Category: 3a – Colossians

Finished, Paid in Full, and Blotted Out

having been; blotted out, wiped away, obliterated, rubbed out - it is; finished, completed, paid, fulfilled, accomplished - having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2:14 - Τετέλεσται, Tetelestai, ἐξαλείφω, exaleiphó, mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese

To be saved, is to confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord- (Yehoshua=Joshua+YHWH — YHWH is salvation) along with believing in your heart (our center, mind, will, intention) that God raised Him from the dead. This is salvation, salvation from being separated from God. This is what it means to be born again. […]

Chapter 17 – The Spirit of Love

The Holy Spirit A B Simpson Chapter 17 - Spirit of Love a III. Natural love is based upon the attractive qualities of its object; divine love springs from something within, and is the outflow of an irresistible impulse in itself. Mere human love is attracted by the goodness and loveliness of the one it loves, fancied or real. But divine love can seize upon the most unlovely, can love it into loveliness, and can keep on loving through an impulse in its own heart, when everything in the circumstances would render it impossible. And so, "God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

  “Your love in the Spirit.” Col. 1: 8. This is the only reference to the Holy Spirit in the Epistle to the Colossians. The theme of this beautiful letter is the fullness and glory of Jesus. But Jesus cannot be glorified without recognizing the Holy Ghost; and so we have this brief reference to […]