The special use of this strength was for sufferings. The grace of God in the hearts of believers is the power of God and there is glory in this power. In praying for spiritual strength, we are not straitened, or confined in the promises, and should not be so in our hopes and desires. The blessed Spirit is the author of this. He who undertakes to give strength to his people, is a God of power, and of glorious power. Good words will not do without good works. Verses 9-14 The apostle was constant in prayer, that the believers might be filled with the knowledge of God's will, in all wisdom.
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But Christian love arises from the Holy Spirit, and is full of holiness. To these, something corrupt, selfish, and base always cleaves. Worldly love arises, either from views of interest or from likeness in manners carnal love, from the appetite for pleasure. And all who hear the word of the gospel, ought to bring forth the fruit of the gospel, obey it, and have their principles and lives formed according to it. The gospel is the word of truth, and we may safely venture our souls upon it. It was treasured up for them, no enemy could deprive them of it.
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The more we fix our hopes on the reward in the other world, the more free shall we be in doing good with our earthly treasure. Faith, hope, and love, are the three principal graces in the Christian life, and proper matter for prayer and thanksgiving. Faithfulness runs through every character and relation of the Christian life. Verses 1-8 All true Christians are brethren one to another. (15-23) And sets out his own character, as the apostle of the Gentiles. (1-8) Prays for their fruitfulness in spiritual knowledge. The apostle Paul salutes the Colossians, and blesses God for their faith, love, and hope. In the first two chapters the apostle tells them what they must believe, and in the two last what they must do the doctrine of faith, and the precepts of life for salvation. The Colossians are cautioned against the devices of judaizing teachers, and also against the notions of carnal wisdom, and human inventions and traditions, as not consistent with full reliance on Christ. The scope of the epistle is to show, that all hope of man's redemption is founded on Christ, in whom alone are all complete fulness, perfections, and sufficiency. This epistle was sent because of some difficulties which arose among the Colossians, probably from false teachers, in consequence of which they sent to the apostle.
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