That he might bring us to God

{1:6} Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew
the grace of God in truth:

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The gospel was preached every, everywhere, people like to imagine that there are tons of people that never heard of Christ and salvation, but the world has heard. Lots of people have rejected the gospel and continued on in their own paths which make us believe that they've never heard. But the gospel which came to those in Colosse was being spread throughout the all the world. No, I'm not saying that there aren't those that have been denied hearing, but I fully believe that all have a chance, all in ways we can't imagine. It's arrogant of us to presume that God doesn't have His own ways to get His word to people, that *we* alone can preach the gospel. No, I'm not saying we shouldn't preach the gospel, I'm just saying that we can't claim that it's IMPOSSIBLE for all the world to have a chance to hear the Gospel.

The gospel brings forth fruit, it did to those Colosse and it does to us today. Once we hear the truth of the gospel and know the grace of God in that truth we can't help but bring forth fruit. Our lives can't help but change.

Colossians

{1:7} As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
{1:8} Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
{1:9} For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding

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Amazing! Here Paul is telling the Colossian that he hasn't ceased to pray for them, pray that they might be filled with the knowledge of HIS WILL in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

The knowledge of HIS WILL. Christ's will. What is Christ's will? That we come to the Father through Him. In all Christ did he revealed the Father on earth to mankind. It is His will that we come to the Father by His grace, accepting the sacrifice He made, accepting the forgivness He offers.

Imagine being touched by Christ and looking up into His eyes filled with compassion, with love and hearing him say, 'Your sins are forgiven you, go and sin no more.'

Just imagine it for a moment without letting your overwhelming guilt crush away the moment. I mean it, we hear the words 'go and sin no more' and we feel a crushing weight of guilt because we know what sinners we are and that sin not yet committed by us is just lurking around the next corner. We can't LET that guilt crush us and bring us to despair, we can't or we've lost already. If we holdfast to despair and ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit to repent then we truly are lost. Jesus taught us to pray the Lord's prayer and in my study of it the part where He told us to pray- 'Lead us not into temptation' in the Jewish form of that prayer, it is more along the lines of 'Lead us not to despair'. Think about that for a moment. When we are tempted into sin it is a road that leads to despair isn't it? Despair that we'll ever be able to 'go and sin no more'. We truly need to pray to not be taken by temptation in that place of despair. Satan holds up our sins and tells us we're too bad to ever be saved and covers us in a cloak of despair but we don't have to listen to him, our sins are forgiven and when we by our weak sin-filled flesh fall into sin we have an advocate that once told an apostle that he had to forgive others not just once but over and over again. In that example we know that though our flesh is very weak we do have an advocated with the Father, and advocate that will plead our cause before the Father. So when we hear Christ say our sins are forgiven, go and sin no more, we know that He has made it possible for us to be with the Father, His Father, in His Family, at One with God, God with us. The will of Christ is for us to be at one with the Father and all our wisdom and spiritual understanding needs to be centered around that and that alone. Here and now we are to accept the Way, the Truth, the Gospel and our lives there after are to be spent being filled with the knowledge of Christ's will in wisdom and spiritual understanding.

More tomorrow :) May God bless us all with His Will, may we through the forgiveness of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior live in hope of our new life one day with Him and Father in heaven.

Amen

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”- 1 Peter 3:18