{"id":3512,"date":"2020-11-18T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2020-11-18T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:52:22","slug":"thoughts-from-the-bible-11-18-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=3512","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from The Bible: – 11\/18\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Built Up In The Lord<\/strong>
\nby Terry Broome<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving\u201d (Col 2:6-7)
\nThere are some very needful areas where we need to be built up if we are to be \u201cstablished in the faith\u201d as indicated in our text. Some of these include: Faith, Knowledge, Hope, and Joy in the Lord.
\nFAITH: Our faith must increase if we hope to withstand all the forces around us that would pull us away from our hope in Christ Jesus. We must not take faith for granted nor presume that we are strong, but rather take sufficient measures to insure that we continue growing in the elements that will strengthen our faith. As the father of the child taken with an evil spirit in Mark 9:24, may our prayer be, \u201cLord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.\u201d Faith only increases when one draws more aware of God and His saving Word.<\/p>\n

KNOWLEDGE: Faith still \u201ccomes by hearing\u201d (Romans 10:17) so Christians need to learn the faithful Word of God and be charged with keeping it fervently. \u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6)<\/p>\n

HOPE: We must look with the hope of the veteran apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:13 who wrote \u201cwe according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.\u201d Hope is more than wishful thinking but rather an earnest expectation for a thing to become reality. This kind of hope keeps us hanging on for the reward and thus Paul affirms in Romans 8: 24, \u201cFor we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?\u201d
\nJOY in the LORD: We need to know the joy of Paul and Silas who could sing at midnight from a Roman Dungeon in Acts chapter 16. One cannot just promote one dimension of growth and edification and expect to develop into a strong person in the Lord. We must be well balanced just as we are to be in nourishing our physical body by eating a balanced diet. One that gets fed only the foundation principles of the Word may not go on to maturity in the deeper meat of that Word (Heb. 6:1-2). Balance is required: Micah 6:8 \u2013 Justice, and mercy and faith.<\/p>\n

The Pharisees failed in understanding this balance and these meatier qualities \u201cWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone\u201d (Mat 23:23).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, a church that is only fed a diet of vim, vigor, enthusiasm may produce an exciting start to the race, but all enthusiasm and no teaching would leave one floundering and lost. Paul\u2019s desire for Christian growth is \u2013 \u201cThat we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;\u201d (Eph 4:14).
\nThe author can be reached for comments at 256-574-2489.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Built Up In The Lord by Terry Broome \u201cAs ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving\u201d (Col 2:6-7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}