Colossians 1:10-13 - Part 1
Colossians 1:10-13 - "...so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened will all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light."
In the previous verse Paul asked that his readers be filled with “the knowledge of His will…” These verses explain why Paul made that request. For Christians, knowledge is never an end in itself. We are not encouraged to grow in our knowledge of God’s will merely to satisfy our intellectual curiosity. We are to grow in knowledge so that we will live right. Right knowledge must always lead to right conduct. The Christian life is not a life of merely gaining and sorting information about God or about the Bible. It is not a life of barren orthodoxy. It is a life of a growing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
- "bearing fruit in every good work"(10b)
- "increasing in the knowledge of God" (10c)
- "being strengthened with all power" (11)
- "giving thanks to the Father" (12)
(For more detailed notes on Colossians go to http://www.larryreynolds.org-a.googlepages.com/home)
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