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 them 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
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.
12/28/2016 11:14 AM
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