DISCOURSE: 2166 PAUL’S COMMENDATION OF THE GOSPEL Colossians 1:3. _We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, w... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2167 PRAYER FOR GROWTH IN GRACE Colossians 1:9. _We do not cease to pray for you that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2168 THE GLORY OF CHRIST Colossians 1:16. _By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, risible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2169 THE FULNESS OF CHRIST Colossians 1:19. _It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell_. IT is scarcely possible to read with attention the Epistles of St. Paul, and not to be struck with the energetic manner in which he expatiates on the glory and excellency of Christ,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2170 SANCTIFICATION THE END OF REDEMPTION Colossians 1:21. _You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2171 CHRIST IN US, THE HOPE OF GLORY Colossians 1:27. _Christ in you, the hope of glory_. THE Gospel is a “mystery;” “the riches” of which are unsearchable, and “the glory” incomprehensible. But the sum and substance of it is contained in few words: it is briefly this; “Christ in us, th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2172 PREACHING CHRIST Colossians 1:28. _Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus_. THE mystery of the Gospel was first made known to Adam in Paradise: but in process of time the real scope of it was for... [ Continue Reading ]