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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 40
Colossians 1:1-16
Now let’s look at giving thanks to the Father. Ephesians 5:20
"Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ:"
So it’s still appropriate today, yes we do pray to the Father, and we do all in the name then of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we’re going to see that relationship in the Trinity in little later verses, but for now come back again to Colossians chapter 1. So Paul as he prays to the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ he has thanked God, the Father that He took these Colossians out of paganism, out of darkness, out of the chains of the satanic powers and translated them into the heavenly kingdom. Now Paul does not make a big a do about our kingdom relationship, because after all that’s primarily associated with the nation of Israel.
But when Christ came to the nation of Israel, and John the Baptist announced Him, and He said the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, Well what was he talking about? The King was in their midst! As believers we’re married to Christ, in a Spiritual relationship, but nevertheless we are now citizens of this heavenly kingdom because God the Father has delivered us from the power of darkness.
Now let’s go back and compare Scripture with Scripture. Matthew 16:13-16
16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Matthew 16:17
"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: (now this is the part I came back here for you to see) for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."
Now let’s reconstruct. "…for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."
In other words it had to be a super natural opening of even Peter’s understanding. (Reference I Corinthians 15:1-4 and Romans 10:9-10.) But would it have done Paul any good had the Lord not opened her heart? Peter, blessed art thou for the Father has revealed it unto thee. Lydia was the one who’s heart the Lord opened, now remember both of these people were in the same circumstance that these people are in II Corinthians chapter 4, as every human being is.
II Corinthians 4:3-4
"But if our gospel (Paul’s Gospel of I Corinthians 15:1-4) be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: (and that’s every human being until their saved) 4. Who is fighting constantly to keep people in the dark? "…lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
Now let’s look at verse 6. Now by the power of God this is what happens.
II Corinthians 4:6
"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,"
God has to reveal it, God has to open our understanding. Paul is thanking God the Father for having opened the hearts and the minds of these Colossi believers and has delivered them from the power of darkness (v. 13). The chains of Satan. Well, that’s what God did with us. He took us out of darkness and He literally transplanted us into the Kingdom of Heaven. Let’s look at Philippians chapter 3 and verse 20.
in heaven…"
Colossians 1. God the Father has transplanted us from darkness into the Kingdom of His dear Son.
So our citizenship is in Heaven. The abode of God. From whence we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 1:14
"In whom (that is in the Son up there in verse 13) we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"
Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 22.
Hebrews 9:22
"And almost all things are by the law (back in the sacrificial economy) purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."
Without the shedding of blood there has never been any forgiveness of sin. It was a blood sacrifice.
Killing animals, or roosters or birds and sprinkling or spattering the blood all over. Why? That was Satan’s counterfeit. The true system of blood sacrifice was what God instituted with Adam and Eve and then bought it up and perfected it with the Law and the Temple worship. It could be a turtledove, a goat or whatever, but it was always a blood sacrifice. Because without the shedding of blood there has never been forgiveness. That without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin. Now let’s see how Paul enlarges on it. Come back to Romans chapter 3 starting at verse 23.
Romans 3:23-24
"For all have sinned (every last single human being) and come short of the glory of God. 24. Being justified freely by his grace (that unmerited favor) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"
Now verse 25
"Whom (Christ) God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his (what?) blood,…"
There was no more need for sacrifice once Christ died.

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