SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/28/2016 10:22 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The Petition”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians 1:9
Message of the verse: “9 For
this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for
you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all
spiritual wisdom and understanding,”
The word
for “filled” in the Greek is Pleroo “to
make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full” from the Greek/English
Dictionary on my Online Bible program.
There are some examples that we can find in Scriptures that help us
understand this word better. “"But because I have said these things
to you, sorrow has filled your heart (John 16:6).” The disciple’s hearts were filled with sorrow
because Jesus was leaving them and going back to the Father. “They
were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were
filled with fear, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today’ (John
5:26).” The crowd’s were filled with
fear after Jesus healed the paralytic. “11 But they themselves were filled with
rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus (Luke 6:11).” This speaks of the Pharisees after Jesus healed
on the Sabbath day. We will look at two
more “31
And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was
shaken, and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with
boldness (Acts 4:31).” “5 The statement
found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith
and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas,
a proselyte from Antioch (Acts 6:5).”
Now we will look at the word knowledge as it is a central theme in Paul’s writing. 1 Corinthians 1:5 says “that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge.” John MacArthur writes “Paul wants the Colossians to be totally controlled by knowledge. Epignosis (knowledge) consists of the normal Greek word for knowledge (gnosis) with an added preposition (epi), which intensifies the meaning. The knowledge Paul wants the Colossians to have is a deep and through knowledge.”
I just got an older book written by John MacArthur sometime in the 1990’s that seems to go along with this subject of knowledge: “Reckless Faith” “When The Church Loses Its Will To Discern.” Faith today in a lot of cases does not have the correct Object, which of course is Jesus Christ. Many people go by feelings instead of what is in the Bible and in order to understand the Bible believers must have knowledge something that MacArthur writes about in his commentary on Colossians which I may just copy so all can read it because it is a very important subject for us to understand. I have to admit that to understand knowledge has not been a strong suit for me and so I think we can do that in our next SD for Colossians. If we don’t have the proper knowledge the things that MacArthur writes about in this book mentioned above can happen to us, and that will not be good for us at all. Remember that our enemy is always trying to cause us to turn away from the Word of God which will cause us great problems, so we need to stay in the Word of God each and every day depending on the Holy Spirit to teach us the Truth found there.
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