Your Dailyl Bread

The way is to love Christ. The way to love Christ is to know Him in His fullness, and you can’t do that if you’re not in the Word of God. You may ask, isn’t that part of our reconciliation that we are the new creature and it’s basically the building that you had talked about? Yeah, that’s the provision of the Holy Spirit inside of you with the mind of Christ, but that is not the release to your wisdom and knowledge. If you’re not into the Scriptures and bringing forth what’s inside of you into your mind, your physical mind, God’s not controlling you.

Paul is talking about here as we look at Christ. Paul is saying, I want the Holy Spirit to give you wisdom and knowledge of Him. Why? Because that opens your physical mind up to allow God as sovereign to control you. Okay, thank you. So what he’s saying is, I want you to study the Word of God to work towards total sanctification. So as we study the Word of God and we try to understand it, He’s going to give us wisdom, and as we study more, He’s going to give us revelations as we go along, telling us what this stuff means.

That is exactly what happens when you study the Word of God, and James tells you this. James says, if you’re lacking wisdom or lacking knowledge, just ask. The problem is, you’re not asking if you lack that. If you don’t understand something and you don’t feel you’re getting wisdom, James says, ask. Because God says, Christ said, if you ask in my name, that which I have willed to you, it’s already provided. And I open the door, give it to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. As we journey through the Scriptures, we become more and more sanctified.

And as we go out, and this world falls apart, and we’re going to be the ministers, are we going to be given some kind of power, or is that just the power of what we’ve learned? The power is already given to you. It’s already there. The problem is, we don’t tap it. That’s because we don’t understand it, because we’re still learning how to be sanctified. That’s absolutely right. You’re not in the Scripture to understand how to release that power. Over in chapter 4, even if he’s talking now about Christ in verse 12, then in verse 13, here it goes again.

Until we all attain the unity of the faith. What is the unity of the faith? It’s a unity of the knowledge of the Son of God. You need to understand the words here. To a mature man, to be measured the statue which belongs to the fullness of Christ. Okay, we have growing cycles, just like our children. We are in the spirit growing, just like we raise our children. You’re a babe when you get saved. You’re a toddler in Scripture for a long time until you reach what I would classify as a teenager. But I don’t use that word because that’s basically a curse in satanic worship.

But you go through this process from a babe to a toddler to a youth. Let’s just leave it that way. A youth to a mature man. That’s your process by Scripture. And what Paul is saying in this, until we all attain the unity of the faith. And what is the unity of faith? It’s a unity of the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man. It’s your growth process. It’s your sanctification process. He’s saying we need to continue to do this studying, this sanctification, this process until you get to a mature, a man of mature mind, okay? A man of mature mind means that basically you turned over your life to God and he is sovereign.

That’s the level that you’ve reached. So that’s Paul saying here. So in chapter one, we had the fullness of God. We have the fullness of God again in chapter three in verses 18 and 19. We have the fullness of God again in chapter four, verse 13, which is equated to being a mature man. It’s your growth. It is your expansion. It’s an increase to a mature man’s mind. In other words, God’s mind is now ruling you, which is equated to knowing Christ. That’s how you know Christ. The Christian life is not complicated to understand.

It’s just the process. It’s all about knowing Christ. In Colossians chapter one, I would just call a couple of things to your attention here. I’m not going to go do a study here, but we’re going to look at a couple of things. Chapter one, verse nine. Again, here is Paul’s prayer. For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Same thing. I want you to have the spirit of wisdom and I want you to have the revelation of the knowledge in Christ.

Paul does this in every church letter. He’s telling them, guys, study, study, study, so that the spirit can reveal his wisdom in your life. Again, it’s the same prayer. It’s for us to have deep wisdom and knowledge concerning God, concerning Christ. Then where you have that verse 10, shows what the result is in Colossians 1.10. This is what verse 10 says. So that, in other words, this is what you’re going to get, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of God, pleasing him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

That is the foundation of your blessing. That’s the reason why you get the blessings that God gives you on this earth. Even in the process of having the knowledge of God and living in the knowledge of God, increasing that knowledge of God is still a necessity. You can’t say, oh, this is what Joe did. I’m complacent. You can’t say, one day, I don’t need to study anymore. I know it all. I can’t do that. It is a continual growing in grace and the knowledge of God. As Peter says in his epistle, so Paul’s prayer again is that we would increase in the knowledge of God, increase in the knowledge of Christ, to separate people so that we would walk in a manner worthy of the Lord.

Over in Colossians chapter 2 verse 2, that your hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, that your hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery. That is Christ himself. That’s the mystery in whom all hidden, all are hidden, all treasures of wisdom. And now again, the prayer is the same thing. That you would have a full assurance of understanding, that you would have a full knowledge of Christ in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are placed.

That your blessings while you live this life eternal on this earth. So the Christian life is not hard to figure out. Okay, it’s coming to know Christ and know him more and know him more. You have the apostle Paul in Philippians saying that I may know him, that I may know him. And you might say, Paul, you know him, you preach him, you love him, you live with him, but I want to know him more and more. That’s what Paul is saying. This is not some wish for some mystical experience. This is for your mind to be able to grasp the fullness of Christ as revealed from heaven for us in what? So when Paul writes to Titus in Titus chapter 1, he introduces the letter by saying Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth, which is according to godliness.

Godliness is connected to the knowledge of the truth. Godliness doesn’t happen apart from the knowledge of truth. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of our goal, fullness of God. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].