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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     Colossians 3:1-15

It is time now to focus more precisely on what Jesus meant when He said: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Meekness, as Jesus is using the word here, refers to an attitude of heart and mind that is entirely free from a spirit of demandingness and accepts the will of God in its entirety. I...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:1-15Isaiah 53:1-7Matthew 26:62-63Matthew 27:14Luke 23:9

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James Smith

WE are apt to be much affected by earthly things, but our affections must be permanently fixed on things above. Let us lift our eyes and hearts to heaven this morning; there are the proper objects of our love, desire, and esteem. There is Jehovah our heavenly Father, dwelling in unapproachable light. There is Jesus, our dear and adorable Saviour, exalted, dignified and glorified at the right-hand of the Father. There is the Holy Spirit, our divine, gracious and condescending Comforter. There...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:2

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Charles Spurgeon

Paul's marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source of our life. "You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by his life that we live; he is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions, the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance of our life. What can the Christian feed upon...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:4

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William MacDonald

"…them also that love his appearing." For many years I thought that this expression referred to those believers who had kindly, sentimental feelings about the coming of the Lord. They would be rewarded with a crown of righteousness because their hearts glowed warm when they thought about the Rapture.

But surely it means more than this. To love His appearance means to live in the light of His coming, to behave as if He were coming today.

Thus, to love His appearing means to live...

Bible Verses: 2 Timothy 4:81 John 3:3Colossians 3:2Matthew 24:45

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George Bowen

" In thy favor is life." When Adam sinned, he lost the favor of God, and thus he died. This is the worst of all deaths; for all other deaths are just the expression of God's disfavor. Ask one of the lost in hell when he died, and he will rightly tell you that it was when he lost the divine favor. When a man comes to Christ, he finds what Adam lost and what Adam doubtless regained, - the favor of God, life in the highest sense; for all the other things called life are but the expressions of...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:4

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James Russell Miller

Colossians 3:1-15

Paul said to The Colossians what to many must have seemed surprising: "If then you were raised together with Christ." How could these Colossian Christians have been raised with Christ? Of course, it was a spiritual rising. The people really had been spiritually dead, and they were now living a new spiritual life. Everyone who truly...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:1-15Colossians 3:5-7Colossians 3:12-14

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T. Austin-Sparks

You died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3 NLT)



It is a tremendous thing to
live in this dispensation when the Lord, though having acquired the rights of
the universe, of the whole creation, by His Cross, is specifically concentrated
upon the treasure now, to get it out of the creation. "The kingdom of heaven (it
should be in...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:3

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T. Austin-Sparks


You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Christ is your life. When He appears, then you, too, will appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:3,4 GW)



We are very often inclined to think that the
Life of the Lord in us needs in some way to be improved, to be added to, when
really what is required is that we should discover what we have, and,
discovering it...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:3Colossians 3:4

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Samuel Bagster

This is not your rest. § There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. § Behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus.In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. § With Christ, which is far better.God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there...

Bible Verses: Deuteronomy 12:9Micah 2:10Hebrews 4:9Hebrews 6:19Hebrews 6:20John 14:2John 14:3Philippians 1:23Revelation 21:4Job 3:17Matthew 6:20Matthew 6:21Colossians 3:2

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Samuel Bagster

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For … your life is hidden with Christ in God. § For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to...

Bible Verses: Psalms 119:25Colossians 3:1Colossians 3:3Philippians 3:20Philippians 3:21Galatians 5:17Romans 8:12Romans 8:131 Peter 2:11

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