossians 3:18-4:18
Good morning,
Yesterday's topic was the truth. As you absorb the truth, from God's Word, and apply it in your life, the sanctification process spoke of in John 17 will take place. This process does require something. Submission of our will to His, as we saw also in the "Lord's prayer" in the words Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.
For today's verse we'll go to Colossians 3 which was part of yesterday's read through the Bible plan.
Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. NKJV
or from The Message:
Col 3:16-17 Let the Word of Christ — the Message — have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives — words, actions, whatever — be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.
"Let the Word", allow it to dwell in you richly. It is a matter of submission, it is a matter of the will.
John MacArthur writes, "Dwell means to live in or be at home, and richly may be more fully rendered "abundantly or extravagantly rich". Scripture should permeate our life and control every thought, word, and deed. This concept is parallel to being "filled with the Spirit" in Eph. 5:18, since the results of each are the same in Eph. 5:18, the power and motivation for all the effects is the filling of the Holy Spirit, here it is the Word richly dwelling. Those two realities are really one. The Holy Spirit fills the life controlled by His Word. This emphasizes that the filling of the Spirit is not some ecstatic or emotional experience, but a steady controlling of the life by obedience to the truth of God's Word."
Will you spend time in His Word, will you absorb it? Will you then let it "have the run of the house" in your life?
When you think of the word "abundantly" you get the picture of an overflowing fountain. May our lives overflow with the Word of God flowing in and through us today.
"The Word of God Is The Will Of God"
The Word of God is the will of God
His heart to me and you
God said what He meant when He had it written
Every word is true
The Word of God is the will of God
His promises are true
The Word of God is the will of God
His heart to me and you
God gave His Word to holy men
So we could know His will
It has not changed since the day it came
It is His will still
The "put off" and "put on" shown below are a matter of the will.
In Christ,
Mike
mikevw@bellsouth.net
Col 3:8-18
8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
Character of the New Man
12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
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