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STAND FIRMLY IN FAITH (Colosians 2:6-7) 1. Receiving Christ is only the beginning; He continues His work in you • All Christians have, in profession at least, received Jesus Christ the Lord, received him as Christ, the great prophet of the church, anointed by God to reveal his will; as Jesus the great high priest, and Saviour from sin and wrath, by the expiatory sacrifice of himself; and as Lord, or sovereign and king, whom we are to obey and be subject to.--Received him, consented to him, taken him for ours in every relation and every capacity, and for all the purposes and uses of them. • The great concern of those who have received Christ is to walk in him--to make their practices conformable to their principles and their conversation agreeable to their engagements. As we have received Christ, or consented to be his, so we must walk with him in our daily course and keep up our communion with him. 2. You must be rooted and built up • The picture of being rooted is that of a tree. The ground provides strenghth against storms and nourishment for life. Christians is to draw his nourishment and strength from Christ. (Matt. 7:24-26) • The more closely we walk with Christ the more we are rooted and established in the faith. The point to note is this: the emphasis is upon a strong attachment and a low of nourishment and life from Christ. The believer is to walk in a continous, unbroken communion and fellowship with Christ. His life is focus upon Christ. 3. You must strengthened in Faith • Means to be firm, stable, holding fast not letting go. • All that been taught should be live out. • and a very good thing it is to have the heart established with grace, both as a principle and a doctrine; which is God's work, and was the happy case of these persons; • not be like children tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, or carried about with divers and strange doctrines, but abide by those which had been preached to them by the faithful ministers of Christ, and they had received. 4. You must be overflowing in gratitude. • The believer is to walk overflowing with thankfulness. Christ Jesus the Lord has done so much for the believer. • Therefore the believer is to learn to walk in an unbroken spirit of thanksgiving – a thankfulness that overflows in praise to the Lord moment by moment throughout the day. • for all which there is great reason for thanksgiving; both for the unspeakable gift of Christ, who is received as such by faith, and in whom believers are rooted and built up; and for faith itself, which is the gift of God; and also for the Gospel, and the truths of it; and for every degree of spiritual light in it, and knowledge of it. Read 1 Thes. 5:18
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