Month: December 2020

Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 12

Knowing & experiencing the all-inclusive, extensive Christ as the Mystery of God

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Colossians 2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

John 1:16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

Day 5 / Friday

Ephesians 3:8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel.

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

Day 6 / Saturday

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Colossians 3:1 If therefore you were raised together with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Colossians, message 19.

Companion Meeting Questions 2

• What are some ways we can be helped to have the full knowledge of Christ as the mystery of God?
• How can we practice to apply the Christ we have received in our daily life?
• Based on Colossians 3:1, how can we seek the things which are above?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 11

Knowing & experiencing the all-inclusive, extensive Christ as the Mystery of God

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Colossians 2:2-3 That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, 3 In whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Colossians 2:9-10 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, 10 And you have been made full in Him, who is the Head of all rule and authority.

Day 3 / Wednesday

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.

Reading portion 1

Life-study of Colossians, message 18.

Companion Meeting Questions 1

• Considering Colossians 2:2-3, what does it mean for God to be a mystery and furthermore for Christ to be the mystery of God?
• How can we exercise to know Christ as the mystery of God?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 10

Knowing & experiencing the all-inclusive, extensive Christ as the reality of all positive things

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; for He will not speak from Himself, but what He hears He will speak; and He will declare to you the things that are coming.

1 Corinthians 10:3 And all ate the same spiritual food.

Day 5 / Friday

Matthew 11:28-29 Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Day 6 / Saturday

John 8:12 Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Colossians 2:19 …holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Colossians, message 56.

Companion Meeting Questions 2

• Sing Hymn 496. How many items of Christ can you find in this hymn?
• Based on Matthew 11:28-29 how can we come to the Lord to find rest? What is your experience of coming to the Lord to find rest?
• Based on Colossians 2:19, what does it mean to hold Christ as our head?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 9

Knowing & experiencing the all-inclusive, extensive Christ as the reality of all positive things

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Colossians 2:16-17 Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the Sabbath, 17 Which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Colossians 2:18a Let no one defraud you by judging you unworthy of your prize….

John 14:6a Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life….

Day 3 / Wednesday

John 14:17 Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you.

1 John 5:6 This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood; and the Spirit is He who testifies, because the Spirit is the reality.

Reading portion 1

Life-study of Colossians, message 55.

Companion Meeting Questions 1

• Considering Colossians 2:16-18a what is the “prize” referred to in verse 18?
• Whatever we do day by day should remind us of Christ as the reality of that thing. How can we practice to take Christ as the reality of all the material things in our daily life? What things in your daily life are really just a picture of Christ?
• Read the following verses: John 20:22; 4:10, 14; 7:37-39a; 6:35, 57; 1:4; 8:12; Galatians 3:27; John 15:5, 7a. What are some of the items that you see in these verses that can be enjoyed by us daily?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 8

The all-inclusive, extensive Christ having the preeminence in all things

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

Day 5 / Friday

Revelation 2:4 But I have one thing against you, that you have left your first love.

2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, with which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day, and not only me but also all those who have loved His appearing.

Day 6 / Saturday

Daniel 7:9-10a I watched / Until thrones were set, / And the Ancient of Days sat down. / His clothing was like white snow, / And the hair of His head was like pure wool; / His throne was flames of fire, / Its wheels, burning fire. 10 A stream of fire issued forth / And came out from before Him. / Thousands of thousands ministered to Him, / And ten thousands of ten thousands stood before Him….

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Colossians, message 29.

Companion Meeting Questions 2

• Based on Revelation 2:4 what does it mean to love the Lord with the best love?
• What has the first place in our heart?
• How can we be recovered in our love for the Lord if we have grown cold toward Him?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 7

The all-inclusive, extensive Christ having the preeminence in all things

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation.

Colossians 1:17-18 And He is before all things, and all things cohere in Him. 18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Colossians 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.

Colossians 3:10-11 And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Philippians 2:9 Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.

Ephesians 1:22 And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church.

Reading portion 1

Life-study of Colossians, message 9.

Companion Meeting Questions 1

• What does it mean for Christ to have the first place in all things?
• Does Christ the first place in your personal universe?
• How can we allow Christ to have preeminence in our lives?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 6

The all-inclusive, extensive Christ as the good land—our Portion

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Colossians 2:13-15 And you, though dead in your offenses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our offenses; 14 Wiping out the handwriting in ordinances, which was against us, which was contrary to us; and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. 15 Stripping off the rulers and the authorities, He made a display of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Day 5 / Friday

Colossians 2:19 …holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Exodus 3:8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Day 6 / Saturday

Deuteronomy 8:8-9 A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of honey; 9 A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper.

Deuteronomy 26:9 And He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Colossians, message 20.

Companion Meeting Questions 2

• How is the good land in the Old Testament a picture of all-inclusiveness of Christ in the New Testament? What does it mean for Christ to be all-inclusive?
• Read, sing, and pray over Hymn 499. What are the scriptural references for each stanza?
• What are some ways that we can take time to absorb the Lord? What is your experience of absorbing the Lord?

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