Keep Zeal Alive: A Resurrected Fullness

For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. - Colossians 2:1-10 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians2:1-10&version=NKJV
Don't let this world trip us up and deceive us with vain philosophy. We don't need the latest gadgets, biggest house, newest car, or name brand clothes to be happy. We are complete in Jesus. He fulfills all our needs. After we obey the Gospel we should daily walk in Christ, denying self and serving God and others. Rejoice with thanksgivings abounding to God.

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. - Colossians 2:13-15 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians2:13-15&version=NKJV
We are forgiven and alive in Christ.


A Resurrected Fullness


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