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9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Rom 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. It is the source of them all! Furthermore, if we put on love as we are admonished to, our local assemblies will not be a dysfunctional group full of carnality and dissension, but will be the vibrant, healthy, soul winning machine God designed it to be. In other words, all the Christian graces are bound together in love. Here it is! Paul calls love the bond of perfection. Notice after admonishing the Colossians to manifest a number of Christian graces, Paul says in verse 14 : But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. Let’s go through this passage and see if we can find a clue about what it means “to go on into perfection”. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God (and) the Father through Him. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body and be thankful. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
(Col 3:12‑17 NKJV) 12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. In the process of going on into perfection, Paul takes us beyond the foundational doctrinal principles and explains to us in the following passage how the elect of God is supposed to act in our dealings with one another in carrying out our mission as the Church of Christ on this earth: (Paul goes on to explain the functioning of the Body of Christ by drawing the analogy to our own human bodies in verses 15-31) 14 For the body is not one member, but many.
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13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Today’s lesson, on the other hand, deals with our position within the Kingdom of God – or Body of Christ, as it relates to the horizontal aspect of our relationship with one another in the Body, as well as with our corporate relationship to Christ who is the Head of the Body.ġCo 12:12-14 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. That is, each one of us had to go through the process described in the previous lessons in order to become a true disciple of Christ. Up to this point in our studies, the primary focus has been on the vertical aspect, or the relationship between each of us and God. Our Vertical and Horizontal Relationships The exhortation of this passage of scripture is to go on from the lessons of Christian childhood to those of adulthood in Christ.
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That is to g o on to the higher lessons which belong to full grown men. 3 And this will we do, if God permit.”Įvery lesson that we have studied thus far has been has been vital in gaining a basic understanding of such concepts as: sin, death, justice, mercy, grace, justification, regeneration, our new identity, establishing and maintaining a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, spiritual warfare, and the purpose of our calling as disciples but in today’s lesson, we need to learn what God expects of us in the spiritual growth process that lies ahead. “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
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This is the final lesson of our 12 lesson series on discipleship, and, as the writer of Hebrews declares in Heb 6:1-3:
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