Col.1:19 – For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, Paul is describing the revelation of God he had seen in Christ. Paul’s description stems from his encounter on the Damascus Road. He tasted what John lived with for three years; Jn.1:14,16 – “And the Word became flesh, …
Col.1:15,28 – He is the divine portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God. Christ is our message! We preach to awaken hearts and bring every person into the full understanding of truth. Sometime I wish I was an artist. The frustrating thing is that I am really bad at art, I even draw poor …
Col.1:15-17 – TPT – He is the divine portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God, and the first-born heir of all creation. For through the Son everything was created, both in the heavenly realm and on the earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen. Every seat of power, realm of government, …
Col.1:28,29 – Christ is our message! We preach to awaken hearts and bring every person into the full understanding of truth. It has become my inspiration and passion in ministry to labor with a tireless intensity, with his power flowing through me, to present to every believer the revelation of being his perfect one in …
Col. 1:26,27 – that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Sometimes …
Col.1:29 – For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me. Paul was all about the anointing. He knew better than anyone the calling on his life could not begin to be accomplished by human effort alone. Paul knew that in order to really touch the world it …
Col. 1:29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. Sometimes Christianity seems to be in conflict with itself. Paul’s life is a great example of what I mean. We see in Paul’s life someone eaten up with zeal and vision for his ministry; obviously Paul holds nothing …
Col. 1:13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, Redemption is what Christmas is all about. We were all slaves by birth. We knew no other life, we were born into darkness and slavery was our lot in life. We were slaves to …
Heb. 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, Col. 1:17 And he is before all things, and …
Col. 1:15 ¶ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. The apostles started dealing with doctrinal error at the earliest days of the church. The errors always boiled down to one thing, who exactly is this Jesus of Nazareth. Was He a man, a created being, some sort of …
