Daily Bread - APR/11/07
Colossians 3:12 - Be endued then as the elect of God holy and beloved with deepest inward mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, long-suffering.
Our lives should be absolutely impacted with the identity that is give to us in this verse of scripture which identifies us as the elect of God, holy and beloved. This identity is in stark contrast to that which was given of the ways of the world in Colossians 3:8 (1 Corinthians 6:19). The Spirit of God is asking us to literally clothe ourselves with these attributes that are described as belonging to those who are elect (eklektoi), holy (hagioi) and beloved (hgaphmenoi). This is a decisive act that speaks of being endued (enduno) with power by the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately, if we do not move in the faith that is produced by the word of God then we will not participate with the will of God.
If we fail to believe He has made us holy and beloved having called us to this holy calling then we will not find ourselves yielding to the Spirit of God. We must believe that we were begotten into this living expectation to walk in the ways of God's abundant life! The word elect means chosen of God, and we know that God has chosen us to bring forth the fruit of His Holy nature (John 15:16). The only proper way to define holiness is by the acts of the Almighty God who is holy in all of His works (Psalms 145:17).
Holiness describes the purity and sacredness of those who have been washed in the blood of Jesus and filled with the Holy Spirit. It has been said that when a sinner sins, he is a creature breaking the laws of the Holy Creator and Judge. But when a Christian sins, he is a child breaking the loving heart of his Father (The Bible Exposition Commentary). God has chosen us for Himself to be those who are called the "elect of God." We are called as those who are holy and beloved to be "as men to whom Christ has become all in all" (Lightfoot), or as Thayer comments: "to become possessed with the mind of Christ as in thought, feeling, and action to resemble Him and, as it were, reproduce the life He lived."
Be holy (1 Peter 1:15)
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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