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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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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 5

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

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light;

Colossians 2:6-7 As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, 7 Having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Colossians 2:8-10 Beware that no one carries you off as spoil through his philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ; 9 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

Colossians 2:11-12 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, 12 Buried together with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Reading portion 1

Life-study of Colossians, message 6.

Companion Meeting Questions 1

• What is “the allotted portion of the saints in the light?” How can we practically enjoy this portion?
• Consider the following verses: 1 John 1:5; Psalm 119:105, 130;  John 8:12;  9:5;  1:4; Matt. 5:14; Phil. 2:15; Rev. 1:20; Psa. 73:16-17.  Based on these verses how can experience being “in the light?”
• What connection can you see between the good land in the Old Testament and the Lord’s table in the New Testament? What is the best way to remember the Lord at His table?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 4

The will of God regarding the all-inclusive, extensive Christ

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Colossians 1:9-10 Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease praying and asking on your behalf that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 To walk worthily of the Lord to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the full knowledge of God.

Day 5 / Friday

Colossians 1:10-11 To walk worthily of the Lord to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the full knowledge of God, 11 Being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

Day 6 / Saturday

Colossians 1:12-14 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; 13 Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Colossians, message 3.

Companion Meeting Questions 2

• How did the apostle Paul’s prayer for the Colossians reveal Christ? How does this relate to the will of God?
• What did Paul pray that we the believers would experience? Pick one of these items and pray for it with your companions.
• What did the apostle Paul give thanks for in his prayer in Colossians 1? What are you thankful for?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 3

The will of God regarding the all-inclusive, extensive Christ

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Colossians 1:1-3 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, 2 To the saints in Colossae and faithful brothers in Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always concerning you.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Colossians 1:3-5 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always concerning you, 4 Because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have unto all the saints 5 Because of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Colossians 1:5b-8 …of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, 6 Which has come to you, even as it is also in all the world, bearing fruit and growing, as also in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; 7 Even as you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow slave, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, 8 Who also has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

Reading portion 1

Life-study of Colossians, message 2.

Companion Meeting Questions 1

• Can you identify the three key elements, faith, hope and love, in Colossians chapter 1?
• What is the truth of the gospel? Why is it important?
• How can we experience Christ as our hope today?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 2

Letting the Word dwell in us richly

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Colossians 3:15-17 And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which also you were called in one Body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. 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.

Day 5 / Friday

Hebrews 1:1-2 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, 2 Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe.

Day 6 / Saturday

Revelation 2:1 To the messenger of the church in Ephesus write: These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, He who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.

Revelation 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Colossians, message 64.

Companion Meeting Questions 2

• What does it mean to, “Let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts?” How can we do this?
• Have you had any experience of God speaking to you? How does God speak to us?
• What is your personal view of Christ? Who is He to you? What is He to you?

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Knowing & Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ, part 1

The will of God regarding the all-inclusive, extensive Christ

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Revelation 4:11 You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, for You have created all things, and because of Your will they were, and were created.

Ephesians 1:5 Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.

Ephesians 1:9 Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we were designated as an inheritance, having been predestinated according to the purpose of the One who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

Colossians 1:9-10 Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease praying and asking on your behalf that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 To walk worthily of the Lord to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the full knowledge of God.

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.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Colossians 2:6-7 As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, 7 Having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

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.

Reading portion 1

Life-study of Colossians, message 5.

Companion Meeting Questions 1

• Based on Revelation 4:11, what is the reason for everything in the universe?
• What is the will of God for you? (Support your answer with a scriptural reference.)
• Which verses in the New Testament point out that Christ is in us? (Find as many as you can.)

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Jeremiah part 26 (FINAL)

The Foundation of the New Covenant, the Covenant of Life, in the Book of Jeremiah (continued)

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Jeremiah 31:33-34 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Jehovah: I will put My law in their inward parts and write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. 34 And they will no longer teach, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for all of them will know Me, from the little one among them even to the great one among them, declares Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.

Day 5 / Friday

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 8:4 That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

Romans 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.

Day 6 / Saturday

Hebrews 8:10b-13 …”I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to Me. 11 And they shall by no means each teach his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know Me from the little one to the great one among them. 13 For I will be propitious to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins I shall by no means remember anymore.”

Reading portion 2

Life-study of Jeremiah, message 39, 2nd half.

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