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Colossians
2:1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you and
for them at Laodicea.(one
of the most important and flourishing cities of Asia Minor at that time).and
for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted,
being knit together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of
comprehending toward the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the
Father and of Christ;
Colossians
2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love.(original
for 'knit together' is 'to make to come together'; in other words, it's
love that brings togetherness).and
unto.(original can also
mean 'into').all riches.(original
for 'riches' is 'to fill with abundance').of
the full assurance of comprehending.(original
for 'comprehending' {you need knowledge to comprehend} is 'a full running
together'; a running together of what? With that which would make you happy,
a running together of soul
with desires, that is, it
connotes what
you know to be true; original also gives word 'understanding',
an 'acknowledging', which is a knowing you have knowledge:.2Peter
1:19; 'in this acknowledgement' it can also mean 'into the knowledge
of').of the mystery of God.(Revelation
10:7).and of the Father.(*).and
of Christ.(*).
Both God and
Christ are referred to here as a mystery. What
does this mean?
1Timothy
3:16.
Colossians
2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge.
Colossians
2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile
you with enticing words.
Colossians
2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh yet am I with you in
the spirit joying and beholding your order and the stedfastness
of your faith in Christ.
'Faith
in Christ' means one 'believing in Christ', that is, believes he came and
did what was recorded of him, that is, believing after proving
this of course:.Acts
17:11. Also, believing that he came from God (John
8:42) and believing all those things about him that are true.
Colossians
2:6 As you have therefore received
Christ Emmanuel the Lord so walk you in him.(*),
Live
your daily life knowing you are
in God and He
in you. In Christ one continues to grow soiritually.
Colossians
2:7 Rooted and built up in him and stablished
in the faith as you have been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving.
.1Thessalonians
5:18.
Colossians
2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit
after
the tradition of men, after the rudiments.(the
fundamental.concepts
of the world, where one is 'me
first').of
the
world and not after
Christ.
Important
to comprehend
what Christ is.
Colossians
2:9 For in him dwells all
the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.
Colossians
2:10 And you are complete
in him.(and
He
is love; love makes and keeps one whole {holy}, complete;
if complete in Him,
what need is there for anything but expressing that completeness when with
others and that completeness
is love).which is the head
of all principality and power.
Matthew
28:18-20.
You are the
well from which the life giving water flows and quenches the thirst of
others, that is, if they are thirsty:.Romans
11:4-6.
Colossians
2:11 In whom also you are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins
of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
Colossians
2:12 Buried with him in baptism
wherein also you are risen with him.(words
'him' not in the original, but implied;
'risen with Him' is better translated as 'raised as He was', that is, as
far as God is concerned it's a sure fact of your future).through
the faith of the operation.(original
'working'; that is, one has faith in God's working).of
God, who has raised him from the dead..(?)
Colossians
2:13 And you, being dead in your sins.(although
all
sin was looked after but you didn't know that, it was the same as them
not being all looked after).and
the uncircumcision
of your.(word
'your', not in original).flesh,
has he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Original
should read 'And being dead and away ('from God', implied)
because of the state
of sin (state being that sin is now defunct.{*})
has he quickened (1Timothy 6:13)
together
with him, having forgiven you all trespasses'. No matter how
bad, how evil one has been, he or she can get
their soul repaired just by asking the true God of all love and compassion
to do that.
Note: God is
the one responsible for evil that exists.(?).and
God balances the lives of all of us who have all lived 'as best we could'
with the three strokes
that God engineered
against us here from the beginning. It's simply all part of God's marvelous
plan, though perhaps somewhat painful at times:.1Peter
1:6; Romans 5:12,15,16.
Hang in there and the light comes:.2Corinthians
5:7.
Colossians
2:14 Blotting out the handwriting.(Deuteronomy
9:10).of ordinances
that
was against us, which was contrary to us.(contrary
to our bright future:.1Corinthians
2:9).and took
it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
All
past, present and any future sins are now out of our way. They never
did count anyway with God, because each of us were saved from the beginning,
but never knew that:.2Timothy
1:9.
Colossians
2:15 And having spoiled.(original
is 'separated from that which is put off).principalities
and powers, he made a show of them openly.(Luke
8:17), triumphing over them in it.
It's
talking about the cross; see previous verse.
It's talking
about how to put off these powers of darkness:.Ephesians
6:12
Colossians
2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat.(eating).or
in drink.or in respect of an holyday.(festival).or
of the new moon.(others
may think it strange of you when they keep some monthly festival and you
don't).or of the sabbath
days.(word
'days' not in original in this verse).
Colossians
2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body of Christ.(here
being as the original has it).
Colossians
2:18 Let no man beguile
you of your reward by their using a phony
voluntary humility.(their
beguiling of you begins by them feigning.piosity
to gain both control over you and some advantage for them from you).and
worshipping
of angels.(another
ploy
of their beguiling of you would be making you think they have relationship
with angels:.2Corinthians
10:18; 2Timothy 3:5),
intruding into those things which he has not seen.(advising
you to head in some direction in life that they themselves wouldn't go
and of course not telling that to you),
vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Satanic
people feign their true intent:.James
4:7. How to find out
who they may be.
Comprised with.Barnes
Notes: The meaning is, that false teachers,
teachers who appear with a form
of religion, would not announce their opinions with dogmatic.certainty,
but they would put on the appearance of modesty,
for no false teachers are so dangerous as those who assume the aspect of
great humility and who appear as though they possess reverence
for divine things:.2Corinthians
11:3,13-15.
Colossians
2:19 And not holding.(with
above verse, means, let no one con
you out and away from Christ the head of all things spiritual; all
is spirit).the Head.(Ephesians
1:22; 4:15,16),
from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered
and knit together, increases with the increase
of God.
Colossians
2:20.Wherefore
if you be dead with Christ
from the rudiments
of the world.(the
way the world runs is from the egos of those
in it:.Romans
3:17), why, as though living in the world.(that
is, now that you have a higher focus:.Matthew
6:33; 7:13), are
you subject to
ordinances,
Bible
meaning for word ordinances is rules and requirements of the law. What
law? Original drills down to 'see where something is not in line with
God's good law for man', by searching to discover where some so-called
law, rule, regulation, statute, mandate is simply imposed without permission
from
We the People
to be affected by it:.Matthew
26:41; Romans 13:1-8.
Colossians
2:21 Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Colossians
2:22 Which all are to perish with the using, after the commandments
and doctrines of men?
Such
as the phony corrupt
Pharisees,
et
al, did for a show:.Matthew
23:5.
Colossians
2:23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship.(Adam
Clarke's Commentary:."what
is here termed will worship signifies simply a mode of worship.{compliance
to}.which a man
chooses for himself.".(*).and
humility and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the satisfying
of the flesh.(such
things are worthless spiritually and physically).
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