Daily Bread - MAR/30/07
Colossians 2:13 - And you being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having pardoned all your trespasses.
Another synonym for forgiveness is used in this verse adding yet more meaning to the gift of God's grace that has been given to us through the salvation that is in Christ Jesus. The best way to translate this word here in this passage is either 'pardoned' or 'forgiven' (charizomai). This Greek word is derived from a word which means 'gift of grace' (charisma). The Lord has given to us generously of His forgiveness having cancelled (charizomai) all of our debt through the death of Jesus Christ (Luke 7:42-43). Our debts were canceled with our former life. The old life ladened with sin and guilty of death was crucified with Christ and now new life has been given in Christ Jesus.
God has bestowed this new life on us just as Jesus bestowed (charizomai) sight to many who were blind and as God bestowed (charizomai) a name to Jesus that is above every name (Luke 7:21; Philippians 2:9). All of our former deeds have been cut off and nothing of the past can be associated with the life that we now have in Christ Jesus. Faith in Christ Jesus demands that we too let go of the past. Those memories and the things that the enemy of our soul would use to condemn us with must be rejected as a false testimony of a life that no longer exists. Our standing with God now in Christ Jesus is such that He will graciously (charizomai) give us all things (Romans 8:32).
Blessings,
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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